Playing through my 200 games steam Library

I have an addiction, its called steam. I MUST play thought the story/campaign on all games i buy on steam no matter how much i like or hate them. I ONLY buy games at steam for this sole purpose of putting the completed games in my completed folder. As soon as i start a game i must finish it.

I never buy games from other places than Steam because than it messes up my completed list and thats the biggest reason i even play games at all. They mostly stopped being fun, now i only play them to complete them, so i can get them in that folder and feel good for a few hours before i start a new one.

I got about 80 games left, since many of my games are only multiplayer and cannot be completed. I expect to have finished all my currently owned Steam games within year 2015.

I used to play though the games in alphabetical order but i gave that up because i didnt wanna play 5 command and conquer games in a row etc. Now i just pick and choose whatever i wanna play, but in the end all MUST be completed!

Life Purpose: Playing through games on Steam and comparing 3Dmark scores

Currently Playing:



GAMES I HAVE COMPLETED




GAMES I HAVE LEFT



Help me find a new life purpose and tell me: What Else is There!!??

 

I love games. I spend way too much time playing them. You are at a whole different level here.

I'm giving you a life purpose to step away from the pc and go do something else. At least maybe read one book fire every game you play. Do it in a coffee shop and don't bring your laptop.

Then graduate to some other non gaming activity once a week. Seriously.

 

you must be single..

 

Not with all those games .

That's why nowadays I only buy games which I want to play.

 

I should be but i actually do have a girlfriend lol. What i dont have is a job...

 

how old are you

 

25

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Wish I were more like you. Instead I often buy games I like the look of in a sale, play it halfway through and then promptly move on to another new game that just went on sale! I have a huge backlog to clear. There are a few exceptions where I am captivated by the story and characters and/or having so much fun with the gameplay so much I feel compelled to see it through to the end such as Portal 2, BioShock Infinite, Borderlands 2, Mass Effects, Half Lifes, The Walking Dead etc

I'm gradually getting through my backlog... gradually. Trouble is, it keeps on growing

 

It would be quite ironic if you played through hundreds and hundreds of stories, but forgot to play your own...

 

well played sir, well played indeed!

I think il take my GF out for a korean BBQ tonight :thumbsup:

 

Maybe spend half the time you do playing games getting more active in a job search. Seriously. Research companies, make your own database including details about the company, date applied, pros, cons, etc. To get a job it can be a full time job just to find one. I think it's great you get the time to play and actually finish them, but imho only if you are satisfied with other aspects in your life that need to be handled. If you're happy where you're at, then all the more to you. Good luck!

 

Variety is the spice of life.

 

If you didn't have a girlfriend, this thread would probably be the most depressing thing I've ever read. The fact that you enjoy regular human contact makes this all seem ok.

But seriously, this is some next level obsession.

 

haha yeah i agree on all levels buddy, but it is what it is. Anyway i hope to finish Darksiders this week, seems like a pretty long game... but i got time... a lot of time...

When its come to working and having a job i just dont like it. Tried several jobs and quit em all, its just not my kinda fun i guess and i dont rly NEED the extra money but it could come in handy for a new gaming rig

Maybe someday when i really NEED a job to survive, but today aint that day

 

Where do you get money from without a job?

 

Family and ehhh my GF has her own business. I do some work with that, but that only like 1-2 hours a day and all on the computer :/

So i work a little bit but got no real job...

 

Think about



Seriously. What about life insurance, saving for retirement, social security, what happens if you and your gf break up... etc.

 

Yeah luckily my retirement is covered by the state and i get free life insurance (Go Norway). I do however live i Thailand so i dont get the benefit of free insurance here so that sucks. I dont really thonk or plan about the future because am lazy. probably the laziest dude u would ever know if u knew me

 

But what about doing something good for the country in return?

Anyway, this has turned into a judgement thread.

 

Well i served as a Petty Officer in the navy for 15 months when i was 18

 

I would love to play video games and hang out with my girlfriend instead of working. That would be awesome.

 

Yeah believe me u get sick of it... nothing is fun when u do it to much, even if its ur favorite thing in the world

 

I just have to throw in this video response to your "What's there left..." I'm with you.. I've fought back from there to some form of moderation and it's fantastic... I think i'm still spending way too much time on gaming. Daily battle.. This song is about Dave in rehab fighting with his relationships and ends up breaking up with his GF (insert gaming instead of GF). This is the best video sorry no Friedman, but Broderick rips so it's all good..

