@Th3solution Time is on my side this year. Practically the whole of last gen I was time poor with a young family, working a distance and my mum not being well. Now I still have kids but my youngest is 6 nearly 7 and the boys are at the end of secondary / A-Levels / College. Expensive but need hardly any support other than cleaning up after them. My shifts have settled down and we aren't going away until next April. So it's been pretty great tbh.
Hopefully your work calms down, so much stress a few years back It doesn't seem worth the hassle. I made a call last year to not be used in work, so asking me to cover - I want something back + extras. Got a pay rise (not that it covers the cost of living crisis) and I always go home on time. In the past if I had something to do, I would always stay behind. But those 15-25 minutes add up. I now do it the following day. If it's effecting results, well they need to pay me for an extra hour or two a week. Simple ROFL 😂
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PS3 Megathread 2019: The Last of Us
Multiplat 2018: Horizon Zero Dawn
Nintendo 2017: Super Mario Bros 3
Playstation 2016: Uncharted 2
Multiplat 2015: Final Fantasy 7
@themcnoisy Bruh, that’s sound advice. And timely. Today I was about to leave work at closing time with everyone else and I felt guilty leaving work behind, so I stayed late. Again. I need to be kinder to myself. Those 15-25 minutes do add up. Thanks, buddy. I needed to hear that!
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
Complete The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC on PC. ❌
Complete a 100% re-play of Super Mario 3D Land on 3DS. ✔️
Grind enough daily and weekly challenges in order to finally get the platinum trophy for Rayman Legends on PS4. ✔️
Get up to HR100 in Monster Hunter Rise on NS. ✔️
Purchase and begin playing through the Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak expansion. ✔️
Purchase and complete Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course on NS, which is the upcoming expansion for that game. ✔️
Purchase and begin playing through Xenoblade Chronicles 3 on NS. ✔️
Start playing an unplayed backlogged game of some sort. ✔️
Pretty good, I'd say. For the record, the backlogged game in question was Trials of Mana (PS4 version). Probably won't bother beating it, though. It's pretty bad.
New goals through the end of the year (12/31/22, to be exact).
Complete The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC on PC.
Complete Criminal Girls: Invite Only on PS Vita
Begin playing, complete, and obtain platinum trophy for 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim on PS4
Complete my playthrough of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 on NS (currently 92 hours in and on the last chapter, but there's so much great side content left to get through; it's a lot like The Witcher 3 where it's arguably more of a draw than the main plot quests most of the time).
Begin playing and complete the single-player portion of Splatoon 3 on NS.
Play at least some of every major multiplayer mode in Splatoon 3 on NS.
Get up to MR100 in Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak on NS.
Battle all of the monsters added to Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak on NS thru the most current title update at least once.
Begin playing and complete at least one route in Ys Origin on NS
Complete two NG+ playthroughs of Triangle Strategy on NS: one of the liberty route that emphasizes different choices than in my first playthrough, and one of the Golden Route with all maxed out characters.
How quickly time passes…
Did I follow my backlog plan? Did I shrink it or grow it? Let’s see —
>>>>>>Previous Backlog plan —
PS5 Kena: Bridge of Spirits - done ☑️ (I never did write that review I wanted to though) Immortals: Fenyx Rising - partial ➖. Started and in progress. Enjoying it, but it got overshadowed by some other games atm. Yet undetermined multiplayer live-service game - Hmm… this isn’t quite what I had in mind, the purpose of this plan was to nudge me out of my comfort zone, but I’m going to give myself a ☑️ for playing (and will still be playing for the foreseeable) Gran Turismo 7. With constant updates and a robust MP aspect (which I’m not engaging in 😛) it is technically ‘live-service’.
PS4 BioShock 2 - Another partial ➖. Never actually completed it, and I think I’m close to the end. I should do that. Life is Strange 2 - Nope. ✖️ Uncharted 2 - Nope. ✖️
PS5 Immortals: Fenyx Rising - I’d like to finish this game over the next month or two. Gran Turismo 7 - A game to which I am properly addicted, at this point. I expect this to be something of an evergreen in my library, but hopefully I complete the single player ‘menu’ campaign this month. The Stanley Parable - I’ve got an Ubisoft open world adventure going, a racing game in process, and so I need some balance by playing… whatever this is.
PS4 Little Nightmares - I’m actually close to the end of this, playing it on the side with Game Club. Should be able to dust it off imminently. BioShock 2 - Maybe I’ll finish this too. Uncharted 2 - Let’s try again.
