Thread 713557164

>rekindles your love for vidya
>improves your critical approach to vidya
>makes you easily discover vidya you had never heard of before

Home is here. Home is now..

>I must organize and overthink what I consume making it a social experience instead of picking a random game to play
as a zoomer I don't understand this

>>713557164 (OP)
I'm seeing too many schizo seeth threads and obvious shill threads to believe this website is anything more than just ok.

nice ad tranny

>>713557164 (OP)
i miss when like 3 people knew this site back in 2020

>>713557276
You know this place is crawling with bitter old men when the common reactions to such an inoffensive site boil down to "graaaah! new convenient helpful thing! hate! hate! hate!"

>>713557696
I actually use it myself btw, I just don't get this obsession with the fact that you must have this big ass movie/anime/vidya backlog that you know you will never complete because there are more games made in a single generation that you would ever be able to beat in a lifetime even as a neet that games 24/7
the fact that you need to ruminate on something as simple as consuming cheap entertainment for the masses is crazy, but what is even more crazy is the fact that somehow this also got transformed into social media (because that's what backloggd ultimately is)

>>713557164 (OP)
is that better than howlongtobeat?

This shit is the same bullshit like letterboxd, only faggots with no personality uses those bullshit ass websites. I used to date a skank that 'watched' a lot of movies and almost put her shitty ass lettlerboxd on her resume but she didn't watched shit; looking at her phone or doing something else while listening the movie in the background.

Same with backlogged, a lot of faggots uses that shit just to claim 'muh vidya expertise' 'uh I played it acktchually here's muh backlogged with the 3000 games that I "beat"'.

Man cut it out, if you want to keep tracking of what you play and discover more shit, just do an excel sheet and do a research of the developer or game studio behind a game you loved, most likely that director made another game but with a different studio or he/she had a different roll on a older game.

>>713560368
good post

>>713560368
>>713557862
so from what I’m gathering, this is a website where you can publicly display you progress for games you’ve played and haven’t played? Not to sound like a “bitter old man” but it really does seem like a waste of time. Why would I spend hours “organizing” my backlog when I can use that time to just play game? Just seems like a way to publicly wear your “personality” so you can feel validated from other loser.

>>713560368
based ESL

>>713557164 (OP)
I have no interest in any of these faggot social features. I just have a spreadsheet file where I list games I played with some extra autofilled columns about the game and some other crap like a link to redownload it and which version/region. Almost nearing 3000 games and this knowledge will NOT be shared on your gay website.

I like retroachievements better, especially for stuff like the Atari 2600 where it gives me a specific score to shoot for.

>>713560368
>>713560739
You say this but use Steam, peak faggot social media

>>713560728
uh let me explain it unc
you most use for three things:
>rating games (and writing reviews if you want, they don't need to be publicly available for everyone to see)
>backlog
>list
all coupled to a nice UI and all
the community part (tracking game progress, writing actual tryhard reviews etc) is pretty much optional
>Why would I spend hours “organizing” my backlog
you just do it once and select anything that's even remotely interesting to you and now you can refer back to it when you are done with some game and ready to play the next

>>713560728
What can I say? I'm just an autistic man: I don't understand why anybody would waste its time with backlogged, goodreads, letterboxd, or retroachievements. For my experience, the faggots that uses those websites had no personality, to brag about it, but based on my experience, any of them played/watched/read/enjoyed that shit, they just read a review or watched an video essay just to add it to their backlog.

I don't understand it and I don't want to. Social bullshit.

what the fuck is with sites like this and letterboxd where they allow reviews that aren't in fucking english? I go to reviews and see giant paragraphs of a fucking monkey language, like dude, the game is in english, how the fuck did you even play it if you can't speak the fucking language?

though I did notice it's a bit better than letterboxd and has less joke one-line twitter-style reviews but there's still WAY too many women which makes it unusable

>>713561292
>EOP irrationally angry and resorts to soft racism because the idea that people speak any language besides his own is unfathomable
None will mourn the fading of English into obscurity.

