how many games on your pc?

EddieA · Post by **EddieA** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 8:40 pm

I still have the most! No one can beat me!

Gwar21 · Post by **Gwar21** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 10:50 pm

EddieA wrote:I still have the most! No one can beat me!

Uh oh, you've tempted fate. Now someone's undoubtably going to post that they have over 14,000 games installed, and you'll have no one to blame but yourself.

RunningMn9 · Post by **RunningMn9** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 11:11 pm

I've had as many as 150 installed at once. Currently I have two. City of Heroes and Half-Life 2.

Enough · Post by **Enough** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 1:35 pm

RunningMn9 wrote:I've had as many as 150 installed at once. Currently I have two. City of Heroes and Half-Life 2.

I seem to remember you are in the gigantically huge hdd space club too. Don't you have like a terabyte of storage to use?

Freezer-TPF- · Post by **Freezer-TPF-** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 2:14 pm

More than I can possibly hope to play. I still enjoy installing them, though. My ritual:

Make fresh pot of coffee, pour myself a cup.
Open new game, admire contents, read through manual.
Go to pc and download latest patch for game.
Install game, continue flipping through manual.
Patch game.
Launch game, configure options.
Play tutorial/first level.
Get up from the PC with a feeling of accomplishment and do something else.

Play again the next day/week/never.

EddieA · Post by **EddieA** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 7:09 pm

"I've had as many as 150 installed at once."
Is that a challenge?

I'm about out of space, but if I stick to old DOS games, I can probably fit 50 or so on

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 7:35 pm

I stopped counting at 100, although plenty are small games (eg, infocom games, etc). I'm using about 80GB on the drive I install games onto.

driver · Post by **driver** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 8:34 pm

Guild Wars
The Longest Journey
Planescape: Torment
Unreal Tournament 2004
Nexus: The Jupiter Incident
Ground Control I, GC: Dark Conspiracy, and GC II
Vampire: Bloodlines

RunningMn9 · Post by **RunningMn9** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 8:59 pm

Enough wrote:
RunningMn9 wrote:I've had as many as 150 installed at once. Currently I have two. City of Heroes and Half-Life 2.
I seem to remember you are in the gigantically huge hdd space club too. Don't you have like a terabyte of storage to use?

I am closing in on having a terabyte of storage available to me (860GB total) - but not all on one PC. My current desktop has 530 GB of storage available to it (250 internal, 280 external).

And when I say 150 games, I'm not talking about shareware games, or DOS titles, or emulated games. If I added those up, it would be in the thousands. We are talking 150 top PC titles over the past 6-7 years. My goal was to install every game I owned, but installing them all was taking FOREVER.

Kelric · Post by **Kelric** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 9:02 pm

RunningMn9 wrote:
Enough wrote:
RunningMn9 wrote:I've had as many as 150 installed at once. Currently I have two. City of Heroes and Half-Life 2.
I seem to remember you are in the gigantically huge hdd space club too. Don't you have like a terabyte of storage to use?
I am closing in on having a terabyte of storage available to me (860GB total) - but not all on one PC. My current desktop has 530 GB of storage available to it (250 internal, 280 external).

And when I say 150 games, I'm not talking about shareware games, or DOS titles, or emulated games. If I added those up, it would be in the thousands. We are talking 150 top PC titles over the past 6-7 years. My goal was to install every game I owned, but installing them all was taking FOREVER.

A terabyte?! A terabyte?! Man, imagine the music collection I could have with that. Wow....

shaggydoug · Post by **shaggydoug** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 11:47 pm

Kelric wrote:
shaggydoug wrote: I need to figure out how to uninstall some of the HL2 stuff because I've "finished" it and don't see going back (i.e. opposing force, HL1). I looked for an uninstall option and searched the site but can't find a definitive answer. I want to just delete the game dir but can't assume it's that easy.

- shaggy
Open up Steam, go to Play Games, right-click a game, go to Properties, then Delete Local Game Content. All set.

You're my hero. I was right-clicking on the game looking for a delete option. Who knew it would be under Properties.

- shaggy

Beer Goggles · Post by **Beer Goggles** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 9:06 am

Too many games for my lazy self to count them all or list them.

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 9:47 am

RunningMn9 wrote:I am closing in on having a terabyte of storage available to me (860GB total) - but not all on one PC. My current desktop has 530 GB of storage available to it (250 internal, 280 external).

/Meal hugs RM9

Although I can do that math. On my two PCs:
Desktop
120GB
40GB

Notebook
40GB

External
120GB

Pfft, 320GB total. Hell, I'm working on a drive program that's 56% bigger than that.

