Game Collectorism

[Dexiro]

Does anyone else ever have trouble committing to games?

I'm always too quick to buy the next half-decent looking game that gets released and i never get chance to finish what i was playing. I must have like 20 games now and i've completed about 4 of them. Now it's just too easy to switch games when something gets the tiniest bit frustrating!

It's like i'm doomed to collect games and never complete any of them D:

So is anyone else unfortunate enough to have this or do i just suck?

 

[Jaranja]

No, I'm not rich.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

I tried using backloggery.com so I know that my completion rate is about 50%.

Sometimes I stop playing a game because it is frustrating but that game will stick in the back of my head as something that I have to beat. The real pile of games that I will not complete are ones that I just got bored with.

 

[Hiphophippo]

I have so many games to play : /

I blame steam's various sales of course. I don't even want to talk about the most recent holiday sale.

 

[Georgeman]

I do. I own many games and keep on buying more even though I'm not done with lots of my other games. I have two reasons for this: 1) Many of them end up dead cheap (Less than 20 bucks!) and are thus a great opportunity. 2) I'm a bit paranoid that if I don't buy a game within a year of its release, it will end up being out of stock and overpriced on eBay.

 

[Plurralbles]

I don't get a game until it's been out for two years so. I only buy what keeps its luster after that amount of time and it makes every game I own completely worth playing. I don't beat that many games though because I keep seeing this 2-6 year old gem in the local gamestore and just have to buy it. I just got Okami even though I still have yet to beat a lot of other games and I'm still searching for other games that I have decided are worth it based on others' reviews and gameplay vids.

So I am a collector but all my games have come between $5 and $20 so I am gaming on the cheap.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[Discord]

The only reason I seem to collect game becuase I refuse to trade or sell any game I get unless I get 50% or more of the orginal price back to my in cash.

many will say, "that will never happen!"

Well I better build another shelf because these games and game systems are going to be with me for a long time.

 

[Pimppeter2]

I complete every single game I buy, because I don't buy games that I know I won't love.

I tried using backloggery.com so I know that my completion rate is about 50%.

I just made an account on that site.

I WILL GET MY SHIT SORTED OUT

Huh, thats a nifty little tool. I just made an account

 

[SantoUno]

I don't even really buy games anymore, I just bought Condemned 1 and 2 to beat yet I still haven't beat The Orange Box and GTA IV, mostly because they were cheap and were not fun enough to complete. I still play Oblivion despite having beat it a while ago, and obviously Modern Warfare 2 is only good for the multiplayer.

 

[reg42]

I almost always buy games that I buy, but games that my friends lend me don't get the same sort of attention generally.

 

[WorkerMurphey]

Perhaps I'm odd but I enjoy having a collection of games displayed neatly. Particularly after the "dark times" as I like to call it, the first year or so of my PS3 ownership in which there might have been three games I liked, and I only owned Resistance.

 

[DoctorNick]

I'm so fucking poor right now it's not even funny.

I can only afford to buy a new game, even then usually a bargain rack or used one at that, about ever five or six weeks.

As such, I damn well better be playing the things I have.

Having said that though, there are a couple things I've had for a long time that I haven't finished yet. Mirrors Edge, Lost Planet, Dead Rising, etc, I'm playing them bit by bit and I will finish them, but they're taking MUCH longer than average.

 

[TheEarlOfGrey]

I recently had over 100 PS1 games and no Playstation to actualy play them on.

 

[WrcklessIntent]

I myself have about 10 incomplete games right now. And I'm buying Bio 2, Mass Effect 1, No More Heroes 2 and Dragon Age on Tuesday, all at once.

That will not help my situation.

Wow you must be incredibly wealthy. I mean i only buy like 2 to 3 new games a year and that pretty much my max budget for gaming i mean good god man you must have an endless flow of cash!

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Yeah, this happens to me a lot.

Part of it is the games' fault. I mean, I don't feel the desire to drop great games, but on games with slightly worse pacing (I'm looking at you, Fallout 3) there is usually this lull around the halfway or 2/3 mark that just kills my desire to jump back in after a break.

You know what I mean, that huge mission you complete and then the next one starts and it's about collecting the third of four identical shards of frozen dragon fire or something and you know it's just filler, it won't move the story forward and it won't do anything other than add another hour and change of gameplay to a game that should have been way shorter.

