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How long before you need a break/lose interest in a game?

Less than 10 hours 6 35.29%
 
10-19 hours 1 5.88%
 
20-29 hours 3 17.65%
 
30-39 hours 0 0%
 
40-49 hours 1 5.88%
 
50 or more hours 6 35.29%
 
Total:17
Dante9 said:

I don't buy games that don't grab me enough to finish them. If I somehow manage to buy a dud by mistake, it becomes evident very quickly and then I just drop it.
If I really enjoy a game, I'll be sad that it ends even after hundreds of hours.

This.

Also I drop gaming altogether at random points due to life, doesn't mean the current game is bad.



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I mostly play two (or three) games simultaneously, like bit of each every day.
There are exceptions, like I used to play Pokemon games around 40 hours a week. And Civilizations and other strategy games I've played just that one thing for weeks, making it 100+ hours.



I typically stick with a single game at a time, and I might play a couple of hours a day on average. As for dropping games before finishing them, I have done so for weeks or months before eventually returning to it. Sometimes it's because I get sidetracked by other things and fell off the game because something else grabbed my attention. Sometimes it's because a game is just too long and overstays its welcome and I want to move on to something else. Even if the core gameplay is good, a game that just goes on and on and on with seemingly no end in sight will eventually make me tired of it.

As for how long it takes for a game to really grab me before I give up on it, given how drawn-out and protracted games have become over the past 20 years, maybe an hour or two. That seems to be how long it takes to get a good feel for the game. Past that, if it doesn't grab me I'm not going to slog it out for another 40-60 hours. For example, a friend of mine kept insisting I play Mass Effect. I gave it a try, but I simply could not get into it. The setting & story looked interesting, the art style was decent, but I simply could not get past the gameplay. The combat just felt too clunky and I wasn't deriving any enjoyment from it. It just didn't click with me. After a couple of hours, I tapped out. My friend kept insisting "It'll get better as you level up," but I'm not the kind of person who has the patience to deal with a game where "It gets good after the first 20 hours! Trust me, bro!"



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Dont have one. Depends on the game. Could be 10 hours, could be 120 hours. It all depends.



Dont have one.

I play from start to finish regardless nowadays.



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Depends on how much I’m liking the game. I’ve currently got over 30hr in MKWorld and I feel like I still have another month in me. TLoU:Pt2, on the other hand, lost me around the 25hr mark.



That can range from 5 minutes to 4 years.

I played Everquest daily for 4 years, GT Sport as well more recently. Close to 4,000 hours driving time on GT Sport, not including making liveries and buying/upgrading cars. Another 700 hours on GT7.

Currently I have been playing Hitman on VR for couple months now. I like sticking to one game, much easier to remember where I left off and continue.

But if a game doesn't click, I might try for an hour, but have also quit after a couple minutes. The longest I have pushed myself to try and get into a game is 10 hours, BG3. 



Whatever it needs to be.



I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.

I usually can't play more than a few hours (7-8 tops) of one game before getting back to another game. I'm often a game hopper.
Most games aren't interesting past the 25-30 hour mark, even good ones.



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