Reserving my spot for this year and I'm getting off to a strong start, hopefully, I'll be able to finish more than 14 games
1. BroForce - Nintendo Switch: Finished the campaign on 1/1/2021
I've been wanting to play this game for a while now (since at least 2016) but never really bothered to pull the trigger & buy the game until the day after Thanksgiving when it was on sale on the Nintendo eShop for like $3. Since getting it I've been slowly playing through the main campaign and in small chunks I found the game to be really enjoyable as well as challenging the more I progressed. I also loved all the 80's/90's/2000's action/sci-fi movie references that are littered all throughout the game even though I didn't care for some of the unlockable characters that you can get as I felt they were kinda useless especially against boss enemies.
2. Final Fantasy XV: Episode Gladio - PS5 (via PS4 Backward Compatibility), Finished the game on normal difficulty on 1/20/21
I recently decided to go back to Final Fantasy XV (the first FF game I ever beat) and clean up some trophies (beat a hidden post-game boss & max out the skill stats for Survival, Cooking, & Fishing) needed to get the game's Platinum trophy. After getting the Platinum I realized that I hadn't played any of the 4 DLC episodes for the game and decided it was time to finally tackle them starting with Episode Gladio, which is when I found out that each Episode acts as it's own little game. Overall this episode wasn't too bad for the first one I played as I kinda dug the final battle against Yojimbo though I was a little disappointed to learn that this episode was the shortest one of the bunch.
3. Final Fantasy XV: Episode Ignis - PS5 (via PS4 Backwards Compatibility), Finished the game on normal difficulty on 1/20/21
I thought this episode was kinda eh, not bad, but not great either
4. Final Fantasy XV: Episode Prompto - PS5 (via PS4 Backwards Compatibility), Finished the game on normal difficulty on 1/22/21
Overall this was my least favorite of the DLC episodes I've played cause Prompto really came across as overly whiny which I found annoying. Now while I do appreciate the more shooty/stealthy approach this DLC takes (which is a big departure from the main game and the rest of the DLC episodes I've played so far) it wasn't enough to get me to overlook it's faults which only became more egregious when I encountered a bug where I couldn't pick anything up or save my game. In order to continue, I had to revert to my last save (it wouldn't let me revert to my last checkpoint where I was still able to pick things up) causing me to lose nearly an hour of progress.
5. Final Fantasy XV: Episode Ardyn - PS5 (via PS4 Backwards Compatibility), Finished the game on normal difficulty on 1/22/21
I decided to leave Episode Ardyn for last since it was supposedly gonna bridge the gap between the end of the game to the originally planned second season of DLC episodes, unfortunately, it ended up being the last DLC episode for this game as the game's director quit the company so Square-Enix canceled all the previously announced Season 2 DLC except for this episode which was apparently pretty much done when the game's director quit. Which really really sucks as this episode was my favorite episode of the whole bunch both from a gameplay and story standpoint. The part of the episode I enjoyed the most was the game's final chapter which has you tearing shit up and culminating in a fight against Noctis' father King Regis. Of the DLC episodes, this and Episode Gladio are probably the only ones I'd bother revisiting or attempting to 100% complete down the road.
6. River City Girls - PS4, finished the game on normal difficulty on 2/1/21
I pre-ordered the physical version of this game a while back and upon getting it only got as far as the game's second boss before taking a break away from the game. Since I've been having back issues lately I decided to take a couple of days off to try & recoup and decided to pop this game back in. In the span of 4 - 5 hrs I managed to beat it for the first time with a 74% completion rating and over half of the game's trophies unlocked, overall I enjoyed the game and definitely plan on down the road tackling it again with some of the unlockable characters I got for beating the game.
7. Ghost of Tsushima - PS4, both finished the campaign on normal difficulty as well as obtained the Platinum Trophy on 2/2/21
This game has been on my "radar" since it was first announced and I've been slowly playing through it since it came out in September. Overall I really enjoyed the game and I enjoyed it enough to go for the game's Platinum Trophy during my first playthrough, making it the 20th Platinum Trophy I've obtained overall as well as the 2nd one I've obtained this year.
8. Bloodborne - PS4, finished the game in about 38 hrs getting the secret boss fight/ending on normal difficulty/offline play as well as 28 of the base game's 34 trophies
For years I've tried getting into the Souls/"Soulsborne" games from From Software and usually it would end pretty badly for me. I sucked so badly at these games that I rarely made it out of the first 2 "opening" areas. Though out of all the "Soulsborne" games I played the only one I would occasionally revisit in an attempt to get further in was Bloodborne and for the past 3 years, I was stuck in Central Yarnham, the game's first real "opening" area. My last attempt at playing this game was about 7 months ago and I got so thoroughly wrecked that I had essentially given up on playing these types of games despite finding their visual style (and occasional lore ) appealing. That is until about 2 weeks ago when one of my favorite Youtube Channels, Playstation Access, started doing live streams of the crew helping fellow crew member Rob (who's very much like me when it comes to the Souls/"Soulsborne" games) get further into the game as he had been stuck in Old Yarnham for almost 5 years. The stream inspired me to revisit the game and see if I could finally break out of Central Yarnham, well as you can tell I not only (gleefully) finally managed to conquer my demon in Central Yarnham I also managed to beat every boss (except the "Chalice Bosses") in the game. I (between bouts of anger.....seriously fuck those Chthulu looking motherf***ers with the god**** paralyzing attack, fuck'em up their f***in asses with expired bleach & a dirty@$$ garden hose

) really enjoyed the game (I can't tell you how many times I got the shit scared out of me, especially the bit at
the church in Yarguhl getting attacked by the giant wolves) and am seriously thinking about possibly going for the game's Platinum trophy down the road as I'm only 6 (technically 5 if you don't count the Platinum Trophy itself, 2 are related to beating the game, 1 involves getting all 26 hunter weapons, and the last 2 involve the Chalice Dungeons) from getting it as well as possibly picking up the Old Hunter's DLC once it goes on sale for a decent price.
9. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War/Warzone - PS5, 10+ hrs each of online multiplayer/Zombies
I beat the campaign for this game last year and while it honestly wasn't a favorite of mine I really enjoyed the game's online multiplayer and zombies mode. Since I was still actively playing the online/zombies aspect of the game I had decided back in January not to add it to this list until I got to a point where I was gonna drastically cut back on how much I was gonna play the game. Well, I reached that point about Saturday evening after having a horrible rage-inducing time (spread out over the span of a couple of days) trying to complete the challenges for the Zombies Outbreak event in the flaming cesspool of despair & evil known as Call of Duty Warzone. I was so enraged by my experience that it seeped into other games I was (up until that point) enjoying essentially souring me on them (it didn't matter what game I played if there was one little thing that went south it just sent me into a mad rage) and got to the point where I started playing Fortnite (See below)......a game (mainly cause I'm not the biggest fan of Battle Royale-style games) I under normal circumstances wouldn't touch with a 50 ft pole unless it was to help my 6 yr old nephew unlock/do something in the game that he, his mom, or his dad couldn't do (like help him get the Predator skin & associated gear) after numerous attempts ....just to try to get out of the rage infused funk CoD had put me in. So I plan on finishing out the Season 2 battle pass (since I had essentially already paid for it) and then refuse to touch the game except for when they occasionally come out with a new Zombies map.
10. Fortnite - Nintendo Switch, 10+ hrs mainly in Solos (so far)
As mentioned in my comments about game #9 I don't care for Battle Royale style games, but I typically find myself (essentially) coerced into playing them either because they got tied into a game mode I enjoy or to help out my young nephew. Since I was in such a rage-induced funk due to an event happening in game #9 that was tied (loosely) to another of the game's modes that it was (essentially) hindering me (emotionally) from enjoying other games and playing the rage-inducing mode (this time with the sole purpose of causing pain and not trying to complete the objectives I needed to do in order to be done with the G***UD*J*JJ*J*JA***H***** Battle Royale mode ) didn't help (it enflamed it even more) I did what was once unthinkable. I downloaded Fortnite to my Nintendo Switch (mainly cause I felt it was the one thing I'd be least likely to fling across the room if I got mad) and started playing the game in solos (mainly cause I was in F*** everybody mode) since I had some experience playing the game (due to helping out my 6 yr old nephew on his account) I actually managed to finish in 1st place at least once during my first 4 matches (my other finished were 24th, 88th, & 6th) which was actually enough to get me out of my funk as I was able to return to a game (Persona 5 Strikers) that I had been enjoying pre-funk and in my first attempt managed to destroy a boss enemy that had been destroying me & further fueling my rage funk. I've since put in 10 + hrs into the game, purchased the damn battle pass (mainly so I could get the Predator & Mandalorian stuff), and played 40+ matches 75% of which ended with me being in the top 25 or higher.
11. Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid - Nintendo Switch, about 3 hrs, 2 of which were spent playing the game's story mode
Growing up as a kid in the late 80's early 90's one of my favorite TV shows (next to Batman: The Animated Series and Sonic the Hedgehog: The Animated Series) was Mighty Morphin Power Rangers I even had the toys (I had the Red, Blue, Black, & Green Ranger figures, the Green Ranger's sword flute toy, the White Tiger Ranger's sword toy, and the Dragonzord toy) with my favorite ranger being Tommy aka The Green/White Tiger Ranger. Right around the time of the movie (1995) I had started to move away from the series (and onto other things) so I never really gave much thought about the series until I had heard about this game (which fused Power Rangers with one of my favorite gaming genres, fighting games) about a year ago. I ended up checking it out while it was on Xbox Gamepass, but outside of a couple of vs. matches didn't really get into it until yesterday when I, on a whim, decided to pick up the Collector's Edtion for the Switch while it was on sale for the same price as the standard version. Overall it did manage to tug on my nostalgia for a little bit before frustration started rearing its ugly head due to me realizing that it had the potential to be an amazing game (I enjoyed the Marvel vs. Capcom style of gameplay as well as the different modes and nods to the original series) but because they decided to be cheap/rush things (they should have included more Rangers & Villians especially from the original era, they could have done a better job telling the story instead of leaving most of it to be told in text/dialogue boxes - still images with actual spoken dialogue, they should have included a one on one arcade mode w/ alternate arcade endings for each character, a trials/challenge mode for each Ranger, unlockable alternate outfits, etc.) it ultimately felt like a really disappointing game. With that said this will probably be one of those games that I'll pop into my Switch to play either vs. or arcade mode every now and then on a whim.