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Hiya, just newly thought about something: wouldn't be nice if there was a simple way of checking what games you have played over the years, a way to keep track of wether you liked the game or not, how much time you spent playing it etc.. Currently, personally i only check steam library for those kinda details. But it would be nice if there was a more dedicated solution for it, like a selfhosted app or something along those lines.

I'm not well educated regarding this so if there are any current solutions for this then please let me know, and let me know if you yourself have a special kind of system for this!

have a great rest of your weekend!

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[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 40 points 19 hours ago (6 children)

Reading the comments - am I the weird one for just remembering?

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

No. I remember all the games I've played. I can't list them all, however if you were to ask me "hey have you ever played xyz", I would remember if I had or not.

[–] GreyCat@lemmy.world 1 points 31 minutes ago

Well, the point of such an app would be to have them listed I would guess.

[–] mohab@piefed.social 2 points 10 hours ago

Hmm… for me, it's less about memory and more about helping myself see a pattern of what I like and what I don't, which eventually helps me make better purchasing decisions.

Like, when I look at a list of my favorite games, I can conclusively tell you: I like challenging, replayable games with real-time action, synergy among their mechanics, and mechanical variety.

For me, this knowledge would not have been attainable if I didn't sit down and put together a list of what I like/what I don't like.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 18 points 17 hours ago

If by remembering you mean "I use no tools to keep track of games I've played and make no special effort at remembering, either I do or I don't", then same. But also in the last few years I've been playing a lot less games than I used to (and I didn't really play that many to start with).

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 7 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

You probably have different gaming habits than me, or a hell of a memory. I've likely played over 4 thousand different games over the course of my life so far.

... Now I want to use one of those tools to try to figure out this number.

[–] Elevator7009@lemmy.zip 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I have definitely not played 4,000 games. I tend to stick on a few games till I beat them and then I move on, sometimes returning to replay. I don't have an astounding memory, but if a game is mentioned I'll remember if I played it or not and that is good enough for me. If I forget a good experience, well, that's another opportunity to have it for the "first time", a la that old tumblr post about wanting to be able to selectively erase your memory so you could re-experience your favorite book for the first time.

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 5 points 17 hours ago

I can definitely see the appeal of being able to do stuff with the information, and I doubt I could sit down and make a list of every game I've ever played. However my memory is pretty good for this sort of thing. It's very rare for me to lose objects as I have a database-like memory for that stuff.

Amusingly this means that if someone else moves things then I'm comedically awful at searching for whatever it was, and if I move house or re-organise then it takes me a few weeks for my brain to record all the new data. Until then I'm a clueless idiot.

Oh and as I said in another comment - time is my nemesis. I often don't know what day of the week it is and anything beyond about a week and a half into the future has almost no meaning to me. It's not a very useful trade-off!

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago

Me too, but I don't really play a lot of video games, so I could list every game I've ever played pretty quickly.

[–] bungle_in_the_jungle@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Must be nice to have a functioning memory like this

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 points 17 hours ago

The tradeoff is that I'm terrible at time. Anything beyond about ten days in the future is almost meaningless to me.