I’m yet another person that has accumulated a large backlog thanks to rather generous valued bundles of the past.
I have been making steady progress on slowly discovering all my various hidden gems plus the occasional lump of coal and generally been having a good time of it. I like to get my games to 100% at which time I’ll write up a review and if the game doesn’t have a split-screen mode I set them as invisible in my library to help reduce the clutter and keep focused on moving on.
During the never-finished mission of trying to play unfinished games to 100% I occasionally come across a Genre I normally don’t specifically choose to play. Often times such encounters is such a breath of fresh air! I highly reccomend at least occasionally trying to find a game that fits into a gameplay genre that you don’t often play and give it a whirl.
Hiya and welcome to BLAEO!
I totally feel the struggle. I’ve set myself the (ridiculous and absolutely unreachable) ambitious goal to maaaaybeeee noooooot 100% every game this year… Right. Next! xD
In case you need inspiration what to play next, we have a couple of things on offer. Like the monthly theme (see the bar at the top) as well as a “Challenge Me!” which always starts on the 15th of the month. If you sign up other members will pick 5 of your games to play \o/
Apart from that we always have some idea or another flying around. Like an ABC challenge or currently a tag challenge. In the end a lot of ppl have their own approach and in my experience nobody minds if you get your inspiration from them :3
Good luck with your games!
Happy backlog killing!
Aha yeah fair enough, gotta have some “time off” occasionally ;-).
I haven’t had too much of a look at the themes and systems that are setup here to help with the decisions yet. They sound pretty useful. At the moment I just kind of install a set of games, create desktop shortcuts and arrange them in the order I intend on playing them. I don’t uninstall them until I’ve finished with them, unless something catstrophic happens such as the (so far) two standard windows updates I had come through which would cause my machine to enter an unending and unfixable bluescreen boot loop. Ahem anyway that’s cause of a weird hardware issue I have which I’m pretty sure I’ve fixed this time.
But the idea with not uninstalling till they’re done is simple: eventually I’ll run out of space to install more if I just keep alternating to different games instead of seeing them through. It has been working for me for the last couple of years since I’ve been trying to finish games :-P. It also helps to basically put a pause on buying new stuff, especially particular genres which I have an abundance of unplayed games. When I started my steam achievement average was 25% and now I’m at about 48% so this approach seems to be working for me so far.
Cheers, have a good one.
Eh, yeah Wiiindows grimacing
Sounds like a plan as well. I have a couple of games installed on my desktop as well and… intend to play them. And some I have installed on a higher prio to play them earlier. Kinda works. Somehow. Yes.
I kiiiiinda still wanna do 100% on all my games? Buuuut I also want to get games done? Sooo I will go back to games I don’t get 100% in right away. At some point. No idea when D:
Well finishing a game is always an option…some of the games I’ve been getting to 100% were started “and finished” literally 10 years ago lol. It’s all progress at the end of the day, and sometimes coming back to it later with a different mindset can be refreshing. Getting to a point where you can wrap up a game and have it in a spot where you don’t come back to it later being confused is a good time to switch if you’re ever going to do so. Definitely a no-no for some of those open-worldy RPG style games etc, but all good for games that have a campaign/story system.
Looking at how many games you’ve finished I’d suspect burn-out could become a factor at some stage so having a break from that particular goal and just not going for 100% might be quite good for a time too. Might be a good time to open/launch another game platform (IE Epic/Uplay etc) where you ideally don’t care about the achievements in the slighest on said platform/s and give something a go there for a break.
Yeah, it can be really nice going back to previously played games. Sometimes it’s horrible though, bc one totally knows how little one enjoyed it in the past or something xD
Ugh, I wish that was an option, but I always feel guilty if I play on some other platform. But yes, a kinda burn-out can indeed happen. I totally have slumps where I either don’t enjoy games or can’t seem to find the right game to play - I’m currently kinda in that mood and watch more shows than normally. I just wait for the right game at this point. I know it’s in my backlog, I just can’t decide on one xD
Yes totally agree with you on the first two points. “Oh this is nice to come back to, why did I stop playing this one?” or alternatively “Oh god here we go with this crap again”.
I semi-feel the same way about the platform. Only occasionally do I hop on another platform and primarily to play a multiplayer game with a friend that I don’t otherwise have on steam already, pretty much. The backlog waits for us all, it will be there to give you a hug when you’re back into gaming mode lol.
Hey there! Welcome to BLAEO :D
I highly reccomend at least occasionally trying to find a game that fits into a gameplay genre that you don’t often play and give it a whirl.
A solid piece of advice. I’ve been stuck trying to 100% and move on from my game of choice for a while now;;
Cheers for the welcome :).
Yup getting stuck is such a pain. Some games requiring real people to play with or against but have no active multiplayer (or in some cases the servers are shut down), or the achievements are just super grindy or even better at an extreme difficulty level to achieve. Oh and at least one of the games on my list is really unstable and likes to crash a lot. Those games make for a good experience, too. Definitely gotta break it up for all of the above kind of games for sure and come back to them later after a while.
