One man's quest against his spending habits

I buy video games.

I mean, I buy a lot.  Worse, I have completionist tendencies; I hate that feeling of putting a game away that I haven't finished, and I (generally) hate moving on to a new game unless I think I'm going to finish it at some time in the foreseeable future.

That means I have a backlog.  Quite a backlog.

So I've decided this - no new video games until I finish my backlog.  This could take quite a while...so I've created this blog to chronicle my ongoing fight against my past spending habits.  I'm going to aim for one update each two weeks.

So I give you: the list of games (now in alphabetical-ish order!).  First, the PC games:

• Abzu
• Age of Wonders
• Avernum
• Avernum 2
• Avernum 3
• Avernum 4
• Avernum 5
• Avernum 6
• Baldur's Gate (original)
• Baldur's Gate 2
• Blades of Avernum
• Civilization III
• Civilization IV
• Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
• Civilization IV: Colonization
• Civilization IV: Warlords
• Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard
• Flight of the Amazon Queen
• Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone
• Gemini Rue
• Husk
• I have No Mouth and I Must Scream
• Icewind Dale
• Icewind Dale 2
• Kentucky Route Zero
• Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (remastered)
• Little Big Adventure
• Master Reboot
• Mount & Blade
• Neverwinter Nights Diamond
• Neverwinter Nights 2
• Okhlos: Omega
• Planescape: Torment (original)
• Torment: Tides of Numenera
• Project Highrise
• Quest for Glory
• Quest for Glory 2
• Quest for Glory 3
• Quest for Glory 4
• Quest for Glory 5
• Ryse: Son of Rome
• Sim City 2000 (special edition)
• Steamworld Heist
• System Shock 2
• Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive
• Tex Murphy: Overseer
• Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon
• Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum
• Tesla Effect:  A Tex Murphy Adventure
• Treasure Adventure Game
• Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny
• Ultima VI: The False Prophet
• Ultima VII - The Black Gate + Forge of Virtue
• Ultima VII - Serpent Isle + The Silver Seed
• Ultima 8: Gold Edition
• Ultima 9: Ascension
• Ultima Savage Empire
• Ultima Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams
• Uplink
• Vangers
• Witcher 2: The Assassins of Kings
• Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt

And now the games for consoles:

• Dante's Inferno (PS3)
• Fallout 4 (PS4)
• Final Fantasy VII (PS1)
• Final Fantasy VIII (PS1)
• Final Fantasy IX (PS1)
• LA Noir (PS3)
• Last of Us (PS4)
• Link's Awakening (GB.  No I don't mean DS or GBA or even GB Colour.  Yes really.)
• Little Big Planet 3 (PS4)
• Mario 64 (N64)
• Metal Gear 2 (PS3)
• Metal Gear 3 (PS3)
• Metroid (GBA)
• Metroid Prime (Gamecube)
• Ocarina of Time (N64 and/or Gamecube)
• Ocarina of Time - Masterquest (Gamecube)
• Portal 2 (PS3)
• Resident Evil 3 (Gamecube)

And NOW, games I have finished since this project started:

• BloodNet
• Dust: An Elysian Tale
• Galactic Keep (iOS)
• Guild of Dungeoneering (iOS - not reviewed)
• Simon the Sorcerer II:  The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe
• Steamworld Dig (not reviewed)
• Stories:  The Path of Destinies
• Templar Battleforce (iOS)
• Out There (iOS)
• Out There Chronicles (iOS - not reviewed)
• Ultima IV:  Quest of the Avatar
• Wizardry 8
• X-Com 2

These lists are going to be updated as I stumble across more games that I've bought but forgotten about.  Yes, that is a thing, I feel a bit like a nerdier and less-wealthy version of Imelda Marcos.

From time to time I'll add some other reviews of games I finish, I've been playing iOS games lately and if they're worth noting I'll add them too.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is my quest.  Wish me luck!