Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (4th January)

After I finished the wild action game called Kirby and the Forgotten Land, I needed something more relaxing. So I started
Mario vs Donkey Kong, my 2nd Christmas game. Currently in world 6, loving it, but it’s not that relaxing, I thought it would be. Also playing Ace Attorney Investigations, starting the 3rd case.

No Man's Sky (I love the cosmos)
Super Mario Sunshine ( I love nostalgia, takes me back to the summer days when I was younger and played this at my grandma)
@JohnnyMind : Happy 30th. I'm about 2 years ahead of you but I wish you a great day!

Fate/stay night REMASTERED – completed all the main stories, finally! Got the remaining Tiger Stamps 25 and 13, read Tiger Dōjyō SP, got UBW route Good End, and read the Last Episode.
This visual novel is really awesome and it rightfully deserved the status of one of the best VNs ever created. My ~170 hours weren't spent into nothing.
MVC Collection:
The Punisher – beaten the game as the Punisher/Frank Castle. It's a really enjoyable, cool, and a great beat 'em up! Kingpin wasn't easy to beat, sadly. 😁
X-MEN CHILDREN OF THE ATOM – beaten the game as Gōki. Magneto is a cheating boss. 😡
MARVEL SUPER HEROES – beaten the game as Anita. Twice, lol. Beating Thanos as the creepy girl was funny and amusing. 😁
X-MEN VS STREET FIGHTER – beaten the game as Gōki and Magneto. Apocalypse was quite a tough boss. Got Magneto's ending.
MARVEL SUPER HEROES VS STREET FIGHTER – beaten the game as Norimaro and Gōki! I've used Gōki only as (a really helpful and good) assist. I have beaten everyone by Norimaro only! Even the final boss, lol. I am Norimaro main and I'm proud of it. 😁
MARVEL VS CAPCOM CLASH OF SUPER HEROES – beaten the game as Jin Saotome and Captain Commando. Jin was defeated at the end, sadly, so, I got Captain Commando's ending.
MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2 NEW AGE OF HEROES – beaten the game as the original characters team – Ruby Heart/SonSon III/Amingo. I didn't lose anyone during the battle against Abyss, so, I consider it as the great victory. It's sad that the game almost don't have any plot at all. But, it's still a very good game.
Brawlout – forced myself to beat the easy tower as The Drifter. Party fighting games are definitely not my cup of tea.
Well, for now, it's all what I've played on this week. Have a nice gaming holidays, everyone. 🙂

@JohnnyMind Happy Birthday! 🙂

I need to hurry on up and take advantage of the shiny Rayquaza (and other black shinies) event that's going to wrap up tomorrow in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. I'm still sitting on the shiny Wattrel/Riolu/Comfey event from back in September, and I'm still yet to capture a shiny Wattrel, so I still need to get on that first before updating my Portal data (?).

Also, I'll be out tomorrow for Sprigatito Community Day in Pokémon Go, and I'm looking forward to farming heaps of candies and shinies.

Super Mario Party Jamboree, really fun game. I bought the Castlevania Dominus Collection that went on sale. It feels really good to play Order of Ecclesia. My favorite Castlevania game ever.

Still stardew valley! Playing it with mods for first time and it pretty nice. Happy gaming everyone!

@JohnnyMind happy birthday!

I finished Astro Bot's campaign last night, which was just joy and magic on disc. There won't be much distracting me until I get 100% on that.

Hopefully manage another go on Super Mario Party Jamboree with the family at some point this weekend.

Playing The Last Faith, I am loving my time with it.
So much so I haven't played much else.

Playing Mario Party Jamboree with the family, a lot of fun.

I bought Call of Juarez: Gunslinger for a bargain so I have that in my backlog.

Have a great weekend everyone

Today I will start playing Granblue Fantasy Relink. I do not know what to expect, so it will be exciting.

Happy gaming everyone!

@JohnnyMind
Happy birthday!

I'll be wrapping up Vitamin Connection in co-op with my wife. It's an incredibly underrated co-op title that I recommend picking up on a cheap sale. Also, I'll be playing some more Crypt Custodian. I just got this one recently, and I made a huge amount of progress over New Years Day. Time to get back into it. It's so engrossing when I play it.

