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Conquering the Steam Backlog


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So, kinda inspired by Ethan's thread, I'm gonna try and finish up all the stuff I've bought but never played on Steam and post my thoughts on them. This is to prove that I can defeat the evil Steam Demotivator:

 

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Here's the list of games I have. Red means barely or never played, orange means played but not finished (or not played enough in case of MP games), green means finished (or played a lot in case of MP games), purple means I played it a lot beyond finishing it.

 

A.R.E.S.

Amnesia: the Dark Descent

And Yet It Moves

Audiosurf

Beat Hazard

BIT.TRIP BEAT

Champions Online

Chime

Dark Void Zero

Droplitz

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

Eversion

Freedom Force

Freedom Force vs the 3rd Reich

Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved

Gish

Half-Life

Half-Life 2

Half-Life 2: Episode 1

Half-Life 2: Episode 2

Half-Life 2: Deathmatch

Half-Life: Blue Shift

Half-Life: Opposing Force

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

Jolly Rover

Left 4 Dead

Left 4 Dead 2

Lumines

Madballs in Babo: Invasion

Magic: the Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers

Magicka

The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom

Monday Night Combat

Monkey Island 2: Special Edition

Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

Osmos

Plain Sight

Portal

Puzzle Agent

Puzzle Dimension

QuantZ

Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale

RUSH

The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition

Serious Sam HD: the First Encounter

Serious Sam HD: the Second Encounter

Shatter

Super Meat Boy

Team Fortress 2

Team Fortress Classic

Torchlight

Turba

Worms Reloaded

 

Any suggestions where I should start? I intend to play TF2 and MNC when given the chance. But a lot of stuff is SP.

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I would like to record it, but I have no idea what program to use for that. FRAPS takes too much disc space and I have very little. I could try livestreaming, I guess and then just linking the saved stream to everyone?

 

Also, I only had the last level of A.R.E.S. left so I finished that. Pretty short game (I heard it's supposed to be episodic) and lots of Engrish. Don't think it was worth the full price, but oh well.

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The only thing I can say to people who haven't played Amnesia yet:

 

Just play it. Play it right up to before you enter the Refinery. You will be able to judge then whether or not you are truly worthy (or ready).

 

Also Cyber, I noticed you had Worms Reloaded on your list. How is it? I was a big fan of Worms Armageddon and I played it quite a bit in my youth.

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Also Cyber, I noticed you had Worms Reloaded on your list. How is it? I was a big fan of Worms Armageddon and I played it quite a bit in my youth.

 

It's in HD and offers more customization, but has less weapons and only 4 worms per team. It's good for short burst like any Worms game. It was also pretty console-y when I last played it, maybe some patches fixed it up. My suggestion is getting it when it's on sale if you like Worms in general.

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Just my games bought on Steam games?? Z'okay!

 

Counter-Strike: Source

Half-Life: Source

Half-Life Deathmatch: Source

Half-Life 2: Deathmatch

Half-Life 2: Lost Coast

Half-Life 2

Half-Life 2: Episode One

Half-Life 2: Episode Two

Left 4 Dead 2

Machinarium

Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter

Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter

Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter

Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

Team Fortress 2

 

This is actually great as I'm not buying games for a while, trying to save money and I have all these ones to play and finish, not to mention my non-Steam games! Damn Steam sales always rock

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Egh. Steam games are lingering in my library waiting to be played and I have an excuse for all of them.

 

Alien Swarm: Somewhat just uninteresting, but mostly no friends ever play it.

Audiosurf: Was awesome back in the day, but now it's just kind of boring. Beat Hazard is better.

Borderlands: Played online, stopped reading so much what was going on in the quest details and lost interest.

Deus Ex: Fucking hard.

Half Life 2 and Ep 1: Don't want to play it until I get the first one.

Portal: Beat it too many times already.

Team Fortress: Lost interest with all the items that get added.

The Witcher: It's a complex RPG that I don't feel like playing unless I have a lot of dedicated time.

 

(Non-Steam Games that are still in my library.)

Minecraft: OCD runs rampant.

My Sims: Too embarrassed to play while anyone is around.

SimCity4: I fucking suck at SimCity.

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  • 1 month later...

My Backlog has grown fast over the last month. I recently bought a ton of games on there and can't catch up.

 

Aliens vs. Predator

Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars

Command and Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath

Command and Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight

Dragon Age: Origins

Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening

Empire: Total War

FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage

Grand Theft Auto IV

Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City

Just Cause 2

Napoleon: Total War

SimCity 4 Deluxe

Tropico 3 - Steam Special Edition

 

This list only includes the games in my account I still intend to finish. I also have Crysis 2 to finish.

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I've got a lot as well. Lets see...

