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A few nights ago, I had an issue. I wanted to play a vidjeo game in bed, but I had no such vidjeo game! Yes, I had nothing new on the DS. I didn’t know what to pop in and fiddle around with. I’ll be honest, I was jonesing to try Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes, but I am being good and strong-willed and am waiting for that one on Gamefly. I was without anything.

I looked around on the desk, and saw my copy of Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor staring at me. Now, I didn’t get very far in this. I could play it. Eventually, I did end up playing it. But it took incredible effort to get myself to take it to my room and pop it in. It was an old game! I didn’t want to play that!

But seriously, it just kind of overwhelmed me how much I was against booting an old game up again and playing it. I don’t do that very often, I admit. If I were to do some sort of Backloggery, I would put so many games on there… I never beat games. I never want to go back and beat them either, apparently so much so that I find it difficult to make myself. It got me thinking about why…

I think it goes back to something Jick said, actually, on the podcast. He says he rarely beats games, he just plays them until he feels he understands them. Then he has no want to keep going. I feel like that describes me pretty well. A huge part of why I play games it to be able to talk about games. At a point, I understand a game’s systems enough to be able to talk about them. Yes, there’s plenty of plot stuff I’m missing. But I can hold my own in a discussion of Devil Survivor without getting lost, and that’s really what’s important to me. That’s a lot of why I play a lot of the games I do. I mean, they’re fun to, but I want to understand them and be able to talk about them.

You know, thinking about it, it’s been shocking that, fairly recently, I did dig back into my backlog and finish games, namely Layton 2 and Bowser’s Inside Story. Of course, that happened mostly because I was sick, on my ass, and had little better to do. But yeah, that’s clearly an exception, and not a rule.

Anyway, I guess the point of this is that… yeah, I have a Backlog, and yeah, I don’t care. It should probably concern me about how much money I’ve spent and haven’t gotten enough value out of, but you know what? That’s why I got Gamefly. To cut down on that shit. And I have. And what I haven’t completed? Well, who the fuck cares, you know? I had fun. I’m having fun.
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If you’ve decided to work on your Backlog this year, more power to you. I’ll just keep letting my grow until it crushes me under the weight of all the unplayed vidjeo gamez.