This week I will be mostly playing

Lego Skywalker Saga
Disney’s Magical Quest 2

With Family: Nintendo Switch Sports / Marvel’s Rivals

It’s family gaming night so I’m going to get wrecked by my wife and kids at every sport in Nintendo Switch Sports as usual. It was a Christmas present so we are new into it. I’m not sure what the neighbours think when this is going on, but we can get loud.

My son wants us to play some Marvel’s Rivals also, so I’ve worked it so three can play at a time. Should be fun.

Alone: Final Fantasy 16

I’m about 55% through according to my PS5 and while I initially wasn’t into it because I was playing on easy with combat assist items so in combat I literally just had to ‘Push Square’ 😉 and watch Clive combo everything. It got boring quick.

So, I upped the difficulty, took off any aiding items, learned all the combos and things (not that complex) and now the combat is fun and fluid and with a bit of challenge.

I’m actually really enjoying the game.

@JohnnyMind wishing you a very happy 30th birthday, I’ll be 44 in May, you’re a young pup yet! Enjoy! As far as my gaming habits this weekend, I have picked up Super Mario 3D All-Stars again and I’m enjoying Super Mario Galaxy all over again. I adored that game on Wii. My son has been playing Pokemon Scarlet which he got for Christmas.

I played PS4 games on my PS5 machine. 🤠
1. The Sims 4
2. Dragon Quest Builders 1

I would continue with Emio, but my girlfriend wants me to wait til she returns. So instead I went back to "Mario 3D All-Stars". It's interesting, I'd only finished Galaxy which I thought was as fun as it was on the Wii. Sunshine on the other hand doesn't look and feel right, I need to boot up the GC original to confirm. And 64 looks fine but inputs feel delayed.

Epic Mickey is on sale 50% off until the 12th so I downloaded the demo. Like what I’ve played so far.

Finished trials of mana snes version on the collection of mana. I have mixed feelings on it really, got a bit fed up of grinding to beat enemies that could one shot my team but loved the artwork etc. I think it shows that I perhaps wouldn’t have loved replaying Secret of Mana so much without the nostalgia I have for that game. But overall I’m glad I played it.

Trying to decide what next - playing lots of solo board games in the mean time. Might try and make better use of my NSO subscription and play a few retro games on there before I start another ‘big’ game.

Sadly back to work on Monday after more than 2 weeks off so free time will be back to normal levels. Oh well!

Picked up Yakuza Kiwami recently in the sale, new to the series...wow it's violent! Liking the story too and plus it gives me strong Shenmue vibes...so yeah I'll be playing that this weekend.

@JohnnyMind Merry blessingtons!

Mostly Fire Emblem: Awakening (my first time playing the series) and Mario Party Jamboree, but also some Tri Force Heroes and Ocarina of Time 3D

Happy Birthday! @JohnnyMind

• Ori and the Blind Forest (Going to the Fire Ambient)
• Super Mario 3d World (i'm on ice world. I think its World 3)
• Super Woden GP 2 (30 stars...and i opened a new championship. I need to buy a new Rally car)

1000xResist is now on my radar. Thanks, Kate!

As for this weekend, F-Zero 99 (100 gems left to complete the Frozen Tour goal), Splatoon 3 (gotta get them conch shells in), and Okami.

I just beat Langrisser 1 & 2. Really enjoyed playing them, especially the 2nd game where I chose the chaos path and got to use monsters and apathetically strike down my foes~

As for now I've been playing Prince of Persia the Lost Crown. The action and platforming so far are aces.

Ace Combat 7 on Switch, which I've progressed futher in than I did on PS4. The Switch port has really made me appreciate how good the game is.

The Thing Remastered which is a game I played on its original release in 2002, but it's nice to have the quality of life improvements on Switch, it's certainly less difficult and frustrating to play.

Retro wise, I took a few of my old Mega Drive games down from the loft so may play some Shadowrun, New Zeland Story and Rolling Thunder 2. Also got The Revenge of Shinobi on Vinyl over Christmas so will be 'playing' the soundtrack.

