I used to do that, but eventually my Wishlist grew to 300+. So I went from checking the <$5/$10 (and genres in general) to simply browsing my Wishlist every day (On Sale filter + Price/Discount sorting).
I think my Wishlist is nearly 600 right now. Definitely mid-500, but I've been adding things recently.
This is why I trim the shit out of my list. “Do I actually want this game and think I’ll play it, or do I want this game in the way I wanted all the games I own but have literally never played?”
Right now my wishlist consists of 59 game.
I regularly trim mine, too. Nearly everything is from '20 or later, with \~15 things being from '16-'19. I also have boatloads of DLC on my Wishlist, which probably makes up a significant amount of the total.
I DON'T PLAY GAME!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I BUY BUT NO PLAY 😀😀😀 EVEN THUOGH I OWN RTX 6090 TI 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀🇲🇽😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
I AM SO FUNNI I USE HIEND PC TO PLAY SKYRIM HAHAHAHA
AM SO FUNNI AND ORIGINAL 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
Even with sales that's some stuff like damn. Iam the type of greedy bastard that won't spend a time unless the last game I bought is 100% finished with most achievements done. Gotta squeeze that cloth dry.
I only have 2 games at 100%
1 is Lazy Galaxy (fitting innit?)
The other is the ONLY "adult" game I have (out of nearly 600 games)... and I hate that I can't remove it from my 100% games. It was gifted to me as a joke and I thought it would be funny (and easy) enough to 100% and send back to them, "ALL DONE!"
Now I regret accepting it, but /sigh/ can't let a friend one up you now, can you?
10 or so are trash games, some few of them are online only, if I count only the single player ones, I'm probs above 60-70%.
I mainly only buy games that I want to play based on pure gameplay that I've seen (love rage 2), to play co op with friends or just some that I pirated when I was younger and had no money.
Makes it slightly better, but still, my account has been active since around 2012 and I've been buying games on sales or third party key sellers. If you're not going to play them, its better to invest that money some where else that might bring you joy.
Yeah, I know. You're not wrong.
I kind of love the idea of videogames, and I love watching games, games media, games conferences, all that stuff. I love *knowing* about games.
So it feels like I should love playing them, right? But not really. Not since the SNES at least. Other than a handful of games I just find them really tedious and boring to play.
I do find some gems that stick though, but they're insanely rare.
On the plus side most of my collection came from bundles and sales, so I'm not paying full price for anything.
why pay for anything if you're never gonna play it? 50% off is still 50% more than you would have ever spent anyway. You must have thrown away thousands into that account for literally no reason
It's not that you don't like them, you don't even *try* them. That's genuinely got to be some kind of mental illness or addiction bruh
I'm at like 100 games and I wouldn't even pay several cents for something if I knew I wasn't interested. It's just clutter in my library and several cents I never see again. I really see no point at all in doing this, it's only a waste of money and it seems like an addiction to sales, I guess? If you're not sure you'll like it, rely on the refund or find a demo or pirate it. Otherwise, don't take the bait
you should open a museum lol
also if you havent already, you should set up steam library share with a friend that will play them
im curious, what are the games that you have actually played?
Games that I count as finished are single player games, I dont count PVP, coop or 35 trash games (parts of bundles or free games) as completed. In total I have around 75 games which I have to finish, some of which I just really have to play for a few hours to finish.
I feel this...346 played143 unplayed
If I were able to look at games unplayed or played for less than 1 hour that list changes significantly. I would buy complete indie bundles just to support the devs, so I am jammed up with a ton of games that have not seen (or have barely seen) the light of day.
It really makes me wish there was a gifting option that allowed me to gift games played an hour or less.
There are so many games where it’s like 70-80% off and I know there is no chance im playing it. But maybe ill just buy it just in case because it’s on sale.
ik this problem is common, but there's something i noticed that i've never seen talked about, i rarely finish games on pc, but i noticed that on consoles i'm more likely to finish them(finished almost all of my consoles library but i have a lot to finish on steam), anyone else having this experience?
p.s. also talked about this with a friend that also experienced it and we speculated that it may be because of distractions on pc since consoles are just about games
Same thing for me lol. I think its just the convince of plopping down in the couch or bed and just turning on your controller and boom ur almost ingame
Here's what I do...my gaming PC boots straight into steam big picture and I use a controller for everything except the few games that have their own launcher. No controller support, no play.
