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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:
« on: May 07, 2025, 01:10:56 pm »
Yeah, the shift towards lim print and digital pushed me to PC gaming.  The only things I buy for console these days are bargain bin/clearance and exclusives.  I've still got my outliers like Yakuza/Like a Dragon and Assassin's Creed where I'll keep going PS and Xbox respectively for consistency, but at this point, I still wait on bargain bin or clearance prices for those anyway.  Otherwise, I'm waiting for steam key bundles for games... because everything gets bundled eventually.

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2025!!!
« on: April 15, 2025, 08:14:05 am »
I should probably generate another post for me to use once I start writing up stuff.

I'm planning on migrating all of this data to backloggery, but I've got 20 years (plus undocumented stuff) of data to sort through, so might as well keep leveraging this.

Already getting near 52 games beat this year so far, and this year more than any previous year is PC really dominating.  I think I've got fewer than 5 non-PC games on my list so far this year.  PoP, PAGYWOSG, and Playtracker keeping me heckin busy.  I want to start up a console game, if not just to get a bit more console stuff on my playtracker backlog, so might start up We <3 Katamari and God of War Ragnarok.

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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:
« on: February 27, 2025, 10:29:46 pm »
Due to the unstable state of this website recently, I've chosen to back up a lot of my thread posts, especially the stuff in the 52 Games Challenge threads. One thing that dawned on me as I've been doing this is how fast time has gone by since beginning the challenge in 2015 and also how poorly I've kept track of the last time I played certain games. For example, if you would have asked me when I last played a few of my favorite games of all time like Ocarina of Time or Half Life 2, I would have said maybe 2020 or 2021, when in fact I last played both those games in 2018, 7-years ago. I almost feel bad for having not played many of my favorite games of all time in 5+ years. Seeing this has definitely made me want to go back and play some of my favorite games again given the unacceptable amount of time since my last play throughs.

How do you back them up? When the site dropped for a few days it kinda made me sad about all the reviews I left in the movie thread vanishing. Also some of the funner thread topics on here. They are fairly precious memories to me.

Do you just copy and paste and place them into like a google drive or is their a simpler way?


A combination of copying and pasting stuff into notepad on my computer, google drive, and also joining backloggd.com which is geared more towards tracking your backlog than tracking collections like this site. I actually have been a bit addicted to backloggd since joining last week. For better or worse, it has no forums so the community there feels a lot more disjointed, but other than that it's a really well done site. I do still plan on using vgcollect, I just hope the site returns back to normal soon. I worry that this recent rash of problems might have caused a lot of users to jump ship. The forums here don't need to be anymore dead than they already are. Sometimes posting on here is like shouting into the void and hoping someone hears you.

It's fairly sad. And I had hope because I seen an influx of newbie accounts that were participating recently. Really boosting engagement. I doubt hardly any of those will return or keep loyal with half the sites features going in and out of functional :(   Im still not even sure what even happened.

But even as such. I am unsure how stable the site is or if a full collapse is impending. But I do hope we all can congregate somewhere somehow if the day ever comes. I met a lot of cool folks here and I am happy to still be on these forums with you guys! We the final few gents. Its been an honor playing with you tonight. (Titanic violins continue)  I hope for a full recovery but have begun saving text based posts as well.  Just in case.  I will remain on vg collect forever.


I know the overwhelming majority of users on this site don't use the forums, or so I've been told. This site is just the forums for me at this point. If the community ends up leaving (not that it mostly hadn't before what I call the VGpocalypse a couple weeks ago) I might leave to. I really enjoy the community here and that's pretty much the only reason I've stayed. I track my collection on pricecharting because it helps me track the value of individual items for insurance purposes. As a gamer, my heart has been more about playing than collecting for several years now, which is why I'm mostly engaged in the 52 Games Challenge here. The lack of transparency over what caused all this in the first place is a bit concerning and annoying to be frank. Even a "we don't know yet" would suffice. But yeah, I'm worried that recent events and the site's overall instability might be what kills what remains of the forum community here at least. I hope not, but we'll see.
I've been an avid proponent of leveraging Discord.  I live on Discord, I had even prototyped a bot that would post when new entries were created.  I'm in the same boat though, I pretty much only come here for 52 game challenge, though I try to track my collect on here and VGPC mostly because VGPC doesn't handle variants well and only supports first party accessories, but I got granted elevated privileges on VGPC years ago because of a lot of the curating I do over there

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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:
« on: February 27, 2025, 02:06:07 pm »
So I started exploring Backloggery's newish features and I see that I can essentially migrate all of my 52 game challenge stuff over there so I'm gonna start doing that as best I can.  Add my notes as reviews, go and backdate my beats and completes.  Doesn't quite give me the cohesion I have/had here but it's easily searchable.

