>rekindles your love for vidya>improves your critical approach to vidya>makes you easily discover vidya you had never heard of beforeNo need to thank me, kid...
>turns video games into a chore
>>748948998this only makes you wanna rush through games and avoid long ones so you can get a +1 in your library. reminds me of my myanimelist obsession in the late 2000s
>some autistic fag shitYeah nah miss me with that my nigga, I'mma just play games go fuck yourself
No thanks, I just keep my backlog in my brain
a .txt file is all you need
boring millennials and their constant need to log every single fucking thing that they do
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>>748948998I've got a pretty big backlog.Shill me on this in a more specific way.
>>748949639Stop having a backlog, retard.
I don’t like backlogged. I bought a journal and sticker printer paper instead. When I beat a game I make some stickers and write down my thoughts on the game. It’s nice to page through it and reminisce on how I felt about games and to see if my thoughts have changed at all. It also helps me beat more games and think more critically about what i’m doing instead of suffering playing only multiplayer games.
>>748949690I'm working on it.I just play a lot of open world games and RPGs, and Steam sales are really good at what they do.
>>748949764Why stickers?
>>748949824you're talking to a woman
>>748948998what do I play next?
>>748949836Holy cow
>>748949824So I can print out the games title and use it as a header. Maybe I’ll put a character I like on the side of the paper or print out a screenshot I took and use a whole page for it.
>>748949850kirby. marathon that shit.no buts or ifs.
>>748949485>millenialsWe're not taking the blame for your retarded zoomer apps.
>>748949850Ape Escape
>>748949850do it for him
>>748948998I'm not volunteering anything even tangentially related to me for analysisFuck you
>>748948998call me when sneedlog comes out
>>748949976imagine saying this while posting from a phone
What's this obsession with turning everything into just data?I've seen normalfags do this all the time, everything has to be a statistic, everything has to be data, everything has to be turned into numbersWhy the fuck would you turn your video games into a statistic, aren't they supposed to be... played for fun?
>>748950010>What's this obsession with turning everything into just data?lives devoid of real meaning so you resort to obsession with inane bullshit
>>748950010you'll get it if you ever decide to play more than 5 gamesonce you get to the hundreds the statistics are fun in and of themselves
>>748948998I barely used it. I use howlongtobeat as my backlog tracking website
>>748950010>What's this obsession with turning everything into just data?It's a Kabbalistic/Freemasonic thing.
>>748948998>>makes you easily discover vidya you had never heard of beforeHere's your niche vidya bro
>>748950010Two things: they want to keep track of what they've played so they don't forget they did, otherwise they'll feel they wasted their time on something that they can't remember. Entertainment for the sake of it isn't popular anymore.And bragging rights. It's not about playing a lot of games, but being able to tell people how many you've played.
>>748948998buy an ad
>>748950010mostly just this. showing your epic gaymer cred online
>>748950173the sleeper hit known as wardogs
>>748950010>>748950185>>748950043I don't see the issue with cataloguing things, it can be fun, therapeutic even, the issue with backlogged and such similar "catalogue comunities" is that it can easily become a "trophy for bragging rights". Some can easily fall into the trap of making it a priority of showing their profile to others and making it look as good as can be that they then stop playing games for the sake of playing and, instead, start playing just for the sake of adding another game to their "trophy list" so they can show others and get "wows" in return.For cataloguing purposes it's just more practical to make a .txt file or a spreadsheet and keeping it private
>>748948998Unironically cool concept. If you think I type 5000 games into it, you are delusional.
>>748948998I'M GONNA LOOOOOGGG I CAN'T CONSOOM MEDIA WITHOUT BEING PERFORMATIVE ABOUT IT
>>748950043I've been gaming for 25 years. I've played hundreds of games. The ones I remember are the ones WORTH remembering. If I played a shit game what's the point of me reminding myself that I played it? This sounds like something done by someone who doesn't have a soul.Or is it just epic bragging rights?>let me show you my 3x3>let me show you the list of games I played>let me idle in this niche indie game so my epic steam profile shows 20k hours in itNobody gives a shit. Absolutely nobody gives a flying fuck about the epic list of games you've played.
>>748950043But if I play 100+ games, how am I supposed to even begin to use Backloggd? I'd have to log all of the games I've played, but I can't remember them all.
>>748950310This is why I just ignore 3x3 threads now. It's the same troons constantly bragging about the same 9 jap games they've played and they'll shit on anyone else who doesn't know about their totally epic niche nip shmups. The threads where you post an image for a game rec would be good, but most game recs are surface level and most don't even give a game rec.
>boomers filtered by information existinglol
>>748950261After spending so much time on youtube and 4chan, I genuinely wish that I had just consumed more normal media. Everyone I talk to about my interests has so much more knowledge than me, and it's unlikely that I've seen any of the same things they have.
>>748950246>it can easily become a "trophy for bragging rights". just have some self-control? just don't do that? be a real person? you can use it without interacting with the social side>it's just more practicalI don't see how manually typing names and manually adding all information about them is more practical than a few clicks>b-but what if the site goes down and you lose it?what if you drive dies? just start the list again
>>748948998>Say something that is not politically correct or somewhat mean>Get banned>Also most of the users there are pretentious trannies that focus on Japanese-only niche shitJust have a txt file with the list of games you have, backlogged is a cultural dead end of a website.
>>748948998Don't need it, don't care.Games are sorted - once beaten - into completed and replay. Replayed games are then sorted into completed or remain in replay. I may have 873 unsorted games in my library, but every month at least one game is getting sorted. Sure, at worst it'll take me over 60 years to finish it all, but I'll do it.
>>748950532>I genuinely wish no, you don'tyou could literally be doing that right now, but you're just posturing
>>748950610You do know you can use the site without interacting with anybody, right?>uhm also le trannies!You just can't help it. You just HAVE to think about what other men do with their dicks. You're just as mentally ill as them.
>>748950532>consumed more normal mediaWhat the fuck is "normal media"? Tiktok reels? lmao.
