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General and Gaming => General => Topic started by: bikingjahuty on December 22, 2023, 04:38:14 pm
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We aren't far off from the end of the the year and I was curious what people's gaming goals are for 2024?
Mine are mostly non-collecting based and have more to do with playing games rather than acquiring them, although I do have a few things I'd like to accomplish when it comes to collecting too. Here are my 2024 Gaming Goals.
1. Play at least 10 games from franchises I've never played: There are a lot of franchises I've been meaning to try out, some more recent, and others for literal decades that I really want to give a shot. I don't have a comprehensive list of franchises, but a few that I can name off the top of my head are Tomb Raider, The Witcher, Yakuza, Diablo, and Dragon Age.
2. Attempt to play more longer (15+ hour) games: I play a lot of arcade style games, partially because I love these types of games, however they are easy padding to complete the 52-games challenge we do here every year. I often have a cadence where I'll play a longer game, play 3 to 8 shorter games that can be completed in under a few hours, and then play another longer game. I enjoy playing games this way, however I'd like to try and no more than 4 shorter games in between longer games instead of just binging arcade games for an entire month before playing another longer game.
3. Complete the 52 Games Challenge: This is a staple of every gaming goals/resolution posts I've ever posted in for a while. I intend on hitting 52 games again next year despite whatever else I have going on.
4. Get back into console modding: A couple years ago I got heavily into this. I learned how to solder and enough about electronics engineering to start modding various older consoles, as well as doing repairs. I installed some really sweet mods for myself and a few other people, which I'm still enjoying to this day. I have 90% of everything I need for an ultimate Gamecube build, as well as a few uninstalled mods for the Saturn and N64 I never got around to installing. I'd like to install all these, plus anything else that strikes my fancy over the next year, just as long as I start modding again.
5. Try and post videos to my youtube channel more regularly: I posted a whopping 4 videos in all of 2023. I'd like to maybe double this amount in 2024.
6. Continue to downsize collection: this is really the anti-collecting goal, but its one that has made me happier as a collector over the past year or so. I'm finding more and more that I enjoy having a small, curated collection of games rather than the massive collection I once had. Still, there isn't too much fat to trim off my collection as is, but it would be nice to trim a good 50 or so games from the collection this year.
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I'll just keep growing my wrestling game collection till it's satisfactory.
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I installed some really sweet mods for myself and a few other people, which I'm still enjoying to this day. I have 90% of everything I need for an ultimate Gamecube build, as well as a few uninstalled mods for the Saturn and N64 I never got around to installing.
You got me curious there! What kinds of mods are you doing to your consoles? And what would that Ultimate GameCube be?
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Main gaming goal is the ever-impossible whittling down the backlog. Main problem is that I keep playing those behemoth games that take 100+ hours to finish. One game in particular I want to finish (or more accurately, get caught up) is Coloring Pixels for Steam, as there's around 1,500 achievements to get in that addicting, casual game.
Collecting-wise I don't really have a goal for games themselves, as I'm barely buying anything physical right now. I do have a few game-adjacent goals though. I got back into the Pokemon card collecting scene this year, and would like to finish up some sets, old and new. Right now, the only ones I've finished are Base Set and Black & White, but I want to get the Scarlet & Violet ones completed and work my way backwards from there. I also want to complete my Pokemon Nanoblock collection, not counting the super mini ones. Currently, I've got 25 of the basic ones and the DX versions of Palkia and Dialga. And finally, I want to keep building up my Team Fortress 2 unusual collection, I'm almost at the 300 mark there.
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I installed some really sweet mods for myself and a few other people, which I'm still enjoying to this day. I have 90% of everything I need for an ultimate Gamecube build, as well as a few uninstalled mods for the Saturn and N64 I never got around to installing.
You got me curious there! What kinds of mods are you doing to your consoles? And what would that Ultimate GameCube be?
