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Holiday season backlog-a-thon!

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sikkinixx

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Most of us (lucky ones anyway) will have some time off in the next few weeks from work/school and won't spend every waking moment with some family member we only see once a year and have to pretend we wanna hang out with them even though really we just want some ****ing turkey and eggnog then go home and enjoy our time away from our everyday prisons.

Moreover, the release season is pretty much done (Persona 4 this week 😀) so we can all reflect on the games we haven't played much of, or wanna play.

So let's hear it. What is on the holiday 'wanna-finally-play' list?

I'm currently chugging through the last ~20 hours or so left in Persona 3 before I even un-shrinkwrap P4. Then gotta finish (or start...) Fallout 3, Dead Space, BF:BC, LBP, MGS4, Gears 2, Fable 2, Valkryia Chronicles and Chrono Trigger DS... I won't make it through half but it's nice to have goals 😛
 
I'll probably work my way through this bunch of chimps.

DS Kirby Superstar Saga, get a load more new Pokemans in Pearl
PSPTales of Eternia, both Tomb Raiders, LocoRoco 2, Star Ocean
PC San Andreas and maybe bits of my Steam collection I haven't played much of (id and Unreal packs), maybe Fallout 3 if my iMac will run it well enough.
Wii Metroid Prime 3, might go for 100%ing Galaxy, more Brawl with added people home from uni.
GBA this year I will beat Advance Wars.
 
Well I'm actually on the 2nd leg of my vacation this week(I have 3 weeks vacation...yayy!) I'm trying to finish up

Prince of Persia
Dead Space
Fallout 3
Little Big Planet
Grears of war
VC

Games I've finished but multiplayer needs to be addressed

Resistance 2
Mirror's Edge(time trials)
SOCOM: Confrontation



Bless
 
On the PC I have to finish (that I have an interest in doing so 😉:

A Vampyre Story (awesome point n click adventure game in a style similar to CMI, check it out)
Bionic Commando Rearmed
Call of Duty World at War
Dead Space
Fallout 3
Far Cry 2
Heroes 5
Psychonauts (I'm not liking it enough despite the hype though 😱)
Prince of Persia (not bought yet)

On the PS3:
Metal Gear Solid 4
LittleBigPlanet
Ninja Gaiden Sigma
Grand Theft Auto IV

On the DS:
Castlevania Order of Ecclesia (I really want to beat Albus hard mode)
Trauma Center 2

I have a LOT on my plate, not to mention I also want Tools of Destruction and Uncharted but I'm probably going to hold off on buying them until I clear my backlog of games but I have very little time to do so 😀, so no more games for me for the moment, just Prince of Persia and then I'm not buying anything else until I finish the rest.
 
Games I haven't finished:

- GTA4
- Quest For Booty
- Little Big Planet
- Silent Hill Homecoming
- Orange Box
- Far Cry 2
- Pixeljunk Eden

Games I have barely touched:

- Burnout Paradise
- Dead Space
- Bioshock
- Pixeljunk Monsters

Guess I won't be getting bored anytime soon....
 
Do you know what I was thinking about this very thing..

Since October I have bought a slew of titles and have yet to finish any of them really.

TombRaider : Underworld
Little Big Planet
Fallout 3
Fable 2
Viva Pinata 2
Banjo Kazooie
Gears of War 2
Call of Duty 5
Motorstorm 2
Dead Space
Resistance 2
Far Cry 2
Mirrors Edge

and they are just the ones I remember off the top of my head !! 😱

edit...

I forgot to include prince of persia, alone in the dark:inferno, and valkyrie chronicles ....
 
I don't get the whole backlog thing with games, I just don't understand why people buy games when they are heavily into another one at the moment. Is it really that important to have a game at "launch"? Would it be the worst thing to wait a few months until you actually have time to play. I bet most of you could save a ton of money if you just rented games as it seems you don't invest enough time to warrant the full price of purchase. I just find it crazy when people say "I haven't even unwrapped this game yet". That is $50-$60 just sitting there. It's not that I couldn't afford to buy all the games I want, I just think it gets very expensive to buy every game I want to try, most really don't equate to $60 worth of fun/time.

But to each their own 🙂.
 
^

I pre-order a lot of games online, whether it be from amazon or dell or whatever and usually get them for $10-15 off retail because I'm ordering them ahead of time (ie. Fable II was $40, Fallout 3 was $35, Gears 2 was $45, VC was $55) so if I KNOW I am gonna buy it anyways I just order it even if I won't get to it for a while. Plus I got Dead Space, Battlefield and C&C for free which is even better 😛

And I can't rent games... it just drives me nuts for some reason. I like the collection, I like that it's mine and I can play it whenever I want so if I don't touch it for a month who cares? I can pick it up again later. And besides, if I had only rented all the SNES/Genesis games I own from years past, I wouldn't have them to play now.
 
Oh this thread is great!

My list looks a lot like the ones above mine:

Just finished:
Dead Space (360)
Gears 2 (360)

Currently playing:
Fallout 3 (PC)
COD:WaW (PC)

On deck:
Prince of Persia (360)
Mirror's Edge (360)
Left 4 Dead (Not sure, 360 or PS3, what do you think?)
 
raggedjimmi said:
I'll probably work my way through this bunch of chimps.

DS Kirby Superstar Saga, get a load more new Pokemans in Pearl
PSPTales of Eternia, both Tomb Raiders, LocoRoco 2, Star Ocean
PC San Andreas and maybe bits of my Steam collection I haven't played much of (id and Unreal packs), maybe Fallout 3 if my iMac will run it well enough.
Wii Metroid Prime 3, might go for 100%ing Galaxy, more Brawl with added people home from uni.
GBA this year I will beat Advance Wars.
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What a great, GREAT game. That last level was HARD!
 
wwooden said:
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I'm a collector of games...I've been doing it since NES. I've never rented a game in my life because all of the titles I have now are games I'm truly interested in and would go back for a pick up anytime. I've said this in another thread but I don't play one game at a time(unless its horror/adventure)...I get bored easily and I like to mix it up as much as possible.

