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Way to go faggot, it's not like there's thousands of games from the past two decades and we have nothing else to do but sit on our ass playing everything.
Granted, i'm a neet and have a backlog because there's always something to play/do and I still try to not be a useless shit.

this is another common thing I've noticed. People spend hours replaying old games they've played before, they spend thousands of hours on god awful multiplayer games. There's such a dull high you get from playing an online shooter, I used to fall for the same shit where I'd have a ton of games to play but just default onto something I can pick up and play, never experiencing any joy doing it, just mindlessly grinding away at time in some shitty shooter like tf2 or cs. You need to not fall for those easy traps, play good games, you'll feel better and everything is more fulfilling. I can't help but think the idiots who cry about there being no good games are those same people who are trapped playing those shitty multiplayer PC shooters.

retard

B-but I hate Overmeme! And TF2 was never good!

Seriously, at least I enjoy my weebshit and thinly-veiled weebshit.

Been too busy playing other video games.
It might be easy to play out the typical interactive movie in an afternoon, but games with enough depth or just multiplayer take way more time to chew on.

If you don't have a backlog, it's because you buy things.

I often get hooked on a single game and can't put it down until dumping over 100 hours in it. Right now I am hooked on Factorio, 2 days ago some friends got me playing for the first time despite it sitting in my library for months. Now I can't stop playing it.

Pretty much, but also like I need to get the urge to play before I sit down and commit some time even though I have nothing but time :^)

Rogue lites, famalan

sounds like a miserable, dulling experience

yeah, i find that i do have to pace myself if i want the game to last more than a day or two

i am sick of that genre in general, but what would you recommend?

I've played ONE game more than once and that was because it had NG+ stuff. I can't bring myself to even look at a game I've beaten already, it just doesn't do anything for me. And yet I have a sizable backlog that I can leisurely make my way through. tl;dr You're fuckin dumb, kiddo.

I see no reason to play a game again unless it's with a friend who has never played the game or it's a game worth playing twice like some RPG's.

I'd recommend an actual roguelike, like larn or DCSS. If you want a procedural, permadeath experience, people like Rogue Legacy but I can't stand it. There's a 6DOF rogue-lite too. Also Eldritch which is a FPS though the graphics are bit lacking. Delver exists too but I didn't like what I played. Seemed like it was basically retarded to go melee since enemies always hear you and your reach is shit. There're others that I can't remember right now too that fill the First Person dungeon crawling bit. Crawl is fun if you have friends, but the font is pants on head retarded for the title screen and it's a bit of pixelshit.

then what I'm saying obviously doesn't apply to you, you retard.

i don't play any multiplayer shooters.

in fact, pretty much the only shooters i like are singleplayer ones like stalker and metro all of which i have already played and modded until they crashed

if you seriously spend more than two hours a day playing PC or console singleplayer you have to get a life.

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multiplayer is only fun with friends.
it's a social activity.

stalker is one of those mindless time sink numbing games

Is this what having shit taste feels like? I get the feeling some of you prefer the destination (You win! Good job, sport!) over the journey.

whats the point of your argument?

making the same journey several times would get boring too.

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next you'll tell me you spend the past year playing doom wads

Assuming you spend exactly a third of all your time playing vidya other 2/3rds for sleep, shitposting, school/job, food etc you've got 56 hours a week. If you enjoy playing multiplayer games with friends take at least 6 hours off of that and you're down to 50. If the time you spend averages out to 20 hours per game you could get 130 games done a year (50x52 = 2600/20 = 130). My current backlog including both owned/downloaded games and games I want to play is around 600-700 and grows as I find new games or with the occasional release that's actually worth something. Even if I stopped it now it'd take me 5ish years of intensive play to finish them all. Most people will want to play games going back to at least 1994 if not earlier and that's 22 years of shit to play + new releases. If you enjoy older games than that I do it could be 30+ years.

Then consider that you'll often want to replay vidya you've already done and that some RPGs, GSGs, simulators etc can take 100-200+ hours (possibly more if you're a completionist) so the average is probably a little higher than 20. If you want to spend more than 6 hours a week playing multiplayer games that cuts into it even more. Time fucking around with getting games to work counts too. A third of your week exclusively on vidya (not even on Holla Forums) is also rather excessive and if you've got other commitments that number can drop quickly.

such as?

Mate, are you implying that you have played EVERY older game in the existence? Start looking around and you'll find plenty good games from 90s and early 2000s that you haven't played.

no one can play every game, but going on a random search of old games has very rarely given me good results.

you should get a sega saturn and play games with cute girls then tbh

The point of my argument is that sometimes the journey is fun enough you want to experience it again. I guess that flew over your head. Judging by your other responses in this thread, you aren't here for a solution, you just want to piss and moan to an audience. I suggest getting a therapist or opening a tumblr as they're better for that kind of thing.

