Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

Scheduled a doctor's appointment about my suspected Carpal Tunnel. My arms are killing me today after playing Kingdom Hearts, had to turn it off.

@AdamantiumClaws Hope you get some good news!

Apparently playing the Switch is almost unbearable for people with Carpal Tunnel.

Thanks man.

Really, do you know why? I was hoping to get one for my birthday.

@JohnnyShoulder what happened at PGG, i watch there videos every now and again and i enjoy them but i haven't heard of anything happening

@FullbringIchigo Gaz had let Jake and Liam go cos of spiralling costs. Then Mike handed in his notice as he wanted to do his own thing.

So Gaz was on his own for a bit but now has freelancers in to help him.

I'm a bit behind on their vids but he is posting updates on Pateron every few days.

I've never had any issues with rumble, it's pretty fun. And yeah my main playstyle for the switch will be with pro controller so I'll probably be fine.

What's wrong with the PS HITS games?
It looks like they haven't pressed some of them, for example Yakuza 0 which is downloadable on the PS Store, labeled as PS Hits, while its retail version is not available...

@andreoni79 a quick look and it’s available on the amazon uk store.

@Thrillho Then it's a problem only here in Italy. Amazon and other retailers sell the original Yakuza O for € 32 but the PS HITS version is missing...
https://www.amazon.it/s/ref=sr_st_date-desc-rank?keywords=ps+...

@andreoni79 I’m pretty sure I saw Y0 Hits version at GameStop here in the States. But some of the other Hits series I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen out in the wild yet.

So I did something stupid today.
I got thinking about all the great games I want to play that are coming out soon, or that recently came out. I guess I was prompted by reading the Divinity Original Sin 2 review and I really have my interest piqued. But I thought to myself that no, I just simply can’t add another 100 hr game to my backlog. So it prompted me to look at my backlog. And I also looked over the list of games I already plan to buy in the next 6 months.
Then I started doing some math.
With the use of howlongtobeat.com and by my own estimates, I added the total hours of gaming that I have in my backlog. Then I added the total hours in estimation of the games on my future purchase list.
So my backlog is about 1,014 hours of game time.
The games I plan to own in the next 6 months I estimate to be about 600 hours of game time. (A very rough estimate, I realize. Red Dead 2 in 50 hours? That’s probably optimistic)
So the grand total is 1,614 hours of gaming. That’s 67 Days. Or if I game an average of 6 hours everyday - it will take 270 days.

Sony, please delay the PS5. I beg you.

@Th3solution Well that was stupid!

I'm actually resigned to knowing that I'll never get through my backlog - and also that I likely won't be getting a PS5 (of course, I say that now...).

@KALofKRYPTON If PS5 is backwards compatible, then I will probably buy it at launch. If not, then I reckon by my calculations I’ll still have plenty of PS4 games to play through first.

@Th3solution Same here - my PS4 backlog is huge and launch console line ups are often bare. If PS5 is b/c then I would be far more likely to jump in otherwise, I will keep on pumping time into my current gen consoles.

@Th3solution It will probably be longer than that if like me you work in the week and 'only' get one or two hours a day. Weekends I usually play for a lot longer if I'm not doing anything.

Not sure I want to know mine! But you have put down the gauntlet and may have to now lol!

If a games good and holds my attention I'll pump tens of hours into it without thinking twice. It shouldn't be a chore. If a game isn't worth 100+ hours I'll stop playing midway and forget about it. Backlog smacklog I say!

@kyleforrester87 I don’t get people who finish a 100+ hour game just to finish when they knew well before then they didn’t really like it. How do you spend so much time doing that. The only person I could understand it with is a friend I ha e who beaten every game he’s ever bought baring a broken disco or big stopping him. His backlog isn’t there. No, I don’t know how he does it.

@kyleforrester87 Yer so cool, try playing Star Fox Zero for a 100 hours

@Octane it's about time I got a bit more recognition round here for how cool I am. Thanks for that.

@Jaz007 @kyleforrester87 Well, you bring up a good point I hadn’t considered. So, in my estimation of the future gaming hours I have at my disposal for the foreseeable future, I failed to consider the attrition rate of games that I play, because - yes, I don’t finish every game I play. As you say, sometimes a game you think you’ll like is just not fun or engaging and so you drop it like yesterday’s underwear. Despite being selective on choosing what to buy and play, sometimes you just misjudge a game’s appeal. So I need to account for the fact I won’t want to finish all those games. So looking back at my previous 25 games, I did not finish to see the end of 5 of them, so my drop rate tends to be about 1 out of 5, or 20%. Factoring in a 20% drop rate, my time investment for my current and future backlog is down to around 1300 hrs. That saves me about a month and a half to two months toward being up to speed and ready for the next gen.
@JohnnyShoulder Yeah, the depressing thing is an average of 6 hour of game time per day is no where near what I can accomplish on a consistent basis. I do work for a living and occasional deal with actual humans in the flesh. Perhaps the next portion of my mental exercise will be to calculate my average daily game playtime. I have no idea how to get that other than to keep a log for the next few months. ....Now if I actually do that, I really need to question my already fragile grip on my own sanity.