It seems like everytime I buy a game lately It's with the thought "Oh this will be great on a rainy day" or " ahh I need to make time for this" Im working almost 60 hours a week Im planning a wedding and buying a house, I hardly ever have time to sit with a game and yet I continue to buy games that Im not going to play. Mostly budget titles and fry's deals.......
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Does anyone else find themselves hoarding games for absolutely no reason
- Thread starter Ryck
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Nah. I never buy games just to put them on the shelf. I have bought games, played them briefly when I got home, and then shelved them until I had free time to get to them (or ebay them).
If you find yourself having little time to play games anymore and you're out of high school, I say pat yourself on the back and congrats for having a life
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If you find yourself having little time to play games anymore and you're out of high school, I say pat yourself on the back and congrats for having a life
.Roland Hood
Member
I'm a hoarder too :/
SonicMegaDrive
Member
Ryck said:
Yeah, I bought MGS2 for 5 bucks a couple of months ago. I have yet to play it.
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Ryck said:
lol, you just described my situation. There are times when I do find free time to play, but those are rare. I try to finish 1 or 2 games at a time and then move on. That works pretty well.
I had a bad year of doing this. I can't refuse games at 5 or 10 dollars. The worst part, it's usually games like ICO. Which everyone says is great, but I have no desire to play it. I should have never had bought it, but at 3 bucks it seemed like a steal. But there it sits on some anonymous shelf collecting dust unopened.
I still haven't opened Baten Kaitos, XIII, NHL Hitz, MGS2, Dark Cloud 2 (already rented it before), Metroid Prime, Star Ocean 3, etc etc. I really doubt I will ever have the time to play those games. There are too many great PC games that take up all of my free time.
I still haven't opened Baten Kaitos, XIII, NHL Hitz, MGS2, Dark Cloud 2 (already rented it before), Metroid Prime, Star Ocean 3, etc etc. I really doubt I will ever have the time to play those games. There are too many great PC games that take up all of my free time.
VariableTerry
Member
I just keeping buying games I think I'll enjoy. I am afraid the game won't be available as easily in a few years and I won't be able to get it. It's kinda dumb though since I have enough money to get whatever at it's inflated price.
I need to find a new copy of Spider-Man 2 for real cheap dammit!
It's not a horde though, I would actually play it. My 2 year old freakin loves Spider-Man and loves watching and trying to play it. The copy my uncle owns, who is finally moving out, is going in about a week or so. Dammit!
It's not a horde though, I would actually play it. My 2 year old freakin loves Spider-Man and loves watching and trying to play it. The copy my uncle owns, who is finally moving out, is going in about a week or so. Dammit!
robot
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I bought Shadow Ops and Second Sight and I'm not really sure why except that they were $10. I also had to convince myself not to add PoP: WW and Robotech to my checkout pile.
Add this to the fact that I'm still playing Conker, Doom 3, and Destroy All Humans - what in the hell am I doing?
Doesnt Killer 7 come out today too?
Add this to the fact that I'm still playing Conker, Doom 3, and Destroy All Humans - what in the hell am I doing?
Doesnt Killer 7 come out today too?
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I'm horrible with this. Especially with web sales. If there's 10 games for 9.99 that I have a small interest in...I'll order them. I'm taking steps to change this now.
Well, i'm not buying any game i won't play. But i don't have time to finish all of them lately and my backlog is at an all time high.
I have a couple of NES games and N64 i bought lately. Those are "in-betweens" when i have more time for gaming. If not i'm 5 to 10 games per console behind compared to my purchase wich gives me a backlog of more or less 20 games right now.
I'm working 65 hours a week since the last 2-3 months but there's less interesting games coming out this year so i'll probably be able to kill my 2004 backlog before the end of 2005.
I have a couple of NES games and N64 i bought lately. Those are "in-betweens" when i have more time for gaming. If not i'm 5 to 10 games per console behind compared to my purchase wich gives me a backlog of more or less 20 games right now.
I'm working 65 hours a week since the last 2-3 months but there's less interesting games coming out this year so i'll probably be able to kill my 2004 backlog before the end of 2005.
I had the same problem as you only worse... I was hoarding games that range from $20 - $60 (collectors editions). And to make matters worse is, while I do have a full-time job, a full-time girlfriend and full-time friends I still have a good bit of free time to play games yet when I do it's almost ALWAYS computer games. I mean come on I just come home with 2 brand new Xbox games and I sit at the comp and boot up another game of Warcraft 3.
So for now I've cut myself off from buying non-big name console games that cost over $20. I've upgraded my computer and I'm gonna mess around with WoW, GW and BF2 until a console game appeals to me again (probably get Zelda, FFXII at full price). I dunno what the deal is but I get so much more out of my computer games than console games.
So for now I've cut myself off from buying non-big name console games that cost over $20. I've upgraded my computer and I'm gonna mess around with WoW, GW and BF2 until a console game appeals to me again (probably get Zelda, FFXII at full price). I dunno what the deal is but I get so much more out of my computer games than console games.
Excess Poo Flakes
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I recently traded in my Gamecube + games, Ps2 + games for 210 credit dollars at Gamestop. Now, I can play PC and Dreamcast until nextgen.
