Too many games, too little time

mrcheez

Do you ever think you will complete every game in your backlog?

Just as I get 50% into a game, another bloody sale comes along and I end up adding another 3 to the list.

Dishonored / Borderlands 2 / Dead Rising 2/ Red Dead / Portal 2 / Alice / Forza Horizon / Batman / Left for Dead 2 / etc etc etc ... plus another 20 or so others I have yet to play either because I'm not stuck in front of the screen every waking moment or I keep replaying one title over and over.

How many are left in your backlog?

Myrddin

Moved from Xbox

tim3000

I have four at the moment Far Cry 3 Dead Rising 2 that Civilization game and Sleeping dogs. I also play a lot of BF4 online which really eats into my time. I reckon I could complete most of the back log before the end of the month, just in time for the new Games with Gold titles.

Dothehustle

My steam account says i have 267 games... so i am going to go with no

CiDeRmAn

Mother of Glob, I could tell you how many unfinished games I have but you won't believe me.
Literally hundreds and hundreds on every format you can imagine.
It's ridiculous and only gets worse as I buy more games over the months.

mrcheez

oh yeah I forgot about the number of ROMs I have on other platforms... ffs, ok "never".

sarumite

Not a chance!

Grumpypants

People give out about 5-6 hour long games I look at them as games I have a chance of finishing!

Grimebox

Grumpypants wrote: »

People give out about 5-6 hour long games I look at them as games I have a chance of finishing!

Perfect length of a game imo. I'm happy to finish a game in 2/3 sittings. Almost everything gets stale quickly for me these days unless it is outstanding.

Retr0gamer

Just be thankful you're not mad about 40+ hour RPGs.

shruikan2553

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Just be thankful you're not mad about 40+ hour RPGs.

Nothing like a backlog consisting of skyrim, oblivion, morrowind, every fallout game.

chrislad

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Just be thankful you're not mad about 40+ hour RPGs.

Which is why the 3DS/DS is such a perfect fit for that genre!

RobertFoster

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Nothing like a backlog consisting of skyrim, oblivion, morrowind, every fallout game.

I've the three Elder Scrolls games on my backlog.

MadYaker

There's 287 games in my steam library. So no, I don't think so. Id say I finish maybe 3 a year and with every steam sale I buy a few more. To be honest most of gaming time is taken by online multiplayer games that can't even be "finished" Arma 3, Dayz, BF4, Counter Strike etc.

Id actually love to just drop everything for about a month and see how many single player games from by backlog I could finish.

The Pheasant2

Currently I have Dead Space 2, the Mass effect series, the Drake series, Dark Souls and the Assassin's Creed series...so yeah it'll be a while before I need a PS4

MadYaker

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Nothing like a backlog consisting of skyrim, oblivion, morrowind, every fallout game.

Thats pretty much the rest of your gaming life right there!

sin0city

The Pheasant2 wrote: »

Currently I have Dead Space 2, the Mass effect series, the Drake series, Dark Souls and the Assassin's Creed series...so yeah it'll be a while before I need a PS4

Same here.

Might just be finishing up my PS3 backlog by the time Persona 5 comes out.
Mostly thanks to Plus.

Skerries

on pc alone I have accounts with Steam, Origin, GOG and Desura never mind standalone games so even if I retired today and played 24/7 for the rest of my life I don't think I could do it

Creamy Goodness

poor college student, can't afford games, all the time to play them.
working professional, can afford games, no time to play them.

pick one!

shanewalsh121

I have around 200 games between xbox and ps3 and i have prob cleared 10% maybe but i do think someday i will slowly make my way to the end of all them it may take years but ill get there.

maximoose

I'm not too bad. In the last few weeks I've picked these up in the Xbox digital sales:

Dishonored
The Witcher
Dark Souls
Mirror's Edge
Tony Hawks Pro Skater HD
Limbo
Fez
Bully

Have The Stick of Truth arriving this week, and Titanfall next. Also have TWD S2E2 tomorrow and TWAU ep 2 to play, and polishing off Tomb Raider on the XB1. Vanquish gathering dust waiting for me to play it.

Feck, I've more than I thought. Damn you OP.

Duggy747

I'm more like

TheDoc

Definitly not

Tried the "clear a game form backlog thread" didn't even get started.

Simply put my time goes into World of Warcraft, and recently Diablo 3 now its not a pile of steaming ****.

Just when I think I'm done with wow something pops up, this time it's prepping alts for WoD, so levelling two new characters and gearing them.

Bought a PS4 and its barely received the attention it should.

I have SO many games in wrappers still : /

Kimbot

On the PS3 I have 100+ games I havent even started yet.
Xbox 360, I have about 20 or so.

PC.... I have about 240 games that havent been touched.

