I don't understand how anyone could have a backlog, why would you buy a game and not play it but instead just sit on it...

why does the whale let him do that

You can have a backlog of pirated games.

Imagine the smell.

I have a job.

It actually feels really good for them and hippopotamus use it as a way to greet/trust one another.
In vidya games, of course, as well as in real life.
The infamous Mega Man X boss Gangerous Hippo acts as testament to that.

I play mmos which takes my attention from games o should finish.

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Too many games releasing nowadays to keep up with them all

>what are sales
>what are the odd giveaways that games sometimes have where you can just get the game for free

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Backlog isn't just for purchased games, it can be any game that you intend to play. I don't understand how anyone wouldn't have a backlog unless you've played every single game you've ever wanted to play.

from what I can gather ppl ITT blame work despite constantly buying new stuff or play mmos, the sales on steam only rob you with your money you aren't getting a good deal if you never play or use what you spend money on

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>unless you've played every single game you've ever wanted to play.
this is true in my case but tbf I have extremely specific taste and a lot of what is out there doesn't appeal to me

How much tranquilizer did they have to give it for it to not just want to bite him in half?

Fair enough, but that's probably not the case for most that actually play games instead of just shitposting about them.

I was reading a book last night and found out the actual answer. See when you're a kid you only want to play video games. Sure, chores and school and sometimes even work are there, but they are always secondary and in your mind it's likely that you're at least unconsciously thinking "Godddd dude I want to play Viewtiful Joe 2 and look at Sylvia's boobies." Basically, it's a routine, and for autists and hardcore fags it might as well be religion.

But when you get older and acquire the freedom to play games at any time of the day, it's no longer ritual for you. Now, it's leisure, and in the modern world we live in, leisure can only be escapism. You're not thinking "Well, I'll play these levels and do these quests and maybe get my work and chores done in between" You're thinking "Okay I have ALL THIS FUCKING SHIT AAAHHHHH but maybe if I get it all done I can relax for a few hours" and even if you're a NEET you will think this way trust me I've been in that exact position.

Backlogs accumulate quickly for gamers who see vidya as "me time" instead of "fun time." If that makes sense. Why would you not have the game open 24/7, if only because you need to put the game on a pedestal as some weird carrot on a stick?*

See people get it wrong, they thing people who want to play vidya but don't are looking at the vidya as a task. Wrong, they're looking at it as the accumulation of several prior tasks. When that's not how kids think, they just want the game and want it now. Games are instant gratification after all.

So how to clear a backlog? Make gaming your life. You can say you're a gamer all you want but if you aren't playing games daily for like 4+ hours then you're doing it wrong. Too many fake gamers today IMO, who knows this post is getting too long lmao.

>*rest mode and short loading times have been a double edged sword in this aspect

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Sometimes I buy games in a group or more than one at the game time.
And by buy I mean pirate. I pirate and have a couple downloads going at once.

>that's probably not the case for most that actually play games instead of just shitposting about them
I play games, how was my comment a shitpost?

Always keep some sort of backlog so you can survive a drought or a possible crash.

cute dog

I want it. No I won't play it right now or maybe even in a year or two. But I want it.

>do backlogers just buy every shitty game on steam
No, I buy every game that looks interesting to me on Switch

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Good post. What was the name of the book?

The Culture of Narcissism, Ch. 5 "The Degradation of Sport" Here's a cool excerpt.

>The degradation of sport, then, consists not in its being taken too seriously but in its trivialization. Games derive their power from the investment of seemingly trivial activity with serious intent. By submitting without reservation to the rules and conventions of the game, the players (and the spectators too) cooperate in creating an illusion of reality. In this way the game becomes a representation of life, and play takes on the character of playacting as well.

>In our time, games—sports in particular—are rapidly losing the quality of illusion. Uneasy in the presence of fantasy and illusion, our age seems to have resolved on the destruction of the harmless substitute gratifications that formerly provided charm and consolation. In the case of sports, the attack on illusion comes from players, promoters, and spectators alike.

