Nice. Life is short, play games
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No, the Steam life is not to play games, but to buy them.
Oh sorry sir you are not playing these games on a phone or tablet platform therefore you are not really playing true games, you are only consuming mindless entertainment.
You’re really busy posting on the internet for someone that has 7.000+ games to play with 77% of them in backlog, and a family to spend time with.
That other thread got weird and defensive real fast.
Tends to go that way when the take is so dumb and disconnected from reality. Might as well have shown dick pics with diamond encrusted micro transaction “rewards”.
Great idea for a future thread.
23% average game completion rate? Or “has been loaded at least once”?
They said they "played" 23% of the games, not "completed."
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lol I'll feel like I'm heading in the same direction😅
Well I’m happy for you if owning so many games makes you happy as it supports a hobby I love.
Personnaly, I think that not finishing so many of your games shows some kind of problem, but I’m not a psychologist. Owning so many too..
I might even have the inverted problem as I feel like it’s an obligation for me to finish a game unless I don’t like it.
Nah, finishing games is overrated. By the time you're halfway through a game, you've seen a lot of what it's going to offer in terms of style and gameplay. For sure, you'll miss some amazing stuff if you don't get to the end, but it's hard to believe you miss as much as the new other game you could have half-completed in the same time.
There are exceptions, and I defintely think completing at least a few games is important. But if I had the choice of only having fully played 20 games in my entire life, or 40 halfway, I'd defintely have learned more, experienced more and enjoyed myself more with the half-assed approach.
Well for me it’s like starting 40 books, 40 movies or 40 songs and not finishing them.
If it’s a story driven game, I would never picture myself not finishing it unless I don’t enjoy it.
Also I see the starting something and not finishing it as a result of the short attention spans generation, but I might be getting old at 38😅
I’m older than you.
I also grew up in an age when arcades were all the rage—and games weren’t meant to be completed. The goal was simply to get the high score.
That’s still my mentality to gaming. Most of the time, I don’t care about stories. When there’s cutscenes, I usually skip them.
I guess for arcade games it’s logical, but it doesn’t apply to games like Heavy Rain, Last Of Us, Uncharted or Final Fantasy.
But I guess every one behaves differently and enjoys different things.
I’m just worried when I see my 8 year old son trying a new game every time he faces a challenge in the previous one.
Of the games you’ve listed, I only own two of them.
I have Final Fantasy VII, which is the first game I ever bought on Steam. I’ve put in around 30 hours into it.
The other game is Heavy Rain, which I just bought last month. Haven’t started it yet.
I'm older than you my friend, and it's acurallt only something that I came to terms with in my 40s. When I was younger I did feel that pressure and expectation to complete stuff. Now I have no issue switching a movie off after an hour or stopping a book before the end. Life's too short! And sure a story game I'm really enjoying, why wouldn't i finish it? And play the sequel! But if I've played 100+ hours of skyrim without geting close to the end, and I don't think it reduced my enjoyment. And if I'm getting bored of a metrovania I don't see the point in grinding til it's done.
I tend to not finish games because I don't always have as much time to commit to some games, loose steam a bit. then I jump into the next game that my friends want to play together. It can be frustrating sometimes but I think I have accepted it as my cycle now.
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Did you finish all of them? Or at least play them for an hour? If you’re using steam for 20 years, that’s a game a day.
I definitely don’t complete all of them. My goal is to at least play an hour each, but not every game is worth an hour.
The most time I’ve ever spent on a game is around 100 hours.