>>>>>>>>Next Planned Purchases —
Horizon Forbidden West - It’s still not ‘if’ but ‘when’. If I see the price drop enough then I might pull the trigger. Uncharted Legacy of Thieves Collection - ditto, again. Upgrade to PS Plus Extra - I don’t think there’s any new releases I’m dying to buy within the next 3 months (undecided on when to get Gotham Knights and GoW Ragnarok), so I think I’m going to give the service a spin for the last 5 months of my Plus sub instead of buying any new games. I’ve got a list going of about 20 games on the Extra tier that I don’t own but am curious enough to try.
😒 …just what my backlog needs… to instantly balloon by another 20 games 😅.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@RogerRoger Yeah, I'm trying to design these lists more around what I know I'm actually gonna play instead of games I feel like I probably should get to, if that makes sense. With some exceptions, like the game you noticed was carried forward.
I've been putting off getting further into the second Trails in the Sky game for months now. Since around February. It's not a bad game, necessarily, but this particular series has just never really grabbed me. Also, I prefer playing turn-based JRPGs on portables, but this is ONLY on PC, so I'm stuck playing on my desktop until I can justify buying a Steam Deck. I'd hate to give up on it, though, especially considering characters and events from previous games are apparently heavily referenced in later ones.
Fun fact: Trails in the Sky SC and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 are the two JRPGs I'm playing right now. Completely different developers and whatnot. In XC3, the main characters are classified as 'Ouroboros,' whereas, in TitS SC, 'Ouroboros' is the villainous organization my main characters are fighting against. Just found that kinda funny!
I'll start off with saying that I rarely complete games. It is usually due to time constraints in RL. However maybe having a list will push me to complete them.
Backlog:
1. Death Stranding- Loved what I played, just stopped for something else for a bit and intimidating to jump back in
2. Dungeons of Naheulbeuk-Fun, quirky indie turn based rpg. Fills that rpg itch while I wait for Pathfinder wotr. Almost finished
3. GT7. Most recent purchase. Playing off and on
Upcoming Purchase:
1 Pathfinder Wrath of the righteous-Really looking forward to this. Will drop everything when this comes out.
2. Steel Rising-victorian robot souls like, looks fun
3. Hogwarts- looking better and better
By May 12th (the release date of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, which is going to monopolize all of my time once it releases), I want to complete the following games.
In-Progress: Fire Emblem Engage (NS) Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom (NS) Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition (NS)
Upcoming: Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse (NS) Grim Guardians: Demon Purge (NS)
Platinum Run: Gravity Rush Remastered (PS4)
Currently Playing: Fields of Mistria (PC); Cookie Clicker (PC); Metaphor: ReFantazio (PC); Overboard! (PC)
@RogerRoger Oh, I can actually comment on that, as I got the Vita-version platinum trophy back in... checks psnprofiles ...2015. It's a pretty quick and easy plat. The biggest obstacle is mastering the various challenges you find in the game, but those honestly weren't too bad.
I actually chose GRR for my first plat this year because it's quick and easy enough that it won't demand a massive time investment. Also, I never bought the DLC for the Vita version, so I'm looking forward to engaging with that content, which I believe comes bundled with the PS4 version.
Xenoblade and Fire Emblem are the biggest obstacles to my goal, since both are fairly lengthy games. XC1 can last anywhere from 60 - 100+ hours, depending on how quickly you play through it. Thankfully, I'm already more than 60 hours into Fire Emblem, and ploughed through 26 hours of XC1 recently, so I'm well on my way to beating them. And the other games should be fairly short, comparatively: in the 10 - 20 hour range.
@RogerRoger Yeah, some of the challenges require concentration, but nothing out of the ordinary. And nothing grindy. It's a very efficient platinum, which is the ideal sort of trophy set for me.
Definitely. I wasn't sure at first if the upgrade would be worthwhile, since there's technically no performance enhancements, but it really is a night-and-day difference, and has caused me to fall in love with the system all over again. I have a Switch Lite I'm keeping, theoretically, for when I want to go somewhere, but it's almost impossible to go back to the duller LCD screen. In a way, I'm reminded of when I first picked up, and was subsequently wowed by, the PS Vita.
With that said, I am hoping the release schedule chills out a bit later in the year so that I can spend some time with those PS4 games I bought on Black Friday. Marvel's Spider-Man and Ghost of Tsushima promise to be a good time.
Currently Playing: Fields of Mistria (PC); Cookie Clicker (PC); Metaphor: ReFantazio (PC); Overboard! (PC)
Apparently I haven't checked in here for over a year, lol. Time to change that!
