How lengthy games changed how I play

Growing up...kind of sucks.  It seems every day that I grew older, I lost a minute I used to spend playing video games.  Worst even, is the length of games I enjoy playing typically range in the 30+ hour bracket. The old, dusty clock on the fireplace mantel now ticks at three-second increments, and I still have a laundry list of games I've yet to play. Backed-up into a dark, dank corner, I'm forced to evolve to my current life-style and approach my gaming habits differently.

An opened copy of the Witcher 2 sits on my finger-print riddled glass coffee table.  I've just completed Act 1, and will be sealing the game into its plastic home for a while.  I loved every minute of my playtime with Geralt, but this season of The Witcher 2 is over.

I've recently began playing longer RPGs like television seasons, breaking away from the game at a perfect moment in its storyline.  Prior to dedicating my time to The Witcher, I paused my play through of Resident Evil 4 as Ashley and Leon stepped into Salazar's castle.  It's a method of splitting my time between games that not only artificially drives my urge to return to the game and allows me to take breaks from the monotony of a genre, but makes it easier to remember what's going on in the plot when I DO return.

It's often "game-slumps" are cause of not knowing what genre to play, and to counter the fact, my seasonal method leaves me bouncing from genre to genre more often than I would.  Now, the tired tradition of turn-based combat doesn't fall into the depths of boredom, as it would had I've been dragging myself through solely to get to what I'm yearning to play.

Taking a "break" from a game never worked for me as a simple method.  Returning clueless to where I left off - because I didn't leave off in a optimum jump-off checkpoint - smothered my desire to continue through the rest of the game. It would then be another title tossed back into my back-log to be rekindled from scratch at a later date.  Time wasted.  Time, I don't have.

These changes, in my approach to gaming, have helped me dodge the wrench that becoming an adult has tossed into my free time. I wondered about how others play video games, or if they even thought about playing methods at all.  I mean, if I have a silly "way" of playing my jams, I'm sure others do too.

Right?