I’ve seen a rash number of “Why can’t I finish video games” or “Why don’t I have the motivation to finish video games” on Reddit, Twitter, personal blogs, etc. over the last couple of years. I myself have a considerable backlog of games, and I typically have one excuse or another why I haven’t finished them. I’m too busy. I don’t have time. So many games are coming out at once. We slap so many excuses as to why a game hasn’t been finished. It’s easy to explain when you don’t like a game, but what about those games you do like but have never finished" That’s where the crazy excuses come running out.
I’ve said quite a few times that the reason why I don’t get far into The Witcher 3 is because I get too distracted picking weeds. That is true; I really did spend over an hour and a half picking weeds and doing side quests before I reached the first town. At that point, I was distracted by something else, either a new game or a review assignment and I never got back to that epic tale. However, I know there’s really another reason why I haven’t finished it, that true underlying reason that explains most of why we don’t finish what we start. While we may have a million reasons why we haven’t finished a game or why we suddenly don’t have the motivation to finish a game, many of the reasons can be bundled into five categories. As you would expect from t...