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I always find I end up owning loads of games (Although guess that will change once I'm jobless :D) yet only completing a small percentage of them. I tend to play through to a certain stage then get stuck or bored, and go play another game and so on.
I don't think it's down to how many games I have because I've always been like it as long as I can remember. Although I do know I have a terrible attention span and get bored easily (Lately I've been watching films while playing on the DS and I still seem to be able to concentrate fine on both, doing just one gets boring :undecided: ).
Just wondered if anyone else is like it :)
I'm hoping once I have no income so I have very little chance of buying myself games, that it provokes me into completing my back catalogue.
I do exactly that. DRZ has already commented on how little I use my 360. Its odd really. A new game will appear and I'll want it more than sex. I'll buy it at 9am on the release day, run home and play it all day. Then all it takes is one little lapse in my concentration and I'll just give up. I think its due to the structure of my days. Generally its irc irc irc, forums, irc, email and process photos. I just continue allll day processing pics. Then I sleep. I need a more structured day. 9-5 photography, tea + tv, then chill with games or a movie. That way I have time to enjoy games, as I do enjoy them.
Flibster
31-07-2006, 12:21
I'm terrible...
Got up to 1950 in The Movies...
Uninstalled and re-installed KOTOR
Did a couple of planets...
Uninstalled and re-installed AVP2
Did a few levels as the Marine
Unistalled and re-installed Deus Ex.
I reckon that will last a week or so then something else will take it's place.
I bought Prey on release day and I've played it for about 3 hours - now uninstalled.
Still got my second sealed copy of Prey as well...
Simon/~Flibster
My mind just wanders I think, that or I want to do everything right that second.
There's still games that I'll keep playing until I complete (Final Fantasy 7 and Suikoden most noteably), but it has to take some game to do that.
A lot of the time I have to half force myself to keep going even though I enjoy it, if that makes sense.
I like games with frequent save points, not because it makes it easier (Well ok that can be handy depending on the game :p) but so I don't have to settle down to play for a huge length of time.
Weird, I love games too :/
I do go through stages though, if a game infuriates me in the right way, I won't stop playing it till I complete it. Probably spend most of today and tomorrow gaming as I've got 2 days off and not much to do at the moment.
Edit: I have a strange feeling if the consoles were away from the PC, it'd help. Less things to distract me! Not very practical right now though.
Stan_Lite
31-07-2006, 12:33
Well, I've only recently started playing PC games but I already notice a tendency to do the same.
I'm not very proficient yet and soon get stuck and get fed up trying so give up.
The only game I've played all the way through is Unreal II but I only managed to finish that because I cheated :embarassed:
My thinking was to play through a few games in God mode until my hand eye co-ordination improves and then start playing them properly on easy settings to improve my skills.
Do you guys think this system will work or should I just struggle through and risk losing interest and ending up with a stack of part played games?
Stan :)
Hmm, what games have you been playing Stan?
Personally I'd suggest playing on easy mode rather than using cheats, but there are some FPS games that would be simpler than others. Something like Doom or Serious Sam is simple to play but would get your hand to eye co-ordination up to scratch I reckon :)
I'm exactly the same, I've only ever completed one game, and that was Call of Duty. I guess that's why I like Eve so much in that it doesn't actually have an end.
Hmm, what games have you been playing Stan?
Personally I'd suggest playing on easy mode rather than using cheats, but there are some FPS games that would be simpler than others. Something like Doom or Serious Sam is simple to play but would get your hand to eye co-ordination up to scratch I reckon :)
Agreed. You'll get better by facing real challenges rather than just running through on God mode.
Flibster
31-07-2006, 13:28
Definately try Serious Sam Stan. :D
It starts off fairly easy and slowly ramps up the difficulty, by throwing more and more people at you.
It's a definate no strategy good old shoot-em-up style game. :D
Simon/~Flibster
Stan_Lite
31-07-2006, 15:44
Serious Sam it is then :)
I've played Unreal II, and a bit of Doom III. I've started a few RPGs (Warcraft III, Battle for Middle Earth and Star Wars - Empire at War).
I've just started a game called Call of Cthulhu, which I think I'll stick with for a while as it looks reasonably interesting and has no cheats. It also seems to have no fighting in the early stages and is more strategy based to start off with so I'm hoping it builds up slowly to the fighting/shooting bits.
