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I do the same things with games. I suspect it allows me to fantasise about it for longer, since i binge everything and it allows me to not conclude it’s experience by ending the show/game/book.
I’m still at the Monolith in Expedition 33. It was really good, I’d like to finish it, just not a huge priority and I’m in no rush
I want to replay it. I got a library copy and need to buy my own now. That music…
That’s around the time in a season that a TV shows run out of budget and are 80% soft spoken dialogue while the coffee mug magically teleports around the room.
I used to do this and then I realized I just don’t really like watching TV shows. So I stopped. And life is better.
Shit, I sometimes get half way through an episode and then all of sudden “I sure hope I dont start thinking about other things right about now, and put me off watching the rest of this show… Fuck.”.
I loved breaking bad but never watched the last season.
I forgot most of what happened now so I would have to rewatch it all.
Boredom with a show is a good reason IMHO. So many shows drag things out when they get popular and don’t hire good writers for the filler.
It’s not even boredom. I watched all the way up to mid season 4 of The Good Place, and then got distracted by who knows what and haven’t finished the show in years. I want to watch the end, but now, 5 years later I feel like I need to rewatch the show from scratch to do it justice, and that’s a commitment my brain can’t come around to making. So I’ll watch 7 seasons of New Girl or Parks and Rec for the 50th time instead.
You can tend to find season recap videos for TV shows on Youtube. It’s been really useful for me, when I want to see the next season that came out but don’t really recall much of what happened since I last watched it.
If it helps, The Good Place managed to end it well, at least IMO.
The Good Place is definitely worth starting over and finishing, if that helps.
“I feel like if it ends here I’ll be satisfied with the story” but there are ten more episodes…yeah i still do that.
Sometimes I’ll do the “advanced” maneuver where I love a show or game and I’m like “this is awesome, I don’t want to go through it too fast” and I’ll pace myself by never feeling like now is an important enough time, and never again experiencing something I was truly enjoying.
I’m actively working on “beating games I like” right now as, like, a skill I’m developing.
That’s so me… Trying a new game, then “oh wow this is great m having so much fun! Finally enjoying a game this much again” the the next time “well since this is a good game I wanna be feeling 100% good so I can fully enjoy it” and then proceed to never play it again because any mild inconvenience or non perfect mood becomes a reason why I wouldn’t be able to really enjoy it. Waiting for the stars to align is my downfall.
This and “work on one thing” at a time are what I need to work on…
This is me 100% 😑 can’t finish XYZ because if I finish XYZ then there is no more XYZ…
Oh my god, I’ve done this forever. This is an ADD thing!?
I hate this community…
And love it.
It just hits too hard.
Climax of a movie… time to make some food without pausing it, for whatever reason. Last boss of a game… save and never finish it, because eventually I forget how to even play it
Games I obsessively modded, played through as a completionist, yet never finished the finale/main quest to:
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Skyrim
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Dishonored 1
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Dishonored 2?
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Cyberpunk 2077
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Baldurs Gate 3, until family coop made me finish it.
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…A lot of games, actually… And TV.
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I did that with FF7. I knew I could go challenge sephiroth for the last fight but I also knew that there were still a ton of secrets like summons and materia, plus the harder mode if I maxed levels. But I didn’t get around to much of it and never beat the game.
And FF2 (snes) I made it to the final boss once, died to him, saw how far back the last save was, decided I didn’t want to go through all that just to get back to the boss and instead returned the game to the friend I had borrowed it from, deciding I was close enough.
Mario Bros 3, I could only ever beat the game if I used a cloud to skip that last fortress before the final level select screen. It was a maze level iirc and I just didn’t have the patience to figure out the correct path.
I avoided the final crater because I didn’t want the experience to end. I think about a year later I just decided to do it and it felt anti climactic. Still, great game.
Oh, yeah, distraction from another show. That I get, just not that often no discernable reason at all.
I do this with games too. It takes literal years for me to beat games because I always reach a point where I get distracted by something else and then drop my current game for over a year and feel no motivation to continue once I’ve pivoted. These days if I want to beat a game I’ll lock in and do nothing but play that game for days on end. New game came out? Nah, I gotta stay locked. Friends hanging out online playing games together? Nope. Locked in. I’ll even turn off my phone and other monitors just to make sure I don’t get distracted.
With TV shows it’s almost impossible to lock in sometimes because they just take too long. I can keep my attention on one thing for a few weeks at a time but I can’t do it for the amount of time a show requires unless I somehow habitualize it into my day like watching it when I eat dinner. And even then I’ll often times switch shows about halfway through.
Games are entertainment, not chores. You don’t have to finish them, nothing wrong with enjoying a game for a time and then being done before the “end”.
Well, yeah, I know that. The problem is that I do want to finish them, I just never do. I want to know the storyline, the lore, the ending, the plot twist, the emotional scenes, I love it all as an experience. I just know that if I don’t lock in I’ll never know the story and how it ends. And as long as I stay locked in I enjoy it thoroughly. If anything, taking breaks from the game makes it not my main focus and then it does become a chore which is when I lose interest. I’m grinding it out while I enjoy it specifically so it does not become a chore.
This has been me with Morrowind. I’ve been trying to play it for literal years, but I can’t ever finish a playthrough. Which sucks because I actually really like the game, I just can’t get hooked on it for some reason.