>>748950261so true,so true
>>748949131>>748949149>>748949189>>748949340>>748949391Just stop playing games uncWe can play slop like Fortnite all day while you need to spend thousands on random ass movie games to not get tired of it
>>748950702I could also be using Tumblr or Xitter and ignore all the trannies and not interact with anybody, but what's the point, dumb nigger? Nothing about backlogged is fucking special besides you wanting to show off how cool and niche you are, and then the trannies do exactly that and made the place dogshit. I hope Jackbros is happy that his place is infested with undesirable retards.
>>748950710The exact opposite, you dunce.TV shows, movies, a wider variety of music, more genres of games, more books in general.Something to talk with others about so I'm not just "that guy" hoping he runs into the one other person who watches this many Dark Souls challenge runs and miscellaneous game design video essays.
>>748950837>TV shows, movies, a wider variety of music, more genres of games, more books in general.The average normalfag barely does any of this shit. What's a good TV show or movie you wanted to talk about with them and be more knowledgeable? All my co-workers just stick to the latest mainstream shit and complain how they're not getting a raise, or they work overtime just to avoid family responsibility.
>>748950610This. I use an obsidian so I can write my thoughts and actually link to the games, but fundamentally, it's just a text file with games for me to look back at.
>>748950837>Dark Souls challenge runs and miscellaneous game design video essays.Just go to any LGBTQIA+ events in your area.
>>748948998>Klonoa and many other comparably irrelevant/worthless games all have more written reviews Warcraft 3nothing more needs to be said about this website and its community
>>748949764That is actually very nice. I do this too in a way but not as extensive
>>748950954more reviews THAN*I am too lazy to delete and repost ;(
>>748950954Warcraft 3 is trash
>>748950954what's with the klonoa strays brohe ain't hurt nobody, leave him alone
>>748950837Well, pick up movies, look for albums to listen to, explore art behind video games or topics you're interested reading. Maybe even just manga or something to get you interested in storytelling
>>748950837it takes literally nothing to start up a game, put on a movie or an album sort your attention span out, lad
>>748950607>just have some self-control? just don't do that? be a real person? you can use it without interacting with the social sideYet a lot of people have trouble with that, it's the reason I said that FOR SOME people it can easily become a trap>I don't see how manually typing names and manually adding all information about them is more practical than a few clicksWriting a game's name and perhaps a "-complete" beside it is extremely quick and practical, it can be done in less than 10 seconds>open txt>write name>save and close
>>748948998Why not just play what you currently feel like? I can't imagine you're giving the games a fair chance if you're forcing yourself to play them.
>>748950837On the bright side, if you're talking to a zoomer, you'll have a lot in common. Zoomers don't do any of the shit you just mentioned. They just watch reels (or whatever they're called) about shows, games, movies, books and then scroll to the next reel about the same shit.
>>748948998sounds like a good way to destroy any fun you could be having and also turn yourself into a goynigger
>>748951737when you put it that way, it sounds like the most effective way to filter out what's good and what's shit, when there's far too much media out there to consume. too bad it makes for the most braindead sheep who end up preferring memes than quality content.
>>748949764>burns your journal What now FAGGOT?
>>748951893>when there's far too much media out there to consumeAnother thing I hear a lot, especially in my gen (Zoomers, yes I'm a retard, I know), is this phrase. There was always too much media to consume, the internet just showed you the entire sea instead of the shore.
>>748951893>it sounds like the most effective way to filter out what's good and what's shit, when there's far too much media out there to consumeYou are not obligated to "consoom media" like a retard. It's not a basic necessity, just watch or play what you think is cool.
>>748951893Zoomers missed out on the formative experience of not being able to pick their media and playing shit games because they had nothing else. Trying out actually bad games is how you figure out what you like instead of looking up reviews and recommendations in an attempt to optimize your fun time. >"I don't have time for bad games!"Bullshit you have time to post on fucking /v/. Just try the fucking game for an hour
>>748952076I dunno, zoomers love playing shit games.
>>748952076To be fair, most oldfags are just as tasteless and unwilling to try games out as any zoomer or whatever this current youth generation is called. It's pretty much the universal opinion that indie games are 99.99% garbage that's not worth even your time, despite the fact that oldfags will also claim you have terrible taste because you don't like this game they call garbage without first adding like 15 mods that completely change the abysmal gameplay or something like that.
>>748952076>>"I don't have time for bad games!"I don't, though.
>>748951092Klonoa is a mediocre game for pre-schoolers offering two hours worth of mileage, that is to say it's worthy of a logorrheic and wistful Backloggd essay (quite unlike many numerous computer games of note).
>>748952404That's retarded, the exact opposite of intellectual thinking. How would you even know whether it's good or bad without first experiencing it?
>>748949149>this only makes you wanna rush through games and avoid long onesi do that anyways. i don't want to play the same games on repeat forever and most games run out their novelty by the 10-15 hour mark. there are a few 50+ hour games that i enjoy, and there are a few games that i can replay over and over, but the vast majority of games do not deserve that much of your time and attention. just let them be over and then move onto the next.
>>748952563with video games specifically it's simple.just put on some gameplay footage from yt. depending on who you are youll know very quickly if it's right up your alley or not. real gaming niggas got this shit like a 6th sense.
>>748952563Exactly. It would be more accurate to say "I don't have time for unpopular games"
>>748949850>ape escape 3>bayo 3>bloodraune>blasphemous>code vein>lords of shadow>deus ex series>dino crisis 1 and 2>destroy all humans series>fatal frame series>siren>lost planet 1 and 2>lollipop chainsaw>godhand>psp god of wars>FFX and X-2>FFVI>metal gear series>neo twewy>ninja gaiden series>octopath>okage>oni>parasite eve series>the evil withini've narrowed it down for you. roll a dice on these titles. personally, i am also going to play code vein soon.