 

Audiosurf - Need to play this a bit more

Beat Hazard - Love the game, just want to play a bit more for the remaining 3-4 achievs that are based on time/songs played

Company of Heroes + Opposing Fronts - I want to play this one again just for fun, great game

Defense Grid: The Awakening - I have no idea why i stopped playing this, but i just can't make myself start again for some reason

Greed Corp - got it for like... 2$ or so? It's ok, but i've got better stuff to play i guess

Half Life 2 + Ep1 + Ep2 - Need to do another run just for the ahievs

Left 4 Dead / 2- Played both a lot, just need to finish some achievs in the first game before deleting it

Madballs in... Babo: Invasion - Now this game i like a lot, but just like Defense Grid, i just can't make myself play it

Mass Effect - Want to do another run or two to get saves for ME2 (yeah, i still haven't played it)

Monkey Island 2: Special Edition - Got it when it came out, been busy playing other games, should reserve one afternoon for it tho

Plain Sight - Suicide Ninja Robots sounded like mad fun, but sadly, it wasn't

Portal - Another run just for the achievs

Serious Sam HD 1 & 2 - Sam deserves another run, mad fun.

Shatter - I do play this every now and then, just not enough imho.

Toki Tori - This is cool , but i remeber getting stuck at one puzzle so i ragequit, and i'm too stubborn to look for the solution online XD

Torchlight - To lazy to mod it, don't feel like playing any Diablo-ish games atm

Warhammer 40k + Chaos Rising - Want to do Chaos Rising corrupt run

The Witcher: Enhanced Edition - Another run just for fun - doing it atm

Worms Reloaded - Not many people playing it online, and we all know Worms SP just isn't all that.

 

And then there's the PS3 backlog >.>

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My Steam backlog is way too large for me to even think about tackling it all at once.

The sheer amount of games is just too discouraging. Such an endeavor would be doomed to fail.

 

So what I do is I focus on only a handful of games at a time and just pretend the rest of the list doesn't exist :lol:

 

Right now, my list consists mostly of games I've left unfinished.

 

Doom 3

Deus Ex: Invisible War

Fallout: New Vegas

Just Cause 2

Red Faction: Guerilla

 

There's also Tropico 3. I played it pretty much non-stop for about 2 weeks when I got it last summer but then stopped about halfway through the campaign. I grabbed the expansion during the holiday sale and have been meaning to get back into it ever since, but just can't seem to bring myself to actually play the damn game.

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That's not too bad of a backlog. I've got a friend who owns about 200 games on Steam. He's only played about 60 of them. He went bat-shit during that holiday sale, picked just about every sale pack there was. I, on the other hand, am damn picky when it comes to games, and some of the ones I own on Steam I was either coaxed to purchase (because I can't have an opinion on the game unless I own it apparently) or I was mistaken in how awesome it was supposed to be. Here's what I have to work with:

 

Audiosurf

Counter-Strike: Source

Dark Messiah Might and Magic

Day of Defeat: Source

DEFCON

Empire: Total War

Garry's Mod

Grand Theft Auto IV

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Half-Life 2

Half-Life 2: Deathmatch

Half-Life 2: Episode One

Half-Life 2: Episode Two

Half-Life 2: Lost Coast

Half-Life: Source

Just Cause 2

Killing Floor

Left 4 Dead

Left 4 Dead 2

Mafia II

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

Mount and Blade: Warband

Neverwinter NIghts 2: Platinum

Portal

Sid Meier's Civilization V

Stargate Resistance

Team Fortress 2

The Witcher: Enhanced Edition

X3: Reunion

Zombie Driver

 

 

It's a little disheartening how little of Civ V I play considering how big of a Civ fan I am. I guess I just wasn't that much of a fan of the changes. Oh, and X3 is hella hard to understand to play.

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That's not too bad of a backlog. I've got a friend who owns about 200 games on Steam. He's only played about 60 of them. He went bat-shit during that holiday sale, picked just about every sale pack there was.

No, you see, those are the games I'm focusing on at the moment.

 

I also have over 200 games and go crazy during holiday sales. I picked about 200$ worth of stuff in the last one, and I have games from the previous one I still haven't touched. :lol:

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Jebas, you folks are crazy.

 

Well, I can save you some trouble: skip Doom 3. All those jokes you hear about it being a 20-hour experience of fumbling around in the dark? They're true. Just Cause 2 and Fallout: New Vegas will depend on your play style. In my case, I had so much fun dicking around in JC2 that I had easily hit 20 hours in that game before I remembered I still hadn't finished the campaign. Currently I've finished 76% of the island. It's crazy how OCD I am about wanting to blow up everything in that game. New Vegas, on the other hand, will last longer if you use mods. And you probably will. Say goodbye to sunlight when you do.

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Jebas, you folks are crazy.

 

Well, I can save you some trouble: skip Doom 3. All those jokes you hear about it being a 20-hour experience of fumbling around in the dark? They're true. Just Cause 2 and Fallout: New Vegas will depend on your play style. In my case, I had so much fun dicking around in JC2 that I had easily hit 20 hours in that game before I remembered I still hadn't finished the campaign. Currently I've finished 76% of the island. It's crazy how OCD I am about wanting to blow up everything in that game. New Vegas, on the other hand, will last longer if you use mods. And you probably will. Say goodbye to sunlight when you do.

Yeah, I know. Those are all games I've already started playing. I have close to 10 hours in JC2 and I'm more than halfway through New Vegas.

Doom 3, though... it's 20 hours long? :unsure: Wow... I'm not sure I feel like playing it for that long. I didn't want to install the flashlight mod because it felt like cheating, but if it's that long, fuck it. I'm not spending 20 hours switching between gun and flashlight constantly!

 

I've started categorizing my steam games list by "completed" "need to finish" and "not started yet"

Ha, not a bad idea.

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