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!
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.
I stopped buying current releases around 2020.
Not really, I wouldn’t watch big names though, they’re going to pump out the same stuff as always.
I would expect new and good games to continue to come out and I’m looking forward to them.
Cutting yourself at some arbitrary point on time makes no sense. I simply don’t play games I’m not interested in, and play ones that I am. I’m looking forward to Civ VII while playing NES games.
OP seems to come from a console background, they have been indoctrinated with the “game goes with this console generation” thing a lot more deeply than PC gamers ever were.
Only console I ever got was the original Game Boy. But I’ll definitely upgrade my PC at some point, there’s only so many games I actually like and I don’t think I’ll be content just never playing the next Baldur’s Gate 3. I’ll have to upgrade my PC anyway at some point just for regular PC things, might as well buy a new GPU, too.
I might consider stopping when there’s some new ubiquitous gaming technology that I’m just not into (e.g. I still haven’t tried a VR game and I’m not keen on changing that anytime soon).
Only console I ever got was the original Game Boy.
Did you enjoy playing games on it? If so, I find that weird if you at least didn’t give GBA or DS/3DS a try.
TBH I got it specifically to make chip music, in like 2011. Making music on it is pretty cool actually, but while I did try a couple of games on it it didn’t really wow me. Even beyond the outdated technology, I don’t really like playing games that don’t let you quickload, especially when they’re actually kind of hard or generally have a lot of unskippable repetition.
PS5
Here’s the list of the 21 exclusive titles: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:PlayStation_5-only_games
Did they update it in the past few minutes? Because it shows 22 now.
I miscounted, thanks
Lots of those aren’t out yet, so the list is even shorter.
Not much on that list, really. Huh.
And Demon’s Souls shouldn’t really count either. Not without a significant disclaimer at least.
Oh? Why’s that?
It’s been released on PS3. This is a remake or remaster, whatever is the most appropriate terminology.
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.
My cut off will be when there are literally 0 games I have interest in.
I wouldn’t want to restrict myself to a specific platform or timeframe but I could give up some major genres. For example I’d be ok with letting go of all FPS and most 3D focused games (presentation, not rendering tech).
I stopped buying games after COD something, the last multilayer where you could host your own server.
My cut off was a decade ago, when I got my first child and I realised that my time was too valuable to spend it on gaming. Now I have a bit more time too waste and I’ve been looking into gaming again, but I can’t seem to get back into the habit.
This console generation has been a thorough failure. I have a ps5 which is great to play my ps4 games, but I will only be investing in PC from here on out. Hopefully they release a more powerful steam deck soon that can play my ps3 and xbox360 reliability
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 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.
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)
