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[jshackles]

I'm at 34 so far this year. Most years I do between 43 (my lowest year since tracking) and 69 (my highest year since tracking)

52 Games. 1 Year. 2023

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[Lunarorbit]

40-50

I attempt to do 4 platinums a month, but the length of the games I play is usually 20 hours or less. I seldom play anything over 40 hours nowadays.

How many hours a week do you play?

5-10 for me. Sometimes I disengage from playing for weeks at a time even if I read about it everyday

 

[Dacvak]

I’ve been keeping a running list of beaten games each year since 2011, and just through tracking things, I’ve felt incentivized to actually complete games.

Here’s my list from last year, and the current one for 2023. (For 2023 I started adding a score out of 10 too)

Beaten Games of 2022:

Mario 64 (Switch) 1/1
Star Fox 64 (Switch) 1/2
Pink Sweets (?) (Arcade) 1/8
Cuphead (Switch) 1/14
Returnal (PS5) 1/18
Forza Horizon 5 (XSX) 1/31
Castlevania Dracula X (PCE/RP2+) 2/10
iJezzball Demo (Ouya) 4/6
Toree 2 (Switch) 4/7
Slay The Spire - Ironclad (Switch) 4/10
Gunstar Heroes (Switch) 4/11
Rhythm Tengoku (GBA/AP) 4/25
The Messenger (Switch) 4/27
Mario Golf GBC (AP) 4/28
Mario Kate & Ashley Get a Clue (GBC) 5/26
Elden Ring (PS5) 6/20
Deathsmiles (Switch) 6/25
Donkey Kong ‘94 (AP) 6/25
TMNT: Shredded’s Revenge (XBX) 6/26
Cuphead DLC (Switch) 7/3
Advance Wars (AP) 7/16
Slay the Spire (iOS) 7/16
Mortal Kombat 4 (N64) 7/17
Xenoblade Chronicles (Switch) 7/30
Sonic 2 & Knuckles (Switch) 8/3
WCW vs nWo Revenger (PC/N64) 8/6
Mario Kart 64 (PC/N64) 8/8
Clayfighter 63 1/3 (PC/N64) 8/9
GunBulletX (Arcade) 8/20
BishiBashi Channel (Arcade) 8/20
Wave Race 64 (Switch) 8/23
Blood Breed (Switch) 8/24
Donkey Kong High Score (Arcade)
Down the Clown
Sagebrush (Switch) 8/26
Paratopic (Switch) 8/26
Snow Bros. (NES/RA) 8/27
Snow Bros. (Genesis/RA) 8/27
Adventure Game (Flash) 8/27
Zero Wing (Switch/Gen) 9/16
E4 (Every Extend) (XSX) 9/17
Mortal Kombat 4 (N64) 9/22
RBI Baseball 4 (Gen/RA) 9/30
Wario Land DX (AP) 10/8
Gunstar Heroes (GG/AP) 10/16
Pilotwings 64 (Switch) 10/18
Lion King (GG/AP) 10/23
Dadish 3 (Switch) 11/11
Just Button [100%] (iOS) 11/16
Idle 1 [100%] (iOS) 11/18
Super Smash Bros (N64) 11/26
What The Golf (Switch) 12/4
Vampire Survivors (iOS) 12/15
Super Mario Bros Deluxe (GBC) 12/24


Beaten Games of 2023:

