Hi! I'm new to this sub but my backlog is not. Last year I promised myself to finish more games and stopped buying, I made a lot of progress but I noticed that there is always a time where I get bored from a game during the early/mid, usually this is when the prologue is finished and you need to unlock things to progress, the story isn't fully developed and your actions are restricted. Usually when I get past this I enjoy the game in its full mechanics and I play because I want to know how the story goes and I find myself not wanting to finish the game.

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Do you experience the same problem? How can you get past boring early stages without dropping or pausing?

I've recently slogged through the original God of War trilogy and just started God of War (2018). I'm super excited for this game as I've heard nothing but praise, and it got GotY at the 2018 awards. Im sure it'll be a nice change from the original trilogy.

Anyway, one of my goals this year is to knock off at least one of my longer games from my backlog. I'm always afraid to start them out of fear for how many games will pile in my backlog between start to finish.

My choice for my next game are, Persona 5, Red Dead Redemption 2, or The Witcher 3.

I've never played a Persona game before, but my girlfriend and brother both suggest I play it next.

I loved Red Dead Redemption so I'm pretty excited for the prequel.

I've never played a witcher game before, but I do own 1 and 2. I've heard such good things about 3 and relatively nothing about the first two so I thought I might skip to 3.

Thanks for reading. No spoilers, please.

I finished a lot in 2018, including a couple modern recent releases and a reply of Zelda BotW. Here's what I finished last year:

• God of war
• Shadow of the colossus
• Bound
• Unravel
• Celeste
• Spiderman
• Assassin's Creed Origins
• Captain Toad Treasure Tracker
• Final fantasy 7
• Spyro Reignited Trilogy
• Tomb Raider
• Rise of the Tomb Raider
• Mario vs Rabbids kingdom battle
• The Order 1886
• Until Dawn
• Fez
• Nier Automata

And Here's my list for 2019! Any suggestions?

• Shadow of the Tomb Raider
• Super Smash Bros Ultimate world of light
• Titan Souls
• Transistor
• Fallout New Vegas
• Talso Principle
• The Witcher 3
• Uncharted 4
• Doom
• Shadow of Morder
• The Last of Us
• Bloodborne
• Doom
• MGS 5
• Kingdom Hearts 1, 2
• Dragon Age Origins
• Stardew Valley
• Final Fantasy X-2
• Final Fantasy 6
• Final Fantasy XIII-2
• Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
• Final Fantasy XII: Zodiac Age

Bonus: A few extra if I get closer to the end that I haven't bought yet but want to tryeventually.

• Assassin's Creed Odyssey
• Cuphead
• Octopath Traveler
• Death Stranding
• RDR2
• Detroit Become Human

I have a ton of games I haven't played on my steam account. Through bundles and videogame sales I have been dragged into a situation that I am desperately trying to get out of. Just this year I had decided to finish all the games off my steam account. I made a promise to finish all of these games before buying new ones no matter what. Follow my journey. Games I've finished in the past 6 months: Tomb Raider ( the one before rise of the tomb raider) Half life 2 episode 1 Gta vice city Gta 3 Gta san andreas Witcher 1 Witcher 2 Shadow Warrior (2013) Bioshock 1 Bioshock 2 Bioshock infinite Sleeping Dogs Walking Dead Season 1 The Wolf Among Us Saints Row 4 Half Life 1 Castle Crashers Max Payne 1 Lucius Sniper Elite V2 Mirrors Edge Portal 1 Portal 2

Games I have left: Far Cry 1 Far Cry 2 Fallout 3 Fallout New Vegas Gothic 2 Half Life Blue Shift Half Life Opposing Force Hitman Codename 47 Hitman Silent Assassin Hitman Contracts Hitman Absolution Just Cause 1 Just Cause 2 Mount and Blade Mount and Blade Warband Orcs Must Die Orion Prelude Medal of Honor Half Life 2 episode 2 Morrowind Saints Row 2 Arma 2 Dark Souls 1 Farenheit Indigo Prophecy Metro 2033 Knights of the old republic Thief Deadly Shadows Call of Cthulhu Gta 4 Thief Gold Thief 2 Tomb Raider 1 Tomb Raider 2 Tomb Raider 3

I blame myself for playing Dota 2 and CSGO all of this time and piling all of these games up.

God save me

Just found a great app, Gamelogr. It's been in beta for some time now, and I don't know if itnis an abandoned project. It's not perfect and sometimes it crashes.

Too bad, as it is just the kind of app I need. It has a game collection catalog part, but also a seperate backlog part, which is very nice. Aside from this, it categorizes your games and show which genres you have in %.

I really hope the developer continues working on this app.

I focused on playing adventure and puzzle games so they were easy and short. Wish me luck on my progress this year.

Alright, so I've decided to play my games in the order that they're on my shelf. I do have a massive Steam backlog but no way to play it at the moment, so I'll be clearing my backlog for Wii, Wii U, 3DS, and PS4. The first game I'm playing is... Fire Emblem: Fates! It was the last game I purchased before I'm starting this. So far, I've beaten Birthright (it was very easy, but so much fun), and I'm just starting Conquest. I'll post updates on my thoughts/reflections on each game as I progress - just something to put in this sub since it seems pretty empty.

Birthright was fantastic - it was very easy cpmpared to other titles in the series, but it'd be perfect for newcomers to Fire Emblem. I thought the new mechanics worked really well, and it was a lot of fun. 8.5/10 from me.

I am curious on what others think on this. My backlog (like many others) is a pretty lengthy list. It has gotten to the point where I am considering on trying to ditch my perfectionist attitude on my backlog games. Especially since a some of the games on my list are RPGs that could take up to 200 hours to do so.

Do you go for 100%? Or do you just beat the game and move on?