@Ralizah A damn clever ten-year-old. I struggled to find a decent pen... uh, no, wait, let me start that sentence again. I struggled to find a decent acronym for that particular word!
Probably because it was too long for me.
"We want different things, Crosshair. That doesn't mean that we have to be enemies."
It occurred to me that I may have made some progress over the last quarter. Let’s see how I’m doing —
1. 8 Platinums .
I’m up to 4 now, so small progress. I’ll be hard pressed to get to 8 in the next 3 months though.
2. Write 6 Game Reviews.
I’m still stuck at 4 official reviews. I’ve thought about it but keep getting distracted
3. Expand into new gaming areas:
Play 1 FromSoftware Game .
Done. Accomplished with finishing Demon’s Souls
Play 1 Multiplayer or Co-op game.
Not done yet, but it depends if you count GT7. Since I haven’t raced online, I guess it doesn’t count. Speaking of…
Play 2 Racing Games .
Done. Dirt 5 and GT7
Play 4 Horror / Zombie Games .
50% done with this, since I’m counting Little Nightmares as horror. I expect to start RE4 next month.
4. Non-Gaming Escapades — “Exercise, Reading, catch up on TV and movies, and develop a new hobby or interest. I hope to exercise 4 days a week, Read some books this year, try to decrease the size of my TV and movie backlog, and hopefully find something new to smooth out my inner character.”
Still doing pretty poorly here. Exercise has dropped off. Made a small amount of TV and movie progress. I’m mostly caught up with Marvel shows and I started Rings of Power. Still lots left on my watchlist though. And my bookshelf hasn’t been touched recently.
Huh, I actually did make some progress since my last update - I stormed through a big chunk of Dark Souls 1 in a couple of days, and got up to Anor Londo. Then Xenoblade Chronicles 3 happened and it feels like I’ll be wrestling with this until Christmas.
Maybe I can pull a rabbit out the hat and get DS1 finished by the end of the year, though…
@kyleforrester87 I thought XC3 was gonna be a hurdle for me, since I played previous games for multiple months. Ended up no-lifeing this one in a month after roughly 115 hours!
@JudgeDredd You can finish God of War. We're talking the 2018 game, right? I'm a total Nintendrone and even I platinumed it.
Good work on deepening your knowledge of Spanish, btw. Learning a foreign language is hard work. I'm learning new kanji every day at a fairly aggressive pace and sometimes feel a little overwhelmed by it!
@JudgeDredd Talking with native speakers is definitely one of the best ways of priming yourself to learn the language. There's no good alternative to real world experience.
Yeah, I feel like I could just as easily learn to read hieroglyphics, I think! Going for one of the romance languages would obviously be easier, but I'm more likely to succeed at this just because I'm far more motivated to actually learn Japanese, and have primed my ear to pick out the words and understand the flow of the language more easily.
Probably would have been better starting this when I was still in college and surrounded by Japanese-speaking exchange students, but whatevs!
Main objective for me would be to get to 100 Platinums, which will mean I’ll need to pop 30. If I go by my schedule I would get to 95 but I’m sure I can swing it by slipping in some ‘quickies’.
I’d also like to get a few more (if not all) of the PS3 games cleared from my backlog.
I always like to play through some ‘classic’ game series that I missed at the time, so I’m aiming to get through (& platinum if possible) Assassins Creed: The Ezio Collection and the Devil May Cry trilogy next year.
I’m itching to play Hades but want to clear SuperGiant’s back-catalogue first, so I want to try and get Transistor and Pyre cleared by 2022’s midway point so I can make Hades my ‘side-game’ for the second half of the year.
Play at least two metroidvanias and two rogue-likes/lites.
half way in regards to my target for 2022 plats with 15 so far.
just started my first PS3 title of the year with God of War: Ascension
played through (& plat’d) the first part of the Assassins Creed: Ezio Collection, haven’t started the Devil May Cry games though and as I’ve had a little reschedule, probably won’t start them this year.
just played through Transistor (and really enjoyed it)… and should get Pyre cleared from the backlog too. Probably won’t make a start on Hades until 2023 though.
haven’t played a metroidvania yet but I have Castlevania: Requiem lined up for next month and probably Yoku’s Island Express for later in the year. Rogue-wise, I will be playing Returnal in the next couple of months but not sure if I’ll manage to get a second one in before 2023 in all honesty.
All good on the Platinum trophy front. I’ve had to slow my roll a bit actually as I have some strange innate desire for God of War: Ragnarok to be my hundredth. I’m on 99 atm.
think I’ve only actually played the one PS3 title so far (God of War: Ascension). I really need to remedy that with at least one more before the turn of the year.
made no more headway on the Assassins Creed series since my last post… and Devil May Cry has definitely been pushed back a year (or two 😅).
still to play Pyre… but I ‘should’ fit it in before 2023.
still no metroidvanias either… 😔. I don’t know why they always seem to get lost in my various reshuffles as I’m really keen to play my second ever mv (as I enjoyed my first - Guac… so much, back late last year). Gonna do my best to fit at least one in.
