Breaking My Backlog

If you live in the northern hemisphere of planet earth, summer officially started this week. It started, but it kind of didn't. No sweltering heat, no sticky humidity. I'm almost nervous, because it's the cloudy, cool, gray, rainy, overcast weather that I like. I'm nervous because it's not what I've come to expect after living in Ohio for twelve years.

Summer is usually reserved for two things (in my lifestyle): ultimate disc and video games. I can't spend all summer in the AC playing through my backlog of games from the year, so I enroll in an ultimate league for outside time, exercise, and friendly off-line competition. So, this flavor of droll weather is much more conducive to being outside and doing stuff or things. Whatever it is that people do. Hey, I can put on my normal camouflage and blend. Sometimes.

I'm nervous because my backlogged hole is pretty deep. I'm not sitting on that many games, but the ones in my to-play stack are life-suckingly immersive: Fallout New Vegas and Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare are the big guys. Though I'm told Undead Nightmare won't take me too long. I'm also sitting on Pokemon Black (laugh all you want, but this is the first gotta-catch-'em-all game with a story that is somewhat interesting), Dissidia Duodecim Final Fantasy (WTF names), and Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice.

These are all games that I started and just need to finish or complete to my liking. I'll probably never go as deep in a Disgaea game as I did for Disgaea 2 Dark Hero Days. The total hours for the PSP port of Disgaea 2 is now most easily tallied in weeks. Crazy sad. But I love my little sprite army and I love decimating the Land of Carnage with it. Once the story of Disgaea 3 is complete, I'll probably trade in that game. D3 is my least favorite Disgaea game (counting spin-offs) so far, maybe finishing the story will change that opinion. D3 is also my least favorite Mighty Ducks movie. But that's not saying much. So, those are the summer five. Shouldn't take too long.