I just acquired a PS2 from a friend of mine who was cleaning out some stuff. It's a system I've been thinking about getting for a while, despite how much a new system might tank my memory card stats for yet another year.

I'm certain it won't have as much of an impact as the Wii U did, seems like it might be ironic that the current greatest selling console of time will have less of an impact than one of the worst selling from the biggest platform holders, but then again a lot of the Wii U's appeal for me was the virtual consoles featuring a curated list of games from 7 previous consoles.

I just acquired a PS2 from a friend of mine who was cleaning out some stuff. It's a system I've been thinking about getting for a while, despite how much a new system might tank my memory card stats for yet another year.

I'm certain it won't have as much of an impact as the Wii U did, seems like it might be ironic that the current greatest selling console of time will have less of an impact than one of the worst from the biggest platform holders, but then again a lot of the Wii U's appeal for me was the virtual consoles featuring a curated list of games from 7 previous consoles.

A slightly late Quarter 1 update to my goals this year

Franchise Goals:
1. the 10 mainline, non-MMO Final Fantasy games that I haven't really played before; Final Fantasy 1-6, 9, 13, 15, 16.
4/10 (1, 2, 15, 16)

2. 5 games in franchise's I have either never played, or just barely started.
1/5 (Like a Dragon:Gaiden)

Hardware Goals:
3. Triple 7s! or at least 7 games on each of these three systems; Xbox, Wii U, Playstation 3. (I am counting any type of game played on that system, for example I play Wii games on my Wii U, so beating one of those would count here)
4/21 (Wii U: Pokken Tournament, PS3: Costume Quest 2, Remember me, Blur)

4. or at least 1 game on each of my other pieces of hardware. (3DS, Analogue Pocket, Nintendo 64, Switch, PC, Playstation 5, Vita, PSVR, Dreamcast, Steamdeck, Xbox 360, Xbox series S)
7/12 (Analogue Pocket, PC, Playstation 5, Vita, Dreamcast, Steamdeck, Xbox series S)

Other goals:
5. at least 5 games I beat in 2022 or earlier
2/5 (Costume Quest 2, Astro's Playroom)

6. or remove 10 fortune cookie games from my backlog
5/10 (Little Deviants, Bear and Breakfast, Neon White, Blue, Hime's Quest)

I forgot to include the link to the Google Sheet where I'm tracking my goals for this year, here it is [Link]

2024 Goals

I'm iterating on some previous types of goals for this year and I'm really excited to see how these work out. I've got 6 goals to start out this year, split into three groups

Franchise Goals:
1. the 10 mainline, non-MMO Final Fantasy games that I haven't really played before; Final Fantasy 1-6, 9, 13, 15, 16.
2. 5 games in franchise's I have either never played, or just barely started.

Hardware Goals:
3. Triple 7s! or at least 7 games on each of these three systems; Xbox, Wii U, Playstation 3. (I am counting any type of game played on that system, for example I play Wii games on my Wii U, so beating one of those would count here)
4. or at least 1 game on each of my other pieces of hardware. (3DS, Analogue Pocket, Nintendo 64, Switch, PC, Playstation 5, Vita, PSVR, Dreamcast, Steamdeck, Xbox 360, Xbox series S)

Other goals:
5. at least 5 games I beat in 2022 or earlier
6. or remove 10 fortune cookie games from my backlog, the list starting with these 5; Little Deviants (PSvita), Super Mario Sunshine (Switch Downloads), Neon White (Steam), Blur (Playstation 3), State of Decay 2 (Xbox Game pass).


For the fortune cookie goal this year I want to try something new, in the past I cracked a full list and tried to get part of that list done, each year falling short of the 7/10 I was aiming for. This year I want to try and do the list differently, starting with a smaller number, but then opening new fortune cookies as I beat games to try and keep the list fresher to myself over the course of the year.
I also want to actually incorporate removing these games from my backlog, I've removed games in the past but only counted beat games toward my goal. While I'd like to beat games generally, I've found over the last few years it's also been important to be okay trying a game, not liking it, and then just removing it rather than trying to beat my head against something I'm not having fun with. So I want to try that actually being incorporated in my goals this year.

2023 final totals

I was so much closer to hitting all of my inital goals than I thought I would be this summer. In the end I was 1 game away, despite spending time working on other stuff this summer that wasn't strictly part of my goals for the year.

