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Oh? Well, that's interesting. Provided you're up for experiencing some multiplayer shenanigans. Four Swords is pretty short, and an absolute riot. Having to work together with three other people who no doubt would love nothing more then to stab you in the back for 20 rupees is an interesting experience. Also, Mario Party, same principle, except no working together and everyone makes it very clear they want you dead. Our little regular group normally have a man short on Fridays due to @Dcubed's variable work schedule, so if you ever want to dip your toe into a specific game, just give us a shout. -
Right then, after a lot of back and forth over the last few weeks and what feels like dozens of permutations, I have my 2025 Gaming Pledge ready to share. Donkey Kong Country - long overdue, while I have played a few random levels from the game before, I've never played it all the way through or rolled credits on it. Grand Theft Auto IV - in anticipation of GTA VI, whether it launches this year or next, I wanted to get some GTAs under my belt. I had thought about starting with the earlier PS2 games, as I do own the PS2 Classics released for PS4 prior to them being taken down for the Definitive Editions, but IV just screamed out to me more tonally from watching a few trailers while researching for my Pledge. It also gives me at least one less game to get through before VI, and I think getting through both IV and V (which I have hundreds of hours sunk into through Online but only a couple in the story mode) is pretty realistic. Halo: Combat Evolved - no Xbox, but I do have my Steam Decj, and it didn't get much love last year outside of replaying Chrono Trigger. I've played a Halo before at a friend's house (couldn't tell youw which) but this feels like a gargantuan hole in my own gaming experiences representing Xbox that I'm going to need to see for myself. Hollow Knight - it was a toss-up between HK and another indie game for this spot, both of which I picked up digitally as soon as I got my Switch back in 2019, but ultimately HK won out because it feels like it's more of a game from my backlog that I feel I need to get to, because so much of what I hear people love about this game is what I love about video games. Would like to get to the other indie, too, but more on that if and when I get to it. NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139 - this has been sitting on my shelf for a good while now, and I've been really getting in the mood to revisit NieR in some way over the last few months, with the soundtrack constantly popping up in my Spotify recommendations. I know very little about this other than the whole need for multiple replays for the true ending and experience, so I'm curious to see how I feel about it. Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch - it's a JRPG with Ghibli charm and a Joe Hisaishi score to boot, I'm more surprised that I haven't got to this yet given my affinity for all of those things. I'm pretty sure this was on my bucket list from way back when I joined this place. Portal 2 - loved the first game even if I did feel a got a bit long in the tooth towards the end, and all I hear is that 2 is bigger, better, funnier and has even better puzzles than the first. And yet another excuse to commit to booting up my Steam Deck. Star Fox 64 - I don't think I've really played many on-rails or N64 games, and for a reason I'll get into below meaning that perhaps some more obvious choices weren't my go-tos, Star Fox 64 has ended up on this list. This franchise was in the middle of dying around the time I got into games and wasn't that big of a name for my generation growing up outside of Brawl, so I'm really curious to see how I feel about it. It's also a great excuse to commit to picking up the NSO + Expansion Pack at long last, and digging out my NSO N64 controller for the first time - which will be my first time using the controller in any way! Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 - I've got great memories tied to THPS from when I was a kid playing them with my cousins, and picked this up at launch back in 2020, booted it up once and didn't really give it the chance to click. I can't wait to spend a quieter weekend with this one. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - and last but not least, the biggest commitment in this Pledge by far. I really enjoyed Baldur's Gate 3 with my friends, and while that's still pending a complete solo playthrough, after my time with KOTOR last year, it was time to commit to another big Western RPG. I went back and forth between this, Cyberpunk, Fallout: New Vegas, Skyrim, Divinity Original Sin II, but ultimately this got the nod because I've got friends who also want to play it after all of us have bounced off the game a few times before, and it's the game I see mentioned most in All-Time Top 10s that I haven't seen credits roll on myself. It's been 7 or 8 years since I last tried to get into it, and I started playing it just last night with a fresh save and a fresh start. Not so much a "goal" but just something I'll be doing, and tengential to The Witcher 3, myself and a friend are doing this thing where we aim to each complete the same game fresh to both of us (TW3); each play a game we recommend to the other (I recommended Shadow of the