Some games requiring real people to play with
And with how many people play games nowadays, you’d think it’d be easier to make friends to play them with! I’ve mostly given up at this point, albeit with a heavy heart…
the achievements are just super grindy or even better at an extreme difficulty level to achieve
Grindy’s where it’s at. I can’t believe the audacity of some devs.
As for difficulty, I always go for easy, I’ve got way too many games to play to risk getting stuck :’)
Definitely gotta break it up for all of the above kind of games for sure and come back to them later after a while.
The worst is when you can tell you don’t even wanna return! My unfinished list speaks volumes…
Yes it can be difficult with the online games. Some in particular are quite bad for it, I play Apex Legends occasionally and it’s always a good time when your teammate after having his back multiple times and saving them then starts calling you a noob (usually much worse insults come out though) when they die, lol.
Some games with almost dead communities when people do get going though is kind of not bad. Because the player base is so small even if you don’t friend each other etc if you try playing the game at similar times you tend to see the same people, atm I experience that in Payday 1. If it’s a purely co-op based game though of course naturally people are slightly less likely to be agro.
Yes some achievements are well designed, not grindy and encourage you to experience different playstyles. Others are like “do this thing a million times” (Age of Empires 2 was my “recent” triumpth of this kind of grind) and its so so bad. They just slap them in there just because. In terms of difficulty, I used to always max out difficulty in games but these days I’ll only actually do that if there’s an achievement behind the difficulty setting, otherwise I set it to one that’s a decent middle ground; challenging but not absurd. Or occasionally easy if I just want to experience some kind of story-based game sometimes.
Yes it can be difficult with the online games.
Haha, I don’t even play those most of the time. I just sit around wishing I could play things like Quiplash or Clue with the friends I have IRL… but they’re always either busy, tired or not at all interested - “you know, I’ve never played games before…” So what, are you afraid of touching your PC or something? It’s the weakest cop-out…
Others are like “do this thing a million times” (Age of Empires 2 was my “recent” triumpth of this kind of grind) and its so so bad.
For me it’s Hyperdimension Neptunia 1’s “earn 100 million credits”. I beat the game with about 8 million! You’d think a franchise with objective (I realized I don’t like it one bit fast) growing potential wouldn’t stop its players at the first game for what seems like ages…
I used to always max out difficulty in games
As long as there wasn’t some weird elitist attitude tied to it! I’ve been watching a thread started by some dude pissed off by the idea that people would change their system clock because “they’re cheaters” and “should be banned” and “playing on easy = wanting to get by easily in life”… your guess is as good as mine as to what’s up with him.
Yeah organizing gaming with friends can be a bit tricky with everyone having various priorities and sometimes timezones etc. Some of my friends have taken to using Discord and its event system so we plan out a day/time and also game upto a month in advance. It works pretty well so far. I also experience people unwilling to sometimes try something new…that can be an issue too. I geuss just introduce things slowly if at all possible.
Oh yeah that’s a lot of credits to grab on Hyperdimension. I’ve only played Megadimension Neptunia VII. I had fun with it but also haven’t gotten around to 100%ing it. It sounds like they may have learned their lesson in the newer games because the achievements at least on paper don’t seem to be as excessive.
Never had an eliteist problem with difficulty settings. Sometimes it’s great to get a high level of challenge to work on and overcome so you know you got better (or extremely lucky?) but a lot of the times it’s nice to just breeze through something with the occasional hurdle instead. Gaming’s for fun and a lot of people want to relax rather than go crazy. But yeah I geuss some people can’t accept the lower difficulty levels for whatever reason, even though higher difficulty levels can be out-right broken or encourage a player to play a game in the “wrong” way.
Some of my friends have taken to using Discord and its event system so we plan out a day/time and also game upto a month in advance.
Hey, that’s cool! I didn’t even know Discord had an option like that…
I geuss just introduce things slowly if at all possible.
Oh yeah, for sure! Gonna try again in July, when we’re all done with school.
It sounds like they may have learned their lesson in the newer games because the achievements at least on paper don’t seem to be as excessive.
I sure hope so… except I don’t know what they would have to do to get me to play another Neptunia game again, since I absolutely loathed the first one.
Gaming’s for fun and a lot of people want to relax rather than go crazy.
“But how dare they, gaming is my turf and I want to be entitled by telling them what to do!”
~some hardcore no-life dickhead, probably
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Gooday.
Yes I do have some manually assigned categories and a couple of Dynamic collection categories on steam too. I am weary of using the feature though because when it first came out I had pretty much sorted out almost all of my games into neat categories myself but thought I’d use the dynamic category feature to sort out some of the remaining ones. Somehow back then when I created the Dynamic category it also deleted all the sorting I had done manually.
I still haven’t recategorized everything back to how it was since then and that was quite some time ago now lol. Though for now what I have setup is good enough.
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Nice. I have 15 that are manually made plus 3 dynamic ones. Despite that I have 396 uncategorized; mostly because I had already done it before I messed up my sorting lol. It’s good enough for me, when i’m done with most games I set hide them anyway.