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Same, but with video games.
I swear, I’ll finish Baldur’s Gate 3 eventually… and Dragon’s Dogma 2… and Cyberpunk… and Pillars of Eternity… and Planescape… and Death Stranding…
What sucks is when it happens to games you enjoy playing. You can just feel yourself lose interest while another part of you wants to keep going.
Yeah, I know that feeling. It is a weird one.
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.
Honestly, I think this is a good thing. Sure, it means that I often don’t finish shows or games, but I also don’t care to, which suggests that it wasn’t important to me anyway. I’m being more true to myself than to the expectations of society as a whole, which I think is healthy. I usually go back to an abandoned franchise when I’m ready, anyway, even if it’s a decade or more later.
Yeah I did that with house of dragons, severance season 2 and the latest season of squid game. Sometimes it’s just too hard to commit to a show and to choose random YouTube videos instead 🥲
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OP: there was a reason… you had been watching shit. That’s why you quit. When you are watching quality, you don’t quit.
I should get back into The Expanse.
oh man, you really should.
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
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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.
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.
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 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.
I’ve never seen the 3rd act of Shadow of War. One of my favorite game franchises of all time. AC4: Black Flag, too.
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
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
I sank a few hundred hours over many different characters into Skyrim. Still never finished the main quest line.
I’ve got over 5k hours and in the realm of 50-100 playthroughs and I’ve probably only beat the main quest 2 or 3 times.
There is a reason tho. If you stopped watching, it clearly wasnt interesting or memorable enough to come back to your mind and reignite your interest for it.
“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.
I’ll get 50-75% of the way through and just go find a written synopsis online.
If I like the show, I will read the plot of the entire series. I will keep watching it, but my husband still hates it.
I despise watching shows as they come out because I can’t stand being subject to their suspense building.
That just means it’s a bad show. You gave it a chance. It failed.
