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Shadow Hearts 3
Atelier Iris 1
Xenosaga I
Steambot Chronicles
Radiata Stories
Choices be damned, just play DDS2
I have played a bit of Xenosaga and Steambot Chronicles, though it has been a couple years on both, so I'll be starting a new game. Let me know your suggestions.
Then play DDS2 after. The rest never appealed to me, but your results may vary.
I have a lot of games I haven't finished, or even got around to playing.
Ya know, the girlfriend owns Radiata Stories...
Just saw this. I'm all about compiling data and games, so this should be the perfect match :laugh:
Steam: SpaceLion_Bear
1. Nier (Got stuck on the fishing and got distracted by other shiny things)
2. Parasite Eve (End of the 4 Day, just need to beat the boss and not die in the 60 second escape bit!)
3. Aveyond: The Lost Orb (4 hours in, got distracted by Chantelise at the time)
4. SMT: Strange Journey (In C Sector, got distracted by DQ4)
5. Ar tonelico 2 (6 Hours in, still working on Luca Phase 1)
6. Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Still in Detroit, maybe 6-7 hours in?)
7. Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen (In the last chapter, slowly taking my time with this one)
8. Vanguard Bandits (been on the second last chapter forever!)
9. Valkyria Chronicles (Haven't started but have been yelled at to play)
10. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (...still in the first or second world, maybe?)
So these are ten games I'd like to possibly knock out this year providing the review load, and providing the actual free time. In terms of hours, how long did it take you to complete any of these games? Are these games worth putting the time into?
With a whopping 933 Games in my "Current" collection (which includes games from the GBA to the 3DS, PS1 to PS3 and PC games from Windows XP compatible and up), only 237 "Completed", I have a whopping 696 games in my backlog. Seriously...I'm in a weight category all by myself! Microsoft Excel almost crashed in on itself like a sun going supernova when I typed it all in!
With an estimated 16,686 hours of gameplay to finish all of my games, I'd have to quit my full time job, and play 60 hours / week to beat them all in 5.3 years!
Yeah...I'm a hopeless cause! Now, don't you feel better about YOUR backlog?
Yup. You're worse off than I am :p
Damn, It feels good to be a gangsta.
*ahem*
http://www.backloggery.com/suzaku
No, I really don't feel much better about my backlog, actually ;-)
But what's a 1039-game backlog between friends, anyway?
You mean "gamesta" don't you? ;-)
Hmm....I see you have Pre-PS1 games on that list. I don't include thsoe games on my list. I do, of course, have older system games in Queue to eventually play...I just don't put them on my backlog. If I did, I believe we would be very close. Subtracting those out of your lists shows us preeeeety close :)
Woot to huge backlogs! hahahahaah.
Oh yeah, forgot you didn't include older games.
Backlogged gamers represent! WOO! :D
*puts my hands up in the air*
28 years of gaming and still going strong
and now a mostly annoyed Father with first son. And now a father again to a second son :D
Winner of the 2015-2016 Fantasy gaming Pool
I've set out with a lofty goal this year: complete all the Ys games. I've beat 1,2,3,(4.. crossing fingers for XSEED to wow us and confirm that they're bringing Ys: Foliage Ocean in Celceta remake to my sad vita game-less hands now that's been released in Japan). 5 (Mask of the Sun) I've yet to play since I can't read Japanese. Although admittedly the #1 fan of Ys, Jeff N. has translated this and made it available somewhere. 6. I'm stuck on one of the bosses... the one where you fall into an endless pit during the battle. The boss looked like a giant crab, heh. 7. I played through a bit, but put the game down for a while. Ys VI has been my least favorite in the series so far. The buttons/gameplay is driving me nuts.
Other games/series:
Xenoblade - Wrapping up Alcamoth then onto Valak Mountains. I've put almost 100 hours into this. The addictive side quests is what has kept me going. Plus I like seeing the affinity chart develop as connections happen. It's hard to put this game down. Definitely the best JRPG I've played in the last 5-10 years.
Diablo 3 - Act 3, normal difficulty. I've been going through the game simultaneously with all the five available classes. I don't understand the major hate the game has gotten. I remember a decade or so ago, I just graduated high school when Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction came out in 2000 and played it obsessively for that summer before moving on. One thing I tend to agree with most of the criticism is loot drops are pretty sad to pathetic. I do appreciate the balance of power between classes and streamlining some of the skills when leveling up. This helps me focus on the plot and where I want to head to next. Another area I'm highly greatful is shared loots. I used to hate when Mephisto or Diablo would keel over and co-ops would uber click to pick up the uniques, runes, class specific set drops. etc.
