I'm All Alone - Beating the Backlog 7
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Random Gaming Is Hard
I'm All Alone 
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Most people don't get around to the games they buy, and often they just sit on the shelf. If you take a look at trophy lists or Steam achievements for any game, it's rare that even 25% of people get the achievement for beating something even once. So actually putting in the work to beat every game in your backlog is rare, and if you can speak about every game on your shelf, that's ideal IMO. I try to remember that as I work through my own backlog.
Thanks! I beat around 70% of the games I play. But, I give them all a fair attempt. I have something to say about every item on the shelf...even if I haven't played it 😅 I can talk endlessly about anything.
I know it can be hard to decide where to start. I always go for the hook. Usually, depending on what part of my tactical mind I want to feed. Guerilla stealth? Or an action game with fast-paced combat? I also like to slow things down with a turn based game. Old school RPG or Disgaea. I go for what fits my mood, and I lean hard. I'm on a stealth kick with Batman. I was playing Dishonoered and switched to Arkham Knight because SSKTJL was never a good idea.
I'll keep that in mind! It's hard to know what to do when you play everything randomly
The most beautiful time to play video games for me was October/November 2009. Besides getting married on November 2009, this was my random backlog on those two months so you can imagine how great a period this was for me:
New releases only: Demon's Souls, Uncharted 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Dragon Age Origins, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (last game I stopped caring for COD), New Super Mario Bros on Wii, Assassin's Creed 2, Mario & Luigi Bowsers Inside Story on DS, the first Borderlands, the first Bayonetta, and Torchlight on PC. Now, I used to collect a lot for Xbox at the time and I loved the second release of Magna Carta back around mid-October 2009.
On my backlog from the previous months: Batman Arkham Asylum, Metroid Prime Trilogy on the Wii, Prototype, and inFamous.
On my backlog for coop/online gaming: Resident Evil 5, Street Fighter 4, and Killzone 2.
This and many more stuff came together to wrap up the year. Since then, there has not been anything close to the ending of 2009. And then the retro games come in. Even though I do random gaming like you, I do keep my choices based on categories so I'm never bored and I'm always 'updated', one of those categories is recent releases and the most weirdest category I have is 'TBS RPGs' I play one new turn base game at least once a month to never lose the excitement and keep myself going back to retro games.
Thank you so much for sharing! I vividly remember 2009... and playing most of those games as well. It felt magical to me, too. I can't even begin to understand how nostalgic that year must have been in your life with getting married and everything.
It's awesome that you play everything randomly as well. You're the first person who has reached out who does something similar to me.
I have a few special caveats to keep things interesting for myself as well. There's the gold stars I can earn for finishing games. I can spend those to pick any game I want to play. I also make sure to play a shmup every 15 games. Also, every 35 games, I go back and play a game I didn't finish, gave up on, or want to give a second chance.
I really appreciate your support!
I really appreciate your comment
I had so much of a backlog that I was depressed and didn’t play any games at all for months! I snapped out of it now, playing Ghost of Tsushima which is amazing! I bought Resident Evil 4 remake and I stopped playing at the same spot I did on the original! When you get the girl to walk around with like an escort mission that is no fun at all!
Both of them are in the backlog! I'm glad you were able to work your way out of your depression and start gaming again. I know that can be really hard to do, and I'm proud of you for trying.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Panzer Paladin and Wonder Boy The Dragon's Trap look so good and now after seeing your review of both games. I need to play them as I love Old-School Style games on PS4 and both games especially Panzer Paladin look like a great time. Either way, Great Episode as always RNG Gamer.
Give them a shot! You may really love them. They aren't bad games, they both just had a few things that I personally didn't enjoy. It may be totally different for you.
Thanks for all of your support!
