Do you find time to play all your games?

I'm wondering how people find time to play and hopefully finish their games.

I'm into RPGs now and I have a hard time finishing them... I still have Planescape Torment which I tried many time to make some advance. I also started Baldur's Gate 2 which I just have a few hours into it. I'm also playing Mass Effect and Fallout 3 which although seem shorter I still have quite a few hours to finish.

I also like games like Civilization IV or Sim City 4, but I rarely make much advance in the because of the time it takes to learn strategies and the time to get into them.

I also had great times playing old Lucasarts classics like Monkey Island, Sam and Max and Day of the Tentacle.

Sometimes I feel burnt out for the lack of advance in my playing and I go to more casual games frustated to have some playing without much pressure. Peggle is fun and good for a quick casual gaming.

Maybe I'm getting some attention disorder and can't stand the long playing hours and want instant gratification. Console ports may have spoiled me! Or maybe it is day-to-day activities and responsibilities which don't allow me to focus too much time on games.

Have you finished those games? How much time do you invest in playing? How do you juggle gaming with other activities? Do you have assigned hours to play or do you play at any hour? Do you recommend some way to make my playing hours more "productive" and be able to finish more games? What is your experience on this?

well, i usually do have 4 or 5 games on the go, but never all rpgs! no wonder you dont have time.

i usually dip in and out, and then just go on a binge of one of them, and finish that one.

it is hard to juggle gaming and stuff, i totally feel your pain. limit the amount of games you buy is my suggestion, it works for me, i used to have the same problem as you.

i try not to play more than 2 hours a day, but no, i dont have an assigned gaming time.

its easy to get the impression that everyone here manages to play all the new games, but they dont!

I find time to finish my games but it seems like an impossible thing to do. I have about 120 unbeaten games right now and I continue to buy new games when I can. I don't think I will ever catch up.

I have one or two uncompleted games so I play them all pretty good

I used to have the time to finish my stuff, but C&C First Decade is gonna take awhile...

I have a "to-play" pile of two games currently, Gothic II and Beyond Good and Evil while my Playing list is Baldurs Gate II and Fallout 2 which I do find the time to play both as I am sure time will be found to play G2 and BGE.

well, i usually do have 4 or 5 games on the go, but never all rpgs! no wonder you dont have time.

i usually dip in and out, and then just go on a binge of one of them, and finish that one.

it is hard to juggle gaming and stuff, i totally feel your pain. limit the amount of games you buy is my suggestion, it works for me, i used to have the same problem as you.

i try not to play more than 2 hours a day, but no, i dont have an assigned gaming time.

its easy to get the impression that everyone here manages to play all the new games, but they dont!

jpph

I have a lot of unbeaten games, and I'm slowly beating them two at a time.

Right now I have 24 games installed, 15 of which I haven't finished yet. I always find myself playing games, and sometimes it's just the need for something familiar that draws me away from playing a yet-unfinished game. It does take me some time to finish games since I'm in the army and all that stuff.

I'm wondering how people find time to play and hopefully finish their games.

I'm into RPGs now and I have a hard time finishing them... I still have Planescape Torment which I tried many time to make some advance. I also started Baldur's Gate 2 which I just have a few hours into it. I'm also playing Mass Effect and Fallout 3 which although seem shorter I still have quite a few hours to finish.

I also like games like Civilization IV or Sim City 4, but I rarely make much advance in the because of the time it takes to learn strategies and the time to get into them.

I also had great times playing old Lucasarts classics like Monkey Island, Sam and Max and Day of the Tentacle.

Sometimes I feel burnt out for the lack of advance in my playing and I go to more casual games frustated to have some playing without much pressure. Peggle is fun and good for a quick casual gaming.

Maybe I'm getting some attention disorder and can't stand the long playing hours and want instant gratification. Console ports may have spoiled me! Or maybe it is day-to-day activities and responsibilities which don't allow me to focus too much time on games.

Have you finished those games? How much time do you invest in playing? How do you juggle gaming with other activities? Do you have assigned hours to play or do you play at any hour? Do you recommend some way to make my playing hours more "productive" and be able to finish more games? What is your experience on this?

pilouuuu2004

Wow you sound so much like me, not only in game choice, but in terms of finiishing them!

I have worked out something

I'm not buying more games for another 6 months, so anytime I decideto play, I play my old ones and try to finish them.

In 6 months time, i'll probably get 3 or 4 and do it all over again

[QUOTE="pilouuuu2004"]

I'm wondering how people find time to play and hopefully finish their games.

I'm into RPGs now and I have a hard time finishing them... I still have Planescape Torment which I tried many time to make some advance. I also started Baldur's Gate 2 which I just have a few hours into it. I'm also playing Mass Effect and Fallout 3 which although seem shorter I still have quite a few hours to finish.

I also like games like Civilization IV or Sim City 4, but I rarely make much advance in the because of the time it takes to learn strategies and the time to get into them.