I did a lot of Xstation mods and was selling them on ebay for a while. I also did a lot of HDMI mods like the DCdigital, N64digital, and PS1digital. I did a few custom handhelds too including several GBAs (usually did IPS, sith updated case and buttons, and occasionally a rechargable battery mod, or sound amp mod). I did some odd mods like the Genesis triple bypass, I completely overhauled a Nomad with all kinds of mods, and did a few region free mods too for various systems.
The Ultimate Gamecube is essentially a GCdigital HDMI mod with an ODE (can't remember the name of it off the top of my head), a brand new shell, and one other mod (bought most of what I needed two years ago and can't remember them all lol). Pretty much it'll output in HD and have every game available on it playing off original hardware.
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I'm afraid my days of actually collecting are at minimum on hold, if not over. Sure, there are a couple of things I would love to own, but I'm not willing to fork out $1000+ for them. For now, I'll be looking forward to any retro collections from the 90's. Anticipating the first three Tomb Raider games releasing in Feb with a slight graphical overhaul.
Anyone know why Capcom hasn't made a Resident Evil collection of the PS1 games? Sure, they remade them, but the originals could be released and I think, well received.
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I've narrowed my collecting habits to be pretty minimal, this year I mostly just picked up some TMNT/Rampage games, the older ones, as I want to have a collection of that sorta stuff rather than a big broad section, though I am gonna try and pick up relatively cheap boxed N64 games, stuff that aren't a big deal like sports games and such, in the hopes of growing a small N64 collection. Also need to get boxes for my Banjo-Kazooie, Tooie, and Diddy Kong Racing.
Not that I can get lots, I'm trying to get a brand new PC next year also, so that's 1500 to 2000 right there. Gotten tired of running games at low/medium and want something meaty for the first time in a long while lol
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I'm afraid my days of actually collecting are at minimum on hold, if not over. Sure, there are a couple of things I would love to own, but I'm not willing to fork out $1000+ for them. For now, I'll be looking forward to any retro collections from the 90's. Anticipating the first three Tomb Raider games releasing in Feb with a slight graphical overhaul.
Anyone know why Capcom hasn't made a Resident Evil collection of the PS1 games? Sure, they remade them, but the originals could be released and I think, well received.
My only guess is because they're still making a lot of money on selling them individually through various online stores like PSN and XBL. I would absolutely die if they re-released 1-3 + CV in a single package with a slight graphical overhaul and in HD.
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I would like to finally succeed in reducing my backlog and still enjoy playing as much.
I don't really collect so nothing on that side.
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1. Stay under 8,200 games. - I'm at 8,165, so that really gives me no room to work with, but maybe this goal can convince me to sell stuff?
2. Finish Sonic franchise run. - I still need to get Sonic Superstars, but I'm sure I'll get it by the end of next year.
3. Beat 104 games. -
4. Finish Armored Core franchise run. - I really want to play the new one, but I refuse until I do the franchise
5. Make progress on Assassin's Creed franchise run. -
6. Make progress on Ace Combat franchise run. - This is an AC year I guess
7. Hit top .5% softcore on Retro Achievements. - *gasp* I was under 500 on the ranks, I'm 501 right now. At least my goal wasn't top 500.
8. Break 250,000 gamerscore on Xbox. - This one might actually be a toughy, I'm at 230,000 right now, but I've been consistently earning over 2k per month, so we'll see.
9. Hit star level 365 on PSN. - Currently 356. Should be reasonable?
10. Succeed in every season on Playtracker.
11. End the year with a positive progress index on Backloggery
12. Reinventory accessible games. - This is a toughy since most of my stuff is boxed up, but the systems boxed up, I haven't bought new games, so this is a pretty reasonable goal that needs doing
13. Beat a game from every year from year x to 2024. - I didn't actually mark this as a goal this last year, I'm actually 6 games off from the goal and I'm trying to make myself work on it. I put x because I don't really pick a year from the get go, I pick the year based on whatever the oldest game I play happens to be.
