Poll: Back Log: How do you determine what to play?

[BarkBarker]

what can I get the most out of in the sittings I play it, no point starting my backlog with the 100 hour plus game, I'd get so little done I'd feel like I wasted my time, alongside that are things like which do I feel I will most strongly enjoy, you never tried that sandbox game you got on PSPlus and you could hate yourself that you have a file you don't want to finish but you've already put in so much effort.

 

[FoolKiller]

I have a spreadsheet to do it randomly.
It does the work for me.
I only alter the results if its a sequel to a game i haven't played yet.

 

[Fishcactus]

Like most people have said, I do it shortest to longest. Gone Home and Limbo before something like Tomb Raider.

I also try to take into account what everyone's talking about now, and what games are considered 'classics'. If I have a gap in my gaming knowledge (eg. I haven't played Half Life1/2 *gasp in horror*) i'll try fill it before I play something newer. And I played Papers Please and Gone Home just recently because i've been hearing/seeing them appear everywhere.

I did once try to go alphabetical through my Steam list, but got stuck on 'A' since Alan Wake doesn't run well on my laptop and there's no way i'm beating Amnesia again just so it's 100%ed on my Steam account. So alphabetical is a no.

 

[tippy2k2]

Like most people have said, I do it shortest to longest. Gone Home and Limbo before something like Tomb Raider.

I'm seeing that a lot in here and makes me feel kind of dumb for not thinking about that in the poll

Live and learn...

 

[Fijiman]

Well if I ever allowed myself to gather that many games into my backlog I would just either pick one at random or pick the one I'm most interested in first.