KitGonzo

Many thanks. I'm typically playing games that came out 3 years ago, but I'm still sensitive to not spoiling others experiences if at all possible.

I haven't quit Deus Ex, but it's been on long term hiatus since I reached the boss fight where... <realises he doesn't know spoiler policy for the site> ...erm, well, let's just say because of some of the choices I made in the game, one of the boss fights got very hard, and the online guides I read basically said 'If you've done [what I did] good luck!'. Come to think of it, my pause on FEAR 2 is also because of a boss fight. And my pause on Tomb Raider HD Trilogy. Hmm. Maybe I don't like boss fights. ETA - It's the dude in the statue room.

Add me to the Half Life quit list - Zen grated my cheese so hard I just could not be bothered with it. That's a pretty rare thing for me though. I frequently drift away from games near the end, but I rarely make a firm choice to quit.

Hi, I've worked my way through the IT back catalogue over the last 3 or 4 months, and really enjoyed it. Love gaming, but have little time due to family commitments and a somehow unkillable desire to either be a writer or a rock star, even though I have a job that I'm supposed to be doing and that actually pays the bills. Had been absent from gaming for a few years, aside from internet poker (lifetime breakeven, true fact), but my father got us a PS3 for Christmas (me to wife: "It's a Blu Ray Player, it'll be awesome!" Wife: ) 2 years ago, so I been doing some catching up. The big advantage of this is that I can get a lot of very highly regarded games pretty cheap, because they're all out on platinum. For this reason, I just don't buy games on release at all - the nearest I came to doing that was with Dark Souls which I got about 12 months after release (and is still sitting in the shrink-wrap, because it knows at heart that I am a girly man who barely beat Demons Souls, and I just can't face it). The only game I'm even considering buying as a pre-order is the new X-COM, because, damn, X-Com. Better not suck. Well, and a few Kickstarter projects but that doesn't count because they are in the future. Just managed to get the CoD Multiplayer monkey off my back after 2 days of game time (MW2) and I've gone back to Bayonetta for my third and final attempt, and discovered to my very great pleasure that CoD has sharpened my reflexes enough that I can actually now play that game. Good times. Still sitting on the shelf unplayed: Dark Souls, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Turok, Saints Row 2, Dragon Age Origins, Dragon Age 2, Fallout New Vegas, Need For Speed Hot Persuit, Rage, Condemned 2, and... wait for it... FarCry 2. Based on previous board experience, I'll probably mainly lurk, remain a peripheral figure at best that contributes semi-regularly, starts the odd thread, then drift off slowly. So, you know, fair warning.