Backlog bent
I occasionally have problems with starting new games. I tried starting a new game yesterday, and after about two hours I realized that I’m not going to continue with it anymore. Unfotunately, this game is beloved by its fans and I hesitate to tell you all what it was (It was Final Fantasy VII. I think I missed the boat on this one. It’s my first FF game, and while I liked the characters, especially Cloud, I eventually hit the wall. Feel free to send in the hate mail, that’s what the “Submit” button over on the right is for.) The reason I’m writing this post is so that other gaming Citizens out there know that we all experience this problem. I’ve split my Steam library into four categories: Started, Haven’t Started, Finished, and Over It. Right now Haven’t Started is the largest group and it just keeps on growing.
Today I had high hopes of moving onto another new game (either Thief 2014 or Batman: Arkham Asylum), but then I woke up this morning thinking about Fallout: New Vegas, and then I stupidly started watching the Spoiler Warning season of FNV. Stupid, stupid me. My Xbox is sitting in the corner feeling lonely and abandoned with a perfectly good copy of FNV sitting nearby. Yet I immediately jumped to the Steam store to find out how much the PC version costs. For a mere $10 I could be blowing heads off of fiends and radscorpions on my beautiful 24” monitor.
Or I could start working through my backlog. If any of my fellow Citizens out there have troubles moving onto new games (like me), I found this article on Games Radar that I found pretty helpful. One tip I constantly remind myself is that while I could binge on $5 and under games during the Steam sale, I’m more likely to play a game I spent $15-20 on that I know I would enjoy. Like spending $20 on the Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition with all the DLC and weapon packs…
So my next post will either be a review of the new game I started this weekend, or a post about how much I absolutely adore FNV. It’s a complete toss-up at this point, and hard to tell which way I’m going to go. Smart money would bet on Vegas.