Colossus last year, while he recommended Days Gone...safe to say I get to recommend a longer game this time around ) with the person recommending having the option to replay the game if they want to; and we also want to play a game we both want to revisit, which this year we've already decided will be Ghost of Tsushima in anticipation of Yōtei releasing later this year. I've already got the Plat and so I don't think I'll be doing 100% of what is available, which means I'm kind of interested to see how the game plays when crit pathed, similar to how my experiences with Fallen Order and Spider-Man were much different when crit pathing those over the last few years during replays. When making my Pledge for 2025, I decided to have a fresh start, and so haven't included games left over from my 2024 Pledge - though I do still plan to get to those games if and when time allows for it. I also decided that I couldn't have any IP overlap with last year's Pledge, otherwise this list would probably just end up being Mario and Zelda titles, and while I'd like to get to more of those, I see the Pledge more as pushing me to play things which have either languished in my backlog or on a shelf for too long, or to have new experiences - and hopefully any new genres or IP I have got to from last year stick enough for me to want to experience more. Similarly, for some franchises I've been plugging away at anyways, adding them to the Pledge knowing that I already had every intent to play them anyways seemed like it went against my goals with the Pledge. And, speaking of which, that's exactly why a certain game isn't on the list which would otherwise have been a shoe-in - but don't worry, @Hero-of-Time, I have every intention of playing Resident Evil 2 Remake this year after loving the first so much. It's just a goal outside of my Pledge for the reasons above. Picking up NSO + Expansion Pack for the first time, while I don't want to commit to a hard number of games that I want to try get to, there are glaring holes in my gaming experiences when it comes to some of the biggest titles available on the service where I either haven't played them before or have but haven't rolled credits on them, and so while Donkey Kong Country and Star Fox 64 are the only representatives of my intent to get to more games from Nintendo's history - and we're talking some of the BIG name games on there that I haven't rolled credits on, N-E - I will also be aiming to experience some of NSO + Expansion Pack's big-hitters. Similar to H-o-T, last year I aimed to spend less on games, and while I did end up picking some games which ended up shelved or not played at launch, it was much better than it was in years prior. My intent this year will be to only pick up/pre-order games if I have the intent to play them next/at launch. Those games aren't going anywhere, and if they are - such as with limited physical releases - then I'll grant myself an exception where I deem fit. Having games pile up the way they have - especially with how much I know a mess can impact my mental health and how clean I try to keep the rest of my apartment to combat that - ended up with my shelf looking like this and it causing an insane amount of stress even when just trying to pick a game: So, the morning after the TGAs finished, I'd had enough and boxed up any and every game I knew I wasn't planning to get to or replay anytime soon, as well as anything I had already completed (outside of games I knew I might be planning to revisit or get in a random mood for): I can't even begin to tell you how mentally freeing it was, but hopefully the photos get that across Lastly, similar to last year, I'm still on the look out for more games to round out my personal Top 10, meaning potentially revisiting some games I've already loved in the past, and, ultimately, my main goal for gaming in 2025 is similar to what it was last year: and that's simply playing and experiencing more games than I managed to complete last year (21). Oh, and just to have fun doing so, and not being scared about jumping around a franchise's games if I feel like it, and dropping games like I did with Persona 3 Reload last year if it just feels like the right thing for me to do. That was a lot of yapping, but anyways -- thanks once again for sharing your Pledges @Jonnas and @Hero-of-Time, it was great following your efforts to get through your Pledge games last year and I'm looking forward to seeing how you get on with your choices this year; curious to see if anyone else dives in with us! I'm also very curious to hear how The Surge ended up on that list Jonnas! And H-o-T, Secret of Mana very nearly ended up taking the JRPG slot on my own list, so it's nice to see it still be part of someone's commitments and yeah, I really enjoyed Judgment, but man do the trailing missions suck... Anyways, time for some food and then it's back to playing games (oh, and welcome back @Dufniall!) -
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The @Hero-of-Time I know could crank that out by the end of January and still have time to contemplate suffering further combat tedium with Okamiden too! -
Battle mode? Battle mode. I'd dictate stages, but there's only 8, so I think we can get through each one at least once tonight without guidance, right? See you at 8pm.
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