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Alright, the post I know you all wait for all year, TME's gaming summary! First, the full list of games I beat for the first time this year: I beat 55 games this year, up from 48 last year. More than a game a week! I'd say that's pretty respectable. On average each game was 2.5 years old when I finished it, but that's being thrown way off by Final Fantasy VII (OG) and Dino Crisis, both of which are 25 years old. If we look at the median instead then it drops to just under 4 months, which I think is a lot more reasonable and representative. Continuing to the platform breakdown, as you can see PC dominated this year, not surprising since I built a new PC in January, though to be fair to Xbox a great many of those PC games are Xbox-published, like Hi-Fi Rush. The two Xbox games I did play I actually could have done on PC, but both of them (Signalis and Venba) due to the art style and 60-fps caps wouldn't have been any better on PC so I played them on Xbox just cause it uses less power. With Playstation and Nintendo the only games I played on those platforms were exclusives. Pokemon really drove up the total hours for Nintendo, which is why it's so disproportionately high, as you can see in the average hours per game. Xbox is low mostly because Venba is really short, like 2 hours, and even Signalis (the other game I played on Xbox) is only like 8 hours. It's interesting how close the averages were for PC and Playstation, and how close they both were to the overall average too. And that brings us to the breakdown of the calendar. October had the highest number of releases, which I suspect would be true of a lot of people this year, that month was nuts. May was low cause I was playing Tears of the Kingdom, same with October because of Starfield and then Cyberpunk. My highest completion rates were August, which is a bunch of short games I think just by random coincidence, and December, which is because I was trying to clear as much of my backlog as I could before the new year, so I was specifically playing small games. I'm still going into 2024 with 9 games on my backlog though!