The "Gaming Backlog of Shame" competition
primesuspect
Beepin n' BoopinDetroit, MI Icrontian
With the absurdity of Steam sales and amazing deals to be had with all the Bundles, I know that a bunch of us have completely shameful gaming backlogs of games that we own but have never played or even installed.
I've often wanted to have some kind of tracker or tool to keep track of my backlog. Mine is absolutely shameful (not helped by the fact that I either just keep playing TF2, or running through the same few games over and over again), and it extends far beyond PC games on Steam. I have PLAYSTATION 2 games that were bought brand new that are still in the shrinkwrap. I gave in long ago and admitted that maybe I am a video game collector more than I'm a player.
At any rate, I'm proposing a bit of friendly competition.
Let's work on completing our gaming backlogs on Steam. Stop playing the same games you always play (Ahem, Jackieskyrim), and let's all crack into our library of games we've never played or finished. I propose we go through the list in the most painful and awkward fashion possible—alphabetically—and are not allowed to move to the next game until we are finished (or for games with no ending, 10 hours have been put in/achievements earned).
//EDIT, JUNE 2016: Alphabetical was stupid. Just go through them however you want.
Obviously we won't all be on the same playing field since we'll all have wildly various gaming libraries, but this will be an endurance/painfest for many of us (I'm looking at you, @mertesn and @winfrey), so we can't "race to the end" or anything like that.
To participate, create an ALLITERATIVELY TITLED THREAD in the Gaming Backlog of Shame forum, with your username (see others for examples), along with a list of games you need to play. You get a badge for participating and another badge for completion.
When you are done with a game, cross it off your list, and write a paragraph or a couple of sentences (a mini-review) of your experience with the game you just beat. Others can egg us on, because there are going to be some painful games... but it doesn't matter how much a game sucks... JUST DO IT (I am REALLY not looking forward to SpaceChem. I am TERRIBLE at that game).
I'm going to start with a game I own on TWO platforms (PS3 and PC), but have never played. Alice: Madness Returns.
Who's in?
//update: Tushon has given a helpful method for listing your games:
I've often wanted to have some kind of tracker or tool to keep track of my backlog. Mine is absolutely shameful (not helped by the fact that I either just keep playing TF2, or running through the same few games over and over again), and it extends far beyond PC games on Steam. I have PLAYSTATION 2 games that were bought brand new that are still in the shrinkwrap. I gave in long ago and admitted that maybe I am a video game collector more than I'm a player.
At any rate, I'm proposing a bit of friendly competition.
Let's work on completing our gaming backlogs on Steam. Stop playing the same games you always play (Ahem, Jackieskyrim), and let's all crack into our library of games we've never played or finished. I propose we go through the list in the most painful and awkward fashion possible—alphabetically—and are not allowed to move to the next game until we are finished (or for games with no ending, 10 hours have been put in/achievements earned).
//EDIT, JUNE 2016: Alphabetical was stupid. Just go through them however you want.
Obviously we won't all be on the same playing field since we'll all have wildly various gaming libraries, but this will be an endurance/painfest for many of us (I'm looking at you, @mertesn and @winfrey), so we can't "race to the end" or anything like that.
To participate, create an ALLITERATIVELY TITLED THREAD in the Gaming Backlog of Shame forum, with your username (see others for examples), along with a list of games you need to play. You get a badge for participating and another badge for completion.
When you are done with a game, cross it off your list, and write a paragraph or a couple of sentences (a mini-review) of your experience with the game you just beat. Others can egg us on, because there are going to be some painful games... but it doesn't matter how much a game sucks... JUST DO IT (I am REALLY not looking forward to SpaceChem. I am TERRIBLE at that game).
I'm going to start with a game I own on TWO platforms (PS3 and PC), but have never played. Alice: Madness Returns.
Who's in?
//update: Tushon has given a helpful method for listing your games:
To list all your games (you can then subtract whichever ones you want:
-http://steamcommunity.com/id/ YOUR NAME HERE /games?tab=all&xml=1
-Save that file to your desktop or w/e
-Open excel, (turn on developer tools in options), click on developer, import XML. Hit OK on the box
-It will create a bunch of drop down boxes automatically, so you can filter out the ones who already qualify or self filter by deleting rows then copy and paste that column into your personal thread.
Your Steam profile has to be public for this to work
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I've played a lot of AaAaAA!!! A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, so I guess i'll start with Adventures of Shuggy.
I guess this means I'll be finishing Bastion this week.
Are we just supposed to play our real backlog of games we bought because we wanted to play them, or do we also have to play the plethora of games that were, say, part of a package deal, and so we only got them incidentally?
The first game in my backlog, either way is AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome
I will never complete this.
I'm really glad I don't have it I don't want to play a music game for 50 days straight.
I can't play that game for 10 hours. It's meaningless drivel.
EDIT: Oh wait yes it does...make that 138 games...
3 platforms for me. Shit.
Edit: 4. My Vita. Hell.
And for my denouement, a riveting account of my own reaction, having born witness to "AI War: Fleet Command," "Alan Wake" and "Alice: Madness Returns" announcing their primacy in my personal suffering. Good games though they are, they are... elaborate. Videlicet:
I spent the next hour screwing around trying to get the perfect upskirt shot. I ended up with this:
Oh, don't get uppity! You know you've done it too!
Anyways, I think @teramona would like this game:
Final thought: I am SO glad I have this controller. The jumping stuff would be maddening with the mouse and keyboard.
Super Meat Boy.
Oh fuck my life.
//edit: oh, it looks like F2P games that you've uninstalled don't show up on your library any more.. WHEW. That means you CrimeCraft and Spiral Knights jags just got off easy.
...I just looked at my first game. Amnesia. I...why...why wo...