A few weeks back I realized that I leveled down a bit in my gaming when I discovered that I no longer care about Achievements. Now I’m just playing games at leisure, and that step has trickled down to leveling down once again for me.
The next “phase” of my leveling down is that I’m just no longer interested in owning or playing mediocre to decent games. I discovered that with my backlog of like 20+ games or so, I no longer care to play most of them! I did some thinking and decided to purge my collection of titles that I don’t think I’ll ever play, and rebuy titles that I sold that I felt I would play again and wanted as a part of my permanent collection. My backlog page has now been changed to “My Collection” and I am updating it accordingly.
Up until now, my gaming mentality has been: buy anything that seems remotely interesting, beat it and sell it. Starting this past weekend, I’m a lot more stringent, only buying games I know I want to keep and titles that rate fairly high on Metacritic. I don’t know if it’s a vision, but I sat down and went through the entire 360 release list and decided which games I wanted to have as part of my permanent collection. These were games that I figured I’d come back to play at some point.
Gamestop was very cooperative this past weekend, as they not only had a B2G1 used sale on everything in the store, but they also gave an extra $10 credit with any three games traded in. Most of the mediocre titles I had were practically clearance titles, so I was able to trade them in for almost $10 each after the promotion so I made out ok. 25 games were traded in this past weekend, with titles such as Dynasty Warriors 6, TimeShift, Beautiful Katamari, etc. These were never going to be played by me. I then turned around and took advantage of the used game promotion, rebuying games I wish I hadn’t sold such as Dead Space, Mirror’s Edge, Ninja Gaiden II, Rainbow Six Vegas, etc. All in all, it felt a little weird rebuying several games I already owned and beat, but I’m refining my gaming lifestyle now where if I were to look at my 360 collection, it would be full of hits that defined the 360 for me. But it makes me wonder, why is almost everything in my collection basically a shooter or a music game?
