3d5f80 No.15341492
I was wondering how others here get through their backlogs.
I have created a database of every single game I own, and queries to help me sort through them. With cheap/free games constantly being given away, the database grows, but at least I get through the games in an organised way. I even have a field where I write my comment about the game, so that I don't forget how it was like, and reinstall it in the future. I like to play two games of contrasting genres at once, so that I do not get burnt out.
b8c3bd No.15341500
f24c2e No.15341511
I look at my shelf and see what looks fun
199b5a No.15341517
I just keep a list and run through it. When I'm indecisive, I will usually play the games I feel least like I will enjoy immediately. The rebound from playing an utter shit game is usually enough to propel me towards either a purge or randomly pulling another game I like off of it.
fe1818 No.15341518
>>15341492
Delete your Steam account.
d21aaf No.15341542
>>15341518
>backlogs are exclusively a steam thing
Nigger are you dense?
ee6b55 No.15341574
>>15341542
Go back to >>>/reddit/, circlejerking cuck.
01dcb1 No.15341585
I just play whatever I feel like playing.
tfw I see a banner some anon made out of my rage induced 5 second GIMP edit
c8d4c1 No.15341597
3d5f80 No.15341614
>>15341597
I never finish a game if I do that.
b8c3bd No.15341617
>>15341574
Quit being a massive faggot
04c45d No.15341623
>database
Huh. I use a notebook with checkmarks. It's a habit from when I was younger and would have an entire page dedicated to a game where I would check off things I had done in it. I would have a list with every game I owned and boxes for having beaten it and for having 100% completed it.
4b4875 No.15341725
>>15341492
>Mother says licking my own sister is "improper".
t. Carossa
>I was wondering how others here get through their backlogs.
One or two games at a time, though I limit myself to one console/PC style on and one handheld at max. Also don't like to rush through shit just to get done with it, as I'd rather enjoy my time with a game. Choosing what to sit down with and play next though is the real issue. Progress is quite slow, but in an era when most games coming out aren't especially good or interesting, I'd rather have a backlog of interesting stuff to work through than either suffer through playing modern mainstream trash or have nothing of interest.
f66c4b No.15341769
I just pick something that looks interesting and play. Stop being a faggot about it. And while you're at it, abandon all simple illusions of ever playing every game you ever want (or don't yet know you want) to play. A backlog is a warehouse of potential, not an imperative or a laundry list. The only reasons to keep them around is for easy access for whimsy and because if the kikes have their way - they may not be available or easy to acquire in the future. Horde now, archive, and worry about what you're going to be playing later.
aa782a No.15342269
I only count games I paid for and like. Counting free games is like counting everything in a library as your entertainment backlog. Bad games just aren't worth it, unless you're streaming them for others like Uncommon Time or David Cage QTE films.
3a0361 No.15353823
14f420 No.15353879
>>15341492
Pick at random, how else?
e60bd4 No.15355043
>>15341492
I don't really bother, myself. Sure, having all these games in my library that I've gotten over the years in bundles, etc, means that that's a lot of games that are legally accessible to me when they wouldn't be otherwise, but what I think really matters is what games are interesting to you, not what games are accessible to you.
5798bc No.15355056
>>15341492
I don't.
Instead i just blogpost on /v/ all day
4f1530 No.15355061
I just play whatever I'm in the mood for. A lot the time I can't be bothered to play most games but I think of something I want to try again or haven't played but really want to play. Usually I look through my collection until said game comes up.
6134fb No.15355071
I don't get the whole backlog meme. I tend to dismiss most games within an hour, so I have barely any I want to play.
6397bb No.15355092
Not. I play whatever my interests leads me to play. I don't see the point of keeping a backlog. Most people keeping those backlogs start to see them as obligations from what I gather from these threads and that's completely contradictory to what games are supposed to be.
Play whatever the hell you want. Don't go by some autistic urge to "play as many games as possible".
5566bf No.15355102
>>15341492
1) I keep a small-ish database of games I own that I want to finish. I give each game a priority rating (1-5), an intensity rating (1-5), and estimate the number of hours it'll take to play each game to completion.
2) I write a simple function (I started with time*(priority+intensity)) to rank the games from "least fun to finish" to "most fun to finish"
3) I work down the list.
4) I don't buy ANY games until this database is less than 25 games long. This is the most important step.
This way you're not wasting money on games you won't play, and you still play a large amount of vidya.
4f1530 No.15355110
>>15355092
That's not what a backlog is. I have games I haven't played, and I want to play them. Unless the definition has changed now, like a lot of words on the internet
942d1e No.15355898
>>15341492
>I was wondering how others here get through their backlogs.
Made a spreadsheet of games I owned on libreoffice Calc. Created categories for console, platform (steam, GoG, etc), and whether or not I'd already started them, completed them, or if they are multiplayer only.