Here's how it broke down:
1. and a total of 50 games this year.
78/50
2. or at least one game on every physical piece of hardware I have (currently 16, though I plan to buy a PlayStation 5 this year to go to 17)
18/18 (Dreamcast, Gameboy Color, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo 64, Nintendo Switch, Wii U, Steamdeck, PC, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One S, Xbox Series S, Playstation Vita, Playstation VR, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Playstation 5, Analogue Pocket)
2a. I'd like to finish at least 5 games on 5 pieces of hardware, and at least 3 on 5 others.
5/5 systems with 5 games (Switch, Wii U, Xbox Series S, Playstation 5, PSVR), 5/5 systems with 3 (3DS, PC, Gameboy Color, PS3, Steamdeck)
3.I have a list of 35 franchises I own a number of games in. I want to or at least 1 game in 2/3rd of those franchises (so 28/41).
28/28 (Ace Combat, Astrobot, Borderlands, Civilization, Crackdown, Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Forza Horizon, Gears of War, Kirby, Laid-back Camp, Legend of Zelda, Mario, Marvel, Mass Effect, Metroid, Perfect Dark, Pokemon, Psychonauts, Ratchet & Clank, Sly Cooper, Smash Brothers, Sonic, SoulCalibur, Star Wars, SuperHot, Warioware, Xenoblade)
3a. I'd like to or 3 games in at least 10 of those franchises
10/10 (Borderlands, Legend of Zelda, Mario, Marvel, Metroid, Pokemon, Smash Bros, Sonic, Star Wars, Xenoblade)
4. 7/10 of these Fortune Cookie selected games: Final Fantasy tactics: War of the Lion (PSP), Super Mario RPG (WiiU Virtual Console), Rollerdrome (Steam), Animorphs (GBC), Drill Dozer (WiiU Virtual Console), Act of Balance (WiiU Downloads), Persona 3 Portable (PSP), Gears Tactics (Xbox Game Pass), SoulCalibur 6 (PS4), Star Wars: Squadrons (PS4)
6/7 (Act of Balance, Super Mario RPG, Rollerdrome, SoulCalibur 6, Drill Dozer, Gears Tactics)


In the end I was 1 fortune cookie game short from hitting all of that. But I also went and beat 1 game that started with every letter of the alphabet, and I beat a game that came out for every year from 1992 through 2023, so I very happy with what I got done this year.

Here is a link to the document I tracked all my goals in [Link]


I should have 2024 goal up soon.

I got a lot of games beat in the third quarter this year, far more than I was expecting, including a couple of longer games I thought would take me longer (Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and Starfield).

1. and a total of 50 games this year.
62/50
2. or at least one game on every physical piece of hardware I have (currently 16, though I plan to buy a PlayStation 5 this year to go to 17)
16/17 (Dreamcast, Gameboy Color, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo 64, Nintendo Switch, Wii U, Steamdeck, PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One S, Xbox Series S, Playstation Vita, Playstation VR, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Playstation 5)
2a. I'd like to finish at least 5 games on 5 pieces of hardware, and at least 3 on 5 others.
4/5 systems with 5 games (Switch, Wii U, Xbox Series S, Playstation 5), 4/5 systems with 3 (3DS, PC, PSVR, PS3)
3.I have a list of 35 franchises I own a number of games in. I want to or at least 1 game in 2/3rd of those franchises (so 28/41).
25/28 (Ace Combat, Astrobot, Borderlands, Civilization, Elder Scrolls, Forza Horizon, Gears of War, Kirby, Laid-back Camp, Legend of Zelda, Marvel, Mass Effect, Metroid, Perfect Dark, Pokemon, Pscyhonauts, Ratchet & Clank, Sly Cooper, Smash Brothers, Sonic, SoulCalibur, Star Wars, SuperHot, Warioware, Xenoblade)
3a. I'd like to or 3 games in at least 10 of those franchises
4/10 (Borderlands, Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Star Wars)
4. 7/10 of these Fortune Cookie selected games: Final Fantasy tactics: War of the Lion (PSP), Super Mario RPG (WiiU Virtual Console), Rollerdrome (Steam), Animorphs (GBC), Drill Dozer (WiiU Virtual Console), Act of Balance (WiiU Downloads), Persona 3 Portable (PSP), Gears Tactics (Xbox Game Pass), SoulCalibur 6 (PS4), Star Wars: Squadrons (PS4)
4/7 (Act of Balance, SoulCalibur 6, Drill Dozer, Gears Tactics)

Again no real progress on the Fortune cookie goals, but I made solid progress on all my other goals, and the real major thing I did this quarter was finish beating a game that starts with each letter of the alphabet, and I am 1 game away from beating a game from each year from 1992 through 2023.

Update at end of the second quarter:

A really solid quarter, I got fewer games done, however I did play two bigger games (Tears of the Kingdom and Xenoblade Chronicles) so it sort of evens out.

