2016 - The 12 Month Pile Plan

ClockworkHouse wrote:

I'm curious: what do you have on your lists for February? I have one game that's not even an urgent release.

Honestly? Not much. Maaaaybe XCOM 2? Really, I'm kind of in the same boat as you--I don't have all that much until April. However, even then it's really only Dark Souls 3 that's a guaranteed purchase. It's pretty much all backlog stuff (Witcher 3, Bloodborne, and whatever Game Club games are in the hopper) until then. It's kind of surprising for me because January has been a pretty light month in terms of impulse purchases. I think I might actually be able to finish some of these games I've started

shoptroll wrote:

PSA: Backloggery is going to start rolling out its incomplete site revamp one page at a time. This smells like a desperation move and I have a really really strong feeling this isn't going to go smoothly. So if you're like me and still actively use the site expect a lot of stuff to start breaking.

http://backloggery.tumblr.com/post/1...

The change doesn't feel that jarring, at least for what I've seen on the front page. *shrug* I kinda like Backloggery, I've become attached to it, I guess.

beeporama wrote:
Gravey wrote:

Count me in the camp who don't quite align with Backloggery's statuses. It's very "old school" gamer terminology, when every game was a challenge with a win state, and we had all the time in the world, between homework and bedtime, to find every secret.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

Backloggery is a great tool for collectors to track their retro game collections. It doesn't work as well outside of that paradigm.

That's a great insight, with the existence of "Completed" and even "Mastered" status for bragging rights but little concession to modern games and less clear-cut "win" states.

That makes sense. So its retro pixel look isn't just for show.

I was thinking this morning, that even though I had all the time in the world when I was kid, and only infrequently got new games thus had all the attention in the world to focus on them, I rarely beat any games. In fact, Final Fantasy IV is the only (non-fighting) game I can think of that I finished. I lost my FFVI save, I sold my SNES before finishing Chrono Trigger, I'd abandon each Dragon Warrior when I could play the next, and I would play the hell out of the first half of most games, over and over. Never saw the second worlds of Doom or Quake. I never felt compelled to finish a game, or complete it, let alone "master" it. I'd just put White Zombie in the CD player and play E1M1 again for the millionth time.

So as I try to work out the best way for me to use the monthly and yearly pile threads and Backloggery, I'm coming to the conclusion that some disciplined, systematic approach to playing all my games is maybe not actually not what I need—in fact, is even counter-productive. I like Backloggery as a way to remind myself of unplayed games, and announcing in the pile threads when I intend to knock off such-and-such a game. But anything more systemized than that I think just makes me feel more anxious, when pile-tackling is supposed to be the opposite.

It's funny how I don't have the same attitude to my books at all. I have roughly the same number of books and games (~350), but far more unread books, maybe a third of them, and most of those bought years or even decades ago. But I don't even think about my pile—and it is literally a pile, multiple piles, on my night stand, on another shelf in the room, and in the den. And I definitely don't let it stop me from buying more books. I want to say the difference has something to do with consumerism and disposability, but I'm not sure. Used bookstores, back when they were plentiful and cheap, used to be the books equivalent of a Steam sale!

ClockworkHouse wrote:

I'm curious: what do you have on your lists for February?

Fire Emblem. That should take up plenty of time.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

I'm curious: what do you have on your lists for February?

I'm looking at the release list, and there are a couple things I will probably play eventually, but nothing I need to have at launch. I will probably pick up a game in February, but it would be an "older" game.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

I'm curious: what do you have on your lists for February? I have one game that's not even an urgent release.

[maniacal laughter] Can I include the last week of January and the first week of February too? Trick question, I'm including them.

Spoiler:

29/01 - Final Fantasy Explorers, Trails in Cold Steel
05/02 - Legend of Legacy, XCOM 2
12/02 - Etrian Odyssey Untold 2
19/02 - Fire Emblem: Fates
26/02 - Bravely Second
04/02 - Twilight Princess Finally Waggle-Free Edition HD

Yokai Watch is coming on some unannounced 1Q date, and I am definitely interested in that one. I also have moderate curiosity about the Digimon game (05/02) and Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon (19/02)

Lots of tough choices to make.

Gravey wrote:

It's funny how I don't have the same attitude to my books at all. I have roughly the same number of books and games (~350), but far more unread books, maybe a third of them, and most of those bought years or even decades ago. But I don't even think about my pile—and it is literally a pile, multiple piles, on my night stand, on another shelf in the room, and in the den. And I definitely don't let it stop me from buying more books.