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General / Re: Your 2025 Gaming and Collecting Goals
« on: January 14, 2025, 12:42:28 pm »
I didn't meet many of my goals last year, but more of the same

Beat 104 games
Beat a game from every year x to 2025
Work on franchise runs
Keep up with my backlog groups
Grow my curator groups on steam

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General / Re: A Year in Review - 2024
« on: January 14, 2025, 12:19:58 pm »
Alright, trying to get to it.

Favorite 2024 Release: Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. It might not have had the best story of the LAD games, but adding new cities to visit is always great, a liked some of the new characters, and the stories are always filled with twists and swerves.  I think I definitely got more into this one than Y7, and finishing Kiryu's story is great.

Least Favorite 2024 Release: I'm probably going to say Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.  I was so disappointed by it sticking to the script as closely as it did, but I suppose 3 will have the opportunity to turn it around.

Favorite Game Played in 2024: Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased his Name.  I really enjoyed this game, it's not as long as Infinite Wealth, but it's probably the last proper Kiryu game that we'll get and I really enjoyed my time with it.

Least Favorite Game Played in 2024: Acceleration of SUGURI 2.  I hated this game so much, but I started it and needed to finish it for a challenge.  Hated this game so much.

Sleeper Hit of 2024: For games released this year? Another Crab's Treasure or Little Kitty, Big City.  Completely different games, almost polar opposites, but they are both great games for their respective genres and I don't think either one got talked about much outside of release month.  Played in general?  Velvet Assassin/Enslaved: Odyssey to the West.  I really want to give it to Velvet Assassin by itself, but the final level, or really the final section of the final level, pretty much ruined the experience, but the game was a fantastic stealth game.. and Enslaved, I feel like it's not such a sleeper hit, but I definitely slept on it for over a decade.

Favorite Gaming Moment in 2024:

Proudest Collection Accomplishment of 2024: None, same as last year, I've basically gotten out of collecting.  I buy modern stuff I plan on playing and that's about it.  Maybe getting tons of steam games for like nothing?  I did get a bunch of 2024 releases for nothing out of my pocket due to saving up reward points and then finding some stuff on clearance though.


As usual I'll add some categories

Proudest Gaming Accomplishment in 2024: Not too many this year, I guess 100%ing Another Crab's Treasure?

Favorite Game Revisited in 2024: I'm gonna go with Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor.  I played a bit of this on X1 years ago and got pushed to play it on PC recently and I really enjoyed playing through the game.  I plan to revisit it in 2025 to do more side content.

Top 10 Games played in 2024:
  • Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (PS5)
  • Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (PS5)
  • The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (NS)
  • Little Kitty, Big City (XS)
  • Another Crab's Treasure (XS)
  • Dave the Diver (PC)
  • Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion (PS5)
  • Pokemon Scarlet (NS)
  • Senua's Saga: Hellblade II (XS)
  • Balatro (PC)

Ten worst games played in 2023
  • Acceleration of SUGURI 2 (PC)
  • Cyber Hook (PC)
  • Basic Math (NS)
  • Yaris (360)
  • WWF Betrayal (GBC)
  • Spy Muppets: License to Croak (GBA)
  • Pathologic 2 (PC)
  • Bramble: The Mountain King (XS)
  • 198X (PC)
  • Praey for the Gods (PC)

The order here is a bit loose because they were all various levels of awful

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2024!!!!!
« on: January 04, 2025, 11:57:15 am »
lmao I feel bad bumping this but I ran out of usable posts for myself to make my notes, so there will be this updated post with notes and my final stats hopefully at some point today.

Main List
Previous List

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.


