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Hmm. I don't actually want to discourage myself from doing replays. I think it's the best part of gaming. I mean, sure...the flashy part is finding a new game that's perfect for you, that you love from start to finish, that even becomes a new favourite. But that's so rare, you can't always be holding out for an experience like that! And other than that, replaying old favourites is the best part of gaming, imo...the most fun.
So to stop discouraging myself from having fun with replays, I think I'll start including them on my 'games played in 'current year here'. Marked to avoid confusion, and they don't knock anything off my actual backlog, but I think they should count as a game completed in that year even if it was completed before, since you did put those gaming hours into it again. For my purposes, anyway. There are so many games I'd like to replay but I stop myself because I think I should be spending my time getting another game crossed off my backlog instead. But maybe if I spent more time on replays, I'd buy less new games to begin with (not that I buy that many, but it'd be nice if it was only one per month rather than about 1.5 per month.)
Games I really want to replay:
- Fantasy Life
- Tales of Berseria (but not until after Arise)
- Story of Seasons (already two seasons into the first year, iirc)
- RF4S (for Vishnal or Leon...already about 1.5 seasons in)
- A New Beginning (Sanjay again!)
- Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice (played once, can't remember most of it)
- Tales of Xillia (Because I love it and it's been years. Never did a Milla replay but I dont think I can opt out of playing Jude!)
EDIT: Ribbot should agree to move into Gardenia today. Then I'll go for Pietro. Though I'm going to need the colourful kids' tent for htat one. I don't think I have that option in my catalogue in Windfall...will have to check to make sure. I'm going to have to draw a curtain pattern as well, but at least that should be easy. I want to put a circus tent right behind his house.