Back in the day, I played (console) games and mastered them. I could rent almost any game and finish the game in less than 24 hours and master the game in 72 hours. There wasn't a title I could say that I couldn't master. Only reason I ever bought titles was either because the rental store wouldn't carry them or I wanted to have a "relaxing" time to play or replay them with friends.
That was then. Now, I class myself as a "collector." I stopped buying new games that reviewed well sometime back in the 1998 or so when I found some games were scoring high and sucking low. Too many review sites and magazines lost their integrity. Back in the mid-90's, EGM was king for reviews. No other mag at the time could successfully pick out sleeper. Now? I doubt any reviewer actually understands what a sleeper is supposed to be. I trust only
one site now but they're not regular reviewers and they don't always have the same tastes as I do.
Anyhow, I digress. I buy games I hope play well or based on personal reviews from individuals. My luck isn't all that great.
Combined the above with the severe lack of time to actually play any games, at all. So I end up buying titles and never opening them. I'd say that about half of my Wii/PS2 collection are unopened. I can only focus on a handful of games at any one time anyways. The time to finish a particular title ballooned to weeks and the last title I mastered was Half-Life.
My gaming life kind of sucks I guess.
