When a Game Gets Stuck in your Back Catalog

The struggle of choosing between a hype new game or a game you've been wanting to play in your back catalog

When a Game Gets Stuck in your Back Catalog
A gamer chats with Aloy from Horizon to discuss the struggle of playing games from your back catalog. Spider-Man then swings in to make matters worse. Should he play the shiny brand new Spider-Man 2 game or finally start the Horizon franchise from his backlog?

STARRING
Gamer - Michael Adams Davis

Aloy - Scarlet Sheppard

Spider-Man (body) - David Odom
Spider-Man (voice) - Michael Schroeder

Written by Michael Adams Davis and Michael Schroeder
Directed by Michael Schroeder
Produced by Brian Fisher and David Odom
VFX by Richard Cabrera of Romthirty VFX - @ROMTHIRTY
Edited by Brian Fisher
Cinematography by Mitch Anderson
Makeup by Mel Aksamit
Aloy Costume by Lena Frostestad

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[boyntonfamilyeb]

Back catalogue games are great, because once that slow gaming cycle hits you always have something to fall back on.

[VoodooV]

It is amazing to me to see how much the timing of a game can affect its success.

[TheWarpZone]

What game is stuck in your back catalog?

[NevTheDeranged]

I love how they call it "back catalog" instead of "pile of shame", I might go with that from now on, it's less incriminating =P

[KingdomHearts]

Similar concept video:
“When you have to delete games for storage”

Also her alloy cosplay is on point. 👏

[UrvineSpiegel]

My steam library glares at me
Me "5 dollars is 5 dollars"

[Kokopelli]

To be fair, Horizon was one of the biggest reasons I hated giving up my PS4. That game was so beautiful with the right mix of in-game lore, open world experience and storytelling.

[matthewcharles]

Love that he skipped over balders gate that he just beat to delete horizon.

[Jhnnyhm]

Spider-Man 2 is much shorter than Horizon (I did all missions, unlocks, and upgrades in 21 hours), so it's an awesome "take a break before the next big one" kind of game. And evidently, people really enjoy playing around in it without paying mind to objectives, so good for them.

My backlog is about 170 games. It includes the Mass Effect and Bioshock series, plus Sly 4 on PS3.

[kaigung]

Love how he's finished with BG, but doesn't even consider deleting it over Aloy.

[italiansoutherner]

Nice detail at 3:31 having the actress who played Aloy be in the game's thumbnail.

[bluefox]

The Horizon games are games of the generation for me, but I recognize that not everyone feels that way.

[WikiSorcerer]

Speaking as a fan of the Horizon games... I totally relate. I actually didn't play Horizon Zero Dawn until many months after I got it. Ironically, I got it at the same time as the first Spider-Man game and I was just more sicced at playing that. Then the pandemic hit and it gave me the excuse to play Horizon and I've been a fan ever since.

[glorovuami]

honestly horizon zero dawn is my fav open world game, I just love the concept of the world (i mean beautiful land with ruins and robot+dinosaur creatures? what can be better?!), the graphics, the combat system, I often look back to the game and miss it. It's truly amazing, I highly recommend it! Also do you really start another open-world game right after finishing another? I more like have a cycle of rpg, horror, platform, logical and choice-matter story games. Right now and during recent weeks I've been really hungry for a platform game but I have yet to finish exploring Skellige and Toussant to 100% and doing blood and wine quests in Witcher 3 (don't get me wrong though, I love the game).

[SlayerRanger]

I've missed you guys, good to see a new sketch, how I've been playing Spider-Man 2, and it's all I've been playing.

[gamerguy]

As someone who didn't play Elden Ring (not a fan of the Souls games personally), I'm definitely glad I had an alternative in Forbidden West to play during that time period. It wasn’t revolutionary, but I had enough fun with it to be existed for a third game in the series.

[DchanZockt]

"When video game characters are like overly attached girlfriends" could have been also the title.

[Ryanspeer]

Hey warp zone just wanna say your videos have been incredibly awesome and I mean that personally you are all completely amazing 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[danielknapp]

One does not simply play through Balder's gate 3 just once.
Also, 130 hours to finish the game? That sounds like speedrun time to me.

[danielmcphee]

I want to see sequel where he finally plays it and she has few words to him about deleting her