How do you manage to focus on one game at a time?

[hatchet5891]

I was just wondering how everybody manages to finish their games or focus on one game at a time. I personally struggle with this. I have only been part of steam for a couple of years now and have picked up a lot of games on sales. I find myself going from one game to another with in a days time. For the most part I can focus on newer games that I newly purchase pretty well, but when I haven't gotten any new games and I am deciding what to play, I am all over the spectrum.

Recently I have been playing through my assassin creed games in anticapation of AC:Unity coming out in November. But I was playing Batman Blackgate before that and now it sits uncompleted waiting for my return lol. There are even games I picked up on sales that I have yet to even play.

So how do you focus on one title at a time, or are you like me and all over the place with what you play?

[Krellios]

I am just like that. Joined Steam and got a few games. Played them for a while, got somemore games. Played them and so on, until now, where there are at least 40 games in my library and I just play them at random. I never focus one one title at a time. Just play lol.

[Яedly Яed.暗赤色@Tsundere-Tiddy]

I'm playing 20+ games at the same time, perfectly manageable for me. Since I'm usually playing on the hardest difficulty without saving, it takes time and has a lot of trial & error. If I keep dying at some point, I switch to some other game then go back to the first and try again.

Here's the list:

Bible Black The Game: just a visual novel
Medal of Honor Allied Assault: hardest difficulty, no saves
Doom: practicing for Nightmare Mode
Alien Shooter: practicing for Hard Mode
Dusk 12: hardest difficulty, no saves
The Stalin Subway: hardest difficulty, no saves
Deadly Premonition: normal playthrough
Gothic 3: practicing the combat system
Silence of the Sleep: simple indie adventure game
Art of Murder 1: simple point & click game
Chaser: hardest difficulty, no saves
Turok 2009: normal playthrough
Hitman Contracts: professional walkthrough
Quake III Arena: hardest difficulty
The Walking Dead Season 1: normal playthrough
The Regiment: hardest difficulty
Painkiller: normal playthrough
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 1: hardest difficulty
The Saboteur: hardest difficulty
F.E.A.R. 2 Project Origin: normal playthrough
Velvet Assassin: hardest difficulty
Far Cry 2: hardest difficulty

Most of the are shooters, so it's even easier that way.

[Perquisitore]

I have this same problem. It sounds a bit bad but I try to feel like I MUST finish them until I play another one.
It depends on your free-time but right now, for example: I'm playing FF3 on my psp, Archeage when the zone I am is in peace and TLOU when I know I can shout things to my TV without being too annoying (I wouldn't play it at 3am due to this).
What I try to say is, you can play some hours a game and later you can play another game. In this way you can't finish a game of 20hours in 2-3 days but at least you don't feel in this way.

There's another thing I do, I have a list of games in which I'm very very interested or I've started and I'll try to finish at least half of them in the remainder of this year. As I said it feels like a job or something, but if I don't do this I'd be slacking.

Edit: So I try to play three games at the same time, but nothing else until I finish one of them.

[Fork_Q2]

If you find yourself constantly distracted by other games, maybe the games you're playing aren't that good?

[Mayfey]

Originally posted by Redly Red.2014:

Chaser: hardest difficulty, no saves

Good GOD man!

[opaque]

I have trouble dedicating time to single player games these days. Keep getting drawn back to CS:GO with friends :/ I really need to finish some of the backlog

[Perquisitore]

Originally posted by Grox3000:

Originally posted by Fork_Q2:

If you find yourself constantly distracted by other games, maybe the games you're playing aren't that good?

Or maybe we just dont want to do the same thing every single time we go to play a game.

My case. The thing is, I usually feel more focused in repetitive games like Final Fantasy or The Sims than games with a more variable gameplay. I don't know why but it's like that.

[hatchet5891]

Originally posted by Grox3000:

Originally posted by Fork_Q2:

If you find yourself constantly distracted by other games, maybe the games you're playing aren't that good?

Or maybe we just dont want to do the same thing every single time we go to play a game.

It definitely isn't an issue with them not being good. I enjoy all of the games I play and there are some I have meant to play and picked up during sales and just have yet to touch them. Great example, I got both borderlands 1 and 2 during sales and obviously won't play 2 until I finish 1. I started 1 but then I bought another game during a sale and started playing that. I haven't been back to borderlands since. It is fun, but everytime I think about it I end up getting distracted by some other game. It isn't necessarily a bad thing and I know I will finish it eventually, I just end up applying my time to other games at times. And then there are games like Skyrim that continually draw me back for replay.

[Fork_Q2]

Originally posted by Grox3000:

Originally posted by Fork_Q2:

If you find yourself constantly distracted by other games, maybe the games you're playing aren't that good?

Or maybe we just dont want to do the same thing every single time we go to play a game.

Don't play repetitive games then.

[Carlsberg]

Its easy for guys, guys cannot multitask.

[Carlsberg]

^^^ I did not write that!!!!

[chibilibi]

Originally posted by Carlsberg:

^^^ I did not write that!!!!

Sure you didn't.

You did

[InfamousAngel]

Nowadays the only games i can manage to only focus on are games i buy when they come out or near release date for some reason. For instance im usually juggling a few games at a time, but when Watch Dogs came out thats all i played. Same will happen when GTA V for PS4 comes out thats all im gonna play even though there are like 20 single player games i started and havent finished

[chibilibi]

I jump between singleplayer games a lot, but I will usually stick with one multiplayer game without switching until I get bored of that game.

That game is usually TF2.

[The Space Butterfly]

You don't.