Just the other day I went on an extreme cleaning spree in my apartment and realized something. I have a shit ton of games. Believe it or not, most of these I have never finished and some of which I have never played (shocking, I know). In this day and age of the indie bundle, digital downloads, and just a plethora of games that come out at the end of each year, shit gets backed up.
As someone who has every console of the current generation, (I've been lucky enough to only pay for one myself which was the Wii, the PS3 was something I won from a contest and the 360 was a gift) my game library has acquired a large number of games. Since this generation is soon coming to its inevitable death, I will doing a little project for myself. This project is called Operation Backlog. My goal is to complete or play a significant amount each of these games till I become sick of them.
For any of the PC titles, which there are a lot of them, I will hopefully be able to record the video and audio of the game and post them. If I can get it to work, I will do some audio commentary alongside if my computer does not implode. I will not live stream console games because I simply do not have a capture card to do so.
Operation Backlog will have a few rules and stipulations.
-Completion is based solely on the single player campaign. This is why Battlefield 3 is on this list.
-Games that take longer than 20 hours to complete will be played until I no longer have interest in them or when the game begins to feel like work
-Games that require more than one play through will only be played once, unless it is a vital gameplay mechanic (i.e. Super Brothers: Sword and Sworcery and Fez).
-DLC, Co-Op Campaigns, and general multiplayer will also be ignored for the time being. I want to try to capture these games in their original context, the exceptions are the Mass Effect Games.
If you have any further suggestions or better modifiers let me know. Below this post I will put my list of games. Mind you, not all of these games are current gen, some are from previous generations, but since I have obtained them via indie bundle or through digital download on current consoles, I consider this current gen due to the context I am playing them in. Eventually, I will be doing this for previous generations, but for now, this will be time consuming enough.
With regards to my X-COM: Enemy Unknown game journal/story, I will be abandoning this project due to the fact that taking vigorous notes while playing got old real quick. I may try this again at another time, but for now this has been pushed aside.
-Smi13y Out
Amnesia
Assasins Creed: Revelations
Banjo Kazooie
Basement Collection
Battlefield 3
Bioshock
Bit.Trip.Runner
Braid
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Cave Story+
Closure
Company of Heroes
Darksiders
Dead Island
Dead Space
Devil May Cry 4
Dust Force
Fallout
Fallout 3
Fez
Grand Theft Auto: IV
Gratuitous Space Battles
Gun
Halo 4
Legend of Grimrock
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Little King's Story
Lone Survivor
Mark of the Ninja
Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect 3
Metro 2033
Offspring Fling
Pokemon Black
Psychonauts
Ratchet and Clank: Collection
Rayman Origins
Red Dead Redemption
Red faction Armageddon
Rochard
Saints Row the III
Shank 2
Shatter
Snapshot
Space Pirates and Zombies
Super Brothers: Swords and Sworcery
Super Meat Boy
Titan Quest
Torchlight
Vessel
Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War
Wizorb
For Fallout 3 I would definitely go until you start killing everything in one hit on the base game it should be around the time you catch up to your father or maybe when you hit Raven Rock, some playthroughs of Dead Space can totally take 30 hours if you are a pansy when it comes to horror survival (like I) or 16 hours if someone is answering your questions about what to do an how to do it but definitely see that through. AC:R I would probably only play until you no longer see a challenge and that will be fairly early on the story isn't all that compelling unless you really love Ezio (which I do) and the new mechanics such as the tower defense can be tedious or completely ignored. Bioshock I would definitely see through to the end since it was a marvelous game the last boss is a little shitty but that's not what that game was about. Red Dead Redemption, you need to finish the epilogue because yes it's awesome most of the sidequests are a little repetitive (I'm looking at you bounties) but others a great way to keep the game fresh and not burn out on all the shootouts so even if the game can get long you should play it in it's entirety when you have the time to drop 30 hours plus. As for the other games although I may have an opinion this comment got long fast.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty close to just throwing AC: R to the side because I've lost interest. With Red Dead I might end up playing Undead Nightmare along side it. I'm hoping to complete an indie game or two a week.
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