This problem has been growing and growing for me for years...to the point of absolute insanity at this point.
I have entire game systems that I have tons of games for and have never gotten around to playing at this point. Why? Because there are good games on the system, I want to eventually play them, and I can't help picking up games that look good when they are on sale.
I have both the PsP and DS game systems for instance. Probably around 50-100 games on each one...mostly RPGs, Action RPGs, Action games etc. I've played oh maybe 20-30 hours MAX on either system....the concept was great...have a portable game to play....the reality? When I was out and about I would read instead of playing a handheld game. Heck I even read books on my PsP instead of playing games.
But I still thought...eventually I'll play them!!
Then I got an Ipad a year ago or so. Now I do actually play games when I'm out and about sometimes....but it's on my IPAD!!!
So yeah, Like 100 games I own that I probably never will actually get to right there.
I still have a good 40+ good games...some really good games, on for my Ps2 that I never played. Now I did play hundreds of good games on that system, but I did have a backlog that I never caught up on. Then came the Ps3 and Xbox 360....I was doing fairly well keeping up with them for the first year or so, but in the last few, sales (especially chrismtmas sales) and game stores/video stores going out of buisiness and having huge sales have led me to buy tons of freaking games for both system. I have honestly played maybe 4-5 games on my xbox 360 all together, I've played way more on my Ps3...but I have a freaking TON of games to play on both systems that I havn't touched..and probably won't get a chance to with new systems coming out soon. That doesn't even take into account my large # of games on Xbox Live Arcade (they had a special that let you get 1500 microsoft points for the cost of 500 normally...so I bought most of the games in the arcade at 1/3 the normal price)...and of course all the games I either bought on PSN....or got for free from being a PSN_ member.
That is just the consoles though....Steam, GoG, Humble Bundles etc have bogged me down with freaking tons.....hundreds...of PC games waiting paitently for me to play some day. I have over 100 still waiting to be played on Steam alone...and yep, the Summer Sale is just about to start....I have way too many games already but you better believe I'll be picking up more on sale.
I'm also waiting for a few games that will be out soon.....I can't wait for Shadowrun Returns for instance....and I'm looking forward to Kingdom Hearts 3 (even though I still have never finished or even gotten very far in Kingdom hearts 2...and any of the versions I own on my DS and PSP (like 6 or something).
So yeah...I'm overwhelmed...and what is worse...it makes it hard to actually finish any game...because once you get to the part that winds down..where there isn't much new to the game, I often get bored now and try something else. I don't have the patience for long games that are repetative or require grinding, instead I get distracted by a new game I am playing at the same time...and the other one gets played less and less till I stop all together.
Right now I am playing.
Original Sega Shadowrun game. Penny Arcades Precipice of Darkness part 4, Prime World Defenders, Knights of the old republic part 1 (on ipad), Knights of Pen and Paper +1 (on Ipad), Sword of the Stars The Pit, Nino Wrath of the White Witch (on Ps3), Arcanum of steamworks (from GoG) and I'm keeping up with new flash games (espeecially TD flash games) on kongregate and armor games.
Each of those games have a current save game that I have played within the last 3 days. I'm having a hard time going back to Penny Arcades game though...it's not as fun as the first 3 to me, and I have gotten bord with it by the third tower....Gonna try and force myself to finish it though.
I also want to start playing Xcom on my Ps3...since it's free right now...but I need to finish up my current frun on Sword of the starts first..and either finish or give up on precipice of darkness. Also almost done with the original shadowrun..which I was just playing to tide me over till Shadowrun Returns comes out (got delayed a month).
Too many games....makes any one game harder to really enjoy...at least for me.