It's not an addiction but an obsession

I am a patient man and this trait has aided me countless times in life. One such area has been my checkbook; rarely do I buy games at full price these days. The only exceptions are games that aren't going to drop in price anytime soon (like Nintendo games) or games from Atlus that I know are going to become rare before they become cheap. Now I know people will scoff at this but I really don't spend a lot of money on games compared to most people.

Sure I buy a lot of them but by waiting on sales I can easily stretch out my dollar. When I spend $300 in one month on video games I can say that I bought a lot more than the average gamer spending $300 a month. This also means that my spending habits are haphazard as well, one month I may not buy one game and then the next month I buy 6 or 7. However waiting on a sale comes at a price, because my spending habits are so unpredictable it means that more and more games are being bought before I have time to finish the one I'm on.

This has led to the creation of the backlog O doom that I'm now faced with. So I've decided to sit down and write up all the games that are currently in my queue. Note this is not a complete list as there is always another sale around the corner which means that it's going to grow before it gets smaller. Without further ado here are the games that I own that I still need to find time to play.



PsP:
Metal Gear Acid 1 and 2
What Did I do to Deserve this My Lord 2
Monster Hunter 2
Final Fantasy Tactics

Nintendo DS:
Infinite Space
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey

Nintendo Wii:
Monster Hunter Tri
Blaster Master
Donkey Kong Country 3
Final Fantasy: My life as a king
Sin and Punishment
Super Mario Galaxy 2


360:

Super Street Fighter 4
DarkSiders
Assassin's Creed 2
Fable 2
Devil May Cry 4
Gears of War (not the second one still have to play the first)

PS3:
Final Fantasy 13
FolkLore
Little Big Planet
Infamous
Valkyria Chronicles
Alone in the Dark Inferno
God of War Collection

and now for the big mama thanks to all those Steam Sales.

PC:

Gratuitous Space Battles
AI Wars
Fallout
Fallout 3
Tropico 3
Fear
Kings Bounty: Armored Princess
X-Com
Command and Conquer Red Alert 3
Beyond Good and Evil
Alien Vs Predator both classic and new one
Cryis
Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble
Deus Ex Invisible War
Empire Total War
Far Cry 2
Football Manager 2010
Hitman Blood Money
Mass Effect
Medieval 2 Total War
Men of War
Napoleon Total War
Puzzle Quest Galactrix
Civilizations 4 and Colonization
StormRise
Space Siege
TorchLight
Universe at War
Dawn of War 2
World in Conflict

The scary part is that not only does my list contain notoriously long games like Final Fantasy but it also includes those epic titles like the Total War series that you can easily get lost in. I hope you noticed that big titles like Alan Wake and Red Dead Revolution are not on this list, that's not because I've bought them already but because I am of course waiting for them to go on sale.

At this point if anyone knows the number of a good geneticist I need to create some clones to help me with this, although I bet time travel could work equally well.

Josh