Torchlight - Bought it during the Steam sale this summer, but have been consumed with the games above to tackle this one.
Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky - About 15-20 hours in. The game is decent, but I don't understand all the hype yet, maybe the plot will open up and get better for now it's been a slow start. The long dialog about teenage humor gets a little old ... or could just be that I'm a gamer in my 30s and this theme is old hat for me and my love affair with jrpgs.
Gungnir - Purchased this one before Amazon sales tax took affect here in my state, but haven't touched it yet. I like SRPGs and this one will be my first dept. of heaven game.
Growlanser: Wayfarer of Time - Downloaded this to my Vita, but waiting to get through further with Legend of Heroes before taking this one on. I'm a little hesitant to play through it too, I've heard there are a million different endings to this one. This will also be my first Growlanser game.
If 10 years from now I won't be buying games at a store nor playing them on my own hardware I'm going to let my backlog flourish. When everyone else is picking a game from a netflix-like list and streaming it to their TV I want to have enough disks and old systems to last me another 20 years. I don't like the idea of someone else controlling my access to gaming, nor never 'owning' games, plus I would assume there's a nice monthly fee.
I will be buying DL'able games, but it will be PC only. No more consoles for me once they get rid of the discs and such....not unless the pricing model totally switches. Whether its been on the 3DS or the PSN, the cost of a DL game averages much higher than Steam and their various sales. They also have a lot more DRM. The Nintendo games, for example, being tied directly to the console, rather than an account like Steam, is a real let down for me. I have $300 in 3DS games I would buy if that were not the case. The idea that I have to somehow mail them my old console and have them 'transfer' them over is just silly. Sony is a little better, though it only allows for 2 installations of games...hopefully, my vita or PS3 doesn't break more than once. It's pretty bad, even compared to some of the evil stuff Ubisoft does on PC games.
Back to the prices though... I used to collect/buy used games for the most part (and still do from time to time for my PS3). If they get rid of used games for the next gen (See the articles about the disc copyright thing Sony registered with the patent office), then I really have no way of getting older games on the cheap but to hope for the occasional retail sale...and even then, it's not much of a savings. On the PC, Steam sales are just the bomb. I lament the fact of not being able to sell/give away a game when I'm done, but when I pay $7 for the entire Max Payne Trilogy or $30 for the X-Com that just came out...well, that I can deal with not being able to sell it when I'm done :) I'm not going to be tied to Nintendo's or Sony's draconian DRM schemes whilest paying top dollar for older games (and by older, I mean 6-24 months old).
Still, this is a major problem only if you assume the console companies will stand around with their pants around their ankles when they discover other services are far more competitive than they are. One company may prove too inflexible to adapt and close up shop (we seem to lose 1 of the "big 3" every 2 generations or so), but I doubt all of the big 3 won't make some kind of effort to be competitive.
Btw, is this really a Backlog discussion? Sounds like something worthy of its own thread (and does a dead thread really need to be stickied?).
As far as backlogs go, mine has grown year over year for 2012. I'm re-inventorying my games now, but my last 2012 updated showed 970 games for an estimate of over 17k hours of gameplay :P I got rid of a number of games at Chistmas after the number of Playstation discs I had exceeded one of those mega 120 disc WalMart holders, hahahahaha. Anyway, re-inventorying will take some time. I'll keep y'all posted.
The 10 I'd like to beat out of my backlog this year are:
1. Koudelka - PSX (on disc 2!)
2. Ar tonelico 2 - PS2 (6 Hours in, still working on Luca Phase 1 -- been stuck on the same boss forever, hence no progress)
3. Tales of Graces f - PS3 (in Chapter 7, rough 25ish hours)
4. Growlanser: Wayfarer of Time - PSP (roughly 36, chapter 3)
5. Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 - DS (roughly 4 hours in, last battle of day 2)
6. Professor Layton and the Unwound Future - DS (haven't started yet, been wanting to play another Layton game for awhile)
7. River King: A Wonderful Journey - PS2 (started but didn't get very far so I'm going to restart it at some point).
8. Alpha Protocol - PS3 (always wanted to play this one! hubby likes it, RPGamer staff like it)
9. Jade Empire - Xbox (never had the chance to play this but I really want to give it a try)
The game right now that is stopping me from completing these? Persona 4: Golden. Now I will never eliminate my backlog! *sob*
Well I do not feel that good, I still got 379 out of 546 games to finish and I won't get rid of any cause I want to play them all!! My goal is to try to keep finishing more games than I buy, I did fail last years with a -13...