I didn’t beat the main quest Skyrim, Oblivion, or Morrowind until at least a decade after I bought them. Didn’t even beat Morrowind until just a couple years ago. :P
Maybe I should just mess around the next time I play Morrowind. I’m currently playing Skyrim again, then I’ll probably play Oblivion for a while, and then I’ll try Morrowind again. Hopefully it’ll click this time. I really want to get hooked on it.
I definitely recommend heavily modding it. One I cannot live without when playing is the one that let’s you increase the view distance further than two feet in front of your face. Its such a beautiful game and it’s kind of a shame that the hardware limited the view distance in the first place.
Any other suggestions? I know of OpenMW but that’s it.
I mostly go for quality of life and stability ones. There are some decent guides on the Steam forums which I usually go through when I’m modding it. I usually just go for the unofficial patch, the view distance one, and a few more small ones. I’m kind of a purist so I don’t like all the graphics update ones but there are some that are just essential. You’ll have to get the MWSE (Morrowind Script Extender) in order to get some of them to work. I’ll link one of the guides that I usually skim through to pick and choose which ones I want. The one for view distance is called Distant Land and requires the enhanced graphics mod.
It’ll be a bit of work, but once your done you’ll have a much better time.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2208675449
I appreciate it, I’m saving your comment for when I try out Morrowind again. Thanks for the help.
I used to do this with JRPGSs all the time, I’d spend hours and hours grinding levels but when it finally got near the end I’d just stop playing.
I did that with Final Fantasy X twice before I finally beat it. I was literally two boss fights from the end of the game and just dropped it for no reason both times even though I absolutely love that game. Glad I finally beat it though because that game is amazing.
Haha yeah the Final Fantasy games were great to do that with because they had a lot of secrets and extra quests and then the ultra weapons/summons etc. of course you had to do all that so by the end came around I was like ok I think I get it lol. Maybe I subconsciously didn’t want it to end and just have it an open ending I dunno. Agreed that’s a fantastic game, initially I kinda ignored it because I really didn’t like the blitzball lol, but glad I stuck it out.
I got distracted with blitz ball for many many hours and never finished the actual game.
I’m sitting on a scarlet nexus run… turns out there’s some other media related to it so I’m debating re-starting it…
I love those super ultra long jrpgs… sometimes… but man they are wicked difficult to finish sometimes. I think it’s around when the interpersonal dialogue starts getting redundant (because you might not watch/play through all of them, and if you do it’s repetitive), and I just get bored with the relationship building so the story isn’t holding me anymore.
Yeah I feel like they have gotten a lot more verbose with each generation haha, to be honest the latest generations have been a bit much for me because of all that extra dialogue and yeah the relationship building and a lot of other mechanics they throw in that detract from the game tbh.
I literally got to the final area in Tales of Berseria and Paper Mario: TTYD and just stopped lol…
It’s even worse because I’ve played through everything before that in TTYD like four times.
I’ve never seen the 3rd act of Shadow of War. One of my favorite game franchises of all time. AC4: Black Flag, too.
Same for me but with Shadow of Mordor. I beat it eventually after a few years but now I wanna replay it before I go to Shadow of War even though I know I’ll never get around to it. Such is life I guess. :)
I stopped RDR2 somewhere in the middle on a relative high note. People say the plot is traumatizing so I think I accidentally made a good call.
You’re doing yourself a disservice by not finishing rdr2, my bro
I played shadow of Mordor 3 times and always lost motivation as soon as you make it to the second area
Similar problem with Dying Light too.
I personally find a lot of media has pacing problems. I hate it when the main questline is supposed to be super urgent, but it just turns into a grind halfway through. Like, I’m the Chosen One who’s going to stop the looming apocalypse, but the farmer won’t help you unless you find his lost sheep first. I can’t just pay him to get a replacement sheep and get on with it, I gotta do a stupid buggy escort mission, and quite frankly, I’d rather do the dishes.
It happens to me as well, I have been playing Sea of stars for years
Hold up, you have friends?!?
You can have friends too. Do you wanna be friends?
I should get back into The Expanse.
Lol dammit, I just realized I did the same thing with The Expanse. And I also read the first book but not the others. And I did the same thing with the video game too!
I think it’s something I want to enjoy, but wasn’t enjoying as much as I felt I should be.
oh man, you really should.
It’s da right ting ta do boss mang
I literally stopped watching halfway through the finale episode of the series.
I didn’t want it to end, so it didnt
I call it media separation anxiety
I had a good romp with it. I just want more.
Maybe in 20 years when the crew looks 50-60, lore friendly
Oooh the show is great but the books are even better.
That’s interesting. I heard the show was good, so started reading the books, and stopped after one cause the characters were so annoying.
I think they definitely improve from the first book. They have great politics and they’re kind of structured like 3 trilogies. Try 2 and 3 if you want a decently satisfying conclusion without committing to more. The break between 6 and 7 is much more clear, and the reason the show ends at book 6.
That just means it’s a bad show. You gave it a chance. It failed.
Most shows end like shit. I say this is a way to save ourselves the disappointment
I always stop before a finale, or if the show got canceled I might skip the last season
i haven’t watched a finale (that i knew going-in was the last episode) since seinfeld in 1998.
There was no reason Wash had to die. He was better than those gorram Reavers.
Wash dying raised the stakes for the final show down. Everyone was suddenly mortal and was no longer protected by “main character armor”.
I’m glad the show ended though. Whedon would absolutely fuck the shit out of that in subsequent seasons.
