Join us as we embark on a quest to clear our lives (and closets) of shrink-wrapped, unplayed, and unbeaten games before the next generation of gaming arrives this fall.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/feature/31006
Sales. 25% off. Buy 2 Get 1 Free. Free plush with pre-order. Free soundtrack. Midnight launch party. $20 gift card. Clearance. Pre-owned discount. The internet. Hype. Coupons. Ads. Friends. Family. The guy who sits the next cubicle over and always seems to have the latest game.
This is how a backlog grows. No one just wakes up and decides they'll buy dozens and dozens of videogames they won't find the time to play. You come into a new game system immaculate and clean, without any gaming debts. Then five or six years later, due to a combination of human weakness and all the temptations mentioned above plus more, you find yourself guiltily staring at a pile of games you haven't touched, but that apparently at one point in your life you desired enough to purchase, borrow, or (god forbid) steal.
This is what a backlog is, an unavoidable testament to irrationality, to money spent but not enjoyed, to games owned but never experienced. And because of these stacks of unplayed games, many of us will not be able to come to the Wii U freely when it launches this fall. We'll always have our backlogs weighing us down a little, a history of hesitation that prevents us from completely looking forward to a brighter gaming future.
But it doesn't have to be that way. The Wii U isn't out yet, and we still have a lot of time before anyone expects it to arrive on the scene. We have months to get clean. Mario, Link, and Samus always fight till the end and so will we.
Some of us here at Nintendo World Report have resolved to shine the light on our secret backlog shame and mend our ways before the Wii U comes out. We're making resolutions to shed games the same way people make resolutions to shed weight, and we invite you to join us over the next few months as we keep you updated on our attempts to do just that, all the way right up until the Wii U launch. If you'd like, you might even want to think about joining us in our quest, and maybe we can all enter the next generation of gaming a little lighter, a little wiser, and a little better at videogames as a result.
My backlog stresses me out. :-[ I'm not even kidding. If I were to count the actual number of games in it, it would only make me even sadder and more stressed...
Carmine! Play Super Mario Galaxy 2 this very second! I would put it in my top 3 games ever made, it's such a joy. But I'm guessing you already know that many people feel this way, sorry if I'm just piling on the backlog guilt.
I have quite a few Wii games to finish, but none hurt me more than Skyward Sword or Little King's Story!
However my interest in classic games has run amok. There are too many SNES, Genesis and NES games that I'll grab because they showed up at the used videogame store and if it's a title I want, I could possibly not see another copy for YEARS. That's just how it works with used titles.
But looking at everyone else's list, I'm wondering....a lot of the games that everyone is mentioning have been reviewed as being mediocre, or worse. Are you sure you want to spend time on those? I haven't played it, but seriously, Carmine, I doubt that Real Heroes: Firefighter is a must-play game. Or Zoo Hospital. Or Zumba 2.
I really hope that we get a Wii Virtual Console for the Wii U.
Mini-Ninjas
If a gamer doesn't finish all of his/her backlog before he/she dies then should that backlog be buried with them so they can resume playing it in the after life?Like a big ass gaming sarcophagus? Dude! ;D
Looks like the website has a new cat. Does it have a name?
Cat's name is Iggy, but I dare not ever try to supplant Louie as the resident site cat. He will continue to pop up in any unboxing or photo/video content I do, though. :)ISWYDT
Think I'll finish up Xenoblade this weekend though. Only have 10 hours in but I plan on putting 20+ more hours in the next few days.
"In the case of Viewtiful Joe, I've restarted playing the game on at least 3 occasions over the years but always end up stalling" Ditto, if fact I think I have three VJ games and haven't beaten one of them :( . Always get 50% through them before another RPG grabs my attention.
Think I'll finish up Xenoblade this weekend though. Only have 10 hours in but I plan on putting 20+ more hours in the next few days.
http://www.backloggery.com/mrdiamondj (http://www.backloggery.com/mrdiamondj)
Pray for me
"In the case of Viewtiful Joe, I've restarted playing the game on at least 3 occasions over the years but always end up stalling" Ditto, if fact I think I have three VJ games and haven't beaten one of them :( . Always get 50% through them before another RPG grabs my attention.Oh man. Just know going into it that even by JRPG standards, Xenoblade is a long, lonnng game.
