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A Gamer’s Dilemma.

Daniel — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:31:59 +0000

So with Christmas and the Steam Winter sale over now, I have A LOT of video games that I haven’t played. Between getting a PS3 bundle with 2 games, 2 Xbox 360 games, 7 games in the last Humble Indie Bundle, and 8 games from the Steam Holiday Sale I’ve built up quite the backlog. Of course this is on top of my existing game backlog which is already pretty long.

Which brought me to an idea about someway to track this backlog. A quick Google brought up a site called “The Backloggery” which lets you make lists and status’ of video games, but from what I could tell has to be manually updated. This always presents problems because most of the time if it has to be manually done, at some point it won’t get done at all. A favorite achievement tracker of mine is “TrueAchievements” which automatically updates achievements, but is Xbox specific (well, Microsoft gamerscore specific) and doesn’t have a good mechanism to handle backlogs because of the way it’s developed.

So this might be a little bit longer of a wish list that I’m looking for in a site, but if parts can be done separately I don’t see why they couldn’t be consolidated.

Cross-platform; all consoles and PC.

It would be interesting to see how overlap (same games on multiple systems) is handled

As automated as possible.

There probably will be some points that can’t be automated, but it seems the bulk should be able to.
Again, it would be interesting to see how a combination of automation and manual updates are handled

Have some statistics available.
Track progress over time.
Incentives to make progress.

Basically I want the best features from The Backloggery, TrueAchievements, xbox360achievements, and ps3trophies all on one easy to use site. Is that so much to ask?

Gaming with what you’ve got…

Daniel — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:05:40 +0000

I was wanting to get more use out of my current library of video games, as part of a personal justification to buy a new game system (why do I need an X-box 360 when I have a stack of games for my current systems that I haven’t even played though yet). So I’ve been slowly but surely making my way though some of the games that I already own with the intention of selling/trading them when I’ve finished. Now granted this approach doesn’t work for everyone; for example, I have a friend who plays through an older Zelda game about once a year, by his account, because he likes the story. I’m the kind of gamer that usually plays through games once and then I can be on to the next one. Video games that I keep around are more of the high re-playability games and group “party” games like, for me, the guitar hero series, Mario Kart, Wii Sports, etc… So I will make a page with this list that I will hopefully keep updated with my progress, but for now check below the fold for the current list of systems/games and where they all stand.

A little explanation first, I’m going to mark my progress as best I can for the games I have. Games that are crossed off will be sold/traded when finished otherwise they are kept. Obviously I can’t really trade or sell my PC games very easily so all of them are going to be kept. From newest console to oldest (PC games last):

Wii

Lego Batman – More than half
No More Heroes – Just Started
Redsteel – Not Started
Star Wars: Force Unleashed – Finished
Zelda: twilight Princess – Finished

Nintendo DS

Zelda: Phantom Hourglass – Finished

X-box (not 360)

Halo
Halo 2
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

PS2

Devil May Cry
Final Fantasy X
Grand Theft Auto 3
Grand Theft Auto Vice City

PC

Half-Life 2
HL2 Episode 1
HL2 Episode 2
Portal – Finished Main Story

Change of Direction

Daniel — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:40:50 +0000

I’ve decided I’m going to take this site in a new direction. Instead of trying to strictly work on write ups for here I’m going to use this more as a kind of status report for my many ongoing projects that I always seem to be working on. I’m thinking that this will hopefully motivate me to work on them more often and maybe even bring some of them to completion. Doing status reports at work usually gets me to work on tasks more often, so I’m hoping that blog posts here will have the same affects on my personal projects. I still haven’t decided on a file structure of what I’m going to do specifically; break everything down by pages, use just posts, or a combination of the two. I also might do another more personal site with another of my domains I have I’ll have to wait and see.