HurrJackal1
2025 Retrospective
Last year I…
- Beat 68 games - 44 Steam, 23 PC Gamepass, and 1 Epic (and played quite a lot more)
- Won 32 games on SG
- Gave away 57 games on SG
- Bought 32 games. 15 were in the first half, and 8 in the second half (though second half was slightly more expensive than the first because first half had some cheap bundles)
- Added 30 keys through 3 months of Humble Choice
- Added 8 keys through 1 Humble Bundle
- Activated 49 keys, some quite old. (Humble is starting to time limit some keys and run out of others, so I’ll continue activating or giving away the older ones while I can)
- Was subscribed to Gamepass for 11 months and tried a bunch of games through that (including some which I have unactivated keys for).
My current ratios for are 19% completed, 32% beaten, 21% will not play further, 19% unfinished (although some of those are really likely to also be DNFs), and 8% yet to play, with an average Achievement percentage of 54%, 6.1 hours average per played win, and 774 hours total. Of those played, 39.7% (52/131) have more than 5 hours and 9.92% (13/131) more than 10 hours – though Gemcraft - Frostborn Wrath, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Mad Max really skew times
Looking forward…
- I still have about 350 keys to activate or give away – probably about half each
- I need to cut way down on the number of new games I buy. There’s a few that are definitely on my list, though. Obenseuer is in early access, Lorelei and the Laser Eyes looks intriguing but might not come to GP or HC, and Travelling at Night is a day one purchase (I love Alexis Kennedy’s writing and lore building … the gameplay not so much).
- I’ve been thinking that perhaps some kind of ratio is the way to go - maybe a ration of 1 per 10 games beaten (ie: not 100 cats).
- I really need to deal with some more SG games. Problem is, one’s feelings when entering doesn’t always survive past the win. Elex II in particular, since I was really unable to get into Elex. I have 39 unplayed or unfinished wins. Some of those are likely to turn Will Not Play for different reason (Orbi Universo I’ve played a bunch, Rain World is just too damn hard, Flashback and The Way the controls just shit me, …)
- I’ll continue with Humble Choice and Gamepass very selectively. With various changes, both have now gone from something I would just keep on regardless to something I’ll subscribe a month at a time for.
- Life is too short to beat games when one is really not having fun with them. It’s also too short to complete games for the sake of completing them, particularly when my Pile Of Shame is so large. Some games are great for a time, and then I hit a point at which I’m done, and that’s ok.
I’m in the middle of Mad Max now, and I can see how it will take a while hahahaha there is so much to do, and my inner completionist cannot sit still until I freaking liberate all camps and complete all Stronghold projects. Damn me hahaha
Definitely agree with you on the last bullet point. That’s an important lesson. Congrats on all your beaten games!
The locations in Mad Max have some really good variety. As far as I remember they all felt individual, but there definitely should be far fewer collectables per location (partticularly the small ones where collecting beyond the first normally requires zero extra effort other than movement).
Yes, I’ve been enjoying clearing the camps. They are kinda samey in the sense you do the same things in each, but the combat is quite fun and the locations are varied so it’s been enjoyable. But I agree, all these collectables that only require movement get annoying very quickly. The game is great when it’s firing on all cylinders but has a lot of slow time in between. I already reached the HLTB time for beating the game, but since I’m not focusing on the main story I doubt I’m even halfway through hahaha
You can always beat the game and then polish the collectables later
I’m trying to at least beat all the Wasteland Missions before proceeding with the Main Story because those look missable? I might be mistaken, but I remember a prompt saying there were Hope side-missions available at some point when I was at Gutgash during the story, but once I moved to Pink Eye’s territory I see Hope in chains and her mission is not available anymore at Gutgash, so I might have missed it. Trying to at least avoid something like that moving forward
But year, I think I’ll leave the Camps for after I beat the main story
Oh forgot to mention: Mad Max has one or two achievements which it is impossible to get because the WB servers are offline and they didn’t patch things gracefully when they did so. (From vague memory it could have been implemented offline)
I saw that, but there are save files on Nexus Mod that allows you to get these achievements. That being said, I truly don’t care for Completions so I won’t even bother hahaha realistically I probably won’t even do everything that the game has to offer. Might lower Gutgash’s Threat to 0, but I don’t think I want to do that with Pink Eye. It’s starting to get repetitive already. Might do all camps but I dont’ care for the Convoys or Scavenging. Let’s see