Hello there, fellow backlog assassins! I’m new here, so I figured I’d do a short backlog overview, an assassination plan, and my June report.
Backlog overview
I’m currently sitting at 277 games, 60% never played, 25% finished. I’ve only seriously gotten into PC gaming since buying the steam deck, so it’s a relatively small library that’s been collecting dust.
Assassination plan
While I don’t want gaming to be a burden where I’m always stressed about the backlog instead of playing whatever I want, I also would love to play those unplayed games somehow. And let’s be honest, without some conscious effort, I’ll never get to the vast majority of games that I keep telling myself I’ll play someday.
So my plan is simple and not very stressful.
- I made three BLAEO lists that make up the pipeline: unplayed and up next, unfinished and currently beating, already beaten and to be completed. In principle each lists shouldn’t exceed 10 games.
- Each month / year, write a monthly / yearly report on BLAEO
June report
Beaten
Been sitting in my WL for long because I couldn’t justify the price, and finally picked it up as part of HB’s Pixel Pride bundle. 100%’d it in 3 hours and loved the humor, pixel art, novel mechanics, and the characters.
I also played…
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition
I tried it this Jan but couldn’t get into it. Tried it again in May and once I started the Bloody Baron quests in Velen, things got much more engaging and I couldn’t put it down. In fact, TW3 took up most of my gaming time in June. I’m aiming to beat it in July or August at the latest, but since I’m doing every side quest and contract available, it sure is gonna take a while.
Another one that I started long (this time, years) ago but never made much progress, but this time because I can’t handle the difficulty. I only managed to finally defeat The Soul Master during this June.
…and some noob questions!
I’ve been checking out BLAEO’s activities feed and many users’ reports feature bar graphs of their backlogs grouped by progress, steam links that have thumbnails/personal play time/personal achievement progress, expandable sections where they write longer review sections, etc. How can I use these features when writing BLAEO posts? Becuase as far as I can tell, it’s just a flavor of markdown and I’ve no idea how to achieve these bells and whistles.
I’ll post the question in the BLAEO recuitment thread on SG if I don’t get any answers here. Anyways, that’s it for my first post. Thank you for having me here :)
Interesting, I’ve had a similar false-start with Witcher 3, where I picked it up for a few hours, a few months ago, and then had trouble finding the motivation to keep playing it. Will try again eventually.
After I got hooked on it, I searched online and found some similar opinions, so while it’s a hugely popular and acclaimed game, not everyone’s gonna love it! If you still haven’t left White Orchard, the area the game starts in, leaving and entering the second area might be what makes things more interesting for you, as it did for me. :)
I’m sure I’ll enjoy the game. It’s just one I need to be in the mood for, and to really have time to play regularly, not just once or twice a week, like I did at the time.
And that is spot on: I didn’t even leave White Orchard, which felt a bit like a glorified post-tutorial, or introduction to many of the mechanics. So moving past that is probably just what I need.
In that case moving past that could very likely do wonders for you too! It’s nice that every time the game starts, it plays a brief recap to remind the player where they left off last time, but yeah, I agree that it’s a game best played more regularly.
Hello and welcome to BLAEO! :D
For reports most of us use BLAEO generator made by kubikill. You can do many things with it like adding custom pictures, colors etc. It’s easy and fun to use.
If you like some particular post you can try to look at its code and experiment with it. ;)
Also, if you want some additional inspiration you can pick a game suitable for our Monthly theme or let yourself be challenged by others! :)
Thank you for the friendly welcome and the helpful reply, Kyrrelin! <3
So you’re telling me Steam prompted the creation of SG, and then there’s BLAEO for SG, and then there’s a BLAEO generator for BLAEO? Mind. Blown. The community keeps getting more and more exciting!!
It didn’t occur to me to try that. Thank you for this specific piece of advice. (And btw your BLAEO profile is so polished and looks lovely!)
I did check out the monthly theme and event and it’s a fun idea. I think I’ll hop in in the next couple days.
Happy to help. :)
Hahaha, yeah, that sounds right. Circle of life. ;D
You are welcome, I have adopted a few settings through it myself. :)
Thank you. :3
Sure thing! Good luck with your backlog fight and have fun!