My games backlog is pretty bad. what about yours??

[masticina]

Mine is Horendous

As in I don't even buy that many games but I only really finished one serious game. That being The Darkness, it was a short nice simple delicious game.

But yeah I do own some long term rpg's... the type that suck up 100 hours easily. Oh yes and in almost each of them I hit a point that I just stop caring. I like the scenery, I like the story I like... oh yeah I belief I have to grind for 20 hours before I can beat this upcoming boss. Such a shame.

And that is me. I am a sucker like that! But I still buy games.

Maybe one day I get away from Final Fantasy 7 first disc [seriously!]. Maybe one day I will actually get somewhere in Final Fantasy XII. Oh yeah that one to.. oh boy.

And that are only the Final Fantasy's. I do own a few less hardcore rpg's. As in Bioware RPG's, great written stories, great characters and yet another bottleneck moment that just makes me stop playing.

I guess the reason The Darkness ended up being the one I did play through was because it was kinda short. But I am now stuck with having to look at if it is worth playing Bioshock 1 and 2 .. I bought them have I played them?

Oh I did buy Faster then Light, and since that has an end I might try to make that my second game. Yeah I see myself exploding and failing allot but hey.. Oh I forget one game I did finish the main quest of Neverwinternights. It was nice cut up in smaller blocks of quests and I have played it a few times.

I guess that is the secret with me I like the carrot but give it to me in little blocks

I hope to get somewhere though with Ni No Ku Ne, you know the game I mean. Why? It is modern yet remembers me of why I played Final Fantasy. It also is not as easy as it looks So yes one needs to grind.

 

[Darquenaut]

Wooo.... okay, now I don't feel as bad as I thought I would- it's good to know I'm in good company.

However, my backlog problem really didn't start until the last few years. Back in the N64/ GCN days I played those games to completion. Now I might buy a game because it looks awesome and I want to support the developer studio, but I'lleither play it and stop "just because," or I'll be getting it while busy with another game... let's see...

Game marked with an "*" means I begun playing them, but never actually completed the main storyline. In the case of fighting games, I didn't complete a single playthrough with all characters.

BlazBlue *
Brutal Legend*
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow*
Catherine*
Condemned 2: Bloodshot
DmC*
Dragon Age: Origins*
Dragon's Dogma*
Doom 3: BFG Edition
El Shaddai,Ascension of the Metatron*
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion*
Fatal Frame 2*
Halo 4
Hitman: Absolution*
Hitman: HD Collection (I actually have beaten the games... bought this because I'd like to have all 3 game available on one console.)
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning*
Left4Dead2*
Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword*
Mirror's Edge
Okami
Prey
Red Faction: Guerilla*
Resident Evil 6*
Resonance of Fate
The Saboteur*
Shadows of the Damned*
Silent Hill 4*
Silent Hill: Homecoming*
Singularity*
Sniper Elite V2*
Super Mario Galaxy*
Super Mario Galaxy 2*
Super Street Fighter 4*
Tekken Tag Tournament 2*
Withcer 2: Assassin of Kings*
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Zack and Wiki*

 

[AlmostLikeLife]

Let's take a look here...

360/PS3
Borderlands
Demon's Souls
Dark Souls
Dishonored
Far Cry 3
Rage
Sleeping Dogs
Spec Ops: the Line
The Witcher 2

PS2
XIII
Ico
Okami
Persona 4
Resident Evil 4
Silent Hill 2

SNES/N64
Final Fantasy III
LoZ: A Link to the Past
Banjo-Tooie
Conker's Bad Fur Day
Donkey Kong 64
LoZ: Majora's Mask

Wii
LoZ: Skyward Sword

So, yeah, quite a list I have going here.

 

[SquidVicious]

I've got a pretty lengthy backlog of games, many purchased during a Steam or GOG sale. There's a few I doubt I'll ever get around to finishing, but here are the games that I have started and intend on finishing.

Fallout & Fallout 2
Hotline Miami
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Deus Ex
Mark of the Ninja
Lone Survivor
Bastion
Mass Effect
System Shock 2
Deus Ex: Human Revolutions
Far Cry 3
Dead Space

Here's the games I've purchased but haven't started playing yet

Just Cause 2
Thief & Thief 2
The Witcher
Arcanum Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
X-COM: Enemy Unknown


I have a bad tendency to start a game, enjoy it, but stop playing because I decide I need to read more, or I want to spend more time with my girlfriend/ friends, and then when I go back to revisit the game I can't remember what had happened before, so I restart the game and get up to the same part or a little beyond and then the cycle repeats itself. I think it's one of the reasons I prefer indie games, their shorter length makes them easier for me to complete in one or two sittings, whereas a game like Mass Effect just takes too much time from my life. Then there are just some games I've played, and even enjoyed, but have no intention of ever finishing, like every Bethesda game, Diablo III and Torchlight II, and then there's just games I played and thought was too mediocre to bother finishing like Dead Island.

 

[thejackyl]

My backlog isn't too bad, except for Steam which is only at 16 games. Most of which I got in a bundle because it was cheaper than just the one game, and most of which I don't plan on playing.

I have a handful of handheld RPGs that I can't be bothered to finished (Phantasy Star 1-3, Pokemon Black, TWEWY, Golden Sun: Dark Dawn.)

I've beat all but 3 games on the Wii (MadWorld, Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3)

Okay, maybe I do have a bit of a backlog, but most games I put down, I don't plan on picking back up.