 

awesome stuff but this is where i am

except i got a GF which mr eric probably didnt have

 

If you can't find work that's "fun" then that's actually quite normal >_>. If you CAN find work that's fun, all the more power to you, but you need to find what that is. I'm a person who often gets sick and usually misses a lot of work or school etc, since I was about 4 or 5, and even I found a job. It's a job where I make under $4 USD an hour and have four separate jobs to do there even though I technically only was hired to do one, but it's a job where I'm not fired if I can't make two or three days now and then. I simply get a pay cut. I could live without having it and leech for a game or two off my friends, but having your own money is better. By far. It's good you can admit your laziness, but geez man, do something. You really can't be like that forever.

 

wow, where r u from? 4 USD an hour sounds very very low unless you come from a very cheap country. Where i come from the lowest legal salary for a business to pay a worker over 18 yrs of age is around 20 USD an hour. I used to get that when i worked serving food in a local hotel a few years back.

 

My location is at the side. Also, I did translate the currency, but the buying power is the same. I.E. it's 6.35 TTD to 1 USD or so, so a $60 Call of Duty game sells for over $500 here, for example. Technically it should be closer to $400, but since it's imported they take extra taxes and the store wants to make more money etc so... yeah. That's our purchasing power. Exactly as I said it.

 

Hey, give this guy a break I would LOVE to be in the position to play videogames and hangout with the gf all day.

 

Very interesting thread OP. My problem is I buy so many games and I hardly get past 20 or 30 minutes because I am overwhelmed with my options! I mainly am playing online games because I can get a few matches in and then stop. I'm actually making it a priority to play MORE games lately. I only was 20 minutes into Dues Ex:HR and honestly i am wondering what the hoopla is about the game?! It seems very boring and basic, but maybe someone can tell me it gets better. The cover system feels robotic like a Gear of War game; but I digress.

I also don't get the whole stereotype about not having a girlfriend. I have always had a girlfriend and while it impacted gaming in the beginning (I played less), I always went back to gaming and not one has ever minded. I mean there is a LOT of downtime in any relationship and I like to spend mine gaming. Now the job thing you alluded to; well I guess I would lessen the gaming while trying to get work.

I have been working full time since graduating college a long time ago. I find gaming to be an awesome stress reliever. And quite honestly, after going through a pretty bad breakup....I am quite looking forward to expanding my gaming empire and making these games my bi......oh crap....maybe that is indeed why I am single
Cheers. and Game On.

 

If you didn't play the original Deus Ex you might not be all that interested in Human Revolution. But I definitely wouldn't write it off after 20 minutes. It's a great game.

 

What's a girlfriend? Where can I download that from?

 

I know how this guy feels. I work at home selling on ebay. I only "work" 2-3 hours per day but I also do 2-3 hours per day on research on finding new things to sell on ebay. When I want too, I dont do any research and just work my few hours and I am done for the day. But I am happy with it and make more than triple from my last real job, 5 years ago.

My problem is that I dont have a girl friend but in the process of getting one.

 

Good lad. Easy to forget how fast the time flies when you are behind a screen playing games.
Personally I would never play through an aweful game just because you have to finish the story. One thing is wasting time on doing funny things, another is taking it to a totally different level. But who am I to blame, maybe you have way more time to spend on these things than me

 

I've downloaded tens of thousands over the years. It's a really short term relationship.

 

As long as OP enjoys his life and doesn't have gaming interfere with the necessities, play away. Gaming no longer carries a stigma, in fact most gamers are 25-35, gainfully employed, and generally productive members of society.

That being said, after reading through OP's post, OP MAY (and i stress that) have a mild-to-moderate form of OCD. Hard to tell the variation between just a gamer completionist and true compulsion, but if OP finds he has compulsions beyond just the need to finish the games purchased, a visit to a licensed mental health professional would not be a bad idea.

 

It doesn't really last over a few minutes does it?

As for me, all I'm trying to now is to get through all the AAA titles i bought but never touched like dishonored or fallout 3, the rest is just up in the air.

 

i like games too, but why would you want to set such an useless goal? learn autocad, design, video making, atleast something productive that you would be willing to get better at, or in real life - gym(start bulking up), sprint, what ever. your current goal will have no reflection of what you have done with your life, just waste of 2 nice years.

