Backloggery

[gogmagog]

nemissa recently posted about an awesome site, The Backloggery. You can create a library of your videogames and label which ones are incomplete or in various levels of completion. I've created my own backlog page; it still needs some work, but you can see where I am on a lot of my games currently (and how shamefully few I have completed).

The cool thing is that you can embed a list of the games you're currently working on, like so:

Comments

[sergiekins.livejournal.com]

Eee, I made one really quick, Yosi, and I added you as a friend. :D

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

I added you back!

I need to get NMH, and I need to pick P3 back up. AUGH TOO MUCH BACKLOG

[vaulted-eel.livejournal.com]

I'm signing up and adding you! \o/

(http://backloggery.com/main.php?user=waterlogged)

This site is reminding me that I have a.) way too much time on my hands, and b.) slightly anal standards for "completion." Eh heh.

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

Added back!

Man, I am envious of your completion ratio though! And my lackluster gameplaying over the past few years hasn't necessarily just been a time matter; often it's "I meant to play but got distracted on Wikipedia for 5 hours, no gaming today whoops." D:

I think the site encourages anal standards for "completion" though! I have very few games I labelled "complete," just because I often beat a game, may come back to it, but won't necessarily do everything for it (like bitchass-hard sidequests and such; like I still haven't beaten NSync!Sephiroth in KH or KHII). But I do consider something completed if I've done everything, within reason, to complete the game (so, for example, I have to completely fill out the item list for an Atelier game, but don't necessarily have to fill out every stat of every monster in the monster log).

[vaulted-eel.livejournal.com]

It only means I have no life. ;o; But I know what you mean about being distracted by Wikipedia for hours. I wonder how much lower my score would be if I could remember everything I rented/played ROMs of, though... well, maybe you're just supposed to stick to stuff you actually own.

That's probably a much saner way to look at it. XD

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I did (just put what I own); unfortunately a lot of my PSX games were stolen a few years back, so I no longer own a lot of the games that I beat/completed, back when I played videogames moar. D:

And truly completing something like Tactics Ogre is an accomplishment that I'd like to put on there! Unfortunately I haven't been able to find another copy of the PSX game for love or a reasonable amount of money. D:

[satsu.livejournal.com]

It's nice, I like it. But I wish it wouldn't capitalise my name. :(



I'm filling this in gradually, it's a demoralising process. :(

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

E-mail them and tell them so! Stand up for noncapitalizers like yourself and e.e. cummings!

And it is indeed deeply, deeply demoralizing...especially looking at the fact that I've finished maybe a tenth of the games I own. I'm hoping it helps rein me in when looking at buying new games though, and it already seems to be helping motivate me to finish some of the ones I already have. :D