I'm still hard at it - as much as I can be - to whittle down my list of backlog games. I completed another one this evening and moved it to my beat game list at the bottom. I know no one reads this, but I keep it updated as much as possible when I remember. I get through a handful every year. Slow going, but I keep at it.

8/20/21 - still tons of games to play. Lots of them on my list. I get through a couple on here a year and then add a couple more that I may or may not beat....a never shrinking list of games. Thankfully I do have a new GPU to play them off of, got my hands on a RTX 3060 through EVGA and about 5 weeks later I got picked for a newegg shuffle for a 3060Ti that was only $460. I picked that up and now I'm gaming off it and I put the 3060 into my other computer. I officially retired my 6 year old 980Ti AMP! Omega cards.

1/14/22 - About 2 months back I acquired a RTX 3080. I handed off my 3060Ti to my brother, he's going to replace his 5700XT and sell it off on ebay while they're still going for $900+. I've been recording all the games I've completed since I started keeping track - I don't usually update the "not beat" games list, so I'm sure there are more to add to it - but as I looked back through the games I completed I can't believe I've been updating this blog since 2011. I honestly don't play games like I used to. I dabble in a game here and there and usually 20-30 hours of game time is dragged out over a few months. Take the game "We Happy Few" - took me 6 weeks to play through it. Officially 34 hours for me to beat the game. I found it engaging, not overly challenging, but the story was better than I thought it would be. I'm not sure what's next off my list - perhaps Wasteland 3 or perhaps Blades of Time. I'm going to keep at it and hopefully, one day, I'll whittle down this list and actually make a dent.

10/29/22 - When EVGA announced they were stopping with GPU production I found myself picking up a 3080Ti from the local Micro Center for around $750 after tax. I figured if EVGA was done with GPUs, then I was going out with a bang this gen. I've got my 3080Ti in my gaming rig and a backup 3080 should something happen to this card. With how prices are going and power requirements as well, for GPUs (and CPUs), this 5900X & 3080Ti might be my last gaming rig. At least I have a system that can handle games just fine for some years to come. Not to mention all the backlog of games that I have, I have enough to keep me busy for a decade or two should I stop ever purchasing any new games that release.

11/25/22 - Got a cold. No fever, just kind of bleh feeling with a slight cough, it should be gone within a couple days like they normally are. So, I've spent the last couple of days playing Starlink: Battle for Atlas. The game okay. Kept me busy for the past 18 hours or so of time while I get to hide from everyone. Honestly, I don't even know where I got a copy of the game, it was just on my Ubisoft Connect account. Maybe it was a free giveaway at some point in the past because I know I didn't pay for it since I haven't purchased anything from Ubisoft for quite some time. Anyway, the game was decent enough for a single play through and kept me occupied.

8/27/23 - Still gaming. Mostly been spending time playing coop type games such as Valheim, 7 Days to Die and replaying games I really enjoy like Grim Dawn and Dying Light (not Dying Light 2, that game is a piece of shit). I haven't put much progress, if any, into my backlog. Usually I knock out a handful of games a year from it, oh well, I'll just keep gaming with what I enjoy and maybe I'll get to more backlog games soon.

11/7/23 - Working on my Retro Review idea. Going back through older games that I own and have played to completion, played but not completed and haven't even opened yet. While I'm not doing that I'm working on Baldur's Gate 3 with my brother in co-op. Amazing game, just as fun and well put together as the Divinity Original Sin games.

12/9/23 - I've been doing what I call Retro Reviews for PC games. I'm going through playing my older physical PC games. I create .iso files for them and get them to run without a disc so I don't have to worry about swapping discs around. I just played through CoD2 and a few other games I've played years ago or I have owned, but I never even got around to playing them. I'm having fun seeing how the games look and feel when compared to what is available by today's standards. Surprisingly I've been having more fun playing older games than newer ones.

9/22/24 - Going through older games for my Retro Reviews has allowed me to actually move a few titles from my list of not completed games to my completed list. Awesome.

