Time is far more valuable than money because you can never get more of it. Don't force yourself to play something you don't enjoy, just write it off.
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Vapourware Feeling You Have to Complete Every Game You Ever Bought Is a Bitch
- Thread starter StaticSpine
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Machocruz
Arcane
Online playthroughs and streams were a game changer for me. Most games are just curiosities, and there is nothing particularly interesting about the user experience/input of most. Videos can sate my curiosity about a game's content without me spending hours and hours on it. Now I only invest time in "new" genres or inputs, new as in compared to whatever I'd been playing for years. I tried to get into the backlog completion mentality, but most of the games are just familiar types of shit I've played many times before and thus don't maintain my interest.
Nutmeg
Arcane
I almost never "buy" games (for ethical reasons) so I don't have the specific problem in the thread title, but I do maintain a backlog of games that people have recommended to me. In fact I have two backlogs, an initial one, with raw recommendations, and another one with games that pass the "2 hour test", categorized by (subjective) genre and ordered how I felt about playing them more after those 2 hours.
Yeah, I did already. And I have bought very few games lately and have a very short wishlist.
I had a lot of crap from early Steam days when the first sales were introduced and I got my first bank card.
I don't have that many games (around 220) and I played all of them. Completed around 70% of my Steam library + some of the games I already completed on other platforms previously. It's not that bad.
The worst part was thinking about completing them all. My initial thoughts when I started this thread were exactly about that mindset about "crushing your backlog" when people force themselves to play games they do not want. There are many of those on YouTube.
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