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The Go Shrink Your Backlog Club

Bernkastel

Bernkastel

The Witch of Miracles
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So, here is something inspired by Crimson Flight's thread here. What exactly is this?

Well, it's a Use People On The Internet To Pressure You To Do Something About Your Game Backlog thread. Welcome.

You just say what you want to be focusing on. It can be a game to complete. It can be a game to return to, to try and replay. It can be some particular bit of a game, a segment or mode or difficulty you want to try out or try to do and complete. It can be a game you want to be progressing with. Anything game playing related that you want to get around to getting done.

Then, I'll stick it in the OP and it'll become something that you'll have at least one internet person interested in how you're doing and ready to apply a bit of social pressure about and checkups to encourage you to do something in terms of progress towards your goal.

We'll pick a day/frequency for checkups that generally suits those interested. I'll poke the participants of the thread at that point and internet stare at you until you tell us what you did. I will be internet staring at myself and asking you to do the same, to help me through my own game stuff to do pile.

Checkup Date: 17th of January

List of Participants and their goals

Bernkastel
. Work towards finishing 1000xResist
. Work towards finishing Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Kermie
. Work towards finishing LiveALive
. Work towards getting the Spirit Temple in TOTK

Feng Lengshun
. Rance VI: Started Sunday, nine hours in, about 30% according to the in-game progress bar. The one I vibe the most with so far.
. P3 Reload: Started Saturday, 2-3 hours in, finished prologue. Intro is boring, but I want to finish this soon to play other things on my free 3mon Game Pass.
. Cold Steel 2: Finished Part 1 Act 3, 3 hours in now that I started it again as soon as I bought the Ally. Target to finish this month.
. Rance 5D: Started last Wednesday, 2 hours in, waaaay too much randomness so I'll do it later. Side-game in-between P3R and CS2.
. SMTV Vengeance: Demo, 2 hours into Canon of Restoration. Will finish Canon of Vengeance demo too. Low-priority since I don't own it - side side-game if I get annoyed by Rance 5D.

pitl
. Work towards finishing SMT: DeSu
. Work towards finishing PMD: Blue Rescue Team
. Plug away at Ikaruga to get each of the chapters up to A-rank or better (currently 0/5)
 
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Add me! I need some pressure, and it would be nice to pay you back for reading my thread.

Work towards finishing LiveALive
Work towards getting the Spirit Temple in TOTK.
 
I got a ROG Ally Z1E because I want to play my backlog games. So far it's working, though I'm going through several different games right now. Sorted by priority, it's:

Rance VI: Started Sunday, nine hours in, about 30% according to the in-game progress bar. The one I vibe the most with so far.
P3 Reload: Started Saturday, 2-3 hours in, finished prologue. Intro is boring, but I want to finish this soon to play other things on my free 3mon Game Pass.
Cold Steel 2: Finished Part 1 Act 3, 3 hours in now that I started it again as soon as I bought the Ally. Target to finish this month.
Rance 5D: Started last Wednesday, 2 hours in, waaaay too much randomness so I'll do it later. Side-game in-between P3R and CS2.
SMTV Vengeance: Demo, 2 hours into Canon of Restoration. Will finish Canon of Vengeance demo too. Low-priority since I don't own it - side side-game if I get annoyed by Rance 5D.
 
Yo, could I join the club as well? I need to
  • Work towards finishing SMT: DeSu
  • Work towards finishing PMD: Blue Rescue Team
  • Plug away at Ikaruga to get each of the chapters up to A-rank or better (currently 0/5)
I have been "doing" all of these things since summer last year so I think some pressure might be required, lol
 
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Feng Lengshun said:
I got a ROG Ally Z1E because I want to play my backlog games. So far it's working, though I'm going through several different games right now. Sorted by priority, it's:

Rance VI: Started Sunday, nine hours in, about 30% according to the in-game progress bar. The one I vibe the most with so far.
P3 Reload: Started Saturday, 2-3 hours in, finished prologue. Intro is boring, but I want to finish this soon to play other things on my free 3mon Game Pass.
Cold Steel 2: Finished Part 1 Act 3, 3 hours in now that I started it again as soon as I bought the Ally. Target to finish this month.
Rance 5D: Started last Wednesday, 2 hours in, waaaay too much randomness so I'll do it later. Side-game in-between P3R and CS2.
SMTV Vengeance: Demo, 2 hours into Canon of Restoration. Will finish Canon of Vengeance demo too. Low-priority since I don't own it - side side-game if I get annoyed by Rance 5D.
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pitl said:
Yo, could I join the club as well? I need to
  • Work towards finishing SMT: DeSu
  • Work towards finishing PMD: Blue Rescue Team
  • Plug away at Ikaruga to get each of the chapters up to A-rank or better (currently 0/5)
I have been "doing" all of these things since summer last year so I think some pressure might be required, lol
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Both of you will be added. Welcome to our club.

We'll need to pick a day for the first checkup and the frequency of further checkups. I'd like to know what you all would prefer and to try and pick something that'll work for all of you.

I'm going to write a post regarding where I stand with my own game choices later.
 
Bernkastel said:
Both of you will be added. Welcome to our club.

We'll need to pick a day for the first checkup and the frequency of further checkups. I'd like to know what you all would prefer and to try and pick something that'll work for all of you.

I'm going to write a post regarding where I stand with my own game choices later.
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Every two weeks on Fridays sounds good to me. Gives people time to respond on the weekends and also reminds them about the backlog at the weekend starts, and every two weeks gives you leeway for busy weeks or months.
 
Sounds good. My inclination from that is to have the first checkup on the 17th, a week from Friday. We're close to the star of this week and that would give us a good chunk of two weeks.
 
I'm fine with both that spacing and first check in date, personally.
 
I'll take 17th, should be enough to get the true ending I'm aiming for.
 
I've made a bit of 1000xresisr progress, going around an annoyingly hard to navigate main area to do the goal of talking to the ministers (which was interesting, with the social changes to the community around us they'll talk about, plus having the "people who are a problem tend to commit suicide" thing as something they're aware of or aware we're angry about), then moved a bit further with the current chapter 6 goal of plotting an assassination. That's my bit of progress, with a few days having been hard to do much of anything.

So, what has everyone else been up to in terms of progressing? Any plans for this weekend? Anything you want to try? I'll probably try to complete chapter 6 of 1000xresist, maybe try to complete some Xenoblade 3 side material.
 
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Spirit Temple is getting done, I just got the mask that you need to get in down to the temple gate proper. So that's nice.
 
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