games

almost 14 if I dropped 40 more hours in Balatro

I really am right at the end of finishing that game

I just don't care about achievement hunting at all. I do what i want to do within the course of the game and then stop. I find achievement hunting detrimental to my experience most of the time and it makes me like the game less

Also would have been +1 if I spent an hour and grinded out the boss of the shantae game hitless

since that is all I have to do for that

I also bought a lot of games in 2024, that I've not gotten around to playing yet

because a big game would drop and suck up all my time

Spooky, I have infact been game purchase positive somehow, I made all my forever purchases that I never played when I was younger

I think steam sales being on average less good plays a large part

also I cleared some of my past forever purchases by actually playing random things I own like VVVVV this year

I'm looking at my list again

I 100%d like 9

Wukong really was the best thing that came out last year

I think if I did not also watch more anime than I have ever watched this past year, I would have completed 10 more games

Fate Samurai Remnant DLC was really good, but I'm not going to count that

Watching 10-15 shows a season 2-3 seasons in a row really cut into my gaming

I think the stupidest choices I made as far as 100%ing games was holocure and balatro

I do not regret either, but those were actual timesinks

i have games i own that i havent finished or even started and half the time its i have something else to do (anime, youtube video(s) i really wanna watch, etc), or i just cant get in the mood to play it

Dialga, to be absolutely fair, I am really bad at finishing games too

Not as much anymore

X

but I had not finished a single 3D zelda game until each of their respective remakes came out

despite owning and liking all of them

Pika, you're way more diciplined at finishing media you start consuming

that's your whole thing

Yeah, now I am

like Nine sols, I was really enjoying it, but now i cant bring myself to play it more for no real reason

I guess I meant was

I have limited myself to only starting one thing at a time, and not moving on until I am either satisfied I never want to play more of it, or until I've finished it

like animal well, I did not do a single thing of post game content, and that was fine

it's weird, I really like achievements, always have but I have never at any point in my life been really gung-ho about completing games

in fact, many of my favorite games of all time, never completed, let alone 100%'d

I like absolute closure that comes with 100%ing something, where I can go back to it, but I realistically have done everything so I do not feel the need to

type of game matters a lot to that too though

Most games are also not that much harder to 100% than to just beat, excluding things like Issac and Balatro where my love of the game was the only reason I actually bothered to 100% those

yellow taxi, animal well, astro bot, astro's playroom, another crab's treasure, Room 1, Room 2, Palworld (initial release), Unicorn Overlord (initial release), Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Oracle of Ages, Oracle of Seasons, Echoes of Wisdom, Zelda 1, A Short Hike

is unicorn overlord switch exclusive

or PS5

From your list, I did 100% Majoras mask this year (since 2ship came out). I technically 100%ed a Ocarina of time randomizer since I had horrid luck, and I would have 100%'d astro bot had I had the ability to play it, because that is the kind of game I love to 100%

no

I will 100% Echoes of Wisdom, but I am not even done playing it yet

darn

Just beat the goron place, and have the other 2 set of rifts that open after the castle as my next story objectives

ikr Dialga

My hot take is I think being an open world game is infinitely more satisfying for a 2D zelda than it was for a 3D zelda having now played Echoes

I'd love to play Unicorn Overlord if it came to an actual platform

well the bottom right one is a really good dungeon

I want to see an actual zelda game 2D zelda that is open world now, to see if that statement holds up

It is really fun climbing shit and exploring in 2D, way moreso than in 3D

Well, its psuedo 3D

I guess if I had to discuss my 2025 games I want to do, I want to play all of my christmas games I got this year, I want to finish Shantae (left off half way through), and I want to play Catherine since that is the only christmas game from last year I left untouched, and I want to finish the 5 or 6 games I started, made good progress in, but did not finish last year

I am on the last chapter of P5T and have just not played it in awhile

I am not sure what older game franchaise, if any, I want to deep dive after I finish Shantae

Since I am also notorious for missing a metric ton of classic games

That I know for a fact I'd like

persona 1

JRPG's are not my genre

if they were you could play all FF games

If they were I would finish Xenoblade 2

lmfao

you 100%'d all those neptunia games though

Yeah

That was not because they were JRPGs, but because I really liked Neptunia

fair

I like JRPG's typically though

I have also 100%'d all the non JRPG neptunia's I've played except the fire emblem one, which I need to finish

and the bullet hell one, which I am skill issued by

old games are way harder to recommend than other kinds of old media aside from absolute classics, there are very few that hold up enough mechanically to be worth playing

and forgoing modern QoL

I still technically need to finish pikmin 2!

But at this point, I think I would have to replay it, and I might to leave that series off with having 100%'d Pikmin 1

at some point I should play Pikmin 4

I know I'll like it

I kind of want to get the remaster of prime 1, then actually finish 2 and play 3 so I can do prime 4

oh yeah pikmin 4 was this year

add that to my list

or was it?

last year

I had the same exestential crisis with mario wonder