Recap of goals from last year. Will drop in goals for this year.
1. Stay under 8,200 games. - Honestly, if GS/Walmart/etc keeps clearancing stuff, I'll fail so hard.
- Success - No chance I'm gonna break 8,200 by the end of the year, so I'm calling this a success.
2. Finish Sonic franchise run.
- Failed - I made some progress to the point I only had 1 game left (Sonic Frontiers), but then a new game came out (Don't own it yet) and I decided to retroactively add a bunch of alternate versions of games I've already beaten to the list, so not gonna happen, but real close.
3. Beat 104 games.
- Success - I'm past 110 games beat so far, so well past succeeded.
4. Start streaming again.
- Failed - I haven't done it yet. I've been streaming to discord. I streamed the majority of my playthrough of Lies of P to Discord (which isn't recorded), but it doesn't count. Streaming really does sully my experience because I feel like I can't play unless I can dedicate at least 30 minutes, which means I wind up not playing at all sometimes. Lies of P would've been good to stream though.
5. Start Armored Core franchise run.
- Success - Technically, success, because I did start, but once I hit the PS2 games I ran into problems with controls/emulators. I really want to remap controls, but I can't get any emulator to actually play properly
6. Take new game room pics
- Success - I'm gonna call this a success, even if for semi-technical reasons. I merged my game room with my office, so fewer games, but I took pictures once I was done moving games around.
7. Get into the top 1% (softcore) on RetroAchievements (Currently sitting at top 1.23%) - The goal post here keeps sliding, because I hit top 500 already and now I'm pretty close to top 1% will probably hit it in the next couple of days.
- Success - Sitting at 0.88% so I'm good with this. Next year I think the goal is going to be 0.5%
8. Break 100,000 on Xbox 360 gamerscore (Excludes Xbox One)
- Success
9. End the year with a positive progress index on Backloggery
- Success - Unless fuckery goes on that I'm not aware of, I'm at positive 17 so pretty unlikely that I'll fuck that up with 6 days left in the year.
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Gameplay wise, Play more disc based games of playstation era. less focus on carts or anything sega.
Collection wise. No goals in mind Just chipping away at stuff that I still want if it comes along the way at a good price. Just going to take it slow like usual. No need to rush stuff.
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I think my only goal is to get around buying Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone on GBA. It's not rare or expensive, but I just had different priorities this year and haven't come around to it. Once I have that one, I have a copy of every unique Harry Potter main game until the 6th. I had the 6th as a kid and it was so horrible that I gave up on it, and now as an adult I've decided to only collect the first 5. I do miss some spin-offs like Quiditch Tournament but I never liked the quiditich in the games anyways.
I played those games so much in my childhood they became iconic to me. Remember every day at school just waiting for school to end so I could go home and play. Back then on PC and the original XBOX, which sadly got lost later when we moved. Anyways it makes it a part of my collection I'd like to finish, and I'm almost there.
Perhaps another goal is to get one of those later GBA with nicer screen to play GBC games. I now play my GBA games on a DSlite, but that doesn't work for GBC, despite me thinking I had childhood memories of doing so :o .
Otherwise just continue collecting based on wishlist and what I feel like playing over time.
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One of my main goals is to expand my Switch collection and get Mario Wonder and Pokemon Violet for it. Another goal is to add Lufia 2 to my SNES collection.
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2023 started me down the "anti-collecting" path and 2024 will seem me continuing this trend.
I understand this is a collecting site.. and I am in no way suggesting others do the same, but as I get older I find the idea of accumulating "things" no longer interests me. Its funny, because while I've been getting rid of all my physical games, and repurchasing the games I actually want to play in a digital format, I also find my wanting to PLAY more games. So with all this said, here are my 3 goals for 2024
1. Finish selling off the rest of my physical collection.
2. Repurchase the select digital games I actually intend on playing and get them cataloged on the site.
3. PLAY MORE GAMES.
That's it, nice and simple.
