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About Me: My name's Rob. I'm insane, but not in a criminal way. At least, not yet. Take the character of Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High, make him older and chubbier...and you pretty much know all you need to know about me. |
ie: This Is What No Self Control Looks Like
So, I kind of realized today that I occasionally talk about my backlog of games as this monstrous behemoth I'll never finish off. Mainly due to how every time I beat a game or three, I find myself buying a half dozen more.
So, I figured for shits and giggles, I'd just post my entire backlog. Stuff like ROMs and the like don't count -- this is just games I own an actual copy of or have on download (XBLA and Steam). Along with a few notes whenever appropriate.
STEAM:
Avadon: The Black Fortress
Avadon 2: The Corruption
Avernum: Escape From the Pit (noticed that Avernum 2 was released on Steam fairly recently...)
Eschalon: Book 1 (Currently playing)
Eschalon: Book 2
Eschalon: Book 3
PS1:
Dragon Warrior VII
A couple are getting close to completion...
I finished Yume Penguin Monogatari and reviewed it. Same with EvilQuest, if I hadn't already mentioned that.
Recent times in review and other follies...
So, most games of today have this extensive auto-save philosophy where you don't even really need to manually save, except as a precaution. Every once in a while, this can bite me, but usually in the "man, I'll have to re-do an entire floor of a Skyrim dungeon; that'll take five minutes!" sort of way.
Where I try to keep it brief and likely fail.
My Terranigma review was #400! ALL SHALL PRAISE!!! I just wish I'd chosen a more memorable game to reach this milestone. But, as in life, nothing may be permitted to be perfect.
I just sent off my review of Dragon Quest IX to be proofed. Yay for productivity!
Let's see. To keep things reasonably brief, I'll just mention games where I feel I've done something noteworthy.
At least what I remember
Finished Terranigma and have review in the proofing zone at the time. Overall, a good game, however that third chapter drags on forever and has all sorts of annoyances that made this one a bit inferior to Quintet's other two SNES action-RPGs.
I've entered the Realm of the Mighty in Dragon Quest IX, so that likely will be the next game I finish. Didn't have the time to do too much there, but at least got the treasure out of the first few rooms.
A big week for completions!
I finished two games over the last few days.
For Grinsia, you can just read the review that I posted today. A heaping helping of meh, that one was.
Over the next day or two, I hope to get a review finished for Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage. I've owned that one for over 15 years, but hadn't ever beaten it because back then I was all obsessed over things like 100% completion and got burnt out over frustrations over getting some of the better-hidden gems and tougher orbs. This time, I was a lot more laid back about those things and just beat the game. A lot of fun.
This will be long, as I am playing a lot simultaneously due to being insane.
1. I finished Skyrim after a total of roughly 465 total hours (215 the first time and 250 this time, where I did DLC stuff, too) by doing all the work in Dragonborn. Submitted review of Dragonborn that will go up WHENEVER JASON GETS TO COPY-EDITING IT!!!!!!!!!!! And then, in all likelihood, whenever I realize it's been edited and actually think to post it! Sort of a bittersweet moment, as that game was a huge cornerstone of my free time for the past few months, so it's kind of like there's a void in my heart that will never be filled again.
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