hellmonster67: WTF... Between Steam, GOG, roms and abandonware... I'm F&^$ 'D on my backlog... 4500 + games... Pretty sure if I started now from 1980 and continued towards present I would not make it past the year 2000 before I died of old age
Now someone who seems to have similar figures as me... I don't know how many playable games I have in my possession, but definitely a four digit number (GOG+Steam games together already go over 1000 I think, and then my collection of retail PC games, PSX games, PS2 games...). Even the Android games from Humble Bundle keep piling up.
My "problem" is not so much that I have too many games to play in my lifetime, my problem mainly is it seems to usually take me awfully long to finish them. I feel I've been e.g. playing KKND 2 for months already (not exclusively), and I am barely 2/3 done (at the last mission of the second finished campaign, then one more campaign to go). Then again that is not really a problem either, since I am still enjoying the game quite a lot, even with its bugs.
Maybe I play too long games then. I guess I should play some newer action titles that even I seem to be able to complete in a week or less, or some short indie games. For instance, I was able to finish Portal in one day (during two days, but less than 24 hours), and my second playthrough of Mirror's Edge on the hardest difficulty level also took like two days if I recall right. Oh right, and LIMBO took two days too IIRC. Oddly, they didn't even feel like too short games, maybe because I got Portal for free, and Mirror's Edge & LIMBO for peanuts. Possibly I would have felt differently if I had paid 50€ for each.
I play quite often RTS and RPG games, which really seem to eat time and take several weeks or even months to finish.