 

Well, the OP is not gainfully employed, nor does he seem to be a productive member of society. But there's no harm to anyone else in what he's doing.

 

I have to be honest...I admire the guy. Not like a heroe or something along those line (hell I don´t even think I have any heroes either way). I use to game quite a bit, then went on to travelling the world for around 6 years. I haven´t really been able to game at all over those 6 years, but hoping to get back into it here soon. So if you want I will gladly change places with you MSIlover, and you can live life to what I´d personally consider its ¨fullest¨ (travelling and learning as such) and I could start gaming again.

 

I saw his post where he said that. What i meant was, it used to be you would NEVER tell anyone you game; gamers were losers. Gaming thankfully isn't a stigma anymore. I was actually talking to a GIRL about gaming at the bar on saturday night. Granted, she was saying how much she loved COD (shudders) but gaming has become more mainstream

As far as spending so much time on gaming, my Dota 2 playing time is about to hit 1000 hours. that's 41 days of pure DOTA 2 i've played since the first beta. I don't know if i should be ashamed or proud of myself. Or a bit of both.

 

I disagree with this completely. OP can do whatever he wants, as long as he's not harming anyone. I don't understand the obsession with being so "productive." Why is creating art and videos considered productive for the average person? How are those things useful to anyone else?

What about other "useless" goals? Like reading books? Or making miniature ships in a bottle? Or walking the distance of the continental US? Those things would be considered awesome, but are not "useful" to anyone either. This is a sign that video games still have a stigma attached to them...

People do what we enjoy... and some people enjoy different things.

 

Except moderation is the key to everything... too much of a good thing is a bad thing. And prioritizing hobby over income when you clearly have no personal means of producing any, or very little, is an issue. Hard to feel sorry if their relationship breaks up, parents can't help any more, and he's sitting there with his joystick in his handing wondering why he's living on the street.

 

Well luckily the state will pay me a good amount of money each month even if I don't work hehe

 

Agree with you.

Ooohhhhh boy

 

If you really want to go deeper into the issue you could also argue that the way society has developed has formed these expectations. If we didn't have mega corporations and money in general I feel there would be a lot more people in the world like the OP. Obviously this is more just my utopia than anything and if this was to actually be put into practice, society as we know it would likely fall apart (thereby becoming more of an anarchism than anything). Since the dawn of time it has been instilled into us that to have a fulfilling life you need to have an equal balance of work and play. And usually, with the work side of that equation being for monetary gain.

Anyway I feel like I'm going way off topic but still something to consider before people start labelling the OP with different names/ideas.

 

Thought i would add a picture from where i live New years eve yay...

Not much to do here except for Steam :yes:

 

The problem is that if there were more people in the world like the OP we wouldn't have the advancements we do today, more mouths to feed by those that do work. It's the people that are working in his life that are feeding him, and by the comment about how the state will pay if he doesn't get other income, is another sense of entitlement with no sense of responsibility. You don't need to work 50 hours a week, but when you do have the advantage of others helping feed you, then use that as an opportunity to pad your bank account so some day you can become financially independent and do what you want to do without need or worry of money.

You need to think about worse case or at least "what-if" scenarios and prepare for that. Someone decides they don't need to work, play games all day, that's fine if they've got means to make ends meet other ways. But if bad things happen, all of a sudden they're faced with homelessness or total poverty. And then they want sympathy and money. But you know what? Nobody cares. I've been down that road, and it wasn't for sitting home and playing games, it was real tragedy. After working a professional career for 13 years, I was unemployed for 3.5 years, left work just after our second baby was born. My wife died shortly after, had 2 babies to care for, and I actually HAD saved for my future, and that kept me alive. I had some Social Security income, I could have relied on that for the next 15 years, but instead chose to go back to work despite the issues/concerns with maintaining a home, cooking, cleaning, and managing two kids to daycare every day. Is this ideal? No. Could I have survived of Social Security if I had not gone back to work? Yes. But in 15 years, then what? Be in my 50's and nothing to live on?

 

ok so what-if there was an alien invasion, a third world war or the earth got hit by a comet and exploded tomorrow! That is what-if, which is a totally useless way of thinking in my opinion

Except from that logic its a good post.

 

Well, all of your scenarios are extremely unlikely, whereas the ones Wingnut describes are more common than you think.

 

yes but... what if?