I kinda thought my thinking was flawed - the tendency when in God mode is to just barge through, ignoring things shooting at you and ignoring health pick ups etc so one gets into bad habits :embarassed:
You mention Doom, Jen - anybody suggest any other easyish FPS games to get me going?
Stan :)
PS: Sorry about the hijack Jen :embarassed:
Painkiller might be good for a simple FPS but I can't remember entirely. Unreal Tournament too would be great, pretty old now but still good fun.
Sure I can sort out a few copies of these for the BBQ if you want :)
PS: Sorry about the hijack Jen :embarassed:
Nps :) It's a bit ironic considering the thread title really ;D
Painkiller might be good for a simple FPS
Totally mindless **** 'em up, but good fun in quick blasts :)
LeperousDust
31-07-2006, 15:59
Painkiller starts off deathly easy too, and ends up the exact opposite :D
I only played it for about 30mins when it first came out.
I stand by Unreal Tournament but I do love it :D
Stan_Lite
31-07-2006, 16:06
Painkiller might be good for a simple FPS but I can't remember entirely. Unreal Tournament too would be great, pretty old now but still good fun.
Sure I can sort out a few copies of these for the BBQ if you want :)
Nps :) It's a bit ironic considering the thread title really ;D
Lol!
I have Unreal tournament at home so I'll give that a blast until the BBQ.
If you could sort some copies out for me, I'd be extremely grateful and you'll get a bigger hug than anybody who doesn't give me games ;)
*wonders if this might put the poor lass off* :undecided:
Stan :)
*wonders if this might put the poor lass off* :undecided:
No :p
I'll sort out some games for you :) probably a variety of things that you might like as I've got a fair few around the place :D
Let me know if there's anything specific you've heard about or you're interested in :) I've literally got stacks of games :embarassed:
Definately try Serious Sam Stan. :D
The thing with Serious Sam is that it's anything but serious ;D
That game had me in stitches.
Stan_Lite
31-07-2006, 16:36
I have quite a few games at home that I haven't even looked at - I bought 2 separate bundles in the MM a while back and I've bought a few myself since.
I'll make a list of what I have when I get back in a couple of weeks and will have a look round to see if anything takes my fancy (games, that is :rolleyes: ) in the meantime.
Thanks hun :)
Stan :)
I played (almost from start to finish) The Minish Cap on my GBA when I was on holiday, I started over cos I couldnt kill the baddy (lol, baddy :D)
Flibster
31-07-2006, 17:08
The thing with Serious Sam is that it's anything but serious ;D
That game had me in stitches.
To me, it felt like the spiritual successor to Duke Nukem 3d...
Non-stop fighting and comedy with some extremely funny weapons. :D
Simon/~Flibster
I have quite a few games at home that I haven't even looked at - I bought 2 separate bundles in the MM a while back and I've bought a few myself since.
I'll make a list of what I have when I get back in a couple of weeks and will have a look round to see if anything takes my fancy (games, that is :rolleyes: ) in the meantime.
Thanks hun :)
Stan :)
Np :)
Creature
31-07-2006, 18:55
I'm god awful with completing games. I've only ever completed a couple of lord of the rings games, and I must have played well over 300 games. So that's 11/300 games completed. Hmmm, and i'm not mentioning the other games i've completed, too much shame :embarassed:
Right then Stan.
Got a small pile of games for you :D wasn't entirely sure what would be good for you so just figured if I did a load of games, you're bound to like a few :p
You have:
Serious Sam
Serious Sam 2
Unreal Tournament
Unreal Tournament 2004
GTA: Vice City
F.E.A.R
Farcry
Painkiller
Call of Duty
Any others you want? Got a few games like Age of Empires and Empire Earth but not sure if that's your kind of thing :)
Oh and Quake 3 Arena.
Can throw in a disc full of old SNES games and an emulator if you want too :)
I find that if I have too many games to play at once, then my attention span drifts between them and none of them actually end up getting played thoroughly.
I try to limit myself to having 2 games on the go at once now, and that seems to work ok :)
I think I need to own less games to make that work for me :/
Be buying less games very soon though. In fact I think the only one I'm buying next is because of HMV vouchers from work.
It's not good when you search through a pile of games and find games you don't remember having :embarassed:
Creature
14-08-2006, 15:34
Next to me I have a pile of games that I have bought in the last year, and it's almost as high as my knee. :embarassed:
Stan_Lite
14-08-2006, 21:03
Right then Stan.