Main objective for me would be to get to 100 Platinums, which will mean I’ll need to pop 30. If I go by my schedule I would get to 95 but I’m sure I can swing it by slipping in some ‘quickies’.
I’d also like to get a few more (if not all) of the PS3 games cleared from my backlog.
I always like to play through some ‘classic’ game series that I missed at the time, so I’m aiming to get through (& platinum if possible) Assassins Creed: The Ezio Collection and the Devil May Cry trilogy next year.
I’m itching to play Hades but want to clear SuperGiant’s back-catalogue first, so I want to try and get Transistor and Pyre cleared by 2022’s midway point so I can make Hades my ‘side-game’ for the second half of the year.
Play at least two metroidvanias and two rogue-likes/lites.
half way in regards to my target for 2022 plats with 15 so far.
just started my first PS3 title of the year with God of War: Ascension
played through (& plat’d) the first part of the Assassins Creed: Ezio Collection, haven’t started the Devil May Cry games though and as I’ve had a little reschedule, probably won’t start them this year.
just played through Transistor (and really enjoyed it)… and should get Pyre cleared from the backlog too. Probably won’t make a start on Hades until 2023 though.
haven’t played a metroidvania yet but I have Castlevania: Requiem lined up for next month and probably Yoku’s Island Express for later in the year. Rogue-wise, I will be playing Returnal in the next couple of months but not sure if I’ll manage to get a second one in before 2023 in all honesty.
All good on the Platinum trophy front. I’ve had to slow my roll a bit actually as I have some strange innate desire for God of War: Ragnarok to be my hundredth. I’m on 99 atm.
think I’ve only actually played the one PS3 title so far (God of War: Ascension). I really need to remedy that with at least one more before the turn of the year.
made no more headway on the Assassins Creed series since my last post… and Devil May Cry has definitely been pushed back a year (or two 😅).
still to play Pyre… but I ‘should’ fit it in before 2023.
still no metroidvanias either… 😔. I don’t know why they always seem to get lost in my various reshuffles as I’m really keen to play my second ever mv (as I enjoyed my first - Guac… so much, back late last year). Gonna do my best to fit at least one in.
Great year of gaming, I really enjoyed the vast majority of games I played... maybe my fave year for gaming ever actually!
blew past 100 plats and ended up with 120, 50 for 2022 specifically.
cleared a few more of my PS3 backlog after my last post, so to add to God of War: Ascension I also cleared Lego Lord of the Rings, Captain America: Super Soldier and inFAMOUS (though I probably bought double that in more PS3 games over 2022 😅).
recently started Assassins Creed: Brotherhood and it should end up being 2023's first platinum.
did end up starting Pyre after... but wasn't really feeling it if im honesr. Gonna try and finish it off sometime next year.
no rogue-likes/lites but in regards to metroidvanias (well vanias anyway in regards to RoB) I did play Castlevania: Rondo of Blood and Castlevania: SotN from the Requiem collection and enjoyed both quite a bit.
1) Finish more games than I purchase in 2022. Seems simple enough: while I played a lot this year, I still somehow managed to buy enough to bloat my backlog even more. Enough. I'm working with what I got and avoiding unnecessary purchases otherwise.
2) Finish two Falcom games. Already have a playthrough of TitS SC going, and I fully intend to play another Ys game next year, so this shouldn't be too hard. Ideally, I'd like to finish the entire Sky trilogy next year, but the theme of this list is "reasonable expectations," and the truth is that after another 80 hour Trails in the Sky game, I might not be up for a second helping for a while. We'll see.
3) At least start playing Final Fantasy Type-0 HD. I bought this stupid game at launch on PS4 back in... 2015?... and still have yet to even boot it up. My disappointment over the FF15 demo kinda sapped my will to play it. Time to finally see if it was worth the $60 I paid for it years back.
4) Play at least one game belonging to each of the following devices: PC; PS1; PS2; PS4; SNES; N64; GameCube; Wii; Wii U; Switch; GBC; GBA; NDS; 3DS; PSP; and, last but not least, PS Vita. I still own most of these devices, but for the ones I don't, I'm allowing myself to emulate the games via less dubious means (virtual console; NSO's SNES app; old game collections; ripping the data from a disc I already physically own to use on an emulator; etc.)
5) Replay at least one old favorite of mine. I have a bad habit of staying on this treadmill of new games constantly and not revisiting games I loved and finished in the past.
6) Get platinum trophies for at least three PS4/Vita titles. Self-explanatory.
1) ✓ Bought more games than I'd planned, but I also beat a lot of games this year, so I'm still net negative on the ratio, which is all this resolution required.
