Breaking the "too many games to enjoy any of them" rut

[Devrij]

I've seen a good few threads where people buy loads of games in sales and never play them for more than 30 mins, feeling like they're never drawn into them enough. I can certainly identify. It's like gaming nymphomania: I float from game to game never getting to know it and never finding the satisfaction I crave!

That ends today! I'm going to only play one game at a time until I finish each and every game I haven't given a chance. I'm hoping this strategy will allow me to stop flitting about my steam games and give back some of the satisfaction

So, to get me started I'm asking you to choose my first game from this list of games I've yet to really play, or that I gave up on prematurely.

In alphabetical order:

-Deus Ex
-Doc Clock
-Dragon Age Origins
-Eufloria
-Frontlines Fuel of War
-Grid (I did rack up a few hours, but I think it needs to go on the list)
-Just Cause 2
-Mass Effect 2
-Crysis (nearly finished then dropped it)
-STALKER (SOC and COP, although I was never able to get COP to run )
-Titan Quest (and Immortal Throne)
-Toca 3
-DoW 2 + Chaos Rising (really enjoyed DoW2 so not sure why I stopped halfway)
-Wings of Prey


Take your pick, and I will bind myself to finishing the SP at the very least before moving onto another game! Some epic games in there that deserve some playtime, so let me hear your choice.

Cheers

 

[Devrij]

fancy titan quest myself I got up to Egypt and quit LOL I am in same boat as you see my thread lol

That's what inspired me. I was looking at my game library before reading it and didn't feel like playing any of them... and yet I know they're games I would enjoy. Time to end my game whoring I thought.

 

[Devrij]

Okay, so a few votes for Crysis, Deus Ex, DAO, and ME2. I just remembered I may have lost my Crysis savegames when I reinstalled my OS so will have to check that, but if I have them then it sounds like a good place to start. I must admit I was dreading the Deus Ex votes as it was sooooo ugly!

 

[Devrij]

Okay, I'm going to tally all the votes up when I get home from work tonight and the winner will be the game I play. I'm kinda excited about this. It's like getting a free game to play, but I know I'll get stuck in because I said I would. May even post screenies of my steam gameplay time just so I can't cheat.

 

[Devrij]

So far, Deus Ex wins hands down for votes with JC2 close behind. I think I'll start on Deus Ex now, and I think I will reserve JC2/BC2 as my breather games throughout the exercise. I was going to exclude BC2 from my playable games list, but new maps tonight mean I just can't lol.

After Deus Ex and JC2 it was roughly tied between crysis and ME2 so I think I'll finish off Crysis (save-game recovery pending) then attack ME2.

Thanks all for the votes, I will report back with my progress.

Gameplay stats at present (more for my benefit, but hoping it'll help me stick to it).

Lastly, what was that graphics mod for Deus Ex?

EDIT: nvm found a good set on steam forums.