Upper 1% i guess...

I got less than 1 dozen Steam games... and most (for example Dragon Quest XI, Hades... and some more) are DRM free or made DRM free (FF7 is unlocked by a mod, i could care less if they cant feel arsed bringing it over here), so i actually are not even using it anymore, and it is just here in order to get a few DRM free games not available on GoG, very rare. Steam does not even matter on those anymore, they are not launcher-bound anymore.

Maybe if i have interest into Online games Steam may be more interesting, although i simply lack the time for this and i can still use my PS5... with the actually only (free) Online game i currently (sporadically) play... PSO2.

Apart from that, there is close to 300 DRM-free-games (mainly GoG installed) and i own above 300 console games on many platforms... including above 20 on my PS5 (some are PS5 only, but the majority is used as a "Steam-alternative", in term it is not available DRM free). I will even get a shiny BD, more than half of them with a Steelbook (i try to always get one, unfortunately not always possible),... somehow i still enjoy "the good old times"...

So, enough to play, this is certain... no lack of games. I already got more to play than i could ever realistically tackle... so i am nowadays very picky for my game-collection.

The last console that i owned was the PS2. Since 2006, i only buy games for the PC because its much cheaper. Mainly thanks to Humble monthly bundles (annual black friday deal $89) and other cheap bundle sites. My annual gaming budget is only about $125. Playing on consoles would be much more expensive. Also, i mostly play FPS, so i prefer the mouse/keyboard.

I was at a point where I was spending more time trying to collect video games rather than actually playing them. Nowadays, I spend less time keeping up with upcoming games and more time playing the games I already own.


Which games I choose largely depends on my mood and the genres I favor.

Off topic, but every so often I wonder about it and do some searches... Any recommendations for particularly good free ones?

I have a playthrough of Morrowind I abandoned halfway (let's call it that, no idea how much was left really). I keep promising myself I'll return to it one day, but it's been years, and I coming back I would be so lost I don't know if I'd be able to continue. But I really don't feel like starting over. I had lots of fun with it, but in the end I think it's just too big and meandering to finish.

Same, at least for the first part. Started in 2008, suddenly abandoned after a while, returned to it in 2012, but I knew exactly where I was and what I was doing, continued for a while, but more to train and explore than advance the story, but just got way too sick of all the respawns and being impossible to sell stuff at their real value, with so limited gold at vendors, and gave up again, and haven't picked it up since despite saying that I wanted to time and time again... Admittedly, it's been quite a number of years since I even specifically said that I meant to continue, but... maybe someday. At which point I'll definitely need to really try to stick to advancing the story and hope I will manage to get to the end before getting unbearably fed up of those two issues again, to be able to say that I finished it and that's it.

Man, that got downright hilarious for me. By the time I quit my home in Balmora, this average little house, became this insane armory that would make Thror and Thrain weep of jelousy, all that super valuable stuff I had no hope of selling, not that I much needed to I guess, I was already hauling some economy crashing amount of gold with me.

Yeah, I kinda wish I didn't get sidetracked so much, maybe I would have finished the main story then and I could consider the game completed. But I was already getting bored, so I went to that island that's really more Skyrim than Morrowind because it was different, that got me playing for some time more, but eventually that novelty ran out too, and now my character is somewhere on that island, in the middle of some convoluted quest, the main storyline abandoned so long ago I wouldn't even know if it hugged me shouting "I'm the main storyline!".

I play between 0 and 2 games through completion every year. And that is despite my main activity actually consisting of trying to make games run flawlessly, and most of my awake time being spent in front of a computer. If I keep completing them at this pace, I have bought enough games already to last me through the next 2 000 years (not a joke, even if it sounds like one).

In 2023 I think I completed 1 game: Grim Dawn. Base game only, without the expansions. And only the first difficulty level. I hope I will find enough time for a second game before the end of the year ;)

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There is no such thing as a DRM-free Steam game.

I look through my games and if I think about playing it I remember the least fun memories from that game and I get repelled by it.

But then I start playing a game and have tons of fun so i guess the solution is just click on a game...

I don't think it's necessary to get hungup on this. When it's not a game that needs to be cracked and the process is essentially copying files it's so trivial as to not matter.

For all the talk of "So what, I'll have games to play until I die", this thread brings up an interesting counter-argument. Despite how we want it to be, (our perceptions of) games are affected by time.
Playing an incredible game near its release is usually (barring bugs and things that need to be fixed) a far better experience than playing it 10 years later.

People talking about Morrowind here is a perfect example. I played it relatively near its release, and loved it, and can still love and enjoy it today. I can totally understand, however, that people trying it today for the first time would not enjoy the experience as much.

It was the same for me with many games I tried years after release, when the world had moved on to easier interfaces, game design concepts, etc. I just couldn't get very far into the Last Express, for example. Or Gothic games. And while I played Dragon Age: Origins around the time it came out, it didn't stick, and when I tried it again a year or two ago, I just couldn't wrap my head around the way the game plays.

To some extent true, but for me only in some rare and rather extreme cases. My above mentioned playthrough of Morrowind, which was also my first one (and without mods), I started in 2016. I played Fallout 1 for the first time in something like 2012 or 2013, and still enjoyed the hell out of it. Same for the first Lands of Lore, and I absolutely loved that one. Unreal 1 I played for the first time in 2018 or 2019. Still had a blast.

Sure, there are some games that have aged too much even for me - the Ultima games for example, or even the first Warcraft, which is just a chore to play now. But looking at my backlog and wishlist I really don't think any title there has an "expiration date" for me.

Depends on the languages you know since i played both german and english rpg maker games. I will pm you soon after you tell me if you preffer english only or also german

It honestly doesn't bug me, I've come to terms that I'll start most games, lose interest in them after a handful of hours and abondon my playthrough...and go back to one of my 'regular' games. :P