I feed it and it grows. :)

The only way to deal with the backlog is play the games (or try them and dismiss them). Since I mainly play on my Nexus 7 my way of cutting the PC backlog is re-buy games on Android and play them there. It's working reasonably well except for the fact that my PC backlog continues to grow and that I also buy games on Android which I don't already own on PC.

First, I like my backlog and the many options it gives me when choosing a game to play next.

Second, I finally feel like I have enough games. I've bought games of genres I don't enjoy too much just to have them available: racing games, pinball games... well, no more. I've got enough choice.

So I'd assume that, while I like having a backlog, my decision to stop buying in bulk will make the backlog shrink a bit.

Playing video games... is like making love to a beautiful girl.

You do it for pleasure, without giving a second though to the thousands of other girls in the world you are yet to fjuck.

(I think that was from the movie "Scent of a Woman"?)

Oh, I definitely have a backlog. But I'm uber-picky about the games I buy, and right now I have just about everything I want, so I'll just chip away at my backlog & maybe one day I'll get caught up.

I intend to buy The Witcher 3 this year, and that's pretty much all.

Why? Because my almost 600 games backlog is starting to annoy me. Really. To the point I don't even go to Steam, Gamersgate or other site because I feel physically stuffed with games. I still come on GOG because there's a nice forum and a nice community.

So, I'll try to hit that backlog this year. The problem is, I generally only complete games "on impulse", meaning that if I don't get hooked by a game to the point I only play that until completion, this game won't be finished on that try. So, sometimes, it takes quite a long time just to find THE game I'm currently in the mood to finish in one go...

But I'm working on that too!

That doesn't apply to anyone with a backlog though. It's like having hundreds of girls waiting for you to fuck them and you tell them "well, maybe I could slot you in March 2016".

I must admit I cannot understand how a large number of games can cause any problems. Having too few games - sure, I get it, but having many games? It means that most probably you'll be able to find a game that perfectly suits to your mood for at least several years. What's so bad about it?

I only have one problem with my excessive number of games: when I made a backloggery list I only cared about filling it with all my games and I marked most of them as unplayed. Quite recently I've realized it was a terrible mistake because this list is quite helpful when I want to pick a new game/replay an old one and it would be nice to filter games that I've already finished/have no interest in replaying. Alas, I made a mess there and now I have to clean it. So from time to time I install a few allegedly unplayed games to see whether they are truly unplayed. In most cases they aren't so I update my list and continue the hunt ;) ATM I'm supposed to have 363 unfinished games which simply can't be true. I'm pretty sure it's well below 100, maybe even 50. But checking if they are completed usually takes some time which is not very productive so it will still take me some time to go through all of them. But then I will have a nice tool to choose which games are good enough to replay :)

because you have too much choice
if you dont like a game or cant get in to it you will toss it aside and never ever play it again
unlike when you were a kid when you had a finite amount of games and played them to death

now you have so many games and so little time you cant do the games jusitce you cant invest the time they deserve and you will have wasted your money

and sometimes you have so much choice you dont know where to begin

I can clearly understand two problems:
1) Inability to make a decision because of a large quantity of options, I can understand that even though I personally don't have this problem.
2) Wasted money - sure, I can understand that, I had that thoughts too and thus I've decided to not buy cheap bundle games that might be good because they rarely are and even though they were cheap I still think my money was wasted on them.

But the biggest difference between us is that I don't think a game deserve anything at all. And most probably that's why we see this subject so differently. My attitude towards games is very pragmatic: they are here to entertain me. If they cannot achieve that, away with them. I'm always glad when I can toss a game I don't like away and never ever play it again. It just means I'll have more time for better games. On the other hand I do enjoy a large variety of games even those which I can later review as bad ones and not recommended (Pixel Piracy recently) so I rarely quit. I rather try to reach the ending ASAP (while still having fun with it) and then I can never play it again.

So yeah, it apparently comes to those differences. I love to have a huge choice, others don't. I'm absolutely heartless towards games and others aren't ;P And I really like that people are so different from one another otherwise living would be SO boring ;)

They'll understand. They can keep each other entertained in the meantime.

Also I can't really say I plan that much ahead which game in my backlog I play at which time (e.g. months or years from now). I might have some rough idea like "after I'm done with this game, I'd like to try that game", but that's as far as it goes, and even then I make decisions on a whim, "accidentally" starting some new game from my backlog. For instance if I just read about it, or just happened to hit it while perusing through my gaming library.

Or, like others have suggested, I might even get stuck in replaying some favorite game many times. I guess that's why I've played Starcraft, Age of Empires 1-2, the first two Serious Sam, and Half-life through so many times.

I'm in a candy store, not really planning ahead in which order I will eat candies. Ok, some exceptions, e.g. one time I decided to play all Final Fantasy games (up to FF8, which was the latest one I had) in order. So that's what I did. Which reminds me that at some point I should finally try also FF9.

250+ here on GOG. A few on the PS2. 10-20 on the 360. And one on the ol' Genesis. Not too bad considering.

I think we have a winner.

There, I've spent an unproductive afternoon but my backloggery should me more up to date now. It shows 98 unplayed games but
1) I keep each expansion and DLC separately so the number is somewhat boosted
2) 27 Android games and some of them hardly counts.
So it's really around 50 unfinished games.

As I have written in the other thread, I've also pretty much refrained from buying games and taking part (in too many) giveaways last year. I'm still wishlisting them though :D

And I'll try to finish the games I've started (The Witcher, PoP: WW, Fahrenheit, Magrunner) and continue playing the games that piled up :D

My problem is that i decide something like "This weekend i'm going to play something from my backlog" i end up wasting my time browsing the internet or playing something online.

But like i said on the "Official Stop Buying Games Self-Help Group" thread, i'm reducing my purchase habits...

Same problem. Yesterday I was supposed to have 3 hours of totally free time (home alone), and I was supposed to play something. Instead, I watched parts of some recorded movies on TV (e.g. Inception, I've seen the movie several times already).

Oddly, today I've had more time to play. Already played 1½ hours KKND 2, and maybe later in the evening some X-Wing and/or Quake 2. Usually my main gaming time goes to wee hours.