2 Many Games! 2 Little Time!

Has anyone else noticed this latley? There are just wayyyy to many games out/comming out and i don't have the time to keep up. I'm married with a kid and of coarse i gotta work so my time to play games went down the drain over the past 4 or 5 years. When i was a kid i would play a game for months straight. I would learn it inside and out and i would master it. Now it seems like i will buy 1 game, play it and beat it but halfway through there is about 4 or 5 more games i want to buy. Now what? I can rarley make up my mind on what game to buy so i usually buy a couple of them...and 1 gets put up on my shelf in the original wrapping to never be opened. This has been going on with me for the past few years. I have a bunch of games still un opened and i just dont have the time to play them. I'm getting backed up over here!!!

It's funny because as i remember, when i was a kid i felt like i had a huge SNES collection. The other day i busted it out only to find about 7 or 8 games. But i played all of those games to death! It's not like that anymore. I have over 100 next gen games and no matter how good 1 game is today, i cant dedicate a ton of time to it. I tend to buy it, play through it once (maybe twice if its really something i like) and if it has good multiplayer i will keep it on my games that i am currently playing list for a bit and move on.

I do love collecting video game consoles and games so it's not a total loss for me. But there is still a part of me that missed playing some games that i really wanted to see. So for all you younger games enjoy the games while you have the time! 8)

I'm in the exact same boat, excpet I have 2 kids!!

I mostly play games at night after the wife and kids go to sleep, which in turn means I don't get much sleep. I also try to kick the wife out as much as possible :) "Honey, dont you have to go to the supermarket? Take the kids!" "Honey, why dont you take the kids to visit your mother?!"

I recently bought Mass Effect, Lost Odyssey, and Eye of Judgement. And I have a backlog of over 20 current-gen games that I said I will play through. I honestly don't know when I'm gonna play these. I also said wasnt gonna buy any more games until I at least finished one in my backlog. Except I know i will be buying Little Big Planet and Gears 2!

I understand. I have to study, and do lots of coursework. Gaming is the only thing that destresses me, yet I hardly play. I wish there were lots of good PSP games, instead of 360 and PS3.

I'm in the exact same boat, excpet I have 2 kids!!

I mostly play games at night after the wife and kids go to sleep, which in turn means I don't get much sleep. I also try to kick the wife out as much as possible :) "Honey, dont you have to go to the supermarket? Take the kids!" "Honey, why dont you take the kids to visit your mother?!"

I recently bought Mass Effect, Lost Odyssey, and Eye of Judgement. And I have a backlog of over 20 current-gen games that I said I will play through. I honestly don't know when I'm gonna play these. I also said wasnt gonna buy any more games until I at least finished one in my backlog. Except I know i will be buying Little Big Planet and Gears 2!

Grieverr

Thats hilarious because i told myself the same thing and i just pre ordered Lil Big Planet and Gears 2 the other day! :lol: I also got a 2nd kid on the way, due November 12th so that means my gaming time will be cut even shorter. The only good thing about them being so young is i get to play at night when they are asleep. My son just turned 1 and sleeps fine through the night im hoping the 2nd one is the same because right now night is the only time i have to play games.

• Killer7 (PS2)
• Persona 3: FES (PS2)
• Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne (PS2)
• Timesplitters (PS2)

• Dead or Alive Extreme 2 (360)
• Sneak King (360)
• The Darkness (360)

• Duke Nukem 3D (XBLA)
• Ikaruga (XBLA)
• Mega Man 9
• The Ultimate Doom (XBLA)

• Clockwork Knight 2 (SAT)
• Myst (SAT)
• Virtua Cop 2 (SAT)
• Wipeout (SAT)

• Chrono Cross (PS)
• Parasite Eve (PS)
• Skullmonkeys (PS)
• Xenogears (PS)

• MDK2 (DC)
• Resident Evil: Code Veronica (DC)
• Shenmue (DC)
• Sonic Adventure (DC)
• Soul Calibur (DC)
• Triggerheart Exelica (DC)

• Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (GC)
• F-Zero GX (GC)
• P.N.03 (GC)
• Super Mario Sunshine (GC)
• The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (GC)

• Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (PSP)
• Taiko no Tatsujin (PSP)

• Day of the Tentacle (PC)
• Deus Ex (PC)
• Deus Ex: Invisble War (PC)
• Fallout (PC)
• Fallout 2 (PC)
• Grim Fandango (PC)
• Planescape: Torment (PC)
• System Shock 2 (PC)
• The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (PC)
• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (PC)
• The Neverhood (PC)
• Thief: The Dark Project (PC)
• Thief II: The Metal Age (PC)
• Thief: Deadly Shadows (PC)

...I also got a 2nd kid on the way, due November 12th...

RunOut1724

Congratulations, man!!

I really don't see any other time when I can play and not neglect everyone, including the wife. There are times on the weekend when we just bum around and I think to myself "man, I could be playing something now", but then the Mrs. would be left alone to be bored. A lot of my buddies' wives complain about their gaming, mine doesn't, so I guess I'm doing the right thing :) Besdies, they're just games.......right?

Foxhound, great list! My list is about the same size (I also have GC< PS2, and XBox games). To make it worse, I've been talking myself out of buying some good last-gen games that I missed out on. Otherwise, my list would easily be twice as long!

i typically buy a game, play about half way through it and then another game comes out that i want. so then i buy that game and never finish the other one. sometimes i only play the game for like 1 or 2 days before buying another one and abandoning that game.

List of games started but not finished (in the last couple years):

Metroid Prime
Metroid Prime 2
Metroid Prime 3
Super Mario Sunshine
Super Mario Galaxy
Super Paper Mario
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Halo 3
Gears of War
The Orange Box
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Motor Storm
Army of Two
Metal Gear solid 4
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Grand Theft Auto IV
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Assassin's Creed
Braid

The last couple were relatively new purchases so they probably shouldn't count. I did play through Ratchet and Clank Future: TOD 2 or 3 times. The sad thing is that I'm thinking about purchasing another game. it's an addiction!!