The most obvious problem with a big backlog is time, a real too many games with too little time situation but I don't feel like that's too huge a problem for me personally. Sure, I'd love more time to game but I get through a decent number of games every year, usually within the triple digits no problem so it's a pretty minor factor. Another slightly less obvious problem is decision paralysis that one gets from having so many games to choose from. There have been instances where I'm trying to decide what to play next and have just sat looking at my steam list or flicking through my discs for hours without being able to land on a single thing. It usually ends up with me picking nothing and doing something else for a bit before I can decide something.
But no, the real problem comes with me being a massive idiot and not remembering what games I have bought already. The other day on my travels through Nagoya I came across a small used goods store which I decided to have a quick peek inside because sometimes these places have cheap games to buy. I was right, and there was a tiny shelf of about 6 PS3 games and a couple of PSP games, all for 200 yen each. Most of it was crap, multiple copies of some Gundam game I don't care about but I did come across a copy of Front Mission Evolved. I have heard its not that good and I know its not your usual SRPG that Front Mission usually is but for 200 yen, less than a can of Red Bull or a pack of fried chicken at Lawson? Hell yeah I'll give it a go. When I get home though, I'm going through my Steam library and there it is, Front Mission Evolved on PC sat right there in the list, I already owned the fuckin' thing and because I have so many games and I have long since forgotten what I've bought already I now own two copies of this potentially shit game.
This isn't a recent problem either, back in my high school days I bought Diablo 2 THREE fuckin times. GAME, the UK version of Gamestop or whatever, would stock copies of it for 5 pounds and I would see it on the shelf and go "oooh! Diablo 2 for a fiver? I'll take that!" only to get home and find it on the shelf by the computer. What I probably need to do is make a list on my phone of all the games I own so that next time I'm looking through a used game shop I can quickly scroll through it and confirm I don't own it already before checking out. Although with the staggering number of games I own and a complete lack of motivation this will never happen
So that it's. The biggest problem of having a massive backlog of games is that it turns you into an idiot. Front Mission Evolved isn't the first duplicate game I've bought and I can PROMISE you, it won't be the last
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