Wishlists - Gaming Thoughts

Wishlists from all gaming platforms—Gaming Thoughts article written by Valerie. 

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes

Hello Everyone! This is Valerie again speaking out from her desk in the back at Chalgyr's Game Room.

I just got wind of a game that I thought Chalgyr's had reviewed, but only found this article of it in Jaggy's Corner here back in 2020.

The game in question is Maple Story 2. Just today I saw a posting about it on the Delisted Games website which brought a tear to my eye and a big thought about wishlists.

My wishlist across five platforms is long, but I bet it isn't as long as everyone else who stops by, *waves hello!* I have such a variety of games minus the genres I am either not fond of, or like but can't play because they are console only. Man, I wish sometimes that I can play using those controllers, but I fear I royally suck and die so much that I won't wish to ever play that particular game again.

One of the great things about wishlists is it saves my kids from hunting in stores for gifts for me. It's fast, quick, and easy to choose one of the many games and for them to know that it's both something I want and something I'll enjoy! Well, hoping I'll enjoy as there are a couple that I haven't played that type before that I might not like, but, at least I will have tried that genre out.

I mostly stick to base building games (like Satisfactory, Stationeers, Eden Crafters, Planet Crafter, etc), strategy (like Starcraft 1 & 2), MMOs, RPGs, puzzle games, story-driven games, old favorites, flight sims, mahjjong games, and what I classify as 'Misc.'

And now for the thing I hate about wishlists which prompted this article in the first place: delisting of games. I know they don't last forever, but most times when I go through my wishlist and see a black image with the 'removed' beside it, it makes me sad. Nine times out of ten it's because I can't remember the name of the game I had wishlisted in the first place, unless I miraculously had taken a screenie of my list! Last time I did that was two years ago. *Sad face*

So, in my hunt to figure out what games I had wishlisted I went to that Delisted Games website to try to find what was 'removed'. Any chance we can roll back time to when I clicked that magic 'wishlist' button to see what I added? ROFL! Not a chance! Was I hoping that there would be a 'Sort by' filter on that site? Yes! Is there? Yes. Did I find the games? No. *sad face again*

The months on the site don't go very far back. I only could see games on their calendar back to December 2024. Also, website hosting space is at a premium these days, much like a lot of things. So, it's understandable that I won't see them until I check through alphabetically to see if that jogs my memory.

Well, until I find the games, give up, or miraculously they appear on one of the other platforms I subscribe to, I'll just have to be patient and scroll on through!

As peeps here like to say, "Until next time!" 

Therefore, I bid you adieu and Game ON!