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How many titles at a time?
By liberaltugboat 10-14-2009 02:41 AM
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With my upcoming purchase of Brutal Legend on Thursday, my current "now playing" count should be up to like 8 games. Does this seem ridiculous? Can that many games truly be managed properly? That is more then one per system I own. And I am getting the hankering to start a couple more from the backlog.
I guess I have an issue with sticking with one game till the end. I have been better about it this year, I finished 3 games in a row before starting any in between (Blazblue, Shadow Complex and Dissidia). Ok ok I lied, I played Trails HD between SC and D:FF, but do you really blame me for not beating it? Now I am trying to juggle MGS4, LBP, Socom FTB2, Mirrors Edge, Warhawk, Guilty Gear, Motostorm... and to make it worse I grabbed my DS and a bunch up carts for my man purse (yes I own a man purse and I am damn proud). Its gets to the point where I spend so much time trying to figure out what i am feeling like playing that I wear my self out and dont play anything at all. I must sound like a winey bitch... "OMG my worstest problem is being able to afford most of the games I want, but i dont have a enough time to play them" Wait... when I put it that way it actually sounds a little more tragic then I thought. Poor me |
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Indignate
- 10-14-2009, 03:21 AM
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It's not anymore ridiculous then what I got going on. I have about 18 games that I'm currently playing through (which doesn't count the ones I've decided to put back into the backlog) with 10 of them being RPGs and I'm the kind of guy who wants to get and do everything in a RPG, not to mention being an achievement whore for the 360. I'm at least slowly making my way through them. I'd say in two months I'll probably be done with most.
"I spend so much time trying to figure out what i am feeling like playing that I wear my self out and dont play anything at all." Same here. It takes me about 10 or so minutes thinking about what to play before I say  it and throw on a movie or leave the house.Oh, and I'll also be getting Brutal Legend on Friday and Borderlands next week. I guess that'll* be 20. *Is that even a real contraction? |
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Wingwright
- 10-14-2009, 03:52 AM
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I never go past 3. I don't enjoy games as much when I play too many at once.
At any given time, I'm usually playing 1 360, 1 XBLA, and 1 DS game. A good mix. 20 games doesn't even make sense. If I was playing a game, and started playing 19 new games before beating it, I wouldn't even consider myself to be "still playing" the first. |
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Fever Dogg
- 10-14-2009, 10:12 AM
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I agree with Wingwright. Im usually 1 per console, and even that is stretching it for me. The reason I switched to that formula is because I was only finishing 1-3 games a year. Am I in the minority, or does everyone finish every game they play. In my 20 plus years of gaming I probably have only finished 30-50 games.
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MCWarsaw
- 10-14-2009, 12:33 PM
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Indignate, don't you find it hard to juggle that many RPGs? I am playing through Tales of Vesperia and I put it down for a little over a week to get through ODST and when I came back I didn't know which direction to go in the dungeon I was in. Worse still, I have a hard time remembering what skills are best and all the other micromanagement stuff I need to do.
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1NintendoFan
- 10-14-2009, 02:14 PM
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I used to do that too, I would either play one game all the time and then get tired of it and never go back to it, or I would be playing so many at once I would get bored with all of them and never finish.
Now, I prefer to just play one game, sometimes two depending on the game. I have found I finish more games this way and I also enjoy the games more. Now that I try to limit how many I play at once, I can get more into the store and enjoy each game before moving onto the next one. For me, that was probably one of the best things I've done as a gamer. |
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Indignate
- 10-14-2009, 04:12 PM
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@Wingwright
I go back and forth between them which is why I consider them as still playing. If I don't see myself playing it in the near future or if I think that I've spent to much time away from it, I just place it in the backlog. @MCWarsaw That's exactly the reason why I spend ten minutes deciding on what to play. However when I do pick something, I usually stick with it for about a week and then go through the process again. One PS2 game and one 360 game each time. PS3 is on hiatus until a get a better T.V. |
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shadowkast
- 10-14-2009, 04:51 PM
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Its gets to the point where I spend so much time trying to figure out what i am feeling like playing that I wear my self out and dont play anything at all.
as noted by others, same thing here. Do I wanna race? Which racer? Do I wanna shoot? Which shooter? Hell I'll just throw in the 24 dvd as I have 4 more seasons of that backlogged. |
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the_grimace
- 10-15-2009, 06:52 AM
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i usually only play 2 games at a time. Cant remember the last time i played 3. And usually if im playing 2, they have to be different genres. For example, i might play one RPG and one shooter at the same time, but i would never play two rpgs, two shooters, two action games, etc
I honestly feel you cant enjoy the game if you keep switching between multiple games, especially with deep rpgs. Though same goes for other genres. Many shooters have different control schemes. Many adventure games and action games have large worlds, or sometimes an interesting story. And as said, rpgs are often very deep, and even dropping the game for a couple days will cause you to forget whats going on and/or how to play the best. I just feel you can enjoy games much better when played solely. You enjoy it more, perform better at the game, and connect deeper with the story. Playing multiple games, its hard to do that. Its almost the same as reading 1 book at a time, versus 5 books at a time. you can concentrate andf appreciate the 1 book solely a lot more then if you had 4 others to read as well |
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