When a Game Gets Stuck in your Back Catalog
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 พ.ย. 2023
- The struggle of choosing between a hype new game or a game you've been wanting to play in your back catalog
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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?
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Gamer - Michael Adams Davis
Aloy - Scarlet Sheppard
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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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Back catalogue games are great, because once that slow gaming cycle hits you always have something to fall back on.
I’ve been telling myself that for the 5+ years I’ve kept the games for but haven’t played yet😭
@@carsonhunt4642 same!!! since getting a job i know have the money to get the games and stuff i want, but not the time or want to play.
Me going back to Stardew Valley, Terraria and Minecraft for the 100th time. 😆
Agreed….. on the other hand all those other games that ive already beaten could he fun to go thru again
Yeah and then I never do lol
It is amazing to me to see how much the timing of a game can affect its success.
same with movies or technological advances i assume
And Guerrila games managed to release both horizon games close to two of the biggest games of the decade. They definitely messed up.
...maybe less than the public discernment...
(...did I say it aloud ?)
It does apply to all things, movies that could have been big but came out on the wrong weekend with bad marketing. Gadgets that were ahead of their time. Movies released next to bigger movies. It happens all too often. They do thankfully tend to become cult hits though!!
Just be a better game buh
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
i started calling it "pile of options"
Miniature painters call their stack of unpainted minis a "pile of opportunity"
I'm more shocked you made it so long without hearing the word backlog
@@holyheretic3185 I've heard backlog.... wait, is that short for back catalog? Huh...
@@NevTheDeranged nope backlog is it's own word. Back catalogue refers to all of an artists work. Backlog is the accumulation of unfinished work.
Similar concept video:
“When you have to delete games for storage”
Also her alloy cosplay is on point. 👏
I just can imagine "do you really need to have 50+ games installed baby? I'm not enought???" 😂
Aloy
@@estudiordlI stopped playing after the 360. But I’m getting a console tomorrow. Still haven’t been able to decide between Xbox and PS.
Last time I played we didn’t have digital games. Wouldn’t having a hard copy be better? Wouldn’t a hard copy be better quality than a digital copy? And what if something happens to the hard drive, you will lose all of the games. I’m gonna buy FIFA and 1 other game but I will be getting hard copies.
Build a PC. Thank me later.
@@jsilva7005 Nah man, the game is exactly the same regardless of where u get it from so quality is not an issue. Also, digital games are tied to your account not your device, so you can't lose them without somehow completely losing access to your account as well. It should also be mentioned that you can't scratch up a disk if there are no disks involved.
As far as I can tell the only reason to have hard copies nowadays are more due to wanting to see a physical version to browse through when deciding what to play or as decoration.
Edit: I forgot to add that older games are sometimes cheaper as hard copies, since the companies that sell them want to sell out their remaining stock to not lose money on them.
My steam library glares at me
Me "5 dollars is 5 dollars"
What game is stuck in your back catalog?
In December of 2021 I bought the remastered edition of Ghostbusters the video game because I had such a renewed interest in the franchise after seeing Afterlife and then stopped playing it after a certain point. And didn’t play it again until last week.
Cyberpunk 2077. I got it when I finished final fantasy xvi and I have not played it since September
(Also, SO many Nintendo games. I feel really bad about it and I feel obligated to complete them)
None I focus on the game i bought then I go to the next that I find interesting
Too many to name. I have too many games and not enough of me to play them all
Red Dead Redemption 2
Love that he skipped over balders gate that he just beat to delete horizon.
My thoughts exactly lol
'Replayability'
When Palworld launched I told my brother we had to beat Grounded first or we would never finish it.
It's popular to hate and make fun of Horizon.
@@vengefuljester2090 horizon games are literally ubisoft open world games with robot dinosaur skin, the story is mid too
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.
both games are on PC, im playing through Forbidden West rn. It's fkin magical dude.
Wait a minute! Can't you just play PS4 games on the PS5? As far as I know, you don't even have to install them on the internal SSD, but can run them from an external drive (preferably an SSD).
@@Chuck_vs._The_Comment_Section you can but I gave it up for my Xbox Series X
@@Kokopelli711 Ouch.. why? Considering Microsoft release their games for both Steam and even PS5 now, while Sony still refuses to do the same on Xbox, there is literally no reason to own an Xbox today.
Love how he's finished with BG, but doesn't even consider deleting it over Aloy.
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.
My poor sweet child... I have a backlog from 1992 (Sonic 2 on Master System) and am well over 500 games in my backlog 😭 Don't become like me!!!
It took me 20 years to finish Alundra 2....AND I STILL HAVEN'T FINISHED ALUNDRA 1!!
I recommend tackling Mass Effect trilogy when you get a chance. The Legendary edition remaster is the definitive way to play the games and it’s great $ value.
Mine has Skyrim in it. I have it at halfway. And Final Fantasy 15, too. And The Witcher 3. And others.
