To finish a game, or not to finish a game, that is the big question.

I wonder how many people are in this boat. You buy a new game, get it home, play it to death for a while and then put it aside because something else comes up. Of course, you have yet to finish that game completely and as a little bit of time passes you don't really play the game any more and you just don't finish it.

Then of course a new game comes out that you just have to buy (this happens so often) and the cycle repeats itself, meaning you end up with a lot of games that you just have not finished. Hell, I bought Metal Gear Solid 2 last Xmas because I got it for a great price, and I have not even touched it yet.

I have plenty of great games that I have not finished yet. Can you believe that I have not completed all the standard missions yet from GTAIII. This game has been out for years and is one of the defining games of the current industry, yet I have not even given it the courtesy of playing it right through to the end of the last standard mission.

Something that has been mentioned in the forums, is for an additional column for the My Collection page of GameSpot that indicates whether you have finished the game in your collection. I suggested one further to also have a text field that you can add a small comment, like you've finished it 100% or something.

Eventually my aim is to complete all the games I purchase. Which means that when the uni semester is over, I'm going to be really kicking into the games in an effort to start chalking up more on the completed section of the list I keep in a spreadsheet. This of course must also happen while I get Halo 2 and play it to death, and any other decent game I feel like purchasing. Is my work cut out for me...............I damn well think so.