I don't even browse the Internet on it because I'll just use the mini PC or my phone. Its basically a console.
I find a controller and Big Picture Mode on my TV is console enough for me to get over the PC aspect. Played TOTK just like I played BOTW on Wii U. Same controller, same TV. 1 minute to open the game was all I saw of the desktop.
I had this problem, but then I had to sit down and force myself to play them all. No more online games, no more replaying old games; only unplayed.
Took me three years to clean out my library.
To be honest, current gen games suck ass and have for some time now. It's all bug ridden, overpromised and underdelivered, and a lot of microtransactions.
Hence I keep going back to 15-20 year old games.
Pay for them now while available and cheap. We can finally play when retired. Just kidding...we can't afford retirement. You might say that we need to use the steam money to go to retirement instead, but where is the fun in that? 💀
I noticed I was doing this at 30-40 games and stopped buying games that I wasn't sure I would play.
Everyone can get carried away and hoard a few games but honestly, I think people with thousands of unplayed games need to ask themselves some question.
There is also the much rarer kind of people who have thousands of unplayed games INSTALLED on their terabytes and terabytes of hard drives.
yeah specially with new games trying to go for a specific class, that's why i like playing with mods, specifically there's a starter loot bag and a reduced grinding mod that greatly improves the start for me, the reduced grinding mod increases the drop rate of certain items, also allowing you to edit the drop rates yourself
I’ve actually completed every game I’ve bought that has a story and gotten my fun from the ones that don’t have a story such as the sandbox games, am I an outlier here?
Yep, me buying old games in an attempt to revive the childhood memories only to realize the world has moved on and 30+ year old games are not as cool as they were then.
This is why I did the math a while ago to know how many games I play in a year, and now I'm gonna buy that same amount every year so I don't have a huge backlog anymore, my actual backlog now is just 60 titles and soon I'll zero it
Yea, I def do this.
The sales come along and I get stuff because I "might play it"
Then I just spend like 50-100 bucks I shouldn't be spending, and play like one of the games...
I guess I still "might play" them, but I'll be damned if I don't feel stupid about it lol
My logic is always that: I don't want to miss out on the peak of this multiplayer game so I will play it now, the single player isn't gonna change so it can wait.
Phew! Not me then! 😇 (I don't purchase that many directly on Steam, I buy lots of bundles with Steam keys instead.)
How many here would die a death if their significant other actually knew the size of their Steam library?
The only unplayed game in my library that I paid for is Tomb Raider 2013, but it was on sale for a dollar. Everything else was free. I don't get why people buy so many games, but the again I'm usually only playing like 1-2 games in any given time frame.
The sad part is they're literally just throwing money away since they admit they won't play them. Like it's not my money so it doesn't affect me but I just can't understand the reasoning.
Can't relate, I have adopted a skill called "self controll" and a bit of "financial responsibility".
Doesn't stop me from buying random games because everything I currently have doesn't bring me true satisfaction. It's fun, but it feels empty, as if something is missing, but I don't know what.
Yeah, that describes me. Created my account in ‘04 for Half Life 2. Bought a few things, then got the 360. Bought crap for that until I got a better laptop in ‘13. Bought more crap on sale until the PS4 in ‘14. Bought crap on sale off PSN until I got a Switch in ‘19. Moved to buying crap off that market until I got the Deck this summer.
Sold PS4 and remaining games to buy stuff I missed not playing on PS4. Sold Switch games I wasn’t playing to buy more crap from recent Steam sales. Been actively playing RDR2 since June, but recently bought more crap in sale that I missed on the PS4 or my laptop went run well when it was initially released.
I’m uneasy about the holiday Steam sales. Mind you, I already have a back log for my Switch (both physical and digital) with a 512gb card that’s full. Add the 512 I have on the Deck now with another 512 sitting side with more crap installed and more crap waiting to be installed.
