Too many damn games, or too little time...

[Cronozilla]

When you start talking about titles that are unlimited play ... like MMOs and f2p stuff ... you're getting into dangerous territory. Those are things you literally can't finish. So, the amount of hours is endless ... then you kind of have to ask yourself ... is this game good enough for me to spend 1000 hours on it? Or, am I more concerned with my stats? Or something like that.

It's important to know when to cut and run so you actually get the enjoyment and fulfillment you want, but you don't play something and feel like you wasted a year.

[Hazerd]

I have a WoW character with 367 played days, 8800+ hours, although alot of it could be standing in a city or being afk... Played WoW pretty consistently from 2005 to 2011.

[s1mplehumar]

These figures from you guys are discouraging. I might as well start writing my racketboy will right now. And with that, i g2g.

[Nyne]

I don't really worry about it until recently. A year ago or so I decided to keep track of all the games that I beat in six months. I managed to beat my entire library of games, mostly the 600 or so SNES ROMs a buddy gave me.

Recently, though, I was surprised to find that my game completion rate has slowed to a crawl. Literally only 1 game every 2 weeks. I did some thinking about it, and it turns out that the thing that was getting in the way was the aquisition of new (freeware) games. Every time I got a new game I wanted to play it. Issue was, I was downloading 20 new games a day. So I didn't get anywhere.

I believe that if either restricted your aquisition of games, managed to stick to one game at a time, or played games selectively you should be able to beat all the games you want to in your lifetime. Well, if you played an average of 3 hours a day. The trick is just to concentrate on one thing. Something I have extreme difficulty doing.

[Xeogred]

I have a WoW character with 367 played days, 8800+ hours, although alot of it could be standing in a city or being afk... Played WoW pretty consistently from 2005 to 2011.

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[Razzmatazz]

I'm on a gaming hiatus as I have a 4 month old daughter, and there is literally no time to play. When there is it is when my fiance is out with her, which enables me to play for about an hour. Which for games like Zelda and series I want to play, isn't enough time to "get into". So right now, I'm working through Resident Evil 4 on the Wii, a game I have completed numerous times but I still enjoy playing for short or long times of play.

For those completing 40 games a year, how is this even possible unless you play games every day and it is your only hobby? I suppose when I was a teenager I could do this, but then I wouldn't have 40 games a year! I don't think I've even completed 40 games in my life, and I've been gaming for the past 15 years.

[MyNameIsVince]

I have over 100 plus video games in my collection, and I've beaten a good portion of them. I know for a fact that even if I get more, I can beat them, or try my hardest to beat them. I also know I'm not going to be hitting into the thousand game territory anytime soon. I also don't have these miscellaneous things called employment, school, girlfriend, kids, etc. because......that's just the way game chasing go? Yeah that's....wait, no it's not. Ah nevermind.

Anyway

So what is my biggest obstacle? Not too many games or too little time. It's actually my attention span. At 29 my attention span is worse than it was when I was 12-13 years old. I think it was mostly because it was the mid-90s, and my world was video games, pizza, and cartoons. I didn't have a computer, with constant 24/7 internet access. I didn't have a car. I didn't have a cell phone, and I didn't have a FACEBOOK. I only had a few things to concentrate on at home and video games was one of them. I had the attention span to concentrate on a game like Super Metroid for hours at a time. Not anymore. I get too distracted, too bombarded by things, and therefore more frustrated when I encounter difficulty and therefore I'm more easily prone to just turn the game off after 20 minutes of playing because I died too early or I got angry at being killed for the 19th time by some stupid enemy ship in a shmup and I go back onto my computer to look up....whatever I find on there.

Seriously, the only time I can concentrate on video games for longer than an hour these days are action/adventure games like Zelda or Startropics or Crystalis or Anything of that nature. But now I do it in chunks of 1 hour or more per night if possible, mostly because I find it easier for myself to concentrate on in my "attention span is shot to hell" riddled state of mine.

But having a computer on all the time, with internet access available at any time of the day......that doesn't help me either. In fact if I want to be serious about my video gaming, I should put my computer on sleep mode and lower the lid on it so I can play my games without the desire to look up the internet gnawing at the back of my head as I tornado kick the Indian-looking Abobo* in Double Dragon II for the NES without his bitch ass throwing me off a ledge.

*excuse me, "Native American"-looking Abobo. How silly of me to forget. Now where's my tomahawk.....

[dsheinem]

For those completing 40 games a year, how is this even possible unless you play games every day and it is your only hobby?

I do find a little time almost every day for games, even if it is only a half an hour. You can't find that much time a week for a hobby?

If you can average 5-7 hours a week (including weekends), you should be able to get through 2-3 games that are 8-10 hours each each month. Alternately, if you are playing arcade style games, those can usually be beaten in about an hour or so. 40+ a year isn't anywhere near impossible nor does it require a huge time commitment.

[Zing]

At 29 my attention span is worse than it was when I was 12-13 years old.

You would be surprised at what gets accomplished when you do not have a computer. If you abstained from computers for a week, I bet you would quickly find yourself playing through your backlog.

[Hazerd]

I have a WoW character with 367 played days, 8800+ hours, although alot of it could be standing in a city or being afk... Played WoW pretty consistently from 2005 to 2011.

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