128. Thirty-One 3D Premium (PC)
Final game for the year.  I started a couple of curator accounts on Steam for various things and occasionally I'll get stuff from developers/publisher to play and review and this was one that I reached out to the developer to request and they actually sent me a couple of steam keys for their games, so I might giveaway the extra keys at some point.  Anyway, 31 is a card game that my family played a lot when family would gather in my childhood, so I was bit hyped to give this a go because I have fond memories of the game.  That said, this game is a different variant on 31.  I did think to myself maybe we played with a variant, but I went and searched the internet and our way to play was pretty standard and this game's style I couldn't find listed in any variants I read about.  I didn't really enjoy this variant given that you have only the cards dealt to everyone plus 3, so you have a very finite list of possibilities, which does make for quicker game, because you can choose to end the round as soon as you notice someone swap suits, but that also makes the game lose a lot of its charm because the game ends as soon as someone notices that someone changed suits.
Rating: Hard pass



Final Stats

Top Games played released in 2024
  • Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (PS5)
  • The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (NS)
  • Little Kitty, Big City (XS)
  • Another Crab's Treasure (XS)
  • Senua's Saga: Hellblade II (XS)

Top Games played NOT released in 2024
  • Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (PS5)
  • Dave the Diver (PC)
  • Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion (PS5)
  • Pokemon Scarlet (NS)
  • Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (PC)

Top Games played overall in 2024
  • Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (PS5)
  • Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (PS5)
  • The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (NS)
  • Little Kitty, Big City (XS)
  • Another Crab's Treasure (XS)

Console breakdown
Platform      Count
PC         77
XS         19
360         10
X1         7
NS         5
PS5         4
GBA         2
GBC         2
PS4         1
PSX         1

Platform with the Most Beat Games: PC had a small lead last year, PC fucking demolished this year eating up more than all other platforms combined.  Holy cow.

Platform with the most unfinished titles: Again I didn't really keep track of abandoned games like last year, I really need to make an effort of keeping track of that somehow... but I think PC probably wins that, as I actually did real good finishing up console games that I started this year.  I think I only had 1 tracked unfinished game this year despite playing a lot of games that I didn't track at all.

Current v. Retro v. Mobile/Handheld v. PC v Arcade: 36 - 11 - 4 - 77 - N/A.  Again PC dominated, didn't do any Arcade this year, and only a few handheld games.  Console total wasn't awful, kinda respectable, but much lower than historic.

Game that ate up the most time: Real hard to tell, because year end reviews didn't share hours across the board and I had some inflated times with Forza Horizon 3/4 and some PC games... I'd guess Infinite Wealth or FF7R2 probably win that given how many months it took me to beat each, though I was sprinkling my playtime... so maybe Forza Horizon is legit?

Quickest game beat: Another 100 hidden game.

  • Best Racing Game: Forza Horizon 4 (XS)
  • Best Puzzle Game: Glass Masquerade 2: Illusions(PC)
  • Best Platformer: Hell Pie (PC)
  • Best RPG: Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased his Name (PS5)
  • Best Action Game: Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased his Name (PS5)
  • Best Story: Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (PS5)
  • Best Soundtrack: Rock Band 4 (X1)
  • Best Shooter: Perfect Dark Zero (360) [This was an awful year for shooters for me]
  • Best Independent Game: Little Kitty, Big City (XS)
  • Best Handheld Game: Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (NS)
  • Best Xbox Game: Little Kitty, Big City (XS)
  • Best Playstation Game: Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased his Name (PS5)
  • Best Nintendo Game: The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (NS)
  • Best PC Game: Dave the Diver (PC)
  • Character of the Year: Ichiban Kasuga/Kiryu Kazuma
  • Studio of the Year: Ryu Ga Gotoku (Like a Dragon)
  • GOTY from another Year: Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased his Name (PS5)
  • Game of the Year: Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (PS5)

Game per year list
2024 Balatro
2023 Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name
2022 Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion
2021 Arietta of Spirits
2020 Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered
2019 Glass Masquerade 2: Illusions
2018 Simmiland
2017 Hidden Folks
2016 Forza Horizon 3
2015 God of War 3 Remastered
2014 WWE 2K15
2013 Shadow Warrior Classic Redux
2012 Need for Speed: Most Wanted
2011 WWE '12
2010 Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
2009 Velvet Assassin
2008 Elements of Destruction
2007 Yaris
2006 Feeding Frenzy
2005 Perfect Dark Zero
2004 Lilo & Stitch 2: Hämsterviel Havoc
2003 Spy Muppets: License to Croak
2002 Lilo & Stitch
2001 WWF Betrayal
2000 Pokemon Puzzle Challenge


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General / Re: A Year in Review - 2024
« on: January 01, 2025, 01:55:56 am »
Ohhhh, yeah, gotta build up my stats for this too!

