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Post by deebs on Dec 31, 2023 6:41:50 GMT
My Steam library is a wasteland of games that have never been played. I can't even blame the Humble Bundles and odd freebies that get thrown into that cemetery, I just buy games I like the idea of but can't be arsed to get much past the title screen. Go to your profile, then click on the number of games you own, then scroll down to get to the deep web of game shame.
I have 14 games that list 1 minute of play time. Biggest regret of those being Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
How many 1 minuters do you have and which of those do you regret?
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Post by hedben on Dec 31, 2023 7:19:50 GMT
Xbox rather than Steam, but there’s plenty of games I bought in digital sales that I’ll surely* get around to at some point (*I probably won’t). Dragon Age: Inquisition +DLC, Deus Ex Mankind Divided +DLC, the two Witcher 3 expansions.
From the stats on true achievements, the paid game (not Game Pass) I’ve put the least time into is Jackbox 3 (14 minutes)
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Dec 31, 2023 7:25:39 GMT
I avoided one of these on Switch recently
Friend: *sends me link to switch port of Strange Brigade, 80% off*
Me: Oh, you guys play that co-op on PC right, is it cross-play?
Friend: Nope, but you can play with other people who have it on Switch
Me: Do you have it on Switch?
Friend: Nope
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Anyway long story short, I saved 15 dollars not buying that.
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Post by Lizard on Dec 31, 2023 7:31:54 GMT
How I do I see this information? Mine will be a litany of shame.
EDIT: should probably read the OP properly.
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Post by Lizard on Dec 31, 2023 7:36:51 GMT
Oh God, 41 games. I only have 105 in total. If I include stuff I've bought in the last few months it's over 60.
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Post by mothercruncher on Dec 31, 2023 8:14:14 GMT
NO REGERTS
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Post by drhickman1983 on Dec 31, 2023 8:40:16 GMT
Only 4 one-minuters. There's a lot more sub one-hour, and a lot more I've never even played.
Actual one-minuters, my biggest "regret" is Metro 2033 Redux. I have played the non-Redux version, to be fair
Biggest regret sub-one-hour... Resident Evil 4, as I can recall buying that for 15 quid or thereabouts in a sale, booted it up to have a look but never got round to playing it. I do want to play this at some point.
Equally, I bought Marvel Midnight Suns for 20 quid, fully intending to play it, but haven't got round to it yet. This was at least half a year ago now, and I'll likely see it cheaper in the next sale.
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Post by dfunked on Dec 31, 2023 8:59:18 GMT
Outer Wilds. Started it on Xbox and immediately quit thinking "nah, I'm not in the mood for this" despite knowing nothing about the game (which I'm told is the best way to experience it)
Think it disappeared off game pass then, so I bought it on steam and did the exact same bloody thing!
System Shock remake and Darksiders Genesis are a couple that jump out from my Steam game list.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2023 9:01:50 GMT
1 minute played? I’ve bought loads of games and not even installed them!
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Post by Nanocrystal on Dec 31, 2023 10:04:37 GMT
Outer Wilds. Started it on Xbox and immediately quit thinking "nah, I'm not in the mood for this" despite knowing nothing about the game (which I'm told is the best way to experience it) Think it disappeared off game pass then, so I bought it on steam and did the exact same bloody thing! This is a bit sad, it's one of the best games of all time! |
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Post by hedben on Dec 31, 2023 10:38:12 GMT
I played about an hour of Outer Wilds but abandoned it after I couldn’t figure out what I was supposed to do next. I have a really low tolerance for that kind of thing, and using a guide feels like robbing yourself of the experience when it’s a puzzle game. It is on my wishlist though, and I’m much more likely to grab it on sale and try again than I am to finish Witcher 3 or start Dragon Age Inquisition- think the ship has well and truly sailed on those ones.
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deebs
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Post by deebs on Dec 31, 2023 10:45:17 GMT
1 minute played? I’ve bought loads of games and not even installed them! Yep. I have over 700 games and probably only have any time logged for less than half. The time logging thing isn't a great metric really as they only added that 6 or 7 years ago, and the platform just had it's 20th birthday recently. But I would say I've probably never installed 300 or so of them. It's the ones I did install and quit immediately that are truly shameful. |
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Post by addyb on Dec 31, 2023 10:46:18 GMT
1 minute played? I’ve bought loads of games and not even installed them! Likewise. Have over 500 games on steam. Probably played 30 of them. |
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Post by Syrette on Dec 31, 2023 10:47:19 GMT
There's a lot of quality games being listed already in this thread. For shame!
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Post by EMarkM on Dec 31, 2023 10:47:54 GMT
I put a fair amount of time into Outer Wilds, probably from a recommendation on here (you gits).
Ahem.
I too got to the stage where I started to lose my grip on what to do next. I'm a moderately clever lad and love puzzles and obscurity, but I think I missed something that was supposed to be obvious. I remember never understanding why the worlds I visited kept vanishing beneath my feet, leaving me dropping into space, and, ultimately, dead.
I also never got the hang of that Zelda/Dark Souls/Fox thingy...what was it? Can't remember now. I know that people who played it say that it's well worth the while, and it suddenly becomes a very different game, but I never got to the point where that happened.