Oh and consider that mods/custom content will add to your backlog or inflate average time spent playing per game. This covers both total conversions and little fanmade missions.

To put into perspective how long a third of your week playing vidya is (56 hours) a week lasts 168 hours. The average working week is 40 hours + travel, assuming 30 minutes each way on a 5 day week that's 45 hours. 6 hours of sleep a night is 42 hours. We've already 'spent' 87 hours without eating, showering or shopping for which we have 25 hours remaining. Assuming 45 minutes each for preparation and eating two meals a day (third meal eaten at work apart from saturday and sunday, for those days three meals) that's 12 hours a week on food leaving 13 hours for non-vidya activity. Take another hour off for food shopping and another two for bathing, menial shit like haircuts and basic cleaning of wherever it is you live and you've got 10 hours a week of non-vidya spare time (tv, films, shitposting, drinking though I'd combine that with vidya, socialising if you do it). Even a third of your week is difficult. You could spend more than a third of your week on vidya if you were unemployed and had someone else doing everything for you sure but that's not a sustainable way to live for most people.

tl;dr even at a fairly unreasonable third of your week playing vidya you'd struggle to finish more than 100-130 games a year depending on taste in genres. You'd also have to rush your way through games and that isn't enjoyable.

Mountain Blade, many strategy games, Quake, Carnivores, Rogue/Nethack/Angband, etc. etc.

What's even the point of having a 700 game backlog? At some point don't you just accept that you don't give enough of a shit to actually play it?

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Well only 200ish of those games are actually owned or downloaded. I've put a stop to all new purchases/pirates unless I intend to play them immediately. The other 500 are games I intend to play at some point. As I see it having hundreds of games available is a good thing particularly with the current state of the vidya industry.

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Yeah, none of them have cinematic story telling and a conclusive ending. It really is miserable playing games and not watching movies.

Or option C: having a full-time job and but a few free hours each day into which normalfag shit like commuting, cooking and cleaning must first be accomplished before one can slump and play anything. God forbid I wish to try or have to do something else with my time either.

I didn't get you promoted yet.

that was option A you dummy.

you didn't even read the whole post.

and a distinct lack of cute anime girls, don't know how you haven't killed yourself when you're surrounded by brown, realism and clicking games

most people don't finish games in a single day, get lost fucking NEET

It really makes you think

So you'd kill yourself if you didn't have a ready supply of pornography?

What sort of games do you generally like then? Maybe I or someone else can recommend you something.

no, but I am making a diagnosis on behalf of your shit taste

Difference being that one cant necessarily play for any longer than an hour or two a day while the other may restrict themselves in some sort of "I should be doing something better with my time" sense. For instance, I've known people who would play a maximum of 2 hours even with an entire day open.

God fucking knows how many games I could get through now would I go back to Uni or become a feminist pop culture critic with a Patreon.

I really need that promotion, dude, help.

What should I play then user-san?

cotton boomerang and twinkle star sprites tbqh

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Thank you Hoj- I mean user-san. Trury Japan our greatest arry!

well they do make some pretty great games, the west could learn a lot

I like having a backlog because when you complete a game and are looking for a new one you can just scroll through the list of games you know interest you until one pops out. The more you have on the list the more likely you will find something that really intrigues you.

Without an actual list you will probably forget about some title you read about on Holla Forums 6 months ago.

thank you honorary arian people, you are the fhurer's chosen

Yes, trury, trury Japanese honourary Aryans.

As an aryan, I don't disagree

Some people apparently think that having a backlog of games to play pains us and prevents us from playing videogames, when in reality it helps us play and enjoy even more videogames. I like to mix up genres to keep it fresh, for example.

Japs took the rightful place of the Russians, instead they were heavily under Jewish communist control

You pretty much answered your own question.
Are you retarded?

Here, have some cute Roll. I love you. God bless.

there's a difference between not being able to play it because you have no time, and not playing it because its shit or you don't like the genre.

i hate RTS, and yet theres at least a hundred of those games out there that a person who does could spend 1k+ hours on

There's your first problem.

Because I have a shit ton of games that aren't shit and can't be beaten in a few hours? I also like to fuck around with the code and make my own mods. I also like to fuck around in them, not just beat them.

And you cant know if you'd like one of them.
I cant stand turn based combat yet I've played kotor 1+2 through like 50 times once some one mentioned them on half/v/ years ago.

You basically said it yourself.

My backlog consists of mostly older games. That aside, as a functioning member of society, I don't have nearly as much time for gaming as I'd like.

And back when I did, I was a poorfag who couldn't afford them. That's just how it goes. Still, making progress. Beaten over 21 games this year so far, so feeling pretty good about that.

Backlogs are also usually games with high replay value and a SHITLOAD of collectibles that would take days to sit down and actually finish 105%

what gaem?

The one I'm talking about or just, really long pain in the ass games to full completion?

both

Belowparable and I don't know, I guess the original binding of isaac?

