I recently had a huge backlog of games, games that I knew I would never EVER play. The games that I usually have backlogged for years are those in which I only really like a few things about them, and not enough to actually play/beat the game.
One example is Persona 3. I bought the game brand new, 50 bucks when it came out. Actually I bought two copies, one to play and one to keep sealed. I really enjoyed the graphics, and the music was phenominal, but the gameplay was so damn boring to me. I don't even own the originoal sealed package anymore because it plummeted in price with the release of FES.
So anyway, point of the story is I recently sold all my backlogged games. Now I have room for the games coming out this year, mostly DS games, that I'm very much looking forward to. Unfortunatly a few games that were recently released that I WAS lookign forward too have gotten bad reviews (Star ocean, etc).
I'm really looking forward to playing Black Sigil, Suikoden Teikries (spelling?), and my backlogged zelda games (im currently working on Ocarina of Time, yes I missed out on this gem, next is windwaker).