XboxEra's 2024 Backlog Challenge |OT| Surely this is the year?

[Mort]

@profjjj

… Finished the last DLC for Marvel’s Midnight Suns - The Blood Storm storyline featuring Storm. Also completed the Tomb of Dracula storyline that unlocks after playing all 4 DLC packs. +0.5 I think that gets me to 3.5 total. This was part of the Deluxe Edition (or whatever it was called) of Midnight Suns I bought a while back, but the Storm pack had not released yet at the time I finished the game in March of last year (and I did not even realize it was a thing). I just found out about this a few weeks back, so I reinstalled, loaded up my old save, and played through all the new content. Very glad I did. Lots of fun. If any of you are on the fence on Midnight Suns, and you have any interest in turn-based tactical games, I highly recommend it. One of the absolute best games I played last year.

Hm, I’ve been eyeing that Legendary Edition in sales… Might bump it up to wish list material based on that recommendation then.

[profjjj]

@Mort

Hm, I’ve been eyeing that Legendary Edition in sales… Might bump it up to wish list material based on that recommendation then.

100% worth it at the sale prices I have seen lately.

[NierlyCrazy]

@Mort

It’s good to know there are others out there with the same issues haha.

[Knottian (Daniel)]

@NierlyCrazy

Think we should make a biker gang then. What’s our gang’s name Alex, @Mort, and @profjjj?

[profjjj]

@Knottian

Think we should make a biker gang then. What’s our gang’s name Alex, @Mort, and @profjjj?

The Hopeless? Ha

[Knottian (Daniel)]

@profjjj

The Hopeless? Ha

I dig it, we’d fit right in as a GTA club

[Mort]

@profjjj

The Hopeless? Ha

Haha, perfect.

[ACyberRazorCut]

@Mort

I’ve gotten a lot better about it too, when I started looking hard at the backlog I realized how unnecessary a lot of it was.

But then, how do you resist this:

I couldn’t…

Certainly a challenge in itself completing games without buying ones for the backlog at same time.

[Mort]

@ACyberRazorCut

Certainly a challenge in itself completing games without buying ones for the backlog at same time.

Yeah, that’s why this backlog challenge is so good. Even though I still buy games it’s a lot less than it used to be a couple years ago. Makes me think every time on if I really need this game right now?

[Knottian (Daniel)]

@Mort

Yeah, that’s why this backlog challenge is so good. Even though I still buy games it’s a lot less than it used to be a couple years ago. Makes me think every time on if I really need this game right now?

Couldn’t have said it better myself; I took a hard look at the amount of games I’ve bought over the years, and how little time I have to play them with work and maintaining a life and I did enough rough math to know that I’d never have time to play all the games I own or want. So some selectivity and financial-responsibility part of my brain saw the new year’s challenge, and figured this is the perfect way to help on that front. It’s genuinely been great to be able to complete games I’ve had sitting on the metaphorical shelf that either my ADHD or purchasing habits made me forget

[Zip]

I love that this is encouraging me to go play old stuff, I apparently started playing hitman absolution back in July 2014 and totally don’t remember any of the stuff that happened before I picked it up again now. I also apparently had bought the HD version they released later for Xbox one so was toying with playing that back to back when I completed this to see how it’s changed.

Side question, would that count as a separate completion since I had bought another different copy of the game? I might try harder if I played the newer version to do challenges in that like the suit only stuff.

[ACyberRazorCut]

@Mort

Yeah, that’s why this backlog challenge is so good. Even though I still buy games it’s a lot less than it used to be a couple years ago. Makes me think every time on if I really need this game right now?

Yeah I’ve found the brake pedal on purchases now signed up here.

[ACyberRazorCut]

@Knottian

… Couldn’t have said it better myself; I took a hard look at the amount of games I’ve bought over the years, and how little time I have to play them with work and maintaining a life and I did enough rough math to know that I’d never have time to play all the games I own or want. So some selectivity and financial-responsibility part of my brain saw the new year’s challenge, and figured this is the perfect way to help on that front. It’s genuinely been great to be able to complete games I’ve had sitting on the metaphorical shelf that either my ADHD or purchasing habits made me forget

Yup totally agree. Can’t wait to see how this year goes

[Mort]

@Knottian

… Couldn’t have said it better myself; I took a hard look at the amount of games I’ve bought over the years, and how little time I have to play them with work and maintaining a life and I did enough rough math to know that I’d never have time to play all the games I own or want. So some selectivity and financial-responsibility part of my brain saw the new year’s challenge, and figured this is the perfect way to help on that front. It’s genuinely been great to be able to complete games I’ve had sitting on the metaphorical shelf that either my ADHD or purchasing habits made me forget

Yep, it’s very satisfying to actually make some progress on the backlog. So many great games to be played!