A Week of Garfield (Cheated) (NES) 1/8
High on Life (XSX) 1/12
Super Mario Bros. (NES/SW) 1/18
Slay the Spire (iOS) 1/23
Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES/SW) 1/24
Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES/SW) 1/31
SMB Lost Levels (SNES/SW) 2/2
Super Mario Land (GBC) 2/2
Gargoyle’s Quest (GB/SW) 2/10
WWF Wrestlemania (SNES) 2/11
Mortal Kombat 4 (GBC) 2/17
Super Mario Land 2 (GB/SW) 2/22
Trip World (GB) 2/25
Shaq Fu (GB) 2/25
Nicktoons Racing (GBC) 3/2
WarioWare, Inc. (GBA/SW) 3/20
Gunstar Heroes (Gen) 3/22
Marvel vs Capcom (Arc/MiST) 3/22
Parappa the Rapper (PS1) 3/24
Resident Evil 4 (PS5) 3/29
Toejam & Earl (Gen/SW) 4/9
Um Jammer Lammy (PS1) 4/10
Super Mario World (SNES) 4/29
Tears of the Kingdom (Switch) 5/30
Sonic Advance (AP) 6/6
Grimace’s Birthday (AP) 6/17
The Lion King (SNES) 6/25
Super Mario 64 (N64) 6/28
DoDonPachi (ARC) 7/2
Zhadnost The People’s Party (3DO) 7/11
Fatty Bear’s Funpack (3DO) 7/11
Twisted Game Show (3DO) 7/11
Ninja Spirit (GB/AP) 7/17
SMW-My QLDC Level (SNES) 7/24
Mars (ARC) 7/25
Popful Mail (SCD) 8/3
Contra Hard Corps (Gen) 8/3
Metroid Prime Remastered (Switch) 8/3
Mortal Kombat 3 (R-Zone) 8/16
Gunstar Super Heroes (MiST) 8/17
Portal (Switch) 8/17


I wonder if I’m the only person to beat a Tiger R-Zone game in 2023

 

[Banjo64]

1-5.

Spend most of my time in online games. Smash, Splatoon, FIFA or PES, Rocket League and Tetris 99. Either that, or endless games like Descenders and Hades.

Just play the big tent pole games I am interested in like Elden Ring, Hogwarts Legacy and TotK and then any little standouts like Ori and Tinykin.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

I'm at 34 so far this year. Most years I do between 43 (my lowest year since tracking) and 69 (my highest year since tracking)

52 Games. 1 Year. 2023

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Dayum! You've just become my GAF role model!

 

[drganon]

I'm up to twelve as of now :

Fire Emblem Engage
Trails From Zero
Mass Effect
Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect 3
Hogwarts Legacy
Like a dragon Ishin
Digimon Survive ( technically I beat it twice so I could get the good ending)
Trails of Cold Steel 2
House of Ashes
Final Fantasy 16
Quake

In progress:

Apollo Justice
Broken Sword
Tears of the Kingdom
Atelier Ryza 2

 

[AV]

Always at least 10 new ones and I'd say at least 5 old ones. Some of these might be 6 hours, others 60.

 

[L*][*N*K]

I used to do 25-30 but now I’d be lucky if I can finish 7, I hate getting old

 

[Drizzlehell]

Probably over 50. I tend to get bored with lengthy games pretty quickly so I tend to sprinkle in a lot of games with a much shorter running time into my gaming diet. If any game is longer than 30 hours and a lot of it is open world padding, then it's pretty much inevitable that I will drop it to play something else and come back to finish it later.

 

[rofif]

I only started keeping track in 2017. So since then:

Least finished games in 2022 - 14
Most finished game in 2020 - 34

Including replays of older games. just everything that I've finished

 

[Filben]

Nobody finishes games these days.
Who has the time?

You buy shit loads over the course of the year, usually in sales, unable to resist the Sirens call, and leave them languishing in shrink wrap on a shelf or buried in your digital library.
Your backlog swells into an insurmountable challenge, and the dizzying array of titles leaves you befuddled as to what to play next as you scan the overwhelming selection of uncompleted shame.
You lament about this on Gaf.
You foolishly try to play several games at once, naively thinking if they're all different genres you can manage to juggle them. Inevitably some games you're playing fall by the wayside, you return to them a week later without the foggiest idea what you're doing, and reluctantly concede it best to start from the beginning again...
And lo the cycle begins anew.
At least in my experience anyway

An apt observation!

 

[NeverYouMind]

I do not finish games anymore, I just enjoy them. Who cares about finishing NG, when NG+ is around the corner with extra bells and whistles.

 

[BootsLoader]

Because of lack of time, I can barely finish 1 game.

 

[Cert.in.Death]

Figuratively accurate

 

[Cert.in.Death]

How many hours a week do you play?

5-10 for me. Sometimes I disengage from playing for weeks at a time even if I read about it everyday

It can vary, but typically I try to fit an hour in each night (this happens less and less nowadays), then play 3-4 hours each day on Saturday & Sunday. All in all that gets me to about 10-15 hours a week when I am committed to gaming.

