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Re: Soapbox: I'm Causing The Slow Death Of Gaming Magazines, And It Hurts

aehek

In Finland we still have two major gaming magazines, the other one been around from 1992 and the other from 2002. I still get the rush of excitement when I come home from work and fresh gaming magazine is just laying on the floor and waiting for me to get a cup of coffee and relax for a while with printed word. I do read most of my news online, but there is something to be had in lenghty articles and sitting in peace and quiet for a while. I also like the collector aspect of it.

Re: Soapbox: Why Do We Want More Games When We've Already Got Too Many?

aehek

I never 100% my games, if by that you mean collecting absolutely everything, experiencing all the possible endings and doing every small and big quest there is for the game. Playing game through is playing the mainplot and those extras I feel interested in, but trophies and completionism is not my cake. I do feel bad that my gamelog is so huge tho - I should invent a rule to make myself to play at least 5 games I already got for every new game I buy... Good sales are hard to pass so I force myself not to check gamestores at all. And yes, excellent point on how we do not have this mindset anywhere else in our life: closest I can think of is the trope of some people being like "I have nothing to wear" with closet full of new clothes that have never been worn.