First eShop splurge of the year (because the three previous ones totally didn't see the library boosted by 250+ titles each) ended up quite abundant, from vacuumed BoomHits/BoomBit offers galore to the sizeable investments in Theatrhythm, Red Dead Redemption and the Castlevania bundle with various other stuff like Choo-Choo Charles, TerraTech, Timespinner, Spelunky, Super Meat Boy and Zombie Army inbetween. This naturally led to more begrudging storage management (Nelke, Dragon's Dogma, Lego 2K Drive... may we meet again soon😞 If only 1.5 and 2 Tb cards didn't cost like a whole Switch here😅) and splitting the S folder into two, but it's also making many of the aforenamedropped titles into a sizeable chunk of the gaming plans until and partly through January 7; in related irony, the Dominus collection whose release finally bumped the franchise high enough among my Switch wishlist priorities is the only one still benched while I whimsically decided to replay Aria and Circle prior, with the overduly localized Kid Dracula on top.

Other Switch session ambitions (yeah😆) certainly include more Isaac which is already down to Azazel runs in search for the remaining unlocked items, so this long playthrough may come to its logical end any day/week now... or maybe I'll still be holding out for R Key in January 2026.💀 Other stuff like Xenoblades, Rune Factories, Personas, Grand Theft Autos and more familiar names from Borderlands 2, Minstrel Song and Mary Skelter 2 to Dying Light, Great Ace Attorney and Atelier Marie retain their odds as well. Beyond that? The holiday splurge also included the Nioh dilogy on EGS (where it miraculously lacked the region lock unlike on Steam), and while the first game is predictably oof-sized, I might come to have room for it if even my ongoing attempt at a separate Epic launcher sideload won't solve the problem with what has escalated to GTA V's basic accessibility over on Heroic side (a Switch port really can't come and put an end to this circus soon enough🙄). Other Deck playthroughs like Watch Dogs, FFXV, Zestiria, Xenosaga and Mass Effect beckon, too, and so do other hardware residents from Eternia, Valentia and Endless Frontier to VLR, NFS2015 and Wolfenstein New Order.

And to wrap it up, adding my own best wishes to everyone else's on @JohnnyMind jubilee today!🎉🍻

UPD: welp, separate Epic launcher won't cooperate enough to locate the GTA V files and Lutris hits an error while installing its own iteration. It was fun while it lasted. My eShop budget is ready when you are, Rockstar.

First of all, best wishes for a Switch 2(025) year to everyone! I'm looking forward to reading about the games everyone will be playing in the new year. From this topic, I've picked up quite a few titles that I hadn't heard of before and I'm sure this year will bring some more little-known indie gems to my attention.

Anyway, finally started Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. Already bought its DLC, so I expect it will keep me occupied for the next few weeks.

Also, Parking Garage Rally Circuit, on Steam Deck. It's a nice little indie drift racer, that's likely to be ported to Switch.

I finished Mario & Luigi Brothership on New Years Eve and since then I've been undecided whether to play MGS3 or Stray.

Planning the games I'm playing prior to Tomb Raider 4-6 Remastered (February 14th) is tricky considering DKC Returns isn't a particularly long game so while I'm playing the HD remaster day 1, there'll still be a sizable gap to fill between finishing DKC Returns HD and starting Tomb Raider 4-6 Remastered.

@JohnnyMind congratulations on your birthday and your parents anniversary!

I'll be playing echoes of wisdom and some rounds of Mario kart with the kids.

Spider-Man Remastered on Steam Deck. Haven’t played it since it launched on PS4; fantastic game and still looks phenomenal. If the Switch 2 is “only” as powerful as a PS4 then we’re still in for a treat, games on that thing still look incredible and this is proof (it probably looks even worse than the original with the settings I’m using and it still looks great).

Also some DQ3-HD2D here and there. Fun to grind while listening to podcast or watching a TV show that doesn’t demand your full attention!

@JohnnyMind Happy Birthday!

A little bit of Princess Peach Showtime! For me. Still have some Ninjas to find. Will maybe also do my frequent attempt to beat TJ & E Back In The Groove's Extreme Mode, which I don't think I ever will, but it has kept me trying for 6 years!

