XboxEra's 2026 Backlog Challenge |OT| Same procedure as every year, James

I have a real affinity for the chunky wobbly PS1 look.

Also…um…

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TMNT Splintered Fate Hero Bundle

Balatro (Nintendo Switch)

Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble Deluxe (Nintendo Switch)

Total = -11

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Lego City Undercover

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-1 Greedfall 2: The Dying World

-1 Forza Horizon 6 Premium Upgrade

(Yep it’s payday lol)

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It’s over.

-1 Ninja Gaiden 4

-1 Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon

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Is this add to the backlog thread :thinking:

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@Staffy got us all used to adding games, part of a sneaky tactic to take the lead this year I think!

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  • -1 Tales of Berseria (XSX)
  • -1 Hell is Us (XSX)
  • -1 Beneath (XSX)
  • -1 Gradius Origins (XSX)

Total = -12

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YOU DIRTY DOG!

runs to buy more games

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Hahaha, that wasn’t my intent but I’ll take it :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

I buy every Tales game at launch, so it was a must but the other three were on a crazy sale, so…..

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I really want to snag “Hell is Us” at some point. After reading more about it the whole “figure it all out yourself” part really speaks to me.

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Same! I’ll let you know what I think, I’ll try and start it this week to dabble.

Also, maybe I should commission @Predrag to make us a Knottian/Searsy82 Double-Dragon mockup worthy enough for the losers…

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I don’t feel so bad having not gamed for a few weeks but need to get back on it. Seeing some of these purchases of games I’d ike but can’t get right now is motivation :love_you_gesture:

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Or do you? I mean there’s no telling how I will react if some good shit is available for crazy low prices at some point this year. I am super random when it comes to these things.<\> :zany_face:

Shit I don’t know now how to use spoilers anymore, can’t find it, ah well.

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-1 Crow Country

I have heard lots of good things about it and it’s half off on Xbox, so I went ahead and grabbed it.

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I gotta shout out the new rewards implemtation while we are on the topic. The fact that I can now just straight up checkout and buy things with rewards points absolutely slaps.

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I am buying Ultimate from Loaded.com for cheaper than it cost before the price rise, iirc, and earning so many points I can often use a voucher each month.

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+1 F1 2025 Good game, but honestly I was surprised at how many bugs I found in it. None were important things, but it felt like they should have been polished out. It gave me incorrect team emails after race weekends saying our results were different than they were. Also for a yearly release, I was hoping for a little bit more visually from the environments. Seeing I have like… 7?8? more of these in my backlog, I’m glad the driving experience is good. Hopefully they take the extra year they’re doing this year for more than just the updates to the new cars and really make some improvements to make it look a bit more real.

+1 Wreckreation. Open world driving and crashing game from studio that was founded by creative group behind Burnout. Has some issues with physics, and also could look nicer but this is a small indie studio that is on the edge of closing. I also joined their patreon back in Dec when I got this after someone posted it here, they’re really trying to make improvements that the community wants. I played with people online a little and had some good fun, and they let you drop track and ramps and buildings anywhere you want as you play (even in single player as you drive around). Ai racers can be quite aggressive but that also made running them off the road more fun. I liked this a lot, and it felt good to play it since I know they’re having a hard time.

https://www.patreon.com/cw/u10680381

I also was thinking with their situation, they might be interested in doing an interview with @Sikamikanico or someone, it looks like @fairyempire liked the game pretty well too when it was reviewed despite noting issues.

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Bang-on Balls.

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