What Motivates you?

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epicfallen

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This might seem like a stupid question, but what motivates you to play video games? And I'm talking about things such as getting stuck on certain levels, unable to defeat that one stupid boss, or just sucking at it in general. What do you do to calm yourself down and pick it up again?

Yelling at the screen might help, but not when it disturbs everyone else in the house....especially at 3 in the morning ^.^"
 
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i normally rage turn it off go downstairs have some food then play it again XD

but bosses i have no problem on it's usually the little things like no ammo or accidentally saved with low health >_<
 
At the moment, nothing.

I have a lot of half-finished games
 
For me it's a sense of I can't give up, or I don't like to lose; plus I figure that as I spent money on the game then I have to make an effort to finish it or the game is a waste of money.

Sometimes I shout at the game, or swear, but not very often.
 
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theres one game that when you lose everyone shouts at no matter who you are ... mortal kombat the game that makes you rage
 
I don't ragequit, I just get sooo bored of doing the same level that my head hurts, so I quit and try again later, or watch a walkthrough:3
 
When I play I usually make game to have done SP campaign, as sometimes those MP FPS games ends that I can ragequit when I yell on mine unteamed team. Well I had some ragequits in single games too, but these was been from unbeatable boss or simple repeating same sequence again and again.
 
Well to put it short the game itself motivates me to play it lol

Aside from that if i'm stuck and i still continue to pry through the chances are the game is really good and i just can't get enough of it !!

If i really get stuck on a Hard mission i just take a break and play something else playing the same level again AND again gets me frustrated.
 
This Demon killer
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This zombie hunter
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This virus
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this pirate
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and this executioner
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These are my motivations.^_^
 
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Most the time it's glitches that annoy me to the point of needing a break. Seriously gets on my nerves when the game itself is the reason I'm being held up for progress. I have an extremely recent example that perfectly suit this kind of "needing a break".

If it's not the above, I'm just not playing up to par; in which case I sit back, breath in gently, get my ipod, and blast my ears with music. I have playlists for different situations too, sometimes a game requires carefully thought out tactics and sometimes it requires fast twitch reactions. For me finding the right song to fit the situation can do absolute wonders (Even if it doesn't, nine times out of ten I'll still feel epic doing whatever I'm doing).
 
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I have about 18 games left unfinished - mostly not even started. I always ended up at the boss or the final moments of the game and I stop. I don't know why, I think the story hooks me on until the ending which is when everything comes together and winds down. It took me like 2-3 years to finish Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction; I got to the final boss, stopped, and since it was so long ago, I ended up doing a new playthrough a few years later after I stopped. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword took me a year to finish, I think I was about 75% of the way though until I picked it up again last November. Personally, I didn't want to see Fi go. :'(

Grinding/farming or collectibles in games demotivates me. Final Fantasy X, XII, XIII, and XIII-2, Dark Cloud 2, and inFamous 1-2 frustrated me that I ended up stopping. FFX ended because the HD remaster was announced and I was stuck at the mountains place with slightly under-leveled characters - Yuna was barely used and Kimahri only had nodes around not in any set path. FFXII felt like an MMO gameplay-wise and the story was decent, but I loved the setting. XIII and Dark Cloud 2 suffer from weapon upgrading syndrome where for whatever reason the developers decided that the weapon upgrading system should be a chore, especially FFXIII. As a weapons lover who wants to see all the weapons and its upgrade paths, I screw myself over in enjoying the game; on my 4-7 re-playthrough of Dark Cloud 2 and have never once finished it. FFXIII-2 has MMO traits like grinding for levels or farming for weapons post-endgame. It sucks when you want to 100% or get as close to it as possible. Damn Blast Shards in inFamous, at least inFamous 2 had a Blast Shard tracker power-up. Also, the exp enemies give after the game is so pathetic; I WANT TO SEE AND USE ALL THE POWERS! Sort of accomplished that with inFamous 2, but not inFamous; finished both games by the way, unlike the others excluding FFXIII and XIII-2.

Bayonetta has a great combat system, but the story, dialogue, and innuendos are so over-the-top compared to Devil May Cry and other-the-top games. I want to finish it and I don't want to skip the cutscenes, but jeez... Annoying levels like the space maze of doom in Super Paper Mario demotivates me to play. I said I was going to watch a walkthrough and go through it myself, but that hasn't happened.

Muramasa: The Demon Blade is the most recent game that I played through without stopping for more than 1 to 2 weeks. The art style, the food - they look so tasty -, the story, the atmosphere, it's addicting to play even though the combat is nothing by mash "A" to win most of the time and the insight of Japanese history and culture helps too. Now I'm at post-endgame with 4 ending to unlock and several dungeons to finish. Technically, I finished Muramasa and technically, I didn't.

This'll be a joy to go through once I get a PC. Welcome to Gaming Backlog Hell! You currently have 4017315316378946328461393124689164382 games to play. Enjoy! :devil:
 
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epicfallen said:
This might seem like a stupid question, but what motivates you to play video games? And I'm talking about things such as getting stuck on certain levels, unable to defeat that one stupid boss, or just sucking at it in general. What do you do to calm yourself down and pick it up again?

Yelling at the screen might help, but not when it disturbs everyone else in the house....especially at 3 in the morning ^.^"
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For me, some of my fondest memories are playing tony hawk, timesplitters and burnout with my best friend. but for games like DmC, its for that feeling of being the most indestructible thing on screen. come on, real life isnt nearly as exciting. i cant jump off a 400 foot tall bulding and hit the ground while running and carrying a car (prototype.). but in games, its fun to cause destruction.
 
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I completely get what you guys mean XD Especially about the unfinished games. It took me a year for Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess because of the same things. But the feeling of accomplishment once it's done and over with is truly one of the best feelings :3
 
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