Jan 022023
Last year, I aimed to complete another 100 games from my backlog as part of the eternal quest to work my way through all of these games.
I didn’t make it, ending the year with 71 games completed.
Like I mentioned two days ago, this is The Great Ace Attorney’s fault. I spent a lot of time, especially near the start of the year, picking up a game to play only to put it down with a sigh because it wasn’t The Great Ace Attorney. I’m amazed I reached 71.
So with that in mind, I’m going to try again. 100 games is the goal!
Operation Backlog Completion 2023
In addition to the overall number, I also made a list of 20 specific games I wanted to play last year. Of those, I finished… three. (One of those three did end up being my favorite game I played last year, so at least there’s that.)
For this year, let’s carry over the unfortunate number of remaining titles, along with my most-anticipated games of 2023 and a couple others I firmly intend to finish.
- Batman: Arkham Knight (followed by Arkham Origins)
- The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings (followed by Witcher 3)
- Dragon Quest XI
- Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition
- Yooka-Laylee
- Aurion: Curse of the Kori-Odan
- Dies Irae
- The Great Gaias
- Trails in the Sky SC (followed by Trails in the Sky the 3rd and Trails from Zero)
- Triangle Strategy
- God of War Ragnarok
- Yakuza 5
- The Good Life
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3
- Tokyo Xanadu eX+
- Alan Wake II
- Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes
- Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse
- Final Fantasy XVI
- Like a Dragon: Ishin
How many years will I make this list before I decide the games that have shown up on it for half a decade now probably shouldn’t be listed as specific priorities if I just ignore them anyway? Oh well, maybe this will be the year I actually play them!
…Although with the 3DS and Wii U eShops shutting down in March, I’ll want to pick up some games before they’re out of reach forever… sorry, backlog.
Do you have any backlog goals in mind for 2023?
I want to get through the game for consoles I have already bought… but I’m just gonna give a top 5:
1. Pokemon Scarlet/Violet
2. Xenoblade Chronicles 3
3. Digimon Survive
4. NEO TWEWY
5. Eiyuden Chronicles: Rising
… and so many, many more…
For some reason I thought you’d finished XC3. Are you still doing side quests and stuff, then?
I am in the last chapter and was doing sidequests… then decided to wait for the DLC…
… Then got NaNoWriMo and Pokemon…
… And now I think I’ll just go into it again and finish once the next DLC wave comes out!
Maybe I’ll be caught up by then. XD
[…] Last year, I had an optimistic hope of completing 100 games in 2023, but I ended with 66 games finished instead. That’s two years in a row I missed the 100-game mark by a fairly wide margin, so this year I’m scaling it back to a more reasonable 75 games. […]