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2025!!!
« on: December 31, 2024, 06:43:10 pm »
reserved for content.

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2025!!!
« on: December 31, 2024, 06:43:02 pm »
Met my goal in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 20202021, 2022, 2023, and 2024; 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. 

2024 was a rough fucking year for me.  Started out mildly okay, my kid was in a tolerable place, but we were still having trouble.  He played through Super Mario Wonder twice early in the year and school sucked for him but we were trying.  Saw a new doctor and got aggressive with trying different meds and just never found anything that worked for him so most of this year was absolutely fucked re:my kid.  My wife has had a ton of health issues which remain undiagnosed to this point, we got two diagnoses that probably aren't relevant, so physical therapy for her spine which should have nothing to do with her gastro problems and stool softeners or something to clear her out, which I guess could help, but doubtful.  I had a ton of health issues at the second half of the year and have been seeing doctors and basically also got a nothing wrong with you, but here go do physical therapy, which I start in a couple of weeks, hopefully that helps.  And then all of the financial BS... plumbing, dental stuff, medical diagnostics, incoming foundation repair.  Most of my gaming was PC in 2024, I'd love to blame steam deck, but really it's the combo of getting on steamgifts, buying bundles, and joining backlog groups mainly for PC gaming that really guided my gaming last year... plus my general pessimism towards console gaming re:digital BS, cost of physical, shift towards lim print, etc.  At some point I'll get a PC built for me, but I put it off constantly because I've got nowhere for it.  Here's hoping 2025 is less shitty.

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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2024 52 Game Challenge
  • Dreamland Solitaire (PC)
  • 100 hidden fish (PC)
  • Astro Bot (PS5)
  • One Finger Death Punch (PC)
  • 100 hidden snails (PC)
  • Cats Hidden in Georgia (PC)
  • Finding Paradise (PC)
  • 100 hidden frogs 2 (PC)
  • Minit Fun Racer (PC)
  • Hidden Cats in London (PC)
  • Cats Hidden in Bali (PC)
  • Double Cross (PC)
  • Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath (XS)
  • Vulcan Venture (PC)
  • TwinBee (PC)
  • Sweety Little Witch (PC)
  • Nemesis (PC)
  • Monkey Party (PC)
  • Life Force (PC)
  • Cats Hidden in China (PC)
  • Bar Dungeon (PC)
  • Ball Fall (PC)
  • Typhoon (PC)
  • Temptations X: Darkest Fantasy (PC)
  • Dark Fear (PC)
  • ChromaGun 2 Demo (PC)
  • #IDARB (X1)
  • Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen (PC)
  • Hidden Cats: The Last of Cats (PC)
  • Hidden Cats in New York (PC)
  • Cats Hidden around the World (PC)
  • PictoQuest (PC)
  • 100 hidden gnomes (PC)
  • Katamari Damacy REROLL (PC)
  • Devil May Cry 5 (PC)
  • Ghostwire: Tokyo (PC)
  • Forza Horizon 5 (XS)
  • Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 (XS)
  • Days Gone (PC)
  • A Castle Full of Cats (PC)
  • Cats Hidden in Italy (PC)
  • Sex with the Devil (PC)
  • 100 hidden mushrooms (PC)
  • Cats (PC)
  • Stray Cats in Cozy Town (PC)
  • Wordle (PC)
  • Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (PS5)
  • Cats Hidden in Germany (PC)
  • Street Fighter (PC)
  • Nonogram - Master's Legacy (PC)
  • Heroes & Legends: Conquerors of Kolhar (PC)
  • Bots are Stupid (PC)
  • Elden Ring (PS4)
  • Fill-a-pix (Droid)
  • 100 Christmas Cats (PC)
  • 100 hidden mice (PC)
  • Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk (PC)
  • Adventure Time: Pirate's of the Enchiridion (PC)
  • KungFu Kickball (PC)
  • How Buddy's parents met - jigsaw puzzle (PC)
  • We <3 Katamari (XS)
  • Lots of Cats in Every Moment (PC)
  • An Arcade Full of Cats (PC)
  • Another Crab's Treasure (XS)
  • 100 Capitalist Cats (PC)
  • 100 hidden aliens (PC)

Top Games played released in 2025
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Top Games played NOT released in 2025
  • Astro Bot (PS5)
  • ??
  • ??
  • ??
  • ??

