Your 2025 Gaming Diary

[Cube]

1 hour ago, bob said:

I cannot get spoilers working at all. The button in the post editor does nothing - no pop-up or anything, and the code I tried doesn't seem to work. Can someone who cares about the sanctity of the story in Pokemon Arceus do something?

I'm looking into it. I've manged to get it to sort of work, but it doesn't like the end tag. 

[drahkon]

14 hours ago, Hero-of-Time said:

Put some more time into Grandia.

Not sure if I asked you already, but have you played Grandia before?

[Hero-of-Time]

1 hour ago, drahkon said:

Not sure if I asked you already, but have you played Grandia before?

Nope.

[drahkon]

3 hours ago, Hero-of-Time said:

Nope.

Hm, I thought a man with your...tenure...has played this before

Anyways, I've played 5 hours of StS: Downfall since Sunday. 7 runs won with the Slime Boss, 2 lost.

StS 2 will probably be my Downfall regarding my gaming pledge...HEHEHEHEHE, see what I did there?

[Hero-of-Time]

45 minutes ago, drahkon said:

Hm, I thought a man with your...tenure...has played this before

 

Nah. It slipped me by. I started it years ago on the Vita but never stuck with it. I then bought it last year for the PS1 but the HD collection got released soon after I purchased it.

There are lots of JRPGs I've not played yet. The Breath of Fire games, Shadow Hearts and certain entries in the Shining Force series are ones that come to mind. I only played my first Star Ocean and Ys games last year.

[Julius]

1 minute ago, Hero-of-Time said:

There are lots of JRPGs I've not played yet. The Breath of Fire games, Shadow Hearts and certain entries in the Shining Force series are ones that come to mind. I only played my first Star Ocean and Ys games last year.

*sees no mention of Suikoden*

[martinist]

Gat out of Hell is done and i'm playing through Saints Row 2022. It's actually kind of fun, when it first came out everyone was saying it sucked because of the characters and the story but the gamepaly is still Saints Row. Still has insurance fraud and the mayhem stuff it's just packaged differently. All the DLC adds a lot to it too, Real shame Volition shut down, would have liked to see this continue but i guess it didn't sell...

[Julius]

On 1/13/2025 at 10:31 AM, Dufniall said:

Thought I'd also join in on the fun and make a pledge. It'll be a good incentive to clean some of the backlog. Hope to get at least a couple off the list before the Switch 2 arrives!

Glad to have you join the pledge Dufniall! Added yours to the wall of pledges in the first post 

Funny the bit of overlap we've got going on - I'm pledging to play Replicant for the first time while you're pledging to do the same for Automata; we've both pledged to play The Witcher 3; and even though it didn't make my actual pledge for the reasons I outlined, Resident Evil 2 is 100% on my docket for the year, whereas Resident Evil 3 is on your pledge. 

Obviously what I'm saying is that this is a classic case of great minds thinking alike and all that, of course  looking forward to hearing your thoughts on them!

@drahkon @bob congrats both on clearing your first pledge games for the year - have updated the first post with your progress  love the different ways we're all going about marking a game as complete on our pledge, by the way..