Man I still don’t know how you do it !!! - if I couldn’t play the exact game (or set of games as I’m often playing a few at the same time) that I wanted to play when I wanted to play it I’d go nuts lol. I do have a large backlog too though so I think that’s a problem no matter how you game for most gamers - unless your the type that will not allow yourself to buy any new game until You beat the last one you bought- I’ve met a few people like that and I think I understand them even less than I understand your method lol. Anyway - the Panzer Paladins game on Switch and Wonderboy game on PS4 might look like games I’d be into checking out. I just started playing Celeste (never got around to it until now) - while getting deeper into Sea of Stars, while completing Spider-Man PS4 again (as a refresher before Spidey 2 drops), while completing FFVII Remake again (as a refresher before Rebirth drops), and lagging on finishing Jedi Fallen Order so I can start Jedi Survivor - and about to start Starfield too but on PC🤦♂️- which means I’ll probably drop off on some of them but we’ll see. Want to check out the TMNT Shredder’s Revenge DLC soon also. There’s really just too many games these days 🤷🏾♂️ - looking forward to the next video dude!
It can be really hard to play everything randomly sometimes. You need at least to be playing one good game at a time to keep yourself motivated.
It looks like you have plenty to keep yourself busy for the foreseeable future. I'm envious you get to play so many cool games all at once.
The next video should be the Monday stream.
Thanks again for all of your support!
Thank for the reviews , I'll give a shot to Panzer Paladin !!
You bet! I really hope you like it
I love your channel mate , you deserve more subscribers
Thank you so much! I'm thankful for every single one of my subscribers. We're growing every day.
I have a rule that helps keep my backlog smallish. If i didnt play/beat the game, its not going up on my shelf.
That's one of the best rules I've heard. If I were starting from scratch, I might use it.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
The R.N.G girl is the best hahaha. Not played most of the one's you did in this one. But Wonder Boy 3 The Dragon's Trap is my fave master system game of all time. So i clearly loved the remake (And got 1000G on it on the Xbox Version) But yeah i agree buddy. Unless you played it as much as i did back in the day and know what to do a were to go. I doubt someone would have fun with it lol.
Monster Truck Wars sounds terrible hahaha. Shame you had a bad draw will the games this time.
Awesome video as always buddy and im looking forward to the next Silent Hill video. Im pritty sure you will finish it on the next stream :D
Thanks again for watching. RiNG is something for sure. I wonder how often she'll show up.
I'm glad you liked the Dragon's Trap... I really wish I did. It seems like it would have been right down my alley.
Monster truck wars absolutely sucked... and I'm mad I spent so much time trying to figure out how to play it.
I'm going crazy waiting for Monday to get here. I can't wait to play Silent Hill with all of you guys again!
Thanks for all of your support!
@@RNGGamerYT No problem buddy. And yeah RING is awesome hahaha.
Yeah but i can see why you didn't enjoy it now since you never played it back in the day. It is defo like a castlevania 2 type thing. That random box room in dragons trap was so bad hahaha I don't even know how i randomly figured it out without a walkthrough.
Lol i knew you would be busting to get back to silent hill buddy the game is so good :D
Man, loved Panzer Paladin when it first hit the E-shop, The Dangen Shmup is a good one too. Played it on my emulation arcade for a while.
Thanks for watching! I'm glad you enjoyed them, I did too.
Heads up, you're getting a shoutout in the next video
New sub here! Love everything your doing, thanks for the videos!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate the support
Great review mate. Dangun looks interesting. I'm trying to get into more shmups, so I'll check it out, but I'm having mad fun with Ketsui at the moment, so perhaps once I'm done with that.
The animation for Wonderboy looks really cool. I know you werent that keen, but I might give it a crack.
I love hearing about all these obscure games that I wouldnt usually hear about. I always open up my wishlist when watching your videos haha. I have the Binding of Isaac coming next week, so pretty keen to play that.
I'm glad you decided to pick up Ketsui! It really is an amazing game. Hard, but amazing.
You may really like Wonder Boy. I know a lot of people do. Grab it if you can. You may need a break from the Binding of Isaac when the going gets tough 😅
Thanks again for all of the support it really does mean the world to me.
You are definitely not alone. We play every game we own but the backlog is ridiculous. We often don't even play the same games because there's no way individually will ever get through all of them.
