Flamekebab

Last year I felt like the only films being released were sequels, spinoffs, or remakes. I’ve not checked this year so far because last year crushed my spirit on that front.

Gods forbid we make new IPs.

As long as you’re enjoying your gaming time, you’re doing it right!

Optimising the fun out of it is an own-goal.

That only holds true if the price doesn’t vary over time.

To be fair, FoMO can be justified. That multiplayer game isn’t going to be worth playing in five years time. That game that has cool new tech isn’t going to dazzle once things move on, etc…

I have something in the region of a thousand games collected over about twenty years. If the price is good and it looks like I might like it (and I can afford to fritter the money away) then I buy it.

That’s a thousand (ish) opportunities for entertainment, not a thousand (ish) obligations.

I buy games to have a library to pull from when the mood takes me. If I finished them all then I would no longer have that, which seems bad.

The reward for finishing a “backlog” of games is having nothing more to play. That’s like trying to finish a meal in a restaurant quickly to get to the after dinner mint.

I despise treating gaming as an obligation like this. I have a collection of games, not a “backlog”.