Sitting here in my cube at work I've got roughly 18 TB worth of drives awaiting various activities.

~Neal

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:34 pm

The Meal wrote:
RunningMn9 wrote:I am closing in on having a terabyte of storage available to me (860GB total) - but not all on one PC. My current desktop has 530 GB of storage available to it (250 internal, 280 external).
/Meal hugs RM9

Although I can do that math. On my two PCs:
Desktop
120GB
40GB

Notebook
40GB

External
120GB

Pfft, 320GB total. Hell, I'm working on a drive program that's 56% bigger than that.

Sitting here in my cube at work I've got roughly 18 TB worth of drives awaiting various activities.

~Neal

I've got 2 drives: One IDE 150GB, and One SATA:: 300GB.

I'm planning on getting another 300GB Sata Drive so I'll have more room for tivoing at high quality.

750 GB. Sweet.

Oh, and I have a laptop with about 10gb or something. I might have a couple of unused hard drives lying around with room for 1-2 gb or something (though who knows if they still work).

RunningMn9 · Post by **RunningMn9** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:42 pm

The Meal wrote:/Meal hugs RM9

Hopefully you work for Western Digital, as they seem to have gotten all of my HD money.

Desktop #1: 250 GB
Desktop #2: 250 GB
Laptop: 80 GB

External #1: 160 GB
External #2: 120 GB

And would you believe that things still feel cramped?

Greg Wak · Post by **Greg Wak** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:26 pm

Freezer-TPF you and I are matter/antimatter. Do you ever have a game that just grabs you and makes you finish it to the exclusion of other games?

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:54 pm

RunningMn9 wrote:Hopefully you work for Western Digital, as they seem to have gotten all of my HD money.

No, but I still own some stock from when I worked in their (now defunct) Enterprise division.

Desktop #1: 250 GB
Desktop #2: 250 GB
Laptop: 80 GB

External #1: 160 GB
External #2: 120 GB

And would you believe that things still feel cramped?

Absolutely.

~Neal

Freezer-TPF- · Post by **Freezer-TPF-** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 3:09 pm

Greg Wak wrote:Freezer-TPF you and I are matter/antimatter. Do you ever have a game that just grabs you and makes you finish it to the exclusion of other games?

Yes, definitely! In the past several months, I have actually completed Half-Life 2 and Armed and Dangerous on the PC, along with Jade Empire on the Xbox. Other PC games I have played a decent amount of recently (but still less that 25% finished) are Jedi Academy and Vampire: Bloodlines.

I didn't used to be like this.

Back when I had more flexible time and less extra money (as a grad student), I used to only buy one game at a time (mostly RPGs and FPSs) and play that game to completion before getting another one. Now, I have less time to game but more extra money, so I tend to buy many more games than I have time to play.

Also, I often have long periods of time between gaming sessions, so that makes it easy to get distracted with buying/installing fresh games instead of sticking with one I have already started. I have started to adjust my gaming habits to games that are easier to pick up after long periods off, such as more FPSs and Xbox games and fewer epic PC RPGs. Lately I have also cut down a bit on my "just install and check out the first level" habit in order to conserve HD space (sorry Neal

), but that still hasn't stopped me from buying games I don't have time to play, like the copy of Icewind Dale II I snagged a few weeks ago.

It is rare that I pay anywhere near full price for a game, but when I do that means it is a game I want to play immediately (and keep playing). HL2 and Jade Empire are recent examples of that. Since most of my games are bargain < $20 purchases, I feel less guilty about them languishing on my backlog shelf.

theohall · Post by **theohall** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 6:52 am

How much stuff can we count?

1) Laptop - 15 games. (Been as high as 20)
2) Portable USB Hard drive - 40 - Gee, guess what this is usually used for. Music does have a significant chunk of space as well.
3) The home PC - upwards of 50. Depends on what my daughter has installed while I've been gone during the past year and half.

tals · Post by **tals** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 2:34 am

In order of what currently gets the playtime

GTA SA
BF2
Soldiers Heroes of WWII
Alpha Centauri
Dominions 2
Live for Speed 1 + demo 2

Currently not playing but still hanging on
Mount and Blade
Guild Wars
Half Life 2
Freelancer
Worms World Party
Trackmania
Black and White

Tals

Sgt.Abomb · Post by **Sgt.Abomb** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:17 pm

Probelly about 40 or maybe 50 dont remeber the last time i checked.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:03 pm

lessee...

BF2
EQ2
GTA:SA
HL2
Thief 3
Diablo 2

I have just over 100GB free space left over, but I'm anal about cleaning up games I'm done with.