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52 Games Challenge 2024!!!!!

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bizzgeburt:
I didn't manage to play through even anything near to 52 games, but here's this year's finished-list:

Sega Game Gear:
- Sonic the Hedgehog (Highscore: 278.580)
- Sonic Triple Trouble (Highscore: 209.600)
- Space Harrier (Highscore: 5.255.050)
- Ax Battler: A Legend of Golden Axe

GameBoy Color:
- Super Mario Bros. Deluxe (Highscore: 414.050)

Game Boy Advance:
- Disney's Treasure Planet
- Yoshi's Island Super Mario Advance 3 (SMB-Highscore: 103.110)
- SpongeBob Squarepants and Friends in Freeze Frame Frenzy
- SpongeBob Squarepants: Battle of Bikini Bottom
- Spyro Adventure

Super Nintendo:
- Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
- Harvest Moon

N64:
- Yoshi's Story

PlayStation:
- Final Fantasy Origins (Final Fantasy & Final Fantasy II both finished in easy- AND normal mode)

PlayStation 2:
- Call of Duty 2: Big Red One

PlayStation 4 digital:
- Nobody Saves the World

This only sums up to 16 games finished in 2024 ... but one of them was a long one, so I can call it a year. Playing 2 Final Fantasy titles 2 times each ate up weeks if not months  8)

kashell:
92. Rockman X 4 - X

The Mega Man X Legacy Collection allows you to switch between the English and Japanese versions. For fun, I switched to Japanese. It helped remind me how much I've been slacking with my studies. Ugh. Otherwise, super fun as always. I like how all of the Maverick bosses have little quips they say before the fights begin. I tried a new boss order, too. Frost Walrus ended up being the final one I went after despite him being one of the easiest.

kamikazekeeg:
33 - Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania/Operation Guns (PC 2024) - Gonna count this as I did feel like I put more hours into this than the others and actually I could count Operation Guns also that released earlier this year, which was a Contra DLC, but Ode to Castlevania added a lot.  It only has one map, similar to the Among Us one, but it adds a ton of characters and new weapons.  The ending and how it adds so many characters and weapons, makes me almost feel like this could be the last DLC for Vampire Survivors, which would make sense, as this game started out as a clear homage to Castlevania, and here they are, collab'ing with the original, they've come full circle.  They even had voice acting, recreating a new version of the beginning scene in Symphony of the Night with Richter and Dracula.  Might just be reading too much into it and they could just make DLC for a long time after this, but this would be a great note to end on.

It also has this big round up ending to it, and then when you beat the game, they are just "Here's these sick new characters and weapons", like a teaser roll, maybe hinting at new DLC, but then they just give them to you, nearly a dozen new characters on top of the dozen they added with the DLC, it's pretty great.  The level for the DLC is great, being Dracula's Castle and having lots of bosses to fight throughout, even changing from a top down setup, to something like standard Castlevania in 2 spots of the castle with the ability to jump.  It's a little awkward, but nice to see at least.

I put a good handful of hours into this DLC, most DLC's have probably 5+ hours of gameplay depending on what you want to count as having completed it, though I think this DLC might be the only one with a proper end credits? I don't remember getting one from the Contra DLC or Among Us, or previous ones, but I could be wrong there.  Vampire Survivors is the perfect chill game for me, it has little actual gameplay, it's just movement and flashing pixels, but it can be addictive unlocking everything and getting through levels in the 30 minute chunks if you go through the whole level.

bikingjahuty:
50. Mortal Kombat Gold (Dreamcast)

Aside from playing it here and there for a few minutes over the years, most of my exposure to MK4 was not the enhanced version on the Dreamcast, but the vanilla version in the arcade and on the N64. I have fond memories of playing this game at an old shopping mall arcade I used to go to as a kid, and which has been gone for the better part of 20-years now. I also vividly remember renting MK4 on the N64 as a kid with one of my friends. We more or less made it out mission to see all the fatalities this game had to offer, and I remember pulling off my first MK fatality in this game. If memory serves me right, we had a pretty good time otherwise with this game as well. So now, years later playing MK Gold, which is more or less MK4 with more characters, stages, and slightly better visuals, I can definitely see why I enjoyed this game as a kid, but also why it's garnered a pretty negative reputation over the years as well.


First off, the game plays pretty good overall. I didn't have any major gripes with the controls or fluidity of the combat. Special moves feel easier to pull off, and the inclusion of weapons and stage objects to fight with definitely add a fun element to the gameplay. Unfortunately, the difficulty balancing feels all over the place and in all honesty I don't see how this game really pushes the needle forward at all for the series. This becomes a problem when despite the new 3D visuals which every franchise seemed to be trying out in the late 90s, the game actually looks worse than most of its predecessors that used sprites and digitized character animation. MK Gold just lacks so much of that charm and specialness that most of the previous 2D games possessed. The OST is pretty good for the most part as it uses remixes of various old tracks, but also adds some decent new ones. Overall, I did enjoy playing MK Gold, but honestly it's a title I probably wouldn't play again unless I just wanted a quick hit of nostalgia, or just to see how the series improved with the later games, or how amazing it was with the titles that came before. MK4 and MK Gold just feel experimental and not that remarkable overall, which is probably why most gamers have long forgotten about it and why it's more or less been allowed to fade into obscurity. (12/25/24) [32/50]

marvelvscapcom2:
32. Mario 3D World + Bowsers Fury (NS)

Forgot I had beaten this one earlier in the year. One of my favorite 3D marios. And the switch added a lot of quality of life improvements. I enjoyed it.


Because ive.started hogwarts legacy now. I wll probably end at 32. I dont see hogwarts being beaten by 2025.  Happy new year folks

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