I can never finish a game

So then these games weren't good at all. The good games I always play to the end, other ones I just stop like you do.

That will get better. Just focus on one or two and play them through all the way. Then you'll get something like: hmmm, what to do now... Ah, this one!

I have the same problem with both games and tv series D:

There are two types of games: Good ones and trading card games. Good ones always find an end.

I suggest that you pick a game you want to finish first and then put the rest on backlog. Then choose games that doesn't have a story behind them atleast, like casual, rogue-like, simulation, or multiplayer online games.

I finished Assassin's Creed II, Assassin's: Brotherhood and then Assassin's Creed Revelations in that respective order. Everytime I get tired or atleast feeling off, I play APB: Reloaded, Guns of Icarus, etc. You have to commit to what you're playing. I'm currently trying to finish Remember Me and then move on to DmC: Devil May Cry and then probably Shadow Warrior. But honestly, I'm quite exhausted already from the Trilogy of Assassin's Creed. T.T

Sometimes I think that some games just don't want me to complete them, they are struggle with me during playtime. There are also some great games, which make exactly the same thing with me.
Plus, sometimes you should spend really huge amount of time to complete the game, but gameplay is bo-o-oring and you already know all the things that game could offer you, so you don't really need to complete it.

Yes, I definitely have this problem. Part of my problem is that I like to play on difficult or medium difficult and I'm not the most stealthy, patient person and my reflexes are... meh... I just don't feel as good about playing a game on easy or medium. Another problem is when the game crashes and I lose my progress... Happened today, windows exception access violation error, verified integrity, updated drivers, reinstalled - couldn't update windows for some reason. But I can't see deleting my save files and starting over. Anyways... I always have a reason. I've started a 100%completion folder where I have my games I've gotten 100 percent achievements on, or if there are no achievements, games I feel I've finished completely. Its a small folder :) Best thing for me is to narrow it down to up to 10 games, several different varieties, which I'm working on and just get through them. If I can't - they go in the Games I don't like folder, which is a big one.

Yes I always do that ;_; sometimes I just play a bit and stop, and sometimes I almost complete the game and stop.
Not just Steam games, for example I almost beat Chrono Trigger on DS a couple years ago, I only had the final boss left, I started doing the last side quests before fighting it and just stopped for no reason.

I hear you, look at my steam games list and tell me :)
I already grouped my games in categories so i have one with games i actually want to play in the next year.
Well, i guess the problem is that new games are released every day. Fallout 4 will set me back a few weeks... damnit.

Ditto.

The worst are plot heavy games, e.g. cRPGs. I feel that I need to have a good amount of time in one sitting (like 3-4 hours) to play them, in order to give them the praise they deserve. That and I need at least a couple of minutes to remember what I did the last time I played. On the other hand life is life and I rarely have more than 0,5h uninterrupted, so I end up playing arcade games that are quick, start, make a score, die or finish, start again. Later my gameplay stats say that I play these short games a several times more often & in sum longer, than I would need to finish any one of the plot games. :-P

One of the longest games I recently finished was KotOR1, it took me over 1,5 year to play through the ~50 hours of the game, to find enough longer, uninterrupted time slots.

Your top 3 games with the most play time are Civilization V, Terraria & The Sims. It seems to me you prefer to play games where you are in total control. These are also games that do not have the traditional beginning middle and end. They are also time sink games which give you may hours of enjoyment. I'd say the problem is not you but the games you choose to play. It's important to admit to yourself that you're not going to like all games. It doesn't mean you're not a gamer.

Personally, I enjoy the idea of tower defense but quickly grow bored with the gameplay. RTS can be a lot of fun, but I don't enjoy twich games. I have come to understand that to me the world, the exploration, and the story are what will keep me playing a game. I am currently sinking a lot of time into the survival sandbox of The Long Dark because it keeps pushing me to live another day. To explore a bit more and master the harsh world I'm trapped in.

If you spend a little time thinking about it, I am sure you will find there are some games you can play all day and others which can only do in small doses lest you get bored with them. You will find the former will be in the minority and there is nothing wrong with that.

The same problem.
Sometimes I take breaks from a game by playing another game.

I'm the same but I don't actually consider it to be a problem. I'm having fun with a game until for some reason I'm not, or I find something else that's more interesting. Obsessing about "beating" the game seem more problematic to me. The journey is the reward, so to speak.

And don't get me started on achievements. 100% complete in most games is, to put it bluntly, just stupid work for minuscule bragging rights and, in my mind, the opposite of what playing games should be all about. On the other hand, I may just be fighting my OCD tendencies a bit too hard ;)

Also, I'm sure you could finish any or all games if you had the right incentive, they're just not there at the moment.

usually i finish my games. unless i get extremely bored of it. It feels good to reach the end. Maybe you are not a story mode player.

for me it depends on the genre i guess.
if im playing f.e. some telltalegames like walking dead or whatever... i have to finish it right away because im so curious what will happen next.
on the other hand when im playing like long RPG's like the new witcher f.e. i cant just play those games straight. not bc i get bored but bc i feel like its too much for a few session... hard to describe i think

Nope, there are few games I started and never finished in the past two decades. I even go to the end of the particularly bad ones I start, like Alan Wake's American Nightmare or Still-Life 2. I usually want to see the whole thing before I form an opinion on the game.

I wouldn't worry about it, if a game doesn't grab your attention you don't have to finish it. It's suppose to be a hobby, not a job. ^_^

I sometimes have this problem but not all the time. If a game isn't worth it, I stop playing it. :)

I see no problem here. Playing games isn't your job or duty, you generally do it for fun. If you like to finish every game 100% with all secrets and achievements unlocked - it's fine, if you like to get a taste of many games to decide which is better - it's also fine. All is fina as long you're having fun.

When I realised that I have hundreds of games on my account that I'll never finish in my lifetime, I started to make quick decisions whether I will or will not play a game any further in the first half an hour (or sometimes several minutes) of the game. Sometimes it even doesn't need to be bad for me to decide not to play it - just not my type or not satisfying enough for me. I also don't feel any guilt at all when dropping a game halfway or even near the finale.

I know the feeling OP, I also tend to get quite overwhelmed when I have like 30 games installed and sometimes its hard to decide what to play

then again when I can finally find a game that I enjoy playing, im having a blast though (for instance GTA San Andreas atm)

little advice though, especially if you have some gaming OCD like me : never install more games at once, at least not story driven games and such that takes many hours to finish. So that chance are that yoou wont feel the need to jump from game to game constantly

There are games I'm sorry I never continued, games I decided to stop, and games that I just don't care so much about continuing. For example I played MacGuffin's Curse up to a point, decided I've had enough and stopped. I enjoyed the game, but didn't feel that continuing was worth it. In my book that's money well spent.

The good games I always play to the end more than once.

I'm pretty much OCD. I always get games to get the best of it but lately I'm not doing it so much... I have to work, I have my date, I have my friends and etc. everthing forced me to be a casual gamer. This problem (or solution maybe?) started on PS3. I have games that I even touched it. Never even installed them. With Steam: the same... So I try to keep my game list clean, with only what I want to play (that's why I avoid mos giveaways here that I know that I will never play like point and click and rpg's)...

:) i finished 6 or 7 out of 305 dnt have much time for games.

first world problems.....