Following the theme of my previous thread (GotY’25… NOT from 2025), do you have any games NOT releasing in 2026 that you’d want to have beaten before the year’s end?

For me, I’ve got a whole catalogue of games I’m hoping to tap into. From all the PS1/2/3 games (on my new PC) to Banjo Tooie and 3D Sonic. DKBananza is a big one I’m really looking to sink some time into. And maybe MKWorld if/when 200cc is added.

DK Bananza. I'm still at the end of the elephant section.
FFX HD. I've been playing it for a little over a year now and struggled.
Stellar Blade. Struggled despite playing on the easiest difficulty.

Biggest ones I'm focusing on are

FF7 Rebirth - I played FF7 Remake. Loved the presentation, combat, and music, but the story limped along, awful side content, and entire chapters were just moving characters from one end of rubble to another end with little to no story progress made (which coincides with the story limping along). So overall, I was disappointed, but, I feel like I should at least continue the story, so I finally picked up Rebirth with the holiday sales and started playing it last night. I know it's a much longer game, so I'm hoping to complete sometime in early 2026.

Borderlands 4 - I love the franchise, and from what I've heard, there's a great co-op looter shooter there, but I've been holding out for additional patches to iron out performance, which seems to still be an issue to this day 3 months after launch.

Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - I for the most part 100% Breath of the Wild. The only thing I didn't completely collect were the korok seeds. After that, I was pretty much satisfied with that world of Zelda. So I was kinda bummed when I saw Nintendo was making a direct sequel in the same overworld, just with sky islands. I felt I got my fill of that world and didn't have any desire to go back. After seeing the major technical improvements the Switch 2 hardware provides, I feel like I would at least enjoy the experience more, so I went ahead and picked up the Switch 2 edition of the game.

Both are worth beating the main story and some side content. Keep it up.