Why You Will Never Finish Your Gaming Backlog

This is just 10 mins of saying "they take too long to finish and we dont have the free time we had in middle-school"

I've done this with games, and now i do it with books lol

It’s impossible because there’s games like Fallout 3 that I love to play again and again.

Sometimes i look at my steam library and just get overwhelmed with all the games i think i should play, and end up doing something else or go back to an online game i already have 100s of hours in

You really hit home when talking about games like, The Witcher 3, or persona, or the Yakuza Series. I have recently dropped all of my live service games and returned to single player and co-op adventures and dedicated to getting through my backlog as well. I only reply classics with my kids anymore as they experience some of my favorite games for the first time I can get a taste of what it was like one more time and share in special games with them from my childhood and special pieces of art and stories that changed me as a person through amazing video games like DKC2, or The legend of Zelda series, jet set radio, FFX, and so many more. I have been getting through the entire Yakuza series this year and I have played from 0 all the way up to Like a Dragon, and infinite wealth is next up. After finishing Yakuza I plan on experiencing persona 3, 4 and 5 for the first time back to back. And then I am going to take on the kingdom hearts complete collection with my kids as one of my only exceptions to replaying a game as I have not played the modern release and my kids have never played the KH series that means so much to me.

Been working on mine for the past 7 months - completed 21(100% achievements) games so far - Still have a lot to go - It's easy when you can narrow down the games you want to buy - as opposed to games that are popular at that time. That way instead of buying like 10-15 games a year - you can narrow that down to maybe 3 or 4 - there being 4 quarters in a year you can just play those "new" games in one of those quarters while working on your backlog during the year. If your playing a game that never ends like LoL then I wouldn't even worry about your backlog - Put in a few hours here and there and yeah head back to your main game - it would probably be beneficial if you just focused on games with less hours like small indie games that you can beat in a day or two - like for example Steam world dig., metal slug, etc. That way your not worried about finishing a game that takes 2-300 hours to complete. If their are games on your backlog from a Long time ago, and you can't get a refund from it - just remove it from your steam profile - I myself had almost 1000 games on steam I mostly got from bundles - and I just cut my losses - I knew I never was going to complete them, I got them dirt cheap anyways - and when I got rid of all of them, it felt like a weight was lifted off my shoulders. Find out the person you are and make discussions based upon that - Because everything shiny always turns grey - and you know this because you have a backlog.

Yes! To all of this! I love them all, my games, and I want to complete them all, but it's just too much! Such a perfect description. Subbed. 👍

I bought total war 3 played it for 15 MINUTES and never again, with a job a wife and a 1 year old I just can't.

I think for me it's a mixture of things, lack of time or no energy as I'm getting older and my attention span is shot. But also how games come out unfinished or broken, Dragons Dogma 2 for instance still has performance issues, and even though my PC can more than run it the problems make for a bad experience trying to play it, so I stopped, and at this point I may not go back to it cause there might be something else that came out recently that I wanna play more.

That’s why I stopped buying new games, gotta finish what I have if I want more

If only there could be a day in the week called Gameday 😂

Ahhh yes playing Pokemon emerald on the game boy color. I remember that

i've stopped buying new games now. Someday, i will finish baldur's gate too , someday :/

Backlog exists because of the delusional companies like Ubisoft. Every game company thinks like our game should last at least 60 hours. They fill the game with boring stuff so gaming becomes a chore for players. At least it does to me. I mean I look at some newish said to be great games, like FFVII Rebirth, Baldurs Gate 3, Dragons Dogma 2 and all I see is 80-90 hours of commitment and worst part isn't the length at all. Long length means if you take breaks time to time because of your responsibilities, you will get detached from what's going on and naturally you won't want to continue the game. Game length should be reduced. I want to have fun, not add another responsibility to my miserable life

I used to buy many games for cheap, but as I got older, I started buying less games with a higher price, because now I know what games I prefer playing. Many games I have with low hours, I'm just not going to have fun with them. Some I will be in pain to force myself to play. I'd rather cut the loss and call it a waste of money and not touch a game I know I won't enjoy.

No, I will finish the games on my backlog, ignore the online games/components and complete as many achievements as is possible in a given time frame

All right I'll play forbidden West please stop nagging me😂

I agree, I have like a hundred games on steam ..... never gonna happen. I don;;t have the time with work and life

Why I will start my gaming backlog, it's not impossible

Im being called out lmao