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2023 started me down the "anti-collecting" path and 2024 will seem me continuing this trend.
I understand this is a collecting site.. and I am in no way suggesting others do the same, but as I get older I find the idea of accumulating "things" no longer interests me. Its funny, because while I've been getting rid of all my physical games, and repurchasing the games I actually want to play in a digital format, I also find my wanting to PLAY more games. So with all this said, here are my 3 goals for 2024
1. Finish selling off the rest of my physical collection.
2. Repurchase the select digital games I actually intend on playing and get them cataloged on the site.
3. PLAY MORE GAMES.
That's it, nice and simple.
How are you going about selling things? I've been thinking about that a lot lately. I'm at the point that the only games I have out on display are games I actually intend on playing, everything else is boxed away. So I think about selling off the boxed away stuff (literally thousands of games) but I just don't see any good way to get rid of them.
. Go to local game shop and get pennies on the dollar or less because I would want cash and not store credit
. Sell on ebay, hit the $600 minimum, have to file taxes on the sales, deal with ebay's rising selling costs, shipping costs, potential scammers, and still not be able to sell half of it.
. Sell locally and deal with 99% "Still available? [Yes] Will you take $1 for all of it?"
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2023 started me down the "anti-collecting" path and 2024 will seem me continuing this trend.
I understand this is a collecting site.. and I am in no way suggesting others do the same, but as I get older I find the idea of accumulating "things" no longer interests me. Its funny, because while I've been getting rid of all my physical games, and repurchasing the games I actually want to play in a digital format, I also find my wanting to PLAY more games. So with all this said, here are my 3 goals for 2024
1. Finish selling off the rest of my physical collection.
2. Repurchase the select digital games I actually intend on playing and get them cataloged on the site.
3. PLAY MORE GAMES.
That's it, nice and simple.
How are you going about selling things? I've been thinking about that a lot lately. I'm at the point that the only games I have out on display are games I actually intend on playing, everything else is boxed away. So I think about selling off the boxed away stuff (literally thousands of games) but I just don't see any good way to get rid of them.
. Go to local game shop and get pennies on the dollar or less because I would want cash and not store credit
. Sell on ebay, hit the $600 minimum, have to file taxes on the sales, deal with ebay's rising selling costs, shipping costs, potential scammers, and still not be able to sell half of it.
. Sell locally and deal with 99% "Still available? [Yes] Will you take $1 for all of it?"
Local gaming Facebook groups are a good way to get rid of a lot of stuff without running into a lot of this. I belong to one that does local swap meets several times a year and I've made thousands at a few of them. As for ebay, the IRS has not enforced the $600 limit in the 2-years since it was signed into law. The IRS has to prove you profited off the item or else they can't tax it. They're actually instating a $5000 limit in 2024, which who knows if they'll enforce that either, but this has been a very slippery law so far that likely will cause way more work for the IRS than it's worth. Unless you're selling 20k+ on ebay a year, you probably don't need to worry about it.
@justin8301 funny enough I think you're preaching to the choir at this point. It seems like most regular VGcollect users are in a downsize phase to some degree. Very few of us have the passion for collecting like we did a few years back and before. Whether it's prices, scarcity, or just the fact that there are many accomplished collectors on here who've owned the rare, cool stuff and there isn't much left for them to acquire, we all seem fairly burnt out on collecting. I'm certainly one of them, and have been downsizing now for a few years. My collection has shrunk quite a bit, and honestly I'm the happiest I've been with my collection now than I have been for many years. It just feels a lot more personal and less bloated which is exactly what I'm going for at this point in my life. People evolve over time and life changes fast. It was amazing to be a avid collector, but now I'm happier playing the games I own while adding way fewer games overall. Still, I wouldn't trade the years I'd spend all weekend hunting for games at flea markets, garage sales, thrift stores, and antique stores for anything. Those were some amazing, fun times that I'm happy I was a part of before things got way out of hand.