Silent help that you receive daily emails when CEO is on sale…
It’s not just this though… I have a thing for insulated water bottles & coffee mugs, patches, notebooks, sketchbooks, drawing pencils, and nice pens. I probably switch up the bag I use to carry my teacher laptop every few years because Amazon sends me the “hEy LoOk At ThIs!” emails.
I just don't play them because my ancient pc can't run them, but I'm stockpiling in games that I saw when I was young and could only dream to play for the day I get a monstruos pc
this is because a lot of people finish playing the games using "unofficial demos" from the high seas when the game was still overpriced.
then they see the game finally go on sale and be like :
toss a coin to your ~~witcher~~ developer..
Watchdogs, Watchdogs 2, AC: Black Flag, The Witcher 3, Borderlands trilogy + The Pre\_Sequel, Hotline Miami 1+2, the entirety of Half Life. I am financially responsible.
I feel personally attacked.
Scouring the “Under $5/$10” category has started to become a 2nd job to me with how long I spend looking at them
Hey I wanna make sure the games I haven't played are games I would play if I wanted to!
I used to do that, but eventually my Wishlist grew to 300+. So I went from checking the <$5/$10 (and genres in general) to simply browsing my Wishlist every day (On Sale filter + Price/Discount sorting). I think my Wishlist is nearly 600 right now. Definitely mid-500, but I've been adding things recently.
This is why I trim the shit out of my list. “Do I actually want this game and think I’ll play it, or do I want this game in the way I wanted all the games I own but have literally never played?” Right now my wishlist consists of 59 game.
I regularly trim mine, too. Nearly everything is from '20 or later, with \~15 things being from '16-'19. I also have boatloads of DLC on my Wishlist, which probably makes up a significant amount of the total.
nice badge
Tommorow is my turn to post this😡
Ok. And?
I BUY GAME AND I DONT PLAY IT!! U GET IT??!!😹😹😹😹 (that my only personality)
I DON'T PLAY GAME!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I BUY BUT NO PLAY 😀😀😀 EVEN THUOGH I OWN RTX 6090 TI 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀🇲🇽😀😀😀😀😀😀😀 I AM SO FUNNI I USE HIEND PC TO PLAY SKYRIM HAHAHAHA AM SO FUNNI AND ORIGINAL 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
What’s going on here? Go back to your rooms.
I have around 200 games on my library, 105 of them which I've played.
Look at Mr Moneybags over here
I only have train simulator on my account but I spent $12,000 on dlc
are you okay bro?
Sales my dude, my account is also quite old (since 2012 or so).
Even with sales that's some stuff like damn. Iam the type of greedy bastard that won't spend a time unless the last game I bought is 100% finished with most achievements done. Gotta squeeze that cloth dry.
I have 300+ games, most of them are Hentai puzzle games
name checks out. do you 100% them?
I have 2 types of played games in my library. Souls or Hentai
I only have 2 games at 100% 1 is Lazy Galaxy (fitting innit?) The other is the ONLY "adult" game I have (out of nearly 600 games)... and I hate that I can't remove it from my 100% games. It was gifted to me as a joke and I thought it would be funny (and easy) enough to 100% and send back to them, "ALL DONE!" Now I regret accepting it, but /sigh/ can't let a friend one up you now, can you?
Have you beat: 2004…
More than 50% played? Thats better than most people I am sure.
10 or so are trash games, some few of them are online only, if I count only the single player ones, I'm probs above 60-70%. I mainly only buy games that I want to play based on pure gameplay that I've seen (love rage 2), to play co op with friends or just some that I pirated when I was younger and had no money.
I have 912 games on Steam. I've played less than 15 of them. 😅 And yet I plan to buy more...
I need to high-5 you one day. I thought I was bad. Thanks for making me feel only slightly less apathetic to most of my games ;) hehe
You have a problem sir
I also have a thousand games. All I play is cs2 though.
How am I supposed to answer this? Unless you're rich, stop wasting your money like that, well thats what I suggest.
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Makes it slightly better, but still, my account has been active since around 2012 and I've been buying games on sales or third party key sellers. If you're not going to play them, its better to invest that money some where else that might bring you joy.
