@FishyS It's infinitely worse now that I have a Steam Deck. PC bundles and sales be crazy. I could mostly ignore them before since I knew I'd never bother with most PC games, but now that I have one with the convenience of a Switch, it's like there's a constant war between the logical and impulsive sides of my brain.
Logical side: "You have, like, 200 games you still need to play, and you'll get through maybe 20 in a good year."
Impulsive: "ZOMG THREE YAKUZA GAMES FOR $10?!? SOLD!"
Complete Tears of the Kingdom (everything except Korok seeds and leveling up gear). Then Super Mario RPG and Wonder. Then go back and finish Age of Calamity. Then go back and finish Xenoblade 2. That will probably take me all year. Heck, completing TOTK will probably take me the rest of the year. I've nearly found all of the shrines, and I want to hunt down the rest of the Sages Wills, Lightroots, and gear I don't have. It'll be a sad day when I decide there's nothing left that I want to find in that game.
Recently finished: Super Mario Wonder, Final Fantasy VII, Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
Currently playing: Donkey Kong Country Returns HD, Zelda: Link Between Worlds
What's next: ?
Resolution: Get Switch 2 and replay BOTW/TOTK/Witcher 3 and others that require DLSS to game. Replay backlogs and get new backlogs. Some of which I need returning to...
Play less Mario Kart to make more room for variety and structure play order around what's already out and what's specifically known for the future rather than what a Direct may bring. I played a gigantic amount of MK8 Deluxe in 2022 and 2023 because of the Booster Course Pass but also in between games when it looked like a Direct or other announcements may happen (that backfired in May as I thought Nintendo may have addressed the barren 2nd half of 2023 very soon after TotK released but instead they gave people a bit over a month to beat TotK before moving onto the big info blowout for the 2nd half of the year).
The other thing is using Switch 2's 3rd party lineup to judge whether I should get a PS5 as well. I said no to the Black Friday sales despite some very good deals given there's so many Switch games I want to play, seemingly credible rumours about PS5 Pro, the 3rd party PS5 games I want to play may very well come to Switch 2 like the FFVII Remake games and Jim Ryan pivoting Playstation to live service stuff being concerning. Having more concrete info seemingly next year will help create an informed decision.
Looking back, I succeeded with the first point considering the only times I played MK8 Deluxe this year was to redeem the Daisy amiibo outfit and to check what a surprise update was about. While Splatoon 3 took over at certain points during the year, I managed to play a load of games overall.
With the second point, not really much to say about Switch 2 3rd party support as Switch 2 is still a complete mystery. I am however leaning more towards no regarding PS5 based on how I'm so spoiled for choice with Switch 1 games.
I remember making a resolution last year to be able to finish my backlog. And now I'm actually close, but mostly due to reasons outside my control causing me to end up receiving a lot less work for my (freelance) job than I was used to over the course of 2024. So always be careful with what you wish for.
In retrospect of 2024 I dabbled in Brigandine and I put a handful of hours in Unicorn Overlord, but I never locked in with either. I never got around to the other games I mentioned. The backlog experienced explosive expansion in 2024. There might not have been very many landmark releases to make 2024 an all-time great year in the hobby, but there were more releases with an aggregate of 80+ than most other years of the Switch's lifecycle.
Don't let anyone try to convince you it was a down year in gaming.
Switch Physical Collection - 1,383 games (as of January 17th, 2024)
Favorite Quote: "Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age the child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies." -Edna St. Vincent Millay
I was just looking back earlier in this thread and saw my resolution was apparently to get some RPGs off my backlog. Well... I got precisely one off my backlog đ Dragon Quest Treasures â it was a good game. I also played a couple RPGs that were new so weren't on my backlog such as Denpa Men.
Don't let anyone try to convince you it was a down year in gaming.
Everyone's expectations were weird just because there were so many huge games in 2023. For 2024 I would say it was a bit of a down year for Nintendo first party games or at least average at best, but Zelda still won the year for me personally.
In 2025 I'm gonna (hopefully) finally try Undertale, beat AA: Justice for All and Trials and tribulations (I beat and loved the first one but left it halfway through Justice for All), get into Hollow Knight and play Metroid Prime Remastered before 4 comes out.
And yet somehow I know that instead of that I'm just gonna play through Persona 5 Royal again even though I played 131 hours this year.
One of my resolutions is related both to my gaming life, as well as my life in general: Less YouTube and doomscrolling. It's become somewhat of a bad habit for me to just plop down in my desk chair and reluctantly resign myself to watching whatever shows up on my feed. It's unproductive, repetitive, and certainly doesn't help with my depression. Make no mistake, I'm not just cutting youtube out of my life altogether, certainly not. There's many creators I subscribe to that I absolutely love to listen to, and who provide genuinely amazing content across the platform. Let's be honest though, there's loads of videos on youtube and such that are simply just (as the kids of today refer to it) slop. Its not wonder why I feel so crummy all the time, and I want to change that. I want to take time that would otherwise be wasted and actually put it towards something, even if it just goes towards my gaming lifestyle. I want to play more games, find more hidden gems, engage more with the community. This probably sounds like a silly resolution, I'm just tired of falling into the trap of putting my life on auto-pilot, and I'm tired of numbing the tedium of day-to-day life with whatever shlock some algorithm churns out. tl;dr - Waste less time watching vapid, meaningless content, explore more of my gaming horizons and actually take part more in the gaming community.
Looking back on my resolutions (to try and get into some indie games), I haven't done too badly.
The first half of the year was very busy for me but I managed to try Cuphead and Celeste and love them both despite their difficulty!
I still aim to get round to Undertale at some point and maybe Hollow Knight, I've come to realisation that Metroidvanias just might not be for me but maybe I should give HK a go before denouncing the genre entirely lol
@Novamii I'm with u on yt. they've absolutely ticked me off w nothing to watch and or annoying recommendations. they get creepily too personal (stuff I'm thinking about, not even blurting it out loud so the phone picks up my voice) or cigarette recommendations when I quit a year ago yet they relentlessly won't stop even when I click don't recommend. I'm glad I use an adblocker, f them. it's social engineering, good luck to u.
-mk8dx: get 99k coins, currently at 91,500
-mk tour: get the 'final badge'. 30 1st place wins in tier 99 in ranked, currently at 14
-mk super circuit: 3 star the rest of the retro tracks, 8 cups left of pure hell. got the night screen this week w my new backlit glacier gba
work on my switch backlog I've neglected bc of the mk8dx coin grind. botw, 100% odyssey, metroid dread, dragon quest xi and many more
beat superstar saga (had it as a kid but don't remember beating it, if not I've never beat a jrpg)
Switch Physical Collection - 1,383 games (as of January 17th, 2024)
Favorite Quote: "Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age the child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies." -Edna St. Vincent Millay
@FishyS This is true. But I'm not sure if my intentions for 2025 will be the same as they were for 2024.
Switch Physical Collection - 1,383 games (as of January 17th, 2024)
Favorite Quote: "Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age the child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies." -Edna St. Vincent Millay
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