Do you have to finish a game, before you start another?

I play loads of games multiple times, it just takes me a while. I don't finish games before I start others though.

I play Left 4 Dead 2 and I don't know how to finish this game.

I have a habit of hopping from one game to another and never finishing all of the games.

Fahrenheit, Shadow of the Colossus, Alpha Protocol, Fallout (1,2 and tactics), and some others.

And yes, to the question in the title.

I played Fable 1 several times, but at the moment I don't finish all the games that I play.

I got a habit of leaving stuff open and I gather more and more different stuff to do at the same time. Each doing will finish slowly but decidedly.

I have not even finished any game except Spore.

Absolutely. What's more, I don't consider a game "finished" until I've near or completely 100%'d it.

The only exception are indie games, which aren't always meant to be "finished", or games that I simply do not enjoy.

In any two week period I usually have 5-8 games I'm working on. Sometimes if I really like something I'll stick to just that, but I like to keep it interesting.

It's not a question of will I play the games I have again, so much as when I'll have the time to play them again. I'm so ridiculously backlogged...trails off as he sees a new deal and buys it

Nope. I'm so glad I don't have that obsession.

Grand Theft Auto's, Red dead Redemption, Fallout's, Elder Scrolls, Portal's and other games with interesting stories. Fable and Cave Story also (if it's worth to mention)

I never finished a game in my life.

I'm like so many people here. I just have so many games I keep getting some and I pass it off as "collecting". Then whenever I want to start playing something I end up staring at the list and come back here.

But seriously I'm starting a collection of PS2 games to play them as well as put them on display in my house. If you've got PAL (european) PS2 games I'm buying (and now I hope I didn't do anything I'll regret).

But otherwise I rarely finish video games, unless they're extremely original.

Mario 64, GTA VC, GTA SA, Portal 1 & 2 all were completed once than once. Mario 64 was beaten 10+ times and VC/SA were beaten 5+.

Just look at my backlog. ._. It's obvious I can't stick to one game at a time... and those are just my Steam games. I have a bunch more non-Steam titles, plus console and handheld games. I play so many games at once I'm surprised I can keep track of what's going on in each of them.

And I replay things constantly. That's part of why I never seem to finish anything. If I love a game, I just go back to it over and over again. As an example, Sonic 2 is my favorite game ever, and as old as it is, I still play it frequently. I've got tons of other games I replay a lot. I just finished another run through Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, and I'm starting a new game in Super Mario Sunshine and the Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.

Normally have about 2 or 3 at a time that I play.

No but i should really finish the end of HL2 episode 2

I rarely ever play the same game twice once I have beat it, thankfully with all the bundles and steam sales its unlikely I will ever run out of games to play.

My God, not even close. I swear that I've started almost every game I have in my library, and I just play through them whenever the mood strikes. I haven't sat down to run through a game to full completion in what feels like months.

A quick count shows that I have twenty nine (29!) games installed that I have started and not finished, and that's only including games that have clearly defined endgame goals, so no Minecraft in there. By comparison, the number of games I have installed that I've beaten (I'm slow to uninstall things) only clocks at seven.

To a degree. I try to only have one deep and involving game on the go at a time, but I will often play smaller more quickly 'finished' games while playing that deeper more involving one.

I usually have 2-5 games circling at a time with one game taking much more time than the others.

ex. "Saints Row: The Third" as the major game with "Puzzle Agent" and "Plants vs Zombies" as secondary games.

The only games I've finished in the last 6 years are Final Fantasy X and Bioshock

Yes. I used to play games ad hoc a few years ago but now I finish the game before proceeding to the next one. This only really applies to single player side of things. I always have games such as BF3, F1 2011 and L4D which cant actually be "Completed". I will probably only go back to previous games if they were really memorable. At the moment, I have re purchased games such as Hitman, Baldurs Gate, Commandos, AvP (plus many more!) etc to relive the memories when I get the chance.