Will I get to clear all these games...... Not a chance so im going to sell off my little collection very soon

elekid

I think it will finally happen for me this year.

I've sold off any games I bought but wasn't actually looking forward to playing. I've become a lot more picky about what I'll buy, whereas before I'd buy anything that looked half interesting. I've stopped trying to 100% every game, just the really good ones. I've also started to value shorter playtimes and I've gone off rpgs a bit recently which helps in that regard (except Pokemon - it will be my undoing).

I really want to get to the point where I am playing exciting new games around launch rather than months after, and spending more time on the games I really like rather than putting myself under pressure to always move on to the next one.

mrcheez

elekid wrote: »

I really want to get to the point where I am playing exciting new games around launch rather than months after, and spending more time on the games I really like rather than putting myself under pressure to always move on to the next one.

+1

I'm done with sales until I clear this lot off

Fawk Nin

It depends what we count as backlog. If every single game I get with PS Plus counts whether I want to play it or not, then never.
If only games I buy and the good games off ps plus count, then never.

Greyfox

My backlog just keeps getting larger and larger, problem is whenever I seem to be making progress I find something like unikgamer.com, I found this site only last week and have spent all week going through the tops list for each console and checking reviews for games I either hadn’t heard of or played and have now added loads more games to my backlog, I find researching games and checking out reviews for them etc can be as much fun as playing games so I’m pretty certain I’ll be buried with a large uncompleted games backlog…this pretty much means completing my backlog will be the longest and most time consuming challenge of my life so I promise everyone I’ll give it my best shot and go down fighting!!

CiDeRmAn

What is nice about a collection though is knowing, if someone mentions a really good game they remember, you have it somewhere to play if you want or it provides you with your next game to buy.
I find, collecting from the entire continuum of gaming, there's a vast swathe of amazing games and, while I have made a dent in owning many of the best, I still have a long ways to go.
That and I'll never finish but a fraction of them all.

Taylor365

Most of the games i play regularly can't be completed.

I spend most of my gaming time playing LFD2, DayZ, Arma III, LoL and Hearthstone.

mrcheez

Taylor365 wrote: »

Most of the games i play regularly can't be completed.

I spend most of my gaming time playing LFD2, DayZ, Arma III, LoL and Hearthstone.

Well I was also asking how many games have not yet been given a good playthrough, not just completed.

For example, I was about 50% way through Spec Ops: The Line, when I bought Alice Madness Returns, so I tried that for a bit.. got maybe 5% way in, then bought Portal 2, tried that.. got about 20% way in... but at the back of my mind I'm pissed off that I was missing the Spec Ops story.

In fact I've got about 40 games with 5-50% progress because of this!


Main reasons for me are that some games are too much fun to drop... I guess that's a good thing.
2012 was Team Fortress 2 ... 2013 was Split Second ... 2014 will be trying to clear up the backlog

nesf

I stopped thinking I'd play through them all a long time ago. Then I did reach the same point with books a decade back, I often pick up books that "look interesting" but that I never really get around to. My habit with games is worse, I keep buying 50+ hour games that'd "be great if I put the time into them" which is a bit insane given how many of those lay unplayed in my Steam Library/GoG folder already.

nesf

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

poor college student, can't afford games, all the time to play them.
working professional, can afford games, no time to play them.

pick one!

Parent: can't afford games (need to buy the kids' ones), no time to play them (kids hog the television/PC all the time). :P

killanena

I have about 180 games on steam, Id say out of them 80 or so I got for the single player and out of them I have probably completed 20 :L. God damn steam sales.

Pac1Man

mrcheez wrote: »

For example, I was about 50% way through Spec Ops: The Line....

For Christ sake finish that game. :cool:

MadYaker

I've gotten better about steam sales. In the past if anything looked even mildly interesting id buy it. Now before the steam sale starts I decide what I want and stick to it, no impulse buying!

killanena

MadYaker wrote: »

I've gotten better about steam sales. In the past if anything looked even mildly interesting id buy it. Now before the steam sale starts I decide what I want and stick to it, no impulse buying!

I wish I had your strength!!

nesf

MadYaker wrote: »

I've gotten better about steam sales. In the past if anything looked even mildly interesting id buy it. Now before the steam sale starts I decide what I want and stick to it, no impulse buying!

I've done the same unfortunately I still fall victim to friends strongly recommending a game that's been heavily discounted as something that I have to play, especially in genres I normally ignore at full price (e.g. things like the latest Batman games, Borderlands etc).

MadYaker

Now that I think about it there are several games I've bought in steam sales that I've never even downloaded, and probably never will. That's like walking into Game Stop, handing them cash and then walking out with nothing

Fawk Nin

MadYaker wrote: »

Now that I think about it there are several games I've bought in steam sales that I've never even downloaded, and probably never will. That's like walking into Game Stop, handing them cash and then walking out with nothing

I once bought a game on sale in Gamestop only to go home and realise I had bought the digital copy before. That's when I decided to stop buying games and start playing them.

