Vapourware Feeling You Have to Complete Every Game You Ever Bought Is a Bitch

[StaticSpine]

makes one run or doesn't even finish the game

If plays at all.

 

[POOPERSCOOPER]

I used to be a backlog gamer thinking I'm buying games to complete them but then when it became too burdensome I stopped and it felt amazing. I don't commit to beating anything, if I play it and it starts to get boring I move on. I don't finish much games anymore because of that but I would rather that be the case then doing a 2nd job. Games were meant to be mostly fun. I know they aren't like cocaine all the time but when it starts becoming more burdensome than fun I stop and move on to another one.

 

[Mountain]

It depends on how seriously you take it. Is gaming a hobby for you or something else?

Not playing some of the classics is like being a movie buff and not watching Seven Samurai or Gone With The Wind or something, you have to explore some of the past to not be ignorant.

I have hundreds of backlog games, it's obviously impossible to get through them, but ultimately it is about knowing which games you can remove and which you need to try. There are enough games out there to play forever already, it's virtually impossible to get to all the best ones, but getting to the important ones should be possible if you curate yourself.

 

[Dark Souls II]

Game buyers are literally deranged, as proven by this thread. Give money willingly for something you can easily download for free, then force yourself to spend time to "complete" a game you don't even enjoy. Mental illness. You people are sick in the head.

I never buy games, download dozens of games each week, maybe play a game for an hour, maybe for a few days, when I'm bored download a new game. Very often I don't even install the games I download, just delete the installation files when I run out of disk space to make room for more new games. All the games in the world, completely for free, with no burdensome "launchers", no idiotic "achievements". My spirit is free.

 

[Melcar]

Maybe I have to actually buy a game to feel the obligation to finish it.

 

[pOcHa]

Game buyers are literally deranged, as proven by this thread. Give money willingly for something you can easily download for free, then force yourself to spend time to "complete" a game you don't even enjoy. Mental illness. You people are sick in the head.

I never buy games, download dozens of games each week, maybe play a game for an hour, maybe for a few days, when I'm bored download a new game. Very often I don't even install the games I download, just delete the installation files when I run out of disk space to make room for more new games. All the games in the world, completely for free, with no burdensome "launchers", no idiotic "achievements". My spirit is free.

it's more of a bookmark - so you don't forget them

 

[cretin]

For me its more that there are games I've already played, that are superb, that I haven't finished. I should finish them before trying to Find Next Thing. Chances are whatever Next Thing is, is inferior to something that is already in my library.

The corollary to "life is too short to play mediocre video games", I think, is "good games are rare and deserve to be completed"

 

[Inec0rn]

I've been gaming since the Amiga era and my steam library is only 200 games, don't buy garbage.

 

[StaticSpine]

you need to try

When you start thinking in terms you need to play something, you're fucked.
This is the exact thing that leads to gaming burnout and screwing the hobby.

 

[Mountain]

you need to try

When you start thinking in terms you need to play something, you're fucked.
This is the exact thing that leads to gaming burnout and screwing the hobby.

Depends on the person, I never had any serious gaming burnout. I still find it as fascinating as ever even if I have gobbled up games since I was a kid. It's more than a hobby for me, more than entertainment.

 

[NecroLord]

I try to get as many old games as possible.
Even if I may not play them immediately, I know I can always fall back on them instead of trying out any of the modern ones (with small exceptions obviously).
From rpgs to shooters, platformers, and so on.

 

[Losus4]

Relevant - https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/you-dont-need-a-good-game-you-just-need-one-game.151410/

This is wrong in almost every way that something could be wrong. 99% of games are absolute shit. The real task is in identifying something that's worth your time.

shutup

 

[Spike]

I used to be like you until my backlog entered uh perhaps past a thousand. Now it's so big my brain is once again set free, because it's so much I don't even feel like I need to think about it.

I have 1 category I put every game I want to play "soon/next" in, and I slot them in that, and work from there. For the console games (from emulators like PS2 tehe) I want to play, well that's just...There, it's whenever the whim strikes I suppose.

 

[Borelli]

I used to buy heavily discounted games on my wishlist because like that's what the wishlist is for, but then i took a deep breath and said "there will be more discounts".

When it comes to games that i actually start i feel an obligation to finish them, like buying a movie ticket and staying through the end, this is the only "achievement" that i'm obsessed over.

 

[POOPERSCOOPER]

you need to try

When you start thinking in terms you need to play something, you're fucked.
This is the exact thing that leads to gaming burnout and screwing the hobby.

Kind of, if your gaming interest isn't that high then sometimes I have to try a bit just to get started. It's just a question of how much trying? I'm not a kid in front of a TV in my underwear ready to play anything for hours and hours.

 

[Kabas]

 

[Zoo]

you need to try

When you start thinking in terms you need to play something, you're fucked.
This is the exact thing that leads to gaming burnout and screwing the hobby.

