Abysmal on 9/5/2016 at 22:35
Edit: Coped.
Volitions Advocate on 9/5/2016 at 23:06
If it is a game i already own. I will download and try it. Annoying how many of those I have that I haven't played. If I don't own it but I'm really curious... Sometimes youtube will help me decide. Other times I'll admit I go straight for a torrent and play it for a few hours to see what I think. If it sucks I delete it and move on. If not, I'll buy it. (bought many music albums this way too, combination of Youtube / Free spotify / "alternate methods")
As for getting through everything I already own. It's so daunting. I've decided this year is the year of the backlog, and I'm not buying any new games. That sucks for this month because I wont be playing Doom, or Deus Ex this fall. But I know they'll be there for me to pick up later while I work through some of the games I haven't played yet. AND I save money.
Have to be honest, your thread title should come with a 'trigger warning' :P Oh the struggle.
Pyrian on 9/5/2016 at 23:19
I guess I don't care enough to need a technique to further not care. Honestly I have a lot of highly acclaimed games in my backlog, I vaguely feel bad about not giving some of them a chance in favor of playing FTL yet again, or Angry Birds Star Wars II, our latest family obsession ("Can't beat a level? Give it to the three-year-old, she'll fire a bird in the wrong direction and somehow wreck the place.").
Jason Moyer on 10/5/2016 at 00:02
Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and I've got 1000 games in my backlog.
Nameless Voice on 10/5/2016 at 00:39
I stare at my backlog, shudder in indecision, and go play League of Legends instead.
To be fair, though, I've also done something similar to what you've done, but for something of an opposite reason.
I've sorted all the games which I've completed into a category, so I can hide those away and just look at the ones I have yet to complete.
I also pushed multiplayer-only games into a different group (can't really finish those) and hid away ones I have no interest in (usually acquired from Humble Bundles.)
That leaves me with an almost-manageable collection, though if I'm honest some of those I'll probably never play.
I seriously don't have "hundreds" though. It's only about 70, and if I'm honest, maybe 25-30 I'm likely to play.
Neb on 10/5/2016 at 01:00
You will probably save more money buying what you want to play through to completion right now than a dozen or so games at 75% off during the next sale that you'll never touch. Or, at least that's the conclusion that I came to when I tried to give everything in my library at least one hour. Just bury the guilt, learn to buy smarter, and enjoy what you want to play.
demagogue on 10/5/2016 at 02:02
I realized when I started trying to follow old radio shows that there were more shows than I could listen to in a lifetime before my parents (boomers) were even born. And media has only accellerated the pace since then. So it's always been a part of life.
Now I just focus on a handful of things a month, either I know will be special or I have no idea about and just to experiment.
henke on 10/5/2016 at 04:43
Yeah I'm pretty good at putting stuff in the the "Discarded" category I made for stuff I'll just not play, however there are a few exceptions.
The Ones I Still Mean To Get Around To:
South Park: The Stick of Truth
Qvadriga
The Ones I've Started And Stopped And Still Mean To Get Back To Some Day:
UNDERTALE
Kentucky Route Zero
Shadowrun: Dragonfall DC
Gemini Rue
The Ones I'm Starting To Come To Peace With The Fact That I'll Probably Never Get Back To:
Cities: Skylines
The Masterplan
Sunless Sea
Sulphur on 10/5/2016 at 04:58
I look at my Steam collection as a long-term plan for when I'm retired and have all the time in the world to do whatever the hell I want.
...yeah, no. I'd probably still find other things to do instead. Basically it's a lack of impulse control at seeing a sale price combined with an unreasonable 'I need to have this because it's new!' Pavlovian-order response to highly rated games stuck in a feedback loop. Having to stare that in the face from time to time when I look at my Steam library is a sobering reminder of needing to rein a few things in.
twisty on 10/5/2016 at 05:12
Notwithstanding my considerable backlog on Steam (and much smaller ones on GOG and the PS4), there seems to be an abundant and almost constant stream of new titles that I would love to play but don't purchase as I know that I will probably never get a chance to play them. I often wonder how people get a chance to revisit old titles these days for that very reason. Furthermore, when a game really grabs me I often play it largely to the exclusion of anything else; given the hundreds of hours I've pumped into the DS franchise it's no wonder that I have such a big backlog.
I did plan on making a thread along the lines of a "Backlog reduction challenge", where the goal would be to choose 2 games a fortnight, play a minimum of 4 hours of each and post your impressions at the end of each period. I probably still will once I finish DS3. In the meantime, I've been assigning categories to games in my Steam library to keep track of progress.
