Gaming New Year's Resolutions 2024

[REPO Man]

You have a separate thread for that. Put them there. Here is not where they go.

Okay. [urlhttp://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=53142&p=1185746#p1185746]Over here, right?[/url]

[Note]

Have a few goals regarding gaming in 2024.

First, I'd like to finish some more games I had during childhood that I never beat. Second, I'd like to finish a few survival horror games, which I slipped on last year. Lastly, I'd like to put some more time into handhelds. With my partner moving in with me, I'd like to spend some nights lounging on the couch together and still game.

Collecting wise, I have a few loose goals as well. I'd like to mostly focus on games I played with friends or family, but never owned. Next, I'd like to pick-up some Dreamcast games this year, which I haven't done much of the past few.

Here's to another year of gaming!

[Raging Justice]

I know it's stupid, and it's not something I expect that I'll do in 2024, but I always wanted to start a UMD movie collection. I know that there are FAR better ways to watch movies in 2024 (like 8K movies on a beautiful UHD Oled TV or maybe even a projector), and one might argue that it's a waste of space to have a UMD movie collection.

All of that is true, but as is often the case with collecting, you can always make an argument for it being a waste of space, time, and money. We collect cause we enjoy it, and I just kind of love the novelty of UMD movies. It was a unique format made for a unique system, and I think it could be a fun thing to supplement a PSP video game collection.

I don't know, maybe it can be a goal I pursue at some point. Maybe I'll start doing it in 2025, right now I'm addicted to collecting for the Switch

[REPO Man]

Time for another NYR recap:

* Finish the RGB30s for my nieces. I'm (hopefully) really close. I just gotta scrape the huge bulk of PS1 games I threw on there, tweak settings for certain games, test many of the Saturn and Dreamcast games, etc.

Resolution successful... technically. I mean, I didn't finish the RGB30s but I did move the efforts I made onto the RGB10 Max 3 units that I ultimately gave my nieces in lieu of the former.

Sadly, last I heard at least one or two of the girls couldn't figure it out, so I'll have to help them with that.

* Finish the PlayStation Classics that I got to hopefully give to my niblings a few years ago. I'm going to give one to my brother as soon as he finds his own place. The other's probably going to my uncle.

Resolution unsuccessful. Between my brother going back "out of town" a couple of times AND finding and losing his own place, mostly through no real fault of his own, I just couldn't find the motivation. And it doesn't help that my old PS4 that I gave him last year has apparently disappeared.

* Get back into making custom and fake game covers. My only issue was only being able to do front covers since back covers require more than just slapping a few art assets together (such as a logo and official art, like from a wallpaper image).

Resolution successful... at first. Eventually, I just fell out of the groove.

* As an extension of my non-gaming resolution to start a YouTube channel, I'd LOVE to put together a video detailing a proposal for a video game idea. There's my ideas for a Jem and the Holograms platformer in the vein of Shantae, a 4v1 asymmentrical horror game based on Are You Afraid of the Dark (think Dead by Daylight for the E10/T-rated crowd and with more to set it apart than just a new art style... right, Identity V?) or even just how I'd do a Call of Duty Zombies standalone release on Switch (tl;dr is basically a compilation of past Zombies maps).

Since I didn't get my YouTube channel started, this resolution naturally ended up... unsuccessful.

But it hasn't been all bad.

I've managed to get in the the Portmaster scene, even contributing four GameMaker ports. I hope to contribute even more in 2025, and considering how Portmaster already has 832 ports, they're only 168 away from hitting quadruple digits.