SvennoJ said:
LegitHyperbole said:
Yeah, I used to play that way with discs as well and very rarely finished games because of it. Since digital I've finish more games in a year than I did in 5 years before. Something about digital and having the game persistently on your console keeps it in mind so you are more inclined to return even after it enters your backlog. Discs end up so easily in a backlog that is never touched again. I recently tried FF7 remake for the fourth time cause it was on my HDD and I was about to format it and glad I did cause I got into it this time and very much enjoyed it, I was about to skip right to Rebirth cause I never thought I'd gel with REmakes pacing, if it was on disc it might not even have gotten a second try for whatever physiological reason that causes that to happen.Â
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Interesting. It's the opposite with me. I finish far fewer digital titles than physical. But that's also due to buying physical versions of the games I really like.
Hence my disk space keeps filling up with digital games I never finish :/ And then I eventually delete some to make room for a new install which makes the chance of getting back to them virtually zero. BG3 being of the prime examples, not inclined to download it again to give it another try. With a disc I would have installed it on the pro to try it again.
RDR1 I picked up again thanks to it being on disc and became one of my favorites, HZD as well, initially put down after the tutorial. TW3 I would have abandoned after the first area if I didn't have it on disc, providing that little extra push to stick with it. With the disc in the drive I'm more inclined to continue to play what I was playing last time. Without it I'm more inclined to swap to something else and for me juggling multiple 'story games' usually means one gets abandoned.
Yet thanks to digital I can play some Puzzling Places or GT7 in VR, then continue with the 'story game' in the drive. Still have to get up to take the headset off though! They might as well be physical editions although for games that get most their content after launch, not all that much point to having the disc. I have the original discs of DriveClub, No Man's Sky, GT Sport. They might as well be 'codes' as the core game is very barebones. But I can experience No Man's Sky again how it was at release! That part of history is sitting on my shelf :)
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Yeah, you think it would be the opposite. It really is the way you think about it, I suppose. My dash board is my main focus, folders used to be my backlog and now I suppose that's the library on ps5 and deleted games don't exist in my mind at all aside from every now and then, I'll scan through to see if I can find anything. That last part is massive for gaming paralysis and the kind of completions OCD that comes with having all the boxes in front of you or folders full of games to scroll through when making a decision on what to play. I wasn't a fan of the 10 game limit on the PS5 dashboard until I realised it's actually genius, it allow only those games to exist in my mind and now not even the library exists at the current time making decisions much easier and meaning I never suffer from choice paralysis, that is gone with the ps5 and something that was plaguing me right up until I retired my ps4 PRO for ps5. With the SSD and now choice paralysis gone, I have way more time for gaming. I don't even want folders to come back now, it's about managing those ten games and making sure the ones I put on hold but intent to return to rotation stay on there with pins while the rest are the games I'm focusing on and shouldn't slip off the screen anyway. If I buy a game I don't intend to play straight away I boot up all 5 of the games that aren't pinned so it gets pushed into the library and it's gone from my mind until I've beaten a game or I delete a failure and then I go searching to pull one forward. It's so perfect in it's design and has solved problems I never thought would be solved that have existed since I started a collection on ps1, I have to assume that this is the actual intent and it's genius design and they wanted to eliminate choice paralysis and gaming ruts, cause the more people playing games the better, the sooner they'll be on the store buying new stuff. I bet this boosts revenue and one more reason they want to get rid of discs.
