Playing it now as per your recommendation. Damn, I was not expecting this. I'm enjoying it a lot. Thanks for mentioning it! I wouldn't have played it otherwise and this is turning out to be much better than I thought

True, I didn't notice that myself! Pressing towards 1k then!

I'll be sure to get back to you when I beat Mighty No. 9, but so far I really think it's a... positive mixed bag, I guess

Happy belated backloggiversary. We've really been in it, haven't we?

Congrats on ten years and ten hundred games! What incredible progress!

way to go bud!

Congrats on the backloggiversary and on the 1000th game beaten! Here's to an extra 10 years!

Ten years later! I don't have a record of my statistics when this account was created, but I know for sure I had beaten less than 250 games at the time. That's pretty far from a thousand! That's the hottest new milestone by the way. Yesterday I beat my thousandth game, Robocop. Here's to the next thousand

In Year Nine I beat 83 games, taking care not to double count games that were and in the same year. My goal progress can be found here [Link]
I really dropped the ball on this year's Fortune Cookie picks, but otherwise I think it was a productive time. I'd like this year to be repeat of all those same goals, with some minor revisions. It's quite the laundry list, but I feel the best benchmarks are the ones that seem unattainable at the outset. The link to their progress is right here [Link]
What discoveries will Year Ten have in store for us? New favorites? Old enemies? There will always be too many games to play and that's just how I prefer it

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