I am struggling a little with the fortune cookie goal, I still really like the concept of it, but it isn't working as well for me as I'd like. I have an idea to tweak it, but that might wait for next year. I did end up removing one game from both my Backloggery, and thus goals (Strong Bad's Cool game for attractive people) as I wasn't enjoying the game play much, so I drew another fortune cookie, and got Animorphs (GBC), we'll see if a fresh title in the list helps me get on that goal a little more going forward.

1. and a total of 50 games this year.
38/50
2. or at least one game on every physical piece of hardware I have
14/17 (Dreamcast, Gameboy Color, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, Wii U, Steamdeck, PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One S, Xbox Series S, Playstation VR, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Playstation 5)
2a. I'd like to finish at least 5 games on 5 pieces of hardware, and at least 3 on 5 others.
3/5 systems with 5 games (Wii U, Xbox Series S, Playstation 5), 2/5 systems with 3 games (PSVR, Switch)
3. or at least 1 game in 2/3rd of the franchises I own at least a couple games in (27/40 right now).
(Ace Combat, Astrobot, Borderlands, Civ, Elder Scrolls, Forza Horizon, Gears of War, Kirby, Laid-back camp, Legend of Zelda, Marvel, Metroid, Pokemon, Psychonauts, Ratchet & Clank, SoulCalibur, Star Wars, Super Hot, Warioware, Xenoblade)
3a. I'd like to or 3 games in at least 10 of those franchises
0/10
4. 7/10 of these Fortune Cookie selected games: Final Fantasy tactics: War of the Lion (PSP), Super Mario RPG (WiiU Virtual Console), Rollerdrome (Steam), Animorphs (Gameboy Color), Drill Dozer (WiiU Virtual Console), Act of Balance (WiiU Downloads), Persona 3 Portable (PSP), Gears Tactics (Xbox Game Pass), SoulCalibur 6 (PS4), Star Wars: Squadrons (PS4)
4/7 (Act of Balance, SoulCalibur 6, Drill Dozer, Gears Tactics)

Update after the first quarter:

I got a lot more done for my goals this quarter than I was expecting. I did end up buying a lot of games, but I was expecting that, with the Wii U and 3DS eshops closing in March.

Here is my progress on my goals:

1. and a total of 50 games this year.
23/50
2. or at least one game on every physical piece of hardware I have
11/17 (Dreamcast, Gameboy Color, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, Wii U, Xbox One S, Xbox Series S, Playstation VR, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Playstation 5)
2a. I'd like to finish at least 5 games on 5 pieces of hardware, and at least 3 on 5 others.
2/5 systems with 5 game (Wii U, Xbox Series S), 1/5 systems with 3 games (Playstation 5)
3.I have a list of 35 franchises I own a number of games in. I want to or at least 1 game in 2/3rd of those franchises (so 24/35).
13/24 (Ace Combat, Astrobot, Borderlands, Forza Horizon, Gears of War, Kirby, Metroid, Pokemon, Ratchet & Clank, SoulCalibur, Star Wars, Warioware, Zelda)
3a. I'd like to or 3 games in at least 10 of those franchises
0/10
4. 7/10 of these Fortune Cookie selected games: Final Fantasy tactics: War of the Lion (PSP), Super Mario RPG (WiiU Virtual Console), Rollerdrome (Steam), Strong Bad's cool game for attractive people (PS3), Drill Dozer (WiiU Virtual Console), Act of Balance (WiiU Downloads), Persona 3 Portable (PSP), Gears Tactics (Xbox Game Pass), SoulCalibur 6 (PS4), Star Wars: Squadrons (PS4)
4/7 (Act of Balance, SoulCalibur 6, Drill Dozer, Gears Tactics)

I guess I had good timing, finally getting a Playstation 5 right as the Steam Spring sale starts, and right before the Wii U and 3DS shops close. is going to get a nice little boost this week, but oh well.

I changed all my PS5 games to unfinished now, and I've been buying a bunch of games for those various reasons. I've got what I want from Steam for now, though more discounts for the next week might tempt me to pick up a few more games, likewise I think I'm done with my Wii U and 3DS libraries now, but I do have around a week to FOMO my way into a couple more purchases.

Around the end of March though I am hoping to stop buying games, and get back to mostly just beating them, which I feel I did a pretty good job of earlier this year. I've gotten a lot more done of my goals so far this year than I thought I would by now, I'll be quite happy to get back to hammering away at them for the next couple months, then in May or June I might actually revisit them and add some targets for the later part of the year.