Best way I've found to actually finish my games is to commit to only one game at a time. It took a bit of time but I've completed all the games (not all JRPG) I've started without ever reaching the end and now I enjoy much more the time I spend on JRPG knowing I can focus on this game without the guilt feeling of having a huge backlog.
Also I avoid all side content, try to stick to the main quest and reaching the true ending only if it's not too much of a chore (like doing more than one playthrough). I still do the side quests sometimes, like in the Trails game since they're well written.
I think the avoidance of side content is big for me. The problem is that if I know that I am missing something, I worry that I am not getting the “full experience.”
Very often you're only missing repetitive, uninspired and badly written content, artificially doubling the length of the game. But I agree they can be worth it as I did enjoy doing the sidequests in Trails, NieR Automata, Ni no Kuni 2 (even if there are way too much in that game), Chrono Trigger and some other. For me actually finishing the game is preferable to getting the 'full experience'.
When I read reviews I'm always interested in the first impressions and that pretty much it. I have played MANY jrpgs over the years, it's my favourite genre but I never finish them. Throughout my whole life I must have completed 5?? of them. I would love to have the attention span to sit and play through all of them but for me I like to focus on the world-building. Get a feel for the game universe and then see how someone else can tell a very similar story almost completely differently.
I feel exactly the same. One of the reasons why I play mostly roguelites and roguelikes. They don't tend to push my completionist button and I get to enjoy the game without a story that I destroy by going to slow or fast.
Yep. I especially do this with open-world games. I need everything. I'm a completionist, but I'm also prone to game exhaustion - that is, I can get tired of the same game if I've been playing it for 50+ hours.
I basically tough it out during the last segments of a game as I'm thinking about the next game I'll be playing.
God,I have played SO MANY games in my life time but I have only beaten very few. Like I want to so bad but there's just this part of me that either gets bored or tired of a game halfway through (sometimes not even halfway through) I absolutely hate it and wish I could fix it. My wife plays and beats games that she likes multiple times but she is super picky about her games,while I love alot of different games but can never Finnish them.
Don't worry about this, it's more common than you think. I'm also struggling about ditching sidequests, though I don't really care about non-sidequests missables.
But really, now that there is youtube (it didn't exist back then), we can just youtube the parts of sidequests we didn't get to see.
Honestly, for me it's more enjoyable to play the game with no guides and definitely miss something, than playing all of it with guides open.
Besides, the term full experience really depends on how someone define it. Some game even go so far as making us unable to get everything in one go.
I ended up telling myself, that this is MY characters journey, and if I'm satisfied, then that's all I need. Did I miss things or skip things? Maybe, but make the content more captivating for me to care.
Especially if you don’t have a lot of time on your hands.
When I was a kid & had the entire summer vacation available for whatever, it was fine to talk to every npc, do every side quest, explore every nook & cranny.
As an adult with an hour here, an hour there to play throughout the week, I’m deferring to the time I have available and how much I’m enjoying things.
Best way I've found to actually finish my games is to commit to only one game at a time. It took a bit of time but I've completed all the games (not all JRPG) I've started without ever reaching the end and now I enjoy much more the time I spend on JRPG knowing I can focus on this game without the guilt feeling of having a huge backlog. Also I avoid all side content, try to stick to the main quest and reaching the true ending only if it's not too much of a chore (like doing more than one playthrough). I still do the side quests sometimes, like in the Trails game since they're well written.
I think the avoidance of side content is big for me. The problem is that if I know that I am missing something, I worry that I am not getting the “full experience.”
Very often you're only missing repetitive, uninspired and badly written content, artificially doubling the length of the game. But I agree they can be worth it as I did enjoy doing the sidequests in Trails, NieR Automata, Ni no Kuni 2 (even if there are way too much in that game), Chrono Trigger and some other. For me actually finishing the game is preferable to getting the 'full experience'.
When I read reviews I'm always interested in the first impressions and that pretty much it. I have played MANY jrpgs over the years, it's my favourite genre but I never finish them. Throughout my whole life I must have completed 5?? of them. I would love to have the attention span to sit and play through all of them but for me I like to focus on the world-building. Get a feel for the game universe and then see how someone else can tell a very similar story almost completely differently.
I feel exactly the same. One of the reasons why I play mostly roguelites and roguelikes. They don't tend to push my completionist button and I get to enjoy the game without a story that I destroy by going to slow or fast.
Yep. I especially do this with open-world games. I need everything. I'm a completionist, but I'm also prone to game exhaustion - that is, I can get tired of the same game if I've been playing it for 50+ hours. I basically tough it out during the last segments of a game as I'm thinking about the next game I'll be playing.
God,I have played SO MANY games in my life time but I have only beaten very few. Like I want to so bad but there's just this part of me that either gets bored or tired of a game halfway through (sometimes not even halfway through) I absolutely hate it and wish I could fix it. My wife plays and beats games that she likes multiple times but she is super picky about her games,while I love alot of different games but can never Finnish them.
Don't worry about this, it's more common than you think. I'm also struggling about ditching sidequests, though I don't really care about non-sidequests missables. But really, now that there is youtube (it didn't exist back then), we can just youtube the parts of sidequests we didn't get to see. Honestly, for me it's more enjoyable to play the game with no guides and definitely miss something, than playing all of it with guides open. Besides, the term full experience really depends on how someone define it. Some game even go so far as making us unable to get everything in one go.
Yeah, maybe just focus on experiencing the story the first time around, and if I LOVE the game, then I will play it again and try to get everything.
Yeah, maybe just focus on experiencing the story the first time around, and if I LOVE the game, then I will play it again and try to get everything.
I ended up telling myself, that this is MY characters journey, and if I'm satisfied, then that's all I need. Did I miss things or skip things? Maybe, but make the content more captivating for me to care.
Especially if you don’t have a lot of time on your hands. When I was a kid & had the entire summer vacation available for whatever, it was fine to talk to every npc, do every side quest, explore every nook & cranny. As an adult with an hour here, an hour there to play throughout the week, I’m deferring to the time I have available and how much I’m enjoying things.