discussion Completed or Ongoing games?

[Beanee]

if the previews are good, ill play any game

 

[Solamenteforjogos]

I like to play ongoing games on the early versions to see if I liek the premise, story and gameplay, then I come back to play the game a LOT later to see how they improved (if I still remember). The downside is that after you get invested on a game the developer start to take the story to a path you dislike or outright abandon the project and you feel like you wasted your time

 

[kenny86]

A short but complete story > a sprawling updating mess.
Especially considering how many games end up abandoned and never finished, providing nothing but narrative blue balls

 

[Kastel0]

I prefer completed games, but sometimes I check ongoing games that appeal to my tastes, and if the developer does a good job with the updates I keep playing them.

 

[MTelly]

both. By your criteria you're missing out pearls like Proud Father.

 

[uncbuck]

Ongoing is ok -- gives me something to look forward to -- but I
HATE the dreaded "must start over with this version" Even with the ability to skip is is a rare game that interests me enough to bother with that

 

[iHiuga69]

Complete, to have total experience

 

[Lucumo]

Completed games only because I have no interest in waiting.

 

[Seo In-guk]

Previously only completed but now game in progress and completed

 

[MOCO9559]

Well, I prefer completed games but to get a first impression on a game, I would also play games that are still on the way. If I like what I see so far, I will wait a few updates and pay the game a visit again. If I would always wait for the completed version, we would talk about waiting a couple of years quite often, if it gets not abandoned in between.

 

[xNikron]

Many good games get abandoned before completion so you can miss some gams this way.
I usually play new games at early stages to see what they promise. I return later to check how the game develop more content.

 

[SMBD]

Of course I prefer completed games but bc most of those Im interested in are incomplete I end up in 95-99% cases playing ongoing games.

 

[Scathe]

Completed for sure, I'm personally not a big fan of having to replay the same stuff just to get to the new.

 

[AlfaBit]

Completed for sure, I'm personally not a big fan of having to replay the same stuff just to get to the new.

My bro!

 

[Gorion]

So am I the only one who prefer to play only completed games?

It's been what...? 5 years and I hardly ever played an incomplete game, a few in the start but when I realised those can be abandoned I stopped playing ongoing games (blame dual Family the last incomplete game I played), and also the fact that there are too many games for me to play (I have a wide range of tag preference) that I just decided to not play them until they are completed.

If you do the same or not, what are your reasons?

 

[Rostabu]

So am I the only one who prefer to play only completed games?

It's been what...? 5 years and I hardly ever played an incomplete game, a few in the start but when I realised those can be abandoned I stopped playing ongoing games (blame dual Family the last incomplete game I played), and also the fact that there are too many games for me to play (I have a wide range of tag preference) that I just decided to not play them until they are completed.

If you do the same or not, what are your reasons?

I almost never play a game before 3rd release I refer there to be a large body of work as its likely I might never see that title again but there have been a few that I have actually followed like single again, light of my life, young again, guilty pleasure and while it was running I also followed now and then.

 

[PatchedUp]

ongoing but I have soooo many ongoing games played I stopped picking up new ones unless they been out for a while and have a lot of content already.

 

[gbfacc999]

if the game has enough content to enjoy im usually fine playing tho but if its still alpha i try not to play them except for a few

 

[buutooh]

Not a lot of completed games unfortunately. Some non completed game have way more content than some finished ones. I'd miss out a lot of good contents if I only play completed ones.

 

[vinkelsier]

I end up mostly playing Ongoing games, mostly because there just are more of them.
If I only played complete games I'd never play anything.