The Pile of Shame Warpact

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Originally Posted by Bacon McShig

I think a good option to incorporate would to have people rate how inspired they are to beat each particular game at the start of their list, and then rate it again after finishing it, quitting it, or selling it off. It would be an interesting stat to track, which games had the biggest drop-off of interest, which held through about even, and which strengthened over the course of the game. Maybe people who have a certain nuber of games in which their interest dropped, but still finished it, could get a masochist award or something. Similar awards could be made for the other end of the spectrum.

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This and a lot more is planned. The idea is that, in many ways, this will be (unintentionally) a better review site than many review sites. The reason is simple - we KNOW everyone has completed the game, and we'll be getting a flat out opinion on how good it was. When you track that across many people, you'll get a better idea of what people really thought of a game. Well, assuming people don't lie relentlessly about their stacks and try to inflate results but... :P We'll watch out for that, plus this isn't a competition anyhow. It's more of an AA group for gamers :D

About the Compilations, treating each game separately is probably best. I'll change my total to reflect the Arc collection.

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Well then, my GC pile should be about 2X larger.... Really, beating every game on there (Mega Collection) would not take much longer than Metal Gear Solid 2: if your good that is.

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Did I miss the part where this is about length? This is about beating games you never got around to, be they 50-hour epics or 1-hour timewasters. Reguardless of length, each game on there is a full game.

And I'd just list the ones you're wanting to beat under whatever the full game was published on first.

It does get hazy on comps like Midway Arcade Treasures or Activision Anthology... a lot of those games weren't really designed to be beat, so I'd really just leave them out of the list completely.

If you beat Rampage on one credit, though....you're a gaming god.

I usually get rid of most games before I beat them. Crazy, I know, but otherwise I would just have too many unfinished games. Most of those I only want to play for a little bit.

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Originally Posted by Bacon McShig

Did I miss the part where this is about length? This is about beating games you never got around to, be they 50-hour epics or 1-hour timewasters. Reguardless of length, each game on there is a full game.

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Good point. I will be re-evaluating my list to reflect this.

Not really... sometimes you just burn out on something, or realize you don't enjoy the game enough to finish it. I think we're probably going to have something similar to exit polls for completed games on removed games also - eg, if you sold/traded/gave away/burned a game, why'd you do so? I'm sorta curious about the answers.

I will say running the Warpact has made me pay more careful attention to what I purchase ;)

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Originally Posted by Xeno G

PS2: 11
Xbox: 2
DC: 1
PS: 10
PC: 8
N64: 1
GBA: 7
Total: 40

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I think someone may have skiped over me when they were updating the first post ;)

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Originally Posted by Shapermc

IMHO we should make the descision on the case. I have Sonic Mega Collection for GC and it is 1 disc. I have it as one game on my list. For Arc the Lad IIRC is a seperate case for each game, I would count that as 3 games. For Origins it is 2 CDs in a Double case... I would be willing to go either way. But I think that it should somehow be based on the media, not the game #. Just my opinion.

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The main reason I asked the question in the first place was because I really have no intention of ever playing through FF1 again. I've beaten it several times in the past and it really hasn't aged well enough to merit another playthrough. I picked up FF Origins to play the one I'd never played before and was suposed to be great, FF2.

And I've decided to leave off all my shooters. For the most part I've beaten them all just not on 1 credit or 1 life. I'd like to some day do that but I'm not going to say something is on my pile of shame just because I haven't one credited it yet.

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Originally Posted by Jetman

Total : 126 !

:xx: ..... help

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I don't even own that many games.

Let's see here...

PS1: 2
GC: 2
PS2: 0
DC: 5 (it refuses to play some of my games)
PC: 4
GBA: 2

Total: 15. Hm, worse than I thought.

Can I join up if my only real purpose is to sicken others with the size of my pile?

Because it's freaking huge.

Sorry about that Xeno, suffering from Male Pattern Blindness :P

Weekend update, post your progress!

(ok, so its only been a few days, but may as well get it on a regular schedule :P)

Not much Warpact progress here, was busy playing RType and Culdcept, neither of which are on my stack. I'll probably polish off Dark Cloud 2 fairly soon though, on chapter 5 (of 8?), and the Ridepod is completely rediculous. Even without it, I'm busy building up ultimate uber weapons with all the attributes tacked on them.