Since someone else in this forum made a topic called "Owning too much stuff?", I thought I'd make a tangential topic about my own (and no doubt many others') biggest gaming related problem - the lack of free time to play the games I have. I'm not a hardcore collector really, I only really collect for two formats (XBox 1 and N64), but I have six consoles (XBox 1, XBox 360, N64, Gamecube, PS3 and PS2) and a PC, and I have more or less every game I want for all of these machines, but I have little free time owing to work, relationships, family duties, being the PC fixer for friends and family, etc. Plus I spend nearly four hours in total every week day commuting (I *hate* commuting) to and from work, which is mostly just wasted time.* This is exactly the opposite of when I was a kid, and had all the free time in the world, but little money to buy games. If only I could send the games (and machines!) from now back to then... I have a huge backlog of games I've not even started to play yet, that I'm really looking forward to as they are supposed to be excellent, such as four Zelda games (Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Wind Waker, and Twilight Princess), Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2, Infamous 2, Little Big Planet 2, Mass Effect 3, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, and a lot more. Plus there are games I've never completed that I want to go back to and start from the beginning, such as Morrowind, Skyrim, Banjo Tooie, Diddy Kong Racing, Jet Force Gemini, Super Mario Sunshine, Rocket: Robot on Wheels, Vampire the Masquerade, etc. Part of the problem is that there are many games I can, and do, replay often. My favourite games eat up so much of my limited free time, and I keep on going back to Perfect Dark, Goldeneye, Timesplitters 2, Timesplitters 3, Unreal Tournament 1999, Unreal Tournament 2004, Deus Ex, Unreal Championship 2, as I love them so much. First world problems, eh? Anyway, is this the same for everyone here, or do any of you have enough free time to play the games you want to? Or do you not play games at all, just collect them? * I sometimes type reports or other work related stuff whilst on the train (my laptop goes everywhere with me), and sometimes play PC games on the laptop, but it's difficult getting a table seat, and the movement of the train puts me off.
It's normal to buy games and not play them for collecting... I doubt many people who collect every title for a console play every single one.
True, but I'm not asking if anyone has sufficient time to play every game in their collection, just if people have time to play the games that they want to play. But I imagine that only casual gamers, or the unemployed/retired/etc might have sufficient time to play all the games that they want to.
I NEVER have time to play games, and when I do, I'm too damned tired to think about it. journey and Flower are about all I can muster energy for lately.
Same here, while I don't have nearly as many games here as a lot of people do I find I spend more time staring at the boxes than I do actually playing them. I've still got Uncharted 3 sat on the side to complete, I started playing it shortly after release and got about a third the way into it but haven't had chance to pick it up since.
Same here. Plenty of games, usually for older consoles, but no time to play them. And even when I start I usually get distracted quickly. After few days break I forget when I was in the game so I get frustrated and it starts all over. I still haven't finished Super Mario World. LOL!
I know how you feel, I used to have time to play all the games I wanted to, now thats much different. I tend to only collect the games I think are good and that I want to play, but there is also so many new games coming out that I want to play and I just dont have the time to play em all. Just started playing Donkey Kong 64 again, I remember getting to the end of that game and just not finishing it.
This isn't limited to games. It's very typical for people not to have enough time to do all the things they want to do.
