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The Castlevania Dungeon Forums => Hardcore Gaming 101 => Topic started by: Abnormal Freak on September 09, 2016, 10:45:12 PM
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You dudes and dudettes have it?
http://www.backloggery.com/Swankster (http://www.backloggery.com/Swankster)
Watch me play a million games and then never beat them.
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I don't have it. What am I looking at, exactly? Is it a discussion board for whatever games you're currently working on? My list would be stupidly long.
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I'm even worse, I think.
I have a lot of games that I haven't even started! ;D
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I don't have it. What am I looking at, exactly? Is it a discussion board for whatever games you're currently working on? My list would be stupidly long.
It's basically a log of your gaming backlog, hence Backloggery. For most gamers, I imagine it's a wall of shame. I only add games in as I play them, but if I were to reach back the past decade, I'd have so much to plug in here that I never beat.
Even with just what I've added, I'm constantly going back and taking games out of my now playing list if I haven't touched them in a few weeks; or, sometimes I keep them there just as a reminder that I was playing them, lol.
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I'm working my way through every JRPG ever made in chronological order (sort of).
That amounts to 30 years worth of backlog.
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I also have this issue. I've purchased several games that I've not even unwrapped from their store packages yet :P Wolfenstein: The Old Blood to name one of them.
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Same here. I got a few games last Christmas that are still in their plastic wrapping. Though I am about to finish my masters which is a big part of why I haven't played them, I'm also about to have a second kid, so it may be summer 2017 before they get opened. ;-P By then I might have more games alongside them!
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Sigh... the older you get, the lesser games you play, but there's more money that you can to spend on games.
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Yeah you kind of end up being a collector more then a gamer as you age... :(
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Yeah you kind of end up being a collector more then a gamer as you age... :(
Facts.. I'm not even really buying games now unless it's for the purpose of collecting.
Occasionally I buy a Street Fighter to play online or a Zelda/ FF game to play through, but time is few and more far between to game these days.
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Yeah you kind of end up being a collector more then a gamer as you age... :(
As someone who's likely older than a majority of the posters here now, I can say this is true. The collecting bug hit me mid 30's, haven't stopped since. My Backloggery is rarely ever updated as I keep a notepad of all games I own and catalog them that way. Right now it's Sam Sho or KoF for me till I can break this fighting game bug that has bitten me hard. Might stop after I finish acquiring SNK fighters for SNES, Genesis, GB, PS1, Saturn, and PS2.
Shiroi said:
Sigh... the older you get, the lesser games you play, but there's more money that you can to spend on games.
My take:
Truth, I have some money set aside for games, though I try and keep a budget on that as to not break the bank. But I find I do play less these days than I did 10,20, even 30 years ago though I own a boatload more retro games now, than I did when those games were the hot new thing.
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Filling up my backloggery would take me longer than to beat at least 10 60-hour games.
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I kinda wish I had AVGN's drive to jump right in and play all those games. But of course it probably helps him to have a show which gives him the incentive to do just that, and have fun alone the way.
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Filling up my backloggery would take me longer than to beat at least 10 60-hour games.
Jorge can't even finish his backloggery, much less beat his games!! ;-)
Sigh... the older you get, the lesser games you play, but there's more money that you can to spend on games.
I don't know what you do...but I'm stuck playing less and paying less! I had more money to buy stuff as a teenager with a part time job than I have now as an adult with a full time job! X-/
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I have one, you're right, it's a wall of shame. And it's not even got my whole collection on it. According to it I'm just shy of beating 100 games. (Though that's a little inflated since I have the separate campaigns of RTSs listed as different titles.) Not bad I guess considering I didn't start gaming until about 10 years ago and I like to take my time. My full backlog dwarfs this probably 3 or 4 times over. Partly from a frenzy of collecting from the first 2 or so years I got into the hobby, but mostly from the handful of bundled sales I pick up (or am given) on Gog and Steam every year. My Gog backlog alone is really about 100 games.
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I rarely ever buy a game with the intention of playing it immediately when i get home, so a lot of stuff sits for a long time. Even more so now that I've really gotten big into comic books just recently.
My backlog is horrible. If it didn't take so long, I would love to find out the played/unplayed ratio within my collection.