Yeah, it's never my intention of course but it often turns out that way. It's gotten to the point that I don't even open games up until I know that I have the willpower to spend significant time with them. One thing that is helping me is renting; I activated one of those BB unlimited-rental deals for a month and sampled every title for the GC I was interested in for one day. More recently I rented a few games for the PSP using a gift card before buying Hot Shots Golf, and now that I've rented Psychonauts, I know that I will buy it once the price is right.
(This is totally separate from the sealed copies of Nippon Ichi RPGs that I'm saving to resell at Christmas.)
(This is totally separate from the sealed copies of Nippon Ichi RPGs that I'm saving to resell at Christmas.)
Jibber Hack
Member
Hah! I just bought four games I'll likely never play. Didn't even bother to open them. And I'm looking for more titles on the cheap. You're not alone!
Apenheul said:
Problem with that line of thinking (which, in the past I have done as well) is that if you buy a game at full price and shelve it due to outside life stuff, by the time you get back to it the game may have dropped in price $10, 20 possibly even $30.
Unless it's some rare RPG (ala Suikoden series) or some weird limited release game, why not just buy it when you are ready to play it? You could save yourself a LOT of money that way.
Also if you are scared you'll "forget" about the game by the time you get some game time in, why not just make an Amazon.com / Ebgames.com / etc wishlist and buy them as you play them?
mariosbrother
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Hoarder of a bunch of games that I think I'll play at some point
+ No time to play
+ Completionist
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LOL.
Problem is, when I had my N64, I tended to start a game but never play through to the end because something else would come along that I would get caught up in. So this generation, I decided from the beginning that I would play through each game fully before starting the next one (unless the game is more or less a pick up and play sort of game. For instance, Burnout falls into this category, Metroid Prime does not.) Unfortunately, that has lead me to the current situation where I'm likely 3/4 done with WindWaker, but with minimal time to put towards the game, I've been at it for probably over 6 months.
What frustrates me even more? I'm a completionist at heart, and I've come to realize that I can't take all the photos I need in Zelda in order to get all the Nintendo Figurines... AHHH!!!!
+ No time to play
+ Completionist
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LOL.
Problem is, when I had my N64, I tended to start a game but never play through to the end because something else would come along that I would get caught up in. So this generation, I decided from the beginning that I would play through each game fully before starting the next one (unless the game is more or less a pick up and play sort of game. For instance, Burnout falls into this category, Metroid Prime does not.) Unfortunately, that has lead me to the current situation where I'm likely 3/4 done with WindWaker, but with minimal time to put towards the game, I've been at it for probably over 6 months.
What frustrates me even more? I'm a completionist at heart, and I've come to realize that I can't take all the photos I need in Zelda in order to get all the Nintendo Figurines... AHHH!!!!
FiRez said:Don't you even open it, to know how the manual and discs looks like?
jeez, It must be because I don't live in USA so I need to order my games online, but I can feel the anticipation when I get the confirmation of shipping or the track number
Ahh but see that's another weird thing that I did.
If I bought a game I knew I wasn't going to play I would NOT open it. I wanted to play it "new" when I finally got around to playing it. Oh and I NEVER buy used games. :O
Attack You
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No reason? Psch. I paid my hard-earned money for these things. That's reason enough to keep them right-the-fuck where they are. I'll let go of the odd title that I just don't want anymore or find a good trade for, though.
I have found myself in the same predicament... I had bought a ton of games during grad school and working full time, and had no time to play them. I only have about 30 games between 2 systems, but already feel like that is a lot.... So I decided that I wasn't going to jump on the xbox 360 at launch and finish my backlot. Heck there are some games coming out this fall that I know I won't be able to resist buying. This has helped me to curb spending a lot of money on new games....
I'll probably hold off on the PS3 until they have the first price drop unless I can get it as a Xmas present or something as well.
I just recently discovered one of my shelved games, Winning Eleven 8, and it has sucked all the time away from other games..... I should be good with my backlog
I'll probably hold off on the PS3 until they have the first price drop unless I can get it as a Xmas present or something as well.
I just recently discovered one of my shelved games, Winning Eleven 8, and it has sucked all the time away from other games..... I should be good with my backlog
Yeah, I've toned down my purchasing habits, but I'm still buying way too many games. What keeps happening is that I'll get a game and play it for a few hours, and then something else comes out and I don't touch the previous game again. My backlog is overflowing with games. I've thought about just getting rid of a huge chunk of my collection and starting over again with the coming generation instead.
I find that this problem has somewhat worsened for me after coming to Gaming-Age on a regular basis. Not because of time I spend here, but that I'll hear a few people talking about Game X and how awesome it is, then I say crap I gotta check that game out. Right now I have about 25 or so games that I really want to complete, there's just so little time though.
Ryck said:
I too can't stop. I should post pics of my setup to emphasize my point. My pile of shame just keeps getting bigger, and the amount of time I have to play games keeps getting less and less.
I need to lose my legs in a horrible accident one of these days and be stuck on bedrest for like 2 years. Then I might have a shot.