With very limited successes.
Because I keep coming up against a hassle of the games aged, and the environment they are now in has moved on.
I have something of a hoard of titles, and some, well hell they were great in their time, but today, well other games that are newer, are often just as good at the setting, but having been made this decade, they are often so much better than anything in previous decades as far as actually running without freaking me out (although that comment really only goes back to the last two decades if you ask me as prior to that, well I'm not in a hurry to pretend I'm about to play something on a pre 1990 doodad I don't own).
In some cases, I bought the game, (because I bought the hype) and now, well I never got around to the game, and time marches on, and someone has since made a game for that setting, and it actually runs properly, without needing geek skill to figure out why it isn't running on a perfectly fine computer.
I don't really want to make a big fuss to run something, that needs me to master all sorts of finagaling silly tricks and settings. And there are limits to how much whining I am willing to do with my computer buddy
Campaign series for example. The graphics are really not THAT great. It was great in it's time. But there are no shortage of tactical platoon level amusements out there.
Close Combat series. Well I am not sure what is the problem, but the graphics in it are not at all cooperating today at least. And it's just not going to be unseating Battle Academy any way.
My Battles in series titles. Just not reeeeally wanting to play those currently. I have never mastered the interface. I'd rather be pushing some cardboard, no interface to master.
Panzer General/Allied General/Whatever General, why play them if I have Panzer Corps?
Some games have nearly no foot print on a computer that manages TB of data space. But why clutter up the directory tree with clutter all the same.
Of course I have some newer games, but, I don't think my head was on straight when I bought them
I'm as bad with doodads in my kitchen though. My Ninja system is awesome, but I have yet to do more than make a smoothie with it. 300 bucks to make smoothies, is sort of dumb.That's how I see some of my wargame purchases. You can rave all you want about some titles, but, really, they are over hyped over blown, good ways to spend money, and not much else if you never play them.
I bought several titles convinced they were good ideas. And now they just get older and older, and just a matter of time before they fall behind and eventually no longer seem to relate to my computer's OS.
I'm likely going to be uninstalling a lot of titles, and just ignoring they exist I suppose.
I'd rather turn on the computer and see 5 games I actually MIGHT play, instead of seeing more than 50 games, and I never get around to them and in some cases I fail to notice that they don't even run now.
How many of YOUR games, are really more clutter than value? No seriously, how many times have you played it this month? This year? Can you even recall the last time you played it?
I think if someone walked up and said, I'll give you 100 bucks for your stash of games complete with serials, I'd likely proclaim, SOLD!. And I know I likely would be giving away 1000 bucks in purchases. But the money is already gone eh, and the time to play them too I suppose.
I'm just glad they don't take up shelf space.
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