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!