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I rarely ever buy a game with the intention of playing it immediately when i get home, so a lot of stuff sits for a long time. Even more so now that I've really gotten big into comic books just recently.
My backlog is horrible. If it didn't take so long, I would love to find out the played/unplayed ratio within my collection.
I rarely buy video games period any more. For the last 5 or 6 years, which is when I've got the majority of my collection, I just grab a bunch from the steam and gog sales for $1 - $3 apiece. Most of the games I get in a year are gifted to me by my girlfriend in those same sales. Don't have the money and with a a backlog in the hundreds it's hard to justify spending more. Maybe $20 a year at a stretch.
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I don't know what you do...but I'm stuck playing less and paying less! I had more money to buy stuff as a teenager with a part time job than I have now as an adult with a full time job! X-/
Well, I do have extra money that I can theoretically spend on games. :) And most of it goes into toys and books.
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I have a backloggery account that hasn't been updated in a year. It didn't even have my whole backlog at the time since I just got too lazy to list everything... and oh boy is this 'everything' a big list. Now it includes some Genesis games I've picked up but haven't played, some point and click adventure games, Dark Souls, and of course a bunch of others. Thankfully I've completed some games in the past month, such as Steel Strider, Super Cyborg (good Contra-like), and Ys I & II Chronicles +. But yeah time to get a big shovel and dig into this backlog I guess.
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I have no such problem because
1.) I only move my focus to next game after finding everything I considered worth to find (Secrets,glitch,hidden content,unused/dropped elements,revision/prototypes,version difference,speed run tech,etc) in previous games
2.) I only choose games worth playing of fit my taste, and luckily my taste is so bad :rollseyes: so I have less chance to find a new game that fit my taste (I'm a knight and not limited to games, that's my attitude/life style towards everything)
3.) Free games took away so much of my time and gave lots of fun to me, thus I pay less about gaming
4.) There're lots of modern works that just sucks, and I feel tired waiting for newer released games
5.) Newer released modern works can't turn on my switch of emotion
6.) I have little space of money for gaming :rollseyes: My interest had been moved to hardware modification in 2015 after finishing Lecarde Chronicles no-death run thanks to PSP console and PS series controllers.
7.) I'm too much curious about certain games: Castlevania Chronicles PS1, Mega Man ZX, Rosenkreuzstilette/RKSF, Lecarde Chronicles. Just few games can get my notice and thus I can open my censor. And I treat every game by my attitude in 1.)
8.) I usually watch random Anime series through Youtube but the situation is similar; Only a few "chosen one" can reach my censor. So that's how it became my attitude towards everything.
9.) I still have 512 ways to counter "too much games for me to play" situation.
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I rarely buy video games period any more. For the last 5 or 6 years, which is when I've got the majority of my collection, I just grab a bunch from the steam and gog sales for $1 - $3 apiece. Most of the games I get in a year are gifted to me by my girlfriend in those same sales. Don't have the money and with a a backlog in the hundreds it's hard to justify spending more. Maybe $20 a year at a stretch.
I think I'm the complete opposite: I'll just go to stores during sales, with nothing particular in mind, and just pick up whatever looks good that I don't already have. But now going into a video game store feels kind of ridiculous.
Last store I went into had a Buy 2 Get One Free sale during Labor Day Weekend. I'm looking through everything, and all the stuff I want to play, I either own or think I may already own and I'm not 100% sure. I could only find one game (Dragonball Xenoverse) and it's not something I'd normally buy, but I liked DBZ (the show anyway) and I didn't want to leave empty-handed.
So now the only games left for me are the more hard-to-find ones that I'd have to get online, and I really don't want to fork over the cash for stuff like that right now. But at least my idiot brain is slowly coming to the realization that nothing good can come out of aimlessly browsing brick-and-mortar game stores. :-\
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If I had to fill in my backloggery, it could take my entire lifetime to fill in due to having over 1,150 games. No chance in hell will I take the time to fill all that out, plus the info it asks for (optional really).
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It was a fun diversion for a week or few ages ago (http://backloggery.com/dynakyris). It helped me pin down some aspects of my gaming history, at least.