Wow! This is Original Alear from Serenes Forest. (my original username was SeverIan). I'm surprised I ran into you on here clicking through profiles and comments.

Glad to hear you share in the love for the remake! It's probably going to be my game of the year, especially since I don't play many games on release

Capcom has been just on fire lately with their remakes (and releases, in general). I hope other developers take note, and incorporate more ambitious changes into theirs.

Heya Gustavos old buddy. Just wanted to wish you a happy new year in advance! :3

okay I've taken the weekend to mull it over, and here are the backlog goals for Year Nine:

1. or One game beginning with every letter of the alphabet (excluding Q. When it comes to articles, The Legend of Zelda would be an L game rather than T, for example.)
2. one game released in every year I’ve been alive (1994-2023)
3. 10 Fangames/ROM hacks.
4. 10 games beaten in 2020 or earlier
5. 8 games that are 25 hours or longer to beat on Howlongtobeat.com
6. Nine of these randomly selected Ten Fortune Cookie picks: Until Dawn, Kung Fury Street Rage, TJ Lavin's Ultimate BMX, Starlink Battle For Atlas, Okami, Halo 2, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Space Harrier, Grandia III, River City Ransom Underground

My backlog is around 100 entries lighter and better reflects the sorts of games I would at least consider playing. That's a very quantifiable weight off my back! And the Fortune Cookie picks never fail to be an...eclectic batch.

Video games are great. I must confess I didn't have the best of years in 2022, but I've always got these to fall back on. In this Eighth backlog year, I got through 106 games, not double counting games that were and in the same year. That's less than the last two years, but still a huge feat. If we look at the goals:
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I cleared just three out of seven. Not great, but really the only one I'm disappointed with is the less than 500 unfinished games. I've been working on that for many years, and that benchmark continues to elude me.

I haven't decided yet what the goals will be for Year Nine. Before that, I want to clean out my list of games. This backlog began life as a catalogue of every game I technically own in some format, but lately I've gravitated hard on emulation and fan games that nobody technically owns. The games industry is also leaning hard on netflix-esque subscription models, so choosing what to "add" felt extremely arbitrary until I started to play it. I want my game list to better reflect what I've played and what I intend to play, rather than being bloated by titles I've completely forgotten about and don't want to feel obligated to some day play. Some (mostly arcade) games I've beaten ought to be deleted too, since I don't think they're substantially different. Like the multiple versions of Street Fighter 2, for instance

I loved Wasteland 2!

I played it on xbox and didn't have any crashing issues. Also, I liked the building and settlement aspects.

I loved Fallout 4 but the Nuka World DLC ruined my game. made my NPCs hostile towards me and made it impossible to get anything done... worst DLC.

I really wish they could have made that game 4 player. Or at least ported the extra levels to a port of the arcade game released elsewhere. Still a classic game though.

Yep! I hear Deadly Premonition 2 isn't as great, but we were super fans of the first at my previous workplace, and I wanted to try it since. Maybe I'll regret it, but idk.

Been making some adjustments to the backlog. Mainly just reorganizing retro games into their proper system categories and out of various collections. When I first made this backlog, it was mainly a list of all the games I owned. But I think over the last couple years, I'm shifting focus more to emulation and ROM hacks, so "ownership" is a lot vaguer to quantify. I think nowadays I care more about what games I played rather than the format in which I've played them. Especially with digital storefronts disappearing over time, and games getting re-released again and again, this backlog has been a little annoying to navigate, and I'd like to fix that.

There are more changes I'd like to make. Like removing games that I didn't actually buy but received as a gift or as some sort of promotion or bundle deal. Games that I have no intention of playing. But changes like that have an impact on the core statistics (what games are beaten or unfinished), so I'm holding off until this backlog year is over.

Kirby's Rainbow Curse has been pretty fun, I'm almost done with the main storyline.

I am really enjoying Affordable Space Adventure. I just picked up my Wii U this year to grab some games before the the e-shops closed, and this is a game I've very glad I got as it's both a lot of fun, and it's unlikely to ever get a port. I've only played a handful of games on the system so far, but this one has really made the best use of the Game Pad by far.