@kyleforrester87 Thanks mate! I’d never really leave anyways, even if I stopped playing games entirely.
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@Kidfried Makes total sense. With a movie, you know you're gonna give up three hours maximum, but often less; with books, you can see how thick they are and estimate based on your reading speed. Games are, by their nature, unknowns. I've often gotten frustrated with games I thought were six-hour blasts, only to discover that they're double or triple that (especially when, after four hours, I'd thought "this gameplay isn't grabbing me, but I've only got a couple more hours so I'll push on").
So I think, unless it's a launch title I've been eagerly anticipating, I'll definitely lean heavily on HLTB in future because, as @Rudy_Manchego says, length is no indicator of quality but even the most enjoyable of games can outstay their welcome when you're trying to schedule the rest of your life.
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Oh, and I'm glad I can stop banging the table now, @Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy (although now you're making me feel bad that I haven't gotten around to my own replay, despite saying "I should really replay Horizon at some point" for well over a year now)!
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So odd topic so thought I would lob it in here. On the subject of backlogs. So anyway, I was prepping for an idea for a podcast episodes about an imaginary backlog related mental health disorder whereby people can't stop themselves in sales and amass huge backlog. It was looking to be a mockumentary style approach. Anyway, when I thought about it, I thought I would assess my own gaming backlog. Ended going up with Backloggery.com to go through my list.
Now I am very very luckly that I have multiple platforms and have had things like Gold on XB gifted to me. So i thought that I would go through my backlog and add up all the games that I could play. My ground rules were as follows:
1) Wouldn't include my retro collection of games or previous (ish) gen. There are some exceptions or borderline cases which I will come on ti.
2) If I paid for the game, it was included, be it physical or digital.
3) Subscriptions - If it was a gold game or PS Plus I have included it IF it is something I feel I would actually like to play. I have lots of random PS Vita and PS4 games which may be great but I have zero interest. Now whether I will play them over anything else is debatable but the aim is to say, what games could be considered a backlog.
4) Services like gamepass or the NES online sub thing for Switch were excluded at time of writing.
5) Under no circumstances would I tell my wife of the backlog size.
So anyway, I spent some time cataloguing and also listing all the games I have beaten overall for context.
The result? I have over 176 games I could possibly play across the following platforms: PS4, PS Vita, Switch, Wii U, 3DS, XB1 (inc backwards compat titles via gold). I also added GBA just because I had started 1 game.
In context, I think I have 'beaten' something like 100 odd games in the last 4 years and played another 30 odd.
Now I know this isn't necessarily important or indicative of how to play games or anything (or that beating a game means much really) but I was surprised just how much I had in my backlog. In fairness, I think I had bought or owned about 50 of that list, and many were from sales etc. But wow - what a list!
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@Rudy_Manchego I probably complete 1/3 of the games I play these days. Some games start good, and drop off, and some games are just bad from the get go - I don't force myself to see them through.
I don't mind watching a bad film to completion, but theirs just no way I'm investing 50 hours into a poor JRPG.
Oooh is that The Legend Of Kyle & The Lampshade Of No Real Signficance you're playing there @kyleforrester87 ?
(Bad joke and no idea what Zelda it actually is 😂... Looks pretty nice though!)
.... I think my backlog is maybe only 4 games from over the years that I've just not really got round to beating/got fully in the mood for @Rudy_Manchego
Darkest Dungeon
Breath Of Fire: Dragon Quarter
Transformers (The Atari one for ps2)
Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven
Breath Of Fire, Transformers and Tenchu I got in a 4 for £5 deal at some local game shop with Sonic Heroes a few years back
Wouldn't mind that list of 176 games of yours though!
And yeah I don't purchase a whole lot of games, especially in the last few years when I moved up from Teaching Assistant to Teacher. That is technically the entireity of my backlog
Plus I admittedly like revisiting my older games quite a bit!
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@kyleforrester87 I have had to learn to be a bit more like that. There are a few games I played to completion, just because I had started it but now I will quit. For example, I wasn't going anywhere with Sekiro so stopped it.
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Wow that is impressive to keep things moving on the backlog. It is probably the better way to be rather than constantly collecting.
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Proabably @Rudy_Manchego , but at least if If you fancy a change of pace you've got 175 other games to choose from!
I have four five (I forgot about Wild Arms 3 on PS4) that I haven't beat and about a hundred in my collection I've probably already played through at least twice each :')
Also might as well reply here to you seeing as I already a, rather then spread it out into the games you've beat topic too
I would try and borrow a PSVR unit if I can but the only other people I know who game is my nineteen year old daughter who doesn't have one & is halfway across the country at uni and a 25 year old colleague from work who's very casual about it.
Plus even if they did have one I'd feel a bit sad asking them seeing as I'm 13 years older then them 😅
So... C'est la vie!
But hey when the PS5 pops round maybe there'll be a PS-VR 2 and I'll be able to snag the original on the cheap
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