I ebb & flow. 2019, for example, I literally played only 2-3 games the whole year because I had no desire to play anything. Meanwhile, in 2020 I did nothing but play games because of COVID and lockdowns.

 

[rofif]

Some of you people need to sort your miserable lives out.
Putting family and kids over your main hobby?! not having time to play more than 1-3 games yearly?!
Tell u the truth. Your wifes don't like you playing games. I know too many people like that
For me adult life is great. I've got so much time

 

[MagnesD3]

I usually hit around 20-35. I actively try to beat as many as I can, I know ill never catch up but its fun to try and to expand my horizons.

 

[StueyDuck]

Roughly the amount that I see credits on... give or take

 

[Roberts]

43 last year, but that is the Game Pass effect, because before it I would finish 5-10 games a year.

 

[killatopak]

Big games? Usually 2-3 a year.

Small ones? Dozens. Maybe even a hundred. I usually finish maybe 2-3 in a day so it's easy for that number to go up. Flash games, indies, early access, small VNs. Like some can be finished in like an hour. Something I do if I have just an hour or two to spend.

 

[Shifty1897]

5-10 long games a year. So far:

• 1/2: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
• 1/18: Tactics Ogre Reborn
• 5/3: Fire Emblem Engage
• 8/4: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
• 8/15: Final Fantasy XVI

 

[Lunarorbit]

Some of you people need to sort your miserable lives out.
Putting family and kids over your main hobby?! not having time to play more than 1-3 games yearly?!
Tell u the truth. Your wifes don't like you playing games. I know too many people like that
For me adult life is great. I've got so much time

I have a friend like this. Two kids in beginning of elementary school. Wife who doesn't game. Any long ass rpg you can think of he's played it: xenoblade chronicles, elden ring, baldurs gate 3.

I don't criticize or say anything but it's definitely had an impact on his marriage

 

[Trogdor1123]

I said 1-5. Sometimes way more, other times I just play gaas for most of the year.

 

[bobone]

Before family about 10.
Before wife, 50+

It was no problem to finish a 10 hour action-ish game every weekend; and work on a larger RPG type thing during the week.
Work, Gym, Gaming kept me happy for a long ass time.

 

[M.W.]

Maybe one, even though I play dozens.

 

[sigmaZ]

Five to ten. If a game really sucks I won't beat it.

 

[Platinumstorm]

A few. While I think 2023 will be one, if not the best, year for gaming. I feel like I've been there, done that and am still looking for a new experience that developers aren't offering. I would much rather mountain bike, hike, garden.

I'm really disillusioned by "season passes", unless they're just adding new characters.

 

[analog_future]

I've finished 12 this year so far.

33 in 2022
25 in 2021

 

[oji-san]

I would say about 2 games per month, sometimes more sometimes less, i replayed The Witcher 3 this year and that took about 150 hours in about a month, but sometimes i play a short game like Black Ops Cold War campaign and that took like 2-3 days. In average i would say about 20-30 games per year.

 

[Putonahappyface]

1-5 if I'm lucky.

 

[Bridges]

I have finished 189 games since 2016 when I started tracking. This year I am slacking because of life so I am currently only at 12.

My list since I began tracking:

