I think we all forget what the definition of a "game" is. Games are supposed to equal fun. The word "chore", or even "backlog", should never come into play(pun intended).
If a game is not fun, don't play it. I stopped playing Suikoden V because I wasn't having fun. I am playing Okami now, which is a lot of fun.
Then again, you have serious minded games like FFXII, which may not necessarily be "fun", but they are damn entertaining, and that is worth just as much.
Nowadays I either play a game to completion before starting another, or stop playing for some reason(see above). I rarely buy a new game before finishing the one I'm playing.
I never use the word Backlog in association with gaming. It makes me think of work. The day games become work is the day I stop playing them.
I agree with CW, though. Reading a thread about a game "everyone" else is playing when you're still plodding trough a game that came out a year ago can be tough. I still read them, though. Masochistic, I guess.

Saw II - Most of this movie was godawful and made no sense whatsoever.
I can't get the stupid code thing to work, so take heed that the rest is full of spoilers:





ugh. I've talked far too much about this stupid movie...

I also just started watching LOST last night.

My wife has made this on a couple of occassions. Quite tasty.

The Grim family Thanksgiving was the same boring affair it always is. Not bad, just nothing special.
DR, a bird covered with those spices sounds tasty to me.

Okami - entrenched in the Moon cave. I'm digging(pun intended) the dungeon designs in the game. Very Zelda-esque.

I picked up FFXII on Friday. I juist had to have it, even though I won't get into it until I beat Okami. I watched the intro and played until the first save point. VERY impressed already. Gonna be a great game.

Grim, who is sitting at a picnic table trying to enjoy a peanut butter and banana sandwich.
"Will you guys shut the hell up with all this "metal" nonsense! I'm trying to listen to some good old fashioned Y's music here."

He then jumps on the robots shoulder(very stylistically I might add) and starts flinging peanut butter sandwiches at the monkeys. Several of the sandwiches end up stuck in the 15" woofers, muffling the melodious metal.
The monkeys all instantly drop to the ground, writhing in pain.
"Aughgghh!" We cannot LIVE with out metal!"
The metal-lovin' monkeys are on the verge of death, when suddenly...

I'll definitely be getting this, but for the Gamecube. I'm in no hurry to get a next gen system.
The reviews I've read so far have been VERY encouraging.

Not sure why I'm chiming in here, but I just wanted to say that it made me happy to see someone playing Y's I & II. Enjoy them, man. It is a tad bit sad, though, that music in games nowadays is nowhere near as good as it was back then.

Okami -
I am in the process of locating the last 2 Canine Warriors. This game is damn weird, but I'm enjoying it.

I don't buy the whole "One vote doesn't mean anything" business. The problem with this statement is that more than one person uses it. A LOT of people use it to justify not voting. If all those folks who think their vote doesn't mean anything actually voted it could definitely sway election results.
I was hella busy yesterday but I still managed to vote after dinner.

I didn't play anymore Okami since my last comment, but I had to add that I feel extra stupid now.  I never really paid any attention to "brush smoke" or whatever it is. This could explain why I didn't do well with the infamous log. I shall pay better attention to this from now on.
<------Dumbass

Okami -
Oh my god, FUCK that goddamn log! For the life of me I couldn't get the vines to attach to the log! I don't know what I was doing wrong, but I swear it took me around 15 tries to do it. ALMOST turned the game off.
I'm now running around the Taka Plains(or whatever it's called)
I'm still loving the game, but that LOG pissed me off.

Thanks for your response Angelo. I'll try your suggestions.
We actually use Firefox, not IE, but neither one of them will work.
Last night nothing would load at all. It says I'm connected, but all I'm getting is blank pages. My wife is not happy, and I'm not good with this kind of stuff. Ask me to fix the plumbing or hammer some nails, I'm good. Ask me to fix a compter problem and I just stare blankly at the screen, hoping it fixes itself somehow.

I know this seems like an odd place to ask this, but I've been around forever and I know some of you guys really know your stuff.
I also really have no idea where to go to get help.
Anyway...
My computer at home started acting up about a week ago. When we connect to the internet(a lowly 56k connection), it says we are connected, but then won't load 9 out of 10 pages we want to load. Even Google will only load up sometimes, but then if we try to search for something nothing happens.
No error messages come up, just a blank screen. It even says "done" in the lower left-hand corner.
I wonder if we have a virus or sonething, but cant load up the right pages so I can check this.
Anyone ever have a problem like this? Or know how I can go about fixing it? ANY help would be appreciated.

Okami - I've played for about 7 or 8 hours now. I'm doing an awful lot of wandering around in this game. There seems to be a lot of secrets and such. I went into some forest, got a new weapon, completely slaughtered some dude with said new weapon, rejuvenated my second guardian sapling, then ran all the way back to Shinsu field because I couldnt find a save spot.
Great game.

I find the title of this thread odd. As if the poster isn't aware that Final Fantasy is quite the popular franchise.
Anyway...
I played Suiko V for awhile, then stopped becuase it was boring me. I actually like the game for the most part, but the battles take away from the rest of the game. I hope to return to it eventually, if only for the story.
I'm playing Okami now, and having a blast. Great game.
As for FFXII, I am anxious to play it, because it just looks and sounds amazing. It sounds ridiculously epic. I just wonder if my more casual stance on games nowadays will keep me from enjoying it. Sounds like it would take me a goddamn year to play through.