JonCole

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Now, at the end of the year, it's time to fiddle around with my spreadsheets. I blew past my goal of beating more games than I purchased, "finishing" a whopping 64 games and only purchasing 58. I pretty much attribute this to playing more short inde games and less full on AAA games, but who knows. Here's my list:

Broken Age Part 2

Cities Skylines

CK2 DLC

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Dragon Age: Inquisition

Dying Light

Elite: Dangerous

Endless Legend

Factorio

Fallout: New Vegas

Fallout 4

Grow Home

Guild of Dungeoneering

Guild Wars 2

Hack 'n' Slash

Her Story

Ib

Invisible Inc

Jack Box Party Pack

Just Cause 2

Keep Talking and No One Explodes

King's Bounty: Armored Princess/Crossworlds

Last Federation

Long Live the Queen

Majesty 2

Metal Gear V: Ground Zeroes

Metal Gear V: Phantom Pain

Nobunaga's Ambition

Recettear

Rebel Galaxy

Rocket League

Sentris

Sir, You Are Being Hunted

South Park: Stick of Truth

Stanley Parable

Steamworld: Dig

Sunless Sea

Tales from the Borderlands

Talos Principle

This War of Mine

Titan Quest

Uplink

Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War 2: Chaos Rising

Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War 2: Retribution

Windward

The Wolf Among Us

World of Warships

Xenonauts

Oblivion

Assasin's Creed Black Flag

FIFA 2015

Halo: The Master Chief Collection

Halo: ODST

Lovers in a Dangerous Space Time

Monster Hunter 3DS

Luftrausers

Race the Sun

Uncharted 3

Unfinished Swan

Cook, Serve, Delicious

Pirates!

King of Dragon Pass

YOU MUST BUILD A BOAT

Monument Valley

That still leaves me with well over a hundred games in my backlog, but at least some of those will go away because I'm going to let my PS+ lapse.

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I got stressed out recently thinking about all the video games I've aquired over the last couple months, and how many games I want to buy in the next. So, rather than let backlog anxiety ruin my leisure activities, it's time to start planning how I'm gonna get through these. And post it publicly, for self motivation.

In December, I aquired:

Undertale (Gift, BEATEN)

Fallout 4 (I bought this in November but basically couldn't play it until I got a new video card)

Assassin's Creed Unity Syndicate (It came with my new video card)

Talos Principle (Gift)

Kentucky Route Zero (Gift)

Metal Gear Solid 5 (Gift)

People like to give me video games, it's nice.

So far this year I've already bought myself:

The Witness

And I know I'm gonna want to buy these after they come out:

XCOM 2 (early february)

Firewatch (also early february)

The Witcher 3 (missed it last year but when the final expansion comes out I can likely buy some "complete" version)

Sooooooo that's a lot of stuff.

I'd like to be able to play the new games soon after they come out, if possible, because participating in "the conversation" immediately after release is a lot of fun and I like doing it. But that probably means that I'll be playing The Witness, Firewatch, and possibly XCOM 2 before I get around to touching my backlog from last year. That feels gross, but it's the plan right now. I'm actually HOPING that nothing new looks interesting for several months after February, because I will necessarily have to ignore it. This list will likely last me until, like, June. Or later.

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Good luck on Witcher 3. I'm 50 hours in right now, no DLC, and still feel like I'm forever away from the ending.

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Yeah, the big games on that list (MGS5 and FO4 too) are the worrisome bits. I might ditch FO4 for the foreseeable future, just to make more temporal room.

 

I haven't decided yet if I give a shit about my free copy of AssCree. I like the lady with a cane.

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I would sooner drop MGS5  than Fallout, but that's just me. I spent about the same amount of time in both.

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MGSV was some of the best gaming I've done this year. I have not played Fallout 4.

 

As for AC, if you like the lady with the cane then you should play Syndicate, not Unity. Unity is the French Revolution one. It's just ok.

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Oh, ha, then Syndicate is the one I have and I mixed up the names. Is it significantly better?

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I have not played Syndicate. Unity was fine, but I needed a break from AC after playing so many.

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I now have a back log again thanks to a bunch of sales, and picking up some older games.

It's the worst having a back log, I feel pressure to play games which is just wrong! I need to make it through a few just so I can feel calm about it again.

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I have an insane backlog that just keeps on piling up every week. I think I need help or something.