Likewise. I cannot abide the thought of living in a home which isn't filled with books and the prospect of not having new books on my shelves scares me. There is nothing so comforting as being surrounded by books and all the promise that they contain. I read to the tune of ~200 books a year and I still won't read everything which I'd like to in my lifetime. Doesn't bother me in the slightest, nor do the many untouched tomes on my shelves and kindle. In fact, I find their presence uplifting. They're promises of good things waiting for me to reach out when circumstance and mood is right to appreciate them.

I try to view my games in the same way as I do my books. Mostly successfully. The main cause of difference is the time commitment. 100 pages per hour means that books go by a heck of a lot quicker than your average 40+ hour RPG. It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the games and panicky about what to play in which order.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

I'm curious: what do you have on your lists for February?

Mine hasn't changed...

Mantid wrote:

Crap. They announced that Megadimention Neptunia VII for the same week as XCOM2.

I'm going to need an extra month next month...

That's 160+hours of gaming coming out in the first week of February! Who has time for anything else?!

Interesting comparison. I read a lot but I do have books on the pile. Doesn't stress me nearly as much as the game pile. Need to figure out why that is.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

I'm curious: what do you have on your lists for February? I have one game that's not even an urgent release.

The only Must Buy games for me in February (and note I'm getting Final Fantasy Explorers next week so perhaps that counts) are Mighty No. 9 and Fire Emblem: Fates. However, I am tempted by Gravity Rush Remastered, Digimon: Cyber Sleuths (don't look at me like that), Project X Zone 2 and Street Fighter V. Of those temptations, Gravity Rush Remastered and Project X Zone 2 are the most likely to be purchased, even if only later down the line, perhaps during a Black Friday sale.

As for what I have listed up until May:

Spoiler:

Mario and Luigi: Paper Jam is in the temptation pile for January. In March, I'm definitely buying Twilight Princess HD with Republique and Hyrule Warriors Legends in the Maybe column. April I'm definitely getting Star Fox Zero and Bravely Second. May I'm definitely getting Homefront: The Revolution (PHILLY BABY!) and Mirror's Edge: Catalyst. After that is a mystery.

As for what I'll actually be playing in those months... f*ck if I know.

I hope you all enjoyed this sneak peak into my future The Week Ahead picks.

I had forgotten that Fire Emblem was so close to release. I haven't been able to get through Awakening over multiple attempts, so Fates has largely been off my to buy list.

I'm looking at Gravity Rush, but that's it for the month. March is similarly spare.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

I'm curious: what do you have on your lists for February? I have one game that's not even an urgent release.

April, however, is a logjam. Dark Souls III, Ratchet and Clank, Bravely Second, and Star Fox Zero in the span of a week or two. :P

Febtober is currently looking like mostly Firewatch and Might No. 9. I had Tacoma and VA-11 HALL-A also penciled in for a possible February release, but I haven't seen anything regarding release dates for either yet so it seems unlikely they'll get a release next month. Or at least Tacoma won't since that's getting a console release which ensures there will be a sizable marketing push behind it. That's not as true of VA-11 which could easily just get a YouTube release trailer the week before launch because indie PC.

Grim Dawn is also leaving Early Access next month. I don't regret backing it on Kickstarter, but given I'm back into Diablo 3 for the time being I don't have a real need to dive into that one. Also, Diablo 3 is in a much better state now than when Grim Dawn was busking on Kickstarter which significantly changes the situation. Will get around to it eventually, maybe, but this is a example of why I'm not crowdfunding as much these days.

April isn't much of a log jam for me since it's primarily Bravely Second (Star Fox Zero is a wishlist item) for me. March is going to be packed though: Day of the Tentacle Special Edition, Adr1ft, Shardlight, and Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess HD are all releasing that month. Only DoTTSE is my "must buy" but that's a really strong month for my interests.

My main issue right now is that I'm already getting scheduling anxiety since I can't figure out how on earth I'm going to find time to complete Bravely Default and Shin Megami Tensei IV before their sequels arrive. Not to mention finding time for Xenoblade Chronicles X and the rest of the Starcraft II trilogy

Also, we can do horizontal rules in the forum posts? Mind. Blown.

Eleima wrote:
shoptroll wrote:

PSA: Backloggery is going to start rolling out its incomplete site revamp one page at a time. This smells like a desperation move and I have a really really strong feeling this isn't going to go smoothly. So if you're like me and still actively use the site expect a lot of stuff to start breaking.

http://backloggery.tumblr.com/post/1...

