Tag: GoG

My Pile of Games

I am registered at Battle.net, GoG, Humble Bundle, and of course Steam with active accounts and mainly buy (or am gifted) games on these platforms. I also had to register on Origin and Uplay for some games, because publishers said so.

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Steam

As I own an account there since 2004, the most relevant (and trackable) platform is of course Steam; so I pulled up some data from Steamdb.info to get a first overview:

  • Worth: 4.002€ (1.228€ with sales)
  • Games owned: 252
  • Games played: 81 (32%)
  • Hours on record: 2.762,5h
  • Time to finish everything: 2.665h or 111 days, 1 hour, 40 minutes (courtesy of Steamleft.com)

Completed games from these 81 above mentioned are (hours of play and % unlocked achievements added):

  • Aliens: Colonial Marines (6h, 38%)
  • Battletech (61h, 37%)
  • Brothers – A Tale of Two Sons (4h, 100%)
  • Dragon Age Origins: Ultimate Edition (105h)
  • Final Fantasy XIII (62h, 40%)
  • Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition (124h, 71%)
  • Mass Effect (32h)
  • Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor (33h, 61%)
  • Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom (54h, 49%)
  • NieR: Automata (44h, 57%)
  • Ori and the Blind Forest (16h, 80%)
  • Rise of the Tomb Raider (29h, 27%)
  • Shadowrun Returns (17h)
  • Tales from the Borderlands (8h, 100%)
  • Tom Clancy’s The Division (131h) – service game, but completed
  • Tomb Raider (20h, 48%)
  • Tyranny (54h, 44%)

Active games that I still play and want to either finish or pursue:

  • Final Fantasy XIV (1381h)

Stalled games I lost interest, but want to finish some day:

  • Aarklash Legacy (95min, 7%)
  • Bayonetta (50min, 4%)
  • Divinity: Original Sin (50h, 31%)
  • Kingdoms of Amalur (3h, 2%)
  • Life is Strange (11h, 27%)
  • Monster Hunter World (135h, 58%)
  • Shadowrun: Dragonfall – Director’s Cut (5h, 10%)
  • Tales of Berseria (14h, 8%)
  • Tower of Time (7h, 19%)

Really want to play games in the upcoming future:

  • Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age
  • Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
  • Middle Earth: Shadow of War

Of course there are so much more games in this library that I want to play, and many that I will never play. There is quite an amount of gifted games in there, so not all these games have been bought.

Good old Games (GoG)

My account on GoG was created 2014 and I use this account not only to collect some romanticized games from my teenage years, but also to support GoG & CD Project Red with their own games, like Witcher and Gwent. My activity with GoG games mainly falls into the ‘Really want to play’ category, but somehow I never take this leap of faith.

Briefly some stats on my library and what has been played so far.

  • Games owned: 38
  • Games played: 3
  • Hours on record: 246h

Completed games include the following:

  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Game of the Year Edition (175h, 61%)
  • Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales (43h, 84%)

Active games that I currently play occasionally:

  • Gwent: The Witcher Card Game (28h, 54%)

Really want to play games in the upcoming future:

  • Baldur’s Gate I & II
  • Battle Isle
  • Icewind Dale I & II
  • Neverwinter Nights I & II
  • Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition

Battle.net

Yes, I am a big Blizzard fan and I think their games always have (or more had) a very special attention to detail and an awesome gameplay loop. Their skills in delivering such experiences have dramatically waned of late, so I am not playing their games that much anymore.

Below an overview and an estimation of my playtimes. Maybe I will update this list, when I log into one of the games or subscribe later again.

  • Destiny 2 (approx. 100-160h)
  • Diablo 3 (approx. 1.200h)
  • Hearthstone (approx. 20h, mainly on iPad)
  • Heroes of the Storm (approx. 15-20h)
  • Overwatch (approx. 30-40h)
  • Starcraft 2 (approx. 120h, the only game I still play once in a while)
  • World of Warcraft (played from 2006 – 2010 as my main game; should be several thousand hours… holy sh**!)

Origin & Uplay

I hardly own games exclusively available on these two platforms. Still noteworthy are the following games:

  • Dragon Age 2 (2h, still want to finish one day)
  • Dragon Age 3 (not started, want to play it, but so many people say I should not bother…)
  • Star Wars – The Old Republic (around 500-800h)

Look at that size…

As you can see, I played (and still play) a lot of hours and actually have not accomplished that much; which probably is giving me this strong feeling of incompletedness, I am so much bothered with.

I will try to keep this post updated and as accurate as possible. Whenever I write on specific games I will of course link them through here.

Surveying my Piles of Shame.

Just to give an impression on the vastness, depth, length, and composition I tried to quantify my piles and give not only perspectives but also dimensions. This will of course not be a complete report, but more a lengthy post. Too many intricacies and changes to cover, in order to be complete. So also here, there will be a notion of incompleteness lingering.

Before we start some ramifications on what is measuered and how I will approach these piles according to their medium. For games it is easy, as I will try to list (or link) my respective libraries, and go into what has been completed, what has been stalled, and what remains to be done. With books it is also easy, as I will list them along and I actually have an app for that, to better keep track. My watchlist mainy consists of anime, and I will not list series or movies, unless I deem them really noteworthy.

This post will be updated regularly, so changes (hopefully) will happen over time.