>>748952812>with video games specifically it's simple.It really is not. You still would have zero frame of reference for whether that person is playing well or not, let alone whether he's even playing correctly or if the game is balanced well. You are always just making assumptions based on your bias until you actually play something. To say nothing of whether you're even knowledgeable enough to judge any of this in the first place.The only people who say stuff like that are the sorts who don't really play many videogames or only view the hobby as escapism.
>>748950837>Dark Souls challenge runs and miscellaneous game design video essaysThis is normalfag shit though.
I ended up making my own autistic excel sheets with the metics I wanted to see how I wanted to see them.
When I made my backloggd account, I had 130 games played. I now have 190. I'm thankful it encouraged me to get back into playing games again. And NO I didn't rush through them like a checklist chore, I savored each of them
>>748949764yeah right I bet you are just larping, slut!
>>748953069>"playing correctly"Why does someone else's play style matter unless you plan to copy it or minmax like a faggot? Just play the game.>"you only play vidya as escapism"As opposed to what? Some kind of deep intellectual pursuit or so you can come on /v/ to bitch even harder? You sound like you're so trapped in your own head about getting enough out of your games or playing them the right way that you just end up playing nothing. Go find another hobby if you're not having fun.
>>748949764This Anon is very cute. I want to mommy him, put on a flat cage and tease him with hentai of his animu waifu getting railed.
>>748953342>Why does someone else's play style matter unless you plan to copy it or minmax like a faggot?I can tell you're not a "gamer" if you're actually asking this. How have you not seen the thousands of posts online about players complaining about some mechanic or section being bullshit, only to find out that they're not even using some of the game mechanics? Have you somehow never seen a gameplay trailer that poorly represents the actual gameplay in the full release?>As opposed to what?Someone who actually likes the medium. Who considers it a thing they actually enjoy and care about, not random slop you put on to listen to podcasts with while mashing buttons to escape your shitty life.
>>748952950>lost planet 1 and 2aren't these the quintessential co-op games? how would I even play these now outside of LAN
>>748950010you get suggestions for new games to try, games that other people who played the same games as you have played.
>>748953520Again, how does someone else's playstyle matter to you?>"I care about muh gayming"Oh so you're one of those fags who can't separate himself from the online discourse which is why you get bothered by "people playing wrong" and getting filtered. At least they're not getting filtered by life like you
>>748949149The worst aspect of MAL/Letterboxd/RYM/Backloggd etc. is how everyone inevitably engages in pseudofaggotry by consuming shit they dont actually like, purely for the dopamine hit of imagining someone clicking on their profile and thinking theyre so cultured and esoteric or whatever. Most of these communities are filled to the brim while the most insufferable freaks alive. Everything is a goddamn competition these days
>>748948998I log some of the things I do but you don't need anything more than an excel file. Plus you can do your own autistic metrics.
>>748953638performative consumption is one of the highest forms of faggotry, even worse if they consoom based on the identity of the person recommending
>>748952404Just because you put an old painting of a random guy and throw the text in an ornate frame doesn't all of sudden mean the quote is intellectual in any way. You try bad things because your definition of bad is different from another mans definition of it. There are loads of games that get 5/10s that are actually really fun to play, they're just disliked because other people have different tastes. Same thing with movies. If you listened to movie critics all the time, you'd only watch serious dramas. That shit would get old quick. Life is fun when you're willing to watch fun stuff despite its overall rating. This board isn't safe from it either. If you just listened to the opinion of oldfags, you'd be stuck playing games you probably wouldn't like yourself. I don't want to play RTSs, 2D Platformers, and Shmups all the fucking time just because some retard on here said it's good and that I can only be a real gamer if I play that shit. Fuck the opinions of others. You want to be robbed of a better life? Listen to what others say all the time, for the man who looks to the guidance of others, has no life of his own to live.
>>748953629You are terrible at reading comprehension and critical thinking. I suggest reading a book for a change, or at least trying to understand the posts you read on 4chan.
I'm not a fan of cataloguing, I've used all these services from time to time (Letterboxd, MAL, Goodreads etc.) but the only one I keep around is MAL since it's the easiest way to keep track of what exactly I've watched and how exactly some anime are meant to be watched/manga to be read (think of something like Monogatari or shows with OVAs inbetween seasons). I hate that Steam has a sort of cataloguing aspect to it. I wish you could hide your achievements and playtime from yourself since it has the same effect as cataloguing where I get OCD about things that don't matter and affect my fun.
>>748953891>I hate that Steam has a sort of cataloguing aspect to itI mean PlayStation and Xbox "catalogue" your games as much as Steam. And I assume GOG, Epic Games, and Switch does the same. The only way to not have your games catalogued would be to exclusively pirate everything you play
>>748953857At least I'm not some pseudointellectual faggot having an autistic melty over vidya trailers and how other people play the game. Enjoy your crippling autism you unhappy retard
>>748949131>turns video games into a chorethey already are
>>748953998I don't think you even know what you're arguing anymore, anon.
>>748950837>She had blue skin,>And so did he.>He kept it hid>And so did she.>They searched for blue>Their whole life through,>Then passed right by—>And never knew.
>>748953975Yeah I know and I similarly dislike it. I just don't get why they don't have options to hide it. Switch doesn't have cheevos luckily but it tracks your playtime.
>>748948998The backloggers are so crazy to me. Imagine someone with a home library of books, they don't go "oh em gee, I have to read all these 120 books ASAP", the library is there to offer CHOICE, not a checklist.
>>748948998>makes you realize you must commit suicide
>>748950261I've been looking for this fucking image for a year anon. Thank you
>>748950010These people find data and statistics themselves to be fun.Yes, it’s autism, but it’s also based
I just do this every year.
>>748954189commit sudoku
>>748952076How old do you think zoomers are, anon?Pretty sure you actually have to be an alphie to have never experienced shovelware before
>>748954140usually i buy a book read it and it gets added to the shelf. i very seldom buy books in bulk outside series and manga
>>748953975GOG has offline installers. The client is entirely optional.
