I don’t know about most people, but I have way too many games stacked up that I have not had enough time to play. Take Bioshock for instance… the demo was great and it got great reviews so I picked it up a week after launch. I got into it a little bit but got busy and never dove too far into the story since I was a little busy at the time. Then comes Halo 3 - which took all of my attention for a while. Fast forward to today - still need to finish Bioshock.
What great games do you have on the shelf that are still unfinished?
Garrett says: Guilty as charged… I didn’t finish Bioshock either. I also have to admit that I didn’t finish GRAW either. I think once a newer, shinier game comes to town, the other games start to seem far less shiny, even though you dropped sixty bucks on the “old one” just the same. Did you at least beat Gears?
Scott says: Looks like your memory is failing - you helped me beat the boss on Gears via co-op… That guy was pretty tough - I did take like a 7 month break between getting to the boss and actually beating him. Never beat the last guy on the original Metroid Prime though…
Garrett says: Ah, yes. Now I remember. And your seven-month break is nothing compared to my two-year vacation from the Halo 2 campaign between 2004 and last fall when I finally beat it with Matt. Split-screen co-op is so 2004.
December 11th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
I think that right now the sheer ridiculous volume of new titles on the market, coupled with everyday necessities like eating, and sleeping (at least a little) makes everyone feel like they don’t have enough time for games. One of the bloggers on the X3F fancast summed it up pretty well when he said that game companies think there are basically only four Tuesdays in a year to release games on and they all happen between September and December. Part of my problem was moving to a new house, but there were a couple weeks in November where I didn’t play a tenth of my normal game time and I had two completely new and unplayed games sitting on my shelf. Interestingly, one of those games happened to be Kane and Lynch–a game I had been waiting for all year. I won’t go so far as to say it should have stayed unplayed, but I have reached the point at which I want to stop playing what is essentially Heat 2: The Bloodening. If I put it back in my 360 at the expense of COD4–it will only be so I can finish it and trade it in faster.
On an unrelated note–Scott your avatar or comment icon or whatever it is–is awesome. Kal-El FTW!
December 11th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
Yeah, I mean, shit, I haven’t even had the time to get COD4… If I get that in 2 weeks, will anyone even play it with me?
December 12th, 2007 at 12:14 am
I don’t want to admit it, but I have COD4 and only managed to get it out of the box so far - the holidays have just been too busy. Started playing Mass Effect - pretty cool once I figured out the film grain effect was something you could turn off and not my 1080p sucking. Anyway, when you get COD4 I will hop on and play.
Oh, and Kal-El FTW indeed! That icon turned out really nice - special thx to Garrett for getting that setup - and everything else on the site
It is also worth noting that the extra life Garrett is sporting may come in handy one day - clever choice there as well.
December 12th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
I’ll still be on COD4 then too. Everyone I know that plays it lapped me during my downtime so now I’m trying to build up rank–don’t know if I want to go the prestige route though–where you actually start over and can re-rank up like 10 times or something.
Scott–how is Mass Effect? Would you recommend it to someone who has never played a MMORPG or even a plain vanilla RPG?
I do suggest you both finish Bioshock when you get a change though–the reviews weren’t lying.
December 12th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Mass Effect looks pretty cool so far, but I have not played it enough to give my recommendation or not. I will post about it in a few days once I can get some more play time in. It has shooter elements so you might like it. The cool part is the choose your own adventure style of RPG - you really do shape the story individually.