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bummer, reading about it, it sounds like this year it was actually 20,000$ and 200 transactions. I could've dumped quite a bit. Next year is $5k and no transaction limit.
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How are you going about selling things?
I've mostly been selling things on eBay. I decided that anything that sells for less than $15 isn't worth the time it takes to list it. I list anything over my $15 threshold and then gather up a bunch of lower cost things, take them to 2nd & Charles and get credit. Then i use the credit to by higher priced things and list those. I usually wait till they do a sale on games and buy stuff then.
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Another driving factor in my switch to digital is the rise of really good handheld devices. Between my Switch and my Playstation Portal I can play most games in the last few generations that I want, and then for retro stuff, handheld emulation devices like the Miyoo Mini+ are just amazing. Handheld is usually me preferred method of gaming these days cause I can sit down and watch some tv after work with the wife and still get some game time in.
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The biggest goal, as always, is to play more games. Looking at my progress from this year's 52 Challenge, I say I did a damn good job mixing things up with a variety of titles.
I'm also going to continue the trend of pruning and curating my collection. I can see myself getting rid a lot more "modern" games this year.
Speaking of, I plan to do more research on games/franchises I missed and add those to my collection. On the flipside, I don't see myself getting too entrenched in modern releases. The amount of modern stuff that gets released nowadays has excited me less and less. And when something does excite me, chances are that it's either incomplete or has some DLC in the works. As a fan of trophy hunting, it's irritating when you finish a game with 100% completion, only to have to come back to it months later, relearn it, pay X number of dollars for three hours of content, and refill the percentage gauge.
I think that's it! Nothing major, overall.
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1. Own a Wrestling game on every System and combined with that, own all the WWF Games released in the 80's and 90's. Pretty much all i need is In Your House on Saturn.
2. Get all the Master System games back i had as a kid. I'm still missing 5
3. Reaching 100 Mega Drive games and the question if i'm really willing to fork over that much money for Shinobi 3 (and Alisia Dragoon)
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Gaming wise? Try to limit my purchases to stuff off my wish list (Though I can't turn down a dollar game at a thrift store, lol). I don't plan to buy any "new" games in 2024, and would like to work on my massive backlog.
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I installed some really sweet mods for myself and a few other people, which I'm still enjoying to this day. I have 90% of everything I need for an ultimate Gamecube build, as well as a few uninstalled mods for the Saturn and N64 I never got around to installing.
You got me curious there! What kinds of mods are you doing to your consoles? And what would that Ultimate GameCube be?
I would not play with a console too much Biking, if you want to learn about hardware than （I suggest continuing to repair them for yourself or others. ferraroso could be a Nintendo worker of some sort?
I can tell by what he or she quoted you said. It's bad enough Nintendo gets bullied the most out of all the video game industry companies next to the Microsoft. Nintendo are a hardworking Chinese/Japanese company. It is not easy to save an entire video game industry back when video games were dead ended. some may consider me a low life pirate but? I paid for all those games and even own many physical copies as well of disc and Cartridges as well.
If Nintendo is not even getting paid for the ROMs off any the archives, I can't fix that.
But if Nintendo want to take my advice they should try to partner with MS and create new and old ROM video games together and share the profits. I too love SONY and SEGA and Atari too, so I paid for those as well mostly. I own a N64 and a real GameCube a NES and SNES mini too and an original NES too, with some real games for it too. And a mint red Wii
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I'd like to consider the possibility of going through my library across all, or at least most, systems I own. In 2023, I played games for 12 different platforms of the 26 available to me. I think I could do better.
Since I currently have an active PlayStation Plus Extra tier subscription, I would like to prioritize games for its library which aren't a part of my actual collection.
At the same time, I'd also like to play through more PlayStation VR games. I still have everything hooked up after having not played any for it in a few months, so hopefully that's enough of a motivator.
