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52 Games Challenge 2026!!!
ignition365:
Met my goal in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025; with 2021 being 156 games, 2016/2017/2020/2022/2023 being 104 games, and 2018/2019 being 52 games as the goals. 2015 I tracked the info super late and I had another really busy year that year.
2025 was another rough year. Physical therapy helped me out with my problems which come and go among other problems that come and go. My kid got transferred to a new school and the teacher and staff were great despite him being in an awful place. He started ABA therapy and got kicked out towards the end of the summer, which is kind of unheard of. His teacher quit to take a job elsewhere and the new teacher isn't as great. He's got decent support though and his medicine is in a better place, hoping it can keep up, but that took almost all year to get him to a good place. My wife had Lasik and braces, both with their own issues and failures. After several procedures and tons of recovery eyes are good now, braces are still on and she's finally, almost 6 months later, starting to be able to eat more solid foods. Work was awful with my boss tanking my eval and despite his boss being aware of the prejudice and bias, allowed the eval to go through so I got no pay increase from an eval for the first time ever, last year was no pay increase either for a different reason, so with inflation shit is getting worse. Basically told most of my coworkers not to expect me to help with shit since apparently helping all of you people meant I'm not performing my own duties, so fuck everyone. I obviously, again, didn't do well keeping up with notes and stats. I've basically abandoned physical collecting in favor of a steam library and it shows with most of my activity last year being mostly on steam. Yet here I am again, making a post on here. This might be my last year doing this here as I'm transferring all of my notes and information over to backloggery with the goal of catching up and doing notes there as I input play status... right now though, I do notes here and transfer them later.
--- Quote from: Legend ---bold games are games that have been beaten, previously beaten, or are unbeatable.
italicized games are in progress.
standard games are games I am not currently trying to beat.
strikethrough games are games that have been abandoned.
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2026 52 Game Challenge
* Donkey Kong Bananza (NS2)
* The Oil Blue: Steam Legacy Edition (PC)
ignition365:
Bloop reserved
bikingjahuty:
--- Quote from: droaa on December 31, 2025, 03:21:19 pm ---Almost 2 years since took part in this. Let's go and howdy yall.
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Welcome back!
marvelvscapcom2:
1. The Bouncer [PS2] - Finished Jan 1st, 2026
I am so incapacitated by flu that it's almost depressing at this point. I cough in my dreams. I really wish everyone health and safety away from this strand. For whatever that's worth. But being bed ridden for a week sent me to this off the wall classic! I was able to sit as the ball dropped and get my first score on the board early just like last year! Beaten at 2:00 am EST of 2026. To ring in the year. And i'm happy with the choice off sentimentality alone.
This time with a very nostalgic childhood game. It is very symbolic for me. Even the title entrance voice thheeeee Bouncerrr. This is a lesser spoken of Squaresoft beat em up. My stance on it is that considering some people paid 60 dollars for this game at launch back in the early 2000s. That's quite the tough out. But as a small experience, I enjoyed my time with it. And my brother let me borrow this game when I was like 7 years old. So its full circle to witness end credits with it :)
The plot is I believe meant to pivot around choosing sion. I chose volt and leveled up only volt. It punishes you slightly with dialogue for doing this. The game is a bare bones rudementary beat em up that actually has stellar graphics for its time. Some of these cut scenes have such great visual light reflection effects that it looks borderline Ray Tracing!! It's very pretty for a game that I remember playing before passion of the christ the movie was even released. 2 decades or more of added onto my back like armadillo scales but the game remains what it always was. An easy. Anyone can do it beat em up for begginers of the genre. I was able to beat the game without buying any special moves.
The plot is ok... although rushed. Not as flushed out as say kingdom hearts but more flushed out than say dynasty warriors. The combat is ok although not very nuianced. I do think its simplicity is what aids its nostalgia for me because it is how I remembered the game being. Some of the fighting feels club brawl style and fist fighting fun.
Sion - Dollar General Sora
Volt - spike from buffy the vampie slayer
Other dude - the host of ink master Dave Navaro.
This is lamens terms of what were dealing with in terms of character development. And they seek to rescue A drew berrymore blonde girl from some disapperance or kidnapping. It's random and off the rails but it keeps itself somewhat glued with the well animated cut scenes. The blonde girl. Has secrets. So does All the characters really.
The game is very punch punch kick repeat. Unless you buy combo moves which I didnt.
Overall its a nostalgic cute simple beat em up for ps2.
77/100
kashell:
Happy New Year, everyone! Let's do it!
1. Mega Man X7
I went through this game multiple times back when it was initially released in 2003 because I was a poor college student and didn't have many other options. It was bad then. Now, I had a video guide AND the Brady official guide next to me when I did this random replay. It's still bad. Why did I think it wouldn't be? I dunno. Maybe some of 2025 was still lingering in the background. Oh well. First is the worst. Get it out of the way.
2. Astro Bot - platinum'd
I technically finished this before the new year, but I'm marking it complete now because I got all of the additions from the Gacha Machine now. Man oh man. What a game this was. I loved every second of it. Seeing the celebrated history of Sony's gaming franchises (and many third party ones) getting their flowers with the various Bots was lovely. Of course, the game itself played like a dream and looked gorgeous. The physics were magnificent. I can't recommend this game enough to all types of gamers. Favorite deep cut Bots were: Arc the Lad, Mad Maestro, Chrono Cross, and The Legend of Dragoon.
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