2015's Mountain of Shame

2015 was, to me anyway, one of the greatest years in videogames. All three of the home console makers, already well established after being out for over a year, were pumping out one great game after another. Being a fairly well funded consumer, I shamelessly bought them all (or close to it).

I played quite a few of them, as can be seen by my previous post that covered that glorious year, but many - too many! - are still sitting on a shelf, still wrapped in a coat of shrink wrapping.

The list you see below is (to the best of my records) all of the games I bought last year...AND HAVEN'T PLAYED!

PS4

Assassin's Creed Syndicate

Battlefield Hardline

Bloodborne

Borderlands: The Handsome Jack Collection

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3

Disney Infinity 3.0

Dragon Quest Heroes

FIFA 16

Godzilla

Lego Dimensions

Little Big Planet 3

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Mortal Kombat X

Onechanbara Z2 Chaos

Resident Evil: Revelations 2

Saint's Row IV: Re-elected

Shadow of Mordor GOTY Edition

Sniper Elite III

The Legend of Kay Anniversary Edition

Toy Soldiers: Toy Chest

Uncharted: Nathan Drake Collection

Until Dawn

Xbox One

Batman Arkham Knight

Dead Rising 3

F1 2015

FIFA 14

Forza 6

Rise of the Tomb Raider

Rock Band 4

Ryse: Son of Rome

State of Decay: Year One Survival Edition

Sunset Overdrive

Wii U

Bayonetta 2

Huyrule Warriors

Kirby and the Rainbow Curse

Mario Maker

Mario Party 10

Rodea

Splatoon

Super Smash Bros.

Xenoblade Chronicles X

Yoshi's Woolly World

PS3

Akibara's Trip

Assassin's Creed Rogue

Batman: Arkham Origins

Battleship

Deception IV: Blood Ties

Falling Skies

Lost Planet 3

Risen 2

Risen 3

Star Trek

Tales of Symphonia Chronicles

Tokyo Ghost Hunters

Wii
Muramasa: The Demon Blade

PS2
Motorstorm: Arctic Edge

PC

3/4's Home

Abyss Odyssey

Assassin's Creed Liberations

Astray

Blue Estate

Cibele

D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die

Depth

Dispatcher

Dream

Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered

Final Fantasy VIII

Five Nights at Freddy's 2, 3, and 4

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father

Grow Home

Hatred

Her Story

I am Bread

Kholat

Pathologic Classic HD

Rake

Shadowrun: Dragonfall

Tales form the Borderlands

The Purring Quest

Wolfenstein: The Old Blood

and a Playstation TV unit with a 16gb memory card.

Mind you, a lot of these were purchased used or during various sales, usually with my Best Buy Gamer Club Unlocked discount (I can't pass up a bargain), but we are still talking about a significant investment in discs, plastic cases, and 1's and 0's. The size of this list does owe itself, in part anyway, to the addition of two new consoles this year. (Come on, if I'm going to buy a console, I need games to play on it, right?)

Now it's nearly the end of January and not only have I not bought anything other than a couple toys-to-life figures, but I'm still playing a game from last year, Fallout 4.

So, here it is: I'm not buying any new games in 2016.

"Why?", I hear you cry, while Best Buy and Amazon lower their prospective sales numbers for 2016.

If something does catch my eye (and so far there isn't much I've heard is coming out that I'm interested in), I'll add it to a list and maybe have an end of the year shopping spree...to stock up for 2017. Plus, I'll still be getting games for free via PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live Gold, so it's not like I won't have any additions to my collection.

I'll be revisiting this list next January to see how many of 2015's games got played. Should make for an interesting comparison.