Dedicated to my backlog: Kim
On Monday, LightningEllen from Livid Lightning and I revealed the first #LoveYourBacklog Week: seven days of love dedicated to our ever-growing pile of video games. We’re encouraging everyone in the community to show just how much their backlog means to them because the more titles you have, the more chance there is you’ll always have something to play.
The first of these activities was to display a #LoveYourBacklog badge on our blogs with pride, and next up is writing a post about our overflowing libraries. To keep things simple I’ve decided to ignore my PlayStation 4 and physical libraries for now and concentrate on Steam only. I’ve trawled through all 282 of my digital games to highlight unplayed or unfinished titles in the following categories, so it’s time to show that backlog some appreciation!
Game most likely never to be played
It was hard to narrow this category down to only one title so here’s another that won’t get touched: The Gallery. I backed the Kickstarter campaign in March 2013 when the project was being made for standard PC as well as virtual reality, but since then it has been released on Steam with the advice ‘requires a virtual reality headset’. I don’t own an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive and, as VR makes me feel nauseous, I don’t plan on buying either so this is one series which is going to spend an awfully long time on my backlog.
Finally, I couldn’t leave this category without mentioning the original Fallout. I haven’t played it yet because of my weird gaming habit where I have to start a series from the beginning, and so far I haven’t been able to get it working on my PC. Several fellow bloggers have recommended trying the GOG version but I just can’t bring myself to do it now… I’m so sick of seeing so many articles about Fallout 76 in my news feed that I now don’t want to go anywhere near the series any time soon.
Shortest game
Longest game
Game which has spent the longest time on the backlog
The person responsible for adding the most entries to my backlog
There are so many and most of them I’ve met through blogging! There are two people who deserve a special mention though. nufafitc from Emotional Multimedia Ride is a fellow adventure-genre fan and has put me onto some great point-and-clicks; and more recently, Rendermonkee from Rendermonkee’s Gaming Blog has caused me to add more upcoming releases to my wishlist thanks to their Support Originality posts. If anybody has any adventure recommendations, please feel free to leave them in the comments below!
That’s it from my Steam library for now – how about yours? To find out how you can join in with #LoveYourBacklog Week, take a look at Monday’s post.
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Video game lover, Later Levels blogger and SpecialEffect volunteer. Big fan of wannabe pirates and fine leather jackets.
What a fun idea!! I have a Valentine’s Day-eque post already planned, but this seems too fun to pass up! Also, I love that LIMBO is on your backlog. I never purchased it, but it was one of those games I looked at and thought, “Huh, could be interesting…” and then never did anything about it. Hopefully if you get around to it, it is as good as people say it is!
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I was honestly so surprised when LIMBO turned out to be my oldest backlogged game! I’ve already set up an event for a stream in early March so I’ll finally get around to playing it – and if I have enough time, I’ll move on to INSIDE too.
Join in and tell us about your backlog! 😀
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I think I will! 😀
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I didn’t get all the fuss about Limbo. The whole thing felt like style over substance when I played it. As a result I’ve no desire to try Inside.
Surely The Division must be in that backlog somewhere… 😉
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Far, far down on the backlog… 😂
I’m going to give LIMBO a go next month and then we can have a BIG discussion.
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Can’t wait. I’ll dust off the boxing gloves just in case.
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Let hope it doesn’t come to that… you know longer words than me.
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