I'm ignoring my backlog of (current gen) unplayed games this weekend and revisiting some classics.
I am currently playing Ocarina of Time on my original N64 (recently HDMI modded) and also playing through Star Fox Adventures. I remember enjoying it way back when it was released but for some reason, I never finished it.
Having such a great time with them. OOT brings back so many memories and it's amazing how much I remember from my first playthrough.
I need to play through Majora's Mask at some point, as I never did finish it back in the day, but I think I'm going to wait for my Analogue 3D to ship and play it on that - I hope it doesn't get delayed!

I just squeezed the first leg of my bi-decennial play through of the Zelda Oracles Duo to the end of 2024 with a defeat of General Onox on New Year's Eve, so i'll get started on Oracle of Ages soon this year.
I thought I had completed Dragon Quest III HD-2D today, but I didn't get to the end because they did the typical DQ thing of an out of nowhere bigger bad so i'm not sure how much longer that'll be. I've made my disappointment in that game known before so I'll not rehash here. I've enjoyed it but I don't expect to retain much once I'm finished.

Can't wait to start Y's X: Nordics but will probably do another playthrough of Sonic Superstars and finish the final world of Super Mario 3D World as an rpg palate-cleanser first. So I've got plenty to look forward to. Those are the most likely to actually be touched this week.

I've been playing Kingdom Hearts Final Mix on LV1 Proud Mode, and before I have a little chat with Riku which may or may not cause Heartless to universally have higher stats, I'm working on farming for synthesis items, because I am going for the Ultima keyblade, and possibly Jiminy's Journal if I can.

Happy first weekend of 2025 everybody! Its a new year but the same ol full slate of weekend chores and responsibilities for me - being the mom taxi means I don’t get to relax and game as much as I’d like! I’d didn’t even game much during my New Year’s break, though I did buy a nice new bookshelf to hold all my Switch physical games, happily alphabetized. 😇

I’ll see if tonight maybe the kids would like to play a round of Super Mario Party Jamboree with me. It’s been sitting under the tree unplayed, and it’s almost time to take the tree down! If not, I’ve always got another run in Astral Ascent or Raiden Neo to occupy me, or a few eShop holiday sale purchases. There’s a double helping of Arcade Archive games on sale right now, which I couldn’t resist. I picked up Crossed Swords, Rally-X, Dragon Saber, and Sonic Wings 3 (“Aero Fighters 3” in the West, I think) plus a few that weren’t on sale that I’d been meaning to buy. Now to pretend I have time to actually play all these games!

Wishing everyone a fun weekend, and a Very Happy 30th to our positive and prolific friend @JohnnyMind! 🕹🎂

I started my next playthrough on my YouTube channel, which is Link's Awakening. Zelda has definitely been the most requested franchise for me to play on the channel, so now I'm finally doing it.

This is a really special video because my six-year-old nephew has been begging to be in a video with me, and we were finally able to make it happen. He's the biggest Zelda fan I know, so for this first episode, I pretty much let him play the entire time.

It's a really cute, wholesome video, so check it out if ya wanna!

https://youtu.be/tSmixU4Ij7M?si=M8yGlpIuPF7N6GkP

Oooweeee. New Year = New Games!! Finished Shadow Generations right before the turn of the year & it was truly thrilling to speed around as the other hedgehog. I happened to play this right after a slew of Nintendo crafted games so I noticed the lack of polish from Sega yet it created an itch to tackle some more Sonic games this year - particularly the DS games. In due time…

I started the year off with a bang! After tackling Persona 3/4/5 & Metaphor (totaling over 300 hours) in ‘24, Catherine: Full Body was next in line. And dare I say I am enjoying it way more than I thought I would. The plot. The presentation. The music. The puzzles. The plot twists! I happened to complete it last night and found myself enjoying my ending but catching the other ten or so online. Love when developers tie in as many possibilities as possible giving us the freedom to choose our path. Happy 2025

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass.

Linebeck is a dirt bag.

Honestly, I don’t know if I will be. As my luck would have it, I came down sick again, this time with a respiratory infection. This is two weeks after I dealt with the norovirus. Good thing I am on a five-day weekend right now; I’d hate to have to put in more time off at work. I’m likely just going to be taking it easy these next few days and rest.

