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

[Night Goat]

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.

 

[Machocruz]

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]

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.

 

[Anthedon]

I complete the overwhelming majority of games I own. But I don't buy any in advance. So I don't even have a backlog.

Couldn't you just sell your Steam account to trick your mental illness?

 

[502]

Complaining about a backlog it is the kind of shit people who submit negative reviews starting with "I really wanted to like this, but..." do.

Just stop. Cut the impulse buys. Take control.

 

[StaticSpine]

Just stop. Cut the impulse buys. Take control.

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.

 

[Yuber]

I never had a backlog, always play one game at a time. And if I don't enkoj the game I just quit it and try to sell it.

 

[kain30]

I only play one game at a time. If i like i finish it, if not... Next!! The problem is that the ones i like are veeery long. I finished rogue trader yesterday after 170 hours

 

[Abu Antar]

I have over 500 incomplete games. I'm never going to finish all of them. I do complete some shit games, but I abandon a lot of games as well.

 

[StaticSpine]

Couldn't you just sell your Steam account to trick your mental illness?

Nah, I like my account.
I sometimes remove games I strongly dislike from my library. They're not like really removed - you can always get those back but they don't appear on your account and do not bother you.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

Tbh in recent times I found myself more likely to play some game in my backlog, even those that I left middleway, rather than compulsively acquiring some new game. There are very few new games that captivate my curiosity, but there are still more interesting games in my backlog that I am eager to play.