As a gamer I believe there are things that we all need to admit to. After reading a certain side-bar I realized that I am not alone. Well to an extent anyways. I have never beat Super Mario Bros. I have seen it beaten, but that was never really why I played. I think I just grew up with a different mind set for completion that others. I was always trying to see how far I could get with just one life. I would time myself to see how quick I could beat a level. Try to max out my “flag jump” points at the end of the level. I was usually spent by the time I got to the last castle.

So does this mean that I never finished the game? Well yea, I guess it does. Most of the times when I “finish” a game it gets put away and never played again. I don’t like never playing certain games again. Perhaps I don’t finish them on purpose.

The only RPG I have ever finished is FFVII… yea. I have started and gotten 40+ hours into certain ones. I have even started Chrono Trigger 3 times. I have just never finished one aside from FFVII. I wouldn’t have finished that one either had it not been for my roommate in college.

I really don’t even buy RPGs anymore. I sunk over 200 hours in Morrowind. Why? I never had to finish it. I got about 60 hours into Dragon Warrior 7. Hell, I never finished Pokemon Yellow.

I do this with books too. Certain books will hit their climax and take forever to wind down. I will occasionally stop reading after the climax in fear that perhaps I won’t like how things tie up.

I may have more confessions that I can’t think of right now.