How many games did you play in 2006?

Games
1

This poll counts the number of games you played in 2006. (On all platforms. Computer or video games only though.)

Of course most of us don’t finish every game that we start. So this poll accounts for that as follows:

A game you finished counts as 1.
A game you played halfway through counts as 0.5.
A game you played for two hours and then microwaved the DVD from pure frustrated rage counts as 0.1 (assuming it was a 20 hour game).
And so on.

So if you played 200 games exactly halfway through without finishing any of them, your number of games played is effectively 100.

Yes, this will skew the numbers in favor of the people who played lots of 6 hour shooters, but I don’t care. And yes, maybe this is really a Game Completion Score or something rather than a simple count, but again, I don’t care.

For games that you play perpetually (Civ 4, WoW, multiplayer whatever), count every 50 hours spent as being equivalent to 1 game. So catassing for 200 hours in WoW = 4 games. Yes, this is a bit biased against WoW, but otherwise the catassers will blow the whole poll away!

2

Looking at the 70+ games this year I put atleast one hour on (not counting the stuff on gametap) this would be way too much advance math.

3

I don’t know - I played a lot of games, but completed few of them. I put myself in the 21-28 range, but who knows?

4

I come up with about a 2 at best.

A full point for FEAR, which I finished, and then several point-somethings for crap like Oblivion that I toyed with but quickly discarded. Alas, what I have long suspected has finally come to pass: my love affair with computer games is definitely over.

5

Feeble estimates are fine. If you have 70+ games that you put one hour on, then assume they were all 10 hours to complete, and presto, that = 7 games total.

6

Think I only beat 2 (Gears and Oblivion), but probably played something around 50 to 60 (I was going to say 30, but my Xbox Live listing says 35 itself).

Though I played enough multiplayer of Company of Heroes and BfME2 multiplayer to count.

7

Between 10 and 20. I’ve ‘finished’ all of them, I believe, except for GRAW

8

I’ve been plenty busy just with the games I played through for reviews:

  • Oblivion, Mage knight Apocalypse, Night Watch, Neverwinter Nights 2, Age of Pirates, Space Hack, Gothic 2- Night of the Raven, Dungeon Siege 2 Broken Worlds and Sacred Underworld.

So I guess my count is 10. Also playing Gothic 3 right now, but I haven’t played any other games this year — one a month is challenge enough.

9

I broke mine down by platform as I was putting the list together, and surprised myself a bit by discovering that my 360 score was nearly triple the next-highest even though I’ve only had it a few months, and PS2 was the lowest despite having bought more games for it than any of the others. I might be forgetting some PC games though, as I’m going by my Xfire history and vague memory.

(From highest to lowest it was 360 > DS > PC > PS2)

10

I just realized that I’m not beating games anymore (gasp! age!). The only game that I can say that I’ve finished this year is Dead Rising. Oh and Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror.

Games I’ve played:
Dead Rising
Oblivion
Gears of War
Loco Roco
Syphon Filter
Test Drive Unlimited
Saints Row
Vice City Stories
Civ IV
HL2 ep1

11

According to my game history at live.xbox.com, I’ve played 61 games on the xbox 360, although several were just demos. I’ve also played several others on PS2 and PC. So, yeah, I’m off the chart on this poll.

12

games I finished this year:
fight night round 3 (x360)
Black (xbox)
GRAW (x360)
Oblivion (x360)
Tomb Raider Legend (PC)
Guild Wars Factions (PC - finished 3 times)
HL2 ep1 (PC)
God of War (PS2)
Prey (PC)
Dead Rising (x360)
Saints Row (x360)
Feat Extraction Point (PC)
Gears of War (x360)
Guitar Hero (ps2 - on medium)

13

You using a rental service for the 360 games? I can see finishing games that you’ve rented moreso than ones you’ve bought. (Hence explaining the skew.)

14

Bleah, the problem with feeble estimates is that I have no idea which bracket to mark. I’m guessing I’ve played more than 15, but less than 36. The annoying part is trying to guess whether it’s closer to 21 or 28, and that depends on whether those 300 hours spent on Civ4/Warlords count as 15 games or 6 games. Plus there’s all the whole problem of figuring out what to do with the odd afternoon here and there spent playing Guitar Hero or Dead Rising at a friend’s place, or the 10 minute breaks spent playing Oasis, etc.

  • Alan
15

Yeah I know, it sucks doesn’t it? But what choice did I have? NONE, that’s what.

However, 300 hours of Civ4 / Warlords = 6 games (divide by 50 like I said in the OP) :-D

16

Meh. I just took games PLAYED, not hours put in. Thats a worthless estimate right there, as I don’t think 20 hours put into a game should make it count as played.

That, and I honestly don’t have any idea how many I played. A guess would peg it at TOO many, but that isn’t an option.

17

Wheni ts all said in done the number should be around 15. Thats not finished though.

18

Nah, though I guess it would be skewed by XBLA games and the whole new-and-shiny factor.

19

Talking strictly of games I purchased and played (whether all the way through or not) I chose 6-10, though it might be 10-15. I don’t want to count the 10 minutes or so I ended up playing some random game at a friends.

20

No idea. I probably bought 30+ games, and finished or near-finished a half-dozen.

Edit: My vote is screwed up; by your rules, it should probably count in the 15 - 21 range.