The change doesn't feel that jarring, at least for what I've seen on the front page. *shrug* I kinda like Backloggery, I've become attached to it, I guess.

Well it's only the front page. As a software developer this is a really strange roll-out plan for an overhaul, and given how they've stalled out repeatedly with the overhaul I'm concerned that the site will be left in a weird transitional state for a long time. And I say that as someone who's continued to use the site unwaveringly for 7 years now. I haven't considered jumping ship up to now, but if this transition doesn't go smoothly I'm probably going to be eyeing the door or attempt to build my own tool.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

I'm curious: what do you have on your lists for February? I have one game that's not even an urgent release.

February is free and clear for me, planning to keep trucking at Legend of Heroes Trails of Cold Steel which is turning out to be a gem of a game (and also very long). January has been a great month for finishing things up as I already rolled the credits on 4 games.

Hmm. It looks like the remaster of Witch and the Hundred Knight is also out in March, as is Nights of Azure. Those are both on my maybe list.

shoptroll wrote:

February stuff

Ugh. Your post reminded me that I was purely basing my current list on what's up on Amazon's pre-order schedule. While games like Horizon Zero Dawn, Metroid Federation Force and The Legend of Zelda WiiU are on my list and just don't have proper release dates yet, I completely forgot digital-only games.

Yeesh.

February is pretty clear for me as well, but things go nuts in mid-March and April. I worked out a schedule around those impending releases and it's helping me keep my willpower against buying other things.

frogbeastegg wrote:

I cannot abide the thought of living in a home which isn't filled with books and the prospect of not having new books on my shelves scares me. There is nothing so comforting as being surrounded by books and all the promise that they contain. I read to the tune of ~200 books a year and I still won't read everything which I'd like to in my lifetime. Doesn't bother me in the slightest, nor do the many untouched tomes on my shelves and kindle. In fact, I find their presence uplifting. They're promises of good things waiting for me to reach out when circumstance and mood is right to appreciate them.

If you don't mind, can you elaborate on how you manage to do that? I set a 24 books per year goal for the past two years and very closely failed both times (22 and 23 respectively). I'd love to read more books and the two avenues I've heard about so far is practicing speed reading, where my concern is focusing too much on the process will lower the rate of comprehension and retention of the content, and listening to audiobooks on 1.5x or 2x speed.

Also being an owner of piles for both games and books, I think the difference between the two impacting stressing out or not are 2 things: platform lifetime and zeitgeist. A Dostoyevsky book will always be there to be read, whereas if my Wii dies in 5 years and I have never gotten around to playing Super Mario Galaxy, I will be out of luck (though HD remakes alleviate that, questionable money-grabs as they might be otherwise).
The zeitgeist part weighs even stronger I feel, especially when involved in a community like here. Sure, playing Demon's Souls 6-7 years after release still makes it a great game, but even with dedicated fans I shall never get the same discussion of thoughts, interpretations and the context of the era it was released in. Contrast here for me was Bioshock Infinite, playing and geeking out over it with fellow GWJers on release. Now this also comes down to the individual a bit more I think. How big is the fear of missing out on "the beat", how much does she/he appreciate reading other's thoughts on a game vs. being more inclined to go the "what does it mean to me?" route.

I would be interested in the perspective of people actively engaged in book clubs on this to be honest.

I finally finished a game. I already posted about this on the finished games thread but I finished Rise of the Tomb Raider. I don't think I've finished a game since I finished Persona 4 Golden in September this is a really good feeling.

Luggage wrote:
frogbeastegg wrote:

I cannot abide the thought of living in a home which isn't filled with books and the prospect of not having new books on my shelves scares me. There is nothing so comforting as being surrounded by books and all the promise that they contain. I read to the tune of ~200 books a year and I still won't read everything which I'd like to in my lifetime. Doesn't bother me in the slightest, nor do the many untouched tomes on my shelves and kindle. In fact, I find their presence uplifting. They're promises of good things waiting for me to reach out when circumstance and mood is right to appreciate them.

If you don't mind, can you elaborate on how you manage to do that? I set a 24 books per year goal for the past two years and very closely failed both times (22 and 23 respectively). I'd love to read more books and the two avenues I've heard about so far is practicing speed reading, where my concern is focusing too much on the process will lower the rate of comprehension and retention of the content, and listening to audiobooks on 1.5x or 2x speed.

