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Do you suffer from “Too Many Games” syndrome?

Yes :( 12 60.00%
 
No… but I wish I did lol. 2 10.00%
 
No and I’m very glad I don’t. 6 30.00%
 
Total:20
Chrkeller 2 days ago
firebush03 said:

Thank you all for the words of advice. I think I’ve got a better idea on how to better approach video games moving forward: not with a lens of “Oh! Gimme!!” at every shiny thing I see, but rather, appreciate the aura of mystery which surrounds all these games I’ve only ever heard people talk about.

Chrkeller said:

Step 1: Buy Expedition 33 and Stellar Blade
Step 2: Ignore whatever you are playing and hit those two hard
Step 3: Bliss because those two games are the best titles in years

Lol! Funny that yoy mention those two games: I’ve purchased and played through both of them, and I have to say, you might be onto something. Some of the greatest of this generation, no doubt.

I would be SH F in there as well.  It just occurred to me, I must really like parry systems.  



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Kaunisto 2 days ago
There's always more games, movies, books and comics than can be done in a human lifetime. Sometimes you've already collected that many.
For me, having played hundreds of games in over 30 years, there's also the problem that I want to replay many of my old favorites. But at the same time there's the backlog of tens of games I should deal with and then there's the new things you're eager to see...
Louie_86 said:

Im kinda having the opposite problem, theres a lot of games out there and I have a lot of games in my backlog, but i feel "i have nothing to play now" everytime I finish one, cause i dont wanna start any of the ones i already bought. Suddenly i lost interest.

I have a whole scale for "i have nothing to play", been saying this for years:

Level 1: nothing to play today because I already did day's quota of ongoing game(s) or I have less than an hour of nothing to do and can't think of anything fitting for such moment
Level 2: just finished game(s) and not starting a bigger continuous one for few days; essentially between games
Level 3: same as 2, but I haven't decided or don't even have clear options on what's going to be the next game
Level 4: same as 3, but I don't really feel like playing anything


Dante9 1 day ago

Kinda having the opposite problem at the moment, running out of games to play. Only a couple of things left to purchase on my wishlist.
The older I get, the more picky I seem to get as well, when it comes to games.
Of course there's always something interesting on the horizon, but it takes forever now to develop games and then it takes some time to patch them out, and I always want to wait for the most polished state possible.



Pajderman 1 day ago

Sort of. But mostly because I find so much joy in replaying games. My backlog of games I like to revisit is just as large as games I bought but so far never tried.
I lose interest fast in games that are not to my liking. The biggest hurdle for me is often finding a timeslot of several hours that I need to start something new, because if I only have time for the intro and not much else, the likely outcome is me not returning. I need a longer session for any new game to start with and so many free minutes in a row is rare.



JackHandy 1 day ago

My only advice is to learn how to let go. You will survive if you miss out on something. Life will go on. And when the time comes, those games you missed out on? You'll discover you didn't really miss out on them anyway. You just missed out playing them when they were new. Ebay is a thing, and it'll likely be a thing until you're ninety. You will always have the option to play any game that's ever been made, should you want to. So try to relax, find a game that sounds fun right now and play it. Let everything else fall away.