Oh my goodness that is a lot!

Start out with games you think you'll finish/enjoy. Then if the rest aren't worth your time or you don't even really like them; sell them!

burn your wii. burn your 360. burn your ps3. burn your DS. build a PC and buy more games than you could possibly play on steam. make a thread to tell me you bought too many games.

The trick is not to get sucked into buying a game just because it looks cool. All the games "look cool" on some level. Research an upcoming game that looks good to you, in a genre you like, and when it comes out play it. Play it until you're finished with it (either completed or just done with it and won't go back to it). Then and ONLY THEN, do you go out an purchase another one. If you play games in any sort of regular manner, then this system should work fine for you. And NO GAME will ever reach the "vintage expensive" state before you get to play it. If a game gets that old before you get to play it, then it wasn't one you really cared that much about in the first place, and will most likely be one that you start and get bored with.

On occasion, their will be more than a few "must have games" out around the same time. In this case, pick your most favorite of the bunch, buy it, play it, and then save the purchase for the other game(s) until you are ready to play it. Then it will either be cheaper for you to buy (yeah!) or you won't care about it anymore, and no money or time is wasted.

I agree with Barozi, most gamers have this exact same problem.

I battle with it from time to time and I haven't got a perfect strategy to solve it but recently I have tried to choose the game I feel absolutely most to play rather than trying to play games methodogically from a list or something.

I am having a similar problem too, but definitely not as extreme. I have crysis 2, mirrors edge, skyrim, dark souls, ico and SotC collection, the amazing spiderman, resistance 3 and a couple others. I just don't know which one I want to play.

give us list

I'm in the same boat. I have over 300 games (PS1, PS2, PSP, PS3) and everytime I start playing one asome new game comes out and I forget all about getting through my backlog. Other than GT5 I haven't played any games since Amazing Spider-Man and I don't see myself playing any for a while. I'm probably just all gamed out for now, which is why I'm going through my backlog of Netflix shows/movies.

How big is your Netflix queue?  I believe mine is 250+...  Most of them I add because they seem interesting/something I might like but when it comes time to watch it and get it off the queue I just don't feel like watching it at that time.

I have the same problem, what I do it's that I make sure that I want to play that game for a long time, I forced myself to get hyped for the game, by watching videos, the music of the game, etc. It actually helps a lot for some games.

This is what you do:

Write a list of all the game and then put all games into a box that you can tape up. But don't tape it up yet. Now cut the list of titles up , and put them in a hat. Pick one at random, remove it from the box, seal the box and commit to playing that game to completion before picking another game out of the hat.

By doing this you remove the temptation of playing something else. Of course if you find that the game is genuinely bad you can toss it and pick another. But the point is that you finish what you start and you don't know what y our next game will be.