2023 Year-In-Review: Video Games I Played
Jan. 3rd, 2024 08:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chuckroThis was a weird year for gaming, very heavy on replays and hacks, and around 350 hours of logged games (which falls between my tallies for 2021 and 2022).
My noteworthy “projects” were What’s on this $10 Handheld? Two: My Arcade Go Gamer Edition and What’s on this $10 Handheld 3: The Pro200 and the Lexibook Compact Cyber Arcade. But I also made a thread of all of my KEMCO rpg reviews, which involved playing six more of those, half of them to completion.
I finished 12 games that were new to me, nine of them on Steam, two on Android and one PS1 game. I logged 21 replays/hacks/randomizer playthroughs of older games. Nothing was particularly time-consuming; my most hours logged was my replay of Breath of Fire 3 at 26 hours, and that was one of only three games that cracked the 20-hour mark. My most-used system was the Retroid Pocket 3, though the RG350 still got used, the RG35XX saw a decent amount of playtime, and the TRIMUI Smart Pro and R36S came from behind late in the year.
I did manage to try and cull the remainders from two Fanatical bundles, but in practice my backlog only grew this year.
This was another year where the most popular genre was classic RPGs, but again there was a healthy variety to my selection. Gems of War once again accounted for the vast, vast majority of my casual game time and also virtually all of the gaming time on my Android tablet.
As a household, the Switch spent another year as our champion system. ARR went hard with Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom; but also kept up with various Pokemon titles and continues to play Super Smash Bros. His other obsession continues to be Bloons TD 6 (and the Adventure Time version) on his tablet, though he played some more of the Lego DC Superheroes games on Steam and continues to play Minecraft weekly with friends.
Going into 2024, I’m hoping to clear a list of fan-translated SNES titles and then actually approach my backlog of games I’ve paid for. But we’ll see what happens!
My noteworthy “projects” were What’s on this $10 Handheld? Two: My Arcade Go Gamer Edition and What’s on this $10 Handheld 3: The Pro200 and the Lexibook Compact Cyber Arcade. But I also made a thread of all of my KEMCO rpg reviews, which involved playing six more of those, half of them to completion.
I finished 12 games that were new to me, nine of them on Steam, two on Android and one PS1 game. I logged 21 replays/hacks/randomizer playthroughs of older games. Nothing was particularly time-consuming; my most hours logged was my replay of Breath of Fire 3 at 26 hours, and that was one of only three games that cracked the 20-hour mark. My most-used system was the Retroid Pocket 3, though the RG350 still got used, the RG35XX saw a decent amount of playtime, and the TRIMUI Smart Pro and R36S came from behind late in the year.
I did manage to try and cull the remainders from two Fanatical bundles, but in practice my backlog only grew this year.
This was another year where the most popular genre was classic RPGs, but again there was a healthy variety to my selection. Gems of War once again accounted for the vast, vast majority of my casual game time and also virtually all of the gaming time on my Android tablet.
As a household, the Switch spent another year as our champion system. ARR went hard with Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom; but also kept up with various Pokemon titles and continues to play Super Smash Bros. His other obsession continues to be Bloons TD 6 (and the Adventure Time version) on his tablet, though he played some more of the Lego DC Superheroes games on Steam and continues to play Minecraft weekly with friends.
Going into 2024, I’m hoping to clear a list of fan-translated SNES titles and then actually approach my backlog of games I’ve paid for. But we’ll see what happens!
