How many games do you tend to play at once?

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I don't mean like a Dreamcast with your hands and a SNES with your feet, whilst using the rest of your body to play on the EyeToy - how many longterm games do you have on the go at one time?

I'm awful for this and always forget what I'm trying to finish when I'm starting and endless string of new games. I started Snake Eater in the summer and still have every intention of finishing it, but since then I've started tons of new games, most of which I haven't finished. I only started "Price of Persia: The Sands of Time" yesterday and in ten minutes I'm about to start Shenmue.

Is this normal? Does anyone here just stick with one game until they've completed it? If not, do you try to finish all the ones you start, or at least take note of them?

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 19 December 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

2-3. Depends on my mood.

― kingfish holiday travesty (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

ONE. I say I'll go back and finish game A when I start game B, but it never happens. If I break momentum, it's over.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

i find it hard to switch between games. if i'm playing something, i'm PLAYING it. it's rare that i play more than one game at a time, i guess when i'm involved in a game, i'm kinda dedicated to it until i finish it or get distracted by some other game, in which case it's highly unlikely i'll ever return to the first one. i'm strange!

― snowkitten (g-kit), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

i'm the same way snowkitten, i only play one game at a time. Well sometimes I work on a DS/GBA game at the same time i'm playing a non- portable game but that's the extent of my mixing. I find that if I leave a game and start something else when I come back to the original game I experience a few hours of total sucking, unless it's an RPG and then instead of sucking I just have no idea where to go and what's happening in the story etc.

― matt_w, Tuesday, 20 December 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Right at the moment, I have FF:Tactics in the PS2 as usual (I really am going to beat it one day, or at least get to chapter 3 on my own). Fire Emblem and Zelda: Four Swords/Link To The Past are in the DS, rotating out as I get frustrated with one or the other.

If my laptop was still in working order, I'd probably have at least one SNES ROM going on and off.

I only ever play long-term games! It's because I have no friends. I wish the Revolution would hurry up.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 20 December 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

I usually keep a few going at once. Currently, it's We Love Katamari, Colossus, Rez, or Mario Kart DS a couple times a week, and some SNES ROM (FF4, Seiken Densetsu 3, Chrono Trigger, Mario All-Stars) maybe once or twice a month.

I loved FF Tactics but never did manage to finish it. Then I got FF Tactics Advance and the same exact thing happened.

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

Dude you totally should finish FFTA, it's much more manageable and I can only remember like 1 or 2 points where I got briefly stymied. Playing FFT after beating FFTA is a little aggravating because they fixed so many problems in the sequel! e.g. if you need to grind a random encounter you don't have to keep wandering around the map wasting time, you can just chase down a clan, and you can use job skills while learning them, instead of having to switch into a job where you have no abilities.

Have you ever played Terranigma? It's essential.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 20 December 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

There have been times in the past when I have committed to one game and one alone (usually all-consuming RPG/adventure games) but other than that I tend to run 2-3 games at a time. Right now for example I'm playing Metroid: Zero Mission, Donkey Konga 2, and Warcraft III. Basically games you can pick up and put down relatively easily, esp. games that are mission-based.

― Laura H. (laurah), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, I think I will get back into FFTA soon actually. One reason I'd stopped was because I was tired of playing on my old GBA with no backlight, but the DS solves that problem.

I haven't played Terranigma, but I liked Illusion of Gaia and I guess they're related somehow.

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― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

FFTA is awesome, I would certainly recommend finishing it. I recently finished the campaign mode on Advance Wars: DS and that was great too.

I'm currently working on the gamecube version of Resident Evil 4, and I just finished Metroid: Zero Mission and Astro Boy for the GBA.

― matt_w, Tuesday, 20 December 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

I'm playing CIV IV and BF2 at the moment, you can't actually finish them. You just win or lose (or in the case of CIV IV get mocked by a computer)

― Hofftentimer, Tuesday, 20 December 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

I can only really play one game, per system, at a time. Like Matt said, I can play one game on lets say PS2, and something else on DS.

But actually, I think it really depends on whether the game is a "story" game, or whether it's just pick up and play stuff. I could play many different FPS online multiplayer games within a couple of days because they don't need to follow on in the same way that playing Resident Evil 4 would.

― Savage Monkey (savagemonkey), Thursday, 22 December 2005 09:22 (twenty years ago)

Normally one story-line game and a whole bunch of pick up and play games. At the moment I'm playing Dragon Quest VIII, but I still mix it up with some Pro Evo 5, We Love Katamari. Oh yeah, and I guess I've been frequently playing Tetris for about the last 8 years, so there's always at least that and a 'proper' game.

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Thursday, 22 December 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)

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