In a recent survey by the NPD Group, it was found that the average videogame player has 48 titles and 11% of those gamers have unopened titles. The survey was given to 562 videogame players, all of whom were made to lie on the floor and swear that they wouldn’t fib about their videogame collection. If they were to mess with the numbers with dishonest replies, they would be carted off to a retinal research facility.
Around this time of the year, I feel bad for my unopened games. While I’m always excited to have a ton of new and great titles, there’s a substantial issue of time involved. Right now Fallout 3 is staring at me and gently calling my name.
Do any of you have unopened titles? If you don’t, do you think you’re getting the full experience out of every game you own when staring down the barrel of the release frenzy unfolding over the next few weeks? How do you manage?
[via Gamasutra]
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Syberia and Syberia II on PC are also still sealed. And several more games are open but pretty much unplayed.
Shin megami tensei : Nocturne
Persona 3 (with soundtrack)
after checking them out on ebay I decided not to open them ;)
The rest are just collecting dust...
I played one and the other one is still sealed. That's the only unwrapped game I have.
As for unfinished games..I have a couple.
Fable 2
Fallout 3
GoW2
Spider-man WoS
Dead Space
Left 4 Dead
CoD5
Yeah... I'll probably never get to it.
Gotta love the holidays.
You mean to tell these people haven't opened their copies of Zack and Wiki or Dynasty Warrior x: x Empires.
Sir, that is downright silly.
but i open them all, i can't stand shrink wrap.
I'm saving them up for when there aren't very many good games being released, like when the consoles are transitioning in to the next generation. Usually I don't jump in that early, so that's when I'll play my backlog.
I am a terrible gamer.
Caption...
Ever.
I've been told we're making progress.
As far as not playing all the games that I buy, I'm a little more guilty (which reminds me, I bought guilty gear on XBLA and have barely played it). However, my biggest pitfall is my self-diagnosed disease, endgame boredom syndrome, causing me to stop playing most of my RPGs right before the ending. Offhand I can name about 2 dozen titles that I could finish with 3-4 hours of gameplay (provided I remember where I'm supposed to go to kill the final boss).
I have a few I still haven't completed, Rogue Galaxy, Final Fantasy 12, Okami (yeh, I think I'm real close) Soul Calibur 4 and all the PS2 games but Zombie Virus.
You know how it is, something comes up, in life or a new game and you forget about it for a while. Then, later, you're thinking "Well, I'm about half way through the game and I'm gonna have to figure out where I'm going and what the hell is happening in it." For games like the Tales series that give you helpful recaps it's not so bad, but you get a little rusty, do less well in battles.
Mostly tho I'll buy games and play them for 30 minutes and promise myself I'll come back to but never do. Frontline: fuels of war, Mercenaries 2, all XBLA games I'm sorry and I promise I'll make it up to you.
21 pc games that i can think of, about 50 for consoles (includes handhelds) so 71 games i can remember right off the top of my head, personally that seems kinda low. Several are unopened.
I buy games if its a must have in my head. I really liked COD4 and i think they did an amazing job on it, but WaW is coming out too soon for me to care about COD anymore. Yes i can agree that it will be a great game, but if i can save myself 60$ a year and just play tf2, im set.
Beautiful Katamari, I bought it thinking it was a rare as the one that got away: I ♥ Katamari... Dammit I need to get a 360, Beyond Good and Evil and Banjo Threeie (shut up) are coming out eventually.
That said, I probably don't own as many games as some of you guys. I rent more than I buy, because I'm poor. I only buy something if I'm going to play it, and enjoy it.