Please Stop Making Games

[arion]

Sure i have bought way more games than i think i'll ever finish but the way i look it i just got plenty of options.

Playing games is not work and you should not feel obligated to finish every game you own or have heard good things about. You should simply play what comes natural.

[Droid party]

Backlogs are the result of having a lot more disposable income and a lot less free time than when you were a kid. When I was a kid, I played the crap out of Dragon Warrior III and IV because I'd have to wait until next Xmas or my next bday to get another game.

Bingo.When I was a kid I played the hell out of any game I got because I had nothing else. Now I have LOADS of games that i've not completed and simply don't have the time to. I probably only complete 1 in every 6 games I buy.

[wakeup]

Good thing I like arcade style games/ports. They're usually < 5 hours.

I was actually very surprised I finished RE4 6 months ago. It was pretty long for me... and it kept my attention intact for like 15 hours. Impressive I must say. This only happens once every year.

[slowslow325]

And one thing is for a fact - I read about videogames WAY more, than I really play them. Sometimes I don't touch any game for days. But every single day, I spend a few hours reading about games, watching game videos, talking about them and so on.

That's true for me, too. Most days I don't spend more than a few minutes playing video games, but I usually just watch videos and read about them, mostly the games I don't have, but want... and then after I get them I want another one.

[the7k]

Yeah... I've beaten very little of the games I have, and completed even fewer.

It's not even new games coming out that kills me - of the stuff that is yet to come, I only plan to buy Yakuza 3, 3D Dot Game Heroes and maybe Heavy Rain.

It's all the sales. The crazy, crazy sales all the retailers have had to engage in to stay afloat. I never thought I'd actually get Fallout 3, until I found it at Hollywood Video for $5. Never intended to get Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, until I found a retailer clearancing new copies for $20. I can't possibly not get in on that.

[J T]

I can totally relate to this article. It's really been the past couple of years that this has happened to me. Like the7k said, it's all these crazy deals! The other day I bought a mocha latte and a bagel with cream cheese for $7 bucks, and I thought "Holy crap! For that same price I could have bought Psychonauts, all the X-Com games, and all the Freedom Force games and had a little change left over!" (Each of those were sold for $2 recently on Steam, though I already owned them all.) These are all classic games that could potentially provide you with hundreds of hours of entertainment if there just weren't hundreds of other games like them that provide equally long amounts of entertainment. When the prices are so cheap for such legendary games, how can you NOT have a huge backlog?

[Gamerforlife]

This is actually starting to be a problem for me too. Too many games, too many sales...and darnit, life is really starting to get in the way too. Too many new people taking up my time lately...and then there's my job

[AARST]

This is why Racketboy is my new favorite website of all time. This is exactly how I feel, all of it!

I have way too many games that I haven't beaten, but I have reconfigured the entertainment center four times in the past three months, adding and taking away consoles.
Just today I bought a good SCART divider box to which I have connected 6 consoles and am capable of -and I will be- connecting 2 more. (6 more if I used S-video, but I have no S-video cables)
I do plan to play all of them. >.>

I just need one year. Hopefully I can pull away from the infinite games like Civilization and the Sims long enough to actually beat games that can be beat.

[vash23n]

Maybe I'm not a true collector, and this is def why I don't have hundreds of games, but I prefer to play the hell out of my games before moving on. I am playing my 3rd Dynasty with the same team on NHL 2006. Mainly, I did not have enough money growing up to buy more than a couple games for any system. I like retro gaming because those games are just NOW getting into my price range.

[noiseredux]

the newest system I own is a Gamecube. And I still play more GB games on it than Cube games. So...