Nope. I play a mix of old and new, and I probably always will.

It’s just like books, just because the are lifetimes worth of old books doesn’t mean I should ignore the new books. I read a mix of classics and recent releases, both usually through the library.

I’ve committed to PC gaming full-time now.

Same, though we also have a Switch because it’s just so good for party games. We play couch co-op with our kids and friends, and will probably get the next Switch as well.

95% of my gaming is on the PC, whether my Steam Deck or desktop PC. I play some recent games (currently playing Hogwarts Legacy), as well as plenty of old games (I just played Firewatch from 2016), and I recently bought games from the 90s.

I don’t really care when a game was released, as long as it’s good. I’ll even occasionally play new releases (bought Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom at launch), though I usually wait until they’ve finished patching the game (1-2 years if I’m really excited). I add new games to my wishlist all the time and check back periodically until I feel like it’s ready.

So yeah, I play games from all eras.

No. I feel like there’s always going to be something that catches my attention.

Who knows, maybe in another 10 years we’ll get a game series that’s on par with the Arkham games, or there will be another Spider-Man series that will get me hyped.

I’ve been gaming since the late 1970s, and have never considered any sort of cut off date. I just play what interests me (lately that’s been VR games in various genres).

I can’t imagine ever losing interest in new games or platforms, because there’s always a new experience out there and, for me at least, that’s the point. I can’t play everything, obviously, but I can prioritise my time where I think I’ll have the most fun.

There aren’t that many games that are really so timeless and epic that you have to play them, and most are a waste of time. If anything the industry only produces enough high quality games each year for my wishlist to remain about the same size as I buy a handful that interest me and play them.

Pretty sure that barring some exceptions, I’ve reached that point now.

Now if you excuse me, I have some modded Doom 2 to play, followed by a reverse-engineered Mario 64, and finally a Zelda3/Super Metroid randomizer. If I have time, perhaps I’ll even get in some rounds of Counter-Strike 1.6 or Diablo 1 (DevilutionX port of course)

Seems I’m way too picky for that. I fell down an MMORPG rabbit hole for several years a while back and have spent the last several years catching up. Already starting to feel like I’ve played most everything from older gens I’m going to really like.

One thing I’ve noticed is I’m wishlisting way more upcoming games than before. There’s the occasional exception, but if I keep a rolling release schedule, I’ll generally still be playing new stuff well after release.

I’m done with consoles now. I’ll keep what I have but if the current generation is anything to go by it is just not worth bothering anymore.

Cutting yourself at some arbitrary point on time makes no sense. I simply don’t play games I’m not interested in, and play ones that I am. I’m looking forward to Civ VII while playing NES games.

I don’t see any generation of gaming. Maybe because I don’t buy and play on consoles. Even consoles have started to lose generations with backwards-compatibility, re-releases, upgrades, and digital stores.

I play what interests me. And I buy even more than I play of what interests me.

The idea of having enough or too many games to play, I think I reached on about 1.3k games in my Steam library. Because a year has 365 days, so 1300/365 = 3,56, so I could play a different game every day for 3 years. That’s unrealistic to match [for me]. Now I have 3.8k games in my Steam library. Which is fine by me; I support what looks interesting to me, and maybe I’ll get to them, or some I prioritize, and some are bundled noise or freebies.

I’m not going to stop stumbling over new and interesting games though. And most certainly not evade them when I stumble over them.

No, I bought consoles when I was a kid, haven’t since. If it isn’t available on PC it just didn’t exist in my mind.

For one, I see no reason to decide I’ll never play any game made after a certain point, barring a hardware requirement that I don’t want to fulfill (eg buying a new console). That’s just arbitrarily limiting good media that I could enjoy.

Second, the “Game Library Completion” preoccupation is another mistake, imo. I understand feeling bad about “wasting” money, but turning one’s hobby into a (monumental) task/chore isn’t gonna help that. It’ll probably just ruin that hobby.

All that said, do what makes you happy. If that’s all you want to do, I hope you enjoy it.

My cut off will be when there are literally 0 games I have interest in.

No. To each their own, but I think that’d be a ridiculous stipulation to place on myself and it’s hard to imagine why anybody would want to do it outside of super niche reasons.

I think we all do that naturally a little bit, just like we also do it for music, and to maybe a lesser extent movies. But completely cut off? Probably not

PS5

Here’s the list of the 21 exclusive titles: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:PlayStation_5-only_games