Have you ever bought a game, but hesitated to play it?

I must be weird but Skyrim has been sitting on my desk for two weeks and I still haven't installed and played it. Has anyone purchased a game only to not play it for a while? Any particular reason why?

i bought starcraft one and a half year ago and still have not played

Bought Alpha Protocol for $2 a couple months ago. Just been too busy with other titles, but every time I consider I always choose something else. :P

Yeah, say hello to my Steam backlog. Most recently though, the game I'm hesitant to play is Dark Souls. I got past the Asylum Demon at the beginning, his psychopathic blows shattering pots and stone all around me and blasting my ear drums through my headset, and I put the controller down and walked away, vowing never to return to that twisted, twisted game. Even now it taunts me from my living room.

Amnesia took me a couple of weeks to build up the courage. =D

not me but a friend of mine is afraid to load up the stalker games he picked up on steam sale :P

I got Borderlands and CivCity Rome as gifts from Steam friends during Christmas time.

Took me some two weeks before I started up Borderlands, and have yet to touch CivCity Rome.

2 Words:

Steam sales.

Ehm, normally if it's a bargain i got, and purchased just cos it was cheap. If it's a big title, such as skyrim, bf3 or any game i've been lookin to for long time, i'll be installin asap, any other thing can wait :P

Normal just not the time. Right now i still have the entire hl2 games to play

Amnesia took me a couple of weeks to build up the courage. =D

mkaliaz

Two buddies and I had a cool way of playing that game. We all got on Skype and started at the same time so generally we encountered everything at once, but a couple hours in, we went off on different paths so it was still funny to hear one of ours friends get startled. Haven't played it since, but I think when I do. I'll have to start over.

Most recently for me is Anno 2070

Bought it beacuse I loved 1404 and liked the modern setting but it's one of those games that you have to dedicate long sessions to and I just haven't had time recently :(

There are heaps of other games that I've bought and have not really played... not out of hesitation, just I don't really feel like playing them.

no, if i buy a game i will play it straight away... or what was the point in buying it?

Yea it happens. I bought Medeivell 2: Total Wa ages ago but haven't even installed it.

I've probably done it with other games as well.

Yea it happens. I bought Medeivell 2: Total Wa ages ago but haven't even installed it.

I've probably done it with other games as well.

with_teeth26

I've done it many times actually. I bought The Wither 2 around launch time but I haven't even unwrapped it yet! I guess it's because I don't have that much time to really get into it and I don't want to get too distracted. So I stick to the likes of bf3 for some quick action for the time being...

All the time, 2011 was too good of a gaming year, the amount of games I got is frightening, having them all installed doesn't help my motivation when I try to play one of them and I'm not strong enough to delete some of them :P, I'm currently trying to take it one single game at a time, 3 missions left on Rage.DanielDust

Normal just not the time. Right now i still have the entire hl2 games to play

James161324

Shame on You.

Anyway, i have... about 30 games that i haven't played that i bought off of Steam Sales : P

however they on the hole costed less than 25 dollars so, not really a big lost.

I Will play them.... eventually.

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Normal just not the time. Right now i still have the entire hl2 games to play

csftar

Shame on You.

Anyway, i have... about 30 games that i haven't played that i bought off of Steam Sales : P

however they on the hole costed less than 25 dollars so, not really a big lost.

I Will play them.... eventually.

And I thought that my 15+ unplayed steam games is tops.

Now I felt better. :lol:

I do that sometimes... usually it's because either I'm too busy to start the game or I decide to finish another game first, but sometimes I do so for more eccentric reasons (saving a game set in a cold climate for winter, for instance).Funkyhamster

I have 7 games on Steam right now that I purchased over a month ago and have yet to play any of them. It's not because I'm "hestitating" to try them, it's just that I've been busy and haven't had the time. When I start a brand new game, I like to have a large chunk of time to dedicate to it initially so if I only have a hour or so to play, I'll just boot up something I already know.

I do this especially after Steam Xmas Sales. My backlog is massive, and it takes me longer to select a game now that actually play it.
I so wish there was a random button in Steam which I can click that randomly starts a game from my installed list.

If I made a tower of my backlog games, said tower is about 160 cm high, and that is only the hard copy backlog, I dont even want to think about the steam one.

i put off playing quite a few games because i don't have enough time to really get into it. rts games were once one of my favorite genres but now i don't buy them because with the occasional time i play i can never get as good and enjoy them like i once used to. same for rpg's, i need to invest a certain amount of time to get immersed and learn the controls and game mechanics to really enjoy it. if i know i won't be able to free up that time then i won't play it. it just sucks to come back to a game and find you might as well start over cause you half forgot who is who and what does what.

I bought a package with S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky and Call Of Pripyat included many months ago, and after playing Pripyat, Clear Sky has been sitting on my shelf ever since. I'll get round to playing it at some point I guess...

If I get a game, I always make a point of starting it up and checking it out. I'm a huge completionist, so there are very few games I haven't beaten.

Weirdly enough, I LOVE the God of War series, but though I've had the Collection and 3 for a while, I'm still stuck on 2.

Other than that example, I always go through my games, usually as soon as possible.