The fulltime Commitment of pc gaming

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I dont know how many of you manage to do it..i have an increasing amount of games (big titles not indies either lol) i want but impossible due to time.

Deus Ex MD
Watchdogs 2
Metal Gear Solid 5
Pillars of Eternity (1+2 ?)
Tyranny (but i have to surely play PillarsOE first?)
Dishonored 2
Wasteland 2
Starcraft 2 (still havent got this as it got caught in the ever longer list of pc games to buy)
Fallout 4
SOMA
Osiris New Dawn
FIFA 17
Hitman (complete bundle tho not one at a time)
Witcher 3 (still havent finished W2 soo uhh....)

And these are all big big games ...this is a problem (1st world problem but hey ho!)

My steam wishlist just gets bigger and bigger (114 at last count).....there will be games on there from years ago probably that i will never play.

I dont think i will ever be at a point where i can play current stuff....this is a major dilemma for me.

Which of the above games are genuine unmissable?
 
If time is an issue, get the games which are shorter and more linear

For instance:
Metal Gear Solid 5 is good, but it's repetitive and takes forever to properly complete, so best avoid.

Dishonoured 2 however can be done and dusted in 16 hours or so, and that's playing slowly.

Witcher 3 + expansion will take a long time to complete as well. I enjoyed it but never finished it because newer and shinier things came along in the meantime.
 
Pretty sure Fifa17 is going to be miss-able. It's a football game, last thing I heard the rules of football haven't changed significantly so it's going to be Fifa 16 with some tweaks? :p
 
i usually try and work out an equation factoring in cost £ then x grindiness / how playable on sofa and then buy whatever fits into that small bracket. Of course means i miss a lot of keyb and mouse games (e.g. divinity sigh and satelite reign :() I'm planning on getting a wireless keyb and mouse.

But i think i will have to cut out all online gaming as that seems the most "time-sinky" and you never really complete them. I suppose the timing is good because my ISP is crap right now (lots of packet loss all the time)
 
I have loads of games to play, but i'm 29 and have her indoors that i need to socialise with, a house to work on and maintain, a motorbike to maintain, work to earn money, friends to socialise with, TV to watch, music to listen to and family to visit.

I get maybe 6-10 hours gaming a week, tops.
 
Man.. i totally get this, i actually had a cull of my wishlist last weekend.. removed all games older than 3 years from it because if i haven't played them now i won't in future.

would echo Witcher 3.. i'm only about 1 hour in and it's absolutely riveting.
 
I made a list that I plan to eat away over the next few years, got through 3 so far in 4 months T.T. But the process is fun in itself. You feel proud when you finish em.
 
Fallout 4 is great (side missions are way better than main story ) but witcher 3 is amazing.

Don't play witcher 3 first then immediately jump into fallout4 though, otherwise it frustrate you on how simplistic/basic they made it.

I'd wait on patches for watchdogs2 and dishonored 2 if you have other games to play.
 
Time Management.
If I put my mind to it, then so long as work isn't being a pain, I can get in up to 40 hours a week of gaming. :D

I'd suggest avoiding the Hitman stuff, myself, unless you're a serious fan of the whole assassin idea. I kept hearing about it and finally got a massive bundle of everything... Within a day I'd gone through it all and hated the lot. It was such a let down.
 
I havent played Witcher 3 because every time i turned a stream on to check it out, it was a cutscene.

I hate cutscenes. And quicktime events.
 
I am a shift worker and the wife is full time as well, so when I have done my 21 days straight, I get 14 days off and that is when I get time to play. Rush round with the hoover etc and then it is game time. My dogs get a long walk in the afternoon but generally I get between 5-6 hours a day to game. Evenings not so much, as it isn't fair on the Mrs but I occasionally get to slip off for an hour or 2.

The Witcher 3 in your list is a must play and I sunk something like 100 hours in and still not finished it. Hitman was a bit disappointing for me but that might well just be a me thing and again, F4 left me bored quickly for some odd reason. MGS5 was decent and by all accounts, so is Titanfall 2 and Dishonoured 2 (both I have yet to purchase but will do).

I can't comment on others though, as I haven't played them.
 
Soma and the witcher 3 from that list imo!

Somas story was fantastic!

I would skip fallout especially if you played the last ones as tbh it didnt do much new and sort of seemed like a lazy sequel imo, very over rated for me
 
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I love gaming, but I too struggle to find the time. Work, kids, life. But I tend to get on average 10 or so hours a week. Its better then nothing.

I tend to find games I like and keep playing them a lot, I don't buy as many games as I used to though.
 
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