3-4 years at the rate I'm going. I finish 2-3 games a year. Have a 11 game backlog. Um.. yeah...
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How long can you eke out from your backlog if you stopped buying games for good as of today?
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So if I git sent to Mars I'm thinking I'll be set for life maybe. I mean if I actually tried to play every game I own to completion.
But my backlog exists cause these are games I buy out of curiosity. I just want to play them for 30 mins and move on. So I don't think of it as a backlog really
But my backlog exists cause these are games I buy out of curiosity. I just want to play them for 30 mins and move on. So I don't think of it as a backlog really
Rest of my life probably, especially at how my pace has slowed down with a kid and a real job.
Sometimes I think I could honestly just have a thoughtless Destiny-like GaaS and be basically done with buying games.
Sometimes I think I could honestly just have a thoughtless Destiny-like GaaS and be basically done with buying games.
Not long. The games I've stopped playing I have no real intention of starting back up again, outside of a very select few.
Never probably, not because of too many games. The reason is because games go into my backlog because they weren't interesting enough to finish when I bought them. Occasionally I might have an urge to play one of them but if I stopped buying games, I would probably also only play the ones I have completed already and the backlog would remain.
Oh... boy. Not sure if forever, but certainly longer than any reasonable human natural life expectancy. My Steam library is a mere 170 games, but very few of them are anywhere near completed. And a large number of them are games that can be returned to any number of times, such as Binding of Isaac, Factorio, Skyrim, Enter the Gungeon, FTL, Space Rangers HD, Space Engineers, Mount&Blade, both X-Com and XCOM, Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander, all kinds of Worms and GTA games, etc, etc. I seem to favor games that offer massive replayability, and I don't think I'll ever hit a saturation point with all of them even if I were to abandon all productive activities and just focus on games.
Quite a while, probably a couple of years. I've got a few 100+ hour titles to clear, as well as a heap of PS+ titles i've never got around to playing.
I've actually gone through a significant purge of my library recently as I enjoy replaying games but realized I have way too many to revisit regularly. Down from ~500 to ~300 total with a remaining backlog of 60. Only bought and kept 1 game so far this year so feeling like I may finally put my backlog to rest by 2020
I don't see me clearing my backlog. I am lucky the year so far has been sparse of must play titles.
I have RDR2 to give a second try. Controls are a pain
Assassin's Creed Odyssey - on Chapter 5 or 6.
Dragon Quest XI. On a break Praying to St Jude they release a patch on PS4 for the soundtrack.
Far Cry V still in the packing
Tales of Vesperia - nearing the end of act 2. Not seeing why people love this title but I will finish it.
I have RDR2 to give a second try. Controls are a pain
Assassin's Creed Odyssey - on Chapter 5 or 6.
Dragon Quest XI. On a break Praying to St Jude they release a patch on PS4 for the soundtrack.
Far Cry V still in the packing
Tales of Vesperia - nearing the end of act 2. Not seeing why people love this title but I will finish it.
My life was mostly playing games from the ages of 13 to 19 so there aren't many games that I'm interested in that I haven't played, my current backlog is only about 6 games long so maybe a month at most if I stretch as hard as I can. I own a bunch of games on Steam that I've never played (from bundles and sales) but I'm also not really interested in playing them so I don't really count them on my backlog.
Probably until I was dead, assuming all the GaaS titles didn't have the servers shut off. It's really disgusting (to myself) how much I've spent, and I'm doing much better these days at buying and playing a single, strong ongoing service title (ESO 5 years and counting) for months to years. This is a better investment in my sanity and hobby.
At the rate I'm playing games currently, 4 years easily. Have around 200 games on PS4 alone that I haven't played/finished.
It's not that bad for me luckily, I have like 10+ games that I have bought but never played? So maybe a year I guess.
On a side note: Honestly the best thing you can do about a big backlog is to accept that "yeah, I spent that money and I'm probably never even gonna touch most of those games" and only purchase something when you know that you're going to play it afterwards. Also play what you want, you're doing this for your own entertainment, it's not a job.
On a side note: Honestly the best thing you can do about a big backlog is to accept that "yeah, I spent that money and I'm probably never even gonna touch most of those games" and only purchase something when you know that you're going to play it afterwards. Also play what you want, you're doing this for your own entertainment, it's not a job.
I could make it last for at least 7 or 8 years. Make it 10 years if I wanted to 100% absolutely everything. I own around 1000 games between Steam, GoG, Origin, PS3, PS4 and Switch. I will never touch around 80% of the games I already have through Bundles, PS Plus and whatever.
A lifetime, for sure. I've got hundreds of physical games, over a thousand digital games on Steam, tons of games on XBox/PS4, and a Sega EverDrive with a library.
Probably about a month. I'm currently getting close to the end of the game I'm playing, and after that I have Cuphead. After that, I have no backlog.
There are also a couple of other games I bought that I decided not to finish because I didn't like them. I'm not counting those because I wouldn't finish them even if I had all the time in the world.
There are also a couple of other games I bought that I decided not to finish because I didn't like them. I'm not counting those because I wouldn't finish them even if I had all the time in the world.
If you mean to finish it, finishing my backlog is kind of my goal for 2019/2020. I could eke out 2/3 years, maybe a little more if I got lazy. If you just mean "could you survive for life with just the games you have and never buy another game for good", I'd be set.
Just did calculations on some website and my steam account alone has 13,000+ hours worth of non-completionist gameplay just from finite single player games. Never mind that I could just play Civ indefinitely. That's not even getting into all the stuff I have on console.
Technically forever. There are some games that I'd never get tired of replaying and mastering. I don't play videogames enough in general for me to get tired of all like ~120 games I own.
If I were to move on to the next after beating it, like 6 years? I have a large backlog of 70 games. I beat 15 games a year on average.
If I were to move on to the next after beating it, like 6 years? I have a large backlog of 70 games. I beat 15 games a year on average.
If we're talking actual backlog, like sole games I've purchased with the intent of playing and have written most of them down for that purpose, about 30 games. Considering none of them are sprawling RPGs with 40+ hour runtimes, (in fact I would say most of them would take less than 12 hours to beat) I would say roughly half a year to beat all of them or something like the rest of this year.
If were talking literally everything that's in any library on any platform or device, whether it be bundle stuff, things I nabbed for free from GOG, Twitch games I've gotten with Amazon Prime, PS+ stuff...it would take years. But I don't count that as a backlog because it would be stupid.
If were talking literally everything that's in any library on any platform or device, whether it be bundle stuff, things I nabbed for free from GOG, Twitch games I've gotten with Amazon Prime, PS+ stuff...it would take years. But I don't count that as a backlog because it would be stupid.
This. Steam bundles and PS+ game would guarantee me years if not decades of games. A lot of unwanted stuff, but I have at least a dozen that I want to play through so that could be a couple of years worth.
I built my current PC back in 2011 for Skyrim. I plan on building a new one this year even though the game I play more than anything else is still Skyrim. Whilst I enjoy Assassin's Creed a lot too, it's not something I could live without when I still have the TES series (Online included, are new expansions allowed?), Fallout, and AC Origins/Odyssey.
I think I'd be good until Starfield.
I think I'd be good until Starfield.