11th April 2005, 9:18 PM
You certainly have a weird way of looking at things.
I like to complete games, see all there is to see. In games where the gameplay gets repetitive (i.e. every single RPG I have ever played), what I want to do (explore, progress in the story) is blocked by chore-like gameplay (the combat if it gets old, fetch quests). KOTOR's combat was fun for a while, but I really got sick of having to go on those fetch quests and the game became nothing more than a means to an end, which I got tired of. Games should never feel like a chore, ever. And there is a great feeling of satisfaction when you have beaten a game. No, for most games I would not want them to go on forever. That's silly. Would you really want your favorite book to go on forever and ever, never getting any sort of closure? I want a complete experience, and that means having a beginning, middle, and end. As much as I love ICO, for instance, having it end was extremely important. And I don't even want a sequel to it.