How to Absolutely CRUSH Your Gaming Backlog

I just noticed that Overwatch is literally the same as League

Your videos are so fun and entertaining keep it up bro

As someone who has a backlog of games on pc and switch, as well as TV and especially films… thanks

Tip: Sell off games from your backlog to clear it faster

I put a minimum amount of trophies I have 2 have until I buy anougher game

The beginning of the video is ass,
Ngl, I’m leaning cuz of it but thought it might help to know so you can make videos with that in mind, to improve

For me, the best part the backlog is that majority, if not, all of them have been completed and posted online. So i go on easy mode, and look up certain strats or methods that will help go through the game easier, enjoyable and somewhat fast.

I've spent more time debating which game I'm going to play rather than actually playing games. FOMO is real. I can't dedicate myself to one game I want to play them all at once. It's a mental sickness. Persona 3 FES on the PS2 has held my attention pretty well though. I enjoy PS2 games due to the benefit of plug and play, and the lower poly count helps it feel like an actual video game rather than an interactive movie like most new games strive to be.

I have an excel spreadsheet with all the games I have on Steam and Epic, and I have columns for:
1. How much time I've spent playing.
2. How long it takes to finish the game (based on howlongtobeat).
3. The percentage of the game I played (using an excel function).
4. The date it was added to the list.
5. The date I started playing.
6. How many days have elapsed since I added the game.
7. How many days it would take me to finish (based on the average number of hours I play each day).
8. The metacritic score.
9. How much I paid for the game.
10. How much time is left to finish (item 2 minus item 1).
11. The expected date to finish (based on item 7).
12. How many days have passed since I started playing.
13. The average number of hours per day I've spent playing.
14. A score from 0 to 10 that indicates my desire to play this game.
15. The year the game was released.
16. How many years have passed since the release date of this game.

All this with a lot of graphic elements and colored indicators to make it easier to see and organize the data. I've been keeping this list since 2011.

And yet my backlog keeps growing... The target date for completion is currently December 20, 2029. The data shows that it takes me an average of 13 days to finish or dismiss a game, and only 4 days to add a new game to the list. I'd have to add a maximum of one new game to the list per month to be able to finish the list by 2050, when I'll be 70 years old... That means reducing my additions by almost a tenth of what they are now...

Math is not on our side.

And the problem with not playing anything that doesn't interest you is that it traps you in a bubble. Many of the games that changed my life didn't interest me at first. And I also create games, so...

I planned on not buying anymore games until I finished my backlog of games then I saw thief on sale for $2.99 yesterday and decided to buy it because I had funds remaining in my PSN wallet...I probably won't even get to that game until sometime late next year lol....sigh...

This man just spoke about my life bro overwatch needs to be uninstalled but I’m addicted 😢

my backlog only exists cause of goddamned fps live service games

My strategy is to play the shortest games first. This has two main benefits. 1: more variety, since you're switching between games more often. 2: The scale of backlog can be intimidating, so reducing the count of remaining games makes it more approachable.

My backlog is huge. But its not as big as my front log if ya know what I mean.

For the past decade I have played less than 20 games constantly and still haven't played them "enough" to my liking

I am literally going to die before I even start my backlog

just have fun, i've had games sit for a year before i decided to plat it through for fun

Dude, if you’re indian, just come clean bro

Great video.

You forgot another method of defeating the backlog, although this one is more unconventional and it's only for PC players.

If you bought the game at full price it's kinda stupid to not eventually play it.... But what if it's like an 80+ hour rpg? Who the hell has time to do all that grind? Simple, just use a cheat trainer like Pitch or WeMod to simply speed up the process and cut down like 60+ hours of grind so you can actually get to the good stuff and finish the freaking game.

Granted yes, on games that I do genuinely enjoy the combat system I WILL take my time grinding through it normally.... But lets try to be realistic for us adults here, I literally only have like 1 day off and 400+ games to get through that I bought so yeah some days I do pop in those cheats just to speed things along.... This is by far the easiest method of getting value for your dollar.