>The players, eager to present themselves as entertainers (partly in order to justify their inflated salaries), deny the seriousness of sport. Promoters urge fans to become rabid partisans, even in sports formerly ruled by decorum, such as tennis. Television creates a new audience at home and makes “live” spectators into participants who mug for the camera and try to attract its attention by waving banners commenting on the action not on the field but in the press box. Sometimes fans interject themselves into the game more aggressively, by dashing onto the field or tearing up the stadium after an important victory.

I would argue you're being manipulated that way. You should only buy a game durring a sale if you intend to play it immediately. Otherwise you are going to end up spending more in the sale than you would have spent anyway.

I used to buy like 6-7 games at a time, that's how it grew. I got a job, and that's how it never gets cleared up, but occasionally something good still comes out and I buy it, and it just piles on.
I've been stuck playing Super Mario RPG for the last year and a half because I never get more than 15 minutes at a time to play.

As an addendum he goes on to point out things like how "The cult of strenuous life" causes people to place leisure - so playing vidya in this case - before work, and even when they're in the process of it, they'll be doing so under the pretense that it will allow them to go back to work 'recharged.' Which is basically my point.

During Covid a lot of fake gamers kept doing this weird thing, they were like "Ugh, the pandemic ruined everything, but Genshin Impact and Halo Infinite kept me sane :)" And it's like, you can tell they didn't really enjoy games if they needed to have the big bad WuFlu in order to actually get invested. They aren't playing games because they like the mechanics or want to challenge themselves, many normalfags and NPCs genuinely just want to turn their brain off and look at pretty colors because they cannot stomach the drudgery of modern living.

I'm getting too lofty but you can get the idea hopefully. Getting rid of a backlog requires you to entirely reframe how you place video games among other commitments in your life.

no you havent lol

Cool, I like the message i'll check the book when i can thanks user.

I also agree that most people saw escapism as a means to turn their brain off and lose their self for a moment, i think art is best appreciated with both our heart and minds.

>Game on sale super cheap
>Oh, I was thinking of trying this. Might as well.
>Don't
>Still don't even when there's nothing else to do
At least someone's getting paid for my apathy.

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My only backlog are sim games that will take several dozen to several hundred hours to reach the ceiling. Any kind of game with an easily defined beginning and end I complete with impunity, and if it turns out to have been a shit game, I'll have experienced the whole shit experience rather than just a part of it. The only game I have never completed is Dokapon Monster Hunter, but that's solely because it was stolen from me by a bully when I was young and I still have repressed traumatic flashbacks of being physically assaulted and publicly humiliated while he stole my game and broke it in front of me, and even then that's just the one game. I don't know how people have backlogs honestly.

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look at frog

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Only good one is the one holding the doll. Goodness is this why some many prefer South Koreans?

>why would you buy a game and not play it
buy?
over half my 400 pages on steam were given away during giveaways

What the fuck

Imagine the smell.

Because I really don't wanna play that last game i bought, like at all dude.

>if you intend to play a game you must have already bought it
retard

I impulsively purchase bundles or random games when they seem nice and are cheap, plus I share my account with my sister so I often buy things I think she'll like.
Got almost 900 games.

I second this.

This is so scary. I'd rather brush a lion than deal with a hippo

What the fuck happened to it

friends inside his head

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WHAT IS IT

toad fly :)

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I'm working?
But Then again when I'm back from work I find that I'm too tired to play anything.

>Buying game
Lol. Lmao. Lmfao even

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Are the toads dead?

Sometimes a sale comes up while you're playing other things. Ta dah you now have a backlog.

They usually live until they get to the brain

I pirate everything

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I like games in a lot of genres including RPGs, and I know moon so my potential backlog is bigger than most people's here. There are only so many hours in a day.

Look at this horse lol

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Sometimes games go on sale and it's cheaper to buy it then even if I'm not going to play it right away. Also when an online store is being shut down and there's games I want I'd buy them.

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Retail therapy is a cultivated way of dealing with negative emotions in this capitalistic society. Nothing new.

I'll take the blonde in the back and the toothy blue-haired one.