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Should've at least mentioned the mosy potent backlog killer known to mankind as of right now - the steam deck lol 🤣🤣

i accepted that instead of having to play all these games im a digital game collector.

Man, you would love Backloggd. :)

I impulse clicked on your video and was delighted by the self-helpy opening music and sound design when trailing off about Fallout 4. I will try your method of affirming it is okay to not play games and shuffling pools, o wise one.

great video, well edited, great commentary, love it

lovely video, it's very nice to learn other people mindsets on familiar things!

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Ah, a fellow Skyrim hater, you're not alone.

What a cool video! I always love to see everyones take on the backlog. Funnily enough, one of my goals this year is to finally try and beat Skyrim to understand its spot in the "video game canon."

I see your point but this doesn't help if I'm trying to save money and I want to complete the games in my library before buying more.

This video reminds me of the Sunk Cost Fallacy.

10:08 I did that too by making a separate watchlist in my iPhone notes full of directors and movies I wanna check out so my LB has movies I vaguely maybe kinda wanna watch and my notes has movies I really want to have watched before dying, also combine that with only checking it out when I want to so I don't feel guilty when I feel more like rewatching an ozu movie for the 8th time

Me watching this and then remembering I need to finish Persona 5 after hearing Beneath the Mask 🗿

I also have never been able to play through fallout for some reason.

My anime backlog looking at me like this 🤡

Skyrim is boring, it has so much content that has almost no actual value to it, with some of the weakest combat in the industry. Anyway I'm doing a good job about my backlog, at least within gaming, my movie backlog is a bit slower, and my anime backlog hasn't been touched in a while. Good Time is not a good time, but it IS a good movie. Anyway backlog is a rainy day fund, you'll just play through it at your pace.

HowLongToBeat is my jam. Set a goal of completing 50 games in 2024, and I surpassed that goal with 60. It wasn’t to finish my backlog, but because I was sinking all my time into multiplayer only games. After that journey (and it was a journey), I have a newfound respect for singleplayer games. I love em’

Great video. I feel this so much. Subbed!

I have had this problem for 3 years and I didn’t even know it is so widespread between gamers.Thank you for this video man, you really helped me.

I clicked on this video because I thought it would help me stop adding movies to my watchlist, only to see me create a backlogged account and start a new list 😅😅

Tell us why you didn't like skyrim

For years, I've seen Middle-Earth: Shadows of War in my backlog, thought, "Oh I should play that... Wait, I should beat the first one before I do that." And as a result, I kept putting off playing a game I wanted to play because I felt obligated to beat a different game first. Then the other night I finally opened up Shadows of Mordor, with the goal of beating it and moving on. The only problem? I'd already beaten it years ago and just... forgotten. 😅

I have a pretty simple system on my side. I finish 3 games before buying one. My backlog went from almost 50 games(those I really wanted to play) down to around 12 in about 16 months. I keep it flexible but overall I just make sure I play more games than I buy.

Aimed as constructive criticism with no intention of insulting your personal style, but I have to say, this video is way too rambly for what it is. There are so many videos on gaming backlogs and how to sort/play through them. Why do we have to watch through the first 5 minutes just to hear for the thousandth time what having a backlog "feels like". We know what it feels like if we clicked on the video, and since the idea/genre isn't exactly groundbreaking in the first place, you know we've heard the same spiel from a dozen other videos of this sort, so yeah, please avoid that.

Just don't buy games you are not sure you will play. Sure it might be on a sale but if you never play it then it's simply waste of money. I always play one game until I complete it or just feel like I played it long enough if it's something that doesn't have an ending and then just move on to something else. So I basically never have a backlog, just an idea about the next 2 or 3 games I plan to play after I'm done with current one. For example at the moment I'm doing a veteran playthrough of COD WAW, then after that I plan to try out Hades with a controller because I know it's a good game but I didn't really enjoy playing it with a mouse and keyboard, then I'll most likely play some Need For Speed also with a controller because I usually play them with a keyboard pretty well so I just want to test out how it feels with a controller and that's it for now, that's all the ideas I have. As I complete these, I'll slowly think about what to play next.

Skyrim is a bad game. Oblivion > Skyrim

I like ur glasses

This was such a joy to experience!

Oh you poor poor man. Grave of the Fireflies on your watchlist. I await the video you will inevitably make after seeing that one.