Games Listed Below - not beat:

1. Age of Empires III
2. Alpha Protocol
3. Amnesia: The Dark Descent
4. Arma II & Operation Arrowhead
5. Baldur's Gate 3
6. Banner Saga
7. Battle Chasers: Nightwar
8. Battlefield Hardline
9. BioShock 2
10. BioShock Infinity
11. Blades of Time
12. Boiling Point: Road to Hell
13. Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood
14. Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
15. Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
16. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (single player)
17. Call of Duty: World at War (single player)
18. Company of Heroes 2
19. Contract J.A.C.K.
20. Crysis 2
21. Crysis 3
22. DarkStar One
23. Dawn of War II
24. Dead Rising 2
25. Deponia: The Complete Journey
26. Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
27. Drakensang: The River of Time
28. Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition
29. Ember
30. Enclave
31. Exodus from the Earth
32. Everspace
33. Evochron Mercenary
34. F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate
35. Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel
36. Far Cry 2
37. Far Cry 4 (I may have beat this....I put 15 hours into, but I don't actually remember if I beat this boring game or not)
38. Galactic Civilizations III
39. Gods: Lands of Infinity (couldn't get this to run on Vista when I purchased the game, never tried it on Win 7 or Win 10)
40. Gothic 3 (got far, but got kind of bored)
41. Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods
42. Grand Ages: Rome
43. Grand Theft Auto V (this game sucks....thankfully I didn't pay for it, it was gifted)
44. Grim Dawn - Elite
45. Grim Dawn - Ultimate
46. Hand of Fate
47. Hard Reset
48. Heroes of Might and Magic V
49. Heroes of Might and Magic V: Hammers of Fate
50. Heroes of Might and Magic V: Tribes of the East
51. Inversion
52. Jotun: Valhalla Edition
53. Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
54. King's Bounty: Armored Princess
55. Kingdom Come: Deliverance
56. Legendary
57. Lichdom: Battlemage
58. Lords of the Fallen
59. Mafia II
60. Mars: War Logs
61. Max Payne 2
62. Max Payne 3
63. Medal of Honor Allied Assault
64. Might & Magic VI
65. Might & Magic 10
66. Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of The Betrayer
67. Nexus: The Jupiter Incident
68. Omikron: The Nomad Soul
69. Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
70. Painkiller Hell & Damnation
71. Pillars of Eternity
72. Orcs Must Die!
73. Orcs Must Die 2!
74. Rambo - The Video Game
75. Rebel Galaxy
76. Red Faction: Guerrilla
77. Resident Evil 5
78. Risen (almost beat - I should really finish this)
79. Risen 2 - Dark Waters
80. Risen 3 - Titan Lords
81. Sacred Gold
82. Saints Row IV
83. Scribblenauts Unlimited
84. Serious Sam 3
85. Shadow Ops: Red Mercury
86. Shadowrun Returns
87. Shadow Tactics
88. Space Hack
89. Space Trader - Merchant Marine
90. SpellForce 2: Dragon Storm
91. SpellForce 2: Shadow Wars
92. SpellForce: Shadow of the Phoenix
93. SpellForce: The Breath of Winter
94. Starpoint Gemini 2
95. Star Wars: Empire at War
96. Star Wolves 3: Civil War
97. Singularity
98. Stronghold
99. Stronghold 2
100. Stronghold 3
101. System Shock 2
102. The Bureau - Xcom Declassified
103. The Dark Eye: Drakensang
104. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
105. The Last Remnant
106. The Lord of the Rings: War in the North
107. The Scourge Project: Episodes 1 and 2
108. The Settlers: Rise of an Empire
109. The Walking Dead (season 1)
110. The Witcher 2
111. The Witness
112. Thief 2
113. Thief: Deadly Shadows
114. TimeShift
115. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2
116. Total War: SHOGUN 2
117. Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
118. Trine 2
119. Two Worlds: Epic Edition (this game is awful, it just flat out sucks. I'll probably never beat it nor play it again)
120. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
121. Vin Diesel: Wheelman
122. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Winter Assault
123. Wizardry 8 (love the game, but play in spurts - then I forget what I'm doing and I've restarted a dozen times)
124. XCOM: Enemy Unknown
125. Ys Origin
126. Ys: The Oath in Felghana

Games from my list that I beat:

