Backloggery vs RF Generation

[ElkinFencer10]

I've seen that a lot of people here use Backloggery to document their collections, and a lot of people here use RF Generation. What are the major pros and cons of each? I use Backloggery instead because the couple times I've messed around with RF Generation, it just hasn't seemed as user friendly, but I'll admit that I didn't spend much time with it. Should I revisit it and keep my collection on both? Is there a major difference between the two that I missed?

[arnold_the_bartender]

I've seen that a lot of people here use Backloggery to document their collections, and a lot of people here use RF Generation. What are the major pros and cons of each? I use Backloggery instead because the couple times I've messed around with RF Generation, it just hasn't seemed as user friendly, but I'll admit that I didn't spend much time with it. Should I revisit it and keep my collection on both? Is there a major difference between the two that I missed?

I never really got into backloggery. I'm more of an RF Gen user myself. I know you can print checklists and stuff for games and their respective consoles. You can view your collection at a glance as well in the form of a bar graph which is calculated by percentages between what you own. Whatever you have for trade/sale can be viewed by other users and vice versa. If a member visits a hardware/software entry in the database, they can click on a link to see who has that item for sale or trade if they are looking for said piece of hardware/software. Not sure if you can add quantity at backloggery but you can at RF Gen for games, manuals, and boxes. Correct me if I'm wrong. I signed up for backloggery a long time ago and I stopped using it the day I registered. I just never bothered to keep up with it that's all.

[o.pwuaioc]

What arnold_the_bartender said. Basically, RFGeneration has a database, and that's super helpful. Backloggery I use strictly for playing games, while RFGen is my collection, which I keep linked in my sig (those consoles are linked). RFGen also has a few stats. I hope it gets a little better, tho.

[sabrage]

If I had known about RF Generation earlier, my collection would be on there.

[Pichu]

I use both.

But like one of the above posters, Backloggery acts as my gaming (though I still log my entire collection on it), while RFGeneration is purely my collection. The former is great for motivation and tracking my play habits, plus any game can be entered due to it not havin a database.

The latter however is so nice with all the stats, organization by genre/console/publisher/year/etc., being able to save a csvexcel document for offline backup and seperation by hardware/software/digital/etc.

Luckily it's easy to add games to both, so it's no hassle at all having an account with both.

[ElkinFencer10]

Alright, I've decided to use RF Generation in addition to Backloggery. It'll take me a while to get my collection uploaded to RF Generation, though....and I'm not looking forward to the process...lol

[GryeDor]

NintendoAge has a pretty nifty Collection Tool utilizing both a searchable database and free form entries. Right now I keep my collection there are in an Excel spreadsheet.

To be honest, neither RFG or BackLoggery felt right to me so I've never kept up with either of them, the spreadsheet gave me the flexibility and ease I wanted and NA gave me the online tool. Check it out.

[ElkinFencer10]

I started off using a spreadsheet, but I wanted to be able to show off my collection easily, and Backloggery made it a lot easier by letting me give people a URL instead of e-mailing and attachment.

[Crabmaster2000]

The rfgen database and community are amazing. They blow backloggery out of the water IMO. The only reason to go with backloggery is if tracking your games beaten is more important to you.

[Duke.Togo]

The rfgen database and community are amazing. They blow backloggery out of the water IMO. The only reason to go with backloggery is if tracking your games beaten is more important to you.

Complete agreement.