How do people go through so many games?

Merlin5

Merlin5

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I love games, but just don't have the inclination or perhaps it's the time to play that many. Like for instance, when I was playing quake 3 and then quakelive, I had, and still have, all these single player adventure and action games I wanted to play, but too much time was taken up already just by the online gaming. And to get good at online gaming, whether it's WoW (not my kind of game), racing, fps, whatever, it takes hours, weeks, months, even years of dedication. Where's the time left to play single player games as well? I've got quite a few on hold and some I've never started. I've still got Crysis 2 to play, still got Rage to get fully stuck into, but all I seem to do at the moment is F1. Then there's a bunch of others of different genres, and then there's all these even newer games coming out. Yet I see people playing just about every action game going, finishing them in record time then onto the next. I can't have several games going at once, but I think some people can. There's just too many games to choose from! :p
 
Online games can be a real time drain, I stick to mainly single player games and limit online, personally I get more pleasure from playing good single player games, especially the story driven rpg's than I do with just endless fragging or grinding away online, I seem to manage to get through quite a few single player games this way.
 
I think the answer to the question is: we don't. I still have to finish Episode Two (Half-Life 2), play Company of Heroes, pick up Metro 2033 again after I got stuck in a level, continue Mirror's Edge after also getting stuck somewhere. I frankly can't be bothered with it as I have other things to do in my life. Then again, once BF3 is out I suspect it's the only thing I will play in the foreseeable future.
 
I still have to complete:

The Witcher 2
Portal 2
Just Cause 2
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit
Shift 2 Unleashed
Shogun 2
Napoleon Total War
Deus Ex HR
Metro 2033
Fallout NV
Dead Space 2
Crysis 2

At the moment I am just enjoying F1. Can have a blast for 30 mins here and there.
 
welll i buy a lot of cheap steam games ont heir sales and I umm play every game i have on easy ! I am more interested in the storyline :)
 
I bought a load of games in the steam sales and have not played them yet. Normally when I buy a game I get my monies worth.
 
I usually have one single player game and one multiplayer game to focus on, then CSS is always on standby

Deus Ex HR, I'm about 2 hours into this and really CBA to go back to it :/ Had a few glitches (stuck trying to click on a bloody control panel on the wall) and the only way out was to exit the game, losing progress. Had it crash to desktop two or three times with no warning or errors too, again losing progress

I have maybe 8 or so hours a week on a good week to game, usually spend most of it CSSing with old pals tbh or procrastinating on the internet
 
smit101 said:
Online games can be a real time drain, I stick to mainly single player games and limit online, personally I get more pleasure from playing good single player games, especially the story driven rpg's than I do with just endless fragging or grinding away online,.
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Snap.... exactly this. I too don't get through that many games. Time though mainly... maybe one or two evenings a week at most gaming... some sometime on weekends.


We all have different time available, priorities, responsibilities etc.... If I spent the hours gaming that I did bringing work home in the evenings I'd have one of those silly long catalogue lists of steam games!
 
I just play most of my single player games on normal or easy to try and get rid of the backlog, because of my online game time.

You still get to finish and experience the game, but sadly it's not much of a challenge. :(
 
Personally, I'm not bothered if I don't finish a game (esppecially the longer ones).
I think I've completed about 5% of all my games haha!
I don't even constantly buy them! I only get 1-5 a year!

Obviously I'd like to, but so long as I've enjoyed it and felt I've spent 'enough' time enjoying it then I have my moneys worth of entertainment and I'm happy.

I still go back to old games on occasion when I get stuck/bored of more recent ones, sometimes finishing them off y-e-a-r-s after I got them.

I don't really spend that long on online MP either, so I'm pretty rubbish at everything online (though I still enjoy them lol).

It's all about having fun. That's why I don't try and get all the achievements etc in games, as most of them take time and dedication (and are tied in with completeing levels etc).
 
Lol still have

Deus Ex (first one) and Human Revolution
Darksiders
The Witcher
Dragon Age 2
Half life 2 episodes
The Last Remnant
Alpha Protocol
Singularity
GTA San Andreas
Just Cause 2
Stalker series

And about 50 other games on Steam lol
 
Too many games syndrome

I to have this sometimes i waste a night whole thinking about what to play and i have been buying games for wii/ps3/pc

Currently torn between xenoblade chroniles,red orchestra2 and red deadredmption but alonside these i like to dip into other titles frozen synapse on my laptop gets a fair bit of attention

But the list of unfinished games is embarrasing tbh and the xmas steam sales will not help i have still got stuff untouched from last year

Some games really need time and regular plays to get the most out of them anyway perhaps i will not buy any until i have exhausted them should save me loads and probably wont need a new pc until 2020 lol
 
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It changes as your circumstances change. Before I got married I could spend hours online with Tribes or the like. Now when I do get on, I could get interrupted at any time by the kids, so quite literally can't play anything that can't be paused.

Even after they've gone to bed sometimes I'm so knackered that the last thing I want to do is play something competitive, so you end up mucking around in Minecraft or something similar.
 
I don't play online that much, and am at the moment tinkering with mods and playing some older games like Dungeon Master. I wouldn't be able to try out different things like this if I played as much online as I did around four to six years ago. However, I have written down a hit list of current and some older titles that I intend to buy, so little or nothing gets left out. :D
 
I do "binge game purchasing", I buy 5 games in the space of 2 weeks then try to play them all.

I wish in a way I could go back to my old days of playing through a long adventure game like final fantasy and revelling in it.

I did recently by playing through prince of persia forgotten sands, but that wasn't exactly gaming brilliance.

I think arkham city will hook me in.
 
Nah, you just end up playing them all over time, I tend to start a game, get stuck, move to another one, get stuck, move back to the one I first got stuck on and so on and so on..

As I'm mostly a single player gamer, eventually I just get through them an hour or so at a time, here and there... like if gf is in bed I fire the laptop up and sit in bed playing Crysis 2 or something whilst she sleeps.. The screen doesn't bother her, and I put in earphones.

Or if she's on the sofa watching rubbish on tv, I again fire up my laptop and use a mouse on the leather sofa and play some Mass Effect or something.. doesn't bother her none too much, she's engrossed in big brother so on and off I just get through them an hour here, and an hour there... It all adds up, before you know it you've polished off some epic games..

All about balancing your time etc... Single folks don't have that problem lol
 
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