Sure. No speed reading or audio books involved. I hope it's not too off-topic (if it is, sorry!), but I'll put it in a spoiler tag so people can easily skip over it.

Spoiler:

(So you have an idea of what makes up that great pile of books: I mainly read history both popular and academic, historical fiction, fantasy, scifi, and some classics/literary fiction. Currently on a Charles Dickens and John Steinbeck binge. Something of an odd author pairing, excepting their interest in social matters.)

1. Time. The obvious one. In my case, I choose to bypass some of the popular pastimes in order to put that time into reading. I don't watch TV at all or go to the cinema, and I rarely watch DVDs or the BBC iplayer. I don't twitter or facebook, rarely listen to podcasts, hardly ever watch youtube, and I don't do much internet posting. Most people spend hours every day with screens; I read instead. I also read during the standard times where most people engage in it: before bed, on public transport, lunch breaks, if I wake up early, etc.

2. Practice. Another fairly obvious one. The more you do something, the better at it you get and the more you naturally speed up. My parents started reading books to me as soon as I was old enough to sit up. I started reading without any support shortly after starting school; I don't think I've gone a single day without reading something since, except maybe one time when I was delirious with a fever. The most common "speed up" with reading is becoming sufficiently familiar with text that you don't need to recognise each word. Instead the words flow into your brain as you run your eyes over the line. The more you read, the more words and writing styles you become familiar with, and the more books you can apply this to. If you use an ereader, selecting a font and page layout which is tailored to your 'eye' will help you speed up a bit.

3. Pacing. I comfortably default to ~100 pages per hour for most fiction and lighter history. With heavier history or more unusual prose (e.g. most classics) I slow down to ~80 pages per hour. With trashier stuff I can zip along much faster. I don't consciously monitor my pace or worry about how fast I am progressing, or try to speed up. Doing that slows me down. It's like a marathon; just keep jogging until you cross the finish line. Some people get very hung up on how fast they are going, how many pages are left, how long is left in this particular chapter, and so on, and that's a distraction with no benefit.

I learned to speed read as a necessary skill when I was still in education. If I engage those skills I can push 200-300 pages an hour, depending on the content. Comprehension suffers a little but that's because I'm rusty. If you want to speed read you need to specifically practice it over a period of time in order to improve your comprehension and rate. I can't recommend speed reading when reading for leisure. Part of the fun is to enjoy the journey, to look again at particular phrases which delighted you, to appreciate the author's technical skill.

4. Harness technology. The ereader is an amazing device and I love my kindle dearly. I still love print books and read them too. People can get book-snobby about ebooks and in doing so miss the potential applications. Firstly, supreme portability means that you never miss out on those stray "I could be reading instead of staring into space right now" moments. Secondly, adaptability. I can prop mine safely on my bathroom window sill and read a bunch of pages whiles I brush my teeth. Or on the kitchen counter while I stir a pot. I can read when I'm grinding in an RPG, or am stuck waiting on an unskippable and boring cutscene, or during very long loading screens, or when running my character in a fairly straight line across some distance. Takes a bit of practice but it's easy when you get the knack. Thirdly, in-built dictionaries and linked footnotes make reading some books a smoother experience. War & Peace is easier and thus quicker to read when you can tap the screen to get a translation of that chunk of French, or call up a character list without riffling through the front of the book. The kindle's in-built dictionary recognises a surprising amount of the obsolete English found in the older works.

All of those "2 minutes" add up fast.

The lack of a physical page turn gives a small speed boost too. Half a second per page, maybe? Sounds like nothing until you consider how many page-turns there are in any given pile of books. Especially when you're counting your books in higher numbers or are reading thick tomes.

5. Numbers alone are not the whole story. If you've only read one book in a month and that book is James Joyce's Ulysses, that's an achievement which is lost in pure numbers. Enjoyment is the only number which counts: how many books out of the total which you read did you enjoy? If you read 20 and loved every one, that's a better result than reading 40 faster but mediocre ones. Always keep what you've read in mind as well as how much, and look for similar info if you want to compare numbers with someone else.

6. Focus! People commonly complain about spending more time reading about games than playing them. It's true. I do it more than I'd like to myself. It's easy to do the same thing with books. Particularly if you like book clubs and so on. Read the book. Reading the book is the only way you will read the book.

