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not particularly.. my sister had an nes when i was really little , shes 6 years older than me tho so i rarely was allowed to touch it , what little i did play on one was when i visited my dad some years removed . i personally was a genesis kid , my mother's bf who moved in with us had one and cause of how often i'd play sonic spinball ( one of his few games) i got my own for my 6th birthday , it was all i had till i got a n64 around when the og xbox released .. i did have a gameboy sometime before that , and not toooo long after that i got up to date with a gba , xbox,n gamecube then ps2 . so idk its not that they weren't around or anything but the core of my cognitize-10 years were mainly sega fueled if not pc

without reading the whole thread just the op i'm just gonna say ... i agree . those are games ijust have zero interest , i've long since started ignoring MMOs for the same reason as wanting to play more than 1-2 games and things have definately shifted towards a mp centric thing for a while now .

that said i agree it'll be fine , i think we'll slowly se another shift sooner than later , i mean it could be argued that those numbers are like that cause big companies and increasingly slow at putting out the sort of games We look for , those single player heavy hitters are just harder to come by cause they keep trying and Mostly failing to piviot to MP , and the ones that do just take too dambn long to make it seems ... i think thing'll eventually even out tho, and if not well... indies sure do put out some great little things

@mach_go_go_go: i'm not suprised considering the news but damn if that isn't ...something ick lol

'50 guides per week' alone is reather ridiculous considerling they only have so many ppl ..sheesh what a hell pit it has to be over there i feel bad for them

interesting and great work as always on these

this is what it comes down to for me i think when i make a list . i don't base it on what i thought was a better game in X or Y way just strictly from enjoyment at the moment of beating it , sure i might rejigg the order a bit when going back n thinking about it but i think enjoyment in that sorta way is just a better metric or sorts .. heck how else am i going to have backpack hero over TotK in a year like this .. .. then again there were 8 things higher than zelda so ..ehh this years assassin's creed wasn't memorable in the slightest but ya know what.. i sure as hell enjoyed it enough to 100% and thats saying something i guess

mine is simple as last years in that i want to keep finishing what i start , i did a good job last year mostly and i'd like to keep it up, sure in 2023 i beat 20 or so less games than in 2022 but theres were alot of longer titles and some replayes of older ones so thats ok.

on top of that i've been telling myself i want to chip away at alot of these larger rpgs that have been sitting on my backlog for ages . i started on a role last yr till the layoffs here put my mood in a funk partway into playing ryza 2 ... i should go back to that but its hard to pick rpgs up after putting them down .. we'll see

as for spending i think the past yr i did good on limiting impluse purchases but i'd still like to keep that up , its not fair to my backlog to keep adding to them or my fancee who has been supporting my ass for the last 3 years ... i need to loose more weight so i can go back to work, i had lost 10-15lbs down from about 300 since mid-summer so another 20 or so i might be able to fit into my pants .. till then i'm housebound with the winter here n only having shorts but hey thats fine it gives me time for yakuza 8 at the end of the month.

@bigsocrates: i really like the idea of the gamepass club thing , my issue is that if i'm knee deep in something already i'm just less likely to bounce off of it to play one of those games if i wasn't already planning to . alot of my backlog issues stem from me bouncing off something in favor of starting something else, which is something i tried to minimize this past year along with spending less .. both of which were mixed successes i'd say for me since with the exception of the past month or so and last jan i didn't pick up many things and not finish them unintentionally , tho i did flat out drop a good handful of games too.

Idk I think it depends on length? Like its a creators job to make something compelling enough to want to see through for x amount of time . Personally I find it ok to an extent if things start off a bit bland but for how long shold a person have to see it through for something to get good?I think the person interacting with something should give something a fair shake but that doesn't mean they have to keep engaging with something they aren't enjoying.

Personally for me if its anime or a show I'll give it 2-6 eps cause of world building reasons depending on length , games it really depends on the type, alot of rpgs take some time to get good so I tend to give them a bit longer than say a action game. I don't drop things often but when I do its cause I'm bored more often than not , starfield I was ready to drop after 12 early but I gave it another 2 cause ppl claimed it got better .. But imo it was dull and soulless and thats on the dev . Lords and villeins I dropped cause it was flat out boring to me as well even tho I'd put in 5+hours into it. But that said I'm just 1 person other ppl like those games.

i really like mike ,but he seems generally happy about his contract status? idk seems like he has his cake n eats it too? personally either way tho i'd rather they hire another video person if only to lighten poor jan's load a bit , i know they borrow GS ppl for help but a full time addition would be better as it stands as much as i like lucy and tam they don't feel like actually part of the site due to the double duty ( by comparison) , hell mike feels like more of it as a contractor .. weird times