If Valve has money to pay The Warp Zone hopefully in the future they have enough money to make good games like Spiderman 2, Tears of the Kingdom, Alan Wake 2, RE4 and Super Mario Wonder 😅
@@RicPendragonyet the key... continues... to... turn...
The Horizon games are games of the generation for me, but I recognize that not everyone feels that way.
Yeah, I love “Horizon: Zero Dawn”! 🤘I want to finish it first before I even start the first “Spider-Man”; then I can move on to “Horizon: Forbidden West” and “Spider-Man 2.” 🙂
Yeah, I bought a PS5 just for Forbidden West. I've played Horizon so many times.
@@MarkEmerAndersonII I recently bought my PS5, too. I’ll be getting “Forbidden West” for it sometime. I want to finish “Zero Dawn” first. I know “Forbidden West” is also on the PS4, but I think the PS5 version will be better and more worth it.
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).
Nice detail at 3:31 having the actress who played Aloy be in the game's thumbnail.
The Aloy cosplay is amazing!
She really did! Although the real Aloy would have kicked his ass! LOL (No disrespect to Davis. I’m sure he’s a good guy in Real Life.) 🤘🙂🤘
In Aloy's defense, horizon games are great
Man, Micheal lost a lot of weight. Good for him.
I hope he's not sick or anything. It's kind of alarming how much he lost
Davis or Schroeder?
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.
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.
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.
This hits different cause I just finished Spider-Man the other week and actually have that Horizon in my backlog right now 😭
Hey warp zone just wanna say your videos have been incredibly awesome and I mean that personally you are all completely amazing 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
I want to see sequel where he finally plays it and she has few words to him about deleting her
Unabashed Aloy Fan. I would play with Aloy, all day any day.
They don't know what they're missing. Though with how they treat her. They don't deserve to play Horizon. People like this would rather just drag the game through the mud and mock it than admit it's a great game
@@vengefuljester2090i dont think their bashing her, its just that other games are more inconic and just as good.
As long as its her character model from the first game
@@vengefuljester2090 relax man nobody here's bashing Horizon
@@olofman300 got me thinking and you are right. Something was just off in part 2.
That was so well written! For a moment I thought it's an actual relationship 😂
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.
I've had to do that exact same thing with that game. 😂
It's worse when you've started playing a game and fall off when something else catches your eye. Especially big open worlds. You try jumping back in but you're torally lost and forgot how most of the game works.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is a prime example of that for me. And funny enough, the same for Horizon Zero Dawn.
I did that with Hogwarts Legacy. I considered restarting because of the new free DLC drop but didn't want to lose my progress 😂😂😂 Someone send help!
The fact that he didn’t delete balders gate 3 after he already beat it is so funny to me
This video is so true to real life.
"When video game characters are like overly attached girlfriends" could have been also the title.
Opinions are opinions, but Horizon was one of my games of the generation
Same. I hope they get a 3rd installment to finish the story.
Its been confirmed a 3rd is in the works@@TheBorhork
I agree. I’ve loved both games and hope the 3rd game pushes the envelope and lets us make some big RPG choices for Aloy’s character.
It was a great game... but it came out during a bad time...
Same!
Aloy deserves to be your Main Game!!
this is me in a nutshell, keep wanting to play the first horizon game but something else keeps coming along.
That Insomniac Spider-Man was pretty cool.
That Aloy haircut looked really good ! And also I feel way too called out.
This happened with me for both horizon games, I played a couple hours of it, then stopped and played a bunch of other games for months, then I finally come back to it and I’m finally in the mode to actually complete it
This is the wildest bedroom roleplay I have ever seen.
Awesome. Have Scarlet in your videos more often!
This video has me guiltily looking at my Steam library 😂
Let’s be honest no way Alloy was going to beat the excitement of playing Spider-Man 2 😂
As someone who's played both Horizon games and completed the latest DLC, I find that statement sceptical.
Clearly you have not played Horizon Zero Dawn. It is awesome.
Spider-Man has been a mainstay for a while so it is more popular. Horizon is new but its one of the best looking graphics of all time. Both games are great in their own way and I played both, although still have not bought spider man 2.
Regardless Sony’s exclusives are really top notch.
@@ricklotter eh, I think it’s the most mid ps exclusive ngl. I liked it, but I didn’t find to be that impressive. And it definitely doesn’t stand up to the likes of Spiderman or god of war or even uncharted.
Horizon zero dawn was a better experience than Spiderman.
This is me when I have a back catalogue of 60 games and some alI havent even started even though I got them 5 years ago.
I still have the first horizon on back log this hits close
I have a library in my back log
Added to my "Watch later" playlist
Don't forget us!
This hit home..... hit home HARD. I've had back catalog games that were there so long that they were replaced by a new generation...
I have literally had both Horizon games sitting in the queue forever. This video is disturbingly accurate to specifically me.
Why does this hit so hard
Pixar should create a movie "Game Story", where games in library just want to be played. Just like Toy Story
The ending is why you always buy physical. No need to ever worry about hard drive space except for updates and DLC. It's all there on the disc/cartridge.
