My bulk of logged game time has been spent on the following: Fallout: New Vegas, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and Fistful of Frags. F:NV goes on sale five times a year at a hefty discount (though I recommend picking up F3:GOTY to make Tale of Two Wastelands), GTA:SA has so many good mods to bring it up to 2013 standards, and Fistful of Frags is free.
360 games in my library and I play just three.
I have sooo much ‘playtime’ on ClickerHeroes. I make no excuses for it but the pure distillation of clickkill RPG amuses the heck out me. 2nd on the list is TF2 which I should play more often.
Whatever bugaboo with the nvidia driver that was making Borderlands The Pre-Sequel bog down on me appears to be fixed so my play time with that should go up. I so love that game world. Also so many things they did with the player characters and NPCs like all kinds of body types, being gay, etc. which is just really awesome icing on the cake of the sci-fi/weird west mash up that is totally my thing.
Just saw this article. Seemed relevent.
https://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2017/05/does-valve-really-own-dota/?amp=1
If you like the Borderlands games, and haven’t already, check out Tales from the Borderlands. If you’re familiar with Telltale Games, it absolutely one of those, but it’s also well written and genuinely funny.
I have a copy and am just past 3/5ths through… I am so easily distracted. I love that they got Patrick Warburton to voice one of the bad guys.
If you really want to feel bad about it, try using one of the sites that calculates the cost of the games in your library. (https://steamdb.info/calculator as an example).
On the bright side, that calculator says I’ve only spent about $8 per hour of game time. So, not too horrible… but, still, roughly half the games in my library are unplayed.
At one point I spent over 1200 USD on games in a single year. OK, some of that was donations to the 0 AD project. But that’s still a lot of money on games I never play. (Don’t get me started on my physical game collection, which sits in four drawers of a converted dresser)
Still cheaper than weed.
If I ever saw my total $'s spent on weed I would need to sit down and smoke a joint. Somethings are best not known.
That’s not counting all the accessories and replaced broken glass.
On the plus side games and weed pair well.
Shit, it gets much easier when you use “one pint” as a comparative measure of total cost vs time enjoyed.
In the UK, a pint is about £3.50 ($5 USD). In Singapore, a pint costs S$15 ($10 USD). Every time I look at a potential game purchase, I think “will this give me more enjoyment than the equivalent cost of booze in a pub?”
In Singapore, that actually means “does it have a pretty opening intro?”…
I use the Ice Cream Bucket metric. An Ice Cream bucket costs 7.99 CAD, and makes six servings (I have large bowls). A game has to provide at least 6 hours of fun for every 8 dollars in price or I won’t purchase it. This has led to excessive bundle purchases…
I still have a bunch of Terraria in my steam inventory.
According to my profile under the Steam Calculator, I have 140 games with 30 of them having more than 12 hours of play time. I’m actually OK with this as I usually only buy during sales, so my “price per hour” isn’t bad. I can also say that I’ve had games sit there unplayed for months (or longer!) before I got around to trying them. One of those is my top played game, with over 300 hours!
https://steamdb.info/calculator/76561198103076183/
Bow in shame before my backlog.
Er, I mean… Age of Empires 1 demo multiplayer, anybody?
Ok, but let’s just say you’ve got some catching up to do in the spending department. *sigh*
For all wondering how to play their Steam collection offline, I use this:
It’s pretty damn handy for playing your legit stuff in an offline environment and the only way to play Fistful of Frags in an offline LAN party. Bonus: it’s the only way to run Civ 3 (Steam Version) without it eating the CPU. :shrug:
So we’re doing this?
Should we split this into a new thread?
Or link it to
This is mine - I’m a lightweight
Bad juju. I have the Civ 3 Gold Collection on CD. It is very moderate in CPU draw.
Heh, didn’t mean to derail. I’ve been trying to think of something to say about the article, but it seems to have a lot of unrelated things thrown together, and all seeming to argue against a strawman of Valve being a great, giving company that’s a friend to all. The bit about slashing payments to workshop creators and not being good at support ring true, but they’re kind of swamped by the general attempt to complain about everything.
(I say “strawman” just because I’ve never seen anyone arguing what this article seems to be in opposition to, but maybe I just don’t frequent the right places. Valve’s made some awesome games, and created some extremely engaging and interactive marketing methods, but they’re still just this company, ya’know?)
I opted for a new topic, as it’s more about what we aren’t playing than what we are.
Late to this, but I’m not shocked it is being picked apart.
Valve also does zippo to combat g2a on top of promoting and condoning illegal gambling targeted at minors. Valve as a company is… well a company. And that’s the point of the (obviously hyperbolic) article, Valve has a fanbase that will defend it despite the obvious flaws they have as the company expands and attracts the corporate types that are motivated by something entirely different than what their PR says.
I also share a similar sentiment that Valve is not healthy for gaming - but that is to say the video game industry has been so exploitative and abusive post crash that Valve is probably the best of the big companies. I use Steam nearly exclusively with no guilt, and the changes to reviews and refunds recently have been huge steps forward.
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Also, Enter the Gungeon is on 50% sale. It is amazing.