Last year, the Nerds Gone Platinum podcast invited me to be on their show the episode they were going over their Backlog Challenge. I gotta explain their Backlog Challenge, because this is one of the coolest ideas I’ve heard for backlog in a long time. Perhaps in ever.
The three members of the podcast each presented their entire backlog for the PlayStation 4. The other two members picked 20 from the list that he would have to play. If he vetoed one or noped out of the game, they got to pick two more to take its place. Whoever doesn’t finish or finishes last has to buy the others a $50 PSN card.
When I was on the show, they asked me to go back over their individual backlogs and pick five games for each of them that they need to finish. They call it their “Not a Backlog Challenge.”
Since then, they’ve egged me on about my own backlog that is pitiful beyond belief. I finally turned in my list for them, and I waited in agony as they picked three games for me, one from each of them. Here’s what they chose for me (really small games):
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- NieR:Automata
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
I basically have my entire year planned for me. I honestly wasn’t sure when I could get to it, because as Managing Editor for PSLS, I reviewed a lot of games. Well, then THAT went up in smoke, so I don’t have many other excuses. Well, I had one, and it was that I wanted to finish Assassin’s Creed Odyssey first. Now that I’m not having to review a bunch of games every month, I really can work on finishing one game before I start another one. You know, that thing that most normal people do?
Well. This weekend, I finished Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. All side quests done. All of the “lost tales of Greece” from DLC done. Other than The First Hidden Blade DLC episodes, there is literally nothing else I can do in the game. Well, I could always go stabbing in forts, because new regional leaders are always cropping up, but there’s only so much stabbing one can do before that gets monotonous.
So. It’s time. Never mind the fact that I have The Division 2 staring at me, begging to be played. Or Anthem, for that matter. It’s time to set down with Horizon Zero Dawn, yet another open world game. I bet it’s full of question marks that I’ll have to clear out before I can move on to do anything. Hopefully this won’t take as long as ACO did (final clock time was 123 hours upon the Platinum trophy unlocking).
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