Do you play all or most of the games in your collection?

[Guru]

Hey all.
 
First off I'm new to both the forum and collecting as a whole, but that being said I am already in love with both.
My question to you all is do you play all the games that you add to your collection? I understand that a lot of you out there have hundreds to thousands of games and there's no way to either complete or consistently play them all. But when you pick up a new game you haven't had before, do you always pop it in and give it a little try?

My main collections at the moment are N64, original Xbox, and Xbox 360. I have been steadily building my collection at Gamestop recently with their under $5 bin and I will pick up any game (besides sports or racing) that I either haven't heard of or haven't played. Sometimes I will leave with 10+ games and I don't end up playing them. I do plan on playing some, but others I know I won't play but I just like having it in the collection.

What do you guys do I would love to know

[Addicted]

Welcome to the site!

As I'm sure most others will say I try to play as much as possible. Lately I've been trying to limit my collecting to games I know I will play. If you haven't already check out the latest RFGen podcast as it covers this topic:

http://rfgenerationcollectorcast.podomatic.com/

[Disposed Hero]

I buy all or most of my games with the intention of actually playing them someday, but that's pretty much impossible at this point.  I consider myself an equal opportunity gamer, so I like to play almost anything from almost every genre.  Once my game collection hit about 1100-1200 individual physical titles (not including the other 1000 or so I own digitally), I came to the realization that I already own more games than I could ever play in a lifetime, and I'm constantly getting more through various means.  I've recently been 'trimming the fat' from my collection, getting rid of games that I know I'll never play (random sports titles and just generally bad games), or games I've played before that I know I'll never want to play again.

That said, I usually don't just pop a game in for a few minutes and try it out when I first get it.  I may pop it in to test it to make sure it works, but I'm not really playing it to sample the gameplay.

[MaterialHandlerMike]

Like Disposed Hero, I try out almost every loose game, when I get them home. That being said, I do have a few sealed games now, some I have no intention of ever playing.

[Boshamp]

I would say about 90% of my collection is unplayed...sadly, there are a lot of great and rare games I have never played. I just don't have the time I used to to play games.

[Techie413]

After being asked many times by people about what percentage of my collection I have actually played, I decided to spend some time increasing that number.  After finally completing my game room organization, I began running through my SNES drawers - A to Z.  I'm up to D, and I've already considered letting some titles go while realizing how good other titles are.

[slackur]

Yep.

[InvadErGII]

All or most?

Nope.

[Dangerboy]

That may never be possible...

[SirPsycho]

That may never be possible...

Hey its because of your videos that I am now on the warpath to getting a copy of Fox Hunt.

[Dangerboy]

SirPsycho: Worth every penny

[zcrich01]

I'm not even close to playing all of my games. I suppose I've played more of my PS2/Genesis games than anything else, but I've probably played less than 15% of the 1800+ games I own. There's a certain point where your collection is just too large to ever have any possibility of playing everything.

[TheSaintOfPain]

Out of the approximately 750 or so games I currently own, I've really played maybe about 50% of them, but I have tested all of them, something I do with every item I get.  It's hard to find time to play everything, especially when you're raising a nephew, working 6 weeknights a week, and usually busy with doctor's appointments and other important stuff on your day off.    Because of all of that, I tend to play quick and easy games in my collection if I find the time, and it's usually games I've already played through at least once, mostly for convenience.  The last game I've recently played that I hadn't before is Red Dead Redemption, and I'm not very far into that at the moment.

[techwizard]

50% out of 750 games? that's pretty impressive actually, i think i'm in the <15% group myself with less games than that

[Boshamp]

Agreed. Out of 2200 games, claiming I have played 10% of them might even be a stretch. You would be doing well above me at half of your collection or even just 300 games. I really hope I can play more of my stuff, and having family over more will hopefully be the start of that.