Crispy™ Looking through your gaming history

[someone else]

Sometimes I look through my Steam library "last played" date and reminisce about the times I play computer games.

Do you do that?

 

[Blonsky]

If you stare long enough into the abyss, the abyss will stare back at you.

 

[Baron Dupek]

I need to launch Steam to do that. I just turn my head to the shelf with game boxes and see that at least half of them is still not available and probably won't be because they are not popular enough for GOG and right holders to care...
Lot of long games that nowadays I have no time, mostly.

 

[Berekän]

All the time at work

 

[pippin]

I actually did this a few days ago, mostly because I was looking for a game I thought I had played recently and it turned out I did but in 2015

 

[sser]

The ones furthest from last played are Half-Life 2 and all those games that started with Steam. But the one above those is Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45, which I bought at a Walmart back when PC boxes were still fairly popular. Had a little Steam logo on it. Installed it, launched from the Steam library. I reminisce in not playing the game, but in the context of the game's own time period -- when I was younger and life wasn't so complicated. My Steam Library, sorted by time, is in essence a capsule of periods in my life. I can see the late high school, university, women bedded, women lost, economic depressions, psychological depressions, etc., all pegged by games with no metaphorical relevance, shit like Geometry Wars and Titan Quest and STALKER and Audiosurf.

 

[Alienman]

How do you see this though?

I only see recently played and that only shows a few games.

 

[PulsatingBrain]

I keep a notepad at my desk and often take little notes about things that I want to remember, or just things that i like. Quotes I like or I'll sometimes draw little pictures and things. It kind of becomes a series of snapshots of what I liked about the game, and especially after a long RPG I'll sit for a while and leaf through it and reminisce about the crazy adventure that just unfolded. I find it to be a good way to end a game, kind of like just sitting and pondering about the message and tone of a novel after I've finished it

 

[someone else]

How do you see this though?

I only see recently played and that only shows a few games.

In library:
On the right of the "search" button is "games", press it to open up more sorting options.

 

[Alienman]

Ah cool stuff. Started with Half-Life 13 years ago, Valve forced us to Steam to be able to play Day of Defeat

I have some sick gap between games in the early days. Could play one game for months.

2003: Half-Life
2006: SiN, Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45.
2007: Half-Life 2, Episode one & two.

I seem to have begun buying games more seriously around 2012 on Steam(and playing them), but nothing really as memorable as the first couple of games.

My major gaming time comes from later years actually, usually it's the other way around. Maybe it's just a symptom of having more money and less interesting games to play, I mean games don't last as long.

This is nostalgic stuff!