The Backlog Check-in Vol. 426: 2/28/26: Marathon & Pokemon Pokopia Edition

[jfissel]

World of Warcraft: Midnight (PC, Mac) – March 2
Esoteric Ebb (PC) - March 3
Gnaughty Gnomes (PC) - March 3
Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Switch, PC) - March 3
Scott Pilgrim EX (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Switch, PC) - March 3
Homura Hime (PC) - March 4
Marathon (PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC) - March 5
Never Grace: The Witch and the Curse (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Switch, PC) - March 5
Planet of Lana II: Children of the Leaf (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Switch 2, Switch, PC) - March 5
Pokemon Pokopia (Switch 2) - March 5
Poker Night at the Inventory (Remaster) (PlayStation 4, Switch, PC) – March 5
Portrait of a Torn (PlayStation 5) – March 5
Slay the Spire 2 (PC early access) - March 5
Timberborn (PC) – March 5
Heart of the Machine (PC) - March 6
Lost and Found Co. (PC) - March 6
Mirage 7 (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC) - March 6
Over The Top: WW1 (PC) - March 6
Sumerian Six (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S) – March 6


Finished: Nothing

Now Playing: Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties

Added to Backlog: Nothing

Current Backlog: 38 games

Beat the YK3 story and currently working through the rest of the trophies for that part of the game. Then comes the Dark Ties spinoff game with Mine.

[isthatallyougot]

Have any of you guys got anything special a'brewin' for the rest of the year?!? RE9 just came out, the DQ VII remake (j/cane?), whatever? I've got lots of things I'd like to try if I could ever tear myself away from my true love!!!! Not bloody likely!

Man, OOTP just sucks me in and won't let go, ha! Well if you can't live for your bliss, life ain't worth too much, I reckon. So, in the honor of the coming spring, baseball, optimism, happy vibes and the ever-recurring and natural renewal of seasons and cycles (and argyle's presumably sweet new set-up!), I offer a couple tracks in that spirit for the virtual spinner:

(I could easily have thrown out Here Comes the Sun here, and it's surely a deserving classic, but it gets/has gotten an abundance of play over the years.)

[canedaddy]

Have any of you guys got anything special a'brewin' for the rest of the year?!? RE9 just came out, the DQ VII remake (j/cane?), whatever? I've got lots of things I'd like to try if I could ever tear myself away from my true love!!!! Not bloody likely!

Good question. I'm rarely buying games on day 1 these days, but there are a handful slated to come out this year that might change that (GTA VI, Marvel's Wolverine, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, Blood of the Dawnwalker). We will see!


Played recently: Horizon: Forbidden West

Finished: nothing

Added to backlog: nothing

I wasn't super excited to start Forbidden West, maybe because I heard so much negativity online, but I finally fired it up and I'm really enjoying it so far (even though some of the criticism is undeniably true). Beautiful game, fun world to explore, robot dinosaurs, I cannot complain.

[argyle]

Games added: Halloween / Ash vs Evil Dead double-pack (Switch)

Last week: Finished F:NV - Old World Blues

This week: Playing Dead Island 2, Silent Hill 2 Remake


Played some Dead Ilsand 2 last night (it's been on Gamepass where I tried it out, but it was $7 for the game & all expansions on the MS store so I went ahead & bought it). It's dumb fun, so I think I'll stick with it for a bit. Trying to catch up at work this week so I have very little brain power left at night.


Oh, here's the pics I promised of my turntable setup!

[isthatallyougot]

Games added: Halloween / Ash vs Evil Dead double-pack (Switch)

Last week: Finished F:NV - Old World Blues

This week: Playing Dead Island 2, Silent Hill 2 Remake


Played some Dead Ilsand 2 last night (it's been on Gamepass where I tried it out, but it was $7 for the game & all expansions on the MS store so I went ahead & bought it). It's dumb fun, so I think I'll stick with it for a bit. Trying to catch up at work this week so I have very little brain power left at night.


Oh, here's the pics I promised of my turntable setup!


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VERY cool! Thanks for sharing. I see your homage to Roxette (I remember how much you love them) on your wall. It's a shame that Marie's life ended so relatively young. Well, since you've been so busy, maybe you can just listen to music rather than gaming for some chill time.

I definitely want to hear your SH2 remake impressions. It's HIGH on the list of my all-time favorites - the original, and I was very skeptical of a treatment doing it justice, but despite my reservations, it seems to have hit the mark.

I just recently re-watched an older classic in Bram Stoker's Dracula for the first time in many years. What a film!

[canedaddy]

That is a dope setup, argyle! What is the thing that looks like a controller on top of the Sharp machine at right?

[jfissel]

Have any of you guys got anything special a'brewin' for the rest of the year?!? RE9 just came out, the DQ VII remake (j/cane?), whatever? I've got lots of things I'd like to try if I could ever tear myself away from my true love!!!! Not bloody likely!

GTA VI for sure, 007 First Light most likely. Unsure about other new games yet to release, but Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis and Wolverine might get a spot. Other than that, DQ7R is a buy for me at some point for another 2026 release. I would like to play Indiana Jones and Clair Obscur this year as well.

I wasn't super excited to start Forbidden West, maybe because I heard so much negativity online, but I finally fired it up and I'm really enjoying it so far (even though some of the criticism is undeniably true). Beautiful game, fun world to explore, robot dinosaurs, I cannot complain.

what was the negativity? I don't even remember at this point, lol.