Focus the second. The fewer books which you have on the go at once, the sooner you will finish each one and the less likely you are to get lost along the way. I read one at a time, two if I have a very good excuse like a complex book which isn't suited to bedtime reading. However, I gather that some people prefer to have multiple books on the go. In which case, identify your golden number and try to keep to it for maximum personal efficiency.

7. Recognise your strengths and work with them rather than trying to push yourself down a popularly expected path. A lot of people swear by audio books. I can read that 60 hour audio book in a fraction of the time, and I don't enjoy audio books either because I love the experience of text. So I don't use them. Other people find the opposite and harness audio books to finish more titles because that works for them. Great! Thanks to the easy availability of audio books everyone's a winner - except for those poor souls who try to force themselves into lifting with the wrong muscles. Likewise print books versus ebooks. Some people simply don't like them or can't get on with them.

8. Read according to your mood and interests. Don't try to slog through a book which you are not enjoying, or which you don't want to read but feel obliged to. A book which goes back on the shelf can be read again in the future and perhaps this time you will get on better. A book which is slogged through and consequentially disliked is often ruined forever. You'll read slower and you'll find excuses to avoid reading. When choosing a new book, pick up whichever volume calls to you. Not the one which has been on the shelf for longest, not the one which someone gave you, not the next in a series which you currently feel a little tired of. The one which calls to you. This is why I have so many unread books on my shelves. I can always find something new which suits my current whim because I have a good range to select from ... and because I'll buy a book which I want to read on that particular day but find when I'm ready to select my next book I'm no longer hankering for that particular style/genre/length/binding/whatever, and so it waits for a week, a month, a year, a decade, and gets read eventually.

9. Variety. If you constantly read challenging books, mix some lighter material in there too. Conversely, if you constantly read lighter material, try mixing in something which makes you work a bit. You can still do this while still remaining within a narrow genre if that's what you enjoy. If the brain is stretched it learns new things, if it's exhausted it temporarily loses capability, and above all it thrives on variety. If you want to remain interested in a hobby or subject, variety is often the key to doing so. Remaining interested in a key to progressing at a good pace.

A lot of that can apply to games. Obviously, the more time which you give to gaming the more games you will finish. That's the root of most of this thread's problems: we don't have the time to give due to more valued calls. The remainder of points are more reasonable. The more familiar you are with a particular set of standard gameplay conventions, the faster you will pick up similar new games. The more dexterity, problem solving and 'game' skill you train, the less you will struggle with standard gaming challenges. A 3DS or other portable console can sub in for a kindle to take advantage of some of those semi-downtime parts of the day, e.g. when waiting 10 minutes for something to cook. Recognising that numbers alone are not the whole story because a 70 RPG is a different result to a 10 hour action game even if they both report as "1 game finished", and keeping that difference in mind each time you consider your numbers. Play what you want to play, right there and then, not what's oldest or most popular, and don't try to force yourself through a game which you're not engaging with. Vary your gaming to avoid burn-out and keep your brain engaged with the activity-type. Look for more convenient ways to play titles, such as getting a port to a modern console so you can use suspend and resume mode to play it in smaller but more frequent sessions.

Speed reading, when applied to games ... I think comes out as something similar to a plot-only run on easy difficulty, and the willingness to consider things like guides when you get stuck for more than a set period of time.

I would be interested in the perspective of people actively engaged in book clubs on this to be honest.

That one I can't help with. Never joined a book club. I do read critically and consider the material, I'm just not all that interested in discussing it in that format and the schedules tend to be far too slow.

A Dostoyevsky book will always be there to be read, whereas if my Wii dies in 5 years and I have never gotten around to playing Super Mario Galaxy, I will be out of luck (though HD remakes alleviate that, questionable money-grabs as they might be otherwise).

This is a very good point. I play a lot of older games, and I do worry about gameplay design advances leaving them too far behind, or the hardware obsolescence/failure causing the games becoming inaccessible. I can't go back to games which lack adequate save points, no way! I no longer have a way to connect my Gamecube to my TV. Skies of Arcadia and Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door will remain unfinished forever unless they get a port, much to my sorrow. Dostoyevsky? He's still there, on that shelf, waiting, lurking, patiently waiting for me to enter a Russian Classics phase.

Interesting stuff in the spoiler there. I think cutting down on how many games I play at once might be applicable. I try to keep at least one thing going per system (PC, 3DS, PS3 right now), but typically somehow end up with multiple games going, especially on PC.

