Year of the Backlog!

After posting the list for the year of the backlog I used a random chooser to select my next game and Batman came up. It seemed like great timing since I just got a Wii U and Batman Arkham City for it. I'm about 67% completed and am hoping to have it done by Friday just in time for Four in February!


Out of the 70 or so games I have randomly chosen 8 semi-finalists and am going to narrow it down to four for February.

2013 The year of the Backlog!

So in an endeavor to prepare for the inevitable console war 2013/14 I've decided to really try to clear up my backlog of games. Through various impulse buys, sales and other poor spending purchases I have amassed a massive backlog of games. I have a huge collection of steam games, a myriad of PSN titles, and a metric shit ton of hard pressed discs. Add to that my burgeoning collection of portable games (DS, PSP, Vita, Etc) and it spells out a lot of gaming with a minimal amount of gaming time.,

To compound the problem, I also have a long standing account with www.gameaccess.ca (a service I heartily recommend!) and the industry does not seem inclined to stop publishing good games that I want to play! I have 3 or 4 titles on long-term pre-order currently, including Bioshock Infinite and Tomb Raider.

To sum up, I want to try to focus on clearing as many games on my backlog that I can, even if it means primarily focusing on console gaming. I am slowly starting to get back into PC gaming, largely aided by a decent XPS laptop and a wireless Microsoft receiver which allows me to turn my laptop into a console with the advantage of steam sales. I still like portable gaming as well but it`s very cyclical. Console games are where a lion`s share of my game time goes, so that will be the focus.

This is my list, sorted by release date, of games to be completed. It is about 95% thorough, only missing a half dozen PSN titles that I have acquired through virtue of having a PS+ membership, which I`m currently not counting until the list is pruned a bit. It also doesn`t account for the inevitable purchases that will continue to happen due to sales that are too good to pass up.

GAME NAME

Date of release

Condemned

16-Nov-05

Tomb Raider

07-Apr-06

X Men

16-May-06

Dead Rising

08-Aug-06

Just Cause

27-Sep-06

Resistance

17-Nov-06

Legend of Zelda

19-Nov-06

Eternal Sonata

17-Sep-07

Crash of the titans

04-Oct-07

Ratchet & Clank tools of destruction

23-Oct-07

No More Heroes

22-Jan-08

Culdecept Saga

05-Feb-08

Turning Point

26-Feb-08

Condemned 2

11-Mar-08

Haze

20-Mar-08

Viking

25-Mar-08

Metal Gear

12-Jun-08

Operation Darkness

24-Jun-08

Too Human

19-Aug-08

ratchet & clank : Quest for booty

21-Aug-08

crash Mind over Mutant

07-Oct-08

Fallout 3

28-Oct-08

Valkyrie Chronicles

04-Nov-08

Banjoe And Kazooie

11-Nov-08

Eat Lead

26-Feb-09

Halo Wars

03-Mar-09

Mad World

10-Mar-09

Stormrise

24-Mar-09

Bionic Commando

19-May-09

Damnation

22-May-09

Prototype

09-Jun-09

Shadow Complex

19-Aug-09

Demon's Souls

06-Oct-09

ratchet and clank crack in time

27-Oct-09

White Knight Chronicles

02-Feb-10

Deadly Premonition

17-Feb-10

Final Fantasy 13

09-Mar-10

Yakuza 3

09-Mar-10

Metro 2033

16-Mar-10

Just Cause 2

23-Mar-10

Nier

27-Apr-10

Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands

18-May-10

Transformers

22-Jun-10

Singularity

19-Jul-10

Dead Rising 2

28-Sep-10

Morph X

28-Sep-10

Fallout New Vegas

19-Oct-10

Vanquish

19-Oct-10

Red Dead

26-Oct-10

Blood Drive

02-Nov-10

Two Worlds 2

25-Jan-11

Knight’s Contract

22-Feb-11

Dragon Age 2

08-Mar-11

Torchlight

09-Mar-11

Beyond good and evil

15-Mar-11

LA Noire

17-May-11

Alice

14-Jun-11

Team Ico

22-Sep-11

Rage

04-Oct-11

Spiderman

04-Oct-11

Arkham City

18-Oct-11

Uncharted 3

01-Nov-11

Alan Wake

22-Feb-12

Mass Effect 3

06-Mar-12

Prototype 2

24-Apr-12

Max Payne 3

15-May-12

Papa & Yo

14-Aug-12

Mark of the Ninja

07-Sep-12

Fable The Journey

09-Oct-12

Medal of Honor

23-Oct-12