Welcome to Tales from the Backlog! I'm Capsulejay and this a blog in which I'll collect my thoughts and impressions as I tackle my videogame backlog while also playing some of the highlights from the current release schedule. The main focus will be on games available for Nintendo systems and PC. I've been kicking around the idea of starting a game blog for some time now, but like any self-respecting millennial, it took a hashtag and a made-up holiday (#Blaugust) to motivate me to finally get started.
The way I keep track
of my gaming backlog is by using a videogame library manager called
Grouvee. I could gush all day about how great Grouvee is (especially
that it automatically syncs with Steam), but I'll spare you that and
just say that I highly recommend it if you have a big library of
games to sort through. For the past year, I've also been writing
reviews for each game I beat in my backlog and posting them to my
Grouvee profile. Any subsequent reviews I write will be posted here
as well. See links below for my backlog and those previous reviews:
Previous Reviews : https://www.grouvee.com/user/Capsulejay/reviews/
As for the hardware
I'm playing on, for the past decade or so, I've primarily been a pure
Nintendo guy, so I of course have a 3DS and a Wii U as well as most
of the previous Nintendo systems. However, a year ago I decided to
dive back into PC gaming (my wife's influence), so I also have a
self-assembled gaming desktop computer. If you're interested in the
specs or details of that machine, see the write-ups I did for PC Part
Picker below:
Original Budget
Machine: https://pcpartpicker.com/b/K8tJ7P
Current Build: https://pcpartpicker.com/b/q9D8TW
A related topic I'll
be covering in this blog are “gaming shames,” i.e. games that as
a life-long gamer I'm embarrassed to say that I've never played. I'm
making it a goal to finally get to some of these will post more about
each one as I play them.
I'm looking forward
to traveling further on this backlog journey, sharing my thoughts,
and discussing games; so thanks for reading and expect my first
game-specific post very soon!
PS: Feel free to hit
me up on Twitter!
Hey mate, nice blog, looks like we have similar taste in games. I've been reading through your reviews. Check out my blog if it tickles your fancy.
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Thanks for checking out my blog! I enjoyed comparing our respective Persona 4 reviews. I'll be sure to give your other posts a look!
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