Reducing the number of things I do of a certain type really helps me. It is just easier for me to jump in and out of one or two things instead of 5. It also prevents me from feeling overwhelmed, and also gives me the good feeling of actually completing something instead of just being at 47% of everything.

Also, ebooks OP. I read much more now compared to years ago just because I don't want to carry a book around with me all the time.

I tried an experiment a few years back where I took a week and every time I would have read or posted on GWJ, I read an eBook instead. I read four books that week. I now know where all my extra time goes.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

I tried an experiment a few years back where I took a week and every time I would have read or posted on GWJ, I read an eBook instead. I read four books that week. I now know where all my extra time goes. :P

You people.

You know, I keep my kindle in my purse but never actually pull it out. Somehow pulling out a book feels like more of a distraction from work than GWJ since I'm already on the computer all day.

Stele wrote:

Interesting comparison. I read a lot but I do have books on the pile. Doesn't stress me nearly as much as the game pile. Need to figure out why that is.

I think it boils down to reading being relatively passive. I myself have a ton of book in my reading pile, but feel nowhere near as much of an urgency as i do with games. Blame dopamine or something?

I should get back to reading. I find I either read a book or play my 3DS, but can't do both.

Speaking of pile, I'm doing myself no favors. I bought Darksiders 2: Deathinitive Edition (God I hate typing that) on a collector's whim since it's only $30 + 20% Best Buy discount, and then installed and played a bit thinking I'll do a RamblePak video on it someday. Now, it's kind of what I want to default to when I have game time available. So instead of knocking out a pile game I'll be playing that.

Also: discovered that Resident Evil Remake still creeps me out. f*ckin'... don't know what it is about that game. I thought of playing Fatal Frame last night but I'm freaked out about playing that at night as well. Might save that for weekend time.

New build.

Platforms are a separate item now, instead of a string.

Couple questions for people:

Clock: You requested having multiple platforms per game, so that if you beat one, both counted. Would adding a platform called "Multiple" do what you need, or do you really need 2 platforms? How often would you need this?

Anyone:

How do people like to mark their progress in each game? Do you want to add dates for when you added, started, or finished a game? Do you prefer just setting a status? Both?

If both, do you want to be able to enter the date or just have it track automatically? Does the answer change for importing legacy data from a CSV?

Do you want to be able to enter estimated hours, and hours played for your games?

What kind of stats do people want?

Garden Ninja wrote:

Anyone:
How do people like to mark their progress in each game? Do you want to add dates for when you added, started, or finished a game? Do you prefer just setting a status? Both?
If both, do you want to be able to enter the date or just have it track automatically? Does the answer change for importing legacy data from a CSV?
Do you want to be able to enter estimated hours, and hours played for your games?
What kind of stats do people want?

Marking progress kinda depends on the game. Some games have episodes or chapters so I'll mark that. In the end, it really comes down to Added/Unplayed/In progress/Beaten, though. An option to add achievements is also a nice touch although we all know there is no direct correlation between achievements and progress. An automatic date is a lot more handy than entering a date manually. You can enter dates manually with Grouvee but I rarely if ever do it because it's such a hassle.
I do like entering hours played and having an estimate of low it'll take to beat a game, but I used that more as a guideline tha a thing set in stone so it's pretty much a "if you can" thing.

As for stats, well, mostly what I use in my monthly reports. Number of games on pile, how many cleared in a month, estimate of hours remaining, that kind of thing.

There's a great site for Elite:Dangerous called inara. It has a page where you can track progress for your pilot called ranks and achievements. For each different type of achievement there's dropdown boxes, and then an optional date box. Clicking on it brings up a calendar where you can select a specific date, hour, and minute, or you can just click "now" and add the current date. Very convenient.

Not sure if you can see that screen without logging in and registering a pilot. So here's a screenshot of what I'm talking about. This is right after I clicked on the date box:

IMAGE(http://i887.photobucket.com/albums/ac80/NyxStele/inara_zpswim0xwf7.png)

Crap. The Witness comes out tomorrow.

Garden Ninja wrote:

Clock: You requested having multiple platforms per game, so that if you beat one, both counted. Would adding a platform called "Multiple" do what you need, or do you really need 2 platforms? How often would you need this?

I wouldn't need it super often, but I would prefer being able to select which platforms I have it on instead of just having a "Multiple" platform. That way if I theoretically sorted out my Wii U games, I could see that Monster Hunter 3 is an option, and I'd get the same for my 3DS games. Likewise cross-buy PlayStation games.