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At the same time, I'd also like to play through more PlayStation VR games. I still have everything hooked up after having not played any for it in a few months, so hopefully that's enough of a motivator.[/font]
I treated myself to a PS4 VR a couple years ago, and I've never set it up. I keep buying VR games on sale too, lol.
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I'd like to consider the possibility of going through my library across all, or at least most, systems I own. In 2023, I played games for 12 different platforms of the 26 available to me. I think I could do better.
Since I currently have an active PlayStation Plus Extra tier subscription, I would like to prioritize games for its library which aren't a part of my actual collection.
At the same time, I'd also like to play through more PlayStation VR games. I still have everything hooked up after having not played any for it in a few months, so hopefully that's enough of a motivator.
I've been thinking of this myself. The PS4 and PS5 dominated my played games list last year, although to be fair, a lot of those games were on compilation that first appeared on alternative platforms (Genesis, Neo Geo, SNES, and so on). But as I was looking at my games the other day, I feel like there's a lot of 4th and 5th gen consoles I've criminally underplayed for a long time now. I'd really like to play more Genesis, SNES, and TG16 games in particular. Also, maybe some more handheld games too this year would be nice.
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I'm finishing the PS3 North American Set this year, shifting focus to finish PS1 and PS2 and PS4 sets. Each console I have around 600 titles remaining. I'd like to continue at the pace I am going and reach 2500 ps4 titles by the end of the year, and approximately 400 titles left for each console (PS1, PS2, and PS4) to reach the full sets.
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At the same time, I'd also like to play through more PlayStation VR games. I still have everything hooked up after having not played any for it in a few months, so hopefully that's enough of a motivator.[/font]
I treated myself to a PS4 VR a couple years ago, and I've never set it up. I keep buying VR games on sale too, lol.
I played a few things on mine - Astro Bot, Beat Saber, the Until Dawn rail shooter, Tetris Effect. I liked pretty much everything I tried on it, but it has been packed away ever since they made it clear that it wasn't going to be PS5 compatible and I switched out my set-up from PS4 to PS5.
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At the same time, I'd also like to play through more PlayStation VR games. I still have everything hooked up after having not played any for it in a few months, so hopefully that's enough of a motivator.[/font]
I treated myself to a PS4 VR a couple years ago, and I've never set it up. I keep buying VR games on sale too, lol.
I played a few things on mine - Astro Bot, Beat Saber, the Until Dawn rail shooter, Tetris Effect. I liked pretty much everything I tried on it, but it has been packed away ever since they made it clear that it wasn't going to be PS5 compatible and I switched out my set-up from PS4 to PS5.
It is compatible! Request your free PlayStation Camera Adaptor through Sony's support page (https://camera-adaptor.support.playstation.com/en).
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At the same time, I'd also like to play through more PlayStation VR games. I still have everything hooked up after having not played any for it in a few months, so hopefully that's enough of a motivator.[/font]
I treated myself to a PS4 VR a couple years ago, and I've never set it up. I keep buying VR games on sale too, lol.
I played a few things on mine - Astro Bot, Beat Saber, the Until Dawn rail shooter, Tetris Effect. I liked pretty much everything I tried on it, but it has been packed away ever since they made it clear that it wasn't going to be PS5 compatible and I switched out my set-up from PS4 to PS5.
It is compatible! Request your free PlayStation Camera Adaptor through Sony's support page (https://camera-adaptor.support.playstation.com/en).
I did that years ago and have yet to receive it.
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At the same time, I'd also like to play through more PlayStation VR games. I still have everything hooked up after having not played any for it in a few months, so hopefully that's enough of a motivator.[/font]
I treated myself to a PS4 VR a couple years ago, and I've never set it up. I keep buying VR games on sale too, lol.
I played a few things on mine - Astro Bot, Beat Saber, the Until Dawn rail shooter, Tetris Effect. I liked pretty much everything I tried on it, but it has been packed away ever since they made it clear that it wasn't going to be PS5 compatible and I switched out my set-up from PS4 to PS5.
