Do you ever put off a game in anticipation of another?

Just finished up South Park, and now I've been feeling like starting up a new game of Persona 4 (I also have Bravely Default sitting around too), but with Dark Souls 2 just a few days away, I worry I'll drop everything and let it dominate all my video game time, then all my Persona 4 time this weekend will have been for naught. Has this kind of thing ever been a concern for anyone else, and if so how do you handle it?

I wanna play South Park. But between Dark Souls, Metal Gear, and Infamous... I just gotta put it off, man.

I feel like I know what you mean. I'm putting off all other Kingdom Hearts games until I finally play through Birth by Sleep.

There are suddenly like 4 games that I want to play coming out this month and I'm not going to buy any of them.

Just pick a game that doesn't necessarily require 80 hours to complete; or even better one that just has incremental progress no matter what you happen to be doing.

Naw, I play enough jump-in-jump-out games like BF4, Dota 2, PoE, Loadout, to fill the time before an anticipated release. And on top of that, I still have a couple of smaller games in my backlog.

I don't put anything off, no. My rule is if I start playing something, I don't switch to something else until I've finished it. Usually games hold my attention long enough for this to be the case, and even in the games that I don't I still manage to force it somehow.

I have such bitter, utter resentment of Dark Sector for this reason.

I've done this in the past, but I'm trying to adopt a strategy of only playing one game at a time and making sure to finish it before moving on in order to clear out my sizeable backlog. If it's something I want to play badly enough, however, I could easily make the argument to pause my progress in one game until I've finished another.

I put off Titanfall and FF X/X-2 HD for going to Japan.

Japan is a video game.

I can confirm this to be true.

I definitely don't drop a game just to go to another. Finish your game first then get to the next :)

Nah, never. I started a new game of The Last of Us before South Park hit and wasn't able to complete the playthrough. Nearly finished up South Park now and going to continue The Last of Us until Dark Souls II comes out. No problem for me.

Yes. I handle it by playing the new game and finishing the previous game later.

Just play multiple games concurrently, it can even be better this way as you are less likely to get tired of a samey mechanic.

I've been doing that in anticipation for Dark Souls 2, so I've been playing games that don't require any real progress to play. So, I got my DS back out and have been playing Tetris or Lumines on my Vita while playing from my NG+ for Dark Souls, just to get me back into the mood for DS2.

Darksiders 2 and Sleeping Dogs came out the same day, and I had a 50% off coupon and I was like "yo dawgs and brosefs I totes loved Darksiders it was sicknasty off the bomb tip" and boy was I wrong. Schleepy Dawgz is a way better game.

@oldirtybearon: That sounds... not fun. The second finishing a game becomes a chore that you have to force you should just quit.

Sure. If there's several games coming out around the same time and you know you want to play one more then the rest then it makes sense putting others off if you won't be able to finish it in time. I recently bought all the pokemon games and plan to try and catch them all to fulfill my childhood dream, but I want to play them in order and since the first game is not coming for a week or two I gotta sit here looking at a stack of other games I really want to play. Thankfully/regretfully I don't really like most games that are coming out these days so the few times there are games I'm really looking forward to they are so far apart that I never run into this situation.

@fattony12000: For some reason I still find that mgs 3 gif creepy.

Yeah it does happen abit ... usually tho I manage to end games before that but it has hapened before , like the rest of the people the wait for Dark Souls 2 is killing me , and I wnated to finish Dark Messiah and Dust an Elysian tale. Well will only end Dark Messiah because Im near the end (at least 2 more levels or only 1.... hope is only 1)

I usually split my time between multiple games, but sometimes a game is so much fun that I'll only play that until I finish it. I think dark soups 2 might be one of those games, so I will probably play only that for a while, then come back to south park.

nah I never just play one game at a time anyways.

edit: well ok there is the rare game I buy and play exclusively until I beat it. Doesn't happen often.

I putt off buying South Park because Titanfall comes out next week.

Kind of. I will definitely not start something long like an rpg right before a game I'm highly anticipating coming out. But drop in/drop out stuff like shooters and fighting games I will totally still play.

I put off playing the rest of Dark Souls so I can play Dark Souls 2.... I don't know what is wrong with me.

Yeah all the time now it's become a scheduling problem. Side of Steam Sales unfortunately.

Usually I'll pick a shorter game off my backlog that I'm confident I can clear in time instead. e.g. I've been playing Adventure games going into Dark Souls 2. Usually I can bang those out in 2-3 play sessions.

Don't think I can finish South Park before Dark Souls 2 comes out, therefore I'm not playing South Park until later.

I usually deal with it by playing a burst of other games I know are short or I know I can stay away from for a long time and hop back in.
I can't really play an rpg and put it off for another because I'll get lost as shit when I come back to it.
But while waiting for Dark Souls 2 I will probably just play a game where I just shoot dudes or something, so if I don't beat it by the time DS2 rolls around, I wont really care because I'll never really forget how to play a shoot dudes game, right mouse, left mouse.

I used to do that all the time, but eventually I had to stop and just live in the moment. Otherwise the games just piled up.