Yeah obviously it doesn't work for online, thats not what im recommending it for, more for like lengthy single player games.... You bought the product so should be able to do whatever the hell you want with it... Plus back in the day games LITERALLY included cheat codes in the games by the developers, so why the hell not do the same with a cheat trainer?

For example, the legend of heros games EACH take a minimum of 60+ hours mostly because it requires quite a bit of grind because after all it is an RPG. But then you see that they just released the final game in the curret saga.... well hold up there lad, you need to play at all previous 9 games, which totals to nearly 800+ hours or content... Again who the hell has time for that level of commitment when you have 400+ other games in your back log? As I mentioned before, if the combat is enjoyable I will go through the full length of the game normally grinding it out... But at a certain point you have to realize you really don't have time for all that and so to speed up the process by taking away 3/4 of the entire games time using cheats you can clear that back log, while also enjoying the games at the same time at a far quicker pace.

Of course yes, you CAN drop a game if you just don't find it very enjoyable.... I tried to get in elden ring but after 5-10 hours I just kinda quit the whole thing, I didn't even bother to use any cheats on it either because I realized that these kinds of games are simply not for me. I will however always keep an open mind and try out other games in the genre, I somehow managed to finish Bloodborne because it was that enjoyable for me but for most of the games I just ended up dropping it.... So I will never buy these games at full price and ushally either try it on gamepass or wait for a sale before wasting my money on a genre I don't even really enjoy playing all that much.

Overall, just focus on playing the games you know you like the most and you will be happier for it at the end of the day.

Me watching this without a backlog

not this video being on my watch later and watching it today

YEAH

love the miitopia music

tip for almost ANY RPG. Always go for the bad ending, if there's an easy mode, take it. Your goals to finish, not finish well. If that means shaving off 10+ hours to hit the title screen faster then go for it.

The best way to finish is to actually be brutally honest with yourself. Do you really like that Genre? Watch some gameplay. For example, I know myself, I can’t play the souls games because I get bored quickly fighting the same boss so many times. Just because a game is “game of the year” doesn’t mean anything.

If I don’t like the genre, I will never play the game even if it scores 100/10 on every review site

this video totally wasn't on my watch later list....

This is the first time I’ve watched one of your videos, and I have to say you made some great choices for bgm

the ending hit me in the feels

I have over 200

Witcher 3

someone knows what the song at the end is called?

"Maybe you'll have a change of heart in four years"
>The game now costs $937 to pick up a copy for whatever random reason the used market went insane this time. 🤣😅😭

Super long post, but this is what I've recently done:

At one point I decided I didn't have time to play games like I used to, but I wanted to curate a library across all my systems of a "Top 100 Best Of" titles. Instead of playing, I was going to collect a specifically curated library/collection and have a mini-museum in my home. The "Top 100 Best" was the starting point, sprinkled with nostalgia titles and a few "notoriously bad so it's worth a laugh" titles. I've near completed this goal and no longer go hunting the garage sales and flea markets for those rare finds. In fact, I spent last year going to garage sales and flea markets taking everything I learned hunting video games and applying it to.....well, literally anything I laid my eyes on. I accumulated $4000 in profit over the year and used that to buy the 2 unreasonably expensive but super rare games remaining on my list (Okay, Keio Flying Squadron and Little Samson are still on the list, but screw those guys).

Now I have a 3000+ game backlog of physical titles ranging from Atari 2600 to Playstation 5 and my primary goal is to play very leisurely and then more aggressively when I'm retired. My father retired and was bored in under a year, so it's nice to have a hobby to look forward to. But until retirement..... I've actually started a new approach and it's proving surprisingly enjoyable.

THE SUPER HYPER MEGA BACKLOG PLUS ULTRA EDITION

I originally started this approach with TV, watching movies & TV shows dating back to the 50s and watching them in order of release. It's enjoyable because you're seeing things from all in the same era, so there's not jarring whiplash in styles and production value. You also catch a lot of references made in later decades to specific shows years prior. But I took this approach and applied it to....everything.

