I am playing Broken Sword 2.5 and remembered that I never did the final part of Broken Sword 1 cause I died and my save was way back in the game.....

Then I got to looking at my Stack To Play....

Wow, I have to confess, I still have Broken Sword 2, Road to India, and The Watchmaker to play along with several Nancy Drews from number 8 to 15, and a little newer, The Moment of Silence and Realms of Illusion.

So my question is.... Do you have games still sitting around even from the 1990's / early 2000's still waiting to play? Do you have to have the security of knowing you still have games left to play or do you play everything and then go out and get another game? Maybe newer games came along and some just get forgotten?

Ok, I confess, I have games still sitting there waiting for me to play. How old are your unplayed games?

Koalanut

Hi Koalanut, of the more 'recent' games I've still got Secrets of Atlantis, Cleopatra - Riddle of the Tomb, Operation Wintersun, Ghost in the Sheet, Sacred Rings & Jack Keane yet to be played! I've also got The Experiment - I just can't get it to play on my system but I couldn't get the demo to work either so more fool me for buying it! I've probably got a stack of at least 30 older games waiting in the wings too!

I'm still a little frustrated though as I haven't been able to buy any new games for months! It might take me a while to get round to playing them all but I do like to have them all lined up to play whatever I'm in the mood for playing at the time!

I have lots of games waiting patiently for me to get around to playing them. I loved Myst 1 & 2 so immediately bought 3, 4 and 5 and all the Riven games too. They are still waiting patiently
Order all the new games as they become available, just can't help myself.
As long as the games play on XP or Vista I figure they can wait forever. Had lots of Win 9.8 games I sold because I didn't want the hassle.
I tend to play some of the new games as they come out and others just pile up as they seem to be so many of them now.

Before I found this site, I found that if I didn't buy a game whenever I saw it, it would disappear, never to be seen again. Now I can't seem to break that habit.

Now that I have discovered DS adventure games it's got even worse as I have them lining up too

I too tend to play the newer games as soon as I get them.
I do however have a few older ones waiting

The Feeble Files - I know how to get it to run, but it's a bit of work, so I'm waiting for my next long vacation.

Barrow Hill - a bit too scared to start it, lol

And then of course the 2 newer Sherlock Holmes games.
Waiting for the remastered version of The Awakened though.

Well, about my unplayed games, please refer to Level 6 of BAAGS. Yes, I do begin to panic when my unplayed games dip below the 50 mark.

Let's just say I have well over 50 games that have yet to be played.

Its a curse, thats for sure!

Unplayed games? Me?

Hi, Koalanut

I have none that I haven't played

I too have older games to be played, but that's also because I like to buy old games (keeps my hobby affordable).
I recently bought The Quivering, Amber and Physicus. Of course there are also some old ones on the shelf that I bought years ago, but the longer they are there, the smaller the chance that I get around to playing them. Secrets of the Luxor and Morpheus are among those.

The newer ones waiting are Dead Reefs, Jack Keane and Secrets of Atlantis.

But I actually don't like it much that there's a pile waiting. When a new (old) game arrives, it's never the first game I will play. I'm waiting for that to happen

Games seem to be coming faster than I can play them lately, but it doesn't stop me from ordering EVERY one that's available for pre-order. I want them all!

Byzantine, Mummy, Alida, Gabriel Knight III all installed and ready to play on my older 2001XP. Dreamfall, Experiment,Art of Murder, installed on newer 2007XP, Overclocked, Nostradamus and Dracula waiting in the wings, while I replay Broken Sword I & II and now 2.5, along with Riddle of the Sphinx.
Still waiting for the new Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys. That doesn't count what I have on the 2008XP laptop to play when I wind up in the hospital every so often. So it's back to work when I can.
Can't have to many games or books in my opinion.
Charllotte

And oh yeah.... I have Alida, and the Legend of Lotus Springs in the Stack too...Plus Sam and Max, Agon 1-3, Agon 4, Dracula Origin, Sherlock Holmes Nemesis, and Hope Springs Eternal loaded in the laptop, and just added Broken Sword 1-2.

I did just finish Dracula 3, ND Phantom, and just about finished Broken Sword 2.5 and Time Stand Still the past week or two, so I am getting time to play and I could get one of the other ones to play

except....

Isn't Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys coming out? I gotta get another game or two!!!

Koalanut

Hi

Oh, my !!

I have A LOT of unplayed games .... very old, old, newish and very new

Makes me very happy too. Knowing I have all those treats in store

Cheers.

Mad

Hi

I just installed Pandora's Box along with the patch. I realized that I had not played it. I'm having a ball with it.
It's a great game.

SnickersMom

After missing out on purchasing some games, which are now
almost impossible to lay hands upon, I impulsively buy any
game (especially an adventure game) that's on sale,
at a yard sale, or in the bargain bin.

I also will buy a game I really want when it drops below $20

Is this a sickness/condition? LOL

SAM _123....check out the BAAGS link at the top . It will explain your condition.

Hi SAM_123 and welcome to GameBoomers!

Yes, it's a condition called BAAGS.

I count at least 15 games I have not played yet, not to mention all the older ones I want to play again.

The newer ones seem to take precedence over the older ones.

Bets

"Hello, my name is SAM and I'm suffering from Level 3 BAAGS !!"

Whew, I never realized others suffered from this, must be why
they keep making Adventure games.


Percent-wise, I wonder how many games get purchased, but never
get played/finished?

We actually discussed this topic years ago. (Becky sighs nostalgically.)

It depends on the genre and the individual gamer. In the past, we concluded that people tend to finish adventure games more often than they actually finish strategy games or action games (as I recall, the percentages were still low, with people on average finishing about half of the adventure games they start).

Some gamers finish almost every adventure game they play. Hundreds and hundreds of them. Through the mists of time, Judith's name seems familiar as an "adventure game completist."

I can safely state that I am in no danger of going into panic mode. I am well above the 50 unplayed game minimum

Well I guess I am one of the lucky ones. Out of all the games I have I only have 2 on my list that are unfinished and I don't think I will go back to them because I had so much trouble with them and I lost intrest. I play most of them at least twice as it helps if I want to help some one with them.