The way I see it is I get the game now and wouldn't have to worry about looking for it later...take for example Folklore...I procrastinated so much that when I was ready to buy it I couldn't find it and had to wait weeks to get it and I hate waiting on things I want NOW😉 I account things like this in my monthly budget so its no skin off my back.



Bless
 
Need to finish:
Heroes of Might and Magic 5 (Mac)
Umbrella Chronicles (Wii)
Orange Box (PS3)
Bionic Commando Rearmed (PS3)
PixelJunk Monsters (PS3)
Metal Slug Anthology (Wii)
Tons of Wii Virtual Console and WiiWare Games...including Mega Man 9
Mortal Kombat Deception and Armageddon (though, I'll probably never finish them...the quests are too tedious and boring)

Need to start:
Fallout 3 (PS3)
Transformers (Wii)

I'm not buying any more games until I finish at least a few of the above games. Though, I do have 2 games on my Chrismas list which I'll probably receive....
 
I've been slowly finishing a lot of Wii games, but still have some left and many more to just unlock stuff, not to mention all the DS games that are backed up:

Wii
BWii - I really, really want to finally beat this
Boom Blox - Got caught up in multiplayer and never did much in single
Geometry Wars
Guitar Hero 3 - Finally beat all of Hard
MarioKart Wii - unlock all karts/bikes
Mario Strikers Chargerd - unlock Petey
Smash Bros Brawl - Few more stages to unlock
Trauma Center - never got very far

DS (sigh)
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
Bomberman Land
Contra 4 - on at least medium difficulty
Hotel Dusk
Lost in Blue - (I know)
Metroid Prime: Hunters
Polarium
Puzzle Quest



Too bad I've got too much going on that I will probably, if I'm lucky, only get through BWii, and maybe Advance Wars.
 
Ja Di ksw said:
MarioKart Wii - unlock all karts/bikes
Mario Strikers Chargerd - unlock Petey
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Ah! Forgot I've still got a few vehicles left to unlock in MK and got a whole load of Strikers to still play through - haven't touched the single player at all. We just use it for multiplayer.
 
MacRumorUser's games go directly from the store shelf or warehouse shelf to his shelf. 🙂

@Chone,
I played the demo for Vampyre Story and enjoyed it, but its puzzle was WEIRD. I'm glad you mentioned it, because I had forgot about it. I would have bought it the first day, but since the US release was delayed, it slipped my mind.

Psychonauts is a game I've never played more than a few minutes, but I've owned for years now -- I'd actually like to play it on the Wii. When Lucas Arts made the switch to full 3D keyboard movement with MI4 and Grim Fandango, they lost me. I completed MI4, but it's an experience I never want to repeat -- unlike the first 3(Especially the first 2.).


Anyways;
DS:
Hotel Dusk
Castlevania:OoE

Wii:
Okami
Harvey Birdman
Super Mario Galaxy 😱
Zelda TP. O.O

PC:
The Witcher Enhanced
Mass Effect
Fallout 3

Games I wish to burn:
BioShock... >=)
 
I just took a wild guess. 😱

All of my recent games have ended up on the floor, since I have no shelf space.
 
JackAxe said:
PC:
The Witcher Enhanced
Mass Effect
Fallout 3
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I really wanna try The Witcher. It looks really cool and there is alot of buzz about it... but I'm scared to get sucked into yet another RPG 😱

And I forgot to add Yakuza 1 & 2...
 
I have waaaaaay too many games to start and/or complete:

PS3: GTA IV, MGS4, Pure, Ratchet and Clank ToD AND QfB, Mirror's Edge, LBP, Wipeout HD, Uncharted, Assassin's Creed, Prince of Persia

Wii: Mario Kart, Twilight Princess, Okami, Super Mario Galaxy

I'm sure that's just scratching the surface, too.😱
 
I have to add to my "want to buy list"

Left 4 dead....I don't have anyone to play with🙁
WoW:WOTLK....I've always been interested in it but never got into it.
The World Ends With You
World of Goo
 
Technically, I should add:

Mario Kart Wii - There are a few bikes I still need.
Smash Bros Brawl - Characters and Stages still to unlock.
Rogue Leader🙁GameCube) - most of the game...I didn't get very far.
There are plenty of other GameCube games that I didn't finish and likely never will at this point....
 
i have so many games to finish i have barley bought any new games this year and those mostly were PC budget games (silent hunter 4 + add on, civ 4 add ons)
i think i haven't finished a single console game since years .. i always loose attention on one game and then when i come back i have to start all over again (at least with typical single player games)

because of this i only bought GH:WT this year for my Wii

looks like i'm simply not the story kind guy anymore simply and prefer open strategy + party games with instead ... getting old i guess

edit: for the game list during the holidays i'll continue my campaigns in
Luminous Arc 2
Disgaea
Tom Clancy lala War strategy thing
Advance Wars Dark Conflict
Final Fantasy Tactics A2 (130 hours and counting)

and strategy/tactic games on the PC
+ GH and some other party games on the Wii
 
Wii Woes and PS3 Problems....

Since I recently sold my Wii and my PS3 still hasn't arrived I have all the PS3 games I own to start.

I find myself staring at my GTA IV for minutes simply because I have no console to play it on.

To Start:
  • LBP
  • FarCry 2
  • Mirror's Edge
  • GTA IV
  • Assassin's Creed

I quite like my starting line up, only wish I could play it now.
 
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