Many less appealling games had to be culled from the list as well as games that I had just got for no reason or for other people to play but I never ignored any of the games I truly wanted to play and over the last few years, I have worked my way through hundreds of games to get to this goal. And at the same time, I managed to keep ahead of the new releases and never felt behind in the gaming world.
So where to go from here? Well, there is still a wishlist of 45 or so games that I keep. About half have yet to be released and half of them I have just never got around to getting. So I'll delve into these over time and as the unreleased ones appear. 2 of these are due to come out tomottor: Wolfenstein the New Order and Transistor so these will keep me busy for a little while and then, the much touted (and future successful franchise) Watch Dogs appears next week so you can rest assured I will have plenty to say on all of these.
There are also a number of franchises that I have never delved into at all or very briefly:
- Kirby
- Castlevania
- Phoenix Wright
- Secret of Monkey Island
- Professor Layton
- Ratchet and Clank
- Jak and Daxter
- Fable
I feel I have missed out on so these will be more avenues to research. Along with plenty of favourites that I want to replay, huge games I want to play more of and piles of DLC that I have saved up, there will still be plenty of Life on the Grid to come yet.
It feels like a great achievement to have finally finished my backlog and I hope that everybody else still battling with theirs sees that it can be defeated and is not an impossible goal.
Here's to the next phase of gaming.
