What backloggery is this?!

As you can read in the "about me" section, I state that I've got a hefty backlog of games that I've either not finished, or not touched at all. At the time when I started my grand adventure to clear them all, I had 52 games. It's ludicrous when I look back at all of the times when I was complaining that I didn't have anything new or fun to play, when I had 52 freakin games just sitting there waiting to be cracked open and experienced. I suppose a better place to be ranting about this would be http://www.backloggery.com/, but that site's been in reconstruction for half of a year, so I'll just get it all out here.

Playstation

- Alundra

-Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

-Chrono Cross

-Dragon Seeds

-Norse by Norsewest,

-RPG Maker

-Spyro: Year of the Dragon

-Threads of Fate

-Valkyrie Profile

-Vagrant Story

-Vandal Hearts

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Playstation 2

-Atelier Iris

-Atelier Iris 2

-God of War 2

-ICO

-Jak X: Combat Racing (Complete)

-Katamari Damacy

-La Pucelle Tactics

-Legaia 2

-Magna Carta

-Mana Khemia

-Megaman X Command Mission (Complete)

-Megaman X7

-Megaman X8

-Okami

-Persona 3

-Romancing Saga

-Shadow Hearts

-Shadow Hearts: Covenant

-Shadow Hearts: From the New World

-Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga

-Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga II

-Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne

-Suikoden Tactics

-Wild Arms 5 (Complete)

-Wild Arms Alter Code F

-Ys: Ark of Nepishtim (Complete)

Gamecube

-Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

-Mario Kart: Double Dash

-Tales of Symphonia

Xbox 360

-Blue Dragon (In Progress)

-Forza 2

-Kung Fu Panda

-Lego Indiana Jones

-Marvel Ultimate Alliance

-Mass Effect 2(Renegade)

-Plants vs. Zombies – (Complete)

-Red Faction: Guerilla

Nintendo DS

-Golden Sun: Dark Dawn (Complete)

-Harvest Moon: Grand Bazaar

-Pokémon Platinum

-Suikoden Tierkreis (Complete)

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Playing through my backlog, you can find some real gems hidden within a pile of hate. For instance, not on this list but only recently played is Odin Sphere. A truly fantastic game which draws upon some of the most interesting mythos in our very own world, with beautiful visuals, an engaging story, interesting characters, and one of the most satisfying end-games I've seen in a game in a very long time. It quickly shoved its way into my Top 5 for Playstation 2 RPGs. As for the pile of hate, well, just look at one of those titles which I've finished. I'm talking about you, Megaman X: Command Mission.

Let's paint a picture real quick. You're walking down the street, minding your own business, a little bored but otherwise okay. Then you get fed up with watching your feet pitter-patter against the pavement and look up. Behold! There, standing in front of you in all his glory, is your childhood hero. The figure you fantasize about adventuring with on a daily basis. You want to be this guy. You want everything to do with him. Just as you flash a big toothy smile and start to move towards him to ask for his autograph, fuckin WHAM. He's run over by a bus because he was stupid enough to be standing in the middle of the street, looking for directions. All that's left of him now is a mangled, lifeless corpse which is now in the process of being bounced between the cars of oncoming traffic.

That's what Megaman X: Command Mission did to me. Now, I've played a large amount of JRPGs, so I can wade through years of bullshit to find a redeeming quality or two in a game. Not this game. I love Megaman as a series. It's my childhood, it's my adolescence, it's the very spark of my video gaming life. I would wade through a literal hurricane of fire and hate to get to the eye of the storm so I could bask in the wonderful sunlight that can only be found within a megaman game. This game has no such sunlight. It is the first game I've found that I literally cannot defend. The music sounded like one track, constantly remixed, it took forever to progress your statitics, and you NEEDED to, the characters made me want to punch my TV, the story was about as cliche as a story could get, and the entire thing REEKED of Saturday Morning Cartoons. I don't know exactly what I was expecting when I went into this. I'm pretty sure I went in expecting nothing, and I was STILL disappointed. Bad show, game. Bad show.

As I continue to chug through my backlog, I'll post reviews on the games I play shortly after I finish them. until then, you get to handle my rants and raves about anything else gaming-related! Additionally, if anyone has any suggestions as to what game I play next, feel free to post them!