Too Many Games?

[Gabriel]

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2421564,00.asp?google_editors_picks=true

 

I have waaaaaayyyyy too many games, and seem to keep acquiring more. Not too long ago, I tried something similar to what the article suggests, but it didn't pan out. Maybe I'll try this method too.

 

There's certainly clear benefits in being able to buy new games whenever I want. However, I'm learning there were hidden benefits in only being able to afford one game every two weeks to a month.

[cimerians]

That's a nice article and I agree, I have too many as well. Between Steam and GOG (and PSPlus) my library of games exploded from cheap as nails deals.

 

Right now if a game stinks I simply don't play it and it gets put back in the library permanently. In the old days I would have forced my way through cause I 'bought' it.

 

I only focus on 1 or 2 games and nothing else exists until I finish them. My problem in the past was that something else would distract me and I wouldn't come back.

 

In the old days you really had time to enjoy the few games you had.

 

(Steam summer sale starts tomorrow)

 

LOL

[karokoenig]

When it comes to Atari 2600 games, the High Score Club here on this site works in a similar fashion. "Forces" you to concentrate on a cart for a week. I learned to appreciate a lot of games that way. Games that I originally bought, played for a few minutes, then put deep down in a collection box.

[Hyper_Eye]

A few years ago I instituted my "No full price games" policy. I had a habit of buying brand new games at full price (~$60) but they would be worth $20 or less by the time I pulled the shrink wrap off. Clearly this wasn't the best way to spend my gaming budget. Now I maintain a wanted list and I buy them when I can get them new for less than $20. Often I buy AAA games for $10. This allows me to get a lot more games for my money and when I buy them I am close to ready to play them. In addition to that rule I track all of my playtime and maintain my backlog. I use howlongtobeat.com for that purpose and a link to my backlog is in my signature. This has kept me from buying games that I don't need and has allowed me to make a decision about which game I want to play next based on my available time and the expected time it will take to complete the games in my backlog.

Edited July 10, 2013 by Hyper_Eye

[+Sargon]

There's certainly clear benefits in being able to buy new games whenever I want. However, I'm learning there were hidden benefits in only being able to afford one game every two weeks to a month.

I couldn't agree with this more. As a kid, I could rarely afford to buy new games so I really appreciated and enjoyed every game that I had. As an adult, I continue to buy new games that I think I might want to play at some point, but I only actually play a select few of them. I feel like I have moved from one extreme (lots of time / little money) to the other (lots of money / little time) and, in my opinion, the former was much more enjoyable.

[Vic George 2K3]

The AAA games are getting too complex for me to want to sit down and play for hours on end.

[MagitekAngel]

For me, getting into emulation about 10 years ago gave me a bad case of gaming ADD. This has carried over into my purchases, as I literally have a backlog of hundreds of games. Lately I have been making an effort to play through some of them, and have loosely confined myself to one handheld and one console game at a time. So far, I've played through about 10 or so games, so I'm making progress.

[doomwaves]

Great article I need to try this myself. I also find that sites like Backloggery.com help me keep track of my progress thru individual games and or my backlog. I try not to go back to games I've already beaten or completed & just play the unfinished ones. However, this method doesn't curve my game purchases. So I may try the 2 game rental challenge. Thanks for sharing!

[Mendon]

I also have waaaaaaaay too many games to either start or finish. And I'm not talking just for the current Xbox360/PS3/Wii U systems either, but going back to the Wii, PS2, Xbox, and even a couple RPG's for the Dreamcast. And then I have games on the PSP and DS/3DS to play.

 

Plus I recently started Dungeon Master: Chaos Strikes Back and Alternate Reality: The Dungeon a couple weeks ago and have found my gaming time totally consumed by those games, putting all my console games on the back burner until my current addiction is satisfied.

 

It's why I'm convinced I'm going to cancel my PS4 pre-order as I already have enough games to play without adding another system into the mix. I think I can wait for a system price cut, games to actually be on the shelves, and let them work out the firmware/hardware bugs before I plop down $400 on a system I'm not 100% convinced I need/want.