BertieWooster

Movement!

The first game has been conquered!

LA Noire, wherein I was literally 80% done the final case, has been cracked.

Phenomenal, wrenching, thought-provoking ending. Possibly unlike anything I've ever seen in a video game.

@Devoid: For sanity's sake, I didn't even think about the pile of (mostly maybe not entirely legally obtained - read: torrents) DS games. Well, metaphorical pile. As much as things can be piled on an SD card.

And the less said about the page (with folders) of games on my iPhone that I've never touched, the better.

Man, I am a black hole.

@abdo: Oh don't worry, I'm on my second consecutive summer of a game-buying embargo until I finish (arbitrarily pulling a number out of the air) 15 of these.

Last summer the embargo was only 5 games (Finished in the 2010 backlog: Brutal Legend, Just Cause 2, Super Mario Galaxy, The Saboteur and Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time). And then I spent most of the last year buying 2/3 of the game on this list.

Oh God, Steam. Luckily we've only got Macs in the house (and only a Mini and a 5 year old Macbook at that), so my Steam capabilities are limited, but I still forgot about a few from there (did remember the Telltale games though, as that was where those were cheapest).

Now I've gotta go back and add Machinarium, And Yet It Moves and Torchlight (easily the biggest shame on there, which I've visited the first town and that's it).

Also, definitely feeling a little more guilty seeing these responses with single games in their shame pile. Kudos to all of you more strong than I in your resolve to actually get shit done.

Hey duders,

Just got a bunch of stuff off my chest via the list creation tool.

I'm sure we've all got them. Piles of shame, unfinished or unopened games sitting next to our TVs, mocking us.

I just helpfully itemized mine, making me realize that there is literally hundreds of dollars of guilt staring at me from my media shelves.

Also, doing the rough math of how many hours it would take to finish all of these, it's something like 8-10 full-time work-weeks.

Anyone else care to take part in the same exercise/dissect mine and help with a plan of attack?

You can find my (embarrassingly lengthy) list here.

Probably not a groundbreaking topic, I know, but cathartic.

Man, I'm really in the minority here.

Hell yeah, black and white, first playthrough, hint chimes and music cues turned off.

Blow out the brightness and contrast in the settings, tweak the contrast on my TV, and it's every hard-boiled pulp noir murder mystery dream I've ever had come to life.

I'm only through the tutorial missions so far, but even the first mission shows off how nice the black and white looks. The lighting in this game is clearly very well done, well thought-through and designed - the flashlight in the first case looks totally era-appropriate.

I almost found the color palette in the game a little muted anyway, so this makes it feel more fitting to the mood.

Alpha Protocol got hosed in the Northies! Recount! Recount!
 
But seriously, busted as that game is in some pretty significant ways, Steven Heck is a pretty fantastic Nolan North performance.

Done! Great clues from above (waka waka + gender confusion).

My first sojourn into this, driving me crazy.
 
Just watched "The Maltese Falcon" on TCM, and like most Bogart pictures in the 40s, it featured Syndey Greenstreet.
 
There was a mystery game, for either Commodore generation or early PCs, where lots of the suspects/characters were close take-offs of famous mystery authors/actors/characters. Pretty simplistic, lots of white backgrounds and cartoony headshot photos. One of the characters was a close takeoff of Greenstreet. I'm pretty sure they straight up used "Sidney" but very slightly messed with the last name. He was fat. Wow, I'm being hugely helpful here. 
 
I remember very little else. Anyone?