>>748948998>You think it's just an ordinary visual novel you'll finish in a couple of weeks.>It turns out it's so long that you won't finish it until 2027.On one hand, I'm happy, but on the other, it's incredibly unexpected.
>>748954276your choice in games is horrible
>>748953797>Schopenhauer >"random guy" That quote is actually of special relevance here as it is taken from writings discussing what makes good literature, and you could interpret it in the context of video game discussion. Additionally, if we were to have a discussion about the quality of any art piece (be it a video game) at all,we must accept the premise that there are real and quantifiable differences between what a "good" and "bad" piece is and that we can identify which is which, otherwise the meaning of dialogue disappears and we might as well not even have critical dialogue. Meaning if a bunch of experienced oldfags tell you that a particular piece is a "classic", you really should listen to them. Just how you're supposed to read classical literature when you start reading books instead of random modern trash. That being said, if you already went through some of the classics and have a particular taste then yeah, only engaging with the classics will be boring. But I believe that classics (of any genre of media) are fundamental and must be respected. A person who has never gone through the classics has no taste to begin with and that is how they can enjoy objectively shit games. These individuals are not to be taken seriously.
>>748949149>>748953638>>748950010performative consumption aside. I think the reason some people are doing it, is because it basically fills in the empty space that is left by having no real physical media nowadays. With MAL, Letterboxd, Backloggd etc. you can basically show your friends "your collection" in a sense and talk about the media you both enjoy, a little bit like it was when a friend came over and looked at your shelf full of video games. With almost everything being digital and stuff simply too hard to get, physically like niche video games or niche anime ova from the 80s and 90s, it's supplements that niche to have somewhat of a library you can see.
>>748955220>Mentions Schopenhauer>Not a single quote from his masterpiece "On Women"
>>748950246>txt file or a spreadsheet and keeping it privateyou can make private lists on backloggd and put your games in there without showing it to anybody.
>it's a /v/ thinks you must participate in the community to use something episode
>>748955204I don't give a fuck faggot kill yourself
>>748954140>buying books to have as a choicethis sounds extra retarded. but I suppose it applies to consoomers that buy steam sales
>>748956010sounds like you care
>>748955220>we must accept the premise that there are real and quantifiable differences between what a "good" and "bad" piece is and that we can identify which is which, otherwise the meaning of dialogue disappears and we might as well not even have critical dialogue.Well I'm not disagreeing with that. I'm disagreeing with the viewpoint that you should only listen to what others say when engaging with any piece of media or art. Or that you shouldn't even try a game out because a bunch of people said it was bad. Loads of people, IGN included said God Hand was bad. If everyone just listened to IGN, no one would've tried God Hand out. Hell, I'm sure part of the reason we never got a sequel was because of the reviews and how blindly everyone listens to them. Loads of people told me Koudelka's combat system was bad. Tried it out myself, and I disagree. If I had just listened to what people said, I would've never experienced the game and thoroughly enjoyed it, only experiencing it through youtube vids which would've been a terrible way to experience the game, or any game for that matter.>Meaning if a bunch of experienced oldfags tell you that a particular piece is a "classic", you really should listen to them. Just how you're supposed to read classical literature when you start reading books instead of random modern trash. This issue is that people ONLY experience things through a filter of oldfags on what is good and what isn't. They won't even touch things deemed as bad. Not to mention that people's review scales are off. So many people won't touch anything below an 8/10 thanks to how magazines and now review websites review shit.>But I believe that classics (of any genre of media) are fundamental and must be respected.Not disagreeing with that, but you shouldn't just try the good classics. You should try, at least once, going into something without a frame of reference for how good or bad it is, then afterward, you can see what the general consensus on a topic is
>>748955407alright, whos the whore
>>748948998performative gaming must be the lowest IQ hobby around
If you guys love having a big ol' backlog so much feel free to buy my game on Steam for 99 Cents: Dungeon Drops
>>748949850Its time to stop
you don't really like video games if you have a backlogyou play a game because you like it then drop it if you have fully enjoyed itif a game will make you play it for months, then so be it. that game is fun.
>>748956732She's not real.
>>748948998you people really play these goyimslop games? lmfao.
>>748956835this, real gamers have like 33 games in their library with 100-20,000 hours each. Me personally, I have shit taste, but I'm replaying stellar blade for the 4th or 5th time.
>>748956819which game is that?
>>748956868I was afraid it would be AI. Oh well.
>>748956772The type of unbearable faggot you have to be to use something like backloggd, goodreads, letterboxd, MAL etc is unreal. Its the biggest larper sign ever, essentially the modern 3x3 thread.
>>748948998I just use an excel sheet. Much better.
>>748956871They all just came out. Also, didn't you fags like dawnwalker?
>>748956732Sorry anon but don't know who that foid is. It's been getting posted around here recently and I personally think it's AI
>>748956904idk but you still havent play VTMB yet so you're not larping hard enough.
>>748956972/v/ doesn't play new games
>>748956871Dogshit, movie shit, black, modern crapcom, might try at 70% off, friendslop
>>748956706its always been the topt. oldfag
I just like tracking stuff I've played, I don't even have a backlog.
>>748948998I don't use it.I tend to remember how I feel about the 1000 games I've finished.That said, it might be useful to remember why I dropped games.
>>748957578Bro was just born yesterday
>>748957689Same out of the 2k games ive played I have never once rated, tracked or reviewed a game. If I like it, I remember it.
>>748957329Not really. Back when PC Gamer was an actual titan of the industry they were bottom. Same with edge and Kotaku (yes they were once not a lolcow)
>>748957792Do you often remember why you drop games?I always think I do, but then it comes time...Someone asked why I dropped a game from this year and I couldn't honestly say. It was a combination of little things, or maybe it took too long to get going.I recently finished a game I dropped years ago, and could have swore I dropped it for being too text-heavy... but there was barely any text in it. The text was shit though, so at least I was close.
>>748949764that costs money, I don't have any
>>748948998>Muh backlogI just play games I feel like at the time.