>>713557164 (OP)
Im too autistic, I look at my peers and I am disappointed by how lack luster their reviews are
https://backloggd.com/u/Vinaluna/review/2727030/

>>713561468
your typing in English right now lad, check and mate

I just made my own excel sheet

>>713557164 (OP)
>rekindles your love for vidya
My love for vidya never died because I'm not a retarded zoomer who's more concenred with tertiary culture than actual vidya itself.
>improves your critical approach to vidya
I'm already more critical than you'll ever be because I think about what I'm doing and not how I can connect what I'm doing to social media.
>makes you easily discover vidya you had never heard of before
That's what the internet and friends are for.
Do a better job of shilling your shitty site.

>>713557164 (OP)
This made me realize I've played way too many fucking video games.

this is tremendously fucking gay and the worst kind of people always flock to these things

>>713560368
>she didn't watched
Do not redeem saar

>>713561468
The point is who gives a fuck about your opinion about an English only game when you can't comprehend it enough to write a review in said language. You aren't understanding the full story so your critique is flawed, at best

>>713561292
Globalization mein freund.
Germans fought against this shit but desert niggers from the tribe of scammers deceived our WASP bros with nonsense bullshit so they nuked the Samurai just to implement this globalization bullshit aka global slavery.
Now your our sons marries asian women while we deal with minorities everywhere. EVERYWHERE. Brown faggots trying to scam our motthers, nigger porch monkeys trying to hijack our cars, spics at your local home depot... and so on, back and forth.

>>713561880
nta but don’t most games have a subtitles option anyway? I see what you’re saying but even if the audio is only in English they can still understand what’s going on given they have subtitles in their language.

>>713560918
When you make an account on Steam, you're asked if you want to enable community features and set up your account for others to see. I didn't do that and I barely play games on Steam since I pirate everything. The only useful feature is the workshop.

>>713557164 (OP)
>makes you easily discover vidya you had never heard of before
How does it do that?
I assumed it was just making a list of games you played, like a vidya version of stamp collecting or something.

>>713561187
>Social bullshit.
Yeah, this sums it up pretty well.

>>713562358
I’m gonna guess the app sees all the games you’ve played or interested in and gives you a “calculated” recommendation . I’ve never heard or used it before so I could be talking out of my ass

>>713557164 (OP)
If Steam had a feature where it said, "This game takes X amount of time to complete on average" and then had auto-generated collections for hour counts then I'd probably be burning through more games in my backlog.

>>713560368
Based. For some reason Notepad triggers these people to no end.

>>713561928
>Now your our sons marries asian women
this is kino doebeit

>>713561521
>Same idea for jumping, I like jumping, ultima underworld had it, Kingsfield should too.
I don't think so, adding jumping would take away from the immersion a bit. I can't imagine walking around narrow dungeon hallways and just spamming jump hopping around. And then you'd need some platforming segments to justify having it and it would turn into a different kind of game

>>713562684
>For some reason Notepad triggers these people to no end.
They can't brag a .txt file but they can brag its shitty backlogged profile.

>>713561187
based grandpa
I use 1 excel sheet
fuck social media

>>713557164 (OP)
Should I switch from howlongtobeat to backloggd?

>>713564756
no. why would you?

>>713563715
No, have jump and mantle like an immsim. Make it weighty like Thief or Castlevania. Opens up level design and combat. Thats how you make it immersive. Dont forget KF2&3 already had "jumping" in them

>>713564893
from what I've seen most people use backloggd instead of howlongtobeat so I thought that backloggd might be better

>>713557164 (OP)
backloggd with playnite turned me into a neet

>>713565258
if you're the type who genuinely enjoys social media with exclusively 80–90iq gamers who are all desperate to get reputation on their profiles, then sure, migrate to a site with a larger / growing userbase.
it's profoundly retarded to use these sites this way but people sure do

>>713565478
I mostly use those sites for keeping track of my playthroughs and to know which games I should play next.

>>713557164 (OP)
I'm not autistic enough to need some website to tell me what games to play. I unironically don't even know what it is but I assume it's some website to track game completion like MAL.

