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I've enjoyed following everyone's progress through their backlogs and the corresponding mini-reviews. I'd love to be able to get through mine but I have 4100 games on Steam alone. 
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StrixNebulosa posted:That's okay! Pick a game and start somewhere, and let us know how your journey goes! I've kinda been trying using SteamCompletionist.net although like a lot of tools it struggles a bit trying to load my library. Even Steam itself has that problem when I try and view my games list via the link on my profile page.
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Oct 25, 2017 17:00
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Shadow225 posted:Something that no joke helped me was starting to stream. Even if you have 0 people watching, there's a record of you starting a game, which creates a healthy pressure to finish it, unless you hate it. I actually did dabble a little bit with streaming to Twitch using ODS Studio, but having to manually set the game that you're streaming every time is a bit of a pain so haven't done it much as I would have otherwise.
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StrixNebulosa posted:At that point it may be more worthwhile to just make yourself a list of 10-20 games and get to work on those? Like, be careful before you turn the Steam Anonymous process into a job itself. If anybody feels like recommending me some games to get started on that'd be grand. I used to use Idle Master so just because Steam shows me having a few hours in a game, doesn't necessarily mean I've actually played it.
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Oct 25, 2017 21:14
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StrixNebulosa posted:Haha, okay. 
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Oct 26, 2017 00:09
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Thanks for all the recommendations. I actually beat Arkham Asylum years ago when I had an Xbox 360 and loved it so I wouldn't be averse to playing it again on PC. I managed to beat 2 games recently: ABZŰ If you've played Flower and Journey on the PS3 then you've pretty much already played this. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed it and it looks and sounds gorgeous, it's just that they really did just smoosh those 2 games together. It's also didn't resonate with me nearly as much as those games (Journey especially). If you haven't played them then you'll probably love it. The Final Station The gameplay was pretty repetitive and the writing was pretty terrible but it was still enjoyable enough that I kept playing. The developers clearly don't speak English fluently and didn't get somebody who does to go over their work. Grammar aside, the writing is also just not very good. There are plenty of NPC who'll spit out a few lines of dialogue at you but pretty much none of it is interesting or memorable. The artwork is excellent though and the setting and premise could have delivered so much more if the writing wasn't such hot garbage. I'm probably making it sound awful but it really isn't, it's just not especially good.
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Oct 27, 2017 11:58
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Beat: Quell Very good puzzle game. Clever mechanics and well designed puzzles. Enjoyed it a lot. Beat: Dead Rising 2: Off the Record I've beaten Dead Rising and Dead Rising 2 so this was the obvious next step. The developers of the Dead Rising games pretty much made games based around the two worst video game mechanics - timed missions and escort missions - and made games that are still fun regardless. Off the Record is pretty much just "more of the same" and despite the fact that I still hate escort missions and timers, I still had some, albeit less, fun. Playing: CrossCells I'm not enjoying this as much as the Hexcells games. Playing: STALKER: Call of Pripyat I forgot how buggy and terribly optimised these games are. It's a shame because there's nothing else quite like them. Seeing as the source code seems to have been leaked I hope that one day somebody will manage to do something about the stuttering but there don't seem to have been any commits to the GitHub project in the last 7 months so I'm not going to hold my breath. Playing: Papers, Please So far the praise that's been heaped on this game seems to be well deserved.
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Nov 14, 2017 16:37
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Nulled: STALKER: Call of Pripyat I really do think that all that these games have going for them is the atmosphere. While this was sufficiently good and novel to get me through Shadow of Chernobyl and Clear Sky, I got really tired of the bugs, crappy performance, poorly-masked fetch-quest missions and annoying as heck "realism" mechanics like not being able to run for more than 10 seconds and weapons and armour needing to be repaired constantly. Yawn.
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Nov 16, 2017 21:39
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Beat: Papers, Please Glory to Arstotzka
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Nov 18, 2017 17:58
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StrixNebulosa posted:How did you treat Jorji? Barring a few indiscretions (e.g. Simon Wens), I played everything by the book. So yeah, I ended up denying Jorji entry most (possibly all, I can't remember) of the time but come the end he seemed happy enough that he gave me a nice wad of cash.