Then
>>15341725
>One or two games at a time, though I limit myself to one console/PC style on and one handheld at max. Also don't like to rush through shit just to get done with it, as I'd rather enjoy my time with a game. Choosing what to sit down with and play next though is the real issue. Progress is quite slow, but in an era when most games coming out aren't especially good or interesting, I'd rather have a backlog of interesting stuff to work through than either suffer through playing modern mainstream trash or have nothing of interest.
This is how I go about it as well. I also keep a game on the side that I've already completed but can return too if I get burned out on any of the one's I'm working on. Usually it's something in the vein of Katamari Damacy or doing time trials in Shadow of the Colossus since I can just pick a mission I want and chill out.
Even if it takes me months to complete one of the console/PC games I'm working on the trick is to not pick up anything else otherwise I will most likely not complete either.
9adc56 No.15355903
I need a combination of downtime from work and a dry spell of newer releases I want. Times like those I can bang out a game or two on the backlog without too much time constraints. As for deciding what to play next that's mostly random
2bf6db No.15357212
>>15355056
This nigger knows what's up.
930dfc No.15357348
>>15341585
>Gothic in backlog
go play that shit right fucking now, anon. You can thank me later.
3446e5 No.15357430
>>15341492
Mostly do the same but with just a text file in an editor that numbers lines and hash mark what I've completed with comments. I just do a random roll next and go with whatever I get that I haven't finished.
>roll 2350
>Where Time Stood Still - Atari ST
df38ee No.15357471
>tfw a million a old rpgs on my backlog
>it takes forever to make any progress
Never getting through all of these.
a5ec72 No.15357502
>>15341492
Why would you ever want to get through your backlog?
20fe45 No.15357548
I have found that refraining from fapping gives the energy necessary to try new games and the dopamine reserves to enjoy them. Try this if you are having trouble working up the motivation: Don't touch your dick from when you wake up until after you're done playing games for the day (if at all).
3446e5 No.15357656
>>15357548
I have to agree with this, used to start the day needing to fap before I was even half awake. Really ruins any sort of objective-based focus when you've already blown it before the day has started. Having motivation lulls is one thing, being too sapped to even play games is another.
1e6a90 No.15357690
>>15357656
I jerk off in the morning and at night. If I have a day off I will fap an additional zero, one, or two times.
3446e5 No.15357750
>>15357690
The only thing fapping has ever done is help me improve focus if I'm already in the middle of a task. If you have fuck all going on you're just another addict.
6f1e67 No.15358031
>>15357908
>inverted hands
942d1e No.15358145
>>15358031
In all the years I've had that picture I never once noticed that.
991f2e No.15358252
>>15341492
>How do you get through your backlog
You don't, it's impossible to give up enough time to be able and cover all gaming history. You will eventually grow old enough to stop bothering anymore, so hurry up and trim the best of the best. Afterwards gaming will just be a return to nostalgia, and everything else look like shit.
Even the hollow husk of a neet won't play through his entire backlog. Ultimately they stop caring and prefer arguing on imageboards than actually holding a joypad.
4f1530 No.15360882
>>15358252
There are also all my books and movies to get through. I will be long dead before I am even a quarter of the way through, but the journey is what matters.
47808d No.15360890
Stop hording and collect games first of all.
Play the games you want.
b2f8e8 No.15360898
>>15341492
I probably won't. My backlog is over 1000 games long at this point.
ef2660 No.15360990
I reorganized my backlog last year and am now going through it chronologically although sometimes I will skip ahead a bit if I feel really in the mood for a specific game, never more than one year though.
I'm almost at 1994 now currently playing Kyrandia 2.
d98376 No.15360998
You don't need a database to play games lad.
I have 20 games sat on my desktop at any given time but have no 'backlog' as I'm an old fuck and I've played everything I've ever wanted to.
06b8b1 No.15361131
I have a huge text file of games that I want to play. I'm in the process of moving it into a personal wiki. I tag the games with various information like developer, genre, year, etc, so that I can easily look them up like a database.
Also check out grouvee.com It's the best site I've found for keeping a backlog. It also lets you post status updates so you can keep a game journal if you want.
Anyway I think I have about 2,000 games in my backlog. I'm pretty sure I've set myself an impossible task, but hey at least I'll always have some games to play.
c593c3 No.15361163
>>15355072
A free isometric game called CAYNE.
59c9e4 No.15361171
Never understood this backlog meme. No one is forcing you to play video games.
fec22e No.15361229
>>15361171
It's just about keeping track of games you want to play.
a23170 No.15361276
by platform, in divisible factors of whatever games on that platform i still have to get through, making exceptions when something i'm really excited for comes out, but most importantly, "one step at a time"
444284 No.15361371
>>15341492
>With cheap/free games constantly being given away, the database grows
>adding every single shiny thing that crosses your path to your backlog like a magpie
Get some fucking standards anon