You mean actually finish a game? Heretic - burn him - away with the foul beast named Lobo. Here at Electronic Gamers with Attention Deficit Disorder or eGADD we simply cant allow your type of heresy to spread - what else would we spend our hard earned money on?

...This is *crazy* talk! Finish a game? Finish *every* game?

This is *crazy* talk!

Games are not made to be finished...what type of crazy talk!!

Spynavy talk him down, talk him down!

I finish everything I buy unless it really, really sucks. Sometimes it''s a bit of a test (Metroid 2 comes to mind, I keep getting about 1% completed every night), but I eventually do it.

Why on earth would you ever pledge to finish a game that might not be worth finishing? Take Civ III at launch. Not only was it a buggy nearly unplayable mess, I suspect it was so flawed that you couldn''t win it at Monarch level or higher even if you wanted to. Conversely, WOW seems to have captured the hearts and minds of a great many of our colleagues here despite its perpetual nature. I think I''ll stick with plot, production value, and excitement generated in determining whether I finish a game.

Alien, did you get the CIV turn? The game you set up looks fine.

I finish all my games. Sometimes it takes me a while, but I finish them. I haven''t bought a game this year that I didn''t finish the singleplayer portion of at least one time. The exceptions are games that I just bought in the last month and a half or so. Those are all vying for attention, and none of them are getting enough.

I''m with you Drunkenwhosiwhasit! Can''t promise I''ll play every game on every skill level. That owuld be mind-numbingly tedious. But I can promise not to buy a new game until I''ve finished an old one. How about that?

I quit the Call of Duty expansion 1 minute and 50 seconds before the end. And I''m not going back. I quit Doom 3 after SPOILER returning from Hell. I was just so depressed to see another baby spider in a dark hallway . And I''m not going back to that one either. I feel empowered and in control of my own life when I do that.

Normally I finish every game I get, sometimes multiple times. The only exception that really comes to mind is Warcraft III- the final mission involved something along the lines of holding off invading forces for 90 minutes, and I just wasn''t crazy enough about the game to invest 90 minutes of my life on one mission of constant frantic activity.

I know, I know... heresy. But WoW III just didn''t trip my trigger for some reason.

This will ring some bells with those of us in our thirties:

I played Impossible Mission on the C-64 (which lived up to its name fairly well) not only until I beat it, but until I could win everytime, and under a certain (i forget, this was 20 years ago) time limit. Holy crap, that really was 20 years ago.

I confine my obsessive/compulsive behavior to winning games and performing music. I''ve beaten almost every game I own. Usually multiple times. Currently playing HL2 on ""easy"" over and over, cause I like it when the killing doesn''t distract me from looking around. Plus now I''m making a screen shot collection of killing many zombies at once using flying saw blades. *Sigh*.

I usually play until I get to some point that just frustrates the hell out of me. Then I''ll put it aside for awhile. Maybe I''ll go back to it, maybe not. PoP: Sands of Time did have some of those frustrating monents, but that was one of the few games I was determined to finish, so I fought through it.
I''ve found that most of the games I give up on the fastest are RPGs. I guess those just lose their fun for me the fastest. I think I played Baldur''s Gate for around 4 hours total.

If I took such an oath, it would also be an oath to lose my job, have my wife divorce me, and end up living under a bridge. Since I would have a hard time carrying all the gaming gear around, I''ll have to stick with my current strategy of playing games until they bore me. Sometimes that''s the end of them, sometimes not.

There''s a trick to it, which enabled me to beat it at the ripe old age of 38. Get to a relatively open area, and run in circles around Doc Ock while hitting the dodge button. When your slow time meter is full, hit that and web down all of Doc Ock''s tentacles, then pound him two or three times. Get out of there before he recovers, and repeat. Once I figured that out, he only hit me once before I put him down.

Completing Spiderman 2 would also mean getting all of the buoy medals. No, thanks!

OMG, I read like first 6 posts in this thread, intently trying to understand why is it the title talks about fishing games, when everybody is just talking about finishing games...

Keep in mind that according to the terms of the oath, one need not complete a game which becomes tedious in its later stages. Once the game simply stops being fun, nobody in their right mind would want to keep playing it. See Alien13z''s posts above.

The oath is designed to prevent the player from ditching an enjoyable game halfway through -- something we''re all tempted to do from time to time, owing to the New Shiny Thing Syndrome (as DrunkenSleipnir aptly put it). The New Shiny Thing syndrome is a bad, bad thing. It''s the reason why I''ve never finished playing such games as System Shock 2 and Grim Fandango. They rank among my favorite games of all time, and yet I have not played them through to the end. I view this as a sad state of affairs, and that''s why I''ve sworn to change things.