Got a small pile of games for you :D wasn't entirely sure what would be good for you so just figured if I did a load of games, you're bound to like a few :p
You have:
Serious Sam
Serious Sam 2
Unreal Tournament
Unreal Tournament 2004
GTA: Vice City
F.E.A.R
Farcry
Painkiller
Call of Duty
Any others you want? Got a few games like Age of Empires and Empire Earth but not sure if that's your kind of thing :)
I already have Unreal Tournament 2004 and Painkiller (not played either yet).
Not really a big fan of AoE type games but if you can bring the others mentioned, I'd be most grateful.
I have located some DDR RAM in my collection for you - I think you'll be pleasantly surprised :)
Stan :)
Aww ty :) Have to pay you towards the ram though, it's not fair otherwise!
Stan_Lite
14-08-2006, 21:16
Aww ty :) Have to pay you towards the ram though, it's not fair otherwise!
If you even try, I'll never speak to you again :angry:
You're doing me a big favour and you will be doing so a lot more in the future - I will be pestering you incessantly on MSN for tips and advice, due to me being a gaming noooooooooooob :p
Stan :)
Never speak to me again? :eek:
Alright then :p
Nps helping with advice or supplying you with more games when I get them though :) Always willing to talk games :D
Stan_Lite
14-08-2006, 21:28
Never speak to me again? :eek:
Alright then :p
Nps helping with advice or supplying you with more games when I get them though :) Always willing to talk games :D
I'm sure you'll be a great help and I look forward to getting to know you better through the gaming advice :)
If I can get it on the plane, I'll bring the M1710 for you to have a look at at the BBQ - it rawks :cool:
Stan :)
Cool, hopefully you can get it on there :D
They allow laptop bags on planes now, and I want to see it too. :p
I finally got around to getting my Painkiller CDs out the other week (thanks Daz), but it objected to the onboard graphics on Mac Mini (which should be more than capable of playing it. :(). I need to have a purge of all my hard disks and get rid of loads of crap, then I might have room to install it somewhere else. :(
Stan_Lite
14-08-2006, 23:25
They allow laptop bags on planes now, and I want to see it too. :p
I finally got around to getting my Painkiller CDs out the other week (thanks Daz), but it objected to the onboard graphics on Mac Mini (which should be more than capable of playing it. :(). I need to have a purge of all my hard disks and get rid of loads of crap, then I might have room to install it somewhere else. :(
So I believe :cool:
Gotta love the 7900 Go - I've yet to try something on it that it can't handle with everything turned up to the max.
Going to try Oblivion on it tomorrow (if I get that stupid bloody Ultra-D working, that is :angry: ).
Stan :)
7900 Go? Nice!
My desktop pc isn't even near that good with a 6800le in it :p
Stan_Lite
14-08-2006, 23:41
7900 Go? Nice!
My desktop pc isn't even near that good with a 6800le in it :p
The laptop is better than my gaming rig and it's an X2 4400+ (ocd to 2600) with an X1800XT - it kicks it's arse :shocked: :cool:
Stan :)
Dymetrie
15-08-2006, 06:46
Gotta love the 7900 Go - I've yet to try something on it that it can't handle with everything turned up to the max.
Stan :)
Farcry... on full settings :P
I always find I end up owning loads of games (Although guess that will change once I'm jobless :D) yet only completing a small percentage of them. I tend to play through to a certain stage then get stuck or bored, and go play another game and so on.
I don't think it's down to how many games I have because I've always been like it as long as I can remember. Although I do know I have a terrible attention span and get bored easily (Lately I've been watching films while playing on the DS and I still seem to be able to concentrate fine on both, doing just one gets boring :undecided: ).
Just wondered if anyone else is like it :)
I'm hoping once I have no income so I have very little chance of buying myself games, that it provokes me into completing my back catalogue. That's exactly like me, it takes a really special game to get me interested throughout, off the top of my head, the Baldurs Gate games really stand out as that was a lot of hours! I really enjoyed playing Halo & Halo 2 through to the end as well, and also Baldurs Gate on the console was good fun as my friend & I played it all the way through. Oh and Tony Hawk as well for sheer addictive annoyingness!!! Unfortunately don't really have time at the moment to play many games and really get into them, also living arrangement isn't really conducive to sitting down and playing games (1 TV, flatmate is crap at games so multiplayer's out..) :(
Have got so many Xbox games that I never play that I've picked up pre-owned in Gamestation for pennies!
Hoping once me x360 arrives and I move into a flat with a few more people who are better at games (:p) then should get a bit more into gaming again! :D
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