[EDIT]: Looks like I came down with COVID. This is my second bout with it, my last one being in August 2022. Fortunately, I am vaxxed and boosted, so it feels no worse than a bad cold right now. But I will have to take at least one day off of work per the doctor’s orders.

@MischiefMaker Oh can you tell me one thing: I bought Collection of Mana some years ago and was so annoyed by the borders that I didn’t even really start Trials. Instead I wrote a mail to their support asking for an update with a „black borders“ option. Did they ever address that by any chance? (I’m sure they didn’t.)

@batmanbud2 Haven’t thought about that game in a long time! I wish there was a convenient way to revisit the DS Zelda’s.

Did finish Final Fantasy 1 pixel remaster this week, fantastic athough I may have overleveled? Was quite the breeze outside of the final boss. Probably playing a little this and a little that before starting the next one. Have a great weekend folks

Continuing Borderlands 3 on the PS5.

I'm in the endgame for Sea of Stars

Finishing up the Outer Worlds. Late to the party but this has been a great game. Here’s hoping Switch 2 will run Outer Worlds 2. It’s a great science fiction space adventure romp but with moral and ethical implications at the gamers helm.

I’ve purchased Little Nightmares 1. I played 2 first for whatever reason. Some creepy games! I’ll give Yakuza Kiwami a go in due time and I finally grabbed The Touryst, been on my list for years just never got around to it. Really love the aesthetic of this game, hope it’s good!

On a side note I won my fantasy football league …with a big payout so it’s been a nice way to start the year !! 😝 🏈 💰

@WiltonRoots
Violent you say?? I’m new to Yakuza series as well, nice to hear you’re enjoying it!

@JohnnyMind
Happy bday!! So do tell us how do manage to play so many games…I kid!! 😝 I hope you’re enjoying your day and getting sauced!

Strains on deck-Munnyuns~a hybrid crossed with another strain called Monkey Spunk (Don’t ask who names these!) 😂, LA Kush Cake and classic Rockstar

Happy New Year everyone! Big treat for us gamers with the Switch successor this year! For any Forum members I did recently start a topic regarding Switch 2 :Your fears or concerns with us getting closer to a reveal and navigating these leaks/rumours

Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor Overclocked on the 3DS, honestly one of the best RPGs I played, I understand why people call this game peak Megaten.

I'm 20 hours into Fantasian now. I really like it.
It's a simple, classic-style JRPG, and it's not trying to be anything more than that. It's good.

I’m all about Darksiders 2 again this weekend!!! If I do finish it (unlikely, I just finished the arena) I’m moving on to Arkham Asylum. I’m diving head first in to some sick PS3 games and I’m loving it

Very little, since we'll be out of town. Some Granblue Fantasy Relink with friends this morning, and then we're off.
I'm hoping to get back to Arco (finished Act 3 on Tuesday) when I get back.
Next week, I expect some more Warhammer Darksomething with my brothers. I really don't gaf about Warhammer, but you wouldn't know it based on all the games we've gotten this year lol.
Come on, devs! What happened to all the co-op shooters?!
Anyway, we might also be playing Mario Party Jamboree for the first time while we're out partying this weekend. Should be fun!

@JohnnyMind Happy birthday!

I bought all of the DLC for the first destiny so I'll mostly be playing that and some MK8

@JohnnyMind Happy Birthday!!! I hope you enjoy your weekend 💜

Sonic X Shadow Generations on the Switch and Tekken 8 on the PS5

Not been playing anything else than Melatonin in 2025 yet.

Happy gaming everybody! ✌🏻🧡🎮

@JohnnyMind Happy b-day! Hope you keep this nice habit of updating us with all your great games for many years to come 😉

No More Heroes III, will complete some side quests, to eventually start New Game +. I'm amazed how good this game is. The best one of the series, and, one of the best games on the Switch

Animal Well on switch.
Wwe 2K24 and Indiana Jones on Xbox.

Jin conception, I'm grateful for every bit of progress. get as many people to play it as possible, it'd be fun.

To start my 2025 with some much needed relaxation, I got Picross S Namco Legendary Edition before its sale ended.