Top Games played overall in 2025
  • Astro Bot (PS5)
  • ??
  • ??
  • ??
  • ??

Honorable Mention
  • ??
  • ??

- Content posts -
Games 1 - Current

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2024!!!!!
« on: July 03, 2024, 10:36:50 pm »
Main List
Previous List

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.

104. Dread X Collection: Don't Go Out (PC)
Oh boy, I didn't enjoy this one and I didn't quite get how you're supposed to survive, but I eventually popped into the house with a couple of survivors and just moved in a back and forth pattern so the guy was always diagonal to me so he couldn't ever get me, and that's how I lived to morning.  Kinda dumb and didn't enjoy this one.
Rating: Solid pass

105. Dread X Collection: Outsiders (PC)
I really enjoyed this one, despite having to play through it like 5 times to beat it, going around the house doing escape room stuff trying to get into the safe room in the basement... on a timer where something will murder you if you don't get it all done in time.  This is probably the most impressive and fun game in this collection.
Rating: Soft recommendation

106. Dread X Collection: Hand of Doom (PC)
This one was kind of cool if not weird that it's just you throwing gang signs to cast spells, I think I recalled enjoying this one as well, but I'm not sure I entirely remember it unfortunately, but it does make me think of games like King's Field and such despite being a completely different combat style
Rating: Soft recommendation

107. Dread X Collection: Shatter (PC)
This one was weird, just walking around and talking to people until eventually you please the giant fly in the sky.  Don't really remember much else other than that, don't even remember it being very horror so much as just fusking weird.
Rating: Soft pass

108. Dread X Collection: The Pony Factory (PC)
This one was closer to a traditional FPS game with survival horror elements, lots of enemies and such, relatively enjoyed this one minus the level based nature, never been a fan of level based stuff just deters me, don't know why.  Get through all the levels and then you've got to go and backtrack and go back the way you came to leave.
Rating: Soft pass

109. Dread X Collection: Rotgut (PC)
This one was buggy af, didn't fully understand what's to be done here except head in a direction.  Spooky stuff for sure, but nonsense really.
Rating: Solid pass

110. WWF Betrayal (GBC)
Ah yes, onto beating games just to fill out years on my game by year chart.  Crappy game boy beat em up game starring a few wwe superstars.  Couple of boss fights against other wwe superstars.  Kind of a shitty beat em up if I may say so, but also really short at like 4 levels with a plot line fitting WWE, also shitty
Rating: Solid pass

111. Disney's Lilo & Stitch: Trouble in Paradise (PSX)
Simple little platformer, reminds me of Crash Bandicoot, honestly, for a licensed game, it's quite good.  I probably didn't 100% the game, because I was just trying to hurry up and beat the game, but it was quite enjoyable... though the game is level based so it took me a bit to get through.  I'll always talk about it, something about finishing a level, it takes a lot of effort to get myself to click to start the next level, it's a natural stopping point and makes me want to be done.
Rating: Soft recommendation

112. Spy Muppets: License to Croak (GBA)
An absolutely awful licensed game.  This one sucked real bad, it's short, but it was buggy af and I think I missed a bunch of achievements that shouldn't have been missable, which could maybe be on the achievement designer, but who knows.  Game is essentially a series of mini-games with a little bit of story exposition in between.  It's interesting for Muppets fans, but I don't even know at that point it's even worthwhile.
Rating: Solid pass

113. 100 hidden cats (PC)
Another 100 hidden game.  I keep playing these and I will almost always not have much to say as they are all basically the same game.  That said, there are only so many of these so eventually I'll run out of these to write nothing about.
Rating: Soft pass

