Yeah. Backlogs exist. But I think us game hoarders are doing future gamers a service by archiving copies of games that will no longer exist in five, ten years. (Try finding an original copy of GTA: SA now - it’s hard)
I’ve actually spent far less - either from bundles, freebies, giveaways or using Steambucks from trading cards (I have to give Valve credit there, for creating something fundamentally useless like trading cards and finding a way to make money from it).
Then of course there’s my Playstation backlog, GOG/Origin/Uplay accounts and who knows what else…
I’m getting pretty good VFM there. I have really latched onto a few games.
I also noticed it thinks I spent 2 minutes playing Half-Life 2… but I’ve been through the campaign three times, and then once more in the enhanced edition.
I can’t help but think that a perverse metric could be derived from the total time played, over hours lived. A true ‘proportion of life wasted’ score.
(Of course, my inner optimist points out that time spent on leisure, active entertainment, and ‘recharging the mental batteries’, is in no way actually wasted. But that’s less fun )
here’s mine. As you can see, I have saved BUNCHES from doing bundles and sales.
I give them props for that. I have gotten enough cards that I converted to Steambucks that I could probably have gotten GTA V at full price without paying any actual money.
Oh yes, I have that same issue. I do like that GOG allows you to link to Steam now. Just wish more publishers were down with that.
Been playing Company of Heroes “2” a lot.
I downloaded and started the Talos Principle this weekend. It’s a bunch of nicely skinned logic puzzles, dressed up in this really pretentious narrative. So far.