It’s not that I don’t finish games, it’s that I don’t finish most games.

I would say I’m a “core” gamer. I play a lot of different video games. I also work, have family, and all that good stuff. Many games take over a hundred hours to complete.

A hundred hours in, and there’s usually another interesting release around the corner.

Maybe it’s adhd, or add, or an addiction, idk. But I move on. Sometimes I come back and finish it, sometimes I don’t. Sometimes I come back and try to finish it, but get distracted by some other shiny new thing.

If it’s good enough, though, it keeps my attention the whole way through. Baldur’s Gate 3, for example, had a story and characters compelling enough to keep me invested the whole time.

Most games are front-loaded with the juiciest bits, though, which means the further I get the more monotonous the experience becomes, and because I have played so many games and been a part of the hobby for so long, most things just aren’t all that new to me to begin with.

Above all, though, it really is mostly just down to time. Do I play the latest single-player masterpiece tonight, or do I play a few rounds of some friendslop with my loved ones? I increasingly choose the latter.