A wise man once said that the first step to recovery is to admit that you have a problem. Actually I don't know if the person that said that was wise or just some guy who pretended to be smart and made a ton money because he had a really well kept beard and a lakeside cabin with a border collie. Either way, I have a problem.
While some people struggle with the drugs and the drink, I have an issue with video games. I buy them. A lot of them. Enough of the damn things that I could never ever find time to actually finish all of them. I suppose that's not
really a bad thing but it can become quite the headache when you have a personality like mine. I'm one of those people that cannot put a game down just because I'm not enjoying it. If it enters my console I will more than likely beat my head against the thing until I finish it and when I actually play it to completion I always feel like I didn't really see everything. Couple that with the fact that I add about 3 games to my collection every single week and you've got yourself a person that feels suffocated by my hobby of choice.
Like crack addicts love smoking crack and sex addicts enjoy fucking, I have many of the same problems. The need to always be adding a new game to my collection and the guilt of buying shit I don't need when I do. Rinse. Repeat. Play Brutal Legend. Rinse. Repeat. Play Just Cause 2 (which happens to be fucking brilliant). Rinse. Repeat. Rinse. Repeat. I have no clue if I should go to great measures to remedy this problem but with this blog I'm going to document it. Actually attempt to conquer my over 200 games (nearly half are still sealed) while not buying new ones to take their place.
Can I do it? Probably not but at least when I look back at this in a few years I can look over to my sealed copy of games and say "remember that time you were actually going to finish those games" and then I'll more than likely reply with "no, I'm going to Gamestop to buy a used copy of Sacred 2." So stupid, like I really need another fucking RPG.
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I can't prove it but I think that game killed my dog.
I have a pretty laid-back philosophy about all this though as long as it's not neglecting other parts of my life I will continue to collect games and make my weekly trips to local GameStops and whatnot.
My backlog is huge , I probably have 65% of all my games that I still need to finish but sometimes I wanna go hunt for new stuff. Which is inherently my main drive and fun from collecting.
The worst part of it is that I haven't bought recent titles on purpose because I want to finish some of that infinitely growing backlog of mine...
...I think I'm gonna keep them for my retirement or something it's just too much time to invest :P
I'm part gamer and part collector. I've been buying games for older systems to play for an hour and then devote to my collection. I just like owning games in the same way some people like owning old rolling pins from the antique store. I'm trying to make room for the overflow of games I have yet to play on current gen systems, too.
Either scale back the number of the game u buy, just buy the only the very best titles or those rare titles u think will be impossible to buy later without paying silly money.
Or buy even more games that u cant keep up and ull eventually say fuck it and it wont bother you anymore. kind like cleaning or other housework, let it get out of hand and many ppl just dont arnt fussed anymore. Or start playing other genres and less the more time consuming ones.
Myself... if I start a game and don't go back to it within a year - it gets traded or given away. There's only a very small collection of games that I would keep (and actually Sacred 2 is one of them... it's a perfect "I'm feeling sick and I want a mindless hack n'slash lootfest of a game to play to make me forget that I'm this sick" game. :)