Previous backlog (from over a year ago): 999 (PS4) - Finished Prototype (Xbox 360) - Not finished Yo-Kai Watch 2 (3DS) - Finished
Previous upcoming purchases: None
Current backlog: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Switch) Final Fantasy VII Remake (PS5) Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo (Switch)
Upcoming purchases: Final Fantasy XVI (PS5) Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE (Switch) The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie (PS5) Loop8: Summer of Gods (Switch)
I felt like making a new post simply because of so many compelling games coming out this summer. I actually haven't been this excited for new releases since late last year when Pokémon Violet, GoW: Ragnarok and Sonic Frontiers came out. I'm mostly looking forward to FFXVI and Rain Code. FF just looks like a true next-gen experience and I need more of those on my new PS5! Even though I'm committed to playing through this series in order, I need to make an exception for this game. The only problem is whether I'll be able to finish FFVII Remake before XVI comes out. Even bigger problem how that'll affect my enjoyment of XVI if I play through not just two JRPGs consecutively but also from the same franchise. I rarely do that, so I might decide to play XVI later on but I definitely want to get it day one at the very least.
Kinda the same issues with Rain Code as I'm playing two games on Switch right now. I'm definitely not finishing Zelda before then and I've come to accept that the game will take a long time for me to complete, so I'm going to take breaks from it from time to time. But Paranormasight is also a visual novel, so I'm hoping I can finish it relatively soon so that I don't get burned out on VNs. Anyway, really looking forward to Rain Code as I'm a huge fan of Danganronpa. Even though it's not exactly the same, I'm still hoping it'll deliver a great experience just like that series did for me.
In terms of my backlog, I'm basically playing Zelda twice a week in order to not get burned out since it's the same formula as BotW, of which I've spent 120 hours on. But I'm definitely enjoying the game a lot! As a side note, I've actually written a lot about FFVII Remake and Paranormasight but I decided to make them into separate posts given how much text I've written. But I'm also enjoying both of those games a lot! I feel like I have a great trio of titles to play right now.
So I haven't talked about my other two upcoming purchases yet. That's because of two reasons. First, I'm not going to play Trails into Reverie at launch since I still need to play the Crossbell games. But I still want to have a copy of the game day one since I love this series. Second, I'm not completely sure I want to buy Loop8. There's very little information about the game and given that it has a unique gameplay system, I need to read more about it before deciding if I want to get it. But the game looks incredibly cozy. It reminds me of specifically Persona 4 Golden given its time management and relationship systems as well as it taking place in countryside Japan. I just need to see more of it and read some reviews first.
So yeah, there's a lot to look forward to this summer and I think it's going to be a great summer for gaming. There are also some games I look forward to in August, such as Anonymous;Code, which is the next game from the makers of Steins;Gate, and The Legend of Nahyuta, which is an action RPG from Falcom. But I think I'll mention those in my next update instead as I actually have a lot of games to look forward to now.
@KilloWertz Lol, to be fair I think I'd lose interest if I were to play only one of those titles at a time. If I were only playing Paranormasight, I'd get bored because it's a VN and there's no actual gameplay. With Zelda I'd get burned out for playing it so much and with FF I'd want to play something else while I'm in bed.
I wouldn't have this problem if I had the Project Q device that Sony announced. If I could be playing FFVII Remake while I'm in bed, I'd probably only play that right now. So this problem could get resolved or at least be mitigated when the device comes out.
Time for a new list.
By May 12th (the release date of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, which is going to monopolize all of my time once it releases), I want to complete the following games.
In-Progress: Fire Emblem Engage (NS) ✔️ Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom (NS) ✔️ Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition (NS) ✔️
Upcoming: Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse (NS) ❌ Grim Guardians: Demon Purge (NS) ✔️
Platinum Run: Gravity Rush Remastered (PS4) ❌
Well, I completed four of the six in time. Could be worse.
In-Progress:
Advance Wars 1 + 2: Re-Boot Camp (Switch)
Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe (Switch)
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Switch)
Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse (Switch)
Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo (Switch)
Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed (Switch)
Watch me backtrack on this like the hypocrite I am once a new Mario or Persona or something is announced, but after these, I think I'm largely done buying games for a while. My multi-system backlog is too big at this point, and I'll never get to play the games I own if I keep buying new ones.
Anyway, my current plan is to peck away at the games on my in-progress list one at a time, and take breaks to play the two new games I'm looking to buy (as a fan of Danganronpa, Zelda, Pikmin, Xenoblade Chronicles, and Advance Wars, April - July feels like gaming bliss to me).