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I get that sense from people who have those "boo hoo the game is over" for RPGs, I don't get what the problem is you can just play it again later.

You're playing complete garbage if you can beat it in a day.

Play games without an end and you won't have this problem.

wow, what year did you time travel here from?

because the adventure is over, replaying it again would just be like watching a movie you've already watched. its never like the first time

come on user, there have been a couple of good ones this year

I disagree, I think if the story is well told it's just as enjoyable any time because of the quality and themes that draw me in.

but you already know what happens.

I remember when I bought Timesplitters Future Perfect and Star Ocean 3 way back then before a long car trip to a vacation house my parents had.
When I arrived, the TV room was fucking freezing so I took a blanket and started up the heater.

I finished Timesplitters FP that night and began SO3 too till morning breaks.

That was really comfy and fun, that's what it was like being excited to play videogames. What fucking year was that?

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pic related was pretty great would still fuck also Timesplitters 4 NEVER EVER fuck you CryTek

So? you can still enjoy the way it progresses, if a story relies on twists and revelations to be entertaining it's not a good story.

yes mother dearest, whatever you say.

For one thing, I generally only play strategy/builder/sandbox games, so even the ones that do have an ending take a very long time to get there. Many have no ending and are entertaining enough for me to get hundreds if not thousands of hours of enjoyment out of.

Second, if someone could actually beat, say, Fallout 4 in a single day, playing it blind, I'm fucking Santa Clause. I can't imagine even goddamn CoD games have singleplayer campaigns less than ~20 hours. Yes, it's technically possible to play 20 hours in one day (even in one sitting); but if you're playing more than 10 hours a day, you've got serious fucking problems, starting with the pressure sores on your ass.

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even if it took a about 8 hours to beat all of them it would be a full time job to do so

some games like MGS5 i have over 90 hours clocked in

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hi mars

Actually, a day on Mars is actually only 24 hours and 40 minutes long: almost the same as Earth. No idea how fucking long a week on Mars would be. A ~670 day long year can be divided up any number of ways, but probably wouldn't resemble Earth lunar months, as the moons of Mars orbit too closely/quickly. Most likely, weeks would be seven days long, and there would still be 12 months in a year, just there would be like eight weeks per month.

It is amazing how delusional Holla Forums is sonetimes

There's your problem, you fucking casual.

Too much of a pleb to be able to handle different kinds of games?

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Work-at-home game-all-day anti-NEET here. Op is a fuckin faggot.

It's ironic OP calls people artists when apparently he speed runs games on his first time. I know retards like this who can't play without a guide at risk of missing something and it's really pathetic. How could that even be fun at that point…

I'm going to fucking hurt you.

Come to think of it, I've never actually realized how fucking annoying it is that Earth months are divided only approximately into four weeks. Like this December is four 7-day weeks, and one 3-day week. January will be the same. But February has three 7-day weeks, one 4-day week, and one 3-day week. These weeks fit together more like goddamn puzzle pieces than a nice grid of subdivisions.

So a Martian calendar, composed of 12 months, each of which EXACTLY eight 7-day weeks, would be great.* The first of every month falls on a Sunday, and the last of every month falls on a Saturday. What a grand fucking concept!

*There is a discrepancy of about 3.4 days in this system. I propose they be just taken off of the last few days of December, and people can just be convinced that they "forgot" those days because of a drunken New Year's party.

My backlog mainly consists of 50+ hour RPGs and games from the last two decades, I don't really have a backlog for modern cancer since I have no real desire to play these games to begin with.

Good lad.

But only hipsters care about old games, goy!

What about dorf?

Look for reccommendations, then. Have some big charts.

because backlog implies older games you fucking retard.
Not even casuals and normalfags go buy every single AAA release in the market.

Okay, dude. Very funny. What game was supposed to be in the slot you put Undertale into.

I didn't even see that, I just glanced over the list. Here's a smaller version with less cancer.

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That's the joke.

i wish there was a better way to look at my \playing habits.

i started putting games i completed in their own folders for each year, i average about a Steam* game or two a month i say steam because i have a ps4, ps3, xbox 360, wii u and vita tv.

also as an example i played 110 hours of MGS5 thats 4 and a half straight days of playing that game if i never stopped for anything

Is that Wolfenstein on the left there?

Thats what I always wonder about Chess?

That may be so, but when you need to outride a crisis, who else can you rely on?

Sort of this, but also I spend more of my time making games than playing them these days. And then when I do play games I more gravitate toward multiplayer games anyway. Finally, I used to be really irresponsible with money, so I'd go out and buy tons of games and never play them. Now I'm being more responsible, and I'm slowly selling off the ones I know I don't like and actually forcing myself to play the ones I do like.

So I would paint the heavy backlog owner as a jobless kid (maybe in school or maybe in college) with well-to-do parents, who has near-infinite free time and thus has no sense for its value.