 

I just bought Headlander and I bought Kentucky Route Zero. Now I'm also really, really tempted by Quadrilateral Cowboy and I'm supposed to play a ton of other games as well on way too many platforms.

 

Still, I have no time, taking care of a seven month old daughter with my wife takes most of my free time that the only time I have for games is to buy more of them, I can't stop!

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That's also my problem. I love long, huge games, but I don't have time to play them. Although I don't have a child, I just have friends and an addiction to work and training. 

 

There's so many games I want to play, but I have so little time. 

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I'm just a silly bastard and keep watching TV shows rather than continuing to play the games I'm halfway through like MGS5 and Uncharted 4 even though I think they're absolutely excellent.

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After three years of keeping an overly-detailed backlog list in an effort to reduce the number of games I buy, I believe I succeeded in that goal and have stopped keeping a list. Even better, since I have a new Windows install, I've only been installing games from Steam that I want to play, not every single game I haven't completed, and just keeping my game view sorted to "most recent." It's been nice to let go of some of that stress that I've churned up for myself. I tend to make lists when I'm having anxiety issues then I use those lists to bludgeon myself on the head.

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So after giving my steam library a good, hard look I've decided to put buying games on hold until I get through some of my backlog  (unless they are Switch games, multiplayer games, or are heavily discounted).

 

After weeding out things I've already beaten, played enough to have my fill or games I have no interest in here is a randomized list fo my shame for all to see:

 

Title
1. Fallout: New Vegas
2. Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag
3. Metro: Last Light
4. Mad Max
5. Day of the Tentacle Remastered
6. Red Faction: Guerrilla
7. D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die -Season One-
8. Emily is Away
9. Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate - Deluxe Edition
10. Oxenfree
11. Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut
12. Broken Age
13. Batman: Arkham City GOTY
14. Tom Clancy's The Division
15. Rise of the Tomb Raider
16. Stellaris
17. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
18. SUNLESS SEA
19. Nuclear Throne
20. Darksiders II
21. Kentucky Route Zero
22. INSIDE
23. Half-Life 2
24. Deadlight
25. No Man's Sky
26. The Witness
27. Grim Fandango Remastered
28. Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
29. Valkyria Chroniclesâ„¢
30. Dishonored
31. ENSLAVED: Odyssey to the West Premium Edition
32. Homeworld Remastered Collection
33. The Swapper
34. SOMA
35. Company of Heroes (New Steam Version)
36. System Shock 2
37. Divinity: Original Sin
38. Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition
39. Tomb Raider
40. Invisible, Inc.
41. The Fall
42. ABZU
43. The Banner Saga 2
44. Far Cry 3
45. Dust: An Elysian Tail
46. Alien: Isolation
47. Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
48. Alice: Madness Returns
49. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
50. XCOM 2
51. Grand Theft Auto V
52. Guacamelee! Gold Edition
53. METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
54. Thirty Flights of Loving
55. Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition
56. The Banner Saga
57. Pillars of Eternity
 

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Just now, Professor Video Games said:

 

I'm gonna guess that this is what got you into this predicament in the first place...

 

Shh...

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I don't have that much, let's see.

 

Stuff I'm totally gonna play at some point, promise:

ABZÜ

Hard West

House of the Dying Sun

Kona

Life is Strange

Overgrowth

Project CARS

Renowned Explorers

 

Stuff I might get around to eventually, we'll see:

The Beginner's Guide

MX vs ATV: Supercross

Moon Hunters

Subnautica

Zombie Army Trilogy

 

I'm probably not gonna play this:

Stardew Valley

Technobabylon

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1 hour ago, Henke said:

I don't have that much, let's see.

 

Stuff I'm totally gonna play at some point, promise:

ABZÜ

Hard West

House of the Dying Sun

Kona

Life is Strange

Overgrowth

Project CARS

Renowned Explorers

 

Stuff I might get around to eventually, we'll see:

The Beginner's Guide

MX vs ATV: Supercross

Moon Hunters

Subnautica

Zombie Army Trilogy

 

I'm probably not gonna play this:

Stardew Valley

Technobabylon

 

It's been freeing being honest with myself, I'm probably not going to play all of these humble bundle games. I don't have very much time to game currently and I think at some point the sheer volume of my backlog was putting me off of starting something. Being able to free myself from the cruft that has built up has been freeing, hah.

 

 

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