Currently replaying HZD and her aloy costume is so good!
Wow...this happen to me...I kept putting forbidden west off. I bought it ages ago but only just beat the main story (After finishing Alan Wake 2, Spider-Man 2, Fallen Order and Baulders Gate 3). Got the DLC but now im working Jedi Survivor...
I’m glad y’all are back ❤
Welcome back Warp Zone! Thought I never see another video again!
I have a massive back catalog of stuff I hadn’t played on the PC and gotta check each out. It got worse I deleted a bunch.
Batman Arkham Asylum and all its sequels are sitting installed on my computer waiting for over a decade now.
the other 11 like a dragon games in my library watching as I spend another entire night doing the Cabaret Club minigame in Yakuza 0
I've had horizon forbidden West on my backlog forever.....I feel called out 😂
Yall got me dying of laughter over here - keep it up!
horizon are great games though , but yes second game also was stuck in my back catalog until i got ps5! totally worth it though
And that’s why I like physical media
I thought there was going to be a jump scare in the end
I call it “New Game Disease.”
Kratos is on sleep mode for over 500h…mostly BG3, but it was already off when I started BG3.
My catalog still grows
Steam Library watching me buying random games during discount that i never gonna play in the future 😂.
Bro, why you gotta put me on blast like that?
As someone who back catalogued horizon for 4 years i can relate
Funny thing is I’m playing it right now. But stopped to finish Super Mario RPG
This one is literally in my back catalogue, lol
I'm just glad to see Davis's long hippie hair. What can I say? It makes him look gorgeous.
Reminds me of some games that I have had installed for over a year and have yet to officially play.
I have a game backlog from the PS2 Era. I can just imagine all the main characters standing in a line.
Surprised they still upload made my Childhood ❤️
The funny thing is i got horizon in my back catalogue that i havnt finished yet
I fell into a depression and couldn’t play anything for a whole year, so I’m super behind on a lot of games. Between work I’ve gotten through most of them. I’m playing Mario RPG right now. And then Sea of Stars. Then I might try to finally play Tears of the Kingdom.
I shall buy and play Alloy in honor of her!
My back catalog game is Immortals Fenyx Rising, played about 2/3 of it last year and haven't touched it since. I keep thinking about it but just isn't the time yet.
If thst was me I would've done that to BG3 to make space for Spider-Man since I just finished it.
Yeah... I am just glad other people felt the same way about the Horizon games as i did... I just couldn't bite.
I have to dedicate most of my video game play time to Evil Android 21 from Dragon Ball FighterZ.
0:02, dude, I'm planning to play this game soon, if I don't get that PC Game Pass. 3:17, but if I get it, _"Yeah, boyyyyy!"_ - Hellblade 2. 3:19, me: _"Wait: does my GTX 1060 is meant for minimum specs for you?!"_ . 3:25, Hellblade 2: _"Yeah, it looks like you're going to have to make some gear, brah"_ . 3:36, me: _"Goodbye Hellblade 2... for good!"_ .
Never thought I'd see the origins of corporate guy.
I don’t have time for my back catalogue I’m too busy re playing the same games
The idea of video game characters coming to life & forcing you to play their game right their right now is terrifying because I currently have Injustice 2 at the back of my catalogue. And I don’t want to piss off prototype Homelander.
Too real I legit have this game sitting there and want to play
There are games that I've downloaded and deleted several times, all without ever starting to play. One day though...
That reminds me of when that happened with Robocop Rogue City this year.
Robocop rogue city isn’t high budget though
@@Deathmare235 I know but I was putting it off for a bit.
"Looks like you're gonna have to make some space, brah!" ROFLLLL
The funny thing is that I still need to finish Horizon and I haven't touched it in half a year and I keep meaning to play it when I see the icon on my desktop..
Dump his ass, Aloy! You are too good for him.
He said I'm not ready for a big open world action but then Spiderman 2 is an open world action game
This is pretty dang real to me, with the exact game. Still haven't done either Horizon Zero Dawn games despite owning them both, other games just seem better to me and I can't keep my attention any time I try to boot them up
I spent three hours in Jedi Survivor a few days later I got Baldurs Gate 3 and haven’t touched it…or Lords of the Fallen.
He friendzoned her like a pro.
This is literally the same relationship I have with monster hunter stories 2 god I need to get back into it because it's not bad
Kept village installed...
This guy's alright
I feel called out... but there are so many games!
I just bought GTA5 on Steam and imagine if this happened where Trevor strangles me until I play it.
Anyone who’d choose to delete Horizon over Fortnite probably cosumes those energy drinks that KSI & Jake Paul endorse everyday
Fortnite is an online game, you can play with friends also it doesn’t take up much storage
@@Deathmare235 Everything people nowadays is usually via online mode though
You know what sucks teens probaly never have this problem during summer finish a game in one week meanwhile we take months