Joke's on you I installed all the games I bought on Steam. I've just, uh, never played a lot of them. And I mean a LOT of them. I've got AAA games I haven't touched outside of maybe cards.
The good news is I am a video game sloth in that I never buy at full price and my purchases come in bursts during sales. Until then I hibernate for years on end slowly taking nibbles at the big fish in the water and this simile really lost its way didn't it? Anyway, I got my big purchases in during the Summer sale so I'm safe until Winter, which has maybe two or three I'm looking at.
oh, my backlog of games I currently own is also arkham asylum + city, also god of war 2 and the latter half of 1, and metal gear solid 4 (which I've owned since I bought the console)
Man. I just pick up like 5 games at a time and then get distracted by something shiny and then pick up 5 more games and then get distracted.... This is compounded by liking jurps and games with a million systems.
I currently have:
- ACIV probably at about 70%
- Xenoblade somewhere around the same (as it has been for like a year, and I've intended to come back to it the whole time)
- CK2, I have like 3 expansions I still haven't really dug into because I keep just starting over in Ireland
- a category on my steam called "didn't you want to play this"
- like 5 different games I want to play on the Wii U alone
I have been putting in a lot of time over the last couple years to clearing my backlog, and I'm happy I did. I'm almost finished with Bioshock Infinite, just need to get 2 more fluff achievements (I'll have them all besides the all blue ribbons in CitC.) Before that, it was GTA V, Arkham City, and Final Fantasy 13...
I probably won't get to Fallout: New Vegas, which was next on the list, because I'm thinking of doing the 360 trade-in credit towards an Xbone deal that Best Buy's running.
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I have been putting in a lot of time over the last couple years to clearing my backlog, and I'm happy I did. I'm almost finished with Bioshock Infinite, just need to get 2 more fluff achievements (I'll have them all besides the all blue ribbons in CitC.)
I probably won't get to Fallout: New Vegas, which was next on the list, because I'm thinking of doing the 360 trade-in credit towards an Xbone deal that Best Buy's running.
You can always play the PC version in 5 years or something
I've been trying to figure out if there were any really big SNES/NES rpgs or real capstone games I missed out on
I mentioned Lufia and I really need to play through those at some point, but I feel like I'm somehow forgetting games that I just haven't ever experienced
Maybe I've really played all the big stuff for those
I've been trying to figure out if there were any really big SNES/NES rpgs or real capstone games I missed out on
I mentioned Lufia and I really need to play through those at some point, but I feel like I'm somehow forgetting games that I just haven't ever experienced
Maybe I've really played all the big stuff for those
Maybe that's sadder
Sir, let me tell you about my list of SNES games I've created to have my kid play!
For RPG/action RPG games, this is the list I've come up with, minus the big 4, Zelda, FF IV, FF VI and Chrono Trigger. Secret of Mana, Mario RPG, Earthbound, Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia, Terrinigma, Shadowrun, Secret of Evermore, Breath of Fire 2, Lufia 2, Illusion of Gaia and Demon’s Crest. There's still a handful of weird ones, but I doubt they hold up, like 7th Saga, RoboTrek, EVO and the like. And, of course, Tales of Phantasia, Star Ocean and Seiken Densetsu 3, which exist in a real legal grey area.
Making these lists has reminded me how great the SNES was. So many classics that still hold up today.
This is my Steam shortlist, assembled haphazardly:
Alan Wake
Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Broken Age
Bully: Scholarship Edition
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
Dead Island
Dishonored
DmC
Eldritch
The Fall
Kentucky Route Zero
Jazzpunk
Portal 2
Spelunky (Beating Hell)
The Wolf Among Us
Sentris
The games on this list meet one of two criteria;
I've started playing it, and want to finish it
I have literally never booted the game
There's some good stuff on this list, based on reputation alone. I don't know why I feel so compelled to play the copy of Aliens: Colonial Marines that I got for one US dollar.
Goddamn you Marvel Heroes. I just looked and my steam playtime is 122 hours. I have 3 level 60s. And yet, I'm still playing it over Transistor, Dragon's Crown, and some other stuff.
Actually, I'm making good progress in Transistor. It doesn't seem like it will be a long game. Unless, of course, I spend 30 minutes on each challenge, like I did on the second speed one.
One thing I loved in Guacamelee is how quickly you get started again each time you miss a jump and die. It's almost instant. If you are going to have a tough platforming section in you game please please please don't make me wait a long time between attempts.
Goddamn you Marvel Heroes. I just looked and my steam playtime is 122 hours. I have 3 level 60s. And yet, I'm still playing it over Transistor, Dragon's Crown, and some other stuff.
Actually, I'm making good progress in Transistor. It doesn't seem like it will be a long game. Unless, of course, I spend 30 minutes on each challenge, like I did on the second speed one.
The Transistor challenges get a lot easier once you figure out their quirks.
