The Backlog Check-in Vol. 373: 2/22/25: Monster Hunter Wilds/PGA Tour 2K25 Edition

[Phaseknox]

Played: Nothing

Finished: Nothing

Playing: ?

Added: Nothing

Games releasing this week
Blackbeard’s Treasure
Blood Typers
Broken Sword Collection
Company of Heroes 3: Fire and Steel
Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit
Farming Simulator VR
Gaucho and the Grassland
Glover
Him, the Smile & Bloom
Hollywood Animal
Horgihugh and Friends
Indie Heroes Collection 4
I See Red
Jump King Quest
Kaiserpunk
Life is Feudal: Arden
The Little Brave
Lost Lullabies: The Orphanage Chronicles
Midnight Murder Club
Monster Hunter Wilds
My Night Job
Ninja Five-O
Omega 6: The Triangle Stars
On Your Tail
PGA Tour 2K25
Railway Empire 2 - Bella Italia
Realm Royale
Riff Raff
Sea Fantasy
Silt
Spectre Divide
Splitgate 2
Two Point Museum: Explorer Edition
Vertical Kingdom
Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection

[jfissel]

Finished: Ace Attorney: Justice For All

Now Playing: Ace Attorney Trilogy

Added to Backlog: Nothing

Current Backlog: 41 games

Second AA game down, working on the third. Pirate Yakuza order thru Best Buy has been delayed - doesn't look like any of the stores got their stock last week. So while I wait, I will continue playing Trials and Tribulations.

[canedaddy]

Played recently: Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King

Finished: nothing

Added to backlog: nothing

Current backlog: 45


Still having a great time with the DQ crew. Such a fun game, man!

[argyle]

Games added: Civilization VI Anthology Bundle (pc)

Last week: Finished Eternal Strands, played Cyberpunk

This week: More Cyberpunk, and they added Balatro to Gamepass yesterday so I'm playing that as well.

Eternal Strands was very good. Not perfect - it was a little long in the tooth, and the characters tended to drone on & on at times, but the gameplay was fantastic - definitely good enough to overlook the few faults & give this one a strong recommendation.

I'm in the DLC for Cyberpunk now. I read somewhere that the best time to play it was once you hit the point of no return in the main game, which I did early last week, so I started the DLC after that. Focussing on the story, I think I'm ready to wrap this one up. Great game, but time to move on.

[isthatallyougot]

I've mostly finished the art creation aspect of my OOTP league. I still want to either design or download some fictional stadiums to house these 50 squads to give things some additional personalization. So, I've still got some work to do before holding the league's inaugural draft. But overall, I've come a long way and am *REALLY* excited to start the actual competition. I'll make a thread here in not too long to share some of the details of this league. I know most of you guys aren't big into sports, but I figured I'd share anyway, given how big of a gaming "project" it has been. So I figure I may as well present my soon-to-be obsession.

I played some more Pinball Arcade and started up McPixel 3, which is a fun kind of dumb, ha. It doesn't require much in the way of "investment" which is what I was looking for after a more intense period of creating my baseball league.

I've also still only dabbled in ECCO: The Dolphin. I won't forget about it though. I want to explore this series as intended by the idea of crim's gamer's club.

[jfissel]

Just gonna leave this here...by the creator of Katamari Damacy.

[argyle]

Just gonna leave this here...by the creator of Katamari Damacy.

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[canedaddy]

Just gonna leave this here...by the creator of Katamari Damacy.

I will say, that giraffe is smooth.

I've mostly finished the art creation aspect of my OOTP league. I still want to either design or download some fictional stadiums to house these 50 squads to give things some additional personalization. So, I've still got some work to do before holding the league's inaugural draft. But overall, I've come a long way and am *REALLY* excited to start the actual competition. I'll make a thread here in not too long to share some of the details of this league. I know most of you guys aren't big into sports, but I figured I'd share anyway, given how big of a gaming "project" it has been. So I figure I may as well present my soon-to-be obsession.

You might be insane. I'll likely check out that thread every so often.

I ... started up McPixel 3, which is a fun kind of dumb, ha. It doesn't require much in the way of "investment" which is what I was looking for after a more intense period of creating my baseball league.

I got a kick out of that one. I believe it was an argyle recommendation?

[argyle]

I ... started up McPixel 3, which is a fun kind of dumb, ha. It doesn't require much in the way of "investment" which is what I was looking for after a more intense period of creating my baseball league.

I got a kick out of that one. I believe it was an argyle recommendation?

Yessir it was. Every once in a while you need a little dumb to counteract the horrors of the world.

[isthatallyougot]

You might be insane. I'll likely check out that thread every so often.

Actually, I thought that was common knowledge.

I got a kick out of that one. I believe it was an argyle recommendation?

I thought I remembered that sequence of events. Sometimes it's hard to be sure though.



Edit:

Just gonna leave this here...by the creator of Katamari Damacy.

Wow! The lack of lyrical rhyming (obviously intentional) aside, I am totally digging that mellow vibe! I hope it comes to PC, or if not, maybe it will get me to fire up the PS4 - or was that PS5 only? Anyway, I'm not Clint Eastwood on that at all!

Yessir it was. Every once in a while you need a little dumb to counteract the horrors of the world.

No doubt about that! And it is just the right type of mindless nonsense for my current mood, ha!