How would you choose what to play next?
Most of the times I go to my backloggery profile (http://backloggery.com/dunther) and use the fortune cookie option, so I would say randomness.
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Huh. Ok, that looks a bit confusing on the first glance, but I guess it's a way to do this :)
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It's not really http://backloggery.com/random.php?user=dunther
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Ha, ok. So apparently you should play "Legend of Dungeon" ;) :D
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Meeeh I could reroll it a few times if I don't like the result, usually I use this method only for small indie games to play in a weekend or so.
Anyway I already played Legend of Dungeon but I don't think I will ever beat it.
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Spur of the moment random decision based on my mood.
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hide I still don't no who it is! Oh man! I want to see the next season!
cough
I can't choose games by bat though :D
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Sad to say, but... achievements. If a game has achievements and it seems to be pretty easy to 100% it I tend to drift towards playing it. It's mostly because I can "complete" the game and move on to the next one.
Alas, that doesn't work too well. I have tons of games downloaded and/or backlogged, and some which are impossible to 100%, or at least not easily. I'll never clear my backlog :/
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Ah, yeah. I get that. I tend to choose games with achievements over games without. Sadly those without stay behind this way though :(
But I love achievements! <3
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Sad part is achievements also negatively affects me too. Even if it's a game I'm really looking forward to play, if there's a very hard to get (or near impossible) achievement, I kinda push it even more behind the already very long queue.
Case in point: FF8 was one of my most memorable experience in my PS days. I got it on Steam, saw one of the cheeve is like "finish game at base level" and went hell no and have yet to touch the game till now. :P
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Aw, man. That's a shame! But I know exactly what you mean.
Luckily I was not into Achievements when Mass Effect 3 came out, because there is one for solving the game on the most difficult lvl. I did that though. Guess it all started back then.... :]
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I use this site to randomly choose for me.
http://www.steamcompletionist.net/
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When I don't have a lot of time, I play what I feel like playing. If I have a bit more time, I look through my backlog and see if there is anything that I think I might enjoy at that moment and install it. I don't want to force myself to play something. I won't enjoy it that way.
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Ya, force playing is not that nice :(
I heard, that gaming was supposed to be fun, so I guess we should try to have as much fun with it, as possible ;) :)
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+1 There is no reason to play a game you don't enjoy.
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i have pretty limited time for games, so i very often will decide based on what will be the fastest to finish.
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Wow o.o
That are a lot of numbers for me :D
In a way I get it to not play long games, because you don't have much time. But on the other hand with that you'd miss some great games, because they take a bit longer. Or a lot longer. Or AGES! Man, those games, that never let you go after you started them... ;)
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true that, but i like to know roughly what i'm getting into. also help me decide if i like a game enough to stick w it if i'm on the fence
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I just checked one of my win games, because I was kind of worried it might take ages. The length seems alright though :D
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I scroll through the "plan to play soon" section of my library and pick one that fits my current mood.
If I don't feel like playing anything I go to MAL and choose a series from my anime backlog, if there's one think I never run off it's backlogs.
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Hello fellow gamers!
I wanted to start this discussion yesterday... and then I didn't because I thought, that I'd probably get blacklisted by some ppl for it. And because that is stupid, I'm doing it now anyway.
So back to the title.
I thought about this, since I'm waiting for ME Andromeda and have a bit of a problem to motivate myself for something to play.
What do you do, if there is no unplayed game, that you really want to play or are not hooked to something? How do you decide which game to play next?
I thought about doing it alphabetically. So have started a couple of years ago to create categories for my finished steamgames. For example I have one named "done 2017". Doing it alphabetically would obviously be to choose games next, so that I have every letter once in there bevor I start the next round or something. (Hope that makes sense. My head is doing funny things today since I'm feeling under the weather...)
Next idea: Purchase date. So, this one is quite easy. I'd choose the game via the time when I got them.
And last but not least: Release date. I think this one would be a bit more difficult, since I'd have to check every game, when they were published. But still doable :D
There are some other ideas, like recommendation or letting other people choose, but they are not that good, that I really like them :D
Naturally all of these methods stop the moment I a) get a game I really want to play or b) am hooked to a game series :D
Games, that I won are higher prioritized of course ;)
So, do you have any fancy ideas?
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