We've all been there. Looking at the daunting backlog, unable to just choose a game to play due to all the good choices available. We just end up weighing the choices while the time ticks away.

This is the thread where we present a couple of games we're having a hard time to choose between reasons, and hopefully, get the help we need to make the right choice based on the current situation and mood.

If the backlog of shame is empty or boring you could always ask for advice regarding a purchase.

Happy gaming!

No, we haven't.

We might revive this thread instead. It always been fun to play the games that other user chose for one.

I envy you, no human being should have to be subjected to that kind of hardship.

Let's see, I just played Braid and was fairly let down after the years of hype. (It's okay, I guess.)

So I'm thinking about my massive 400 game backlog, and I'm thinking: Planscape, Icewind, Neverwinter.

For reference, my nearest point of reference to any of these is Avernum/Geneforge.

I will give a few suggestions. These days I am playing: Tropico 5, Titan Quest - Anniversary Edition, Grim Dawn, Neighbours From Hell, Torchlight and Torchlight II. I recommend these games.

Funny because all week I've been staring at my somewhat sizable library unable to find anything that grabs me, and it makes me feel like the world's biggest asshole.

Well okay, I always feel like the world's biggest asshole, but this makes me feel like...well like the world's biggest asshole.



What was I talking about?
Just started Mafia II; spent all day looking for the hidden Playboys.

Planescape: Torment if you want a great story, but the start is kind of slow and the combat is kind of sub-par.

Icewind if you want great combat with story that is kind of sub-par.

Regarding Neverwinter Nights, I've thought about starting Diamond Editon myself and try out some player created campaigns. From what I've heard, the main campaign isn't that great - it's the mods that make the game.

This. any things in my "backlog" are free games I've never played.

Things in my backlog are bundles of different crap, I often end up asking myself "what the fudge is this doing in my library?".

I've done that. Actually tried one (Cursed Castilla) and it turned out to be pretty good.

Anyway I've got some suggestions I'm going through right now but I'd be happy to get more recs for games on my list (or steam, since my username is the same).

Might even stream some.

Do you want to say, that it makes you feel like the Godfather of Assholes?
No bad intention here, just want to give you an alternative expression. :-)

Saaaaay! I LIKE THAT! :D


Shit! I promised myself I wasn't going to post in here today.

Well, I like the main story of NWN, it`s really not bad.

You didn't mention whether you had completed any of the titles.

When my harddrive died earlier this year I had save games for all of these. I have previously completed all, save Planescape, which I was happily plane-surfing when the catastrophe struck. I now have save games for all of them, at various stages of completion, awaiting the urge to take me.

I was through the first part of the first Neverwinter, past the betrayal, and now I am lacking the motivation to re-complete this bit. The Undretide expansion starts okay, but I know there's a lot of scorpions later in the desert that doesn't lure me, and I can't decide who to take with me as a companion (last time it was Deakin). The Underdark is compelling, but high-level play means dedication; the fights require preparation and the tiny lettering on my screen doesn't lend itself to reading a lot of puzzle explanations. I want to play the latter chapters, but I worry that my specialized magic might be the wrong school, etc., or my companion might be boring. (Again, I took Deakin on the first completion.)

Icewind Dale I completed solo, without thinking about it. This time I wanted to play with a party, but I find the early battles tedious with them. The sequel is punishing micro-management step-by-step fighting across each square of the large map. Can't quite get there, at the moment, either.

Planescape is appealing (lots of reading!), but it starts slow and the combat (I'm thinking specifically of the underground section of the city) is difficult. (I had a save after collecting all the experience for the various sensoria, and that seems like a huge mountain to climb, from here.)

The third NwN is probably where you want to be, I think: It should scratch the itch.

Right now, I'm playing some UGC for Shadowrun.
(Specifically, the Vox Populi port of the first game into the third engine, and another playthrough of [CalFree in Chains).

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