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How are you managing your gaming time this year?
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For the first time in a good long while I'v realised I won't have time to play all the awsome games that are coming out, so recentley I'v had to make some descisions regarding what games to buy and what to avoid/pick up later. For instance, Sonic Rush 2 (import), Stranglehold and Halo 3 all come out within the same week for me, the same week I go back to university for my final year. It was hard but I'v decided to skip Halo 3 and buy Stranglehold and Sonc Rush instead, managing my gaming time with short, hour long or so sessions of Stranglehold when I get home and fancy a break from work and Sonic Rush 2 can be managed on the daily commute to and from uni. I would of liked to have given Halo 3 a go but it seems to me like one of those games that need a 'commitment' to get the most out of, I mean such things as learning multiplayer maps inside out, learning all the nuances of the new weapons and vehicles, playing for a week or two solid just to see the ending of the game and finding time to do all that other fun sounding stuff such as searching for secrets, getting achivements, messing around with the new online level editor thing, chatting on forums about all the cool shit you have found and when to plan multplayer games, etc. It just seems like a game that could dominate one's gaming time to me, you probably couldn't spend about an hour on it and feel satisifed with turning it off for the day, wheras I can easily blaze through a few zones in Sonic Rush 2 in an hour or advance ever further or unlock some achivements in Stranglehold in a spare hour.
Has anyone else had to make some hard descisions latley about how to manage their gaming time now that there are loads of great new games out/coming out? Does anyone else agree with me on the whole 'epic games needing commitment to really enjoy' thing? I'm just using gaming as some throwaway fun at the moment, hence my daily games of Streets of Rage 2 co-op and purchase of Stranglehold.
Has anyone else had to make some hard descisions latley about how to manage their gaming time now that there are loads of great new games out/coming out? Does anyone else agree with me on the whole 'epic games needing commitment to really enjoy' thing? I'm just using gaming as some throwaway fun at the moment, hence my daily games of Streets of Rage 2 co-op and purchase of Stranglehold.
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Someday, though. RE5 may force my hand in a year or so.
I'm old now
Steam ID : rwb36, Twitter : Werezompire,
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Halo 3
Pheonix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribbulations
Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Assassin's Creed
Mass Effect
From August until Christmas, that's pretty much the extent of my gaming. Not really complaining though. Last year was ungodly expensive.
I think the only thing that's going to distract me from that is Assassin's Creed and Mass Effect.
Halo 3 launches on the 25th.
So whoever is complaining out there can refer to this post and be ashamed of themselves on the difficulty of managing time by comparing themselves to someone who can't manage his time no matter how hard he might try.
I just wanna cry now.
I have an exam on the 30th. Guess it's not as bad as launch day but I'll still be playing Halo just as much on the 30th as I do on the 25th.
Well, this string of exams look geared to be fucking badass and important, so I can't afford to screw them up. I'll still be picking the game up on launch, and god, I'm gonna lock that game up somewhere and throw the keys away.
The shrink wrap would look so tantalizing.
I have no clue how I'm going to budget my time in October and November, nor how I will afford all the games that interest me. Some of them will have to wait till next year or they will just get underplayed.
It's not working. I'm thinking of picking up a new monitor, though, so spending a couple hundred on that instead of new games will mean I'll have fewer games to play, and lower prices on them once I do get around to buying them.
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Last week I played stranglehold, the week on prior it was bioshock. This week I'v broken the mold a bit since I just built a new comp, so its been pretty much TF2 all week. The off time consists mostly of non-stop mmoing and achievement clean up!
Xbox Live - Doctor Xedd
Gametap - RIbar77
Financially? Piss fucking poor.
This season is ruining me.
The difficult part will be prioritizing.
There's what I want to play(Stella Deus, Odin Sphere), and games that I need to play to get to games I want to play(Suikoden II before III, Xenosaga II before III, Wild ARMs 2 before 3/4, etc.), and last and definitely least, games I have that I want to play despite their mediocrity in hopes they'll eventually deliver(Magna Carta, Lunar: Dragon Song, Tales of Phantasia).
fuckin school...
