Will you ever beat your backlog?

I will beat it but god, this will take some time.

Impossible. It's too much and there are games I simply can't beat, like Super Meat Boy or They Bleed Pixels

I got kicked out of Backlog Attack for reason, Delta...

Probably never... I'd have to stop winning and buying games, not to mention that my speed of playing games is really slow - it will take me ages just to play all the games I've won on SG D:

I haven't had a backlog half a year ago even. Now it consists mostly of bundle games with a few old AA titles.

Guess I'll play most of them before getting a new PC and repeating the process of buying cheap old games which were 60$ two years ago.

I can live with that.

Not a chance.
Just playing the games that interest me. If a game seems crud after a couple of hours there's no point in continuing.

There is absolutely no chance of that happening. Not even if I become immortal.

Hehehehehe...ummm....no.... T_T

Never.
I feel like I should be playing everything I own, otherwise it's a complete waste.
I'm one of "those" people.

I have a list of about 80 games I consider my "Priority backlog". I took average times from howlongtobeat.com. Around 630 hours of playtime.

I probably average 10-15 hours playtime a week. So it's about 2 years right now, if I don't buy any new games.

What a cruel, cruel question, Delta. :-O
Short answer: Yes! Although it might not be until I retire ;)

no chance

Personally I think there will come a point where games will be come too co-operative/online for my taste and the entire offline single player experience will just vanish. Everything will be an MMO basically, at least everything with AAA quality and polish.

That's why I have a backlog, so that I'm not out of games right then and there but have a whole decade of awesome gaming still sitting in my backlog.

If however that doesn't happen at some point, then I have no chance.

Also technically not all of my backlog (unplayed Steam games) is my backlog. Some games are repurchased games I've already finished with retail copies just in case I might want to play them again, and some are legitimizing games I've formerly peglegged.
And some are games that I'm not even sure I'll like, that I got purely based on reputation, so I have no problem if those sit in my backlog for all of eternity. But I don't tomorrow suddenly want to get an urge to try one of them and then have to pay more than I did when I bought them.

Short answer: no.

Longer answer: someone else did ask if a backlog was the games we wanted to play or everything we own. It's a lot easier if it's only the ones we really want to play. Even if it was every game I own it would still be possible in my lifetime if a) I didn't complete everything and just tried them out (would that count?) and/or b) I stopped buying games.

hope so, believe not ^^

Not likely, and too be honest, I don't really care. I'll play the games I want to play when I want to play them. Gaming should be fun, not something you force yourself to do. I do still try to complete games, and am always looking to try new ones in my library.

backlog exceeds lifetime expectancy. and yet i still want more games

I purchase every game with the intention on playing it. Worst case, retirement's only a few decades away! :D

Hell nah.. that's why I've stopped buying anything..

8133 hours to complete my Steam Library. Still, I intend to play every single game in my library, and likely get my friends to do theirs with me. Difficult, but not impossible.

I see my self overflowed with games, i don't think i will beat my backlog ever, its more like a hobby owning great games then playing them.

The problem is that i buy games because i love shopping games, or maybe because my parents were poor to be able afford buying me stuff as a kid so my gaming life started later with my own money.

Also I rarely buy and activate bundled games because i don't want trash to my library, some exeptions can be made :)

Not likely sadly.

All of them? hahahahahahahaha.... no.

I really do expect to get through all of the good ones, though. One thing that has seriously hindered my PC backlog is the fact that this console generation lasted so long. I normally knock out my PC backlog after one generation, while I wait for the next one to come down in price and develop a catalog of games. But this one lasted so long that a lot of good games have come out, so my console backlog is still sizable.

Perhaps someday...