How long does it usually take you to give up on a game?

I play most (Ok and good) games for 6-10 hours. If they are great i play for 10-30 and with really good games i get like 50+

It depends if a game interests me or not. If it does, I can play straight for a long time, even if it's repetitive. If not, I just play for some time, or just for story and I'm gonna finish achievements somewhere in future (but that applies to every game :s)

I can be very into a game and play it hardcore for days (think dragon age or skyrim). Then suddenly my interest just poof disappears and I stop playing it. This happens mainly if a game is very long but I also start many games and never pick them up again after the first gaming session.

I sort of have the same thing, I play a game for a while, but seldom finish it.
Currently on the list to continue/finish:

• XCOM
• The Talos Principle(mainly since it doesn't run so well, which makes it less fun)
• Transistor
• The Swapper
• Evoland
• Coffin Dodgers(Very annoying game at some points)

And a few months back I replayed Final Fantasy 7, didn't finish that one either...

I try to play 3-5 hours, especially if it's obvious that the game's characteristic or pace can change - like Terraria's first half an hour is totally different from the 3-4th hour, and so on.
Yet it seems that I struggle with RAGE after 3 hours (3-4 missieons I guess) and while I want to finish it (as I won it, as I wanted it, and as it got awesome gunplay) but it's so soulless, so many invisible walls, so forced at various levels that I rather play Spelunky and die every 3 minute, it's still much more fun :|

It depends on the game, I usually finish them if I start them (not just trying it a bit), but I've given up on some games just 'cause it was just too annoying to go on.

The main ones I remember:

• Split/second -> too hard and frustrating,after playing through half of the game races got too hard, needing perfect runs to arrive first, did you make a mistake? restart the race
• Dark: Too shitty and frustrating, a stealth system that sucked balls, I've dropped it after a couple of missions
• Dead Island: Riptide gave me extreme motion sickness and it was boring overall, a mess if played online

screw sg tools giveaways, my profile stays friends only...

I have intention to finish all games I want to play.

I've set a rule for myself. I can't uninstall a game until I've finished it. (Unless the game is too bad to finish)

My rules about gaming.

I always plan ahead by careful consideration before I start any game. In general I won't start a game unless I've already estimated that I have an extremely likely chance of playing it till the end (if it's a game that's somewhat linear at least, so an 'end' can be defined). This also includes possible achievements as I'm a completionist. Exceptions made for any games that have co-op or multiplayer in which case I prioritize whenever I have people to play the game with, regardless of the frequency.
I do give up on games as a last resort and knowing that I'll most likely never return to it again if it does actually get that far.

I finish nearly all the games I started atleast in the sense that I complete the story/campaign mode and most of the time achievements as well. The only two games (atleast those that I remember) I started and did not finish were Dustforce (because I wasn't skilled enough) and Teleglitch (because it is frigging hard). There are some others but I plan to finish them in the next two months since I started them just recently.

The first 1 or 2 hours is when I decide if I'll carry on playing, mainly smaller or "casual" games. Some games I'll play for a while and then I'll get bored and leave for months or even years. The worst thing is when you lose or don't 100% a mission because of bugs. Then I'll quit playing it for a long time. Happened to me in the brothel mission in Dishonored. Felt cheated, after a while I deinstalled it. I'll probably finish it in a year or two ;)

I usually only finish the main story and stop. I did that for Tomb Raider, Hitman Absolution and Batman - Arkham City. For the smaller games, I play until I can get all the easy/medium achievements and then delete it for another day :P

I've put 150+ hours in Oblivion and 100+ hours in Dark Souls but never finished them as I was more interested in the side quests, game mechanics and the lore than really following the standard story. For Dark Souls it's even worse: I did all quests, killed all bosses (including the optional ones), killed all NPC for their weapons / rare materials... but can resign myself to kill Gwyn and jump on NG+ xD

Otherwise I usually give 1-2 hours to a game to convince me it's worth playing, both gameplay and overall atmosphere being key for me.
If I stop playing a game out of frustrations (bugs, cheap mechanics) or boredom (looking at you Diablo III) I almost never get back to it...

For me, if the game survived the first 30 minutes, I'll most likely finish it, and I wouldn't play anything else until it happens =)
I think there's only one game I dropped on final boss - The Banner Saga =\

Great comments everyone. Keep them coming! :-)

BTW, I added a third giveaway: Check vs Mate (aka "Battle vs Chess")

well, you know. the lack of time is the problem.
i got 1-2 free hours. so i lay something
by the next free time, unless i really enjoyed that game, like a lot, i try another one.

Sometimes I test the game for an hour and check if I can like it, else - I uninstall it =P
If I liked the game I will obviously play until it becomes too boring for me due to repetetive gameplay unless it's competetive (Hearthstone).

There are games that I like from the first sight and I finish them without playing any other games and it takes a lot of time because I usually do side quests. And there were cases when I finished the main line too fast and didn't complete anything more just because I didn't know that the end is coming... =\

happened to me so many times.. still ha ve some games to finish x_x
I remember kingdom hearts on ps2, i saved before last boss, but didn't even kill it because i didn't want to finish the game so soon (there were some hidden boss wich were pain in the ass and i had to grind to beat them) yet, the game is still taking dust somewhere...

there is other game like afterfall insanity wich i liked, but a bug made me quit ... (for afterfall insanity, my "auto respawn" after a death was in a bug making me fall over and over to death for eternity... making me rage quit as i had to begin everything again >.<)

I have finished around 35 game since i started to use steam. Which is around 9 months i guess There is %100 games like Gta V i don't own it on steam and Sleeping Dogs or a lot of playtimes like Dark Souls and Don't Starve and I usally go anywhere within my eye sight unless it's becoming a nightmare. But i dropped a few games like Brütal Legend and How to Survive. If i feel like there is nothing interesting in a game to do more or when i play it i am getting really bored i will drop it. But this rarely happens.

I only gave up on games that I'm not having fun anymore regardless of the time I have played before, sure some times I endure for more 2~3 or even 4 hours but then I simply stop playing them if I'm not enjoying myself anymore.

BTW thanks for the GA's. :-)

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I play for fun not for work! :-)
Oh and sometimes I spend more time modding some games then playing them. :-D Because I have fun doing that! :-)

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It's just me or somebody else thins that SG should let us subscribe to topics?

Depends on the game. Sometimes I quit because it got repetitive or boring. But I also tend to quit games if they are just too hard for me. I don't mind having to replay some times, but if I have to try every level over and over again, it's just not fun for me and I just give up on it. I also sometimes quit games because I got other games that I wanted to play and just forgot all about them. And it doesn't really help that I can only play about 1 - 2 hours a day (except in weekends and holidays)