Now I'm pondering whether I get Sonic Frontiers Digital Deluxe Edition or wait for the next time its on sale. If I don't, I'll probably get some of the Namco Arcade Archives that are on sale.

@Rainz Outer Worlds is great, nice to see someone else here that enjoys it.
I'm also hoping that Switch2 will get the sequel.

It’s a new year, which means another playthrough of my all-time favorite game… that of course being Super Mario World. This weekend also sees Sprigatito getting the community day treatment, in Pokémon Go, so I’ll be spending some time with that as well.

At this point, I'm playing TETRIS 99 here and there throughout the week so.... Probably do some more on TMNT: MUTANTS UNLEASHED. Got it for Christmas and, even though the performance is dodgy, the love for the franchise and faithfulness to the new movie's take on the characters is fantastic. Will probably log some more hours on OUTLAWS and SPACE MARINE 2 over on the PS5 (the Portal has been amazing this past year!). And am itching to finally pick up HELL KNIGHT while onsale. So maybe some twitchy twin-stick goodness as well! HAPPY NEW YEAR, NL FAM!!!!

I've finished Blossom Tales which is a cool Zelda clone and Grapple Dog which was great fun and I'll definitely be getting the sequel.

Next I'm on to Sonic X Shadow Generations which I know I'll enjoy. Happy gaming everyone.

@Rainz i loved outer worlds as well, so funny and engaging. I first played on Switch and thought it was a fantastic port although loadscreens weren't super quick. Got it on sale with dlc on XS, looking forward to next playthru after having grasp on weapons, upgrades etc.

Taking a break from being punished over and over again in Spelunky 2. I picked up Golf Story for peanuts and it is delightful

Currently in the middle of dragon quest 3 hd remastered trying to collect the orbs.

I'm back to playing plenty of Splatoon 3 once again now that Frosty Fest has begun with the Sneak Peek. There's even a slightly special Salmon Run going on with the random weapons and Triumvirate. I've finally mastered playing with a roller in the Carbon Roller Deco. I'm not far from getting the four star badge for that, so I hope to get it by the end of the Splatfest!

Metaphor ReFantazio: Reached Altabury Heights and completed the mission at the Opera House (this game is so good)

Have a great weekend everyone.
And Happy Birthday @JohnnyMind

So far Fire Emblem: Three Houses, F-Zero 99, and Rocket League.

Heavens to Murgatroyd, back to being all-in on Trails of Cold Steel IV. While the main plot is over the top and the cast unwieldy, visiting the various NPCs adjust to the reality of what's going on as things unfold due to the [REDACTED] is bringing me back around to loving it (If you haven't played a Trails game, nearly every NPC in the world is named and know people who will show up elsewhere). It's a remarkably undersold aspect of what is really the charm of the series.

Also playing Stray with my daughter and even turned my wife onto it. It's a shame Annapurna imploded, but I get it that something unsustainable was happening that people couldn't go along with.

And also back to Neva!

This weekend I'm playing:

Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure (Game Boy Advance)
Final Fantasy IV (Super Famicom Hard Type version)
Ganbare Goemon 2 (Super Famicom)

I finally started Fire Emblem Awakening on 3DS (and I can see from the poll results that I'm not the only one!). It's been a while since I last played a Fire Emblem game and I'd almost forgotten how addictive they are; I can feel myself getting hooked on this one already. Dreading my first heartbreaking death of the game though...

Happy birthday @JohnnyMind!

Taking a Switch break for the first time in a long time to play some early access Hades II. It is pretty great!

mk8dx 99k coin grind, rn at 96k. also got sonic mania for 6 bucks yesterday.

Ring Fit Adventure - It feels great to be back on this and workouts after being sick for a bit. The more time I spend away from it the harder it gets because my muscles have to relearn some of the movements.
I picked up Ace Combat 7 so I might have a go. I used to play it back when I had a ps4 so I know what an excellent game it is. I’m interested to see how well it runs on switch.

@JohnnyMind Happy Birthday! Have fun with your family!

Still playing The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening and New Pokémon Snap. After 100%-ing Super Mario Bros. Wonder, I had a hankering for some more level-based Mario, so picked up Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, which is definitely scratching that itch.

