If you’ve been listening to the show for the last few weeks, you know we’ve been making an effort to finish a pile of our unplayed games before the big Fall rush—starting with Grand Theft Auto V—consumes all our spare gaming time. We know some of you listeners are sitting atop your own piles of shame, though, and we want to encourage you to cross a few off your list and make some room for some of the big titles you’re looking forward to during the rest of the year. It’s a great way to discover some overlooked classics and even feel like you’re being productive while playing video games!
And just in case the sense of accomplishment isn’t enough, we’ll throw in some extra incentive: The listener we decide has made the most impressive backlog progress will win the Fall new release of their choice!* (Because they’ll need something else to play after getting through all those other games, right?) We’ll even send the game to you using Amazon wormhole technology so you can play it on release day.**
To join in, first post a list of the unplayed games you plan to get through between now and September 6th. That gives you four weeks to play, so pick your games wisely—we’ll declare a winner based on who we decide had the biggest accomplishment. (We’ll be more impressed if you 100% the Mass Effect trilogy than if you play a bunch of Wii party games, for example.)
Second, follow us on Twitter and keep listening to the show in case we drop any special instructions for you!
If you have any questions, feel free to drop us a line on Twitter @vghangover or send us an email and we’ll be happy to explain any of the rules. We think it’s simple enough, though: play your old games, win a new one! Now get to it and post your list below!
* MSRP $60 (U.S.) or under
** Where available. If the game you choose isn’t eligible for release date delivery, we’ll use the next fastest shipping.
Command & Conquer 4
Hotline Miami
Left 4 Dead 2 (shameful).
Metro 2033
Need For Speed : Most Wanted.
Psychonauts
Red Faction Armageddon
Rochard
Super Mario 3D Land
Sleeping Dogs
Torchlight 2
And for shits and giggles I’ll post my ACNL and MH3U times to see if they suffer abnormally from this experiment or if I completely ignore the other games and keep piling the hours on to these two behemoths :-
Animal Crossing A New Leaf – 55 hours
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate – 140 hours
I just hit 100 hours on Animal Crossing this week. Insanity.
Play Sleeping Dogs!
Going to finish up on Wind Waker tonight. Then I’m going to work on…
Ratchet and Clank HD Trilogy (Going for all three platinums)
Crysis 2 (Want to start the single player; never played it)
Bioshock 2 (Same deal as ‘Crysis 2’)
Eternal Darkness
Soul Sacrifice
…and maybe Chibi-Robo and Rayman Origins if there’s still time. >__>
That list is great! I’d start with Eternal Darkness. That was such a cool game with a really unique vibe that i’ve never seen in another game since.
I love the current-gen Ratchet and Clank games but I haven’t played through the original trilogy yet. I’d be interested to hear how they compare to the newer ones and if you think they’ve aged well. Did you play any of the Sly Cooper games?
I have actually platinum’ed the entire Sly trilogy. Never played the games prior to the HD collection. I found them to be excellent games, and highly worth checking out.
As for Ratchet, I’m currently trying to finish the first game in that trilogy. It plays like any of the R&CF games, so it would feel very familiar to you. However, a dearth of checkpoints is a huge problem in this first game. If you tend to die a lot, it might have the potential to be very frustrating to try and finish. I don’t know if the other two games have this problem, so I’ll get back to you on that.
Other than that, it’s a pretty solid game.
The second and third games are a lot better regarding the checkpoint problem. Having better weapons in both those games also helps matters as well! 🙂
I loved RATCHET & CLANK. This is a great list. Have a good time!
Oh the backlog attack!
I’ve got these games mocking me from my shelf
-FEAR 3
-Rage
-Metro 2033
-Blood Dragon
-Mafia II
-Walking Dead 400 Days
-Hotline Miami
-Tintin
If I really feel like causing myself pain all the DLC for Fallout 3 and NV
400 Days is less than 90 minutes long! You can hammer that one out during an extended lunch break, Erik!
Im adding Ducktales remastered to this as well….
Let’s see:
Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale (kinda cheating because I’ve only got about an hour left, but I did start it in the summer!)
Soul Sacrifice
System Shock 2
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Strike Suit Zero
Ys Seven
Tales of Xillia
Including stuff I’m part way through:
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate(half way through already)
Samurai Warriors Chronicle (about halfway through, my 3DS launch game that I never beat :/)
I’m not really going to get far because once FFXIV comes out everything else is going to go out the window, but it should be fun trying.
XCOM is on my list, too. Let me know when/if you get to it and we can compare tactics!
Will do. I’m kind of intimidated though, it seems like there’s a lot to learn.
The game does a fantastic job of easing you into the mechanics. It is very newbie friendly, you’ll love it.
Summer Backlog:
I decided on these games about a month ago, and have made some good progress already. I figured ME Trilogy was my big project, but i needed some short games to break it up in between ME’s
Mass Effect 1 (Completed 8.10.13)
Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect 3
Metal Gear Rising: Revengance
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (Completed 7.15.13)
BulletStorm
I don’t think there’s any way i’ll get through all of this, but wish me luck.
Bulletstorm is the only one on your list that I’ve actually played but I can easily say that it’s a blast. Fast-paced, mindless, ridiculous fun. Use it a palate cleanser between some of the more super-serious stuff on your list.
