So Many Games I Wanna Play... But I Also Don't Wanna Play Them

[Juan-ton_Soup]

It's the classic, "I have a Steam library full of games, but nothing to play." In my case, I WANT to play these games. I have so many great titles like Dishonored 2, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Metro 2033, etc. Yet, I have no motivation to play them. There's a desire, but at the same time, another chemical reaction pulling in the opposite direction.

I'm not looking for advice on how to fix this problem. I just want to comment on it. I'm seeing more and more people develop this issue. When I was a kid, I put in that disc and played the hell out of it. No game would be free from my attention. I enjoyed everything I got.

The issue is quite strange. Even the titles I love or thoroughly enjoy will, at a sudden moment, be dropped due to some immediate disinterest.

[Juan-ton_Soup]

I have three of those "Will Play Later When I Have Time™" lists.

[Inside_Smoke]

It the paradox of choice. we are spoiled these days.

[Rainbow Devourer]

I have the exactly same thing going on. Way too many games have been assigned to my Will Play Later When I Have Time™-list.

Somehow I just find myself playing older games over again. Or worse still, watching a playthrough of them...

[Noobc0re]

I go through phases of what I want to play. So at any one time I'm only into a fraction of my library. Add to that once I get into something I'm not looking to play anything else. Then to add even more there is the comfort of games you know you love. They're good games that I want to play, so naturally that leaves less time and will for playing the backlog.

For example, currently I'm hard into Warframe, that's what I want to play, so I'm not looking at the other games I have becasue I'm having fun being a space ninja. Before that it was R6-Siege, before that Iron Sight, and so on and so on...

[Juan-ton_Soup]

Oh my gosh, I'll mod a game for days, like Skyrim. I'll download hundreds of mods. When it comes to finishing it, I'll play the game for two hours, and won't pick it up again. I don't know why I enjoy fixing incompatibilities, downloading patches, etc. so much.

[JackofTears]

I believe they call that an embarrassment of riches, you have so many options that individually they lose their luster. Playing a new game was exciting when only one game worth playing was released a year and you had to pre-order and then stand in line to get it. During an age when you'd usually buy a game and play it through several times, until something else worth playing emerged. These days, however, there is a smorgasbord of good games available all the time - so they're no longer that special.

[Elmo]

Totally sympathise, nearly 500 games and i'd rather buy another game than play the ones I have.

What happens to me is i look at the list of my games and imagine playing the game in my head. So my virtual playing in my head thinks i will get bored with the game, but when i actually play i start having fun.

It's the pre-empting what the game is like and how i play it in my mind that stops me playing it. It's like looking at a label of a game after playing it once and pretending playing it only to pretend getting bored of it and of the challenge.

I need to snap out of the habit of imagining the game and actually play it.

Also I'd prefer to make a mod for a game for others than play the game I'm modding.