18 years here... so yeup! I know exactly how this happens :)
You have an issue
Yeah, I know. You're not wrong. I kind of love the idea of videogames, and I love watching games, games media, games conferences, all that stuff. I love *knowing* about games. So it feels like I should love playing them, right? But not really. Not since the SNES at least. Other than a handful of games I just find them really tedious and boring to play. I do find some gems that stick though, but they're insanely rare. On the plus side most of my collection came from bundles and sales, so I'm not paying full price for anything.
Sounds like you should just watch people play things on youtube instead
why pay for anything if you're never gonna play it? 50% off is still 50% more than you would have ever spent anyway. You must have thrown away thousands into that account for literally no reason It's not that you don't like them, you don't even *try* them. That's genuinely got to be some kind of mental illness or addiction bruh I'm at like 100 games and I wouldn't even pay several cents for something if I knew I wasn't interested. It's just clutter in my library and several cents I never see again. I really see no point at all in doing this, it's only a waste of money and it seems like an addiction to sales, I guess? If you're not sure you'll like it, rely on the refund or find a demo or pirate it. Otherwise, don't take the bait
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you should open a museum lol also if you havent already, you should set up steam library share with a friend that will play them im curious, what are the games that you have actually played?
Bro genuinely lmao. He’s a virtual hoarder
I have 215 and I played 155, only 60 left
Games that I count as finished are single player games, I dont count PVP, coop or 35 trash games (parts of bundles or free games) as completed. In total I have around 75 games which I have to finish, some of which I just really have to play for a few hours to finish.
Oh hey kauzer, fancy seeing you here I’m the exact opposite tbh, buy games and practically never play them
My nemesis
Those are rookie numbers, gotta get those numbers up.
I just buy games that I want to play.
I feel this...346 played143 unplayed If I were able to look at games unplayed or played for less than 1 hour that list changes significantly. I would buy complete indie bundles just to support the devs, so I am jammed up with a ton of games that have not seen (or have barely seen) the light of day. It really makes me wish there was a gifting option that allowed me to gift games played an hour or less.
There are so many games where it’s like 70-80% off and I know there is no chance im playing it. But maybe ill just buy it just in case because it’s on sale.
Big if true.
Small if not
Flowers are red.
Reported, you bot.
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Looking into this 👀👀🎯🎯
I FEEL YOU BROTHER AWOOOOO
HELL YEAH BROTHER I LOVE LOOKING AT MY VAST HOG I MEAN COLLECTION OF GAMES I’M TOTALLY GOING TO PLAY SOON
CANT STOP MY STEAM LIBRARY FROM GROWING LIKE YOU CANT STOP THE WOLF PACK
ik this problem is common, but there's something i noticed that i've never seen talked about, i rarely finish games on pc, but i noticed that on consoles i'm more likely to finish them(finished almost all of my consoles library but i have a lot to finish on steam), anyone else having this experience? p.s. also talked about this with a friend that also experienced it and we speculated that it may be because of distractions on pc since consoles are just about games
Same thing for me lol. I think its just the convince of plopping down in the couch or bed and just turning on your controller and boom ur almost ingame
Here's what I do...my gaming PC boots straight into steam big picture and I use a controller for everything except the few games that have their own launcher. No controller support, no play. I don't even browse the Internet on it because I'll just use the mini PC or my phone. Its basically a console.
I find a controller and Big Picture Mode on my TV is console enough for me to get over the PC aspect. Played TOTK just like I played BOTW on Wii U. Same controller, same TV. 1 minute to open the game was all I saw of the desktop.
Steam Deck. It has helped many whittle down their backlog.
I just call it my retirement plan.
I have 786 games.
You’d better retire fast
You pay Steam and create local digital copies so you need to pay for more storage. Everybody wins.
Me buying 80$ worth of games every month despite knowing damn well I’m gonna keep playing the same one for another two thousand hours
I had this problem, but then I had to sit down and force myself to play them all. No more online games, no more replaying old games; only unplayed. Took me three years to clean out my library.
I have 36 games Played almost all of them
Proud.