Playing Paper Mario TTYD on Switch. This is my first ever time playing the game. I am working toward the 3rd star. I am enjoying how the areas are more different from each other (at least so far) than they were in the original Paper Mario.

Also some Splatoon 2 with the kids. This game is only $15 on eBay so it is easy to pick up multiple copies to play together for local salmon runs. People still play it online also so we sometimes join each other in the same games online as well.

And just like that, I got the Carbon Roller Deco's four star badge! I guess tomorrow if the winter storm doesn't disrupt anything I'll get back to playing Mario vs. Donkey Kong on Switch as part of this year's attempt to clear my backlog. I've made progress, but that backed up list is still there...

I'm playing NFS Hot Pursuit Remastered, great game! I'm hoping the increase in power of Switch 2 brings us more games like this one.

@NintendoWife No, I’m afraid not. There’s full borders with static artwork or zoomed in, which still keeps those same borders at the sides of the screen. I kind of got used to them but they are still annoying.

I finally got my Switch jailbroken, but haven't done anything with it yet except look at the stuff installed (tinfoil, fbi, and other apps and utilities, no games). I've been too busy completing TOTK for the third time, but with a mod I haven't played much before this. I feel like I shouldn't talk about what I play because it might paint a target on wonderful people's backs for the corporate law criminals at Nintendo. So, I'm having a lot of fun playing Tears of the Kingdom, Starfox 64, Dungeon Clawler, Kingdom Two Crowns, UFO 50, wipeout, and Mario 64.
Also been playing Wipeout Omega Collection, Rocket League, and Jumping Flash! on a relative's PS4. I guess it's not surprising that Jumping Flash looks better on my Deck than on PS4 (and it looks incredible on laptop with lossless scaling and emu options getting it up to 1440p and 240fps).
If I have time, I'm looking forward to seeing if I can get BOTW and TOTK running at 60fps on my newly improved Switch.
Happy gaming everyone!

I'm still playing Ace Attorney Investigations Collection, I'm now up to the third case, it's fine so far. I'm also playing A Hat in Time on Steam, currently doing Alpine Skyline. Last of all, in Fire Emblem Heroes, I've started Book IV, and am currently playing through Chapter 2. It's weird so far, the whole concept.

Skywalker Lego
Animal Crossing
No Man's Sky on PC

Very late but I started playing the Future Redeemed DLC story in Xenoblade Chronicles 3. I've also been playing through the bonus modes in Kirby Return to Dreamland Deluxe.

@jolteon23 Is chapter 5 the one that’s basically one long conversation that goes nowhere?
I’m super happy that Nintendo continued the series, but boy does it test your patience at times!

@Freek Call of Juarez Gunslinger is freaking awesome! Don't sleep on that one!

@Ganner
Thanks, I wasn't planning to, I can't wait to get into it.
I've had it there for a while and finally grabbed it.
I've got the original and loved it so I'm glad it's good 👍

I'm hoping to wrap up Neva (Switch). I'm about halfway through and wow what a game! I loved Gris and just knew I had to give my money to the developers for their next game.

I'll also keep at Snowrunner (Switch). The Taymyr map is such a beast and really making me work for the simplest of jobs.

I'm thinking this year I'm going to break some personal rules and buy some games on my backlog and dedicate myself to playing them this year (at some point). I usually follow the "beat a game buy a game" approach to keep my sanity but the downside is I usually miss out on good deals. There's some real good discounts that are expiring tomorrow so I really should jump at them. Especially since I got a good about of eShop cash for Xmas.

Microsoft Wordament (Android) - Dailies and Adventure mode as usual.

Gravity Guy (Windows Phone) - A decent platformer so far.

iStunt 2 (Windows Phone) - Nearly done with getting all the stars in every level.

@jolteon23 I have to say Emio does that even more that the older two games. Not sure it's just pacing, the mechanic is a bit odd anyway. How they keep you cycling through the commands. I can live with it, but this time they've cranked up the instances where the same command needs to be repeated.

(ask): hmmm
(ask): hmmm
(think): I should hear what he has to say
(ask): hmmm
(ask): actually, come to think of it

That's very 'early 80s text adventure'.