114. Need for Speed: Heat (X1)
Need for Speed: Rivals and on I constantly have this issue where I know I want to play the game eventually, but the lack of a pause button deters me so much.  This one has a pause button again, which is nice, but the game is still pretty buggy and slow and to be quite honest, the AI for the cops is fusking brutally unfair.  I get the design, don't get too big for your britches.  If you stick around too long, you will lose, because the cop cars are indestructable and basically one shot you at higher levels, makes no sense, but they just slap you around and you will lose.  I really wanted to work on the rest of the non-online achievements for the game, but so many of them are dependent on you doing a lot of high risk pursuit stuff and it's honestly just a fusking pain to get where it needs to be and if you make one mistake, you've got to start over... and in my case, I didn't even make a mistake, the game crashed and of course it doesn't autosave your heat or anything so I had to start over the pursuit process of building up to heat level 5 which takes like a half hour.  It's just a slog, I gave up at that point.  I'm going to try again eventually hopefully, but who knows.
Rating: Soft pass

115. Lilo & Stitch 2: Hämsterviel Havoc (GBA)
Decent enough mash up of feature sets, you've got puzzle/stealth levels with Lilo, action shooter levels with Stitch, and some sort of Super Mario Kart esque levels.  Game definitely sticks around a bit too long and the Lilo levels can get convoluted and difficult to understand what you're supposed to do, but not an absolutely awful game to be fair.  Still don't know that I'd recommend it though.
Rating: Soft pass

116. Perfect Dark Zero (360)
A lot of these tail end games are just filling out years for my game by year thing, but this is one that I knew I wouldn't necessarily enjoy, but I've been meaning to play since like 2008.  I played it a bit back in 2008, but I just absolutely hated that essentially I was going to finish this game having earned like 2 achievements because the achievements written for this game are relatively awful and unforgiving.  All said though, the story wasn't the worst, the gameplay was slightly lower than serviceable, definitely a let down from Perfect Dark 64, but what can you do when all the original team left part way through the development of Perfect Dark 64.  I will say I enjoyed my time well enough despite it being a level based slog, but the game is relatively short.  Would've enjoyed it more had I not been going through health issues while playing.
Rating: Soft pass

117. Feeding Frenzy (360)
I thought I had beaten this game years ago, but apparently I hadn't.  If I recall correctly this game is sort of rogue in that you have to start from the beginning every time you lose, but this time around I had no trouble sticking around and beating the game despite my recollection being that it was difficult enough that I wound up losing and having to start over pretty quickly, but maybe just a git gud moment.  Anyway, simple PopCap casual puzzle gameplay type stuff, enjoyable enough, will probably play Feeding Frenzy 2 next year, especially to fill out years as needed for my goals.
Rating: Soft pass

118. Elements of Destruction (360)
I'd been interested in this game for a long time, senseless destruction is a key part of finding a mindless game to destress so I had always been interested in this game hoping it'd fill that need.  Bought it years ago and only played it a little bit but I think I hadn't ever gotten into it.  I needed a game for a given year and this game filled a spot so I finally pushed myself to play it.  It's actually quite fun despite having a few BS achievements and some of the gameplay mechanics in the later levels can be infuriating.  All in all, the game doesn't really sate that need for mindless destruction because of the timer and honestly it's pretty easy to die and lose.  It's part of why I have potential thoughts about games like Superman, despite Superman being a good guy and probably being unable to cause destruction.  I'd want a game where it has purpose of some kind, but you're near invulnerable and just cause senseless destruction.  Like an evil Superman game.  Anyway, this game isn't the worst, but probably not worth the time as it doesn't really scratch any particular itch.
Rating: Soft pass

119. Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (360)
I've been interested in this game since it originally released, but I just never got around to playing it.  Very quickly did I see the parallels with Dragon Ball, which makes sense given both are based on the Journey to the west story (Monkey).  This game really made me want to watch Dragon Ball and buy the English translation (Monkey) of the book.  I'm pleased that Trip is voiced by Lindsey Shaw instead of Laura Bailey, really feels like a game Laura Bailey would've wound up voicing, and Lindsey Shaw does a real good job with this, wish she did more voice acting in games.  Definitely has that 360 era feel and design, but the game plays well and is lots of fun.  I think I only got frustrated when you got to Piggsy's area and the major boss in Piggsy's area, but all in all it was a real good and real fun game, just wish it had a better chapter select where you could easily go back and get missing collectibles, because it sounds like the chapter select wasn't great.  Considered buying the Piggsy DLC, because it has achievements, but I really didn't like the Piggsy character and I wasn't 100%ing the game anyway.  If I ever get the game on Steam, I'll probably give it another shot, because to be fair, I was dealing with health issues while playing the game, so I really couldn't enjoy the game as much as I probably would have.
Rating: Soft recommendation

