Do you ever feel bad about playing one game over the other?

Do you ever feel like you should be playing some game you recently purchased, yet you always end up playing something you have beaten a million times?

It happens to me all the time. What made me think of it was that I recently bought the PSP remake of Mega Man X,I wasn't really interested in the remake all that much but I wanted to round out an Amazon order for free shipping. When it got here I was right in the middle of FFXIII. So I beat it, then went back to FFXIII. Then I played it on hard, and went back to FFXIII. Now I am done with FFXIII and I have the following games on my shelf I have been looking to get to:
White Knight Chronicles
Metal Gear Solid 4
Lost Odyssey
Fable II
Blue Dragon
Eternal Sonata

and what am I doing? Playing another playthrough of Mega Man X.

This isn't a thread about new vs old games, but more about you feeling you should be playing one game, but always seem to end up playing something else.

I've still got Strange Journey, Atelier Annie, and Endless Frontier to finish and yet I've started by 3rd game on Sakura Wars and still screw around on Heart Gold than play those. In my defense Eridanus is a really annoying map.

Right after purchasing Dissidia and Persona, I got FFVIII on my PSP. Guess which one I sat down and played xD

>>> You people have way too much money to waste in games that you dont even care about..:luca:
(SPOILER)I HATE YOU ALL!

Yes. I bought Dragon Quest VIII over a hear ago and can only seem to manage to play it for like a day and then not again for like five months. . . . So . . . And then I bought DQ IV and . . . haven't played it since the day I bought it. In the meantime I've played and finished FF IV: The After Years, New Super Mario Wii, Guardian of Paradise, Legend of Spyro: Eternal Night.

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Originally Posted by black orb

>>> You people have way too much money to waste in games that you dont even care about..:luca:
(SPOILER)I HATE YOU ALL!

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Funny thing is all I want is to work less so I can have more free time to play video games. One of those money =/= happiness scenarios.

And the whole point of this thread is we feel bad spending money on these games we don't end up playing :p

>>> Give all those games to me, Im a lazy bum who doesnt have job so I have plenty of time to beat all of them..:) :luca:

Or come and do my job for me a day or two a week so I have time to stay home and play games.

I've had FFXIII since release date, and I've only beaten Chapter 1. I played God of War 3, then I had Darksiders sitting un-opened... (which I am on the final boss), before that I had been playing White Knight Chronicles like crazy. Now I have Monster Hunter Tri coming soon, and since I will probably start actually playing FFXIII now, I doubt I'll get to that for awhile!

Not to mention that someone got me Modern Warfare 2 for christmas, and I have yet to open it.

THE JACKEL

I'm in the same camp as people not playing FFXIII, though for me I really have to set aside time so I can fully get into it... which is easier said than done at the end of the school semester with a lot of stuff on my plate. The gaming I've done lately has been more things that I can pick up and play in short bursts. It makes me feel a little bad, but I'm still making time for it when I can.

I ended up tripling my PS2 collection in the last year since so many of them dropped down to the $9.99 range. I've started most of them but school got in the way and the only games I've really been playing through have been P3, P4, and Dissidia.

I'm swearing off all my console titles til I finish XIII but good god is SMT: Nocturne and Shinobi are calling my name. Not to mention XIII reminds me so much of the Xenosaga series that I've been fighting the urge to start through the trilogy again. I've also been in the mood to play through Xenogears again since I've been doing a bit of the retro games lately. God I wish school was over... and that my boss would cut my hours again. :cry:

My boyfriend has bought me tons of games I've never finished for that exact reason...I always end up going back to replay my old favorites. He loves to make me feel bad about it. But I don't care :p

I'll get around to finishing them...eventually...

At the moment my list goes as follows:

-Fable II
-Tomb Raider Anniversary
-Dragon Age: Origins and Awakening
-Resident Evil 5 (I'm ALMOST done with that if that counts)

But yeah I'm currently replaying FFIX ;)

I feel like I should be playing FFXIII, but it is so hard to get into it that I just find myself playing through Mass Effect 2 and Pokemon some more.

I'm playing Pokemon Soul Silver, a remake of a Gameboy Color game I beat three times. I still have Assassin's Creed 2, Etrian Odyssey 2, Okami, Dragon Quest VIII, and No More Heroes 2 to finish/get anywhere in. And that's just off the top of my head in about ten seconds. I don't feel bad though; I feel worse about the books I want/need to read/finish (The Prince, Animal Farm, Communist Manifesto...)

I tried reading the Communist Manifesto and it was excruciatingly boring and unreadable. (This is from someone who found Origin of Species captivating). Animal Farm is also very much overrated. It is a good read for someone who doesn't read much, but a waste of time for someone well read (which I would assume you are from the three books on your to read list). Prince is a very interesting read, and short to boot.

Yeah, I have a stack of books to read right beside my stack of video games to play as well. Which both sit on top of my chore to do list. :p