I did get a new GPU back on my birthday in April, so I'll probably play Cyberpunk 2077 in small chunks as well over the months until Starfield comes out. Assuming it's not a terrible release, Starfield will be my focus for a good long while after September.
@Th3solution How long did it take you to finish Gran Turismo 7? Also, what does "menus" entail in this case? I'm considering starting the game up in the near future but I've never played a GT game before.
If you haven't already played it, I recommend Stray, especially since you have PS+ Extra. I played it after finishing a long game and it was the perfect palate cleanser.
I haven't played this one yet, but I bought Gris today. I remember the game receiving tons of praise when it came out but I never got it until now as it's on sale for only €5. It's also 3-4 hours apparently, so maybe that would be fitting to play.
@LtSarge Yes, Stray is definitely on my list as well. It was between Stray and Tchia for my next shorter indie/AA game and I’m going to try Tchia so as to play along with the GameClub. I will get to Stray hopefully this year though. And that’s a good shout for Gris; I’ve also heard some good things and it sounds like it would be a nice fit between larger games. The new one from the studio showing on the recent showcase brought it to mind.
As for GT7, it’s really great. I think it took me around 50-60 hours or so to clear all the menus. But I’ve played almost all the GT games going back to PS1, so I have a familiarity with the series. If you’re not into sim style racers then it may not hit for you.
But there’s no questioning the attention to detail and the awesome PS5 feature-set with haptics and triggers. Menus are the games solo campaign. It takes place through a hub located at a cafe and the owner gives you “menus” to complete to progress through the game and gradually be exposed to different types of cars. A menu might be “Obtain car A and then place in the top 3 in Race X”. As soon as you do all the things on the menu you go back to the cafe and the owner congratulates you and give you a prize of some kind. But you can do races on your own and buy whatever car you want, but the cafe/menu system makes for a general flow and approach since it starts you out with easier races and it kind of forces you to try different types of cars and racetracks. As you might suspect, the game crescendos to a large GT Championship race and once you win the cup, you could feel satisfied to have “completed” the game, but there’s other menus after that which are supplemental like dealing with classic cars and such. The amount of content is pretty huge.
The game also has a robust online racing center and other single player activities like music races where you are racing through gates to keep up with the music, a missions section where you race in certain settings with objectives, etc. The game is updated with new cars and new tracks and new events every so often.
There’s a real money microtransaction piece to the game which is completely unobtrusive and I never spent any money and still was able to get tons of time and enjoyment from it. Certain cars are super expensive but completely optional to own, but you can still grind a few of the events to earn the credits rather than pay real money, but the option is there if you want to save a few hours of grinding. The main menu campaign has absolutely no need to spend money, it would only be for afterward and if you want to streamline a few trophies if you’re going for the platinum. Still, you can definitely get the platinum without engaging it MTX
Previous backlog: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Switch) - Not finished Final Fantasy VII Remake (PS5) - Not finished Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo (Switch) - Not finished
Previous upcoming purchases: Final Fantasy XVI (PS5) - Bought and finished Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE (Switch) - Bought The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie (PS5) - Bought Loop8: Summer of Gods (Switch) - Not bought
Current backlog: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Series X) Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon (Wii U)
Upcoming purchases: Atlas Fallen (PS5) Anonymous;Code (Switch) The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails (Switch)
Did not finish any of the games from my previous backlog considering I became so occupied by Final Fantasy XVI when it came out last month. Then I decided to put them on hold and focus on other backlog games. But I at least managed to buy most of my previous upcoming purchases, except Loop8 which did not sound like a fun experience at all and so I didn't get it.
I want to start playing at most two games at a time since it gets much harder for me when I play three games. Two are more manageable while still giving me a fair amount of variety. And in this case, Prince of Persia as well as Fire Emblem are completely different games, which is perfect for me. Really enjoying both titles!
I want to focus on releases in the next two months and then make an update in September in preparation for the large amount of releases in October and November. I won't include titles like Starfield because I'll just play them on Game Pass, so they're not technically purchases. Anyway, I'm fairly excited for Atlas Fallen in a couple of weeks. It seems like it will be a cool and unique experience. I'm not completely sold on it though so I'll keep my eyes out on reviews and hopefully even a demo. In terms of Anonymous;Code, I've honestly not heard many talk about it. I'm not even sure if it's even coming out lol. Either way, I'm a huge fan of Steins;Gate and Science Adventure, so I definitely want to play it on launch. Finally, I can't skip out on a Falcom release and so I'm absolutely getting The Legend of Nayuta when it comes out.
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