Your backlog?

[randombullseye]

After starting my new job last year, I realized that I liked buying games every week. Every payday, no matter how big or small, I buy games. I buy old games (Yard sales, "retro" game stores), new games (Godfather 2? I don't know either.), games I never knew existed (Thanks undiscovered Gems, the PS2 set.), games I want to play but no one else seems to love like I do (Onimusha 2,3, and 4.), games that look interesting online or that I've heard of somewhere (like Siren, but I didn't love it. Yakuza 2 is one that I really fell hard for, and so I now own both it and the first one.), games from companies whose other game I enjoyed (Odin Sphere and Grim Grimoire), and piecing together collections of series I liked, Shin Megami and Disgaea being the two tough ones. I even impulse bought a DS Sonic game and several other DS games. The DS I had was a loaner, and my girlfriend has taken it back. Now I'm going to go buy my own. And then a PS3 slim next week, which means more games I won't have time for.

So now I find myself with tons of PS2 games and a few 360 games, and I'll never be able to beat or play a significant amount of these games. Not working 40 hour weeks. I've a weeks off work in December, something tells me I will be playing games, but not every second of every day. The comic book backlog has to have a dent put it in too after all. Every week I seem to find something that looks interesting to me or that I might like trying out, like Galactic Wrestling. A game no one anywhere ever mentioned, but I somehow noticed it and wanted it. Haunting Ground & Clock Tower 3 I'm still on the look out for. Even though I've not finished any but the first Onimusha, I've still the next three of them sitting around. I'm debating starting up the third as I've reached that point in a Survival Horror or any game that relies on exploration where I feel lost. But then what? What if for some reason, I missed some cool thing in the third one?

I didn't mention the computer did I? I bought a new computer to play games on. Team Fortress 2 I picked up on sale and never play. Maybe a handful of times I tried it. And worse than that, I bought the new Total War game. It wouldn't work and took up so much space, I've taken it off the computer. That's twenty five dollars wasted and a lesson learned about PC gaming. Maybe not a lesson learned, maybe a final nail. But that's bitching about something else. And this isn't mentioning all the other games on the computer like Persona 2 Innocent Sin. I've not played it in months. I recall where I am and everything I loved about it, but I'm totally lost where I was stuck.

At this point, I've began a debate with myself about gamefaqs. Most xbox 360 games feel so easy to me, that pulling out a guide feels like I'm cheating myself somehow. But for PS2 games like Persona and Nocturne, it feels like cheating the game somehow. That the bare experience is better with no guides or helping hands.

How about you guys? Do you have crazy backlogs full of games? I don't even want to finish all these games. I just want to play them and enjoy as much as I can of them, then move on to something else. I buy these games, because I like going back to games. I hate that people trade away or sell off games. Games were meant to be played. I've some strange attatchment to my video games for some reason and don't know what to do really. Other than try and play for a few hours a day and chip away at the backlog.

[Anubis]

I'm not quite are your level, but I do have an extensive backlog of games spanning multiple generations of systems.

I really do think videogames are one of the ultimate money sinks. It allows the collecting mindset to fully take hold of a person, and there is no real end to it. There are hundreds of thousands of older games, and new games being released all the time. It can never end.

Personally, I'm almost getting a bit worried and tired about it myself.

I'm considering selling off all but my favorite systems, and toning it down.
It might be time for a purge and a reconsideration of just how much money and time I'll put into video games.

The problem is that I love them, but the amount of time I would need to put into them would never happen. I have far too many other important things going on in my life.

[Reverend]

I have a backlog of maybe 10 assorted games for the GBA, GCN, Wii, DS, and PS1. I'm usually able to finish my games withut getting a backlog, but school really ate up a lot of my time. I predict by the end of next summer I'll have at least finished the games currently in my backlog (no the ones that's I'll get after that).

[RyaNtheSlayA]

I'm happy to say that I've beatin every game in my collection at this point.

[hashiriya1]

I have a box full of PC Engine games that I have not even touched yet. I probably will never get around to playing them anytime soon since I am always too lazy to hook up my SuperGrafx. A damn shame too, because a lot of them are classics. I dont want to get rid of them because I keep telling myself that I will get around to it. I should just buy a PC Engine GT since that is less work.

[MrPopo]

I am Backlogged like crazy, but I've managed to tone down the influx. Mostly it's due to my having filled up the shelf space and not having any more available. So I'm no longer purchasing old SNES games or Genesis games, even though there's still a few I wouldn't mind having (Super Star Wars series comes to mind). Right now the only new games being added to my collection are new releases. So I've slowly started to notice a trend that I am actually getting through my backlog.

[enderfall]

I haven't counted lately, but my back-log must be at least 50 games right now. Since I'm travelling much more for my job, it's not about to get any smaller either!

[Dub5279]

I have about 10 games that I still need to finish, but with school starting I won't be adding to that for a little while.

[HellHammer]

I've got a few hundred cartridges for various systems in boxes in my closet and garage, most of which I don't ever see myself completeing. I've also got quite a few uncompleted PS3 and Wii games. And don't even get me started about games I still want but can't afford...


So yeah, I'm in the same boat.

[ryanstein]

I'm in a very similar boat. With Gamestop is killing off their Xbox and PS2 selections at ridiculous prices and my weekly trips to Goodwill and such (and *ahem* backups), my backlog keeps growing larger and larger. What I have done to help control it is I have stopped buying online. I will only pick up a game if I find it locally. Saves money on shipping, and it buys me time to help control my backlog.