Board 8 > Interesting looking at trophy data the numbers who actually complete the games.

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FFXIII is a bit surprising, but GTA and Skyrim has so much you can do with them, the actual story is way down the list of importance.

any word on CoD games?

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Particularly with GTA given the kind of reception it got with critics. Highest rated game of the generation among many and only a quarter of the players finished it?

There are a lot of people that just like to steal cars and kill people.

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Probably a good tool for measuring how successful a game was with the customers.

This isn't even close to true. Games like Skyrim and GTAIV are much more open-ended than the other games on the list. You can spend a completely satisfying, enjoyable number of hours on them and a lot of other games without ever truly seeing the "ending".

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People play GTA to see the ending?

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What the hell is Sonic Underground?

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From: __Smurf__ | #001
Sonic Underground 15%

Well hey if it did have a game it would probably be better than some of Sonic's games...

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Skyrim also had/has (no idea if its fixed yet) some wicked bad glitches for the PS3 glitches that would ruin it's playability later in the game. I wouldn't be surprised to see the 360/PC versions a bit higher.

I'd actually bet the 360 GTAIV numbers are lower - more active online community, RROD issues.

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FFXIII is also considerably long and maybe even difficult compared to the top games there.

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Uncharted 70%
Uncharted 67%

So which is it?

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FFXIII is a 50+ hour game that takes ages to get interesting, doesn't really seem like such a weird number to me

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Not talking about 100% complete, talking about just seeing the ending on the easiest possible difficulty. There's bound to be some people in the middle of playing or folk who rented/borrowed a game that brings it down, but some completion rates are really low. Probably a good tool for measuring how successful a game was with the customers.

(Using PSNprofiles)

Uncharted 2 73%
Uncharted 70%
Uncharted 3 67%
Resident Evil 5 67%
Batman: Arkham City 63%

Are some of the simpler linear games that you'd expect most people to finish, probably a decent baseline to use.

FFXIII 43%
Skyrim 36%
Grand Theft Auto IV 26%
Sonic Unleashed 15%

Then you have some of these where the majority of gamers just haven't finished, which is a little surprising. Particularly with GTA given the kind of reception it got with critics. Highest rated game of the generation among many and only a quarter of the players finished it?

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From: pjbasis | Posted: 3/26/2012 12:34:25 PM | #009
FFXIII is also considerably long and maybe even difficult compared to the top games there.

not to mention bad

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Senjougaharaism posted...
FFXIII is a 50+ hour game that takes ages to get interesting, doesn't really seem like such a weird number to me

You don't buy a FF game these days without knowing what you're getting, though.

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Maybe he means it's surprising that many people finished it >_>

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I'm surprised Skyrim got even 36% and GTA got 26%. I thought more people just do the side quests and screw around.

But yeah like Mana said, some games aren't very ending-centric, so it doesn't really say much about their success with players.

The Mass Effect series, though, has a surprisingly low completion rate. And while those games have a lot to do in them, the story is definitely the main focus, so it's a bad sign if there's a low completion rate. That's why Bioware added the Action/Story modes in ME3, to try to raise completion rates.

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And yeah I understand why Skyrim and GTA would have different completion rates to something linear like Uncharted, just interested me how low the numbers are on a lot of games. Unleashed and FFXIII are somewhat obvious reasons, wasn't making anything of the Skyrim figure other than to compare with GTA.
I think its strange if the consumer was receiving the game as well as the critics that 3 out of every 4 players didn't have their interest held until the end. There'll always be the sandbox kind of player but that doesn't stop Skyrim being a good 10% higher despite likely having a lot of people still progressing through it.

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From: neonreaper | #002
any word on CoD games?

MW2 - 66.33%
MW3 - 55%
Black ops - 59.08%
World at war - 51.78%

For the single player campaign

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