This month, I bought 226 PC games for C$185.82 ($134.58)

Now are those a lot of games? Yes, it’s a silly amount of games. Perhaps I’m addicted to good deals that deliver fun.

We all have a vice, and this is mine. I don’t drink, or smoke, or gamble – but I buy lots and lots of video games.

Though back when I was a console gamer, I’d might get eight games for that price – if I were lucky.

  • oceanAEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    I don’t get this, though. Less than 200 games in your life? How? Are you a baby? Do you play games for thousands of hours on a regular basis?

    Huh? Is calling them a baby supposed to be an insult? 200 games in 30 years would be a lot of games. It’s not like one buy a new game everyday. 6-10 games a year would already be a lot. Most find the handful they like and continually play them.

    I own thousands of games and my most played games are in the thousands of hours, but if I boot up a game and play an hour of or two it I’m more than happy with that purchase, especially at a discount price. I spent twenty bucks last time I went to the movies and I didn’t even enjoy any part of what I watched.

    I’ve never seen the phrase “touch grass” be more appropriate ;)

    • MudMan@fedia.io
      4·
      3 days ago

      No, no, not an insult. Like, literally are they a very young person and so 200 games is all they had the time to get around to. Like the OP I have thousands of games because it’s been decades of building them up. Even just on Steam I’ve had what, twenty years? Just my Humble Bundle subscription has probably spat out more than 200 games, just because it’s been on for long enough.

      If you’re young you have less disposable income and less time, so you don’t have time to build up a library and you have more time to spend with each thing you get.

      I mean, I still had what? 30/50 Mega Drive games by the end of that generation, and those were, inflation adjusted, maybe what, 200 bucks each?

      For the record, I touched grass yesterday and that movie sucked.

    • atomicpoet@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      There are at least 200 games at my local arcade. Few people beat them—and no one bats an eye at this fact.

      I don’t see why PC games should be any different.

      Is my intent to beat each game or is it just to have fun?

      • MudMan@fedia.io
        1·
        3 days ago

        That’s a pretty big arcade. There were maybe a couple dozen in my go-to, if that.

        I wonder if that’s where the generational thing comes from. I definitely sunk a lot of money in machines where I never got that far. Of the assortment I had access to in arcades I saw the end of story mode in maybe a handful. I was quite proud of 1cc-ing Double Dragon once. Otherwise it was considered to be a waste of money to dump money in continues. You’d play the first two stages of Metal Slug a million times and never see past them and everybody thought that was just how gaming was supposed to work.