Games I Need to Get Off My Arse And Finish

In no particular order:

• Twilight Princess
• Stalker
• The Witcher
• Rainbow Six: Vegas
• Hitman: BloodMoney
• Overlord
• Half a dozen other half-finished 360 offerings.

I'm a real sucker for not finishing games. I wish I was a little bit more protestant in my gaming work ethic (oxymoron?) but basically in recent years like most people heading into their late twenties I've become time-bound, not money-bound. Hence I end up buying a hell of a lot of games I don't ever finish. I can even predict with a fair degree of accuracy which genres of game I will complete, and which get neglected after something else pops up on the radar. I usually end up finishing RPGs or good story-driven FPS games like The Darkness, HL2 or Bioshock purely because I want to see what happens at the end, and I find the immersion that a great story brings very compelling.

On the other hand, although I do love RTS and strategy games, my attention tends to waver once the novelty wears off and the challenge begins. I love the thought of a good strategy game like Medieval: Total War 2, but I invariably lack the patience to really get the most out of games like these.

I'm trying to be a bit more careful these days about what I pick up - I've deliberately avoided buying great looking RTS games like World in Conflict or (criminally) Mario Galaxy purely because I tend to find the lack of coherent narrative off-putting.