Think I'll finish up Xenoblade this weekend though. Only have 10 hours in but I plan on putting 20+ more hours in the next few days.
Oh yeah man, I've been keeping an eye on you. I've seen you saying you're buying something on Twitter, and even I've said to myself "Why? He isn't even going to play it". I've seen you admit that you're buying something while fully accepting that you won't play it for months. That's when you know you have The Lindemann Syndrome.
Lindemann Syndrome has ten distinct stages:
1. Financial freedom
2. Realization of cheap, good games
3. Massive purchasing
4. Realization of impossible backlog
5. Financial peril
6. Extreme scaling back of purchases
7. Acceptance of responsibility for backlog
8. Infrequent purchases
9. Attacking of backlog
10. Death
I'm at #9. Only my backlog and death awaits me. I am one of the damned.
Oh yeah man, I've been keeping an eye on you. I've seen you saying you're buying something on Twitter, and even I've said to myself "Why? He isn't even going to play it". I've seen you admit that you're buying something while fully accepting that you won't play it for months. That's when you know you have The Lindemann Syndrome.
Lindemann Syndrome has ten distinct stages:
1. Financial freedom
2. Realization of cheap, good games
3. Massive purchasing
4. Realization of impossible backlog
5. Financial peril
6. Extreme scaling back of purchases
7. Acceptance of responsibility for backlog
8. Infrequent purchases
9. Attacking of backlog
10. Death
I'm at #9. Only my backlog and death awaits me. I am one of the damned.
Hey, I beat Lindemann by 20 games. If anyone's the master, it's me.
Hey, I beat Lindemann by 20 games. If anyone's the master, it's me.
Hey, I beat Lindemann by 20 games. If anyone's the master, it's me.
Hey, I beat Lindemann by 20 games. If anyone's the master, it's me.
Really?
http://www.backloggery.com/joshnickerson (http://www.backloggery.com/joshnickerson)
The only thing this thread has taught me is that the forum posters here are completely loaded.
The majority of my backlog is from Steam sales where I paid an average of $5/game for.
ALRIGHT! We are the 1% forum. Crack open the cristal champagne everybody.
If I beat Eternal Darkness once, I'll be satisfied enough. Apparently, I picked the hardest magik color to go through the game, blue. So far it hasn't been difficult, though.I thought red was the hard one? I recall them saying that on RFN during the ED themed podcast (complete with fun insanity effects! Go look it up if you haven't listened.)
Josh: Where in the world do you get the time and money to even BUY that many games? Seriously, even my worst obssession, comic book collecting, pales in comparison to this collection. And comic books are cheaper. And logging all those games must have been a part-time job in and of itself.
Actually Josh % of beaten games is higher than yours Insane so wouldn't that make you the collector and him the gamer?
Of course Josh added multiple generations together, hell if I did my list would be HUGE as well. 70 games/year by 30 years of gaming=roughly 2100 titles. That's playing 5 or 6 games per month.
Actually Josh % of beaten games is higher than yours Insane so wouldn't that make you the collector and him the gamer?
Of course Josh added multiple generations together, hell if I did my list would be HUGE as well. 70 games/year by 30 years of gaming=roughly 2100 titles. That's playing 5 or 6 games per month.
I said intent; I bought every one of those games intending to play it, and Josh seemed to indicate that he bought games just to collect them. Also, my completion percentage would be higher, but at a certain point I stopped adding games that I'd beaten because I was tired of entering things and wanted to be finished quicker.
I'm super backed up.
Hands up who triple-completed Eternal Darkness back in the day and got the alternate title screen! *raises hand* ;D
Hands up who triple-completed Eternal Darkness back in the day and got the alternate title screen! *raises hand* ;D
Hands up who triple-completed Eternal Darkness back in the day and got the alternate title screen! *raises hand* ;D*raises hand* I did it! I did it! Man, I loved Eternal Darkness back in the day.
Yes, I had the same problem with Bully and the Wii's controls. I first tried the game at release on PS2, I thought the Wii release would show improvement - but it didn't. The controls were quite imprecise. I later picked up the Scholarship Edition on Xbox 360, it is the definitive version for me. It's much more playable.
I'm going to finish Kirby Epic Yarn, Sonic Colora, Xenoblade, and goldeneye.Sonic Cholera. There's a game I want to play! ;)