I think you've talked me out of playing Wonderboy and the dragon's ( I think that's what it's called) 😂😂😂
You had me at Metroidvania but you lost me at unfair hit and enemies running into you. My anger level started to rise and I was like "nope this game is not for you" 😂
Thanks for watching! That's the whole reason I came up with my whole random gaming backlog system. The backlog was so overwhelming that I decided to turn it into a game itself! It has been one of the best decisions I've ever made.
Wonderboy was very frustrating... shockingly so. I'm surprised they didn't update the gameplay when they remastered it!
@@RNGGamerYT so do you just do a random number generator and a sign a number to each of your games? I don't know that I have that sort of follow through. I have done it in the past to pick the horror game. I wanted to play for Halloween but that was easy because it's in my wheelhouse and my favorite genre so I knew I wouldn't be disappointed or at least as disappointed as I would be if I pulled like a random retro game with unfair hit boxes, limit, amount of lives etc etc
@RetroRivals it's a super complicated system that has gotten ironed out over the years.
There's a terrible video on my channel where I explain it. It has a terrible name, but I'm going to go rename it right now to, "How I Randomly Select My Games"
my backlog is riddled with game's I have every attention of playing. lately I'll play older games I have had for years over the new hot ones taht gets dropped every month it seems. generally just play one to completion that I find grabbing me and not letting me go. GTA 5 was just finished last week a day before it's 10th anniversary. Pokemon Omega Ruby is one I'm currently playing through as I type this, and I'll split my time between Pokemon and Tomb Raider (ps4/5) release that I wanna get through before the remaster's come out next year in Feb.
Just keep working through them! You'll eventually get there. A big backlog is a blessing
Random Games is why I am Here ...👍👍
Me, too! Thanks for watching and commenting
silent hill @@RNGGamerYT
I'm really looking forward to Monday when we all get to do Silent Hill together again
Finally glad to find someone that found the dragons trap as frustrating as me. If it wasnt a wonder boy game i would have burnt it. It tried so hard to love it as i love the wonder boy series 😢
I loved the IDEA of it. I just wished they had updated the mechanics when they remastered it. It was so frustrating to control.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
same here
I really don't have thoughts about these specific games, except for Dragon's Trap. The only thing I have to say about it is that design-wise, it is very much a product of its time - it has those quarter-munching sensibilities, even though it was technically a console original.
As far as the overall quality of this batch I think you nailed it; most games are going to fall into the "mediocre to okay" (or 5-7 of 10) range.
Even for someone like myself with a much more curated collection (I like RPGs), I'd say most of them fall into that range. And that's fine, because how would we recognize that Chrono Trigger is a masterpiece without something like Beyond the Beyond to compare it to?
Anyways, glad to hear that you are enjoying Silent Hill, keep doing the good work!
Thank you for your comment! Many people expect every game to be incredible, and that's rarely the case. A few years ago, I did some statistics on all of the games I had reviewed, and I think the average game was exactly a 7.
ugh, you just turned off all my lights!! 😅 Great video. I enjoyed watching the game play and your reviews.
Thanks so much! I was hoping I would get to turn off someone's lights!
I appreciate you taking the time to comment!
Racing and shooters are games I play for a few minutes when I'm board and want to play something but nothing too involved.
Also congrats on beating A Dragon Trap, I myself can't manage to beat the first boss. Just cant get used to the game.
It's such a janky game! Even at the end, I never felt like I had the hang of it.
I understand about shooters and racing games. I enjoy it when they get picked for the same reason as you.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
Sometimes playing bad games can be like a palette cleanser, makes anything you play afterwards that much better (unless it's even worse lol) 😅
That's my thinking! I usually only pick up games that I'm interested in. So, the backlog doesn't have a ton of filler. Chances are good that the next game will always be better 😅
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Ai witch is back :0
....maybe she has always been there....
Panzer Paladin started to lose me as soon as you started talking about weapon breaking and item management.
It's such a detriment to the game! Instead of having dozens of breakable weapons hidden all around the levels, they should have had upgrade materials for making the weapons better. That way, you could focus on a playstyle instead of constantly switching between random weapons.
