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I'll usually have two or three on the go. A story based game, like an rpg or Metal Gear or something that requires me to dim the lights and put on the 'phones, and an action based game I can play while listening to music or the radio, like a fighter, racer, shooter or a level-up fest like PSO or Lodoss War.
Defnitely a mood thing for me. It's rare that I'll play a single game constantly until I've beaten it. I like to have several options because I never know when I'll have time to play or what my mindset will be at the time.
Currently:
HSG3: to relax
VF4: when I had a bad day @ work
WSB2K2: cuz it's baseball season
Shadow Hearts: when I get a few free hours at once
Also Maximo, Frequency, GW2, Cosmic Smash, & Rez depending on my mood.
Well, I also tend to play multiple games at the same time. Its usually harder when playing 2 rpgs, and having going back from one to another and remembering, where you actually stoped :)
Right now I'm playing, RE Remake("speed run" to get secrets), Alone in the Dark: New Nightmare, Heroes of Might and Magic 4 on my PC, and Vampire Night. Also we having regular bounts with DJ at DOA3 and Bloody Roar 3.
I like my games with fava beans and chianti
I try not to have too many RPGs going at once, but it happens. Right now I'm in the middle of FF7, DW7, and Golden Sun.
I still spend most of my time playing shooters. Giga Wing 2 is probably the only games I've touched this past week.
I treat my collection like an arcade. When I feel like playing, I wander into the room and stare at all the titles before "plunking a few quarters" into some of them. 15 minutes of Magical Drop 3 here, 30 minutes of Strikers 1945 there. Unfortunatly, that is how I play all of my games, old, new, arcadish, story driven, or whatever. Needless to say I haven't made much progress in Resident Evil. :) But I just see them as games, not tasks to finish. I always get my enjoyment out of my titles even if it is in disjointed bursts. Every now and then a special game will come along and grab me (Skies of Arcadia, Castlevania SotN) and I will play marathon sessions untill it's over, but that is extreemly rare.
My most recent playing has been Wildguns (SNES), Rallisport, JSRF, DOA3, Metal Slug 3, Real Bout FFS, Aladin (Genny), Resident Evil (GC), Money Puzzle Exchanger, Neo Turf Masters, and Cannon Spike. I can't really say that's what I am playing now because I may go back to some of them soon or they may go back to the shelf for a week or month or so. That's just what I have played most recently. My poor Saturn would be seeing more action, but my NTSC TV has been moved out of my game room and the RGB SCART cable I bought for my Saturn turned out to be the wrong flavor (japanese).
Depends. It's rare these days to have a game hook me so that I play absolutely nothing else from beginning to end, the last games to do that were MGS2 and Shenmue II I believe. Otherwise, I tend to wander from game to game but concentrate on one or two that I really want to finish off. I'll also force myself not to play a new game at times so that I can finish what I've started. Right now I wanna take care of Dragon Warrior I on GBC before I dive fully into Advance Wars or polishing off Golden Sun.