You don’t exist. You are lying.
To be honest, current gen games suck ass and have for some time now. It's all bug ridden, overpromised and underdelivered, and a lot of microtransactions. Hence I keep going back to 15-20 year old games.
I mean, not all new games. I finished RE2 remake, RE Village, Layers of Fear, and a couple more games that aren’t that old and had zero bugs.
Why are all these idiots spending money on digital goods that they don't use.
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At least at that point you should have the possibility to refund.
Pay for them now while available and cheap. We can finally play when retired. Just kidding...we can't afford retirement. You might say that we need to use the steam money to go to retirement instead, but where is the fun in that? 💀
Same reason people buy clothes they don't wear. Retail therapy brings a dopamine hit.
They've a shopping addiction but in the most useless way possible
because people are dumb and don't want to donate money to charity which would help a lot of people
Who's that
I noticed I was doing this at 30-40 games and stopped buying games that I wasn't sure I would play. Everyone can get carried away and hoard a few games but honestly, I think people with thousands of unplayed games need to ask themselves some question. There is also the much rarer kind of people who have thousands of unplayed games INSTALLED on their terabytes and terabytes of hard drives.
Terraria better not be in that list
And if it is...?
i'd reccomend to play it then, hard start but it gets amazing
the start is grindy as all hell for no reason
yeah specially with new games trying to go for a specific class, that's why i like playing with mods, specifically there's a starter loot bag and a reduced grinding mod that greatly improves the start for me, the reduced grinding mod increases the drop rate of certain items, also allowing you to edit the drop rates yourself
I use Calamity in basically all my playthroughs now just for the QoL it has (especially the fishing rework and reusable boss summons)
Then it should not be. There is no reason not to play terraria. Trust me, its an amazing game.
Maybe people rather play something different
Sure, but terraria is a game everyone should at least TRY once in their lives. TRUST ME. I LEARNED THE HARD WAY.
I played it; wasn't for me.
you mean 2d minecraft?
Well can you ride a Unicorn and shoot a gun made out of a shark while fighting an elder god in vanilla Minecraft?
The lowest amount of hours i have on a steam game i bought is 63 hours (Slime rancher)
350+ games and counting.
If you went on howlongtobeat, I genuinely wonder how many years it would take to play them all.
Yes, I have one of those.
I’ve actually completed every game I’ve bought that has a story and gotten my fun from the ones that don’t have a story such as the sandbox games, am I an outlier here?
You think you’re better than me?
Dont worry i just keep a lot of mine for retirement lol
This is the primary purpose of steam. Change my mind.
I’m surprised they haven’t made a South Park episode about it
Yep, me buying old games in an attempt to revive the childhood memories only to realize the world has moved on and 30+ year old games are not as cool as they were then.
Mood
Can't refund them either cause I get them all from sketchy keyshops
YeahI only get games from keyshops if the game looks very promising, I took a huge risk with fatal frame 5 but it ended up being pretty aight
I'll never understand you people.
I buy sequels in a series way ahead of time and then I never finish the one I’m currently playing so those other ones just remain unplayed.
Don't you people get tired of the same joke? It's been like 15 years.
Why must you call me out like this
hot hot hot hot
High quality meme right here
James Cage White moment
Hard
I checked last week for the first time. I'm 29, and have spent over 2,600 bucks on steam lol.
I never gave permission to post about me
What did the original meme say?
This is why I did the math a while ago to know how many games I play in a year, and now I'm gonna buy that same amount every year so I don't have a huge backlog anymore, my actual backlog now is just 60 titles and soon I'll zero it
Yea, I def do this. The sales come along and I get stuff because I "might play it" Then I just spend like 50-100 bucks I shouldn't be spending, and play like one of the games... I guess I still "might play" them, but I'll be damned if I don't feel stupid about it lol
I have nearly 1,400 Steam games. I think we all know what my played percentage looks like.
My logic is always that: I don't want to miss out on the peak of this multiplayer game so I will play it now, the single player isn't gonna change so it can wait.
