Backlog - A Bad Thing?

[BoneSnapDeez]

Backloggery is mostly useless to me as I just replay the same 5 or 6 games over and over.

Maybe I'll make an account there someday just for yucks. Can you submit games to the database like you can at RFGeneration?

[ElkinFencer10]

Backloggery is mostly useless to me as I just replay the same 5 or 6 games over and over.

Maybe I'll make an account there someday just for yucks. Can you submit games to the database like you can at RFGeneration?

There's not a database, per se. It lets you add a new game to your collection, and you enter in the game's name however you want (I've seen some people drop "The Legend of" off of Zelda games and just list them as "Zelda: Ocarina of Time") and pick from a list of consoles (they have just about everything; the only complaints I've had so far is that they don't differentiate NeoGeo AES and NeoGeo MVS, and they don't have a category for GameStick, but I've suggested both be added in the site remake).

It's not a great catalog of information like RF Generation is, but it allows a lot more freedom in personalizing your collection page (at least based on my limited experience with RF Generation; as I said before, I didn't use RF Generation very long at all).

[Nemoide]

Backloggery's loose/non-database nature is both a good thing and a bad thing. On one hand, it lets you interpret ambiguities however you want (it's not "Nights into Dreams" it's "NiGHTS into Dreams" dagnabbit!) and on the other hand, looking at system stats for 32X yields massively inaccurate data.
But I really like it but it's mostly useful if you want to manage your own collection/backlog and compare how you're doing with other folks you know.

It's definitely helped me be more aware about the rate at which my collection was growing vs. how much I was actually gaming.

It's obviously up to every individual to figure out how good/bad they think a backlog is for them. I personally don't like having one and it sometimes weighs on me to realize I've spent a ton of money on things taking up a ton of space and I'VE NEVER EVEN PLAYED THEM. But if you're someone comfortable with that situation, there's nothing inherently wrong with that!

[BoneSnapDeez]

they don't differentiate NeoGeo AES and NeoGeo MVS

Yeah this is slightly annoying but I get why people lump them all into one catch-all "Neo Geo" category.

If you can "name" the games yourself you could call them things like "Blue's Journey MVS" and "Fatal Fury AES", right?

[Ziggy]

It's definitely helped me be more aware about the rate at which my collection was growing vs. how much I was actually gaming.

That's mostly what I'm looking to use Backloggery for.

It's obviously up to every individual to figure out how good/bad they think a backlog is for them. I personally don't like having one and it sometimes weighs on me to realize I've spent a ton of money on things taking up a ton of space and I'VE NEVER EVEN PLAYED THEM. But if you're someone comfortable with that situation, there's nothing inherently wrong with that!

I don't like having a backlog either, but I've come to realize that it's unavoidable. I'm an adult gamer, and video games are one of my biggest hobbies. I have enough disposable income to buy new games often, but not enough free time to play them all. I feel like most adult gamers will fall into this category. Steam/GoG has sales, you find great deals on retro games that you can't pass up, and new games are constantly being released (which is not something that's gonna stop any time soon).

[Sarge]

The thing for me is that, at least for my physical titles, I've generally played all of them (I can only think of one I haven't gotten to yet, Tales of Xillia 2, on account of having not finished the first yet).

The same is definitely not true on Steam, where many of the titles I have will never even be installed, much less played. That's actually true of my GOG collection as well, but it's not as bad because bundles typically don't give GOG codes.

Actually, thinking of Steam, anyone want a code for Elliot Quest? I've got a spare.

[Ziggy]

^ Yeah, I've gotten a few free games from GOG during sales. A few of them I actually wanted, one of them turned out to be amazing. But most of them I'm like, "What is this game? Eh... whatever."


But speaking of digital games... I very much prefer physical copies of games. So the few things I do own digitally on PS3, Wii, and U, I tend to forget that I own. Backloggery seems to help with that, though.

GOG is all digital, but I look at it as its own platform, so I don't lose track of my library. I definitely have a hard time remembering games I own digital on consoles though. For example, I turned on my Wii the other night to add my WW and VC games to Backlogerry. I found some WW games that I never played and forgot that I even purchased! For the U, I own a couple of full retail games digital (only because I got them through promotions). I went on The Cover Project and printed out covers for them so I can put them in line with the rest of my Wii U games, otherwise I'll forget that I own them!

[Sarge]

I find myself in a similar boat. I tend to not buy digitally on the consoles unless it's an exclusive, though. Like Shadow Complex was for a long, long time. Or Dust: An Elysian Tail, at least when it first came out. I've found that a ton of stuff these days is already on PC, and it's usually cheaper that way. I think I'm going to hit a point where my laptop won't keep up, though. I really need to think about investing in a new gaming rig.

[Ziggy]

I really like the no-DRM thing about GOG, but I'm not going to lie, a BIG reason why I don't do Steam is because of my backlog. There's a bunch of games on Steam that I would get. I know that if I had a Steam account my backlog would probably double within a couple of weeks, and would grow exponentially!

[Sarge]

To be honest, I may add the games on Steam, but even if they are in my library, I actually never count them as part of the backlog if I have no interest in them. I mean, really, I'm not installing Bad Rats, and it's certainly not part of my backlog as I have no intention of playing it.