It meant I played RE4 over a month, and Bioshock will have taken the same amount of time by the time I (hopefully) finish it next week in time for skate. Then hopefully I'll have enough time for when Ep2 / Portal / TF2 comes out before the new Sam & Max series starts later on in the year.
Now I'm raking it in basically I have all the money in the world to buy consoles, upgrade the computer and buy videogames. Just no bloody time to play any.
360 Gamertag: Baronskatenbass Steam: BaronVonSnakPak HgL: AnsonLuap
Anyway, since I decided to cut way down on the amount of games I needed to buy by not purchasing a 360 or PS3 this year, I figured the next step is to cut down on games that happen to be massive timesinks. I love Metroid too much to not play Metroid Prime 3, so that's next on my "to play" list anyway. I also have Sonic and the Secret Rings to get through, but at least that can be played in short bursts. All the RPGs (J or Western, doesn't matter which) have been moved to the back shelf of my game collection, until I've worked through my backlog.
I'm also prioritizing portables. I just bought a PSP Slim, and of course there's my old trusty DS. Portables are perfect for short bursts of play (like when nothing's happening at work :P ), and I tend to finish portable games more often than console games these days. Most of my portable games lean heavily towards action, platforming, or arcade-type play (shmups, beat-em-ups), all good genres for short play sessions.
The VC is also a godsend. I'm starting to think it should be mandatory for all games to have at least temporary save states. If devs are worried about people abusing them, fine, have the save states deleted when the game reloads. I find I finish pretty much every VC game I buy so far, just because I can hop out whenever I need or want to; I don't have to look for a stupid ass save point. Also, I love being able to sample games from systems I could never afford, like the TurboGrafix. I can't wait for the Neo Geo and PC Engine games to go up on the US servers.
Also, Alfred J Kwak, your name reminds me of this guy:
PSN: SirGrinchX
Oculus Rift: Sir_Grinch
Well, actually, it reminds me of Rolf, because damn that was an impressive story-line.
So basically I plan to buy 8-10 games between now and the end of the year and put several of them into my queue to play when I get around to them. Lucky Q1-Q2 tends to be a rather dry time for game releases so I should be able to catch back up.
Basically I just find an hour here and there to play. My playtime periods are short and games with shorter objective times, like MP3 and especially DS games work best for me now. As well as online games like TF2 or ET:QW.
Horribly. Around 2100 hours of playtime this year, most of it WoW.
The hell kind of online game outside of strategy takes "way too much time"? unless you only have five minute break periods it's not really that time intensive or consuming unless you want it to be. The average shooters probably average maybe twenty minutes for a game, with something like gears you can have matches averaging as short as five minutes if you want. Add in finding a game and general set up time that's no more then ten minutes of your time.
Edit: Yeah, those are a) a pretty small sub set of games (and not online as they stated) and b) the same would be true of playing those genres on a handheld.
Double plus edit: That was aimed at the now non-existant Junkie post.
No 360
No last-gen
Final Destination
(I'm joking. I'm gonna play plenty of 360 as soon as I get mine fixed.)
This deserves to become an internet meme.
Very poorly. See sig.
Im a sad panda.
On the horizon -- I'm getting urges to Tutu through the complete Baldur's Gate. Planescape might actually not look funky with a portion of the right hand UI cut off on my current computer. Icewind Dale I and II need another shot. Fallout I and II as well, if the resolution doesn't absolutely kill my eyes. Possibly even Arcanum if I can stomach the combat animations and quite possibly Temple of Elemental Evil with the unofficial fixes.
At this point, the only reason KoTOR and KoTOR 2 aren't even on the radar is because I've beat them both enough times, and I don't own Vampire...
Lots of RPGs. Lots of them.