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I’ve got two main gaming resolutions for 2024 and then one personal one. Use this thread to post your goals for 2024!

Gaming resolutions:
1. Play through Persona 5 by date (this will naturally push into 2025 but that’s okay). I want to play it long and slow.

2. This will be a backlog maintenance year. So beat at least three times as many games for the first time than re-beating games I’ve already played.


Personal resolution:
1. Rewrite my first novel and thoroughly edit it.

That’s it! Am keeping it simple. Maybe that’ll help me stick with it.

Fun fact: Persona 5 starts the day after I get a full solar eclipse here. That’ll be a nice reminder!

Gaming resolutions:

1. Get past the yellow EMMI in Metroid Dread
2. Spend more time on PS4 playing games
3. Finish a game on any system (that I haven't finished before)

Should be doable ...

1. Continue playing and enjoying games when I have the time

I'm going to push myself a little harder this year, given my performance in 2023. Maybe I can keep it up.

Get Five (5) Platinum Trophies


Beat Five (5) PC/SteamDeck Games


Finish Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers

• 11 March - I finished Stormblood, the expansion just before Shadowbringers. I have some post-expansion patches to clear up, then I can move on to this. Getting closer!

Finish 2 Half-Finished Backlogged Games


Beat 2 Games on Systems I Didn't Even Boot Up in 2023

Kong Wen wrote: ↑07 Jan 2024 01:24 I'm going to push myself a little harder this year, given my performance in 2023. Maybe I can keep it up.

Finish 2 Half-Finished Backlogged Games


Beat 2 Games on Systems I Didn't Even Boot Up in 2023

Oh I like both of these. I may copy them for mine when I get around to posting them.

Ouenben wrote: ↑06 Jan 2024 23:21 1. Continue playing and enjoying games when I have the time

This is probably the best one in the thread, though.

Claytone wrote: ↑07 Jan 2024 06:38

Ouenben wrote: ↑06 Jan 2024 23:21 1. Continue playing and enjoying games when I have the time

This is probably the best one in the thread, though.

I hope he succeeds!

Beat a backlogged N64 game

Beat a backlogged Saturn game

Beat two games I bought during the Wii U/3DS eShop closure

Beat two games that are not part of a series
1. SpikeOut: Final Edition (Beaten 1/27)
2. Bomb Rush Cyberfunk (Beaten 03/01)
3. Raimais (Beaten 03/07)

Beat a game on MiSTer that would be difficult to play otherwise

Win the remaining Grands Prix in F-Zero 99
Queen League - Not won (Top finish: 5th)
King League - Not won (Top finish: 5th)

Remain up to date on the Like a Dragon series
1. Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (Beaten 1/13)
2. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (Beaten 3/30)

I didn't make any resolutions in 2023, but it did end up being a good year of backlog clean up, and got me playing on PS5 more which was my least played console.

2024 Resolutions:

- Play and beat Earthbound: This is a game I've wanted to playthrough for a long time now. Feels like an essential peice of Nintendo history I am missing!

- Play a (legacy) Final Fantasy game: I've long felt that I should have more experience with the series considering I grew up enjoying rpg's. It doesn't have to be done in 2024, but I know I at least want to play FFVI and FFXII. Just a matter of timing and right pricing (pixel remasters were way too expensive at launch)

And I think thats it! Won't hold myself to too much.

I have a weird resolution plus a few normal ones. Trying to keep things simpler since I'm playing a lot of my partners games these days.
Tasks Complete, Game Beaten = GREEN
Tasks On Track*, Game started = ORANGE
Tasks Currently Failing*/Failed, Game Unplayed = RED

* Deciding factor on if something is on track or currently failing is decided on how far through the year we are vs how far through the goal I am.
Currently we are 37% of the way through the year.

1. Beat 60% of the games I buy in 2024.
1/2 50% Beaten
Alien: Isolation
Grounded

2. Beat the remaining of my 2023 backlog.
0/5 0% Beaten
Borderlands 2
Evoland 2
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom
Spyro 3
Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil

3. Beat 5, 7, 10, 15 Steam games from my backloggery (excluding games I buy in 2024)
5/5 100% Progress
7/7 100% Progress
10/10 100% Progress
10/15 66% Progress
1. Sacred Gold 17th April
2. Crysis 20th April
3. Dead Pixels 24th April
4. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War Game of the Year Edition 28th April
5. Faerie Solitaire Remastered 29th April
6. Half-Life 3rd May
7. Half-Life 2 12th May
8. Half-Life 2: Episode One 14th May
9. Half-Life 2: Lost Coast 14th May
10. Half-Life 2: Episode Two 15th May

4. Sell 30 of the games I have marked to sell
6/30 20% Sold

Knocked out a couple of these!

Claytone wrote: ↑14 Jan 2024 02:28 Beat two games that are not part of a series
1. SpikeOut: Final Edition (Beaten 1/27)
2. Bomb Rush Cyberfunk (Beaten 03/01)
3. Raimais (Beaten 03/07)

Boy, this was easier than I thought, inasmuch as I did it pretty much without thinking about it. Bomb Rush seems a bit like cheating since it is so thoroughly a tribute to an existing series, but I think it counts. Anyway, hopefully I get some more to add to this list by the end of the year!

Claytone wrote: ↑14 Jan 2024 02:28 Remain up to date on the Like a Dragon series
1. Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (Beaten 1/13)
2. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (Beaten 3/30)

Finally knocked out (and platinumed!) Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. I loved it and am glad to once again be current on the series. Unable to totally detach from it, though, I did purchase Yakuza for PS2. Its 2016 remake Yakuza Kiwami is widely believed to be the definitive version of the game, and of course I've beaten that one, but I can't help but want to know where the series came from. In particular, I'm curious to see the localization choices they made. Just from the games I have played, I know that RGG Studios has become more comfortable assuming western audiences know things about Japan and Japanese culture, so I'm curious how different the 2005 release will feel in that regard. I don't look forward to only having the option for an English dub, but Mark Hamill as Majima should be interesting!

Anyway, I don't consider it necessary to beat for the purposes of this resolution, but it could be a nice bonus entry.