2) ✘ I've gotten near the end of one Falcom game, but haven't completed it; certainly not two of them. I'd have given myself half credit if I'd completed one, but I didn't, so... yeah.
3) Technically an ✘ at this exact moment, but all this requires is booting up and playing the game for a while, and I plan on doing that in the next couple days, so I'm going to pre-emptively give myself a ✓
4) ✓ Didn't finish games on all these systems, but that's not the task I set myself.
5) ✓ Replayed Super Mario 3D Land, which has long been a favorite of mine.
1. Collecting more PS3, PS4, PS2, NDS, 3DS games.
2. Try to get Beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD PS2.
3. Try to get at least 4 Switch games during year 2022.
4. Try to get either XBOX or XBOX 360 machine + Kinect.
5. Try to get at least 3 PS5 games during year 2022.
1. Except PS2 😅
2. Failed
3. I purchased more than 4 Switch games
4. I got XBOX 360 RGH but... It cannot play all original games. 😩
5. I will have 8 PS5 games. 😊
I didn’t get close to hitting my gaming resolution this year, of clearing the Dark Souls games! I guess I hit my fitness goals though, and as for gaming I really stuck with XBC3 so I am happy with myself
Unfortunately, I don’t think I’ve made much progress from 3 months ago —
1. 8 Platinums .
Still stuck at 4 for the year.
(50%)
2. Write 6 Game Reviews.
Only wrote 4 official reviews in the review thread this year. But I did leave several expanded impression posts, …but I still fell short here, technically speaking.
(67%)
3. Expand into new gaming areas:
Play 1 FromSoftware Game .
I actually have played 2 this year! Demon’s Souls early in the year and Dark Souls Remastered currently .
(150%)
Play 1 Multiplayer or Co-op game.
I’m counting GT7 because I did a couple online races.
(100%)
Play 2 Racing Games .
Done.
(100%)
Play 4 Horror / Zombie Games .
Got 3 played, although I haven’t finished RE4 and still need to go back and polish it off.
(75%)
4. Non-Gaming Escapades — “Exercise, Reading, catch up on TV and movies, and develop a new hobby or interest. I hope to exercise 4 days a week, Read some books this year, try to decrease the size of my TV and movie backlog, and hopefully find something new to smooth out my inner character.”
Eh, hard to score my here. Maybe 50%…?
So overall average = 85% complete.
I’ll take it.
Bring on 2023.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
Looks like folks have done better than average, which is to be applauded! Well done, everybody!
Just thought I'd get that in before I let y'all down...
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1) Reduce the Size of My Backlog
Needed to be smaller than 96. Stood at 68 when I decided to abandon keeping a backlog schedule a couple of months back, so that's a scorched-earth kinda victory.
2) Don't Pre-Order Games Unless Absolutely Necessary
Pfft. Next.
3) Complete the inFAMOUS Series
I said "next", damn it!
4) Complete Deus Ex, Jak 3 and Jak X: Combat Racing, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, Metal Gear Ac!d and its sequel, Shenmue III, Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy and XIII
Three out of nine. Not even close. Why? Why am I doing this to myself?
5) Return to PS Vita
Eh. Whilst I did make a strong start on this, I didn't spend half the time with it that I'd planned to. I'll call this a partial win, which sadly also makes it a partial loss.
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One and a half and whatever three out of nine is. Out of five. I can't numbers today.
"We want different things, Crosshair. That doesn't mean that we have to be enemies."
I only have one, stop wanting to play everything, whenever I see a game with a great review, I always want to play it and honestly, I don't have that much free time.
1) Reduce backlog by at least 5 games. This way, it's slowly shrinking. 2) Finish at least 3 Wii/Wii U games. Whilst my Wii U is still functional, it'll be good to beat any major games for it that's still in my backlog. A few virtual console games and some Zelda are the main priorities here.
That'll be it for actual goals. It would also be nice to play more on my Switch next year since I didn't do too much this year. Likewise, there's more Danganronpa, Yakuza, and Tomb Raider to play. And it's about time I give a Souls-like game a try.
1) Reduce backlog by at least 5 games: It was a narrow victory, as my backlog shrunk by exactly 5 games. 2) Finish at least 3 Wii/Wii U games. I did better here. Completed Zelda: Minnish Cap, Pikmin 3, Pokemon Snap, Metroid Prime 1, and Rayman Raving Rabbids.
The not-goals didn't go so well though. I did play a lot on Switch, but was mostly just the one game (Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak). I didn't start any new Yakuza or Tomb Raider games last year, though I'm planning on starting Yakuza 2 Kiwami shortly. And I'm still yet to ever play a Souls-like game.
@crimsontadpoles The fact that you managed to achieve your specific goals (and exceeded your second) more than makes up for any "would be nice" shortcomings, I'd say. Congratulations!
"We want different things, Crosshair. That doesn't mean that we have to be enemies."
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