Like, will there be a point in time where you think that with all of the games of yesteryear to play that are thousands and thousands, with thousands more forward ahead to be released. There’s only so much time available to be playing so much in a lifetime.
So that begs the question, do you just decide on which generation of gaming you’re comfortable reaching before saying “Yup, I’m good!”?
I think for me, my cut off has been the PS4/X-Box series X generation. The PS5 is now officially like 5 years old now as of this year which is mind boggling to think about considering people had a very hard time affording the damn thing as well as other consoles because of a certain pandemic and scalpers.
And I’ve not once thought about organizing my resources in any attempt to try and get one or multiple games for it or the console. I’ve committed to PC gaming full-time now. I am completely content with playing what games I’ve gotten in the past and my library could use my attention more.
I’m not worried about prettier visuals, when I can still have the option to slap just another newer GPU down in my PC and beef up the memory as well. My PC build was intended to run 95% of all of my games that no other PC I’ve had in the past could ever do. So, I’m good!
Kind of. I’ve been playing a lot of PS2/GBA era games lately and I’ve been having more fun than most modern releases.
I’m definitely “behind a generation” where I wait for games to be available to easily torrent and run on Linux.
For one, I see no reason to decide I’ll never play any game made after a certain point, barring a hardware requirement that I don’t want to fulfill (eg buying a new console). That’s just arbitrarily limiting good media that I could enjoy.
Second, the “Game Library Completion” preoccupation is another mistake, imo. I understand feeling bad about “wasting” money, but turning one’s hobby into a (monumental) task/chore isn’t gonna help that. It’ll probably just ruin that hobby.
All that said, do what makes you happy. If that’s all you want to do, I hope you enjoy it.
Second, the “Game Library Completion” preoccupation is another mistake, imo. I understand feeling bad about “wasting” money, but turning one’s hobby into a (monumental) task/chore isn’t gonna help that. It’ll probably just ruin that hobby.
It is really just a sunk cost fallacy. The same applies to books, movies or any other media. If you don’t enjoy it don’t finish it. Doesn’t matter how much you spent on it or invested into it in other ways. Stopping right when you don’t get anything out of it is the best time to stop that is still available (given we can’t change the past).
This.
I’ve been much happier abandoning games and shows even if I’m 95% done just because they stopped being fun. Completion is overrated
barring a hardware requirement that I don’t want to fulfill
Basic laptops and phones can play most games from 20 years ago, so hopefully if you’re patient enough you’ll eventually be able to play everything on whatever hardware you already have
Nope. I play a mix of old and new, and I probably always will.
It’s just like books, just because the are lifetimes worth of old books doesn’t mean I should ignore the new books. I read a mix of classics and recent releases, both usually through the library.
I’ve committed to PC gaming full-time now.
Same, though we also have a Switch because it’s just so good for party games. We play couch co-op with our kids and friends, and will probably get the next Switch as well.
95% of my gaming is on the PC, whether my Steam Deck or desktop PC. I play some recent games (currently playing Hogwarts Legacy), as well as plenty of old games (I just played Firewatch from 2016), and I recently bought games from the 90s.
I don’t really care when a game was released, as long as it’s good. I’ll even occasionally play new releases (bought Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom at launch), though I usually wait until they’ve finished patching the game (1-2 years if I’m really excited). I add new games to my wishlist all the time and check back periodically until I feel like it’s ready.
So yeah, I play games from all eras.
It’s just like books, just because the are lifetimes worth of old books doesn’t mean I should ignore the new books. I read a mix of classics and recent releases, both usually through the library.
And it’s not like all the old books are interesting, same with games. Just because there is a lot doesn’t mean it’s all interesting, or maybe it’s not what I’m currently interested in.
I’ve been gaming since the late 1970s, and have never considered any sort of cut off date. I just play what interests me (lately that’s been VR games in various genres).
I can’t imagine ever losing interest in new games or platforms, because there’s always a new experience out there and, for me at least, that’s the point. I can’t play everything, obviously, but I can prioritise my time where I think I’ll have the most fun.
I used to spend more on new games but I have cut back a lot, largely because new games suck and are very poorly optimized. I have refused hardware upgrades due to the absurd costs and been playing more on my Steam Deck instead.
Currently playing State of Decay 2 and Helldivers 2, will circle back to Hogwarts Legacy, Core Keeper, and a few other games later.
I don’t see any generation of gaming. Maybe because I don’t buy and play on consoles. Even consoles have started to lose generations with backwards-compatibility, re-releases, upgrades, and digital stores.
I play what interests me. And I buy even more than I play of what interests me.
The idea of having enough or too many games to play, I think I reached on about 1.3k games in my Steam library. Because a year has 365 days, so 1300/365 = 3,56, so I could play a different game every day for 3 years. That’s unrealistic to match [for me]. Now I have 3.8k games in my Steam library. Which is fine by me; I support what looks interesting to me, and maybe I’ll get to them, or some I prioritize, and some are bundled noise or freebies.
I’m not going to stop stumbling over new and interesting games though. And most certainly not evade them when I stumble over them.
Exactly. I’m a little more selective about what I buy, but I still have hundreds of unplayed games. I could probably stop buying games and never run out of stuff to play, but there’s always newer games coming out that look interesting.
I’m slowing down on buying games, but I’ll probably never actually stop.
I stopped buying current releases around 2020.
My cut off will be when there are literally 0 games I have interest in.
Nah. I’ll always play what I find interesting but I’ll go by price, not generation (as a non console gamer, what even is a generation?). Played lots of early access / new releases this year, but never spent over $25 on any single game.
No. I feel like there’s always going to be something that catches my attention.
Who knows, maybe in another 10 years we’ll get a game series that’s on par with the Arkham games, or there will be another Spider-Man series that will get me hyped.
Pretty sure that barring some exceptions, I’ve reached that point now.
Now if you excuse me, I have some modded Doom 2 to play, followed by a reverse-engineered Mario 64, and finally a Zelda3/Super Metroid randomizer. If I have time, perhaps I’ll even get in some rounds of Counter-Strike 1.6 or Diablo 1 (DevilutionX port of course)
Just an update to this, I ended up playing HeXeN on my phone using Delta Touch and a BSP-D8 controller, with Gun Bonsai and Neural Network upscaling.
Greetings mortal! Are you ready to chill?
No, I bought consoles when I was a kid, haven’t since. If it isn’t available on PC it just didn’t exist in my mind.
No. To each their own, but I think that’d be a ridiculous stipulation to place on myself and it’s hard to imagine why anybody would want to do it outside of super niche reasons.
I see no reason to “cut myself off” at any point, I still find games released in the last few years that look interesting, and some with release dates TBD that look neat.
I haven’t bought a new console since July 2015 and have no plans to buy a new generation any time soon.
When my current console dies, I might upgrade, but likely I will find a cheap used replacement and keep playing what I already have.
Someday I will update all my stuff, just not today.
I think depression and anxiety are taking care of that for me. I absolutely loved God of War (2018), but for whatever reason the scale of Ragnarok intimidated me so much that I put the game down within the first 10 hours and haven’t been back.
Too real.