 

[Fijiman]

My game backlog is fairly small. Let's see, I still need to play: Beyond Good and Evil, Sly Cooper 1 & 2, Devil May Cry, and Rayman Origins. I still need to get around to finishing KotOR at some point, but I don't see that happening anytime soon. I'm also going to be going through the New Vegas DLC soon, but I'm not sure if that counts. My only backlog that I'm dreading is my web comic backlog. So many that I'm more than a year behind on, so many more that I yet to even read.

 

[CommanderL]

Knights the old repbulic 1 and 2
The awaking expansion for dragon age
titan quest
alpha protocol -for the third time first time playing it on pc may have to break out my gamepad as pc controll suck-
metro 2033 it chrashes my pc everytime I try to play it

The oddworld series
portal 2
and a few more I havnt even started yet

 

[necromanzer52]

Compared to most people here, I'm doing pretty well with my backlog. I only own 3 games, that I haven't got around to playing. (GTA:Vice city, deadrising, and halo wars).

Got a fair few games that I never got around to finishing for various reasons, but I'll probably get around to them soon enough.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

What do you recommend I pick up next? I'm torn between finishing some of those, picking up Beyond Good... or starting a classy RPG, something that will take months off my life like Dragon Quest 8 / Tales of the Abyss did.

Get yourself some Wild Arms, my friend. The PS2 has plenty of those. Alter Code F is probably the best of the bunch.

As for my backlog. It's extensive. My steam account being the worst offender.
I also still have PS1 rpgs I want to play. And PSP rpgs. And PS3 games.

RPGs seem to be the bane of my gaming existence.
So much time required to enjoy them.

I always wanted to try one of those (if anything because <3 western <3) but I know it starts at Wild Arms 3 on the PS2. Is it like Final Fantasy, where there's no continuity between games? Can I just pick Alter Code F without caring for narrative continuity?

 

[Kiefer13]

Steam sales and procrastination do not mix well.

Spoiler: Games bought on Steam over the last year or so either untouched or played only for a few hours as of yet.

Alpha Protocol
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Anno 2070
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Batman: Arkham City
Braid
Crysis
Crysis Warhead
Dead Space
Dead Space 2
DEFCON
Europa Universalis III
F.E.A.R
F.E.A.R: Extraction Point
F.E.A.R: Perseus Mandate
F.E.A.R 2: Project Origin
F.E.A.R 3
Gemini Rue
Hearts of Iron III
Jade Empire: Special Edition
Max Payne 3
Metro 2033
Penumbra: Black Plague
Penumbra: Overture
Penumbra: Requiem
Plants vs. Zombies: Game of the Year Edition
Psychonauts
RAGE
S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat
S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky
S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl
Saint's Row: The Third
Spec Ops: The Line
Thief: Gold
Thief 2
Thief: Deadly Shadows
Tomb Raider: Anniversary
Tropico 4
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
X2: The Threat
X3: Albion Prelude
X3: Reunion
X3: Terran Conflict

That's to say nothing of the backlog of books I have sitting around waiting to be read as well (about 20+, at this point).

 

[Jimmy T. Malice]

I normally play a game fully before moving onto another one, so I don't tend to have many 'backlog' games.
I do have some recently bought games that I haven't bothered to finish yet, like the new Castlevania, where I just got tired of the imprecise combat and fixed camera, and Dragon Age: Origins, where despite my best attempts at tactics my party was repeatedly wiped even after changing to Easy (although I did manage to defeat the Sloth Demon in the Fade at Normal difficulty early in the game, which was gruelling to say the least) and I just couldn't take any more.
I also haven't finished Metal Gear Solid 3, Demon's Souls and Crysis of late.

 

[Zaeseled]

I used to have an absurdly large backlog, Borderlands 2, Assassins Creed 3, Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2, Deus Ex HR, Darksiders 2. But now I own MH3U and suddenly I don't care about any other games anymore.

 

[Arcane Azmadi]

Not a bad list, I'm impressed you have a GBA backlog, but I can do better: I have a PS1 backlog! I still have my first playthrough on Harvest Moon: Back to Nature to complete, as well as Final Fantasy VI (would that count as an SNES backlog game even if it's a PS1 port?) and varying other JRPGs including Vagrant Story and Kartia that I haven't even started yet. All-up, incluiding digitial download games on Steam, GoG and others, I think I have literally several HUNDRED games waiting for me to get back to them.

I keep a personal property list which tracks every single game I own, complete with a mark of (I) for games I've started but are Incomplete, (B) for games I've Beaten to a minimally acceptable extent, (C) for games I've Completed sufficiently to count as being fully done with and (T) to mark the rare few games I've Twinked (or Ubertwinked), having juiced every single possible drop of gameplay out of them. The vast majority of the list is either unmarked as I haven't started them yet, or marked with an (I). And yet, here I sit, wasting my time on League of Legends and other free-to-play online games that can never be completed (latest distraction is Warframe). It's a serious problem for me.

For one thing, I honestly don't know how I'm going to make it to the end of They Bleed Pixels...

EDIT: If anyone wants a FULL list of my incomplete games backlog, just ask and I'll put in the effort to write it up. Beware, it'll take up an entire forum page.

 

[Dead Seerius]

Oh man. My backlog strikes fear into my heart because I know I'll never be able to play all of the games I want to before heading to college and saying goodbye to gaming for a while.

Highest on my to-do list:

Fallout: New Vegas
Mass Effect 2 & 3
Skyward Sword
Assassin's Creed 3
Dishonored
Dead Space 2

...And that's hardly a fraction of the total.