Step 1.
Much like your video starts, I made a list! But it wasn't my gaming backlog list. It was video games, animated films, movies on bluray, anime, television shows, books, graphic novels, and manga.
Literally every form of media I've bought and own, as well as titles I've heard about and never read/watched/played and would like to try one day. It's close to 6,000 entries total.

Step 2.
I went through the list and dated them all by release date and by the date the story/show/book takes place.

Step 3.
I sorted by when they take place.

Step 4.
Just start going down the list.

This means I started by reading about African, Mesopotamian, Assyrian, Persian, Aborigines folklore and mythologies before moving on to Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, and actually reading the Old Testament for myself. Took a little break to play Bible Adventures on NES and then a Biblical fantasy book series that is essentially "Old Testament, but fighting giants with magical angelic weapons while the archangels are having sword fights with fallen angels who are trying to position themselves to genetically corrupt humanity to ensure its permanent corruption."

I've currently moved past Old Testament into China with Chinese mythology and now my book of Chinese tales has reached Buddhism's arrival and influence, so I'm reading about Buddhism. The next game I'll play in this timeline of the world will be Sword and Fairy: Together Forever (after Final Fantasy XVI because I'm a FF fanatic). I also watched the animated film Jiang Ziya, which was pretty good!

What I've found is really enjoyable about this, and kind of spurred the whole project, was when I played Assassin's Creed Origins the first time I wasn't really getting into it, so I took a break from it. Year or two later, I read a book on Egyptian mythology and really went through all their religious beliefs, their gods & goddesses, aspects of Egyptian culture back then, and a quasi-historical fiction mystery on the death of King Tut. After this, I gave Origins another try and the experience was completely different.

So going through Greek mythology I played Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Immortals Fenyx Rising, and God of War Ascension (still have the rest of GoW about to hit the list). When I get to Vikings, I have 4 games I'm looking forward to, culminating in God of War replay & God of War Ragnarok as well as Assassin's Creed Valhalla.

The samurai and ninja games are plentiful when I get to that era.

But they're all interspersed with bouncing around the world as books, movies, and topics come in rather than fixating on one subject at a time.

When games don't have a historical era connection, I just put them at their release date because their historical era is the pop culture era they were released in. It jumps from earliest Japanese legends back to Greece with the Spartan battle at Thermopylae only to go back to China with the Analetics of Confuscius before returning to Socrates and then God of War Chains of Olympus & Ghost of Sparta. After the God of War trilogy, Mesoamerican mythology comes up, then Taoism in China before back to Japan with Okami.

It's proving pretty fun to have little brief immersions into a subject and then cap it off with a video game drawing heavy influences from that subject. It's book heavy early on with less movies and video games, but they get more and more of a mix of all different formats as I get further into the list.

I blame EpicGames.

Play all your games on very easy, I know, I know the feeling of “easy is for losers”. Blah, blah, blah, you can return later and play your most favorites in the hardest difficulty. Later.

I finished the original Resident Evil game in 2019🗿

Sorting your games into lists is definitely a great suggestion.

Ok I'm going to stop buying every game I want, only the big ones.
And don't buy another until that big game is done.
- TotK and FFXVI are released within almost a month of each other -
.....@___@ Ganon must die by tomorrow.

I wish I had a gaming backlog, I barely have any games :(

Man I suffer from this so much 😭

Play the ones you want to play and don’t play the ones you don’t want to. Done.

The worst mix you can have is wanting to beat your backlog while also having work, school and ADD/ADHD

That end stinger hurts, as I've been fighting the tide of a 3000+ Watch Later playlist (it used to be maxed out 😅). Also funny, the video you used for that joke is one of my favourite Elden Ring videos of all time, bahahaha!!

"I'll add this to my watch later" I feel so seen thank you

Like I have so many games, that it literally takes me months or even years just to play them. Gamefly definitely helps cause you can just give the game back when you’re done with it.

I wanted to give you a hard time for playing a competitive FPS but my comfort game is pokémon go, which is basically the same thing as my comfort game not being playing video games, so I should probably get my vocal chords tied

Or my fingers, since this isn’t a vocal medium

Ugh, you know what I mean