Gathering dust on my shelf

Dude.
It's a video game. 
It's not a person.

That game is going to come during the night and slit your throat because you didn't give it any attention. Did this really deserve a blog post?

i have had madden 07 on my shelf untouched for maybe 3 years

BFBC sucked. It came free with my xbox, now I know why.

" Dude. It's a video game.  It's not a person. "

I've had Viewtiful Joe 2 for about a month now, and have yet to play it. That's because I want to complete the first game before I start VJ2. That's the only game that goes untouched on my shelf, I pretty much play all games I have at regular intervals.

I bought it on launch day,
Was really excited about it, I was a Avid BF:MC Clan gamer at the time
I played it for less than a week and haven't put it back in since.
There's just something about it I just hated, but I'm not sure what

" That game is going to come during the night and slit your throat because you didn't give it any attention. Did this really deserve a blog post? "

Metal Gear Solid 4.  
 
yup. after playing it for like, 10 mins, i really wanted to play through the first three games before playing this one. 
 
bought the essencials collection, beat 1 and 2 is defictive and won't work, so i'm stuck. I don't want to move on without beating 2. i've waited too long and i'll just go out and buy a used copy tomorrow or something. it's been a year since i touched MGS4

Several Steam games bought on sale. 

I got Bioshock with my first Xbox way back in January 08. Opened it once and played for 2 hours. Then bought Burnout Paradise. Never touched Bioshock since.

" @Burns098356GX:  I initially thought it was nothing special from the single player. Did you try it online? "

I have Condemned and Condemned 2 from over a year ago that I never played. Not to mention the hundreds of cheap steam games I've bought and never even installed.

"Metal Gear Solid 4.   yup. after playing it for like, 10 mins, i really wanted to play through the first three games before playing this one.  bought the essencials collection, beat 1 and 2 is defictive and won't work, so i'm stuck. I don't want to move on without beating 2. i've waited too long and i'll just go out and buy a used copy tomorrow or something. it's been a year since i touched MGS4 "

"Dude, I have a lot of great (and not so great) games like that! Kinda weird too when I think about it. I'll tell the truth, I feel a little bad about it but I never beat the first Devil May Cry when I got it all those years ago. Other great games on the last gen consoles I can probably name as well. I want to go back to them now. Oh well, I've also beaten so many anyways...  "

"i have had madden 07 on my shelf untouched for maybe 3 years "

"I got Bioshock with my first Xbox way back in January 08. Opened it once and played for 2 hours. Then bought Burnout Paradise. Never touched Bioshock since. "

I personally had a weird experience with Battlefield Bad Company. First, I got Battlefield 2 back in 2005 when I was 15, and basically played it every day after school for a year and a half.
 
So, Battlefield BC gets announced, really cool.... never consider even getting it until a week before it releases after reading some reviews, seeing that it's not like the fake BF game Modern Combat.
 
In June 2008 I get it, and over the next month or two I probably play through half of the singleplayer and spend around 20 hours online. I sort of drop off otherwise. The map packs come out and I go back for a little while, probably 10 hours or so. I'm not that great and I had trouble getting an even 1-to-1 K/D ratio, which is a bummer to me because I played a lot and was fairly good at Battlefield 2.
 
I drop off again, but temporarily go back in late 2008 to play through the rest of singeplayer and get all the SP achievements. Random matches here and there.
 
Then July 2009 comes around. I hate my job, my boss hates me, I quit... I get ready for a long summer vacation... I pick up BFBC1 again for the first time in probably 4 months... and I start kicking ass. I start getting first place finishes, racking up kills, winning games, and my K/D ratio quickly jumps from around 1.1 to 1.3 and continues to climb.
 
Anyway, long story short, I play it every day for about two months, make tons of friends, reach 10,002 kills. I start to keep track of my stats by print screening the stats page on the BF website.
 

• July 2009: 70 hours, 1.365 K/D, 400 games played, 105688 points, 4008 kills
• September 2009: 150 hours, 1.578 K/D, 828 games played, 250813 points , 9826 kills   
• November 2009: 223 hours, 1.73 K/D, 1252 games played, 397221 points, 16045 kills
• Today:  257 hours, 1.785 K/D, 1452 games played, 466298 points, 19019 kills.

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