by boiglenoight
Everyone has one. The list. The sum of one's greed and avarice toward videogames. One's lack of discipline during the Steam sales. And a short term memory of the last time you convinced yourself "oh I'll totally play that 40-hour RPG." I'm looking at you, Dragon Quest IX.
A game where finding your way home and managing to land is enough to merit rolling the credits.Below is my list. It is the sum total of games I want to play. I own other games I do not want to play, have finished or have played enough that I feel like they're already off my backlog. Take A-10 Warthog for example. I think I got my money's worth just trying to learn how to take off and land, much less finish a campaign.
This guy. This eff'in guy.There must be rules. Many of the games listed below exit the backlog via being played to completion. Others, such as Animal Crossing or Banished, pass muster on arbitrary terms, such as playing for at least 10 hours. Generally speaking, for games that are infinitely replayable or have no endgame, 10 hours is enough for me. In special cases, I will consider a game completed based on some arbitrary criteria, such as "this game is fun and I'm glad I bought it but there's no way in hell I'm playing this for 10 hours," or delete a game outright if I find it openly mocks me (Demon's Souls / Dark Souls) or because it's a Peter Molyneux game.
And the carrot. For every game completed, I can purchase a new game to add to the Backlog. Because it must feed, and because I can't afford both Steam sales and a mortgage payment. Games completed are marked as such, and where applicable, listed as being credited toward a new game.
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HLTB: 12 1/2 hours
******** Completed (10+ hours). ******** Credited to: Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt 04/22/15: I think I've played enough of this noise. It's fun, mindless, and distracting me from other games. Looking forward to a sequel. 10/10/13: It's near Halloween so I am buying all of the seasonal stuff as it becomes available in the store. Warming up to the Able sisters and should be able to do QR designs soon. This is the most pointless game I've ever played, and yet here I am, still playing it. 8/14/13: Found a gold nugget. Wondering if I can use it to make a golden shovel that I keep hearing about.
******** Completed ******** Credited to: Metro: Last Light After Assassin's Creed 2, this one felt like a retread for about 75% of the game. It had a lot of good characters though and ultimately I'm glad I finished it. Not sure if I'll play Revelations, and while I have 3 still in the shrinkwrap I'm not eager to rip it open after listening / reading other peoples' attempts to get through it. Unfortunate that Ubisoft is seeming to pump these games out.
******** Completed ******** Credited toward: OlliOlli Revelations was a refined Brotherhood. I enjoyed the Altier story and tromping around Turkey during the 16th century was a virtual Middle-eastern vacation.
******** Completed ******** *Credited toward Towerfall* The last game I needed to play through before moving onto Black Flag, I went into this thinking it was going to be a total mess. And really, it is. However, if you can sift through the poor design there's a lot to like here.
******** Completed ******** Credited toward: Towerfall I received this one as a pack-in for the Vita, which in itself I got as a payment for some artwork. It is a turd. Do not play it.
******** Completed ******** Credited toward: Star Wars Pinball: Heroes Within I did not care about the story here. Not that it wasn't good, it was. Reading about what happens to the characters post game through Google and Wikis revealed some disturbing eventual outcomes prior to Connor's story and is recommended reading. That said, the real value here is a pirate simulator unlike anything I've played. It inspired me to watch Master and Commander and read Treasure Island, and I was better for playing AC4 as I picked up on a lot of seaman banter and colloquialisms than I would have otherwise. All of the Assassin's Creed games are like virtual vacations for me and Ubisoft did a great job in creating a sense of what it may have been like cruising around the Caribbean as a pirate.
******** Completed (10+ hours) ******** Credited to: Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt
******** Completed ******** *Credited toward: Dishonored* A prime backlog game, I picked up on this after playing it about a year ago. My save was somewhere in the middle, and I had forgotten what Batman was doing, who he'd already defeated and how to use all of his gadgets, not to mention fight. So for the remainder of the game I found myself struggling to "get it" and was surprised to see the credits roll. Having let such a long time lapse between playing, the final battle felt anti-climatic. Speaking of credits, they roll for 20 minutes!
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