The Great Ragtime Show (aka Boogie Wings)- MAMEĤ0. These activities are fine and fun if you aren't on a quest to get through a hefty backlog, but they can be kryptonite to any serious attempt.Ģ9. Don't worry about reading every last line of dialogue and uncovering every last secret by working on multiple playthroughs. Don't spend your time trying to 100% everything if you've already completed the main questline. Move on.ĭon't spend much gaming time playing things you've already beaten. Again, those rules are specific to me based on what I found to provide the right balance of challenge versus accomplishment, but everyone's own criteria will likely be different. I strictly avoid any kinds of cheats or hacks. To count a sports game as beaten, I aim to complete a season and/or a playoff run as a league champion. In arcade games like fighters and shmups, I generally shoot for a 1cc or 4cc, depending on how fair I perceive the game to be. I typically count a game as beaten once the credits roll, but I almost always require myself to play on default or harder settings for games that have adjustable difficulty. Maybe you're having a hard time screwing around with your PC to get an old DOS game going, but can opt for the ported iOS option instead. Or maybe you want to play the original Mega Man games on the eShop.
It might be hard to find an hour every night to hook up your PlayStation 2 to tackle the original Sly Cooper trilogy, but you might have an hour break at work every day where you could play the remade Sly Cooper Collection found on the Vita. One way to ensure that you can plow through games in your backlog is to make the games you are playing accessible to you across multiple formats. Embrace the accessibility of digital, mobile and portable games.
For example, I haven't "beaten" Truxton on Sega Genesis, but I have spent enough time with it to consider it one of my favorite shmups and I wouldn't consider it as being part of my backlog any longer. Part of tackling your backlog involves having first-hand familiarity with the games you own - and that doesn't always have to mean beating them. Take time here and there to get in some time with a shmup that you have no realistic hope of beating, to play a few rounds of that obscure Genesis football title, etc.
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