I hate the “spend more money to spend less money” solutions, but I have to say, the Steam Deck helped me a lot with this.
Sure, my first sale after owning it was a bit crazy with the purchases… But after that, it really helped me get into a “finish your backlog before buying anything else” mindset for a variety of reasons. Being able to suspend a game and resume where you left off, playing in bed, playing next to my fiance in the couch… Plus, older games tend to work perfectly without finicky behavior.
I’m in the same boat, but am realizing that I do miss the conversations around the hype train. When you play a game that came out several years ago, it’s harder to have a conversation about it.
Still trying to find that happy medium, but not buy games I won’t play.
I used to be same but I stopped doing it. I just started going through games as I wanted and stopped following hype trains.
I hate the “spend more money to spend less money” solutions, but I have to say, the Steam Deck helped me a lot with this.
Sure, my first sale after owning it was a bit crazy with the purchases… But after that, it really helped me get into a “finish your backlog before buying anything else” mindset for a variety of reasons. Being able to suspend a game and resume where you left off, playing in bed, playing next to my fiance in the couch… Plus, older games tend to work perfectly without finicky behavior.
I’m in the same boat, but am realizing that I do miss the conversations around the hype train. When you play a game that came out several years ago, it’s harder to have a conversation about it.
Still trying to find that happy medium, but not buy games I won’t play.