My load of shame: (and hopefully future lack thereof)
Chrono Trigger (Beat 8/2)
Mother 1 (Beat 7/26)
Ys 1 (Completed 8/8)
Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 (Completed 8/6)
Uncharted
Resident Evil 6
Earthbound
Harvest Moon
Picross DS
Max Payne
The Walking Dead (Episodes 4 and 5)
Heavy Rain
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus
I know I have a pretty gigantic list of games, but these are all ones that have been nagging at my gaming conscience for a long time now. I’ll be very impressed if I can actually beat all of them here, but if I can make any progress at all I’ll be happy.
~Pastry
The new Sly Cooper game is so freakin’ good! You’ve got a ton of good stuff on your list, in fact.
DJ and I were actually talking about the Picross game for the DS recently. There’s so much content on that card! We’re both disappointed that Nintendo never made a proper sequel to it.
On the off chance that you aren’t already aware, they have put out Picross e and Picross e2 on the eShop recently. I haven’t played either one, but my understanding is that they are smaller collections of puzzles for a relatively inexpensive price. Some guy up at my work with is obsessed and I notice every time we Street Pass that he’s been playing them.
I 100% + completed PIcross 3D, which was amazazing. I will get these too, even if the 2d is not as awesome.
Ok, though I know I have no prayer of being the most impressive, I want to organize myself and microblog my backlog attack. It’s a work in progress but I’ll be documenting my progress here:
http://dontjudgemyadd.serveblog.net/backlog/backlog.xml
My main goal is to play each day and write each day. That, by itself, will be a win for me and my backlog.
Good luck with all of your backlog attacks!
Nice! Thanks for sharing the link. Looking forward to seeing your progress.
it’s a fun exercise for me to jot a thought or two town per gaming session. Targeting my backlog is definitely costing me sleep though (in the true spirit of VGH) 🙂
Those are some pretty ambitious lists. Awesome to see that some folks have already knocked a few games off the list too! Best of luck to everyone, you’re certainly all doing much better than I am with my list! 😀
Get on it, Paul! You’re making us look bad. 😛
I am tracking things at http://backloggery.com/jeblucas . I started tracking a few episodes ago, some of these I finished in July. I want these five done by GTA V-Day:
PROFESSOR LAYTON AND THE MIRACLE MASK: Done.
LITTLE INFERNO: Done.
HOTLINE MIAMI: Stuck on mission 10.
BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY: 7%, and jeeeeez there’s a lot to do.
SWORD & SWORCERY: Waiting for Bright Moon in 7 days.
Like an idiot, I have started a bunch of other games too.
STEAMWORLD DIG: This game is awesome!
CAVE STORY+: I beat this years ago but want a better ending.
YEAR WALK: Done, and I only peed myself like twice.
DONKEY KONG COUNTRY RETURNS 3D: Fucking tough! Holy crap!
ANIMAL CROSSING: Working on my Dream Hotel or whatever it’s called.
Here is the list I’m going to attempt.
Darksiders 2
Batman AA
Binary domain
Assassin’s creed II
Saint’s row 3
There are many other games on my list but I think this should prove enough problems for me =D happy backlogging everyone!
Are we talking 100% or just finish the game?
Well I’m just going to post my goals, then entire backlog lol
I’ll update it if i get something else done
PS3—-
Castlevania Lords of Shadow PS3 – Just Paladin Play through ( )
UMVC3 – 100% Gallery []
Capcom Arcade Cabient <3 deaths Black tiger [] 50 hrs not worrying about for this contest
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Alice Madness Returns
Arkham City
Assassin Creed Brotherhood, Revelations, 3
Bayonetta
Bioshock 1 (Very Hard)
Bioshock 2
Borderlands,2
Catherine
Dark Void
Dead Space Extraction, 2, 3
Darksiders
Demons Souls
Deadliest Warrior Ancient Combat
Deadpool
Dark Souls
DragonAge Ultimate Combo
DragonAge 2
Duke Nukem Forever
F.E.A.R. 3
Game of Thrones
Grand Theft Auto 4 Episdoes Libery city
God of War collection,Origins, 3
Heavy Rain
Of Orcs and Men (Promo Copy! Dis)
Injustice
Homefront
Infamous
Mayhem
MK vs DCU
Kill zone 2,3
Final Fantasy 13, 13-2
MK9
Metal Gear HD Collection
Metro Last Light
RAGE
Resident Evil 6
Resistance 2,3
Red Faction Armageddon
Sleeping Dogs
Silent Hill HD Collection
Singularity
Tomb Raider
Tom Clancy's Endwar
White Knight Chronicles 2
Uncharted 1,2,3,
X-Com
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Xbox 360
Crackdown 2 (Only a couple of orbs/jumps to go) []
Gears Judgment (Only Sybarite to Go) []
Happy Wars (Lv 50 and Cleric/mage acheevo) []
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Ace Combat: Assault Horizon
Battleship
Dead Island Riptide
Dungeon Siege 3
Gears 1, 2, 3
Mass Effect 1, 2, 3 + dlc
Modern Warfare 3
Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm 2
Lost Planet 2
Halo Reach
Skyrim and DLC
Supreme Commander 2
Rayman Origins
Record of Argarest War
The Darkness 1 & 2
SSF4AE
MK9
I'm not even going to bother posting all the Downloable games i need to finish on pc/360/ps3 (let's just say around 50)
I can’t find my list on here wierd
It got tagged as spam for some reason. I found it and approved it just now.