If you had to stop buying games...

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If for whatever weird reason you had to stop buying games right now...how long would your library/backlog last? In all honesty I think mine would last me pretty much forever. Here is a small selection of games I own but either haven't played or just played a bit to "make sure it works":

X Superbox. The amount of gaming in this set alone is staggering.

Anno 1404. To be fair I've actually played a fair bit of this (maybe even more than ten hours!) but there's so much more to do yet, and I haven't even touched the campaign.

ArmA 2 (Combined Ops) - A couple of campaigns, barely touched. A load of scenarios, I think I've played two of them. Not to mention multiplayer.

Crusader Kings - Another huge game and I haven't even touched it.

Sengoku - As Crusader Kings.

Elven Legacy Collection, Disciples 3, HOMM 5 - Literally months and months of gaming here, barely touched.

Evochron Mercenary, Sins of a Solar Empire, Space Empires 4, STALKER (never played more than an hour of this), etc etc etc. I was going to post more but this is actually getting too depressing. This is the tip of the iceberg; shall we see some examples from my Steam library now?

Blood Bowl, Crysis, Frozen Synapse, Metro 2033, Portal 2, Railworks, SpaceChem, Hegemony, etc etc etc. Not to mention a whole load of other Paradox titles.

Yep. If I had to stop buying games right now, for whatever reason, I think I'd be sorted. Of course, in reality that doesn't stop me buying the next shiny new game that comes along...
 
Assuming we are talking SP only, I'd estimate about 2-3 years of quality gaming following by probably another 7-10 years of decent gaming. That initial 2-3 years is actually fairly conservative, as it assumes I'd have quite a bit of time to dedicate to SP gaming.

It's one of the reasons why I've never bought into the whole "oh noes there aren't any good PC games coming out!" bandwagon, because of all gaming platforms PC has by far the biggest (and best) backcatalogue.
 
ArmA 2 (Combined Ops)
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It'd take a few days to walk across some of the maps and there is dozens of maps custom made by people. The main downside with this game is do you really want something so big that it can take an hour to setup a game

All the mountains in this pic are climbable and detailed but it will slow you to a crawl from the gradient
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This is why they wont let people mod BF3, BF2 is still being used by people and it will take upto 200 people per game - they are doing a big test with yet another new map on the 30th. Thats a 2005 game

Definitely enough games to last forever though I hope terrain polygon detail get tessellation or other advances soon
 
I'd say if i won lottry and didn't have to work so i can play everyday all day, and couldn't buy more games. about 6-7 years
 
easily the rest of my life, currently on 250 games on steam alone, prolly about 10-15 more just installed sitting there on windows lol
 
Diablo II.
CSS (I'd force myself to get back into it).
Titan Quest.
Pokemon.
X3:TC.

Even with just these 5 games I could pretty much be set for life.
 
Assassin's Creed 2 and Brotherhood
Batman Arkham Assylum and Arkham City
Fallout 3 and New Vegas
Company of Heroes
F.E.A.R 1, 2 and 3
Half Life 2
Just Cause 2
Metro 2033
Portal 2
S.T.A.L.K.E.R
The Witcher 1 and 2

All have been played for at most an hour or so. Also I have played a lot of but still nowhere near completed Deus EX HR, GTA IV and Skyrim and have a Football Manager addiction that stops me from getting very far in all of the above.
 
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Huw said:
If for whatever weird reason you had to stop buying games right now...how long would your library/backlog last?
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I pretty much solely play MMO's so as long as they kept adding content (or if they didn't and a decent community stayed with) I would be sorted!
 
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This is my plan too, but it will honestly take a hell of a lot of willpower.
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it's crazy, this month i have spent £500+ on games and handheld consoles for myself before the steam sales, i got a few games from the steam sale too and still have unplayed games from last years sales, i seriously need to stop lol

got a Nintendo 3DS and Gameboy Advance SP along with pokemon red, blue, yellow, gold, silver, crystal, ruby, sapphire, fire red, leaf green, emerald, pearl, diamond, platinum, heart gold, soul silver, black, white

assassins creed 1, 2 and brotherhood

then the steam sale come along and i bought:
alien vs predator
audiosurf
duke nukem forever
nation red
sacred 2
torchlight
the witcher 1 and 2


and i still have from last years steam sales:
F.E.A.R 1 + expansions and 2
GTA4 Episodes
Mass Effect 1 and 2

i got Total War: Shogun 2 from my SSD when i bought that from ocuk in april

and now i got Skyrim for Christmas :eek:


i have a few years worth of games to play lol and i'm going to try and finish them all 100% before i get any more, by then i should be sick of gaming and not buy anymore lol
 
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Single player, given how much I currently play games, better part of 5 years.
If you threw in multiplayer, then I reckon I could go the best part of a decade before getting bored.
 
Games in my library that i have hardly touched:

avp
amnesia
dead space 1 & 2
crysis
a-10c warthog
doom collection
empire total war
fallout new vegas
football manager
trine 2

I reckon i have only played 3-4 hours of all the above games together

Games i have yet to play in my library:

bastion
batman
braid
all the company of heroes games
darksiders
dc universe
dungeon defenders
fear collection
full spectrum warrior games
halflife
homefront
just cause 1 & 2
portal
ruse
red faction games
stalker collection
saints row 2
serious sam collection
super meat boy
vampire masqurades
dawn of war collection
witcher 2

Cant stop this habit of buy games from steam that are on sale :(
Don't think there is enough time for me to play all these games before i die :(
 
Do F2P games count? :p I play a lot of League of Legends with mates, so I imagine I could quite easily waste a few hours a day on that.

If not, then I probably have enough games to last me a few years if I did nothing but play games all day (I imagine a lot longer if you factored work in). Some of them I'd also re-play due to being so good/fun or because mods can make them an entirely new experience (or both). Then there's multiplayer (assuming that it counts, of course).
 
Allready consider my huge pc collection as my retirement fund, just don't have the time to enjoy what i have atm.

With a roof over my head, the means of electrical power.. getting old won't be so bad:)
 
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