>>748958647I do that too, but adding shit you think might be good for later in your backlog is a good idea for when you don't know what to play at the moment
i only bother to log anime/mangacouldn't care less about backlogged or letterboxd and logging every thing i play and watch, much less writing reviews about them
>nooo!!! You don't understand I must gamify playing gayms otherwise nobody but I will know whatever gayms I've played I need this data to be public so that people can understand what a terrific guy I am I have impeccable taste as you can see!!!Lmao nigga just keep them games in yo mind's palace nigga there should be an empty shelf there just put them games on it
>>748958447pen and paper costs too much? what about a word document?
>>748949836>>748949858Women get into the weirdest shit just so they can be performative about it and post online. "Here's my daily journaling" as if you sit there straight-backed once a day and write 3 pages about all you did today (sleep, eat, mald, masturbate)
>>748959485Majority of users on MAL, backloggd, letterboxd etc are male. And youtubers talking about their favourite bimlo dimlo cornflakes cartoon 3D platformer mascot, were also majority male.
>>748949764This is how niggas without an internal monologue go on with their days
>>748953638i was watching so much anime just because i couldn't find something interesting to watchso i ended watching shit animes because i saw a scene that looked interesting and the only interesting thing in the fucking 24 episode anime was that fucking 5 seconds scene
>>748949149sounds like you are retarded
>>748959269i was going to start logging movies/series but theni've watched like..5 movies in the last 15 years
>>748949189>>748949340That's about the long and short of it. This is some OCD/ADD compartmentalization shit that gives the extra neurotic some semblance of extra control over their lives
>>748949340must be nice being born yesterday
>>748954276i use howlongtobeatit was easier to use than OP site for me (you can also add when you started the game if you care about that)
kino site, cringe userbase
>>748960161what game are you tackling now anon?
>>748948998>Doesn't allow importing or copying the games onto your game list, so you have to manually add each game on every list, which takes hours to do>Lists don't show game names, only game portraits, so you cant navigate them unless you manually open the page for each game>Lists don't have infinite scrolling, so you will need to open 10 separate pages to fully view a list with 1000 games>Lists do not have any tags, so every game has 1000 lists, ala "played in 2025" or "games I want to play", without any ability to sort between lists that are based of off games that share gameplay similarities>Game tags are too limited, which makes it impossible to navigate games from the same genre (for example, all action games are listed under "adventure" tag and all shmups are listed under "shooter" same as the FPS games)>Game pages do not propertly list developers, publishers and releases, or copletely neglect them (aparently >UFO Defense was devlopped by 2k, good to know)>Game pages don't have any metadata besides release date>Each game name is based only of off the american release title even if the game never had any american release to begin with>Most NSFW games are de-listed from the website>Game pages do not show any gameplay footage or videos, despite pulling data from IGDB, which includes both gameplay images and videos for each game>Reviews on the website aren't even real reviews, just vibes on the game, and the ones with the most likes are always based on how big the author's list of friends is, instead of the merit of the review>Relentless AAA and Nintendo shilling on the front page
>>748960684And don't even get me started on the soulless UI of this trashy websiteThis has to be the worst fucking video game database on the internet. I fucking hate this modern "vibes" design garbage, made for degraded normalfaggot golems.Why can't more databases be like vndb?After browsing it for about a month I completely lost all passion to play vidya for the first time in my whole life. If you want to find a new game to play use steam, lol. You will find more interesting games randomly browsing steam for an hour than after months of browsing backloggd. The only upside of shitloggd is that sometimes when you find great vidya, there is a 1 in 1000 chance that some fanatic included it in his list of likewise great games.
>>748960670messing around demake evil 4 mercenaries in between breaks for cutting vids for youtube channel but will start silent hill 3 the next few days
>>748960684>Lists don't show game names, only game portraits, so you cant navigate them unless you manually open the page for each game>Lists don't have infinite scrolling, so you will need to open 10 separate pages to fully view a list with 1000 games>Each game name is based only of off the american release title even if the game never had any american release to begin with>Most NSFW games are de-listed from the websiteThese are huge dealbreakers.
>>748949764he bottoms
>>748958340>Do you often remember why you drop games?Sometimes. I don't particularly care why I dropped a game. If I wasn't enjoying it I just move on and don't waste my time thinking about it. I know at the time, but its not worth remembering. Although, some have been so fucking bad that they stick with you.
>>748948998how could this cause so much seething?
>virgin data scrapper vs a readme note
>>748948998i just use playnite, put a couple single player games in the playing folder, finish them, delete them get a repack put them in the completed folder rinse and repeat. been doing this since i got my new PC finished a bunch of games over the past couple of months
>>748961643Same reason steam threads do. This board is full of turd worlders and rancorous millennials who either seethe that you don't play their games or that you don't pirate all the time instead of using steam.
>>748960745steam doesn't have emulator games. backloggd having pretty much everything makes it much better than steam's wishlist
>>748948998I used this dogshit site years ago and It legitimately ruined gaming for me for fucking years and sucked the fun out of everything. The second I stopped being a performative faggot and started playing games like I did as a kid again, i instantly fell back in love with it.>>748950261true
>>748949764are you an autistic woman?
>>748962107i think you fags are just some performative retards when it comes to this shit how is logging your games not playing them as a kid and enjoying them
>>748948998Backloggd is great. What’s sad and funny is when posters make threads about it, it always reminds me how few people on /v/ actually play games.
rate my profile, and btw i dont give a fuck if you "doxx" mehttps://backloggd.com/u/Gakki/
>>748962107I never used anything for games (thank god) but I'm strongly considering dropping MAL and goodreads for a similar reasonIt feels very wrong that my first thought after finishing a book is "I need to add it as read to goodreads"
>>748962259probably a troon afraid xir peers know xir is playing harry potter games from logging them on backloggd and getting anxious over it
>>748949764look boys, we have an actual real woman(female) in the thread. Please treat her nicely and don't scare her off
>>748962360>It feels very wrong that my first thought after finishing a book is "I need to add it as read to goodreads"that sounds like a you problemluckily i dont have that problems with books since all the ones i've read, i own them and the ones i haven't read. are in other bookshelf>finish movie>3 weeks later remember i was logging movies and add it to the list
>>748959596majority =/= 100% dipshit
this looks fun but how am i supposed to remember every game i played??