I have a weird hobby. I used to be all soliptic and think i was the only person doing it......turns out ALOT of people, some close by even liked this particular hobby.....you'd be suprised how many people have the same interests....even close by.
I have plenty of friends with the same hobby 😁 Sadly, none of them are into random gaming like me
@@RNGGamerYT yeah thats what i mean.....they're out there and lots of them, but you just dont know them.....some probably want to be known lol
@tonycurtis4088 are you one of them 😁
@@RNGGamerYT haha no, im was a kid who enjoyed games but rarely got far into them
I love Dangun Feveron, but there's also some nostalgia involved. There used to be an awesome store near me where the owner set up about a dozen candy cabs, and used to swap in gamesfrom his incredible pcb collection from all over the world, and I used to play it there. I miss that time. I got the 1cc on normal pretty quickly, but I also did have a good bit of prior experience with it.
I passed on that Dragon's Trap remake. I already have it on Master System, Turbografx (as Dragon's Curse), and Japanese PS2 and bear it on them. The new art is nice and all, but how many copies of one game do I need?
I had similar hopes for Panzer Paladin. Happy Console Gamer really hyped it up, but it wasn't all that amazing. I do enjoy a lot of indie games, especially metroidvanias, but this one just didn't do it for me.
That's a really cool memory about Dangun Feveron. I've always wanted a Candy Cab but they are super expensive!
I'm glad to hear I'm not alone on my criticisms of Panzer Paladin. I saw that same Happy Console Gamer video, and that's what got me so pumped for it.
I have several games where I own multiple copies on different systems. I've been kicking around the idea of clearing some of them out. But, I'll probably just wait until I run out of space
I’ve accepted I’ll never complete the backlog. Personally downsizing significantly, and I’ll still have enough to play for awhile.
You can do it! Never give up hope.
That backlog can't get the best of you.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!
@@RNGGamerYT always! Keep up the great work my friend.
@GameJunctionMedia thanks, you too!
Hey man, im just wasting your time in your comments section again have a great day 😂😂
You too! Keep wasting my time. If you really want to do it, cone to my stream in 2 hours!
If people are questioning if you play the games or not you should do a section at the end of a video like this one where you show the audience the next five games you pick so they know what’s coming.
I've kind of kicked around the idea of doing something like that, but the problem is that the games I play all overlap. There are always 4 or 5 games, and I finish them at different times. It's just a logistical issue.
I think people are finally starting to understand how it all works. Thanks for watching!
How many of the top 20 shmups, do you still have to play? The last couple I’ve seen you’ve been a down on, how many do you agree with in the top 20?
I agree with most of them, actually!
I've played 7 of the top 25... and most of those were 9 and 10 out of 10 games. There are just a few that were below that.
I own probably 17 or so of the top 25.
Great content! Would you mind sharing your excel file?
There is even something better in the works!
I was wondering do you play any MMos like World of Warcraft?
I played thousands of hours of WoW and Ultima Online. So, I'm an old-school MMO player, for sure. These days, I don't play any online games at all. I'm purely a single-player gamer.
When did ring first show up
I guess she's been around... forever...
I think RC Pro Am was more isometric, say Micro Machines was more overhead… just sayin
I mean, you're not wrong! I meant more like you steer based on where the car is facing rather than where you are
@@RNGGamerYT tank controls!
@harrysweep5846 yeah, I guess you're right
I play lots of games with tank controls, it never occurred to me that RC pro am had them too
Make a video abt TENCHU PS1 .
I have to play it first!
@@RNGGamerYT im waiting for it 😁
If you get too impatient, you can always force me to play it by joining the channel at the top tier! I put it up there as a joke... but maybe there are some rich watchers out there 😅
See I'm having problems with games that are trying to be like name brand games like mega man. You're basically playing the same game that you already played before. And I have issues with these "Indies games".
I agree with you. For an indie game to really elevate itself, it needs to be a whole new idea, surpass the games it's trying to emulate, or at least hang in there with them.
A lot of the time, it's just a worse megaman, a worse SMB, etc..
Thanks for watching!