It is compatible! Request your free PlayStation Camera Adaptor through Sony's support page (https://camera-adaptor.support.playstation.com/en).
I did that years ago and have yet to receive it.
That's upsetting to hear. I don't remember how exactly long I waited to receive mine, but it was only around a week, maybe two. If you're actually interested in receiving one, it doesn't hurt to contact support directly.
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At the same time, I'd also like to play through more PlayStation VR games. I still have everything hooked up after having not played any for it in a few months, so hopefully that's enough of a motivator.[/font]
I treated myself to a PS4 VR a couple years ago, and I've never set it up. I keep buying VR games on sale too, lol.
I played a few things on mine - Astro Bot, Beat Saber, the Until Dawn rail shooter, Tetris Effect. I liked pretty much everything I tried on it, but it has been packed away ever since they made it clear that it wasn't going to be PS5 compatible and I switched out my set-up from PS4 to PS5.
It is compatible! Request your free PlayStation Camera Adaptor through Sony's support page (https://camera-adaptor.support.playstation.com/en).
I did that years ago and have yet to receive it.
That's upsetting to hear. I don't remember how exactly long I waited to receive mine, but it was only around a week, maybe two. If you're actually interested in receiving one, it doesn't hurt to contact support directly.
Did that after like two years lol
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My goals in 2024 are to play more buy less. Last year I did play a lot more but still bought a lot more than I should have. This year I'm going to try to be more selective.
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At the same time, I'd also like to play through more PlayStation VR games. I still have everything hooked up after having not played any for it in a few months, so hopefully that's enough of a motivator.[/font]
I treated myself to a PS4 VR a couple years ago, and I've never set it up. I keep buying VR games on sale too, lol.
I played a few things on mine - Astro Bot, Beat Saber, the Until Dawn rail shooter, Tetris Effect. I liked pretty much everything I tried on it, but it has been packed away ever since they made it clear that it wasn't going to be PS5 compatible and I switched out my set-up from PS4 to PS5.
I basically have an old PS4 that I have dedicated to VR. I just haven't played it. I have it as a separate set up.
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I think that this year my goal is to purge my extra media (lots of VHS and DVD) and start going to garage sales again to look for video games.
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At the same time, I'd also like to play through more PlayStation VR games. I still have everything hooked up after having not played any for it in a few months, so hopefully that's enough of a motivator.[/font]
I treated myself to a PS4 VR a couple years ago, and I've never set it up. I keep buying VR games on sale too, lol.
I played a few things on mine - Astro Bot, Beat Saber, the Until Dawn rail shooter, Tetris Effect. I liked pretty much everything I tried on it, but it has been packed away ever since they made it clear that it wasn't going to be PS5 compatible and I switched out my set-up from PS4 to PS5.
It is compatible! Request your free PlayStation Camera Adaptor through Sony's support page (https://camera-adaptor.support.playstation.com/en).
I did that years ago and have yet to receive it.
That's upsetting to hear. I don't remember how exactly long I waited to receive mine, but it was only around a week, maybe two. If you're actually interested in receiving one, it doesn't hurt to contact support directly.
Did that after like two years lol
After spending multiple days trying to get a hold of PS Support I finally got through this morning, and after waiting in the queue for about 30 minutes I got in gave them my case number only for them to say "Oh, we've changed how we track all that since then. You are going to have to resubmit everything." And since I didn't have the serial numbers at my immediate disposal I got a new case number to spend multiple days getting back with a support person so I can provide the serial numbers.
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My intention is to "finish" my retro collecting. That means satisfying the remainder of all want lists, either by acquiring the elusive remaining ones, or admitting to myself that some aren't worth the effort and crossing them off. I'm somewhat close to achieving this across many platforms, but a lot of those remaining are not easy gets. For a lot of it, I can't rely on local or even remote hunting to find any of them. Most are eBay only. I estimate about 250 games across 15 or so platforms, and they are completely exhaustive for these retro libraries so there's no rabit-hole of discovering more later. That averages about 16 games a platform (although a few will be much fewer and some are quite a bit more). It's still a lot yes, but I think I can do it.