If I see a great deal I think to myself will I honestly put good time into this game in the next two weeks, if the answer is no, I leave it. 9 times out of 10 if I see a great deal I'll either get an equally good or better deal down the road anyway.

ScumLord

I'm getting worse at finishing games, when I was younger I'd always finish a game before getting a new one. But back then it could be a long time between buying games as there just weren't as many or as much disposable income to buy them.

I haven't finished the last Batman game, it just didn't interest me as much as the previous two, still have to finish black flag. I often have to put off playing AC:BF because it's too late when I have time to play it and I can often get sucked into that one for hours at a time accidentally staying up til 5 in the morning playing it.

Most my time is spent in Assetto Corsa, it's impossible to play it for too long because it requires too much of your attention and is energy sapping to play with a wheel.

I'm getting a more nerdier as a age too, much more into highly detailed sim like games these days. Might not play them as much but the challenge of just getting the hang of them is enough to consider them a finished game.

landsleaving

I've just gotten more ruthless with what I bother sticking with. I gave up on Spec Ops, Arkham Origins and a couple of others recently, they just didn't grab me. Those two in particular I think I should have stuck with, since I know the story of Spec Ops is meant to be great, but it bored me so much to play that it was a chore to get through. I'll just read Heart of Darkness again :P And with Origins it just didn't hook me like the other Arkham games, some stupid design decisions... that bridge... didn't help.

I figure I'm better of putting my time into games I really enjoy when time is so limited.

CiDeRmAn

Spec Ops isn't that long, so it's not a difficult one to complete.
That said, I'm only getting through Gears of War 3 now, Judgement is still sitting there in its wrapper.

mrcheez

Everyone is raving about Brothers' ending, so I guess I should actually finish that one after I've finished Spec Ops.

I agree with post #40 though in that if you miss a sale it's more than likely the same game will be at that price or less when you finally have free time to play it.

For me, buying games on sale was almost a game in itself and gave a feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment that you'd normally get from the game itself. Go figure.

Antar Bolaeisk

Currently in Steam my profile says 452 games (got a fright when the all games section in the client said 532 as I was certain I hadn't hit the 500 mark, turns out it was including a load of F2P stuff), there's another 60 on gog.com plus a handful on Origin (Mostly from a humblebundle, honest!).

To be fair, the vast majority of the games at this stage are the padding from all the humble bundles, most I don't even remember buying a I tend to pick up classics I've enjoyed when they're cheap. I can't remember the last time I bought a game on release, maybe The Witcher 2.

It''s gotten so bad that I've started paying for games before they're even made

Next game I'll be playing: Thief :pac:

Pac1Man

Ebay is a fecker for this. Fallout New Vegas and Deus Ex Human Revolution for €11.50 delivered. It's not possible for me to turn a blind eye at those kind of deals.

landsleaving

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Spec Ops isn't that long, so it's not a difficult one to complete.
That said, I'm only getting through Gears of War 3 now, Judgement is still sitting there in its wrapper.

But it's so bland! I got through three hours of it and just stopped caring. It probably didn't help that I knew the plot already though. But then if I didn't I'd never have tried it at all. So I don't know.

I just don't know.

RobertFoster

landsleaving wrote: »

But it's so bland! I got through three hours of it and just stopped caring. It probably didn't help that I knew the plot already though. But then if I didn't I'd never have tried it at all. So I don't know.

I just don't know.

All I knew going into Spec Ops was that there was apparently a really ****ed up scene it. I got to that scene and it did absolutely nothing for me. Turned into Slightly Unbalanced Nolan North in the Desert, as opposed to Wacky Nolan North in the Desert that Uncharted 3 was.

mrcheez

landsleaving wrote: »

But it's so bland! I got through three hours of it and just stopped caring.

Some said the same of I Am Alive which I also enjoyed because of the atmosphere etc so I guess people take different things from these sorts of games.

I got Deadlight on sale over xmas and loved the way I was able to complete it in a single day, which made it a very satisfying game overall, so I agree with the need for more 5-6 hour games (although they should be priced accordingly)

Ape Lincoln

Funny, reading this thread and I have both Split/Second and Spec Ops: The Line sitting waiting to be played, I must get around to them now that I've been reminded.

Pushtrak

Ape Lincoln wrote: »

Funny, reading this thread and I have both Split/Second and Spec Ops: The Line sitting waiting to be played, I must get around to them now that I've been reminded.

Spec Ops is all about the story. The gameplay is nothing new, really. If you've played third person shooters, you've seen that element done better elsewhere. Still worth playing though.