When I was an active gamer, I was doing what this guy was doing every Steam sale. I'd use some third-party site which brought up the Steam specials, I'd sort them by discount percentage and look closely at what was 80%+ off. Consequently, I amassed hundreds of games for very little money, the vast majority of which I'll probably never play.

Looking at this list:

Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition is 85% off and gets my general approval. I have completed this game. I can't remember whether it took dozens or over a hundred hours, however.

The others I either don't know or don't see as worthwhile, i.e. I probably wouldn't buy them with the benefit of foresight. So as for those I know but don't see as worthwhile (regarding the time to finish let alone complete them, that is, not the price):

The BioShock games I view as generic slop. I finished the second one, gave up on the first part way, and never bothered to complete any of them. Avoid.

The Mass Effect games are just 'whatever'. I finished the first game, completed and actually liked the second game (I'm far from the only one who thinks that the second game is a cut above the rest), and gave up quickly on the third. However, since the player character is carried over between games along with the results of certain decisions (e.g. I chose to save Kaidan over Ashley in ME1, which determines which of the two is in the subsequent games), you really want to commit to finishing or completing them in order. It's all or nothing. Today, I'd say it's too time-consuming to be worthwhile. (If you play them out of order, the game assumes a canonical decision, e.g. if you don't use an ME1 player character in ME2, ME2 will always assume that Kaidan is the surviving character of the two: replacing Kaidan with Ashley in the later games requires an ME1 game save in which Ashley was spared.)

The Metro games are very average, run-of-the-mill linear first-person shooters. I completed the first two but do not really have remarks to make on them. They are the closest thing that I'd make to a second recommendation.

When I was a more active gamer, I was doing what this guy was doing every Steam sale. I'd use some third-party site which brought up the Steam specials, I'd sort them by discount percentage and look closely at what was 80%+ off. Consequently, I amassed hundreds of games for very little money, the vast majority of which I'll probably never play.

Looking at this list:

Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition is 85% off and gets my general approval. I have completed this game. I can't remember whether it took dozens or over a hundred hours, however.

The others I either don't know or don't see as worthwhile, i.e. I probably wouldn't buy them with the benefit of foresight. So as for those I know but don't see as worthwhile (regarding the time to finish let alone complete them, that is, not the price):

The BioShock games I view as generic slop. I finished the second one, gave up on the first part way, and never bothered to complete any of them. Avoid.

The Mass Effect games are just 'whatever'. I finished the first game, completed and actually liked the second game (I'm far from the only one who thinks that the second game is a cut above the rest), and gave up quickly on the third. However, since the player character is carried over between games along with the results of certain decisions (e.g. I chose to save Kaidan over Ashley in ME1, which determines which of the two is in the subsequent games), you really want to commit to finishing or completing them in order. It's all or nothing. Today, I'd say it's too time-consuming to be worthwhile. (If you play them out of order, the game assumes a canonical decision, e.g. if you don't use an ME1 player character in ME2, ME2 will always assume that Kaidan is the surviving character of the two: replacing Kaidan with Ashley in the later games requires an ME1 game save in which Ashley was spared.)

The Metro games are very average, run-of-the-mill linear first-person shooters. I completed the first two but do not really have remarks to make on them. They are the closest thing that I'd make to a second recommendation.

When I was a more active gamer, I was doing what this guy was doing every Steam sale. I'd use some third-party site which brought up the Steam specials, I'd sort them by discount percentage and look closely at what was 80%+ off. Consequently, I amassed hundreds of games for very little money, the vast majority of which I'll probably never play.

Looking at this list:

Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition is 85% off and gets my general approval. I have completed this game. I can't remember whether it took dozens or over a hundred hours, however.

The others I either don't know or don't see as worthwhile, i.e. I probably wouldn't buy them with the benefit of foresight. So as for those I know but don't see as worthwhile (regarding the time to finish let alone complete them, that is, not the price):

The BioShock games I view as generic slop. I finished the second one, gave up on the first part way, and never bothered to complete any of them. Avoid.

The Mass Effect games are just 'whatever'. I finished the first game, completed and actually liked the second game (I'm far from the only one who thinks that the second game is a cut above the rest), and gave up quickly on the third. However, since the character is carried over between games along with the results of certain decisions (e.g. I chose to spare Kaidan over Ashley in ME1, which determines which of the two is in the subsequent games), you really want to commit to finishing or completing them in order. It's all or nothing. Today, I'd say it's too time-consuming to be worthwhile.

The Metro games are very average, run-of-the-mill linear first-person shooters. I completed the first two but do not really have remarks to make on them. They are the closest thing that I'd make to a second recommendation.