List of Shame 2024: Two-Oh-Torpor

One more year of accruing games, only some of which I'll ever play. Like the least troubling problem ever though. Boy howdy are we all going to pay for our excesses someday. Until then, though, time to live like the irresponsible kings we are with another year of enjoying the best the game industry has to offer. Or, in my case, some of the best the game industry has to offer and then also a bunch of mid shit that I was able to pick up in sales and bundles.

My one goal is that I beat more games this year than there are studio closures. Fingers crossed.

Time to drop a B-W-C, first one of the year:

• [B] games are those in the Backlog, i.e. owned and ready to go once the mood strikes. There's twenty Backlog items this year and they're listed roughly in the order I intend to tackle them, though my vagarious whims might have other ideas. (Gonna start using "vagarious" more often in the New Year. Good word. Sounds dirty but ain't.)
• [W] games are those in the Wishlist, i.e. those I don't yet own but am on the lookout for. Normally I separate this category into two lists of 15: one for the highlights of the previous year, precious few of which I'll have played or bought yet, and the other for those of a slightly older vintage. Since 2023 was so stacked I'm going with a 20:10 ratio instead.
• [C] games are those that I've Completed, i.e. those, uh, that I've completed. [W]s become [B]s become [C]s is the idea, though I can't say I've ever managed a full sweep before (nor will I ever if it involves buying ~30 new AAA games in one year). [C]s get shunted to the bottom of the list with their completion dates for posterity's sake.

(Last year's total: 14 out of 50.)