>>748949850OG God of War trilogy
>>748962608if you haven't been logging since the first game you've played then it's too late. be more attentive in the next life
>>748949764TITS OR GTFO
Does it have language filtering yet? I don't like 3rd world babble and that's all I see on the site.
>>748962725>i have to open and read the reviewswhy are you retarded? just use the site as a personal log
>>748962772Answer the question.
>>748962608thats pretty much why i started logging gamesyou think i remember every damn game i played on ps1 or ps2?lets forget the originals becase i can easily see thosewe used to buy coils of 100cds to burn gameslike hell i remember what the fuck i played and what i didn't
>>748952076>Trying out actually bad games is how you figure out what you like instead of looking up reviews and recommendations in an attempt to optimize your fun timeI try games based on recommendations and they still turn out to be worthless garbage that lead me to figure out all people that play fighting games are retards and the whole genre is kusogeI didn't need to pick some obscure PC-88 port of an arcade game only available in Japan during 1986-1988 to figure that one out, I got that knowledge just fine from tekken and MK
>>748962608only log the games you finished
>>748962867if you can't figure out a game its worth playing or not by watching gameplayyou are underage
>>748962878im gaming since the NES era i finished probably 100s of games
>>748953520>Have you somehow never seen a gameplay trailer that poorly represents the actual gameplay in the full release?NeverIf you can't tell whether a game will be good or shit based on the trailer you need to lurk more until you're 18
>>748949131fpbp
>>748954189How could you beat WoW tho?
>>748962934its very rare (at least for me)when the trailer its "could be worth playing" and its a hit or missthen then . that happened with bullet storm for me. trailer was shit. demo was good. game was shit
>>748952404>posts some literally who because he doesn't have an argument
>>748962259>how is logging your games not playing them as a kid and enjoying thembecause there was no concept of logging when I was a kid. I'd pick a game from blockbuster because it looked cool and play it non stop, if i got bored, I stopped, moved on and returned it or if I really loved it buy to replay. There was no thought that I needed to keep track of what I'd played, arbitrarily rate them and worst of all share your opinion with other retards or have some sort of mental bias going into a game because its liked by this person or its in a list of similar games to this one. It was just playing games for the sake of enjoying them. Backloggd never bothered me with other peoples opinions or ratings but it did make gaming a chore, I started only playing to check them off the list, rate them and move on to the next one, The whole concept of the site is literally to drive that addictive nature of building a database, cataloging everything for no reason. Ultimately use it for whatever reason you want, It just ruined the fun of gaming for me and its ultimately a very pointless and boring part of the hobby, I don't think anyone who uses these actually enjoys games.
>>748954189how do you even measure how many hours you have of mario party
>>748952413>It NEEDS an open world with 80 hours of padding!
>>748952404this guy from the quote would be addicted to JAV porn if he was alive today and would probably never read a book in his lifekys stupid faggot
>>748962991you beat wow when you are the first person to level every class/race mix to max level in the world and you are world first kill of every raid boss with every class/race mix tooso. never
>>748948998I just use to list what I play since I don't remember much
>>748962608i started using it this year. only log what i've played since the start of this year. anything before is not logged. will only log games i have already played if i replay them.
>>748963103the pathless was cool, chants of senaar was cool.terraria fucking sucks.
>>748962360I deleted goodreads for that same reason. Was just rushing through books and then thinking, log and rate it straight away. I read a lot less books per year now, but I enjoy and spend more time on them.
>>748952404heh i had this same though the other day but it sounded a lot less gay
>>748963050>I'd pick a game from blockbuster because it looked cool and play it non stop, if i got bored, I stopped, moved on and returned it or if I really loved it buy to replaysee there is already a difference here, we on PC dont have physical, so by logging it in a way we are doing a somewhat physical interaction with the digital mediaso ill take mine for example here: >>748961797>you pick a game up from blockbusteri put a game in the playing section >you enjoy it till you finish it put the game in completed>want to stop get bored or want to play something elseput the game in the on hold section to come back to itwe have way too many fucking games nowadays and if we dont do this most people wont even bother playing games because that physical interaction is gone and in all honesty it doesnt feel like you have these games without some form of interaction with the digital media, put it this way i would of finished those games if they were just desktop icons in a random folder somewhere the moment i did this with playnite i finished all those games as soon as i upgraded my PC
>>748963312>i would of finishedi wouldn’t*
>>748962107can you explain more please? how does this ruin games for you? after you finish a game you just log it and play the next game..maybe you tired to have an epeen competition with your friends and try to log as much games quickly as possible to make the number go up? thats not the websites faults, that just your mental illness
>>748963198agree, I like terraria but it kinda gets boring later on, maybe with like 4 friends might be better, the best ones so far on that list are the Paranormasight duo, Edgeworth games and Blake Manor
>>748963050>There was no thought that I needed to keep track of what I'd playedWe used to do that with physical discs in our game collection, sorry you never owned anything>arbitrarily rate themWe used to do that to articulate our thoughts and better understand them, sorry your IQ is in double digits>worst of all share your opinion with other retardsSorry you never had friends>have some sort of mental bias going into a game because its liked by this personSorry you never had friends recommend a game to you
>>748958447Go outside and pick up a sharp rock and scribble your notes into your skin.