120. Yaris (360)
Again I needed a game from a year and I was surprised to see that I had never sat down and beat this game.  Game was delisted like 15 years ago, but I grabbed it before it delisted so I have access to it. Though I've read some stuff about the game that basically you can still download and play the game since it was always free and doesn't require a license, but doesn't matter for me so I don't have to try the shenanigans.  Game is awful tbh.  The logic in the game is kind of broken, the laps are long and tedious, and there actually is a stupid level of strategy + trial and error a la old school games, but you can break the logic by hiding off the side of the screen, which is what I wound up doing to get through the game... and then even then by the time you beat the game you probably haven't earned enough credits to buy a single upgraded car, I get designing it that way so you'll play it longer or spend time in multiplayer, but it just makes the game awful in the long run.
Rating: Hard pass

121. Velvet Assassin (360)
Another game that needed to fill a year and I had again been interested in this game for a long time.  I'm pretty sure this is my own copy, but I recall my nephew getting a copy of this for christmas from my stupid older brother, and getting excited because he thought that meant he was getting an Xbox 360, but he didn't get a 360, I think to this day he still doesn't have a 360 and afaik he stepdad sold his copy at the flea market since he couldn't play it anyway.  Shit is fucked up.  Anyway, this game is basically a level based stealth kill game, kind of retroactively reminds me of Aragami, probably just as broken and jank too.  Anyway, this game was very enjoyable up until the final fight of the game, which required you to fight, with limited ammo, out of stealth, which you didn't do the entire game, and your character by design is weak/fragile and is supposed to fight in the shadows using stealth.... so the final fight of the game was infuriating and I had to basically hide in a corner and try to essentially spawn kill enemies as they rounded a corner before they could mow me down, had that final fight been better I'd be able to give it a solid recommendation, but even the stealth sections before the final fight were pretty awful as well, but I guess they were sort of preparing you to deal with non-stealth combat for the final fight, but the AI is stupid broken for non-stealth because they'll snipe you with an assault rifle from outside of the FOV the 360 is capable of drawing, so you don't even know where you're being shot from.
Rating: Soft recommendation

122. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (NS)
I got like all of the 2024 first party Nintendo games for like $20-30 each on Amazon and paid for them with credit I had built up over the year, which was nice, and with that I pushed myself to pick a game to start and this was the obvious choice as I want to play all the Zelda games and I hadn't played this one yet.  I still have a bunch of the older/side games to play.  Memes online led me to believe there would be a lot of throwing tables at enemies, which isn't even something you can do, which was pretty disappointing, but this game is real fun to play and there are endless ways to solves the "puzzles" of the game.  I put puzzles in quotes because even the combat is a puzzle when you can't really defend yourself and have to rely on what objects you can spawn.  I don't think I did everything there is to do in the game, but I did spend a lot of time doing side content in the game because the game was that enjoyable, and flipping the script and having Zelda save Link is a nice touch to change things up.
Rating: Solid recommendation.

123. Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (PC)
I had started this game years ago on Xbox One, but I don't think I got very far and I had this game picked for me for one of my backlog groups.  I considered not playing the game at all, but I was like you know what, let's get all these backlog games played that were picked for me.  Game plays a lot like Batman Arkham combat wise which is pretty easy to follow and has a nice flow, add in some Assassin's Creed style parkour climbing stuff, RPG mechanics, and exploration/collectibles and this game is an absolute pleasure to play.  I wanted to spend more time in the game collecting all of the collectibles and doing side content and DLC, but I really needed to jump into the last game on my list before the end of the year, so at some point I'll need to jump back into this one.  I'm looking forward to playing the next game, but I'm concerned that it changes the paradigm and that it might not be as enjoyable.  I hope I'm wrong.
Rating: Solid recommendation

124. Blasphemous (PC)
I kept putting this game off for years because I was expecting a souls-like experience like Salt and Sacrifice and I really didn't enjoy Salt and Sacrifice and abandoned that game, I need to go back to it, but it did get abandoned.  This game however is a tough and gritty metroidvania with RPG elements, it definitely has some Souls inspiration, but it doesn't have the lose your souls stuff which makes the game a lot more forgiving in some ways.  I really enjoyed this game and look forward to getting and playing the sequel eventually, but again I didn't do all of the exploration in the game despite attempting to because I think I reached a point where I knew I wasn't going to 100% the game so I might as well just cut my losses and just go beat the boss.  It does seem like the game does let you pick up where you left off and you can keep playing without having to start over, but I think the game does have quite a bit of missable content that I missed out on, so I'd have to start over anyway, plus the game has requirements for harder modes and such for 100% so I'm not planning on doing that.
Rating: Solid recommendation.