I never plan to quit modern collecting, so long as they keep making physical. I will continue adding to my PS5 and Switch libraries.
I may or may not start recording some let's plays, mostly as a means of documenting the journey of playing so many of these games I've acquired over the years, many of which are brand new experiences to me. My favorite kinds of gameplay videos to watch are when people don't know everything about the game they're recording, a blind play-through I guess. I could possibly see myself doing that. Don't really care if anyone watches, it would be mostly just for the fun of it.
I'd like to spruce up the game room and add a bit of personality to it. I'm not big into merchandise or trinkets, but a few here and there wouldn't hurt.
That's about it.
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Collecting goals:
There are a handful of games I'd really want to add to my collection.
Gaming goals.
Beat 12 games over the year. For me a 52 games challenge is impossible. I usually play longer games that takes around a month to beat. Usually more.
My backlog is 43/103 (games I started at some point but didn't beat/games I never started). So basically 146. I'd like to work some of it off.
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I would definitely like to get a PS5 for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, which is due next month, but otherwise I'm good, so not much for me. Well, I guess taming my backlog would be in order, although I think that endeavor has become nothing more than wishful thinking by this point.
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A few goals to tackle in the new year!
1 - Work on finishing my Amiibo collection! 164 down, 61 left to go!
2 - Sell off some Xbox stuff
3 - Get the new Nintendo system (whatever they end up calling it)
4 - Continue to refuse to buy digital-only games
5 - Collect the new Dark Horse Cyberpunk figues...if they ever come out!
6 - Beat Tears of the Kingdom. After the Phantom Liberty and 2.1 update, I finally went back to Cyberpunk and have around 100 hours in so far.
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Looking back at my collecting goals for 2023...
1. Finish NTSC PS3 set.
I did not. I do have 33 left and 12 i discovered missing manuals or inserts that need updating...
2. Finish letter A for NTSC ps1.
I did not. Complete scarcity of ps1 locally on even cheap filler titles and I refuse to pay excessive shipping fees to ship only individual titles online, with no luck finding lots that include mostly the titles I need. At present, I need 24 more letter A ps1 titles.
I did however go hard at letter A on PS4. I picked up probably 50 titles last year, right now I only need Armored Core VI Fires of Rubicon and Assassin's Creed Valhalla Ragnarok Edition (best buy) to complete the entire PS4 NTSC library for letter A. Should be doable this year, and I'll start Letter B and see how far along I get in that. At present I'm missing 25 titles for PS4 letter B.
3. Finish letter A for NTSC ps2.
I tried to do this via mutual trades through my small 1k population Playstation Collectors of Canada facebook group. I only found a couple mutual trade partners but managed to get a few more letter a ps2 titles. At present, I have 23 titles left for PS2 letter A, should be doable this year.
4. Work toward finishing NTSC PS1 longboxes.
Not many people selling or trading these anymore locally without resorting to ebay. I have been holding out, but it's getting scary. Little to no progress made, still need about 60 longboxes.
5. Reach 2000 PS4 games, currently at 1636.
I killed this one. Made it to 2300 by end of 2023, and now at 2400 in april 2024. I think by end of this year I can reach 2500. At that point, I will need about 400 more titles to reach the full ps4 NTSC, which is projecting around 2900 at the moment (with all planned releases).
6. I hesitate to set new goals as I have myself spread pretty thin, but I would like to make some progress tracking and planning to work toward completion of the "Toys to Life" sets (disney infinity, skylanders, and lego dimensions).
7. As always, continue to find, research, and document new finds/variants, eventually starting a related youtube channel, and adding to the body of knowledge on this site, and my own playstation collecting website.