I'm playing on Switch...

Palia - Just an hour or two each day.

Batman Arkham Series - I'm on the last one now "Arkham Knight" which does tank the framerate when in the open city but indoor environments are more stable. Definitely needed to be on the Switch 2 to run as intended by the developers.

Really enjoyed the first two games but the third is just barely playable at times. Will just do the main missions on this one and then uninstall it.

@Arkay, @CammyUnofficial
I managed to finish Outer Worlds this weekend. Got the ‘best ending’ and really enjoyed the game. Fingers crossed Switch 2 will be beefy enough for “Outer World 2”. I’m holding out hope as they did a great job scaling it down for Switch 1. Definitely an engaging and unique FPS adventure!

@SonnyBonds
Lol…haven’t seen that name in ages. I had Police Quest 1-3, remember playing it on my dad’s Dell computer. It would be cool if they re released the Sierra classics. Space Quest was another classic.

@Rainz haha, when I was trying to think of a username I remembered playing PQ games back in the day and decided to go with our fearless protagonist. All those early Sierra games were fun.

@JohnnyMind Happy Bday <3

@Rainz I really enjoyed the dialog. All the choices and whatnot, truly superb.
That aside it was plain fun to play as well.

Well here we go with another interesting WAYP. The week was just more GOTY hunt again but with some new things. Trails Through Daybreak, Emio and Metaphor with some Mario and Luigi and YS X. Yeah with YS X we beat it finally and honestly the ending of that game was awesome it totally makes me wanna get the YS remake or whatever it is coming out on the 7th and just play more YS. Yall should definitely check it out. Most of the weekend was spent with Fantasian Neo Dimension. Started that on New Years and it’s seriously super cool honestly it reminds me of Sakaguchis previous work Lost Odyssey and I’m seriously loving it. Rest of the weekend I’m thinking is gonna be some Marvel Rivals or Borderlands 1 or Arranger or maybe Warhammer 40K Space Marine 2 as yeah I picked that up to play with a friend and I ain’t ever tried a Warhammer thing. Beating YS X really did take away an easy pick tho ahahah. Thinking that the end of January will be the deadline for GOTY. Otherwise I’m thinking this week is mostly gonna consist of some Trails Through Daybreak, Emio, Dawntrail, Metaphor, Mario and Luigi Brothership, Super Mario Party Jamboree, Bakeru, WWE 2K24, Wuthering Waves, and Visions of Mana. Wanna start Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake as the first switch game of the year. Also wanna try to stop at GameStop and get preorders in on the first big games of the year like Dynasty Warriors Origins, Donkey Kong Country Returns HD, Trails Through Daybreak 2, Like A Dragon Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii and Monster Hunter Wilds. Also maybe get enough digital currency to buy a copy of YS Memoire The Oath In Felghana and Tales of Graces F Remastered. The wrestling thing this week is Monday Night Raw on Netflix. Thinking it could be excellent with some of the matches like Roman Reigns Vs Solo Sikoa in tribal combat, Rhea Ripley Vs Liv Morgan for the Woman’s World Championship, and CM Punk VS Seth Freaking Rollins. With John Cena starting his farewell tour and countless more surprises? Think we might have peak on the way. Anime of the week gotta go to Dandadan and Dragon Ball Daima and Shangri La Frontier and Yakuza Fiancé and Ron Kaminohashis Forbidden Deductions and Ranma 1/2. Dandadan got finished up and honestly it may have the best shot at anime of the year it’s legitimately one of the best things I’ve ever watched no joke. Podcasts of this week gotta go to Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Into The Aether, RPGsites Tetracast, Minnmax, Jeff Gerstmann, Kit and Krysta, Last Stand Media, Easy Allies, Second Wind, Nextlander, Cultaholic Wrestling, Weapon Wheel Podcast and Remap Radio. As always yall stay safe, be cool to each other. Have a totally awesome weekend and of course Happy Gaming.

@JohnnyMind happy birthday man hope it’s as awesome as you.

I spent my entire weekend on the road. Just got back, so my weekend starts now. I'll be playing demo's. Lots of them. On Switch, PS5 and PC.