Would you buy a game you probably won't play?

[the_great_cessation]

I'm terrible for doing this and I've been actively working to stop it. Whenever a game I was interested in but never fully sold on gets a significant price drip, I usually end up picking it up on a whim. I mean I still have yet to even put the discs for Ni No Kuni, Twisted Metal, Sleeping Dogs and Metro: Last Light in my PS3 despite having them for awhile. I also have barely touched my copies of Max Payne 3, The Witcher II, Valkyria Chronicles and Virtue's Last Reward. It's not that I don't have the interest in playing these games, I just don't have the time and when I do there is usually something more recent that I want to play a lot more...

For games like Ni No Kuni, Valkyria Chronicles and The Witcher though, I do find the length really off-putting. I have a hard time committing to something I know I won't have the time to completly immerse myself in despite knowing if given the time I'd probably love them.

 

[babinro]

Yup.
As proven by humblebundle deals and steam package deals.

Would I spend $60.00 on a single game that I have no intention to play or keep sealed for collector purposes? No.

 

[Benpasko]

I have a copy of Anarchy Reigns on my shelf that I've never played. I just wanted it, since I figure it'll be pretty rare in the future if I ever wanted to play it then.

 

[njda90]

I've certainly bought games that I probably won't play. But I'd never buy a game that I know I won't play.

 

[anthony87]

*Looks at Steam library*

Why yes, it seems I would.

 

[Lunar Templar]

while I do tend to play every thing I buy. Especially if Steam is involved.

Dark Souls

bought it, cause I said I would really, I signed on the dotted line like so many others when the petition was going around to get it on the PC.

Then GFWL :/

and still GFWL :/

so yeah, I own it, but never gonna play it cause of that, or least, not gonna play it while GFWL is attached to it.

The Batman: Arkham games, would be on this list as well for the same reason, but GFWL was removed.

 

[lunavixen]

There are a few games that I've got in humble bundles that I don't want to play, so they'll just sit there. Otherwise, if i've bought it and not played it but want to, it just means it's still on the backlog, which I really should start getting into, either that or trade them in.

 

[JasonKaotic]

Yeah, I collect, so to be honest most games I buy nowadays I do so knowing I probably won't play more than an hour of them.
I do try to just buy games I think seem interesting, but most of the time it turns out they aren't, so yeah. Oops.

 

[Lollermancer]

....yes it seems i would. This is almost solely how i make purchases now considering how many games on steam are re-re-remakes all modified very subtley but cleverly and deftly enough that i cant stand to talk myself out of supporting these folks based on my 18 year nerd career. This is why i have 880 games on steam now. Maybe 90ish i will probably not get to play. They are not divided from my normal library though, so i always see their icon as a reminder of their existence that brings back the swell of heart i found in their trailers and bold premises, and too me that's a large part of most the games ive played in the last few years. Somehow i can justify this mindset while working a sub-minimum wage job. Things would get real crazy if i had actual disposable income. Thats why i stay off the xbla

 

[Johnny Impact]

I have bought several company packs during Steam sales. I probably have 50 games in my Steam library I will never touch.

For example, the id Superpack had all the Doom games in it, which I have since played most of. It also had Commander Keen and one or two other things I never heard of and will in all likelihood never install.

I figure, since the price works out to pennies per game in some cases, plus I get a bunch of games I actually will play, who cares?

There are plenty of games I've bought, tried, and decided not to play. I can't get Dark Souls to display properly on my PC and will not be playing it unless/until that changes, I have a deep and abiding loathing for Counterstrike, etc.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

I did that once: Shogun 2: Total War.

I really disliked Empire because it was so unintuitive to me as to what I was doing or why I was doing it that I just gave up on the series(I was younger, and I got the game as part of an exchange thing).

But then Angry Joe gave it a glowing review(and I trusted him when it came to Guild Wars 2, which is still to this date the best MMO I have ever played(even though I can't stand them and stop playing within 3 days, GW2 had me playing for 2 months)) and my PC was able to handle it, so I gave it a go(bear in mind, It was 3 years ago when I played Empire, my tastes and attitudes had changed), but I was certain that I will try it once and give up on it, never playing it.

Now it's one of my all time favourite Strategy games.

So sometimes I do that, yes.

 

[Candidus]

I've bought several games that I haven't played much, and some that I haven't played at all. In each case, it's been to support the developer and/or the sort of content they develop.

For example, Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate. (I played the hell out of regular DOA5, but only bought Ultimate well after I was burnt out, just to support Team Ninja).

Also on the list:
Dungeons and Dragons Chronicles of Mystara (I'd play this, but I'm all alone!)
Skullgirls
KoF XIII Steam Edition (Played the hell out of console KOFXIII, bought SteamED as a form of support)
2 extra copies of Dragon's Crown (which may not count, as I've given the spares away and played the hell out of mine)

But you get the idea.

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

Yeah, kinda. Mostly through steam sales. That's where my biggest graveyard of titles I'll probably never visit again lies.

I think this sums up about 70% percent of the coming posts in this thread, including mine. Damn Steam sales, how am I supposed to just sit idly by when you're selling acclaimed indie titles for the price of a candy bar?

 

[Sniper Team 4]

I intend to play all the games that I have already played before again at some point in the future. Whether this will actually happen, I doubt that very much. But we'll see.

As for a game that I bought that I didn't think I would play, that would be the Metriod PRIME Trilogy on the Wii. I saw an article on here long ago saying Nintendo had suddenly pulled the plug on that game and was no going to be sending out any more of the steel-cased boxes. So I bought a copy from Target the next day. It still sits on my shelf in the plastic wrap, and probably will for a long time, seeing as I don't have a Wii. It just seemed like one of those games that gamers should own.

 

[TrevHead]

I'll buy games that I don't plan on playing anytime soon but I do know I will eventually, same goes for games on platforms I might buy in the future. Since my taste in games can be rather niche and many become collectors items it's just a way to not pay silly money in the future. Atleast I can sell my boxed games and possibly get a return on my investment unlike Steam games which I've too many.

 

[Weaver]

According to my Steam library I'd buy around 250 games I'll never play.

 

[DementedSheep]

To not play at all? no, not unless it came in pack with other games I want and it was cheaper than buying them without it.
Buying games I'm unlikely to replay? sure. Just because I don't want to replay it doesn't mean it wasn't worth playing. Sometimes you can even get great games that just aren't all that good for replayabilty and I like having a collection of games I've played. I am a PC gamer so I can't rent games if I only intend to play them once anyway.