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Cavalary: What comes to mind is https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gentlemans_backlog_club though I'm sure I recall newer ones too, but not their exact names so not sure what to search for.
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Carradice: Thank you! I think it was a different thread, but this one is not bad. The other one was focused on games from the year XXX, maybe it was a year a month or something like that.
Oh, you mean the Time Travel threads?
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/time_machine_departures_thread OP updated till the 2005 thread.
Then you have 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. The next one should have been this month, but with basically zero interest in the 2009 one, that seems to be it.
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Carradice: Sometimes one gets a book, then the right time for the book has to come, but eventually it comes, if it appealed to you in the first place. However, now I tend to just get the books that I want to read right away... Same with games I guess.
That's how it used to be for me when I was younger or poorer.

Now, as with music, movies and games etc, it is more about opportunity knocks and having variety within easy reach, and being less reliant on anyone or anything. I just read as the mood takes me, and sometimes I get caught up in certain types of things for a while. The luxury of getting old I guess, being retired, and having more free time and a little more money to call upon.

I am far from being rich, by any measure of the stick, but my collections, built up over many years, make me feel rich or like a king. And really, with all the crap one has to put up with in the world sometimes, they are my bastion ... something I can disappear into for a while, kind of like a drug, but with less harmful side effects.

The trick of course, is to not feel you have to watch, read or play everything you own, and just enjoy your library of things for what they grant you overall ... in a way, a measure of contentment. The only fly in the ointment is time and health, but that's the peril of life.
Post edited September 25, 2023 by Timboli
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babark: Playing an incredible game near its release is usually (barring bugs and things that need to be fixed) a far better experience than playing it 10 years later.
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It was the same for me with many games I tried years after release, when the world had moved on to easier interfaces, game design concepts, etc. I just couldn't get very far into the Last Express, for example. Or Gothic games. And while I played Dragon Age: Origins around the time it came out, it didn't stick, and when I tried it again a year or two ago, I just couldn't wrap my head around the way the game plays.
That can happen when you play newer games (with better UX) between older games. If you try to play games by period, it may be less of an issue.
I also play (older) games as an historical voyage, to better understand their evolution and influences, their technical limitations and how they worked around them.
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BreOl72: Nah, I never felt pressured by my huge backlog.
I've felt the pressure of your huge backlog, every time you stand next to me. But every time I offer to help with that, you just say "nah" and swagger away.

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