[Mort]

@Zip

I love that this is encouraging me to go play old stuff, I apparently started playing hitman absolution back in July 2014 and totally don’t remember any of the stuff that happened before I picked it up again now. I also apparently had bought the HD version they released later for Xbox one so was toying with playing that back to back when I completed this to see how it’s changed.

Side question, would that count as a separate completion since I had bought another different copy of the game? I might try harder if I played the newer version to do challenges in that like the suit only stuff.

I don’t really know, is it the same game?

This is an interesting thing to discuss, we don’t really have a rule for it it seems. On the one hand it’s the same game but different versions, but on the other hand it is separate posts in your backlog.

[Zip]

@Mort

I don’t really know, is it the same game?

This is an interesting thing to discuss, we don’t really have a rule for it it seems. On the one hand it’s the same game but different versions, but on the other hand it is separate posts in your backlog.

Yeah, I think you may even still be able to buy both the 360 version since it’s bc and the enhanced ones on the store. It’s a little odd. They have their own sets of achievements and this came out 7 years later.

I think I bought this that has both blood money and absolution packaged together. https://www.dualshockers.com/hitman-hd-collection-review/

Which implies that for both games it’s mostly a remaster to 4k 60 fps and some updates to controls (which honestly would fix one of my bigger complaints with what I’ve been playing). Nor sure if they did any other changes to fix issues or not. Also curious if the contracts are available on the newer one since they don’t appear to be any more on the original

[Mort]

@Zip

They have their own sets of achievements

I think this a pretty good argument for counting them separately tbh.

[profjjj]

@Mort

I think this a pretty good argument for counting them separately tbh.

Agree

[Zip]

@Zip

… Yeah, I think you may even still be able to buy both the 360 version since it’s bc and the enhanced ones on the store. It’s a little odd. They have their own sets of achievements and this came out 7 years later. I think I bought this that has both blood money and absolution packaged together. https://www.dualshockers.com/hitman-hd-collection-review/ Which implies that for both games it’s mostly a remaster to 4k 60 fps and some updates to controls (which honestly would fix one of my bigger complaints with what I’ve been playing). Nor sure if they did any other changes to fix issues or not. Also curious if the contracts are available on the newer one since they don’t appear to be any more on the original

+1 Hitman Absolution - X360

The story is pretty neat, and for as long of a story as it is, it has quite a bit of variety to the levels. It’s kind of amusing to see that people didn’t like the way it was divided up when it released, but I enjoyed it & all the stuff that’s hidden in it. It does make me kind of appreciate some of the things that the World of Assassination games did to improve saves, give a bit more variety, make it easier to know what the challenges in the game are, controls - etc., but still glad I came back to this. I did start the remastered version & some stuff is much much better looking or shows details at further distance, but some of it oddly doesn’t really look that great (especially some early shots in cutscenes of one of the villains).

[Knottian (Daniel)]

@Zip

… +1 Hitman Absolution - X360 The story is pretty neat, and for as long of a story as it is, it has quite a bit of variety to the levels. It’s kind of amusing to see that people didn’t like the way it was divided up when it released, but I enjoyed it & all the stuff that’s hidden in it. It does make me kind of appreciate some of the things that the World of Assassination games did to improve saves, give a bit more variety, make it easier to know what the challenges in the game are, controls - etc., but still glad I came back to this. I did start the remastered version & some stuff is much much better looking or shows details at further distance, but some of it oddly doesn’t really look that great (especially some early shots in cutscenes of one of the villains).

I beat this originally on the 360 and loved every second of it, from a story perspective and as a Hitman aficionado, it had some great QoL and modernizations to its formula that I personally appreciated… I recall gamers/media being less so lol.