barring a hardware requirement that I don’t want to fulfill
Basic laptops and phones can play most games from 20 years ago, so hopefully if you’re patient enough you’ll eventually be able to play everything on whatever hardware you already have
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ech@lemm.ee 1 week ago
For one, I see no reason to decide I’ll never play any game made after a certain point, barring a hardware requirement that I don’t want to fulfill (eg buying a new console). That’s just arbitrarily limiting good media that I could enjoy.
Second, the “Game Library Completion” preoccupation is another mistake, imo. I understand feeling bad about “wasting” money, but turning one’s hobby into a (monumental) task/chore isn’t gonna help that. It’ll probably just ruin that hobby.
All that said, do what makes you happy. If that’s all you want to do, I hope you enjoy it.
smeg@feddit.uk 1 week ago
taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
It is really just a sunk cost fallacy. The same applies to books, movies or any other media. If you don’t enjoy it don’t finish it. Doesn’t matter how much you spent on it or invested into it in other ways. Stopping right when you don’t get anything out of it is the best time to stop that is still available (given we can’t change the past).
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
This.
I’ve been much happier abandoning games and shows even if I’m 95% done just because they stopped being fun. Completion is overrated