>>748963532you sound like a faggot, you never gamed in the 90s because you would never write this cringe shit if you did
>>748963657>no argumentalphie mad
>>748948998>yess give us more data to train AI for free goy
>>748963916oh no now devs know what games i like, how terrible
>>748963312It was never about it being physical because I feel the same with my steam account now. Just because there are thousands of games now doesn't mean you need to consume all of them. The part I enjoyed was having a smaller curated collection that I actually enjoyed playing and would frequently replay when I was bored. I didn't and still don't have a completed section, playing, on hold etc on steam. I take the same approach now and feel no desire to finish a game if its not fun. I don't force it anymore. The way you are talking about games is my point, you're treating them like something to check off and complete from your list of games to play, and now that you track them you're so much more efficient are consuming the media quickly. If you need a list or tracking site to be efficient at finishing games, why couldn't you do that without it. Do you even enjoy gaming at this point? Thats the idea of why people don't like tracking.
>>748964058>It was never about it being physical because I feel the same with my steam account now. Just because there are thousands of games now doesn't mean you need to consume all of them. The part I enjoyed was having a smaller curated collection that I actually enjoyed playing and would frequently replay when I was bored.again you are missing the point this does that >>748963312 you are making a big collection into a small one and enjoying them one by one
>>748964052This but unironically
>>748964058>>748964151also forgot to mention playnite is a open source launcher its not some data collecting website it houses all your games from all your launchers and emulators in one place think of it like launchbox but free you can customise it to whatever you want you can make it look like a console ui in fullscreen mode if you really wanted to, im not using this website either im saying do it from your own launcher steam or playnite or launchbox perspective
>>748964052Be careful, they'll use that training data to make another demake.
>>748964052>dr. shekelstein, AI has discovered a link between liking dark souls and suffering from aids>good... increase their health insurance premium...
>>748964247>>748964151I think you missed the point. It's not about a collection. Read the rest after that sentence and if you still don't get the concept of turning it into a chore then idk what to say anymore.
>>748964248good thing i dont buy them
>>748964327so you think choosing a game putting it into im playing this folder then putting it into a completed or on hold folder with the outcome of playing the game is a chore? i think you got to old or dont enjoy video games anymore man
Why is this the one that caught on when howlongtobeat has been around so much longer? Is it just because of the UI?
>>748964446its comfier to use
>>748963532This is a prime example of how zoomer brainrot and social media has ruined your childhood. No one did any of those things as a kid in the 90s. You would trade games with friends at school, talk about the cool parts in the playground and no one ever tracked their physical discs. You'd just have a stack on the floor next to your TV or shoved in some cupboard with half the cases being broken with mismatching discs in most of them. You never had a childhood and I feel sorry for you anon.
>>748964435Why does doing that increase your productivity at completing a game, why is the amount of games you complete even important. I do enjoy games still. I don't think you do.
I'm not treating gaming like a job, I'm treating it like a library.
>>748964446i didn't knew you could log things on howlongtobeat. its the one i use anyway but at start i didnt knew
>>748964503>with half the cases being broken with mismatching discs in most of themyou..were really retardednot a single one of my cases was broken . i never put disks in the wrong case
>>748964503>No one talked with their friends in the 90s>No one formed any opinions in the 90s>We just consoomed product and got excited for next productGrim, do americans really>You never had a childhood and I feel sorry for you anonHoly projection
>>748963532>We used to do that to articulate our thoughts and better understand them, sorry your IQ is in double digitsUnironically the most midwit behaviour possible.
>>748964687your 90s kid larp is falling apart stupid faggot
Do you have friends who use these sites or do you just scream into the void?
>>748964550its not important about the amount i complete, its about actually choosing a game and playing it, seeing a wall of desktop icons in a folder instead of the launcher i pointed out to you earlier makes me just not want to play any because its always"man im playing this but i could play this or that" i never finished or stayed playing games past a hour or 2, im taking my time now and enjoying the games i play to the finish, i feel rushed when i dont do this its a weird psychological thing but im glad i did this >>748961797 just point this image out if you didnt know what i meant
>>748964687>We just consoomed product and got excited for next productyeah its called being a kid
>>748964745>Thinking is... le midwit
>>748964495>>748964621It's annoying to me that this one blew up only because I've been using hltb for about 15 years and I don't want to transfer all my shit to a different website that's more active. It's petty, I know. But still
>>748949764>>748962556>suffering playing only multiplayer gamesNot a woman, foids thrive on attention, and they can't get more attention anywhere else. Even ugly bitches will have five simps at their feet every lobby just for having a female voice.
>>748962012>emulator gamesthe absolute state nu/v/Do they not sell consoles in India?
>>748964952i only use it for myself so i dont care if which one its more active,
>>748964991no they dont sell Sega consoles and PS1, PS2 and NES in India... why do you ask?
>>748964818>its about actually choosing a game and playing it>cant start a game without being told what to play by his launcherholy retard
>>748949764Cute anon
>>748950954Why don't they like my oldfag shit?
>>748964850Yes, thinking is unbearably midwit. Go to the garage and find the heftiest hammer you can. Smash your skull in. For you, it would be a big improvement.
>>748950954you are on 4chan, it hosts gay porn and tranny porn, and it even has a tranny board AND a MLP boardand still you use the site? curious
>>748964991>p-p-please buy snitch 2, it flopped pretty badly and nintendo needs your revenuekek, tendies are pathetic
>>748965035we are just talking past each other at this point into insults good day to you sir faggot
>>748964991i'm not buying an atari lynx to play one game bro
>>748965162>it hosts gay porn and tranny porn, and it even has a tranny board AND a MLP boardShhh, most newfags don't know that yet
>>748965162>tranny board/qa/ was nuked half a decade ago anon
>>748965486go back >>>/lgbt/
>>748965823>/qa/troon immediately has a melty
>>748965486Also this. Shartyfags are like 50% trannified atp.
>>748964446Its name has the same format as Letterboxd.
>>748964446backlogged also has a "how long to beat" the game estimate if you click on a game
>>748963068I just guessed
>>748949764Cool! I do something similar where I make a note on my phone and doodle the main character when I 1cc a game.
