Evening Reading

by Garnett Lee, Feb 04, 2011 5:00pm PST

Another NFL season comes to a close this weekend with what looks like an epic game in the making. For the ensuing months after ends, I won't forget about sports completely. I'll get into March Madness, watch the NBA Finals--and maybe some playoff games if there's a good matchup, take in a few baseball games. But really, I'll be flirting with these other sports to tide me over until training camp gets going marking the beginning of the new season.

I wonder if the same sort of thing happens to gamers with more specific tastes than mine. Like, does an Oblivion fan fool around with Borderlands sort of half engaged while waiting for Skyrim? It's hard for me to judge because I like a wide range of games and the problem I always face is deciding which ones get my time.

While we ponder this and other grandiose questions, here are the highlights from today's video game news on the Shack:

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I have 250+ games on steam and I don't feel like playing any of them. What's wrong with me?

Feb 04, 2011 5:04pm PST

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I have 250+ games on steam and I don't feel like playing any of them. What's wrong with me? : Strid3rtheGreat
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  The Left 4 Dead games are really good. : dognose
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    Put over 300hrs into the first one. Got kindnof Burnt out on them :( : Strid3rtheGreat
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      I play all of the addon custom campaigns to keep it fresh :) : dognose
      
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      ALL of them : watcherxp
      
      Well, all of the cute ones :) : dognose
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      Sounds like you need to move on to L4D2 then. : pimpium
      
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      don't tell dognose]s I didn't care at all for l4d2. Put like 12 hrs into it and couldn't play anymore. : Strid3rtheGreat
      
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      Did you do two close tags? : dognose
      
      I messed up two small tags : Strid3rtheGreat
      
      you are broken : watcherxp
      
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      I can't understand what you are saying. : pimpium
      
      It hurts. I call the Nolan Batman movies boring, I get yelled at, but this guy is allowed to say this bu... : dognose
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  Too much choice, let the shack choose for you! I vote for mass effect 2 : filthysock
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    Beaten it already. :( : Strid3rtheGreat
    - play it again as a lady. : genocidalrobot
    - dead space 2 : BouillonCubes
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      How many games have you not started? : filthysock
      
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      Oh god, couldn't even begin to number them. I have 108 of them installed ATM and the large majority of th... : Strid3rtheGreat
      
      Play Evil Genius. : thetangent
- Just play Civ and you'll be fine. : Thick Axelrod
- I recommend you play Team Fortress 2. Unless Dognose is online. Then play Left 4 Dead 2 with him. : Maddog_Delphi97
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  I've found that watching a video of a game you are slightly interested in helps gets you in the mood to play it. Also when people like Shackers talk about the games you have, can get you going to wanting to play it. But yeah, I know what you mean. Damn Steam sales ...
  
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  I've found that watching a video of a game you are slightly interested in helps gets you in the mood to p... : Matt Burris
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    I find speed runs, competitive matches and Quick Looks are very entertaining when I'm not actually in a m... : SeaLlama
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      i find quicklooks to be frustratingly annoying to watch since it seems the player rarely bothered to read... : roushimsx
      
      Same here, I find the QL's to be very annoying and frustrating to watch. On top of that, the silly conve... : Matt Burris
      
      i find myself just watching playthroughs while i do something else :/ : Unleashed
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    I started watching a Let's Play of Dead Space 2... 12 hours later I felt like I played it myself! Saved ... : coyoterys
    - Well that's dumb. : OrkO
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  Pretty common problem with having too much choice. Just go with whatever type of game you're in the mood ... : roushimsx
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    Yea indie games have kind of been my go to's as of late. Played some trails hd 2 for awhile yesterday. An... : Strid3rtheGreat
    - ain't nothing wrong with taking a week or two off from larger games! You should get in on some of the ... : roushimsx
- Change media. Read a book, watch a movie or some TV or something. That always does it for me. : Rotten Deadite
- I just started playing Salker, SoC with the complete pack for the first time. It seems like it could be ... : TheVietSpecial
- You're perfectly normal - Steam is meant for impulsive spending which is probably why they generated over... : jingletard
- i tried to play magicka when i got it with people. no one wanted to play with me. : spaceless
- This happens to me too. So weird. : Sgt_Boomstick
- I am like this pretty much every day. I look over my hundreds of games on PC and 360, and then I look ove... : OverloadUT
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  thats like having 300 channels on TV, and noting to watch :D : Demius
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    Yea except I've paid an average of $10 per channel. : Strid3rtheGreat
    - I feel your pain. If you don't count the two pre-orders just waiting, I've got exactly 300 purchased tit... : RomSteady
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  now buy an iphone or ipad and start buying! : gyokuro
  - Already been there :( : Strid3rtheGreat
- Join the club. : The Grolar Bear
- I'm closing in on 400 and want to play all of them, wth is wrong with you mang : dael
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  Play Amnesia! : David Craddock
  - He doesn't remember how... : RomSteady
- you are getting old. : dopeman
- Damn, your steam library puts mine to shame (124). And I thought I had a disorder. : DewFuel
- What's the most recent game you played? : Maddog_Delphi97
- Try dating. It's like gaming only with better graphics :-) : piocsic
- Sounds like your hitting a brick wall here. This happens to me sometimes when I get burnt out of video ga... : Techy007
- 1.) You have too much money, gift me games instead 2.) you have an unknown, incurable disease. may jes... : pukerat
- Every single game you bought is terrible. You have shit taste in games. : enyakk

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