I have a problem. It's not a real problem like drinking or shooting at animals with my BB gun, I've outgrown those. Today I was looking in my closet for the case to Warhawk & noticed that I got a lot of games that I haven't played, EVER!!! It wouldn't be as bad if these were only last generation games but there are also current gen games just collecting dust. These aren't run of the mill "oh hum" games that recieve medocore reviews, most of these games are good. What games you ask? MGS4, Dark Sector, Lego Indiana Jones (still in shrink wrap), Splinter Cell: Double Agent. As for my PS2 games, Ace Combat 4 & 5, Beyond Good & Evil, Gun, Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, Transformers (not the 1 based on the movie)
The list of games I never finished is worse. I never finished Max Payne, PoP: The 2 Thrones, Assassin's Creed, Mercenaries, any of the Hitman games, Destroy All Humans, Everything or Nothing, The Darkness, Moto Storm (never played it online either)
I've thought about the reasons why I never finish or in some cases, start my games. I don't think I'm really a gamer, at least not the way I was about 15 years ago. I remember I didn't get the orginal PS until the Christmas of 95. It seemed all my other friends had that or either a Saturn & I was still blowing into my Sega cartridges. When I finally got it I promised myself that when I got older I would always get new games or the new gaming system at least a month after it dropped. I stayed upstairs for hours playing my games. I was upstairs so much I put a couch in my bedroom so my friends could chill with me in my room so we could play.
So far I've kept that promise to myself. But now I can't seem to finish most games I buy. I can't blame lack of time. I finished Rachet & Clank in about 3 weeks, finished Heavenly Sword & CoD4 in less than a week each. When I finally got around to MSG3 I finished that in about a month. I remember when GoW2 dropped, I barely started GoW1 so I played & finished it in about a week. (Ok so I had the flu when GoW2 dropped so I was able to finish GoW1 in a short period of time) If you look at my PS3 gamercard, you'd think all I do is play games. I've ran through Uncharted at leaast 3 times & have been playing Warhawk faithfully since I got it last week. I think games don't hold my attention the way they used to. Maybe I get more excited about owning games than I do actually playing them. I can't call it but I do know that one day I will finish all my games. When that day comes, I can focus on my Shelf of Forgotten Movies