Your "Gaming Saturation Point"?

[Xeogred]

On the flip side, I like having a small backlog. Always nice to have some options and you never know what moods may strike and games that can click. I'm sure people that heavily collect books or movies, etc whatever always might have some extra stuff laying around they haven't gotten to yet.

Maybe set a firm number limit for a backlog that you try and never exceed.

[Blu]

Nice, we'd love to see those shelves once you get that dork room set-up!

I do also feel like I teeter between wanting to have a library, and simply playing the games to enjoy them, then move on (get rid of them) after I've beaten them. If it's the case of a game I truly enjoyed, then maybe it's I spend a little more time on it for a secret ending, etc. A series I can think of as an example: I loved the Bungie Halo games. I played through all of those games on Legendary. The 343 series and its current story arc, is meh to me. It's fun, I like the story and it's a good shooter. I was looking at Anniversary, 4, and 5 today they don't strike the same level of joy as did the Bungie-created titles. I'm going to get rid of those three as I trim down what I have, but I do love 3, ODST, Wars, and Reach. They stay.

That and I think I want to limit what stays in my library. It doesn't need to be a certain threshold, like I need to own the "X" best GameCube games. I feel like you just know whether or not you want to keep a game after you've beaten it. That's why I'm trying to reduce my backlog, because I think it will inform me of whether or not it should remain in "Blu's Library" That and I'm on this minimalist kick and I'm doing the KonMari method, which is going to be hard as balls when I start looking at the Komono (Miscellany) categories of items. So far I've blown through Clothes and Books (easy), just have paper and misc categories left.

However, I'm not going to hang on to my console boxes anymore (X1, PS3, PS4, Wii U). They're impractical and they're just taking up space in our little apartment. They're unlikely to give me any practical value if I do sell a console someday. It's more of a novelty item at this point.

[Exhuminator]

Nice, we'd love to see those shelves once you get that dork room set-up!

I've thought about doing that but I'm uncomfortable with it for neurotic reasons. I think I'll just tally up the total number of physical games I have for each platform, which I still keep physical games for, and then include a base percentage of unplayed/unbeaten thereof. If that sentence didn't make much sense, it will later.

I might post a few pics of parts of my new dork cave. But no reason to anticipate much there. I'm utilitarian. No walls of Nendoroids, ecchi figurines, display stands, piles of retro game mags, stuffed mascots, etc. I grew out of that stuff a long time ago. It's just me and the games in there mostly.

[Sarge]

I might post a few pics of parts of my new dork cave. But no reason to anticipate much there. I'm utilitarian. No walls of Nendoroids, ecchi figurines, display stands, piles of retro game mags, stuffed mascots, etc. I grew out of that stuff a long time ago. It's just me and the games in there mostly.

That's me, except I don't even know if my setup counts as "utilitarian". More like organized chaos clutter insanity okay, fine, it's not very organized! I need more shelves, among other things.

I don't really care much about gaming tchotchkes, either. I get some every now and then as part of pre-order stuff, but I don't actively search out stuff like that to add to the cave.

[Xeogred]

I'm with you guys there. I only own a single Amiibo for instance, only because it came with my order of Twilight Princess HD. Sure, a lot of those look really cool and I love me some Zelda, but I don't really need them.

I might have 4 ecchi figures though.

Otherwise yeah, my big shelf is a big shelf with games and nothing else. lol

[alienjesus]

If you'd asked me a few years ago, I would have said I don't really have a saturation point.

Now though, I'm starting to see things a little differently. I'm not going to stop buying new console entirely or anything, but I'm starting to realise that it is possible to have too many.
Not because I don't want to buy games for them all - I can think of games that interest me for every one. Rather, the issue is prioritisation - I've come to realise that when spending my money I'm more likely to pick up a new Mega Drive, SNES, N64 or Gamecube title than say an XBox or PS2 game.

I've had my PS2 about 10 years and have about 10 games for it. I've had my XBox for roughly the same time and own 4 games for it. I have 9 Virtual Boy games, so that should give you an idea how high on my priorities an XBox is.

Once upon a time I wanted to pick up all the super obscure or unknown consoles, or the less highly thought of ones. But now I just kinda feel like what's the point? They can sit being played maybe once every 2 years whilst my more loved consoles get daily use.

I guess it's a case of weighing up options. Clearly my XBox is never going to see a lot of attention from me. But can I give up the opportunity to play Panzer Dragoon Orta and Jet Set Radio Future? Right now, no. In the future, maybe.

[Tanooki]

Seems like enough are agreeing on that point of having too much on the shelf (backlog) can make things worse. You feel saturated because there's so much unfinished in life sitting jut a few steps away. The decision has to be made. What do you do?

Play it? Collect it due to sentimental value and thus discount it as unfinished? Sell some serious stuff off as it's a mental burden? You don't have a lot of options but the few you have are clear and have meaning. There isn't much of a gray area, just how much you could fall into perhaps 2 of those (between play and personal value, or personal value and sell it off.)

When you have a 100 things staring you in the face you haven't bothered with yet, perhaps for years, it makes you wonder what the hell is wrong with you wanting more NEW stuff when that junk just sits and rots.

Right now knowing my time and effort limits I'm where I could be like a kid again, buy just 4-6 games a year outside of gifts and be totally chill with it because at least then I'd be more profoundly ready to commit and make the effort than breeze onto the next leaving unfinished effort in the dust.

Sometimes I wish I hadn't found that Dreamcast or just sold it from last Christmas, but I know I missed out on some of the games and loved quite a few others (some did remain unfinished) so I know I'll pick away at it. But, yet it's still baggage. I'd probably feel rotten about it at this rate but I could let it rot or roll it just to get my money back on the mess. But in the end what would 24 less games do? It's like you really need to keeping it blunt ...shit or get off the pot

[Exhuminator]

When you have a 100 things staring you in the face you haven't bothered with yet, perhaps for years, it makes you wonder what the hell is wrong with you wanting more NEW stuff when that junk just sits and rots.

Yeah that's it in a nutshell. Though part of it is if you've been doing this for literal decades, the whole cyclic shebang gets old. Sometimes I do get jealous of people when they can still get excited for new game systems based on the hardware alone. I can't remember the last time that happened to me. Maybe the original DS? Probably that.

[Jmustang1968]

No and yes...modern console platforms vary little different from PCs now. Console games are almost all on PC. So the only times I get consoles now are for exclusives, or for when the PC version is an inferior version or port of the console game. I have invested in a fairly high end PC and monitor, so my gaming experience on it beats out what any console can offer. Especially now that controller integration with Steam and games is so integrated that console controllers work great for the games that are better with controller.

I still like the consoles for the dwindling exclusives and for sports games like Madden in which I play in online leagues. Consoles are also nice multimedia machines, so we often use them for movies and shows and such as well.

[Sarge]

The revelation for me was Exhuminator pointing out that it's a library, not a backlog. It's a lot easier to deal with then.

However, most books don't sell for the sorts of cash that games do, so the temptation to slim down to only the stuff you'll play and pocket the rest of the money is probably pretty strong with most. I don't feel it yet... but who knows? I know if I have one that crosses the $1000 threshold, I'd probably unload it.