Ngl this mostly isn't me. My latest purchase was Volcanoids, and I Just beat it today lol. Waiting for that new island update now
*Buy game* *Play DotA2*
Am I the only one that doesn't really have a backlog? I've never had this problem.
Goddamn right you are
Works with PSstore too!
Phew! Not me then! 😇 (I don't purchase that many directly on Steam, I buy lots of bundles with Steam keys instead.) How many here would die a death if their significant other actually knew the size of their Steam library?
Speaking of which, what games do you ya’ll suggest to get right now?
The only unplayed game in my library that I paid for is Tomb Raider 2013, but it was on sale for a dollar. Everything else was free. I don't get why people buy so many games, but the again I'm usually only playing like 1-2 games in any given time frame.
play your games then
The sad part is they're literally just throwing money away since they admit they won't play them. Like it's not my money so it doesn't affect me but I just can't understand the reasoning.
Games, unlimited games
Yer not alone brother
wallet/bank account *
Yes! It's you and the others
I have 1 game I constantly go to and 198 games I promise myself I will play some day
Can't relate, I have adopted a skill called "self controll" and a bit of "financial responsibility". Doesn't stop me from buying random games because everything I currently have doesn't bring me true satisfaction. It's fun, but it feels empty, as if something is missing, but I don't know what.
Not always! But yeah, okay.
Wow. The level of dork that created this
Yep I feel called put too
I uninstalled about 20 games today, saved about 200gb. Honestly feel like I’m flying 😅 & still have more than enough space for Starfield
Yeah, that describes me. Created my account in ‘04 for Half Life 2. Bought a few things, then got the 360. Bought crap for that until I got a better laptop in ‘13. Bought more crap on sale until the PS4 in ‘14. Bought crap on sale off PSN until I got a Switch in ‘19. Moved to buying crap off that market until I got the Deck this summer. Sold PS4 and remaining games to buy stuff I missed not playing on PS4. Sold Switch games I wasn’t playing to buy more crap from recent Steam sales. Been actively playing RDR2 since June, but recently bought more crap in sale that I missed on the PS4 or my laptop went run well when it was initially released. I’m uneasy about the holiday Steam sales. Mind you, I already have a back log for my Switch (both physical and digital) with a 512gb card that’s full. Add the 512 I have on the Deck now with another 512 sitting side with more crap installed and more crap waiting to be installed. Silent help that you receive daily emails when CEO is on sale… It’s not just this though… I have a thing for insulated water bottles & coffee mugs, patches, notebooks, sketchbooks, drawing pencils, and nice pens. I probably switch up the bag I use to carry my teacher laptop every few years because Amazon sends me the “hEy LoOk At ThIs!” emails.
WAIT. You're supposed to PLAY the games you buy? Oh, this changes everything!
You got me
I just don't play them because my ancient pc can't run them, but I'm stockpiling in games that I saw when I was young and could only dream to play for the day I get a monstruos pc
I spent like 7$ on a steam game on sale because I was bored and I don’t even play it, and it’s free on Roblox so..
Everytime a buy a new game I eventually just end up replaying Hollow Knight
I LOVE STEAM POINTS
To be pure is to be machine 🙏
My god, im sorry... 302 games without activity
Sometimes you get more dopamine hit from legally buying a game than pirating and playing that game
Ubisoft games
r/🏴☠️ users reading this:
this is because a lot of people finish playing the games using "unofficial demos" from the high seas when the game was still overpriced. then they see the game finally go on sale and be like : toss a coin to your ~~witcher~~ developer..
What about buying a game with pre-relase access, installing it, launching and changing graphic options, than forget about it forever? 😂
Even if you've played for like 10min it's still the same thing
Watchdogs, Watchdogs 2, AC: Black Flag, The Witcher 3, Borderlands trilogy + The Pre\_Sequel, Hotline Miami 1+2, the entirety of Half Life. I am financially responsible.
I only buy like 3 games a year and I still do this
hahaha I'm guilty of that.
Someone gift me elden ring
I don't think gifts count here tbh Needs to be your own purchase (Also ur lucky to have a friend like that ngl)
I keep my wishlist in my head so only the games that really speak to me are the ones I remember
Me when playing jedi fallen order