I blame the press and gamer nerd teens, who keep counting the hours a game takes to complete, as if they were buying minced meat by weight. That makes devs put filler in just to hit an artifical hour mark without bothering to write new story or set pieces for it.

this.this.this.this. same game too, fallout 3 i always get about halfway done and it just turns to pure meh...not even the DLC saves it, i cant help it, the game is a bust to me in the middle of the game


and OT: i am kinda this way..im not rich, i do have a job and i pay for everything else first, but 3/4 the time i will get a good 1/2 to 3/4 through the game and its just a massive "meh..." and i take a break or dont play it for a few days and then it never gets touched again as a different game gets my hold, then i end up selling a few of these games because i know i will never touch them again and i use that to buy a new one i wanted, such as me2, and then i am satisfied and beat it multiple times =]

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I myself have about 10 incomplete games right now. And I'm buying Bio 2, Mass Effect 1, No More Heroes 2 and Dragon Age on Tuesday, all at once.

That will not help my situation.

Wow you must be incredibly wealthy. I mean i only buy like 2 to 3 new games a year and that pretty much my max budget for gaming i mean good god man you must have an endless flow of cash!

not trying to be judgemental, but what do you pay for? or do you not have a job...? its not that hard to make money, but if you are paying a ton of other shit off, understandable, but getting a few new games here or there really isn't that hard...im a college student and i manage to do college/friends/work/+buy new games/play those games..

 

[Kuchinawa212]

Yeah I try and buy long games that I can play the HELL out of before I'm bored of it. Like Fallout 3. I'm going after quests and all the rare stuff =D

 

[DragonChi]

Does anyone else ever have trouble committing to games?

I'm always too quick to buy the next half-decent looking game that gets released and i never get chance to finish what i was playing. I must have like 20 games now and I've completed about 4 of them. Now it's just too easy to switch games when something gets the tiniest bit frustrating!

It's like I'm doomed to collect games and never complete any of them D:

So is anyone else unfortunate enough to have this or do i just suck?

I would have to say that I'm in the same boat as you. i have built up quite a library and maybe 10% of them i play on a regular basis and 2% of those i actually finish. I'm really really terrible with that. i think its more in the "having the game as an option when looking for one to play". course that's not ALWAYS the case. but i tend to quickly lose enthusiasm for games that i buy. even though i like them a lot, the urge to play them rarely arises.

as for buying games...im really really choosy with my titles. almost all through 2009, NOTHING that was coming out for PC, PS3 or Wii clicked any interest with me. and after xmas there was this massive outburst of great games. the first quarter of this year has been crazy. and there is still more coming.

anyway..i know how you feel. thats my point. i love collecting games. its part of the passion of being a gamer. so even if i dont play or beat most of them. i still enjoy having them there.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I myself have about 10 incomplete games right now. And I'm buying Bio 2, Mass Effect 1, No More Heroes 2 and Dragon Age on Tuesday, all at once.

That will not help my situation.

Wow you must be incredibly wealthy. I mean i only buy like 2 to 3 new games a year and that pretty much my max budget for gaming i mean good god man you must have an endless flow of cash!

not trying to be judgemental, but what do you pay for? or do you not have a job...? its not that hard to make money, but if you are paying a ton of other shit off, understandable, but getting a few new games here or there really isn't that hard...im a college student and i manage to do college/friends/work/+buy new games/play those games..

I'm guessing he's a high school kid, like many on these forums.

With a full time job I buy pretty much every game I'm interested in, which boils down to 2 or 3 full releases and a bunch of downloadable games a month, but when I was in school I also was on a 5 to 6 games a year diet. I borrowed and traded with friends, of course, but I usually got one or two games from relatives at christmas and another one on my birthday and managed to save my allowance to buy perhaps one or two more.

And I STILL managed to play through most of the Megadrive library and a good chunk of the SNES. Man, I could network for games back then. That copy of Mortal Kombat with all the blood in it and Super Street Fighter 2 got me a lot of weeks of SNES loans.

probably right..even then, i have had a job since freshman year in high school, which wasn't that hard to maintain throughout these past years, and yeah up until college i bought whatever i wanted, impulse purchased the shit out of game stuff, the trading of games...good stuff though, and i will agree, super street figher 2 is worth it, i did the exact same thing, and as soon as it became a downloadable on xbl i got that shit instantly, love it