Undertale

Cel Damage HD

Inside

The Beginner's Guide

SUPERHOT

Dead Rising 4

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Snipperclips

HITMAN

PaRappa The Rapper Remastered

Until Dawn

PaRappa The Rapper 2

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Remastered

LittleBigPlanet 3

Accounting

Lucky's Tale

SUPERHOT VR

Infamous: Second Son

Sonic Mania

The Wolf Among Us

Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle

Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor

Ryse: Son of Rome

Super Mario Odyssey

Wolfenstein: The New Order

Virginia

Call of Duty: WWII

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

Cuphead

Night In The Woods

A Way Out

Crackdown

Pokemon Moon Version

Firewatch

Mario Tennis Aces

XCOM: Enemy Within

Minit

Celeste

HITMAN 2

Pokémon Let's Go Eevee Version

Crackdown 3

DELTA RUNE Chapter 1

Late Shift

The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit

Monster Hunter: World

Borderlands

Mortal Kombat X

Into The Breach

Robo Recall

Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Blair Witch

The Outer Worlds

Borderlands 2

Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon

Pokémon Shield Version

What Remains of Edith Finch

Untitled Goose Game

Death Stranding

Dreams

The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan

Yakuza 0

Pikuniku

Wolfenstein: Youngblood

Resident Evil 0

Quantum Break

Hellblade: Sensua's Sacrifice

Journey To The Savage Planet

Yakuza Kiwami

Tekken 7

Gears Tactics

Mortal Kombat 11

Fable Anniversary

XCOM: Chimera Squad

XCOM 2

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle For Bikini Bottom: Rehydrated

The Messenger

Fractured Minds

Gears of War: Ultimate Edition

Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing In Disguise

Life Is Strange

NieR: Automata - Become As Gods Edition

Yakuza Kiwami 2

Battletoads (2020)

Blue Dragon

Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition

Hypnospace Outlaw

moon

Rhythm Heaven: Fever

Chibi-Robo!

Super Mario Galaxy (2nd Playthrough)

Viva Piñata: Trouble In Paradise

Brütal Legend

Slayaway Camp: Butcher's Cut

No More Heroes

Fuser

Day of the Tentacle Remastered

Bugsnax

Tetris Effect: Connected

Zuma's Revenge

Yes, Your Grace

STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

Crackdown 2

Grand Theft Auto V

Donut County

Dead Rising 2: Off The Record

Dead Rising 3 (2nd Playthrough)

Diablo III: Reaper of Souls - Ultimate Evil Edition

Yakuza 3 Remastered

HITMAN 3

Streets of Rage 4

Dunk Lords

Control Ultimate Edition

For The King

Final Fantasy VII

Fable II

Yakuza 4 Remastered

DOOM (1993)

Rain on Your Parade

NieR Replicant ver. 1.22474487139...

Outriders

Sunset Overdrive

Psychonauts

Space Jam: A New Legacy - The Game

Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite

Twelve Minutes

Yakuza 5 Remastered

WarioWare: Get It Together!

Drake Hollow

Wasteland 3

Psychonauts 2

Hades

Back 4 Blood

The Good Life

Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania

TY The Tasmanian Tiger HD

DEEER Simulator: Your Average Everyday Deer Game

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary

Bioshock 2

Bioshock Infinite

Halo 2 Anniversary

Halo 3

Halo 3: ODST

Marvel's Avengers

Aliens: Fireteam Elite

AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES

Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy

BINARY DOMAIN

Nobody Saves The World

It Takes Two

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc Anniversary Edition

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Aragami 2

TUNIC

Kingdom Hearts FINAL MIX HD

Spongebob SquarePants: Truth or Square

Yooka-Laylee

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair Anniversary Edition

Supraland

Solasta: Crown of the Magister

Triangle Strategy

Yakuza 6: The Song of Life

As Dusk Falls

Nine Hours Nine Persons Nine Doors

Townscaper

Phoenix Wright: Justice for All

A Plague Tale: Innocence

Two Point Campus

Across The Obelisk

Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony Anniversary Edition

Scorn

The Forgotten City

Tinykin

Somerville

Pentiment

High On Life

Outriders: Worldslayer

Marvel Midnight Suns

Atomic Heart

Virtue's Last Reward

Hi-Fi Rush

Minecraft Dungeons

Redfall

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengence of the Slayers

Arcade Paradise

Exoprimal

Pikmin 4

Currently trying to finish up Judgment, Diablo IV and Street Fighter 6. I'm wanting to start Starfield, Baldur's Gate 3 and Sea of Stars in the near future but I have no idea how I'm going to make time for all of them.

 

[Putonahappyface]

Only true gamers give 100% commitment!

 

[Banjo64]

Some of you people need to sort your miserable lives out.
Putting family and kids over your main hobby?! not having time to play more than 1-3 games yearly?!
Tell u the truth. Your wifes don't like you playing games. I know too many people like that
For me adult life is great. I've got so much time

My wife encourages me to game, just like I encourage her to read/get baths to relax.

