Last Of Us Part 2 Release Date Confirmed For February 2020 On PS4

@lionheartssj1: Yeah, when you have a constant backlog lists have to be kept or some games will be lost within the collection. I never intended to become a games hoarder but I own over 400 physical games from various formats and I have sold plenty as well.

RPG is also one of my favourite genres which, as you say, take up a lot of time. I played Kingdom Come: Deliverance this year for example which took around 220 hours due to also playing to obtain my platinum trophy. Games like these are definitely a contributor to my backlog. If I ditched the trophy hunting I could likely cut down my backlog but can I do that? Aaaah, the quandaries!

@lionheartssj1: I use the website How Long to Beat to keep track of my backlog. I started using it in early 2014, and it's helped me immensely. I actually have two lists for my backlog. The "main" backlog list is the list with 28 games on it. These are the games that I am 75% sure I will want to play from start to finish at least once. This list was very large when I started with 400+ games on it. I did delete some games from this list without finishing them because they either really sucked or they were really bugged. That probably accounted for about 40 games overall. And as I said before, I split off all of my unpurchased wishlist games, which accounted for about 200 games.

I also have a "custom" backlog list on that same website that has about 75 games on it. However, those are basically games I got for free from various digital stores like the Epic store or GOG that looked too interesting to pass up, but I'm only about 20% sure I'm going to like them. A lot of these games are F2P messes that I may delete completely after only a few hours playing. I honestly don't include this as my backlog, since I may never play any of these "custom" games, and I won't care a single bit if I don't.

I have to say, after creating these lists, I've never had more fun playing the games I own. I also don't treat it like a job. I go into playing a game with the intention of having fun, and I generally don't quit playing until I'm done and satisfied. Games I really like, I spend a LOT of time playing. I spent ~300 hours playing Borderlands 2 and all of it's DLC. Games that I find mediocre, I play through once and move on, or maybe I relegate them to a "Play Again Later" list.

I keep my wishlist in two separate places. I use Microsoft One Note to keep track of 90% of my wishlist. I like it because it's simple and it syncs between all of my devices automatically whenever I make any changes to the list. This is where I keep all my wishlist games for PS4, Xbone, and PC games that aren't available to wishlist on Steam yet. The other 10%, I use the Steam wishlist for, so there is a little maintenance that happens every month or so as games become available on the Steam storefront, or sometimes they get canceled altogether.

The only other component that I think is critical here is to stop buying games if your wishlist is obscenely huge already. I only buy 1 - 2 new games per year now, and honestly, that still really interferes with trying to get rid of my backlog. I'm currently playing Borderlands 3. I'm planning on putting at least 100 hours into it before I move on, which would've been enough time to fully play through at least two of my backlog games satisfactorily. I also put about 80 hours into Days Gone earlier this year. At the end of the day though, I'm happy I'm playing a couple new games each year. Some of these games are freakin amazing, and it's nice to break out of the slump of playing games from 2010 once in a while.

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