Do you own games you haven't played yet?

[FoolKiller]

www.howlongtobeat.com and the www.backloggery.com are designed for just that type of problem.

The problem lies in the fact that the core of gamers from the 80s are in their 30s and 40s now. They have jobs, and children, and mortgages and can't effectively pursue their gaming interests as much as they would like. There was an article about this.

Red Dead Redemption takes about 30 hours to beat. Now if this busy person were to only be able to game 30 minutes a day (which may be a lot) then they only get through 3.5 hours a week. This means that it would take nearly 9 weeks to beat a game, and thats without doing all the little side missions that make sandbox gaming what it is. This would mean that you could beat maybe 5 games a year of this nature.

If you add this to the fact that this person will have more disposable income and there are literally dozens of AAA titles in the current generation of gaming, it would be quite difficult to not have a large backlog. Hell, on the first website I listed, there are people who have backlogs of nearly 1000 games. That's just insane.

 

[Chalacachaca]

ICO, I keep promising myself I'm going to play it but then something elses gets released (Damn you Crusader Kings 2!).

 

[twaddle]

final fantasy 10-2 and shadow the hedgehog. My ps2 broke -_-

 

[AbstractStream]

Infamous 2 is just sitting there. It stares at me but I never get around to it D:

 

[Folji]

The complete King's Bounty series, Telltale's Back to the Future, Splinter Cell: Conviction, FEAR 2, Terraria, Metro 2033 and Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands.

Go go Steam sales! Making me buy ridiculously cheap games that I don't have time to play.

 

[RuralGamer]

Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl, technically not because I played it when it first came out, sold it and re-bought it last year during the Steam January madness.

 

[soren7550]

If you want to be technical, I haven't played my copy of Mass Effect 3 yet (pre-ordered and fully paid it off), but if you want to be even more technical, then yes I have already played it (at NYCC and the demo).

But other than that, no because getting a new game for me is a rare experience, happens once or twice a year.

 

[scorptatious]

Well I have Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex for the original XBOX. That thing has been sitting on my shelf for well over a decade and I've yet to even open the plastic covering.

There's also some games like The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks and Brain Age. I have yet to touch these either.

 

[Iwata]

Oh, lordy... so many...

For the PS3 alone, here's how it's looking:

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Aliens VS Predator- Finished
Alone in the Dark: Inferno- Unfinished
Alpha Protocol- Unplayed
Apache: Air Assault- Unplayed
Army of Two- Unfinished
Army of Two: The 40th Day- Unplayed
Assassin's Creed- Unplayed
Assassin's Creed II- Unplayed
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood: Da Vinci Edition- Unplayed
Batman: Arkham Asylum- Finished
Batman: Arkham City- Finished
Battlefield: Bad Company- Finished
Battlefield: Bad Company 2- Finished
Bayonetta- Unplayed
Bioshock- Finished
Bioshock 2- Rapture Edition- Finished
Borderlands- Unplayed
Brutal Legend- Finished
Bulletstorm- Unplayed
Call of Duty 3- Unplayed
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare- Finished
Call of Duty: World at War- Finished
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2- Finished
Call of Duty: Black Ops- Finished
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3- Finished
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow- Finished
Clash of the Titans- Unplayed
Clive Barker's Jericho- Unfinished
Dante's Inferno- Finished
Dark Void- Unfinished
Darksiders- Finished
Dead Space- Unfinished
Dead Space 2- Unplayed
Dead to Rights: Retribution- Unplayed
Demon's Souls- Black Phantom Edition- Unfinished
Deus Ex: Human Revolution- Collector's Edition- Unfinished
Dragon Age: Origins- Unplayed
Dynasty Warriors: Gundam- Unplayed
Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard- Unplayed
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West- Unplayed
F.E.A.R. 2- Unplayed
Fallout 3- Game of the Year Edition- Finished
Fallout New Vegas- Finished
Far Cry 2 - Unplayed
God of War HD Collection- Unfinished
God of War HD Collection Volume II- Unplayed
God of War III- Unplayed
Grand Theft Auto IV- Unplayed
Homefront- Finished
Ico & Shadow of the Colossus HD Collection- Unfinished
IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey- Unfinished
inFamous- Finished
inFamous 2- Special Edition- Finished
Killzone 2- Finished
Killzone 3- Helghast Edition- Finished
Knights Contract- Unplayed
L.A. Noire- Unfinished
Legendary- Unplayed
Medal of Honor: Tier 1 Edition- Finished
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots- Unfinished
Mirror's Edge- Unfinished
Mortal Kombat- Finished
Mortal Kombat VS DC Universe- Unfinished
Naughty Bear- Unfinished
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit- Unfinished
No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise- Unplayed
Prince of Persia Trilogy HD- Unfinished
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands- Collector's Edition- Unplayed
Pro Evolution Soccer 2009- Unplayed
Red Dead Redemption- Finished
Resistance: Fall of Man- Unfinished
Resistance 2- Unplayed
Resistance 3- Collector's Edition- Unplayed
SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection- Unfinished
Shadows of the Damned- Unplayed
Singularity- Finished
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows- Finished
SplatterHouse- Unplayed
Split/Second: Velocity- Unplayed
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed- Finished
Super Street Fighter IV- Finished
Terminator Salvation- Unfinished
The Darkness- Unfinished
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion- Game of the Year Edition- Unfinished
The Saboteur- Unplayed
Timeshift- Unplayed
Tom Clancy's EndWar- Unfinished
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2- Unplayed
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.- Finished
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2- Unfinished
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas- Special Edition- Unplayed
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2- Unplayed
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent- Unplayed
Transformers: War for Cybertron- Finished
Tron: Evolution- Unfinished
Turning Point: Fall of Liberty- Unplayed
Ultimate Marvel VS Capcom 3- Unfinished
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune- Unfinished
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves- Unplayed
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception- Unplayed
Unreal Tournament III- Unplayed
Valkyria Chronicles- Unfinished
Vanquish- Unfinished
Viking: Battle for Asgard- Unplayed
Warhammer 40.000: Space Marine- Finished
Watchmen: The End is Nigh Parts 1 & 2- Unfinished
Wet- Unplayed
WipEout HD: Fury- Unfinished
Wolfenstein- Unfinished

