The most important aspect of a game to me is story and gameplay. So if the story isn't very good, the gameplay better be phenomenal and vise versa. I rate games based on how good they are objectively and how much I enjoyed them personally.

I've also played a lot of games that aren't on my list, but most of them are shit DS or GBA games so I only put down the one's worth rating. My actual "plan-to-play" list if ridiculously long so I'm not going to transfer everything on here.

If a game is on hold it's because 1. I didn't/don't have time to finish it yet or 2. It fell into the pit of what I like to call "I was so close to the end but I spontaneously lost interest and haven't bothered to finish it yet". The keywords here are "yet". I usually binge games, aka devote entire weeks/weekends(when they're free) to playing games. So if I don't finish a game in that timeslot, I kind of forget about it/a new game takes it's place.