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How do you tackle your backlog?

Play my games in the order I buy them 5 5.21%
 
Pick one at random and play it 7 7.29%
 
Pick whichever one appeals to me at the time 66 68.75%
 
... Who even plays games ... 18 18.75%
 
Total:96

Well I wait till the summer, and simply use my vacation days. Oh, I mean thats what I'll do this year... maybe.



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How to amass a large backlog

Step 1 - Buy JRPGs



I have no real strategy, I just play games that I own or buy that I'm in the mood for.



"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."

I just pretend it doesn't exist if I have no intention on playing a game. Or you could sell your games.



I keep buying more games



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A healthy backlog is a good investment for your retirement. That's the lie I tell myself.



Very slowly. Usually, I get bored/burned of games, so I stop playing them for a while and start another. Of course, this doesn't apply to games I start to love a lot. Anyway, so I juggle between games. For example, right now I'm playing through Paper Mario, Okami, and Axiom Verge (with a little of Shovel Knight somewhere). In between some of those games, I manged to finish both Portal games and 2 campaigns of Huniecam Studio (great game, btw). My main problem is I get sucked in by online-multiplayer games (like Smash or Splatoon), so I don't move a lot through the singleplayer games.

Another thing I try to do is to plan out how my gaming will go. Next game I'll buy is BotW, then Persona 5, then Yooka-Laylee. So, I plan to finish as many games as I can before that deadline. Problem with that would be that sales might mess my schedule, but it's been working lately.



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Eh, I'm fine with backlogs since I can always just let a friend borrow it. Typically however I go by this rule:

If I already have a backlog, no full priced games until it gets low

If my backlog reaches 8, I can only buy games that are ten bucks or cheaper

If my backlog hits 15, then games five bucks or cheaper only

I won't allow myself to buy any games once it hits 20

Thankfully, I purchase carefully, so my biggest backlog is only the ~12ish ps3 games I picked up for ridiculously low prices



Bristow9091 said:
mysteryman said:
I keep buying more games

For every five games you buy, how many do you finish before buying even more games? :P 

I'm 800 hours into The Binding of Isaac and counting. so ~0.01



I play whatever I want, whether it's in my backlog or not. If I want to play a game I've already spent dozens or hundreds of hours on, I'll play it. If it's a game that's been sitting in my backlog, I'll play it. It's a horrible way to tackle my backlog but it's the best way to get as much enjoyment as possible out of gaming.