>>713565667
>I'm not autistic enough to need some website to tell me what games to play
I have bad news: Only non autistic mofos aka normies and goys, enjoy this kind of shit.

>>713557276
0 self awareness

>>713557164 (OP)
I genuinely don’t understand all the hate this site gets. It’s a fun way to catalog your backlog, make fun lists, keep track of when you beat games and how low it took you to beat them, and you can write a review if you want to. I actually did keep track of all this in a txt file before creating my account and it wasn’t nearly as fun or engaging. It’s not even the social aspect of it either, just way more interesting to me. With that said, there are absolutely like farm accounts that just follow spray hundreds of accounts in order to get followers back. Also lots of fake reviews that aren’t even reviews or it’s clear the person never actually played the game. Other than that, it’s a fun place to track your /v/ backlog.

>>713557276

This is the funniest comment I've ever seen in my life on this website. If only because it comes off so naturally genuine.

>Why would I bother to be critical, think about, or socialize about art that I consume?

What is the alternative? To mindlessly consume and move on?

Thank you so much for this, made my week.

Your confused?

>>713568389
>what is the alternative? To mindlessly consume and then move on?

There’s the Zoomer MO for you. They’re indistinguishable from bots 90% they post anything.

Oh no, he thinks video games are art and not games.

buy an ad

>>713560918
>b-b-but steam
meds, schizo

>>713562129
Even if you can understand English, it's probably faster or easier for you to write a review in the language you're the most comfortable with

>>713562358
There's public lists, also the "similar games" section in each game page, also you can sort and filter games in multiple ways

>>713557164 (OP)
It's handy for the game recommendations and that's about it.

I have an .xlsx with 2 sheets. One is my log and the 2nd sheet is where I have comfy data charts about how much games I have play in 20XX, which platform is the one that I played the most and which genre and developer I played the most too.

If I want to post my reviews and shitty takes I do that here in 4chan, I couldn't care less about what normies might think about my takes but my fellow /v/irgins.

>>713557164 (OP)
I recently started using this. I just like being able to filter my collection or games I've played by hour, system, rating or whatever. Before that it was Backloggery, and before that it was Raptr. You don't have to use the social features, but if you prefer typing in a notepad or something else locally that's fine. I prefer websites like this so I can search by specific filters or find obscure games easily.

>>713561468
>>713562129
>>713570716
I don't know how you can defend this shit. It literally looks like I accidentally clicked some sort of virus-ridden spam site.

>>713571709
You are too racist or too white to understand it

>>713571571
>and before that it was Raptr.
Holy shit now that's a blast from the past.

I had a Backloggery way back in the day and I can't remember why but I moved to Grouvee and that's where I am now.

>>713557276
>making it a social experience
People generally have no discipline when left to solely their own devices. The social experience is necessary for most to get anything done. That's the nature of people.

>>713562684
based minus the phonefagging

>>713571823
Yeah it's been a while, I still have the csv file they let you download before they shut down for good. Gotta be honest, I'm scratching my head at some of the games here, I don't know how I managed to play some of these for so long as a kid. Like 600+ hours in Monster Hunter Tri is nuts for a game with barely any content. I'll attribute that to being an autist and not having money to buy new games all the time back then.

>>713557164 (OP)
it made me write goofy funny reviews for my friends to read, will give me memories re reading them again in 10 years

>>713557164 (OP)
Post (you)r profile, anon

>>713557164 (OP)
i decided to use it since i didn't feel like using a spreadsheet, i'm actually autistic, and wanted something to look back on and remember what I played. animefags, readers, and movie fans get multiple sites that do the same thing so gamers can have one too. i don't use the social features since it's mostly the clique on the backloggd discord server liking each other's posts and no one else's.

it's just a free site that does what you could do with a spreadsheet or a database server. you could learn a spreadsheet software to get all of the stats and reports that backloggd gets you and even more. you could even just use a text document if all you want are lists.

>>713560368
the social features of the site are optional. don't have to read reviews. don't have to read comments. don't even have to share a profile with anybody. there are faggots on every platform just like there are on steam or discord.

>>713571780
why are there so many thirdies on that site anyway? get these niggas away from my vidya