Ah well.
I had gluten-free Christmas cake and mince pies for breakfast, so there.
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Dec 31, 2023 10:54:23 GMT
I played just enough of The Outer Wilds to realise that I probably do have thalassophobia.
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Post by deekyfun on Dec 31, 2023 11:02:33 GMT
I have 8 games at 1 minute played, but 2 of those are wrong (Fate of Atlantis, which I play via ScummVM, Final Doom; which I've definately played through and I'm not sure why it's not tracked). One of them is Godot; which I use outside Steam normally. Another is RetroArch; which I also think I use out of Steam. The legit ones are Castle Crashers, Last Day of June, Half-Life 2 Deathmatch, and Tyranny.
That's not too bad out of 1244 games. The bad stat is that 604 of those are completely unplayed. Give me a few more decades.
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Post by f00b_inc on Dec 31, 2023 11:03:23 GMT
I put a fair amount of time into Outer Wilds, probably from a recommendation on here (you gits). Ahem. I too got to the stage where I started to lose my grip on what to do next. I'm a moderately clever lad and love puzzles and obscurity, but I think I missed something that was supposed to be obvious. I remember never understanding why the worlds I visited kept vanishing beneath my feet, leaving me dropping into space, and, ultimately, dead. I also never got the hang of that Zelda/Dark Souls/Fox thingy...what was it? Can't remember now. I know that people who played it say that it's well worth the while, and it suddenly becomes a very different game, but I never got to the point where that happened. Ah well. I had gluten-free Christmas cake and mince pies for breakfast, so there. Tunic? Still only on my wishlist as I have about 3 other zelda-a-likes on my shame pile (Deaths Door is the only one I can remember off top of my head). Outer Wilds I picked up to play on the Steam Deck and for the most part persevered with the puzzle elements to the extent that I really enjoyed it by the end. I think I used a guide a handful of times when I was hitting my head against a wall (or at least when the ground kept collapsing) but I'd definitely recommend to everyone here to give it a go for a few hours. Once you start to join some of the dots it becomes very enjoyable and you get caught up in the mystery/story/world. |
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Post by EMarkM on Dec 31, 2023 11:14:38 GMT
Tunic? Still only on my wishlist as I have about 3 other zelda-a-likes on my shame pile (Deaths Door is the only one I can remember off top of my head). Outer Wilds I picked up to play on the Steam Deck and for the most part persevered with the puzzle elements to the extent that I really enjoyed it by the end. I think I used a guide a handful of times when I was hitting my head against a wall (or at least when the ground kept collapsing) but I'd definitely recommend to everyone here to give it a go for a few hours. Once you start to join some of the dots it becomes very enjoyable and you get caught up in the mystery/story/world. Tunic! That's the one. I did also try Death's Door, and got precisely nowhere with that too. Hmmm. I think I've lost my skills a bit. I know I should return to these, and possibly will. But for now, I'm back off to Oolite. Pew pew. |
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Post by uiruki on Dec 31, 2023 11:40:17 GMT
In that case I bet a load of them will be ones from before they counted time in game properly. I’ve got a bunch of games which I know for a fact I’ve played and finished on Steam which come up as zero time played.
Edit: this was a reply to a post that was deleted, I’m pretty sure I’m not losing it yet!
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Post by malek86 on Dec 31, 2023 13:02:54 GMT
Kinda hard to say. I do have a crapton of unplayed games, but if I do take the trouble to start one, I'll probably play for more than one minute. That doesn't mean it will keep me interested for long of course, but abandoning a game after 90 minutes because something else came up, is still better than nothing.
Unless the game is bad. That's possible, but then nowadays I don't buy games anymore unless I'm pretty sure I will at least like them enough. For everything else, there's the Epic, Amazon, GOG etc freebies.
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Post by Chopsen on Dec 31, 2023 13:17:36 GMT
I played about an hour of Outer Wilds but abandoned it after I couldn’t figure out what I was supposed to do next. I have a really low tolerance for that kind of thing, and using a guide feels like robbing yourself of the experience when it’s a puzzle game. It is on my wishlist though, and I’m much more likely to grab it on sale and try again than I am to finish Witcher 3 or start Dragon Age Inquisition- think the ship has well and truly sailed on those ones. Yeah. Played way more than an hour and....meh. I actually quite like puzzle games as well. I just found this really frustrating and *tedious*. Especially the central repeat game mechanic.
Some people really rate. Dunno what they see in tbh.
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Post by Hanimalle on Dec 31, 2023 13:31:36 GMT
I own 965 games on Steam and I haven't even played half of them. I don't have games that I played for just one minute though a handful come close.
However I do have a lot of sub one-hour and looking at them makes me feel kind of bad because some of them are really good games (examples being Paradise Killer, Jotun, Noita, Heaven's Vault, Kentucky Route Zero and a few others) but they either didn't click with me or I wasn't in the right mood. There's also a game on that list that I don't remember buying let alone playing called Shadowlings.
Though worse of all are games that I've had installed for months or even years but never actually started like Rogue Legacy 2 or Hardspace: Shipbreaker.
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