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The epic backlog thread
wunderbar
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We used to have one of these, but it's probably pretty old now so I figured I'd start a new one. I'm starting it up becaue my backlog is reaching absolute epic proportions, and I see no way at all that I will ever, ever get through it. so lets post our backlogs, and use this thread as a way to track our progress, to try to take a chunk out of the epic backlogs.
Games I'm playing:
GTA: IV - Taking this game slow, but I need to power through it to get to the others.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice for all(DS) just finishing case 3, I know I'm way behind, but I'm only playing the PW games in a slow path, because there are so many others.
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII - Almost done this game actually.
Games I have that I need to play.
DISCLAIMER: I bought a PS2 3 months ago. I have never owned a PS2 before that. I have always said that once I can buy a PS2 for $100 new I will buy one and play the 10-12 games I really want to play. So a huge chunk of this list is PS2 games that I need to play.
FF X
FF XII
Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts 2
God of War
Phoenix Wright: Trials & Tribulations
The World Ends With you
Games I will be buying without question, which will add to the backlog
Wii Fit
Final Fantasy Tactics A2
Lost Odyssey
Trauma Center: New Blood
Mario Kart Wii
Ace Attorney: Apollow Justice
Civilization Revolutions(probably gonna buy on DS and 360)
Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2
God of War 2
God of War PSP
Looking at just the games I already have and haven't played, there's like, 200 hours of gameplay right there, then the games I still need to buy.
How the fuck am I ever going to get through them before holiday season starts?
UPDATE: Lunker has posted a great tool for managing your backlog. you can find it at www.backloggery.com. I've put a few games into it, and I really like it so far. Anyone with a backlog should really look into using this. It makes it much easier to quantify what you have to play, and can make it a bit easier to organize everything. Highly recommended.
Games I'm playing:
GTA: IV - Taking this game slow, but I need to power through it to get to the others.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice for all(DS) just finishing case 3, I know I'm way behind, but I'm only playing the PW games in a slow path, because there are so many others.
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII - Almost done this game actually.
Games I have that I need to play.
DISCLAIMER: I bought a PS2 3 months ago. I have never owned a PS2 before that. I have always said that once I can buy a PS2 for $100 new I will buy one and play the 10-12 games I really want to play. So a huge chunk of this list is PS2 games that I need to play.
FF X
FF XII
Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts 2
God of War
Phoenix Wright: Trials & Tribulations
The World Ends With you
Games I will be buying without question, which will add to the backlog
Wii Fit
Final Fantasy Tactics A2
Lost Odyssey
Trauma Center: New Blood
Mario Kart Wii
Ace Attorney: Apollow Justice
Civilization Revolutions(probably gonna buy on DS and 360)
Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2
God of War 2
God of War PSP
Looking at just the games I already have and haven't played, there's like, 200 hours of gameplay right there, then the games I still need to buy.
How the fuck am I ever going to get through them before holiday season starts?
UPDATE: Lunker has posted a great tool for managing your backlog. you can find it at www.backloggery.com. I've put a few games into it, and I really like it so far. Anyone with a backlog should really look into using this. It makes it much easier to quantify what you have to play, and can make it a bit easier to organize everything. Highly recommended.
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backlog list:
Resistance:FOM
Ace Combat 6
Silent Hill 2
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http://www.backloggery.com/main.php?user=tooler975
I have about 80 PC games to play or replay, mostly from late 80s-early90s and 2000+, along with some sims that I missed even during my main play era of the mid-late 90s.
For a gamer struggling with backlog problems, this is simultaneously the best and worst decision you have ever made. ;-)
I'll throw a quick shoutout to the Backloggery, which I know a lot of forumers around here use. It's a nice way to keep track of what you have left unfinished and what games you have "open," so to speak. My pile of shame isn't nearly as long as a lot of other people's but it's still big by my own scale.
The path to reducing one's backlog is threefold:
1) Legislation. Enact an embargo, whether it be a strict edict (no new games until I beat the old ones!) or more like a hostage negotiation (I'll only buy one new game when I finish one old one!). I still falter with this but my buying habits have been curbed dramatically.