125. Cats Hidden in Maple Hollow (PC)
100 hidden cats esque game, I say that knowing this game has 102 achievements, 100 cats and 2 non-cat achievements.  Anyway, this game was real enjoyable and was difficult enough that I think it took me a bit longer than the 100 hidden games, but weren't as difficult or unmanageable as the larger hidden object games.
Rating: Soft recommendation

LIFE RANT
I probably have more retro games to add on here, but these are the ones I know that we played through all there was to do.  My kid had this little burst where he wanted to play old games like Pac-Man and Dig-Dug, so I grabbed the Atari Collection and we played a couple of games on there.  My kid has been going through medicine changes and his whole personality changes pretty widely depending on what medicine he is on.  One had him super interested in Super Mario Bros.  One had him super interested in Pac-Man.  One had him super interested in Minecraft.  Like right now, he'll play Minecraft, but has no interest in Pac-Man.  I'd say we're trying to figure it out, but at this point we're just trying to get him back to an okay point and we'll just work with what we can, otherwise he's going into a day program at a mental health facility... this kind of stress (and I've got a bunch of different ones) is probably the big part of why I'm not doing good keeping this stuff up to date, I've basically disappeared from the forum here, disappeared from the discord I run, and have lost a lot of interest in stuff.  I should probably turn this paragraph into a rant section instead of about the game.

126. Human Cannonball (NS)
Anyway, rant over and now I'll talk about this game.  Basically you've got a cannon, the game tells you the wind speed and you've got to pick the angle at which you fire the cannon and hope your dude lands in the safety basket.  If he misses it makes a humorous sound effect, which did make me chuckle a bunch.  Real basic game, has settings to add obstacles and whatnot.
Rating: Hard pass

127. Basic Math (NS)
My kid insisted that we play this because he's back to being all about math.  It's got settings to do different kinds and levels of math.  Eventually my kid realized that if you enter the wrong answer the game corrects you and moves on to the next question, so he stopped answering the questions and kept hitting submit so the game would display the answer and move on... the problem is the game doesn't really convey it well, but it scores you so he kept getting 0s out of 10 and I'm like you lose... but he still wants to play the game anyway.
Rating: Hard pass

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In short, it's a consistency error on GameFAQ's behalf.[/font]
which is another reason why its dumb that we use gamefaqs as gospel because this inconsistency makes this site look as disorganized and incompetent as they are.

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My edit was rejected so someone else can fix it
https://vgcollect.com/item/213348. Gamefaqs lists the game as what is listed as the alt name, so the title is wrong.  Gamefaqs is also inconsistent for this franchise as one entry uses a hyphen and the other uses a colon. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/search?game=wwi+front

Here is the other entry with the correct name
https://vgcollect.com/item/232423

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I'll voice that I'd go with 6 at the moment.

My only concern with the current state of the examples is that Xbox controller is branded primarily as a Series X controller.  My concern being that oldest/newest might not be best as opposed to what the primary intent is.  I would need to find a good example of something like the above xbox/ps examples but where the primary intent is an older platform that works on the newer platform.  Like I think DS4 controllers now say they work on ps5 (only for ps4 games) but that doesnt mean it should go under ps5. The mickey controller could be a good example in that it is primarily branded for wii (and should be under wii) despite it saying also works on wii u.  Its not a wii u controller, they are just clarifying for customers that it will work on both.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Consolidation of PSN PS3
« on: June 21, 2024, 06:38:11 pm »
but the fact that some work on PS3 and PS Vita whereas no PSP games are playable on PS3, it irks me a little.

I never had a PSP but I do have PSP games installed on my PS3 somehow, I guess from the "buy one get them all" thing you mentioned before.
it's possible.  From my recollection actual PSP executables can be stored but not installed on PS3, so maybe cross buy, but I dont recall crossbuy existing prior to Vita, but I wouldnt be surprised.

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