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Can you see yourself cutting off by a generation of gaming? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

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.