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  We’re lucky to live in a time where we have access to a seemingly unlimited amount of games at any moment. Whether it be via our consoles, handhelds, or PCs; we can access any number of games both old and new at any moment. But what if we were put in a position where we were limited in that regard? The idea of having 5 desert island/forever games has been discussed online for a while now, though the main thing that brought my mind to this question was watching Scott the Woz’s video on the subject recently. The question never really gets uninteresting. If you could only play 5 games and those 5 games only for the rest of your life, what would they be? What makes this hypothetical different from just asking someone for their 5 favorite games is that it asks a person to consider what games they find to be infinitely replayable. A game being in a person's top 5 might not automatically be the best possible choice when you can only play 5 games forever. Say someone’s favorite game e...

  If you've spent any amount of time viewing game discussion online, you might have heard people talking about their backlog. The concept is simple, a person's backlog represents the different games they haven't tried yet but want to play at some point or another. The way people describe their backlog however makes the concept seem similar to this formidable beast they're contending with. An unending list of games to play that’s constantly added on to, a mountain that one can never hope to conquer. While there are a lot of games releasing on a constant basis, I don’t think this means that the backlog can or should be an ever expanding list. There are plenty of ways to go about having a backlog that are manageable and more healthy than the way I often see people describe it online. So today, let’s delve into those ideas for a bit, on how to maintain a healthy relationship with your backlog. Lots of Games Out There, How Do We Manage Them All? One practice that I recommend...