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11 percent of gamers have unopened games
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 29th October 2008
Do you have a collection of rare computer games, or are you just too damn lazy to open them? Let us know in the forums.
The news comes from Gamasutra, who have reported that according to figures from the NPD sales-tracking group, around 11 percent of gamers have games that they haven't opened after six months.
The survey was of 562 gamers and a game was counted as unopened if the player still hadn't taken the cellophane off within six months of buying it.
Personally, we tend to play our games as soon as we get them and there's nothing we love more than ripping off that shrink-wrapped plastic and cracking open a brand new DVD jewel case.
So, we have to admit that we're a little bit curious why someone would buy a game and then never even open it. Even if you didn't like the game then you'd have to open it, right?
Do you have a small collection of unopened games on your shelves, or do you like to collect rare and unusual games and keep them in pristine condition? Let us know in the forums.
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DRM just pisses me off, but the really good ones i buy anyway.
</pimp>If any one wants to put in an offer for both they can :p <pimp>
http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=159367
I feel the issue is with the plastic wrapping being too tricky to remove and they simply give up trying ;)
So does everyone else :p
The LE artbook was nice, though.
As it stands, I've about 30 Dreamcast games and 15 Gamecube games I've bought but never played...
What? One of the best RPG's of the last few years, everyone else does not agree, in fact, yuo are the minority in this one.
Same for me. I've got games like Guild Wars that came free with e6300, and I had AOE3 that came with some purchase unopened for quite awhile before I was bored enough to open it.
I pre-ordered it from Play.com months before it came out but it didn't get delivered on the day of release. So I went out and bought it from a high street store later that day. The Play.com copy arrived a couple of days later and got stuffed in a draw. I was quite obsessed with UT back then.
Kinda proud of it :P (Got opened versions of most of them tho)
I've briefly played a few of them just to make sure they loaded ok and then put them aside or had them on an old PC and never loaded them on the next rig.
I've also got a few games on 3 for 2 offers which I haven't got around to opening (and a few games I've borrowed from my brother which I've been meaning to play but never got around to). and a few which I've started and always meant to go back to but got distracted with other games
More depressing is the number of DVDs I have that I have yet to watch - must be about 50 of them. I just can't help myself when they are <=£5, which is quite often these days! I'm including a stack of £3 HD DVDs from the HMV fire sale in that number. My view is if its as cheap or about the same price as a Blockbuster rental, why not snap it up and watch it later. That's the theory, but I can see me never watching some of these...
I game when I have the time = not working or modding
I just don't have a lot of time to play games and I have some issues with hard drive space as well, so it takes me a long time to get around to playing a new game. The up side of that strategy is that by the time I'm ready to play something new, it's usually in the $5 bin ;)
I preordered it long before the release date, and when it was released, I think I played portal and never even bothered to download episode 2
I have an unopened UT3 around here too(bought 2 copies from 2 places just to make sure I got it when it was released :p)
Off-topic: I've only just realised that croatian keyboards don't have the pound symbol. That just sucks...
To quote yatzee- the combat consists of clicking on an enemy, and if your really good, clicking twice. I think I'll post it on the donations page when I go home again, I think others should do this with their games too
I recently bought a 2nd hand PS2 with a heap of games which I won't touch for a while. I'm terrible at not finishing things so I'm dedicating myself to only 1 game at a time on that, but that'll be the only time in my life where I don't crack games I specifically buy open immediately.
I think watching my brother play through chunks of GameCube Twilight Princess spoiled it for me, while KOTOR and Dirt are recent purchases.
RPGs are not about combat, you just sumed up the vast majority of RPG's on the market (Including some condiered the best ever), Story, Dialog, Atmosphere, the witcher rocks. Thanks for proving total ignorance. Yaztee, he is meant to be taken lightly. Obliviopn is the same, Click, Block, Click, at least the witcher you could do flpis and use combos, and potions, it was good enough for the amazing choices, consequences and actual role playing which many RPG's actually lack.
i clicked this news item (and registered, finally) just to make sure a comment like this was stated. kudos, the first comment is exactly what i was looking for.
duh?
I should seek professional help.
+1
I could never even be bothered to google it to find out what kind of game it is...
Dunno if it counts as unopened since it was part of pack, but I had portal unopened for a long time, was too busy with Team Fortress 2.
Not that it's a problem with Portal, which you must go play immediately.
I've got a couple though I think, none for a current system but some older stuff. PS1 games and such that looked like a good idea at the time, and were cheap.
I downloaded the demo of that a couple of months back and found it extremely addictive.
Settlers 3
Dungeon Siege II
Flatout 2
Morrowind (2nd copy, for security reasons - in case the first breaks I got a $10 copy)
Earth 2160
And a ton of games from magazines.
I still have Jericho (and another game?) to play, and STALKER:CS was usurped by FC2, which will definitely be bumped by FO3...
I'll admit, I'm not the greatest fan of RPGs, but I thought that particular combat system was stupid, as a second click timed stopped the attack, and while that shouldn't happen to often it's still a daft idea. I found it to be a particularly bad game as it failed entirely to get involved in the story and atmosphere, which as you point out is the main part of an RPG. The dialogue was poor, far too much cussing, the characters terrible, and the way the game handled adult themes was down right ridiculous. Collecting cards for notches on a bedpost? I don't have to say anything else.
And another thing, stop calling people ignorant. You know nothing of what I know, so you're being downright stupid by using the word. I don't like the way you address people in this forum at all, you seem arrogant and argumentative, so you're now on my block list.
I picked up a copy of this recently, after the availability of the enhanced edition was anounced and I have really mixed feelings about it, I've not found the characters and language quite as bad as it sounds like you did, but they've supposedly re-written and re-recorded most of the major conversations for the EE, it still comes out with confusing sayings now and then though.
The combat could have been much better and the difficulty curve is pretty spikey but somehow I still like something about it, though I seem to have stopped playing for a bit after hitting one of the aforementioned difficulty spikes (specifically the swamp with all its pop-up plants that kill in 5 shots or so from range and can't be blocked..)
Welcome to the "leppermessiah is on block" club by the way, I'd not even need the feature if it wasn't for how rude he seems to get with frequency :( .
Getting back to the to topic at hand I definitely have still wrapped games around, I have a tendency to pick things up whenever I see they've gotten cheap enough but don't find the time to play them all. Though I got to unwrap and start on Mass Effect this week, which had languished for a bit after picking it up when I spotted it had dropped to under £10.
+1 ;)
it is not wrapped however