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Nov 18, 2017 20:04
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Beaten: 140 Got the achievement with the description "Complete the main game" so I'm considering this done. Didn't really enjoy this game and only persevered with it because it's short and I'm stubborn. At least it confirmed for me the fact that I do not like platformers, especially ones that have a difficulty level that makes Hotline Miami and Dark Souls seem forgiving. It lacks the ability to pause and there are no mid-level checkpoints which is a bit poo poo. The soundtrack was very good.
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Nov 22, 2017 13:48
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Christmas is one of the worst times of year for my backlog.
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Dec 25, 2017 21:36
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Nulled: SquareCells, CrossCells I generally like puzzle games a lot but these just get too difficult for me to enjoy. Sitting staring at the same puzzle for an hour feeling like an idiot to make the slightest bit of progress just feels like a huge waste of time. Nulled: The Long Dark I can see why survival game purists would love this and it's not a bad game but I just got really bored of it before I could finish the story mode. Beaten: Splinter Cell: Conviction & Blacklist I'd already beaten these around the time they came out but I've been in the mood for some Splinter Cell recently. Conviction is okay but a bit too action-oriented for my liking. Blacklist is a lot better and possibly the second best SC game behind Chaos Theory. Beaten: Shadwen Extremely average stealth game but I was able to blast through it fairly quickly and it managed to hold my attention mainly thanks to the cool and well implemented time shifting and rope mechanics. Beaten: Metal Slug Fun and quick to blast through with infinite credits. Hope you all had a good Christmas and didn't buy too many games (I did).
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Dec 30, 2017 16:37
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Beaten: Metal Slug X See my comments on Metal Slug, only not quite as good. The slow down seemed a lot worse in this game, too. Beaten: Broforce I guess I'm in the mood for shooters that have lots of things blowing up around you? Has a very nasty bug where it will delete the progress of the save file you use to join a co-op game. That pissed me off even more than the final boss fight. Nulled: SteamWorld Heist Although I could tell it was a Good Game™, it looks like I should add "turn-based strategy shooter" to the list of genres I generally don't like, along with platformers.
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Jan 17, 2018 17:19
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Beaten: Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs Pretty much what you'd expect from The Chinese Room making an Amnesia sequel. I liked Dear Esther and Amnesia a lot and while this was obviously never going to be as good an Amnesia game as the original, it's sufficiently scary to warrant playing if that's your thing. Beaten: Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons I feel like I'm one of the last people who hadn't played this but it's very good. I stupidly now find myself in the position of playing what feel like the 3 longest games on Steam concurrently (DiRT 3, Freecell Quest and Shadow Tactics). The problem is that none of them are bad (even though they feel like a slog sometimes due to my desire to clear my backlog), so I don't want to null them. 
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Feb 4, 2018 22:18
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I finally beat: Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun It is a very good game, just like everyone says, but it has two fairly big flaws: difficulty and load times. I don't mind the challenge but when a level takes 2 to 3 hours to complete it had better be good enough to prevent me from getting fatigued with it and sometimes I felt the game failed in that regard. The initial level load times were pretty bad (1-2 minutes on a good SSD) but at least they were a one-time thing. Quick loads took 5-10 seconds which doesn't sound long at all except for the fact that the difficulty of the game means you're going to be savescumming like crazy at which point it becomes annoying. Besides that the game is deserving of all the praise it's received. DiRT 3  It's a testament to how fun the Rally and Trailblazer events are that I kept playing for the 25 hours that this lasted (although some of that time was taken up by non-essential events) despite events like Landrush and Gymkhana not being much fun. Head 2 Head was a bit meh but Rallycross was good. I'd still like to know what the reasoning was behind having so many non-rally events in a rally game was. But then I suppose people try and cram poo poo that doesn't work into games all the time; it's nothing new.
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For those wanting to organise their games into categories, Depressurizer is worth checking out. It's a bit unintuitive at first but worth the effort if you have a big library. The Steam rating and How Long To Beat categories in particular are very useful.
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