Sounds like an unhappy life if your partner tries to control your hobbies.

 

[rofif]

My wife encourages me to game, just like I encourage her to read/get baths to relax.

Sounds like an unhappy life if your partner tries to control your hobbies.

yeah good for you. my wife is the same. We get time for out own hobbies and I don't explain anything.

But I have few friends/coworkers who can't upgrade pc parts, can rarely play and when they do, the wife starts nagging... even if the kids are well taken care of and doing their own crap. miserable fools

 

[Melon Husk]

Finish as in until credits roll? About one or none.

 

[kiphalfton]

Less than ten games/year, which compared to the past 10-15 years is a lot for me.

However, I just moved to the middle of the desert, and it's been super hot out, there's nothing to do outside, and it's ugly here, so I have no guilt being inside all day. So hopefully can play more games now.

 

[Arsic]

Purchase a ton but see credits roll ? 1-5. This year I’ve seen the credits on :

Like a dragon Ishin
Spider-Man miles morales
RE4 Remake
Diablo 4

Of the games left this year I can easily see myself completing spidey 2, and AC6. Maybe blasphemous 2 before the year is up. Starfield and BG3 are too big to hold my attention to completion most likely.

 

[deriks]

I could say 5 to 10, but with not that big games

Finished Sonic Frontiers, Devil May Cry 1, THPS 1+2, REmake 4, but a lot of Mega Drive/SNES/Neo Geo games

 

[Knightime_X]

I don't get to play games much less beat them as freely as I did in my younger years.
5 games sounds about right on a good year.

 

[Kilau]

2-3 per month, sometimes more sometimes less, 90% crap.

 

[Chastten]

Pre-covid it was usually arround 10 a year.

During the covid years I finished around 30-35

This year I'm at 13 so far, but the speed is dwindling as normal life has mostly gone back to pre-covid state. Now, I'm mostly visiting events and conventions and taking pictures again during the weekends, as opposed to play videogames all day.

 

[BlackTron]

About 51.

50 times beating Sonic 2 in an afternoon, plus one other lucky game

 

[Mozzarella]

I tend to play 3-4 games each month, or 1 big game like TOTK. So i can't say for sure, but its 15-20 or 20-25. I voted 15+ anyway.

 

[The artful mincer]

My number is around 6-7 especially if they are long , like 25h+

if we are talking 8 hour games i finish around 10+

Does replaying games count? New games about 5 to 10.

 

[Guilhermegrg]

0.3

 

[DeaconOfTheDank]

Usually 1-2, but this year is a bit of an outlier for me. I moved to a new state where I don't know anyone, so I've had a lot more downtime to focus on my hobbies (mainly gaming, drawing, writing code, learning about history).

It also helps that a ton of games that appeal to me are/will be released this year. This year, it's looking like I'll be completing close to 10.

Finished:
- Tunic
- Hi-Fi Rush
- Ico
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Star Wars: Jedi Survivor
- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Final Fantasy XVI

In-progress and likely to finish:
- Grandia
- Baldur's Gate 3
- Zelda: Majora's Mask

Definitely picking these up with full intention of beating:
- Armored Core VI
- Starfield
- Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty

 

[JimmyRustler]

Since most games are getting long I finish less. Started tracking in 2016. Best year was 2019 with 70 games. For this year I‘m currently at 21.

 

[Hoddi]

They used to be fewer but I've been finishing 20-25 per year since 2020. COVID opened up a lot of free time and got me into gaming more.

I'm behind schedule for this year though.

 

[Lupin25]

5-10

But dwindling as the yrs pass, age, family, other priorities/hobbies, etc.

These modern day open-worlds take magnitudes longer to finish as well. Still finishing Zelda as we speak. Then there’s Starfield, BG3…

I’ll never be finished.

 

[Kdad]

Sadly, since i hit about 50, i just cant stay focused enough to finiish the type of games I truly enjoy (Single Player story driven). Combine that with a PS4 that shuts down randomly and here I am.

I did just yesterday start PS4 version of The Last Guardian *controls wtf* Hope I finish


My most recent gaming purchase is a Starfield controller...a game I'll never play lol.