If you start thinking that way. Yeah, there are many games on my backlog, which I consider need to play, but they are essentials, greats or really interesting games, or az least sequels/remakes to my favourites (e. g. Escape from Monkey Island), not some hoarded random shit. And what is important, I am mostly enjoy playing them. Of course, I have shit games, too, but they are certainly not in the need to play category.

Sometimes I play or even finish some trash, when I really curious, what is the fuss about the game (like Horizon Zero Dawn), but it doesn't do anything with the purchase. I never play a game only because I have bought it.

 

[Inec0rn]

sounds like trash games to me, like horizon zero dawn.

 

[Devastator]

I like having a small to moderate backlog so I can comfortably drop games I don’t enjoy.

Fuck finishing anything that isn’t compelling. I’d rather work and get paid than waste time on something I don’t like for free.

If a game starts feeling boring, I usually take a break. After at least two weeks (sometimes even months) I:
- either feel like giving it another shot, or
- realize I dislike it even more.
For example: Somehow, I managed to return to Starfield enough times to finish it, but it took six months. Not sure I’ll do the same with BG3. I felt like taking a long break after reaching early CH3, but now just thinking about it makes me nauseous. Highly unlikely I’m putting myself through that shit again.

 

[Spike]

I like having a small to moderate backlog so I can comfortably drop games I don’t enjoy.

Fuck finishing anything that isn’t compelling. I’d rather work and get paid than waste time on something I don’t like for free.

If a game starts feeling boring, I usually take a break. After at least two weeks (sometimes even months) I:
- either feel like giving it another shot, or
- realize I dislike it even more.
For example: Somehow, I managed to return to Starfield enough times to finish it, but it took six months. Not sure I’ll do the same with BG3. I felt like taking a long break after reaching early CH3, but now just thinking about it makes me nauseous. Highly unlikely I’m putting myself through that shit again.

I admire this, because I am way too autistic to drop most games. However, if a game offends me enough with its poopy gameplay, I will quit, uninstall, and file it under "DROP'D" in Steam.

 

[Crispy]

One of my most powerful motivators for at least attempting to finish games I've already started is the fact that, once abandoned, or just put on pause for a while, and if the period of non-play gets past a certain point, I then can't later on remember jack shit about the game itself, how to play it, its storyline arcs and so forth, which further erodes my desire to "pick it back up" again.

Still, sometimes, the allure of a brand-new game is too great to resist. That endorphine rush of creating a fresh character is too powerful to deny.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

One of my most powerful motivators for at least attempting to finish games I've already started is the fact that, once abandoned, or just put on pause for a while, and if the period of non-play gets past a certain point, I then can't later on remember jack shit about the game itself, how to play it, its storyline arcs and so forth, which further erodes my desire to "pick it back up" again.

It's the opposite for me, at least for more story heavy games. If I quit mid playthrough for whatever reason (e.g. feeling burned out after messing around with a million builds), I'd rather let enough time pass as for it to feel fresh for when I get around to starting a new playthrough.

 

[Zoo]

sounds like trash games to me, like horizon zero dawn.

My backlog contains System Shock 2, Pool of Radiance, PlaneScape: Torment, Hitman games, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Red Alert 2, Silent Storm, Master of Orion 2, Caesar III, Yakuza games, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Superhero League of Hoboken, X-COM Apocalypse, Jedi Knight, Might and Magic VI etc. Maybe they are all trash, and I should wait for Assassin's Creed Shadows.

On the other hand, HZD was not a backlog game, it was fresh trash. Usually, I have much more fun with my backlog than new games. Of course, I play fun newer games, too (Battle Brothers, RoboCop, KCD, Vampire Survivors, Excavation of Hob's Barrow etc.).

 

[Damned Registrations]

95% of what I play is a single genre

That's the issue for me, I play too many, and often really long form shit. Colony sims, big open world games, roguelikes, tactical rpgs, 4X or grand strategy stuff... there's barely enough time to complete games from one of those genres as they come out, let alone all.

 

[Zlaja]

I don't commit to beating anything, if I play it and it starts to get boring I move on. I don't finish much games anymore because of that

The problem with this mindset is that there're very few games that are a lot of fun from start all the way to the end, so you'll inevitably end up abandoning most games you play and even a fair amount of those that are generally pretty good. For me, it's unthinkable to just quit game after game as soon as they stop being as engrossing as they were early on. Would make me feel like a child, just going from one shiny toy to another.

One of my most powerful motivators for at least attempting to finish games I've already started is the fact that, once abandoned, or just put on pause for a while, and if the period of non-play gets past a certain point, I then can't later on remember jack shit about the game itself, how to play it, its storyline arcs and so forth, which further erodes my desire to "pick it back up" again

Totally agree with this. Also, this is why I never play more than 2-3 games at once. If I start juggling more games than that, it's inevitable that some of them will end up abandoned, regardless of how fun they were before the novelty wore off.