Downloadable games (bought on the PSN)

PS1 classics:
Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain- Unplayed
Front Mission 3- Unplayed
Metal Gear Solid- Unplayed
Oddworld: Abe's Odissey- Unfinished
Oddworld: Abe's Exodus- Unplayed
SimCity 2000- Unfinished
WipEout- Unfinished

Minis:
Angry Birds- Unfinished
Fighting Fantasy: Talisman of Death- Unfinished
Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain- Unplayed
Zombie Tycoon- Unfinished

Full Games:
1942: Joint Strike- Unfinished
AfterBurner Climax- Finished
Amy- Unfinished
Battlefield 1943- Finished
Beyond Good & Evil HD- Unfinished
Braid- Unplayed
Call of Duty Classic- Unfinished
Castle Crashers- Unfinished
Castlevania: Harmony of Despair- Unplayed
Costume Quest & Grubbins On Ice Expansion- Finished
Dead Nation- Unfinished
Dead Space Extraction- Unplayed
DeathSpank- Unplayed
EarthWorm Jim HD- Unfinished
Hydrophobia: Prophecy- Unplayed
InFamous: Festival of Blood- Unplayed
Limbo- Unfinished
Marvel VS Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes- Unfinished
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge- Special Edition- Unplayed
Mortal Kombat II- Unfinished
Prince of Persia & Epilogue- Unplayed
Prince of Persia Classic- Unfinished
Risk: Factions- Finished
Scott Pilgrim VS The World: The Game & Knives Chau Add-On Pack- Finished
Secret of Monkey Island- Unplayed
Sky Fighter- Unfinished
Stacking & The Hobo King Expansion- Unplayed
Super Street Fighter II Turbo- HD Remix- Unfinished
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell HD- Unplayed
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow HD- Unplayed
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory HD- Unplayed
Trine & The Lost Level- Unplayed
Warhammer 40.000: Kill Team- Finished
Wolfenstein 3D- Unfinished
Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3- Unfinished

A lot of those "unplayed" are games I played for 5 minutes before moving on to something else, but yeah... I got a lot to catch up on.

 

[Weaver]

I honestly probably have around 80 games on Steam I haven't even installed once.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

Yup. Demon's Souls (Ironically, it's the game that convinced me to buy my PS3 in the first place) and the ICO collection (I already beat Shadow of the collosus on PS2, and I'm a bit too busy to get to ICO at the moment.)

 

[Dagnius]

I don't own many games due to financial reasons, and when I can afford a new game, you bet i'm gonna play it. I have several that I haven't beaten yet, but that's a different story. It's just against my nature to buy a game and just put it on the shelf. I have to play it at least until I get bored with it.

 

[TehCookie]

After I get a game I always play the first half hour. However there are tons I haven't gotten back to since I want to beat others first. They're mostly older games though, if I buy a game new I'm going to want to play it asap which is why the others keep getting pushed back.

 

[Wolfram23]

Mass Effect 2.

I played about 11 hours of ME1 and didn't like it. So that was that. Then I got ME2 for free with DA2.

 

[Chanel Tompkins]

Well...I have Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, and FF:4 Heroes of Light. I have played them, but not much, which considering the genre might as well be "not at all". I got tired of all the messing around you have to do to get anywhere in those games-either sneaking into the same damn temple a bunch of times (Zelda), or dicking around in a friends game to earn enough points to get weapons more effective than a butterknife (Heroes of Light).

 

[Double A]

I started using Steam extensively last summer.

My backlog is about 50 games right now.

 

[k3v1n]

I got Assasins creed revelations a couple of months ago, but I haven't played AssCreed brotherhood yet so I think I'm gonna wait until I get it. Also, GRAW 2 has not even been opened once (I don't know why, I've just never got round to it). And lastly, The Darkness II is also waiting for me to play it...the only reason I haven't is because I have had no time at all this week.

 

[Wilbot666]

I got a copy of Dante's Inferno for my PS3 second-hand at the DVD store the other week for $20 AUS, hasn't even been put into the console.

 

[Wilbot666]

If you want to be technical, I haven't played my copy of Mass Effect 3 yet (pre-ordered and fully paid it off), but if you want to be even more technical, then yes I have already played it (at NYCC and the demo).

I'm so jealous that I could spit blood!

 

[gyroc1]

I've got Timesplitters 2 and 3 up next, then the Ratchet and Clank Series. There are also some Steam games I got in bundles that I won't be playing ever.

And I was going to play the Jak and Daxter games for the first time, but an HD collection is coming, which means I can either play them on PS2 and miss out on fancy graphics and achievements or spend $30 on games I already have...And I'm going to spend the $30...Sux.