PixlBit

Damn, I though my Backlog was bad! I kid, but I know how you feel. Too many good games come out and theres just not enough time to play them. Every year I chop some games off my backlog, just to put more games on. Im definitely sitting on a healthy amount of 360 and Wii titles that I have had for quite a while now. All you can do is go one game at a time...

Problem w/ me is that when I have the free time, I dont feel like playing old games, but rather ones that aren't out yet. idk why that happens to me, but i end up having to force myself to start up an old game. Once I do its usually fine and I get into it, but getting motivated is somewhat of a chore.

Btw im so jealous that you own a copy of Radiant Historia. I have a ROM but...that game deserves to be bought.

Last thing, for Tales of the Abyss, Its great, but id wait for the price drop on Amazon or something. Finish Vesperia first cuz playing 2 tales games at once can get pretty hectic. Vesperia will tide you over for sure (it def. has the better battle system of the two)

Box is open btw, no way I'd let a game that awesome go unplayed.  Also, the CD that came with it has a couple really great piano versions of songs in the game.

I do plan on waiting on Tales, but I still have that fear that, without knowing how many copies are being released, I'll miss my shot at owning it.  I assume they are publishing it as a niche title, so there won't be too many in the wild, but if the game really takes off, it might be difficult to obtain.

I've got a minimum of 100 games on my backlog. My excuses? I haven't had time to play many games for the past year, or I lost interest in the game, or I got the game because to an extent I collect odd/rare games.

Oh, and the reason my backlog isn't bigger is because I've also put myself on a financial budget, so praise the Steam for its existence.

I don't know about 100, but I have at least 50, but they are all longer titles since I really enjoy my RPGs.  

I don't really care about games that are rare, but don't deserve to be played (see Bio Force Ape or the Game Boy Color version or Resident Evil for examples of that) just awesome games like Skies of Arcadia that I really want to play. 

Skies of Arcadia was great even though I only had the chance to play it once it came out for the NGC... brings back good memories with my NGC, and now I wish there was a Cubivore 2 for 3DS just like they are making a Luigi's Mansion 2 also for the 3DS. Good times.

I buy games all the time. I do consider myself a collector, for many reasons. I want to curate some of this stuff, because I think we're on the cusp of everything going digital, and I enjoy the feeling of a boxed game with all the art and manuals that go along with it. I'm also an aspiring game designer, and I buy a lot of games for research purposes, including some bad games just to see what they did wrong.

I bargain hunt a lot, and I hate my collection having "Greatest Hit" labels mixed in with the rest of the games, so I'll try and pick up a game I want before it goes out of print or gets re-released.

This is me for sure, except I won't buy a crap game just to play with said crap, I don't think that's worth my time when I could just watch a youtube video or read reviews on it, but I hear you on the everything going digital issue.  I love my boxes and papers!  I get original versions when I can, but I get gratests hits if there is a reson for it, like the earlier Batman game that had 3d added to it.

When you say you fear not being able to find a game at a later date in good condition and such, you're not wrong Angelo. Since my Xbox went down and I've been looking for old Gamecube games to try, I've been searching and some of the old GC games that people have recommended to me like Pikmin or Tales of Symphonia are like rare unicorn blood on Amazon.com. I shit you not, here's the proof. I'm on Amazon at the moment and a used copy of Symphonia, with just the bare disks in a generic case and no manual, will cost over $30 and if you want it new it'll be $70 minimum. It gets way worse for Pikmin 2 (widely seen as a huge improvement over the 1st, and the best in the series so far). Pikmin 2 used, game disc only in generic case, will cost $63 and to buy Pikmin 2 new it could cost anywhere from $174 to $300. I'm not a collector so there's no way in shit I would ever pay that kind of money for a game so I guess it's no Pikmin 2 for me.

Remember how Nintendo has said that there is the possibility that they might have old games for download on the Wii U, as in Gamecube games... They have been doing it with the 3DS for the old hanheld titles, so I guess it's a matter of patience and see what Nintendo does.

That would be really cool if they decided to do that with the Wii U. I don't even know enough about the Wii U (nobody does yet lol) but I already really want one. If they make older titles like Pikmin 2 available for download I'd love to get it. Plus I think they're making Pikmin 3 for Wii U. I don't remember if that was confirmed or just speculation but I would suspect it could be a launch title. That would be so awesome.

I'm also hoping for Pikmin 3 as a launch title for the Wii U. I love the Pikmin games, the first one is my favorite.

As far as the gameplay goes, what are the Pikmin games like Joaquim? I can find Pikmin 1 on Amazon for much more reasonable prices. If Pikmin 1 is your favorite I think I'll go ahead and buy it if I can learn more about it.

You've never watched gameplay footage on YouTube? Awwww.

Well, you control a main character, Olimar, and he whistles the pikmin to his bidding. There are 3 types of pikmin (red, blue, yellow), and they each have their own gameplay attributes. Red are stronger for fights, and can be thrown farther. Blue are the only ones you can take under water. Yellow can carry explosives. Just think of the Pikmin as resources just like any old RTS for PC. You can only have 100 at a time on the field with you. You grow them by making them carry these coloured pellets to the respective coloured thing that makes Pikimin seeds come out. They have 3 phases of growth, or you can pluck them early and feed them nectar to make them grow to their subsequent phases.

The main story is that Olimar gets the help from these little guys to carry missing ship parts that have been scattered over the land, so Olimar can go back home. There's also a time limit, one for each mission where you have from day break until it starts to become dark where you have to run back and save your Pikmin from the dangers of the night wild life, and the other limit is that you have 30 days to collect all ship parts or at least the minimum required. A lot of people complained about the limits of the game, so in Pikmin 2 they decide to change the game to no limit on how many days it took you to collect things. That's what I like about Pikmin 1, the limitation.

I might be able to hook you up with Symphonia actually, there was one at a local GameStop a while back for peanuts.  It was used, but it had everything and was not the greatest hits printing.  If you're interested I can check on it for ya.