You might also want to check out backloggery.com. You can keep track of what games you're currently playing, make progress notes, and mark games as unplayed/unfinished/beat/completed. You can either just enter the games as you start them and use the site as a list of games you're playing or you've beat or if you'd like you can enter the games you want to play in the near future or even your entire collection.

Since keeping track of what games I'm playing and have already beat I seem to feel much less of an urge to go back and replay/restart games. For example, if I wanted to play the second game in a series but it had been a while since I'd played the first, I used to be tempted to go back and replay the first one and have a "fresh start" to the series -- but now once I have a game marked off as beat I feel more of a sense of closure and can move forward to tick the next game off of my list.

I also wouldn't worry too much about spoiling yourself by playing very good games first. I've played games with great stories and I've played games with incredibly cliche stories and at worse I'm just more likely to roll my eyes at a particularly overused trope before getting back into the gameplay than I was when I had less exposure to good storytelling. As long as the game doesn't completely hinge on story alone, there's potential for enjoyment.

I wouldn't recommend starting with one of the games that have multiple protagonists at once (like Baldur's Gate, etc...).
"Fallout 1" (eventually followed by Fallout 2)
would be my advice.
Secondary: "Planescae: Torment"

And don't forget the HD/widescreen patches!

Is it just me or was Arma2 completely removed from the store and the My Games bookshelf? Like there's a extra space in My Games list, so if the game was removed from my account as well, then can i have a partial refund or a replacement game.

It's gone from the store for me too, but's still on my shelf. You should probably contact support, it's what they're there for after all.

I have a similar problem sometimes too. It took me forever to complete Baldur's Gate 1 (I would play it for a few days and then get distracted, come back to it a few months later and play some more, get distracted again, etc.)

I enjoyed Baldur's Gate 2 much more and when I got up to it I played it fairly straight-through without too many breaks. Then I stalled on the expansion again (it's much more combat-heavy than the main game and I got annoyed, but I keep meaning to get back to it).

I played Torment fairly straight-through though. It was much easier for me to get into than Baldur's Gate.

And I never finished Neverwinter Nights. I got up to Act 2 but really wasn't enjoying it at all, so I deleted it. I've heard the expansion is much better though, and I think you have to start a new character anyway, so I'm going to play the expansion eventually even if I never finish the main game.

So out of the games you listed (most of which I haven't played yet either...) my recommendation is for Torment and Baldur's Gate 2 (although for completion's sake you may want to push through BG1 first).

I've just registered at backloggery, this is going to be very helpful, thank you. And thank you for the advice on order of playing games, it makes a fair bit of sense.

Oh, heh. I've actually gone through and followed the sticky mod guides for every good old game that has one. Still, thank you!

I would very much like to try Baldur's Gate I, then II, and then Planescape: Torment. More or less your suggestion, so thank you. Question though, what did you not enjoy about Neverwinter Nights?

This is not an usual case. Apparently most people don't finish the games:
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/03/17/gdc-most-players-donat-finish-games

I'm a rare one, because I do.... Well, unless the game is boring/isn't for me. It's also worth noting that out of all the games I've here on gog, I'd say I've only played 1 out of 10.

I will get to the other ones, eventually. I'm actually in the same position as you? I've heard all about Baldur's Gate, but never really embraced it. But despite all of this, I'm all for complex stories and long games. It's such a blast to plow through them when you do experience one. I just can't wait for The Wither 3 and Dragon Age.

You're welcome :)

It's possible I didn't play far enough into Neverwinter Nights, but I found the story uninteresting and the locations looked bland to me (especially compared to the interesting style in other games such as Torment). Plus I was trying to play as a mage and this is one of those games where it really sucks to be a mage at the beginning.

After a few replies, I started to realize it's not a unique problem. Which is comforting to hear, but still a bit disconcerting.
And oh gosh, I am in the exact same boat as you in regards to The Witcher 3 and Dragon Age.
2 weeks before each, I already know that I will replay their previous 2 entries, to create a recent character for imports. And with Dragon Age: Origins, playing the game is something to look forward to rather than generating a save (in comparison to Dragon Age 2), unlike say... ME1 in comparison to ME2 (where you can just use masseffectsaves or the gibbed editor).

Oh, I'm going to hold off on the Neverwinter Nights series than. Playing as a mage is my what do role when starting a new RPG, and souring the experience by way of that just does not sound enticing.

One thing I've noticed is that I finish games I really like, and can't finish anything I got into because hype or whatever. If you don't get the motivation to play a game after a few hours of gameplay, then I suggest moving onto something else.

To make your decision easier, however, how about flipping a coin between two games till you reach a winner? You have a nice collection, so it's win-win whatever comes up.

Usually I will spend too much time thinking about which games to play. The issue of comparing qualities between games, rather than just playing one of the games. So I just flipped a quarter; face for Primordia, tails for The Swapper.
The Swapper won, so I am downloading it right now, and hoping to play through a majority of it tonight.
Thank you, this method is vastly more effective than anything I would have done!

Welcome, glad it worked, have fun!

The Bohemia games are gone from GOG.com now but any games purchased will forever be in your account so no worries. There is a glitch in the website sometimes when games are removed it seems but it sorts itself out in a few hours or a day or so allegedly, or after doing an account refresh although I don't know the URL to the refresh link off hand. Would be nice if GOG would fix that as it seems to be a recurring bug in the website infrastructure that only leads to more and more support requests. :) Hopefully the new site redesign that shows up presumably this fall will no longer have such problems though.

Either way though, don't worry you still own the games and it's a temporary glitch. (I'm experiencing it also at the moment with Original War).

Bioshock franchise, Fallout franchise, Divinity franchise (everything up to Original Sin), Age of Wonders franchise (everything up to AoW 3), Witcher series. Bioshock and Fallout because I've had some of the games for almost two years now (Bioshock 1&2; Fallout 3&NV); the others because I'd like to play and get a feel for them to see if they're franchises I want to get future games in. Trying to work my way through Lego Marvel and Dragon Age Origins (edit: and Bastion) at the moment, and a friend's also been bugging me to play Baldur's Gate (she gifted me Mass Effect 1&2, I'd played KOTOR and Sonic Chronicles, and she now wants me to go all the way through Bioware's archive it seems).

(I'm heading on vacation shortly, and I've loaded up my old laptop with a good selection of games from my backlog. I've got Baldur's Gate 1&2, Planescape: Torment, Might & Magic 1-6, Dungeon Keeper Gold [though I finished this on the original CD purchase], and a fair few others. I probably won't play them all, but at least filling up with 95% unplayed games the odds that I'll start on a new one is pretty high.

I've tried randomly generating short gaming lists, but every time I do I can never seem to get the motivation to go "right, load it up, play for thirty minutes, see how you get on".

That first step is one of the hardest. The "just click the icon, come on, you can do it, the game's right there, just waiting" moments. If you are an overly analytic thinker, then I would strongly recomend cmdr_flashheart's suggestion of flipping a coin between two games that you would like to play. It helped me immensely, almost as if a weight had been lifted from my shoulders in determining which game to play.