Ninjabread Man

WHY?  WHY?  WHYYYYYYYYYYY?

Some things should just be left in the oven to burn.

Backlogged: Pokemon Blue

Gotta catch 'em all... I swear one of these days I'll actually review a game I haven't finished before...

The post I never wanted to make

I haven't really been posting that much...

There's a reason for that. Backlogged had failed.

I was a weak minded fool.

It failed back in August, five months in. After a rather stressful week at work, I was at Staples. I was actually rather surprised that they sold video games there, and I decided to browse through their discount games. I saw the usual crap. Mini game collections for the Wii, but then I did a double take. I saw a certain game on clearance, Assassins Creed 2 for the PS3, for the low price of $9.97 plus an additional 20% off. I took it, thinking that maybe it was a labeling error, but it wasn't.

I bought it, and began to buy games again.

I've thought about if I should continue Backlogged. And I decided that I should just continue reviewing games that I have in my collection. Maybe I'll actually finish some games that I haven't finished before. Well... we'll see...

Oh right, I have a blog & Backlogged: July 2011

Well... Yeah, it's another post detailing what I played the past two weeks.

Notes about Blip and Videos

This was originally under video in the previous post.  However I figured it needed it's own post.

Backlogged: Sin and Punishment

Welcome to Project Backlogged.  I would appreciate any constructive criticism, to help me improve in the future.

Video after the jump:

Backlogged: June 2011

Well... what a month June was...

Looking back, E3 sucked, and not buying anything until April of next year doesn't seem to be a problem.  That's actually rather disappointing... To be honest, I sort of wanted to feel tortured for doing this.

The Wii U is supposedly going to get back the core: (Spoiler: They arn't, especially if Nintendo has no commitment with their core fans right now.)  And to play any games I want, I'm considering soft modding my Wii, and importing.  Looking at the stats tab, I think I got more hits on my blog from people just searching for Xenoblade than anything else.  I really need to do something to change that...

And once again I got nothing accomplished.  This is just becoming a giant joke...

But hey!  Duke Nukem Forever finally came out after 12 years!  That's got to count for something! Geeze, I still remember having a friend over to play Duke Nukem 64... He went home afraid.  And from what I saw on youtube, it totally sucks and isn't about shooting.  Maybe if it is cheap, I'll pick it up used.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D: I'd said I'd buy whatever the thing was to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Zelda, but I changed my mind.  The CD didn't exactly seem like that good of a deal to me.  I'll pick it up down the line.  That being said... this interview doesn't give me a good feeling about Skyward Sword.

Notably there is this line:  "This game's plot is something like a school drama, you could say," Aonuma noted with a laugh. "The flying sequence at the E3 demo is Link competing against his classmates. One of them looks kind of a like a bad guy, as you saw, and he shows up in other ways in the game too, since he has a major thing for Zelda."

School in a game that isn't named Persona, and a bully who is trying to prove that he has a bigger 'sword' than Link.  This isn't going to end well.  I'm getting the feeling that I'll just go here to get my daily dose of canon destroying crap instead.

inFamous 2: Also came out, but I'm still enjoying my play through of the first one.  But I'll definitely buy it when I start buying again.

Wii Play Motion: The videos I watched looked interesting.  If I had a need for an extra controller, and if it looked like Nintendo was actually supporting the bloody thing with more motion plus games, I would look into it and think about buying it.  (However, I sort of have 6 Wii Remotes all ready... 6 Wii Remotes, 1 of which is a Wii Remote Plus from Fling Smash, 2 of the motion plus add on, 2 nunchucks 2 Classic Controller Pros (GoldenEye and Monster Hunter Tri))  I'll probably look for the base game used, and pick it up if it's cheap.

And that's all the games that caught my eye this month...

Well, tomorrow is July, and Canada Day!  I have a long weekend.  Maybe I'll actually get something accomplished.  *insert canned laughter here*

Pixel hunts suck

Another post detailing what I played the previous week.

Backlogged: May 2011

What a month this turned out to be.  In the grand scheme of things, I got absolutely nothing accomplished.  My laptop practically melted, I bought a new one.  Spent more money on video editing software, couldn't find the windows 7 drivers for the Easy cap so had to buy a new video capture device...

I need a drink.

Looking at this month's releases, there was a grand total of one game I was interested in. 

BlazBlue Continuum Shift II for the 3DS.  Which supposedly only came out today.  Even if I wasn't doing this, I'd be waiting until I finished BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger to buy it.

And well, Chrono Trigger was released on the Virtual console, but I have the DS version, so I don't care.

I took Thursday, Friday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday off of work (I was going for all of next week, but there was a scheduling conflict, so I had to settle for this), so maybe I'll actually get something accomplished.

What I played this week

In an attempt to actually put some content on this blog… I decided every Sunday I’m going to post what I played the previous week, beyond what the current side bar says.

Project Backlogged

I’m going to be blunt here; I spend a lot on video games.   I play a lot.  In my collection I have 338 games spread across 6 systems (PS2, PS3, GameCube, Wii, DS, 3DS).  This isn’t counting PC games, or Game Boy Advance games, or the original Game Boy games that I still have kicking around, and haven’t been sold at garage sales against my will or knowledge.   In the first three months of this year, I have all ready bought 56 games.

I’ve decided that this has to stop.

My problem is that I keep on buying; however I don’t complete them, so I have plenty of games that just sit there and collect dust.

While waiting in front of EB Games for it to open to buy a 3DS, I realized that this was pointless.  I don’t need to buy games as soon as they come out.  If they are good, they will be able to remain good down the line when I do pick them up, at a reduced price.  I mean, this hobby is freaking expensive!

On an impulse I decided to create Project Backlogged.

Project Backlogged is two things.

The first, for a whole year, from April 1st of 2011 to April 1st of 2012, I’m not going to buy any video games.  And while that may seem like a joke based off of the dates, I’m serious.

The second, this will help me go through the games that I want to finish, or play again, as I’m going to review the games as I go through this.  Hopefully, this will help as motivation to get through what I couldn’t finish the first time around.

Strap yourselves in; this is going to be a long and bumpy ride.

A few notes:

1. I should have more games; however I was a giant idiot, and sold my N64 and Sega Genesis and their games before I had a job for more money to buy more games.

2. Okay, there are 2 games during this period that I will buy...

·                     The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword: Nothing gets between me and Zelda... Of course, since we haven't gotten a release date yet, (only a vague release period of 2011) and the standard Zelda delay, I doubt this is going to be a problem...

·                     If anything is released for Zelda 25th anniversary, going by both the Metroid Prime Trilogy, and the Super Mario 25th anniversary, it is going to have a very limited run.  I'll buy it, however I won't play it until this is over.

Everything else that interests me get’s put under the “What I’m missing” tag.

3. In the event that a console breaks.  (Wii, PS2, PS3, DS, 3DS) it will be repaired.