The playlist aspect is amazing, like i have games, movies and tv series available at all time according to my choice

My backlog used to intimidate me so much to the point that i would spend a lot of my freetime staring at a game thinking 'this will be my life for the next month or so am i even ready for this' or 'if i play this i will have to play the entire series' and that mentality was holding me back from experiencing so many of my new favourite games such as the yakuza series and elden ring. Now, i dont pay attention to my backlog and only just pickup the games i have an itch to play and dont put any thought into it and it makes enjoying games so much simpler

I’m scared to start certain games because I know they’re long, and I want to dedicate my time to finishing my second playthrough this month of the Mass Effect trilogy. Doing insanity rn, ME2’s combat is so awesome!!!

Love the Skyrim comment. I’ve been in the same boat. I “should” play, but I can’t get more than a few hours in an play something else.

I have 88 games on my backlog. After watching this video I made a new playlist of games I actually want to play. It has 8 games. Thank you.

This was a great video, keep it up.

What are your favourite games of all time ?

Good video, but your background music is too loud.

Love this. I made a spreadsheet for my backlog over Christmas and started going through the process of abandoning some games I either didn't finish and had planned to go back to "at some point" or would likely never play. I put them in their own Abandoned tab and for each one, wrote out an explanation to myself of why I was abandoning it. I had a similar feeling to what you described - it was a relief honestly. I realised accepting that I will never be able to play every game or watch every film or read every book I want to read was really about coming to terms with the finite nature of my existence - I think that's why I found it so hard to finally start letting some go.

It's important to stop playing games when you've got what you wanted out of it, don't feel obliged to complete it or 100% it. I always have in the back of my mind the Reggie quote 'if it's not fun, what's the point?'

I’ve been so thankful for shorter days indie games. Pikiniku for instance was the first game to make me laugh out loud but it didn’t take me more than a day or two. Having to play something that takes a month is tiring but then again, if it pulls me in and I’m enjoying it I don’t know why I’m so stressed about it. This video really sheds light on it, great work!

I wish I had a problem like yours

PLAY FALLOUT!

The backlog to me is nothing else than a sort of pool full of games I know I'm interested in. It's always growing and I'm always breaking it up thinking about 1. the ones I already own and the ones I have yet to buy, and 2, the ones I'm dying to play and the ones I'm waiting for the best moment to play. And that's it. I would never see it as something I have to complete as soon as possible. In fact, I don't even want to complete it at all. For every 5 games I play I add 20 more, I almost literally write down the name of all the ones that caught my attention enough and I hope that never changes. Cause it means I'm still interested in videogames. Backlog isn't a checklist, is just an ever-changing menu you can update as much as you want. If you look at it right it's not even important in itself, the games are. Backlog's just a means to an end.

Outer Wilds Mentioned 🎉

I find it fun now, before when i played a lot of multiplayer games my back log would stress me out. Now i dont play multiplayer games anymore, I’ve beaten bloodborne after 5 years of me playing it in and off, mgs1-3, resident evil1-2 code veronica, wild arms, shadow tower, armored core, resistance 1-3, shadow of the colossus, silent hill 2 og, and gta 3. I guess my recommendation would be to go back as far as you can timeline wise and pick from there. older games provide me with the challenge of “new” controls and aesthetic and graphics lost to time. I appreciate the games not just for the gameplay but the state of the world and technology they were made in, and overall the fact that i get to now enjoy the games i always really wanted as a kid.

The way I do it for movies is I shuffle my watchlist, the movies I want to watch, which is about 400+, and then i pick 1 out of 4 that appear at the top. Seen as all of these movies I have felt strongly that I want to see, I pretty much make my decision within 5 seconds based on what I feel like in the moment. Now I love movies again.

Great video bro! Had me on the steam winter sale intro. Earned yourself a subscriber! You definitely deserved more.

you should mod skyrim its way more fun then, its both extremely fucking annoying and fun to mod

I like the video… but I don’t think this approach will satisfy everyone. The reason why you can’t just not care about the backlog ever being completed is the same reason why you’re worried about it in the first place. I think the best approach is to want to complete every game, but never only playing backlogged games. I think having a scattered approach of new games coming out, backlogged and games you really want to play is the best method. It might take years, but eventually you’ll finish all your backlogged games, and you will be able to cross it off forever. I just don’t think pretending it doesn’t bother you to be a healthy solution.

good vid, and props for going against the crowd and saying how u feel on skyrim.