How many games can you juggle at once?

[Chancie]

Not literally, of course.

We all have our own "maximum" number of games that we can have going at once and be "currently playing." What's yours?

Mine is usually only one, maybe two at the max. I know that's kind of pathetic but if I play more than one at a time, I usually start to favor one over the other and then I never get anywhere with the game that gets kicked aside. On the very rare occasions, I can handle two but that doesn't happen very often.

 

[The Procrastinated End]

I've never really had a limit, except what I can and can't afford.

 

[sms_117b]

3, currently playing Evil Genius, Fallout 3 and Sim City 4, Sim City 4 will probably be swapped out for Dragon Age: Origins soon though.

 

[Thedayrecker]

I have ADD so I can't finish a game (unless it's like Mass Effect 2 and I wanna see the ending). For instance, in Rome: Total War I have at least one game on every playable faction, but I've only finished one. I might go back to those eventually, but for now I'm (re)playing Mass Effect 1.... although it's starting to bore me.

 

[delet]

1-3. I don't like to juggle games, or much of anything for that matter. I prefer to complete a game as much as I can, then move on to something else. That being said, it's very possible to get bored of one game after a while, so sometimes I'll switch to another for a bit. The most games I've juggled so far is 3, though you could say I'm perpetually juggling Disgaea: Dark Hero Days and Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero, but that's not really fair...

 

[tlozoot]

Two. Three at the most.

 

[GundamSentinel]

I'm playing Medieval II: Total War, FFXIII and Armored Core 4 now. Three is about the maximum number of games that I have 'active'. I usually get bored fast so I jump around between games. After a while one gets kicked out of the group and replaced.

 

[kampori]

Well, it's hard for me to say. There are those -many- games that I've started, loved or hated, moved on to something else and forgotten/can't be bothered to replay them..
Then there are those as you are asking, of actually 'currently playing'.

Right now under this label, I have 6 games (all of which I started between 1-3 weeks ago, and have yet to complete): Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Red Dead Redemption, Assassin's Creed 2, Fallout 3 & Dragon Age: Origins.

I'd say this is my 'personal best'. I usually only manage 2 games at one time to max the immersion

 

[DazZ.]

Currently playing 7 games, only one for the story though.

I wouldn't play more than 3 story lines at a time, although that would include what books and TV I'm into at the same time as well.

 

[Beastialman]

Right now I'm going with four (five technically). Pokemon (Red and hackng a gold version to make it harder), TF2, Oblivion, and Marvel vs Capcom 2.

 

[HumpingStormTrooper]

Something like 4. If I can't flow smoothly with one for a while, I play another. And so on.

 

[Muffinthraka]

Currently playing FFXII, FFX-2, Fire Emblem DS, Harvest Moon IOH, Magic The Gathering: Battlegrounds, and on PC Galciv2, RCT2, Toribash, The Sims 2.

 

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

Usually only a couple at a time. I try to avoid more than one in the same genre simultaneously so that if I am in the middle of more than one game, at least they're all different enough that I have something available depending on what kind of mood I'm in (e.g. King's Bounty and Burnout Paradise lately, which couldn't be much more different) instead of trying to play three RPGs at once.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

I'm currently working on Metal Gear Solid 3 and 4, Dark Void, Dead Space, and Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal. That's not the most I can do, though. I've done more before.

 

[Hokutan]

One usually sometimes two

 

[Quaxar]

I like to stay with one game until it's finished, saves money too. Although games I already have finished can be played multiple at a time just for the fun bits now that I don't have to care about the story anymore.

 

[Tarkand]

Back when I played WoW, it was 2... WoW + Whatever.

Now that I'm not playing WoW, I usually beat (or get bored with, whichever comes first) whatever game I'm playing before I move on.

 

[slimeonline]

2, one on PC one on xbox

 

[Judgement101]

All my games, I never sit down and play one game