>>748966591It's bullshit tho. Apparently, DDP DaiOuJou takes only 3 hours to beat, lol
>>748967791it actually takes like 40 minutes to beat, you're thinking of 1CCing the game vs beating the game
Steam already logs every game i playhttps://steamcommunity.com/id/iriyap/games/?tab=all
>>748950261>>748948998Its no concidence all these logging sites are owned by malicious jews and shabbos leftoids.Why are you promoting websites that push social pollution?Do you think anilist troon mod can just randomly decide that some anime/manga can be excluded from its database? You think backloggery can allow and cultivate leftoids losers who can "watch" video games.
>>748949764
>>748949764this anon is cute as fuck
>>748968468maybe fuck off back to /pol/ you mentally ill faggot
>>748953638>Most of these communities are filled to the brim while the most insufferable freaks alive. Everything is a goddamn competition these daysman that is so fucking true
>>748953638>Most of these communities are filled to the brim while the most insufferable freaks aliveimagine writing this while you post on 4chan
>>748968936most likely its a tourist
>>74894899899% of games and developers will remain on my black list.I will not play your garbage slop.I will only play and replay S-Tier games that appeal to me.
I just stopped buying games I don't intend to play right away. >but it's 90% offdon't care.
>>748949764sex with dekomori sanae
>>748969161why is she long
>>748969186see >>748965162
>>748968936>>748969029You're a faggot defending backloggery, a jewish website that allows stupid shit like saying you can complete a game by "watching it".Get the fuck out of our site, you racial parasite tourist.
>all caps schizoid rambling yet again
>>748969264>>748969186>>748968468This isn't even Backloggery you stupid mongoloid faggot.
>>748949131This. If you have the mentality of going through games like a checklist, you've already lost. I just enjoy whatever is in front of me and I don't care about whatever sales or FotM shit I missed.This is why games used to be so much better as a kid, because they were a rare commodity. You got a game for your bday, and you'd make the most of it because that's all you will get for the next 6 months. Sometimes (maybe a lot of the time), having no choice is the best. Now games are less special and everyone is plagued with decision paralysis and would rather turn their brains off with the internet.
>>748969264which part of my post is defending any place?you are the retard that said >Most of these communities are filled to the brim while the most insufferable freaks alivewhile being on 4chanyou are the tourist
>>748968910>reddit spacing
>>748967674That’s very fun anon!
>>748969243>>748965162Look at how this faggot is really double down on defending his sexual pervisions. I guess the other anon was right. Backloggery is an awful site. No, I don't think its transexual mods (no joke, look it up) have a right to just decide to remove media he doesn't like, then ban users of their shitty site for liking said media. That means, it fails as a database. It is more of a social media site enforced by a malicious team. It attracts losers like this faggot who don't belong on 4chan. Don't use backloggd or letterboxd or anilist.
>>748969771>Backloggery>BackloggdPick one you moron.
>>7489697714chan is a tranny website, why are you here?
>>748969029>>748968864>>748969029>>748965162>>748965427I like how this tourist (who has the nerve to call others mentally ill for not liking his shitty logging sites or his lifestyle) has a meltdown and starts crying about 4chan having porn boards.Fucking excuse me, how the fuck does 4chan having porn boards means that 4chan userbase should tolerate your disgusting lifestyle in real life? You think when /l/ existed, or on the Japanese chans, you think people would be okay with your lifestyle in real life just because they have a porn board?Are motherfucking tourists like you unable to segregate fiction from reality? It really is similar, its like seeing yaoi doujin and loli doujin and thinking Japan is cool with such fetishes in real life. Jesus christ, segregate fiction from reality you mentally ill retard.
>>748970037>how the fuck does 4chan having porn boards means that 4chan userbase should tolerate your disgusting lifestyle in real life?Good thing 4chan isn't real life.
>>748970037Sounds like a discord spamming tourists trying to change the narrative on 4chan. He pretends he's some oldfag but has clear contempt for 4chan. Maybe some shill from backlogged. It won't work, you're not fooling anyone, we saw this guy go from this >>748950702 to this >>748969857Obvious bad faith and malicious poster, meaning the other anon was right to out him.
>>748970037>>748970339seek help
>>748948998Is this that one hipster ass site where people write artsy fartsy reiews? Cause i want in on that
>>748948998I only try to buy games when I know I have the time to play them or they just happen to be cheap.
>>748949764I wish you were a cute nerdy girl but i know you are probably just an autistic homosexual wearig pink socks
>>748970294Good, you fucking get it. Segregate fiction and reality. So your entire argument that you're not a tourist and we shouldn't hate you based on porn boards is fucking retarded. Good job, now get the fuck out of our board.Let me repeat, backloggy is the worst class of these logging sites and its sad that it is allowed to gain popularity. Don't fucking shill that site. Myanimelist is surprisingly decent when it comes to these logging sites, probably because its own by the Japanese so they can limit powers of faggots like you from infiltration and also because MAL, unlike backloggry, was built as a database first, and not a social media site to spread pollution, like you are doing.
>>748970585Did you get banned or something? I use HLTB. I don't have any interest in the social features of Backloggd.
>>748970585>backloggrythat site is dead for 10 years now you cum drinking retard
>>748970037uh oh, troon melty
I mostly use backloggd so I can force myself to review a game after beating/dropping it. Not just put a number out of ten, but sit my ass down, think about what I liked or did not liked, what was the most memorable moment, etc. This takes a while, and often I can't write more than a few sentences, or an autistic rant. But I still think it's a good thing, to make myself express feelings in a written form. Whether someone reads them or not is inconsequential. I've been forcing myself to take more screenshots of what I play for a similar reason. It's too easy to try and rush through the games now, especially if you have a bunch more in a backlog or library. Thinking about what would make a nice screenshot naturally makes me play slower and enjoy the game more. Pic related is a dumbass picture of a wall scroll in Super Real Mahjong VR. I was looking around the rooms, found this and thought it was funny that they actually wrote "super real" with kanji.Man, I love vidya.
>>748968015>All Games (2066)
