Random poster in a thread about games: "Please tell me you've played more than a hundred games in your life. Think about it. A hundred. Should seem like a small number, compared to probably over a million games out there"
Interesting question. How many games HAVE I played? For the purposes of this question, let's say games you've played for a minimum of one hour. Beyond that, the definition is up to you (arcade, phone, flash, console, PC, whatever).
How many games are in your Steam/GoG libraries today?
I'm going to work on a more accurate count, but my GoG/Steam libraries have about 150 games, and I have certainly not played all of those. I would guess my bodycount is between 300 and 400, spanning from the late 80s to today, with a greatly diminished count in the last ten years.
What's yours?
It's just impossible for me to tally. Besides the consoles I've owned and the games I've played at the houses of forgotten friends in childhood, I also grew up in the arcade era and floated around waggling the sticks and bashing the buttons on tons of games. Even setting a 1 hour minimum play-time would keep a lot of those in my total, but the ones I played for less than that still gave me a lot of entertainment at the time so it feels like a shame to discount them.
I have 225 played games on Steam and probably over 200 of those have at least 1 hour in them. I also played a shitload of games on PC before Steam was a thing and continue to play a lot outside Steam - GOG (mostly without Galaxy, so no stats), emulation, obscure Jap shit, VNs, piracy... So that added to my gaming childhood has to put me at at least 500, but it could even be something as nuts as 7-800 or even 1000.
I've just completely lost track. My problem is the amount of games I actually beat is a ridiculously small fraction of the larger total. Just this year I have hundreds of hours in several JRPGs and some miscellaneous Steam purchases, but I didn't finish any of them. The only games I finished this year were Arkham Knight, Rance 2, Yakuza 5 and Ys 2. Ironically I probably got more enjoyment out of most of the games I gave up on than these four, every one of which I forced myself to beat for some or other ocd-style reason.