I also had great times playing old Lucasarts classics like Monkey Island, Sam and Max and Day of the Tentacle.

Sometimes I feel burnt out for the lack of advance in my playing and I go to more casual games frustated to have some playing without much pressure. Peggle is fun and good for a quick casual gaming.

Maybe I'm getting some attention disorder and can't stand the long playing hours and want instant gratification. Console ports may have spoiled me! Or maybe it is day-to-day activities and responsibilities which don't allow me to focus too much time on games.

Have you finished those games? How much time do you invest in playing? How do you juggle gaming with other activities? Do you have assigned hours to play or do you play at any hour? Do you recommend some way to make my playing hours more "productive" and be able to finish more games? What is your experience on this?

prakaa

Wow you sound so much like me, not only in game choice, but in terms of finiishing them!

I have worked out something

I'm not buying more games for another 6 months, so anytime I decideto play, I play my old ones and try to finish them.

In 6 months time, i'll probably get 3 or 4 and do it all over again

Finish the game before you move on to another one.coolmonkeykid

Finish the game before you move on to another one.coolmonkeykid

That's what I started doing. Last year I had relized that I hadn't actually beat a game in several years so I adopted this policy and I have beaten 42 games since last March.

If I start a game, I finish it, unless its very frustrating for whatever reasons. I could not finish Manhunt on PC because the game at one point required me to get a certain kind of kill, on 3 enemies, and one error means its game over, and you cannot save in between. I got frustrated and let it go. chandu83

Sounds just like console trash. Real PC games have a quick save feature.

I usually play action-skewed games (Such as Mass Effect) during weekdays and the traditional RPGs during weekends. You should try doing that because the RPGs are really hard to put down when you get sucked in and you need sleep during weekdays :D

When I was still in college I actually drew up a game schedule, with a specific game per day so I could plow through all those great games of 2004-2005.

[QUOTE="chandu83"]If I start a game, I finish it, unless its very frustrating for whatever reasons. I could not finish Manhunt on PC because the game at one point required me to get a certain kind of kill, on 3 enemies, and one error means its game over, and you cannot save in between. I got frustrated and let it go. Jade_Monkey

Sounds just like console trash. Real PC games have a quick save feature.

Finished all my Battlefield Games and F.E.A.R. Couldn't finish Extraction Point though, had to reinstall my OS right when I was nearly done with the game, same thing with Bioshock so I'll probably never learn how that ends. Warcraft....too much time wasted. Oblivion, heck no, but still a fun game. Unreal Tournament 3, had high hopes but just wasn't what I expected it to be so I never really played it. All Half Life games, meh, didn't hook me at all. Got bored of 2 really fast. Oh, used to play CS:S alot too. But I got tired of dealing with hackers, started assuming 99% of the players were them. When I went back like a year later, server I played on was clean, family friendly too.

So I get to play about half the games I buy/have. Other half of the time its WoW! :P That, or hitting up some old N64 games *Yes I own every one I have on my computer* with my friends using PS3 controllers. Makes the games soooo much better. Goldeneye is still the awesomeness.

I'm a completionist. I do like to play through most of the games I get, and I like to explore every nook and cranny. I don't have as much time as I used to with work and all. Now, I'll have one day a week to play for an extended amount of time, and the rest of the week I'll play a match of TF2 a day or so and thats it.

I do try to play as efficiently as possible. I find myself reading FAQs on games before I even buy them. Gone are the days where I can have 99:99 playtime on Final Fantasy 3 for SNES, or playing Fallouts and taking every path possible. I still love my games, though, and I hope my kids do too.

most games i play now are multiplayer, so I end up playing alot of multiplayer games at once.

Yes i do have time to play all of my games. considering i dont have alot, its not really a "big deal" whether or not i can play all my games alot but yes i do have time to play all my games. How hard can it be to play all your games anyway? TalkoLot

Spoken like someone that knows everything and really knows nothing. First you admit tonot having many games but plenty of time to play them, then you don't see how thats hard for people that have lots of games and little free time. Yup sounds like an expert to me.

Yes i do have time to play all of my games. considering i dont have alot, its not really a "big deal" whether or not i can play all my games alot but yes i do have time to play all my games. How hard can it be to play all your games anyway? TalkoLot

You either have very few games, or very little life. I average 2-3 hours a night on a 42 hour work week and that's probably more than most with jobs and friends let alone kids.

Im 15 so yes I do have enough time ,but I still have a couple games I havent beaten on my hdd. I get like 10 hours in a day

I play games everyday afterschool unless I have home work. But when I get older and become a cop, all I'll do is sleep and play games probably

I used to do that. Had 4 or 5 games all at once to play. Never works out that well in the end for me. If I had that much to play I would have actually beat maybe 1 or 2 of those games and would have left the rest incomplete until I decide to revisit them several months later. Sometimes i never revist them at all.