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One thing I loved in Guacamelee is how quickly you get started again each time you miss a jump and die. It's almost instant. If you are going to have a tough platforming section in you game please please please don't make me wait a long time between attempts.
Yeah, that's an incredibly nice thing to do. Pretty much as soon as you hit permanent solid ground you respawn there if you miss a jump.
Goddamn you Marvel Heroes. I just looked and my steam playtime is 122 hours. I have 3 level 60s. And yet, I'm still playing it over Transistor, Dragon's Crown, and some other stuff.
Actually, I'm making good progress in Transistor. It doesn't seem like it will be a long game. Unless, of course, I spend 30 minutes on each challenge, like I did on the second speed one.
The Transistor challenges get a lot easier once you figure out their quirks.
Yeah I wasn't familiar with either of the skills they gave me, and the challenge doesn't have a terminal for you to look up what they do. It took me forever to realize Get() was "Get() over here"
This thread is for me! I'm playing through Phantasy Star 1 right now, I was really jonesing for an old rpg and I had the genesis collection sitting around. I'm kind of ocd about going through game series in order, so I'm starting with 1, even though I had to specifically unlock it first in order to play it.
Before that I finished Majora's Mask for the first time, which is both the most interesting and inventive, and also my least favorite zelda so far. The story is really good, but the gameplay is so goddamn annoying.
I also beat the first 3 ultima's earlier this year, which I plan to continue working through, and the first Quest for Glory. I was going to continue with the quest for glories, but kind of stalled on 2. I might pick it up again later.
I also beat guacamelee a couple months ago, it gets pretty hard, but the instant respawn makes it a lot more palatable. I didn't go for the full ending though. In spite of the warnings, I played through it on a keyboard, and for whatever reason kept hitting the wrong button fairly regularly, which irritated me more than anything.
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At the beginning of this year I resolved to clear my backlog in time for leaving the country for all of 2015. It hasn't quite worked out.
I'm currently playing through XCOM, Mass Effect 2, and Skyrim. All games I have previously put at least one hundred hours into. Meanwhile, dozens of games sit in my Steam either half finished or having never seen the light of day.
I'm in the midst of setting up Skyrim with mods and such. Previously played it on the Xbox, but focused on the Dark Brotherhood and Dragonborn DLC quest lines. Will be interesting to finally beat the main story and civil war quests
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Skyrim is a game where I recommend doing the main story asap just because you get a bunch of fun toys throughout the course of the main quest so if you save that for last you've got no good opportunities to use your crazier shouts.
The Dragonborn DLC was fantastic. Tons of neat locations and really cool rewards. I really liked Dawnguard as well, but I have a particular fondness for hunting vampires.
I recently re-bought Skyrim on PC (played through on Xbox first) and went deep into mods, set up a nice bunch of survival and hunting type mods so I have a woodsman type character that just hunts around Falkreath and camps out. No dungeons, no dragons, very little bandit fighting. It's very different from the vanilla game but playing a super down-to-earth character in that world for a bit was fun.
Skyrim is a game where I recommend doing the main story asap just because you get a bunch of fun toys throughout the course of the main quest so if you save that for last you've got no good opportunities to use your crazier shouts.
But then you have to do stuff like prove yourself worthy to join all the guilds when you're the goddamn dragonborn already, which always felt a bit weird thematically to me.
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At least then it makes more sense when they decided to make you the leader inside of a week.
The Dragonborn DLC was fantastic. Tons of neat locations and really cool rewards. I really liked Dawnguard as well, but I have a particular fondness for hunting vampires.
I recently re-bought Skyrim on PC (played through on Xbox first) and went deep into mods, set up a nice bunch of survival and hunting type mods so I have a woodsman type character that just hunts around Falkreath and camps out. No dungeons, no dragons, very little bandit fighting. It's very different from the vanilla game but playing a super down-to-earth character in that world for a bit was fun.
oooh, I'm all about this kind of stuff. I figure I'm going to have to spend some time tweaking settings before I really dig into the game, solely because there are so many realism mods installed the difficulty will be crazy
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The good news is I am a video game sloth in that I never buy at full price and my purchases come in bursts during sales. Until then I hibernate for years on end slowly taking nibbles at the big fish in the water and this simile really lost its way didn't it? Anyway, I got my big purchases in during the Summer sale so I'm safe until Winter, which has maybe two or three I'm looking at.
I probably also will want god of war 3
I currently have:
- ACIV probably at about 70%
- Xenoblade somewhere around the same (as it has been for like a year, and I've intended to come back to it the whole time)
- CK2, I have like 3 expansions I still haven't really dug into because I keep just starting over in Ireland
- a category on my steam called "didn't you want to play this"
- like 5 different games I want to play on the Wii U alone
So naturally, I keep playing Marvel Heroes.
