How About Finishing This Game First?

I've been guilty, in my time, of some pretty heinous gaming crimes. Like many other gamers with busy lives, I rarely complete games.

Sometimes, it's the game's fault, with the reward for playing dipping off long before the end, or a spike in the difficulty that leaves you cold. I'm not an expert player and I'm not going to gnash my teeth through a misjudged difficulty curve. Life's too short.

More often though, it's my fault. I buy too many games. During the busiest periods of the year I'm transfixed by the hot new thing, before the last batch of hotness has properly cooled. Unless I'm glued to one particular game, my mind will wander. Give me something all-consuming, like Fallout 3, and I'll ignore all the rest. Otherwise I'm already asking 'What's next?' as I'm closing the disk drive.

I'm definitely getting better at dealing with this temptation, but there's almost always something sparkling in the unplayed pile, when I should be focusing on what I have in front of me.

Of course, the worst thing is the summer drought, where I would have plenty of back catalogue to consider, were it not for the fact that I've bought most of the stuff worth a go, only to get sidetracked by something with even more potential.

I will crack this problem though. The first step is to stop buying games in bulk, y'know, just because three good games came out on one day. Sometimes that could be the best stuff out for a month or more. And I should know by now; they won't all get a fair crack of the whip.

I'll probably never kill the desire to play anything and everything decent, but I can spread it out a bit more. I deserve it, and so do the fine people who make these games!