2) Dedication. The general path I have now is LIFO (last in, first out), so whatever game I bought last is the one I try to finish first, but you might want to go FIFO (first in, first out) and polish off those games from two years ago that you still haven't done. I also try to stagger genres so that I'm not playing three RPGs at once; mix it up so that you won't get bored.
3) Relaxation. Ultimately having too much awesome to sift through isn't really that bad of a problem, when you think about it. When playing games becomes too much like homework it's not going to be nearly as enjoyable, which is why I break my own rules from time to time.
For me that means playing a game, or maybe 2 games at a time. Then going out and trying new ones to see what i like... it never really builds up to something intimidating.
Right now ive got Hulk UD and Beyond good and evil on the go... and i plan on buying Mass Effect in the future, and playing it alongside a oxbox game. Possibly Panzer dragoon orta
Also, like reducing debt, there are two approaches to take: play lots of little short games to reduce your number, or tackle the time-consuming ones first and do the short games on the side in your spare time.
I have tried to avoid a few long games that don't excite me too much. Like Wizardry 8 -- okay, I've never played a Wizardry game and would love to try one for historical purposes, but I don't want to spend 80 hours on it either.
Finally, a lot of PC games are open-ended -- space trading games, flight sims, turn-based strategy sandbox games. Not sure what it's like on the consoles, but with these I can make my own rules for completion and come back to them later.
I follow the same type of framework. My caveats to number 1 are 1.) if I find an exceptional deal on a game (I bought Shadows of the Colossus for $5 at a garage sale one year) or 2.) if I win a gift card or something at my office, and want to spend it before my wife can get a hold of it.
As for my backlog, it is pretty mighty since I do not have the time I once did to engage in gaming. However I am going to try and burn through some of these games before we have kids because then it will REALLY be difficult to find time to play.
Games I'm playing now you can see in my signature. As for what's in the queue:
PS2 Top 5
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Final Fantasy X-2
Final Fantasy XII
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Gun
GameCube Top 5
Metroid Prime 2
Super Mario Sunshine
Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Eternal Darkness
Wii Top 5
Super Mario Galaxy
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Medal of Honor Heroes 2
Metroid Prime 3
Super Paper Mario RPG
PC Games
Age of Empires 2
C&C: Red Alert
C&C: Red Alert 2
Various Other Oldschool Titles
Secret of Mana (a secret shame that i never finished this game)
Secret of Mana 3
Earthbound (never beat, i suck)
Breath of Fire series
There's more, but I want to keep this to one page.
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That's the one thing I'm worried about my PS2 collection, and really, a lot of the games i have coming up in general, they are almost all RPG's. I guess I'll just have to try to vary the RPG's I do play, maybe put off a couple till next year even.
yea, I didnt' have a backlog problem until I gained the financial means to buy more games than I could before. Showing some more financial restraint is a way to help. I'd love to buy and play Ace Combat 6 for the 360, but honestly, as much as I want to, I don't think that it's worth my money to buy it right now. I will either wait to find it for $20 one day, or never buy it at all.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that—I do this too, where I'll bend the rules a bit to buy a game when I can get it much cheaper than retail, or if it's going to become far too rare to obtain later on.
This is known as the Atlus clause, and it's likely why I'll be buying Etrian Odyssey II now. :x
Let's see...
Final Fantasy V (PSX version, stopped right before the final boss)
Final Fantasy VIII (quit early on, was able to finish IX though)
Final Fantasy XII (played only a little bit of it before stopping)
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Makai Kingdom (stopped near the end)
Disgaea 2
Tales of Symphonia (stopped near the end)
Star Ocean 3
Persona 3 (great game, just stopped and haven't picked it back up yet)
Etrian Odyssey (jumping straight to II when I get it though)
Eternal Sonata
Blue Dragon
Lost Odyssey
Mana Khemia
Oblivion
Dark Messiah
Mass Effect
Call of Duty 4
GTA4
Penny Arcade Adventures
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Super Mario Galaxy
Metroid Prime 3
Ico
Shadow of the Colossus
I'm just going to stop there for now. There's probably a large number of others that I've just forgotten by now.