Because now everything else just doesn't compare
(Mostly mine)
Well
You do like Waluigi
Man I'm so upset about him not being in Smash
I probably won't get to Fallout: New Vegas, which was next on the list, because I'm thinking of doing the 360 trade-in credit towards an Xbone deal that Best Buy's running.
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You can always play the PC version in 5 years or something
There will be time
I mentioned Lufia and I really need to play through those at some point, but I feel like I'm somehow forgetting games that I just haven't ever experienced
Maybe I've really played all the big stuff for those
Maybe that's sadder
WoW is the cheapest game I've ever owned.
It should be here Friday, just in time for me to play it over the weekend with my girlfriend
I think we're going to do a playthrough where I actually play it (since she doesn't like 3rd person shooters) while she makes all of the decisions
It should be fun! I've been itching to replay that game for a while, and this will be my first go at the DC
Console backlog is theoretically possible but there are a solid 10 games there
Someday...
which is to say I havent even started
boo work
Sir, let me tell you about my list of SNES games I've created to have my kid play!
For RPG/action RPG games, this is the list I've come up with, minus the big 4, Zelda, FF IV, FF VI and Chrono Trigger. Secret of Mana, Mario RPG, Earthbound, Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia, Terrinigma, Shadowrun, Secret of Evermore, Breath of Fire 2, Lufia 2, Illusion of Gaia and Demon’s Crest. There's still a handful of weird ones, but I doubt they hold up, like 7th Saga, RoboTrek, EVO and the like. And, of course, Tales of Phantasia, Star Ocean and Seiken Densetsu 3, which exist in a real legal grey area.
Making these lists has reminded me how great the SNES was. So many classics that still hold up today.
Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Broken Age
Bully: Scholarship Edition
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
Dead Island
Dishonored
DmC
Eldritch
The Fall
Kentucky Route Zero
Jazzpunk
Portal 2
Spelunky (Beating Hell)
The Wolf Among Us
Sentris
The games on this list meet one of two criteria;
There's some good stuff on this list, based on reputation alone. I don't know why I feel so compelled to play the copy of Aliens: Colonial Marines that I got for one US dollar.
it's good!
although I'm pretty sure I'll give up on it at some point given what I've heard about some of the later platforming sections
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For what it's worth, I've been considering sitting down with Skyrim... A game I've already beaten... But I haven't played the DLC!
I'm bad at this.
They are also the best part of the game
Actually, I'm making good progress in Transistor. It doesn't seem like it will be a long game. Unless, of course, I spend 30 minutes on each challenge, like I did on the second speed one.
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Yeah, that's an incredibly nice thing to do. Pretty much as soon as you hit permanent solid ground you respawn there if you miss a jump.
Yeah I wasn't familiar with either of the skills they gave me, and the challenge doesn't have a terminal for you to look up what they do. It took me forever to realize Get() was "Get() over here"
Which DLC?
My Steam
then MMOs happened
I dunno if they were better on an actual controller, but they were hell to do using the Vita analog stick.
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The difficult platforming was the most fun part of guacamelee
I am working through old ps1 favorites right now but my brother in law gave me his old ds lite so I may need to play metroid zero mission again soon
I thought that was me for a while, but then I stopped playing WoW and didn't really replace the newly freed time with games
Apparently I just don't care about video games as much as I used to, although you wouldn't know it with how many I own.
Before that I finished Majora's Mask for the first time, which is both the most interesting and inventive, and also my least favorite zelda so far. The story is really good, but the gameplay is so goddamn annoying.
I also beat the first 3 ultima's earlier this year, which I plan to continue working through, and the first Quest for Glory. I was going to continue with the quest for glories, but kind of stalled on 2. I might pick it up again later.
I also beat guacamelee a couple months ago, it gets pretty hard, but the instant respawn makes it a lot more palatable. I didn't go for the full ending though. In spite of the warnings, I played through it on a keyboard, and for whatever reason kept hitting the wrong button fairly regularly, which irritated me more than anything.
All of it
I beat it at launch before they patched in all the bugs I guess they accidentally left out at first
Then Steam decided to ignore my "do not update" settings and I put it away for awhile
I'm currently playing through XCOM, Mass Effect 2, and Skyrim. All games I have previously put at least one hundred hours into. Meanwhile, dozens of games sit in my Steam either half finished or having never seen the light of day.
I recently re-bought Skyrim on PC (played through on Xbox first) and went deep into mods, set up a nice bunch of survival and hunting type mods so I have a woodsman type character that just hunts around Falkreath and camps out. No dungeons, no dragons, very little bandit fighting. It's very different from the vanilla game but playing a super down-to-earth character in that world for a bit was fun.
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But then you have to do stuff like prove yourself worthy to join all the guilds when you're the goddamn dragonborn already, which always felt a bit weird thematically to me.
oooh, I'm all about this kind of stuff. I figure I'm going to have to spend some time tweaking settings before I really dig into the game, solely because there are so many realism mods installed the difficulty will be crazy