1. Neverwinter Nights 2 (7/1/11)
2. Madballs in Babo: Invasion (7/5/11)
3. Fallout: New Vegas (7/14/11)
4. Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale (7/20/11)
5. Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 (7/30/11)
6. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light (7/31/11)
7. Assassins's Creed: Brotherhood (9/14/11)
8. Avencast: Rise of the Mage (10/3/11)
9. Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim (10/18/11)
10. Alpha Prime (10/19/11)
11. Just Cause 2 (10/28/11)
12. Back to the Future: The Game Episodes 1-5 (11/7/11)
13. Deus Ex: Human Revolution (3/1/12)
14. Deus Ex: Human Revolution - The Missing Link (3/4/12)
15. Dead Island (3/17/12)
16. Batman Arkham Asylum (4/21/12)
17. Dragon Age: Origins (7/31/12)
18. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (2/1/13)
19. Saints Row: The Third (2/5/13)
20. Bastion (2/5/13)
21. Torch Light II (2/7/13)
22. Mass Effect 3 (3/20/13)
23. Borderlands 2 (4/24/13)
24. Kingdoms of Almalur Reckoning (9/12/13)
25. Dishonored (11/25/13)
26. Assassin's Creed III (12/26/13)
27. Deadlight (12/27/13)
28. The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing (1/30/14)
29. Sleeping Dogs (2/6/14)
30. Metro: Last Light (3/5/14)
31. State of Decay (3/19/14)
32. Batman: Arkham Origins (4/22/14)
33. Of Orcs and Men (7/13/14)
34. South Park: The Stick of Truth (12/15/14)
35. Dead Island Riptide (3/27/15)
36. Far Cry 3 (4/10/15)
37. Sniper Elite 3 (6/27/15)
38. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (8/15/15)
39. Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (11/30/15)
40. Black Mesa (2/3/2016)
41. Thief (2/28/16)
42. Grim Dawn - Veteran (3/21/2016)
43. Rage (4/23/16)
44. Mad Max (8/30/16)
45. Dying Light & The Following on Nightmare (9/3/16)
46. DOOM - 2016 (12/26/16)
47. Mirror's Edge (6/20/17)
48. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (7/15/17)
49. F.E.A.R. Extraction Point (9/13/17)
50. Assassin's Creed: Rogue (4/14/18)
51. Remember Me (7/15/18)
52. Elex (11/4/18)
53. Fallout 4 (1/12/19)
54. Tomb Raider 2013 (1/21/19)
55. Limbo (2/6/19)
56. Ryse: Son of Rome (4/22/19)
57. Middle Earth: Shadow of War (11/10/19)
58. State of Decay: Lifeline (3/28/2020)
59. Shadow Warrior (9/13/2020)
60. Shadow Warrior 2 (11/2/2020)
61. Wasteland 2 DC (12/29/2020)
62. Dishonored 2 (01/17/2021)
63. Divinity: Original Sin (sometime back in 2019)
64. Far Cry 5 (Sometime early 2020)
65. Divinity: Original Sin 2 (December 2020)
66. Horizon Zero Dawn (05/03/21)
67. Control (5/30/21)
68. Greedfall (7/31/21)
69. Metro Exodus (11/28/21)
70. We Happy Few (1/14/2022)
71. Crysis (I beat this game some years ago, but figured I'd give it another go through on the hardest difficulty) (3/2/22)
72. Crysis: Warhead (never played this one, finally put some hours into it) (3/20/22)
73. Wasteland 3 (4/10/22)
74. Biomutant (9/30/22)
75. Inside (10/29/22)
76. Divinity: Original Sin 2 (solo paly through, lonewolf) (11/18/22)
77. Starlink: Battle for Atlas (11/25/22)
78. Outriders (8/27/23)
79. Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (9/17/23)
80. Elex II (10/7/23)
81. Advent Rising (11/7/23) - this is probably the 6th or 7th time I've played through the game
82. The Saboteur (11/25/23) - amazing game, 2nd time playing through it and still fun as hell
83. Call of Duty 2 (12/9/23) - back when CoD games were fun and not rehashed trash.
84. Soldier of Fortune (12/20/23)
85. Diablo II (1/28/24)
86. Fable: The Lost Chapters (3/9/24)
87. Titan Quest Immortal Throne (4/4/24)
88. Medal of Honor - Airborne (4/7/24)
89. No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way (6/1/24)
90. Prey (2006, the good Prey) (6/4/24)
91. SpellForce: The Order of Dawn
92. BlackSite: Area 51 (7/14/24)
93. Dungeon Siege (7/30/24)
94. Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna (8/5/24)
95. Far Cry (8/17/24) - Yes, the original, the good one.
96. Dungeon Siege 2 (9/14/24)
97. Dungeon Siege 2: Broken World (9/21/24)
98. You Are Empty (9/24/24)
99. Pariah (10/4/24)
100. STALKER 2 (12/21/24)
101. Evil West (2/2/25)