I blame WoW
Hopefully I'll win one at a company event and that will take care of that problem! Free = no buyer's remorse!
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Metal Gear Solid 2
Metal Gear Solid 3
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
Shadow of the Colossus
XIII will be added to that list fairly soon, as it's finally starting to be enjoyable for me again.
Metal Gear Solid:3
Grim Grimoire
Persona 3:FES
Final Fantasy XII
Folklore
Silent Hill: Origins
And umm... I think that's it for me right now.
Games I want to buy and play through, on the other hand ... yeah, maybe if I quit my job and devoted the remainder of my days to gaming, I'd get through them.
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I find the more games I have to play the harder it is to finish any one game because I bounce around a lot. Luckily I have a couple of short games so at least I can beat them and at least feel like I'm making progress.
Wii (3):
Metroid Prime 3
LoZ: Twilight Princess
Eledees
PS2 (8):
Psychonauts
FFX-2
MGS2
MGS3
Fatal Frame 2
Dirge of Ceberus
Vexx
Jax and Daxter
PSP (6):
Ratchet and Clank Size Matters
Daxter
Patapon
Me and My Katamari
Silent Hill Origins
Monster Hunter Freedom 2
DS (7):
Apollo Justice Ace Attorney
Elite Beat Agents
New Super Mario Bros
Super Mario 64 DS
Hotel Dusk
LoZ Phantom Hourglass
Metroid Prime Hunters
I've got a rather large list. I try to manage it (as per previously mentioned schemes of limiting new purchases, focusing on games, etc.), but every now and then it explodes with a series of new purchases.
It is fun to try to work through it, though. And, much like I have resigned myself to never being able to paint all of my Warhammer mini's, I know I'll never complete every game I own. But I will have fun trying!
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I also have several VC games that I've bought and never finished, same with XBLA. I'm almost afraid to even look at those right now. If I add them I might cry.
Every time this type of thread comes up, more people learn about backlog sites. It's fun.
FYI for anyone that's using it and playing more than 3 games: he updated the Now Playing and signature sections so that the top games listed are the ones that have been updated most recently. In other words, I just updated GalCiv2 to reflect which level I'm on, but haven't touched Grim Fandango in a week, so GalCiv2 is up on my signature. Or would be if I wasn't jailed.
I've been good lately though; since March I've picked up two games and knocked off five.
Virtual Console is the devil for this sort of thing.
I will not fear, fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.. ~ The litany against fear
You are missing a few PC games. Let me know if you want some suggestions! ;-) I must've read every "all-time greatest PC game" list ever written.
Yeah I know its a couple that beat me on that one currently as far as I can tell. And for people to just some enclosed pictures.
Shot 1
Shot 2
Shot 3
Shot 4
As well towards PC games I'm not so big on that as much as I used to be. Pretty selective lately as I find the quality dropping as it were.
I will not fear, fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.. ~ The litany against fear
Actually I do own Stalker I just haven't played it yet, and strategy is meh. I'm bigger into the FPS then anything else at this point. Been playing alot of Counterstrike Zombiemod to give ya an idea of my mood.
I will not fear, fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.. ~ The litany against fear
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Something like Tron 2.0. I played the demo, thought "meh," and didn't even like NOLF2 from Monolith, but a lot of people say they love it and it's relatively short. Still, I can already guarantee it's going to be a 2-star game, so why bother?
Lunar Knights
Etrian Odyssey
FF:cc Ring of Fates
Rune Factory
Siren
Condemned
Baten Kaitos Origins
Glory Days 2
R6:Vegas (not yet, but soon)
Then I've got all the old semi-played games...on the plus side, goozex has gotten me to unload all of my "meh" games and thin out my collection.
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Fun fact: never been able to get past the first level of NOLF2. Sneaking around in first-person mode, combined with the fact that it's hard to shoot your way out of stuff after you're discovered, makes me lose interest pretty quick. It really seems like a waste, because it was supposed to be awesome, and yet I never want to get rid of it in the hopes that I'll actually get past the first level someday.