How many video games do you have?

[Gorbles]

Simply mentioning which ones I do play would be easier than listing the 99.5% or more that I don't play, which is why I keep things simple and categorise them by which games I want to play, which ones I may eventually play in the grand fullness of time (i.e. probably never) and those I will definitely never play.

This is where I'm at.

In terms of actual numbers, not quite as high as civvver's, but relatively close. Some games I've played to the nth degree and just don't / can't anymore, some games I can't hack the age of anymore (sorry Dark Forces, I just can't), and others were bundle keys which I was never interested in.

 

[Socrates99]

I...I....I don't know...a lot.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

I wouldn't even know which things I should be counting and which I shouldn't.

 

[civvver]

Simply buying the $1 humble bundles nets you between 3-6 games depending. Do that for a year, spending around $30 and you will have 100+ more games.

 

[warpus]

694 games in my steam library

I haven't played 95% of them. It's my retirement plan.

 

[Synobun]

I have no physical games anymore. I have a few (<11) on Origin, all I received for free, and all I will never play again due to my boycott of the platform. I have some on GOG but I've never played a single game from there, and again, all received for free.

On Steam I have 324. Some of these are repeats or dev builds. Civ 4 has something like four or five executables although I only run one (BtS). Same with Spore and Dawn of War. The remasters of BioShock and Borderlands also muck things up.

I have given most of them a try. This doesn't mean I've finished most of them. I'll give just about anything in my library a try to see if I could like it. For probably close to a third of it that's a resounding no, and most of those games were acquired during the days of one-key bundles when you couldn't redeem specific games from them. Some I did buy, due to nostalgia, but then I realized they either didn't age well or they just outright don't run—and I waited too long to play them so I couldn't get them refunded.

I don't know if Steam counts F2P games in my library, but I have 39 of those listed and shoved away into a corner. I'll likely never touch them again.

Really, there's only a handful of games in my library that I haven't played that I intend to. I have more unplayed games than those but I can't play them due to hardware limitations.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

The remasters of BioShock and Borderlands also muck things up.

I have the BioShock remasters too that just appeared in my library one day. I heard they're actually worse than the originals in some aspects but I don't remember the details.

 

[Synobun]

I have the BioShock remasters too that just appeared in my library one day. I heard they're actually worse than the originals in some aspects but I don't remember the details.

They had more bugs than the originals, but I think the devs fixed that.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Spore

Do you still play? I love this game! It isn't what they promised but it was still a fun title. It's only even 'flawed' if you look at it in the lens of what they initially pitched. Thankfully, I missed most of the earliest hype train so by the time I really got into it, I did not have the whiplash that so many other players have.

Some I did buy, due to nostalgia,

There's this sinking feeling when you load up a game for the first time in 10+ years only to find out that it's basically unplayable and you have no idea why you liked it to begin with...

 

[Gori the Grey]

I think I can list all of them, actually. (They're in a copy-paper box under my stairwell):

Realms of Arkania 1 & 2 (the first games I purchased). Betrayal at Krondor and Return to Krondor. A couple of the Might and Magic ones. One called Lands of Lore that featured Patrick Stewart as voice talent. Morrowwind. Oblivion.

Civ III. Civ V. Civ VI.

You'll see that I played FRPG games until I discovered Civ.

I do someday mean to buy Skyrim.

So, to answer the thread question: twelve.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

I never did get on board with the whole Steam thing. This thread seems to verify that was the correct decision.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I never did get on board with the whole Steam thing. This thread seems to verify that was the correct decision.

What? You don't like cheap video games?

 

[Synobun]

Do you still play? I love this game! It isn't what they promised but it was still a fun title. It's only even 'flawed' if you look at it in the lens of what they initially pitched. Thankfully, I missed most of the earliest hype train so by the time I really got into it, I did not have the whiplash that so many other players have.

I go through a Spore kick every couple years or so. It's a complete ass ache to install and set up and I forget the process every time. I know you have to activate it through Origin because its Steam approval process is borked.

I love it. I really wish there were more games like it, especially if it would be made by a mod-friendly developer. The asset shop system was revolutionary for its time but the game itself isn't mod-friendly at all. Galactic Adventures helped a little but not by much. Really what ends up happening for me is just fatigue. I'm a fan of incrementalism and the space age is perfect for that, but the issue with it is that there's no way to reduce the disasters or apply automation, so as you expand it becomes increasingly more and more agitating to continue expanding. This is stupid given that the end game is incremental expansion. I'm a fan of just mindlessly growing my territory and wiping out species, but the developers really dropped the ball with the disaster system. Having a crisis 40 star systems away every five minutes is immensely bad design.

Even failing the hype, it was an incredible game. The model designer is great. And the age progression is really coherent, which is tough to accomplish.

Ugh, now I want to play. It'll be two years since I've played this upcoming April...

 

[HEF]

Do you still play? I love this game! It isn't what they promised but it was still a fun title.

re: Spore


Is there anyone out there able to play 'Spore' without having to connect online?

I've had the unfortunate experience of picking this title up in the bargain bin only to discover that the online servers running it were shutting down within a month or two.

This happened a few years ago.

Is 'Spore' active without connecting online? Is anyone somehow playing 'Spore'?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

@Synsensa Completely agree with respect to the lack of automation hurting the game. Also, having to manually run every single trade route yourself gets old real quick. Like it's kind of fine while you're still exploring the neighborhood and barely making any money. But once you're established it a completely boring chore.

re: Spore


Is there anyone out there able to play 'Spore' without having to connect online?

I've had the unfortunate experience of picking this title up in the bargain bin only to discover that the online servers running it were shutting down within a month or two.

This happened a few years ago.

Is 'Spore' active without connecting online? Is anyone somehow playing 'Spore'?

I believe you could play the game without an internet connection, it just limits your creatures/buildings/vehicles to ones you created personally or downloaded before cutting the internet connection. And I think when it migrated to Steam, it got a permanent server platform but not sure.

 

[Synobun]

re: Spore


Is there anyone out there able to play 'Spore' without having to connect online?

I've had the unfortunate experience of picking this title up in the bargain bin only to discover that the online servers running it were shutting down within a month or two.

This happened a few years ago.

Is 'Spore' active without connecting online? Is anyone somehow playing 'Spore'?

Spore still works (poorly). Darkspore does not (at all).

The asset shop barely functions nowadays. It's really tough to get your worlds populated with player content. At least, that's how it was for me back in 2017. I think they've had a server update since then. There are enough base assets so that it's not terrible, but it's definitely less fun than it was. Really disappointing. When I played, I'd say maybe 10 to 15% of the content I encountered was from the asset shop, whereas during its heyday it was closer to 70 to 75%.

I think most physical copies won't work these days. But you can email EA with the code and they'll give you a digital copy. And if you have it via Steam, you'll need to connect it via Origin or else you'll be in a Connection Failed loop.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I thought most of the player-made assets were garbage personally. What is Darkspore?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I thought most of the player-made assets were garbage personally. What is Darkspore?

Ross Scott really hates games being shut down.

 

[Synobun]

I thought most of the player-made assets were garbage personally. What is Darkspore?

The epics are pretty decent, but you're right that the normal species are kind of hit or miss. Mine were always super tiny herbivores.

Darkspore used the Spore model engine for a Torchlight-esque game. It was a lot of fun but suffered from the name's bad reputation. It collapsed pretty quick.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

My were always just deformed monstrosities that were dumb or else were some variation of a walking penis.