You know...I don't think I've played a single brand new game this year! 
But hey, I've made some good backlog progress. And I know we're getting Kirby for one of the kids' birthdays later this year, so at least I'll play that.
I'm told you can buy the Happy Meal toys without the meals, so you might try looking into that.
When I first got a smart phone, I downloaded a solitaire game (because not everything was free to play back then lol) and I played that so much! Solitaire is underrated.
The only Darkstalkers I've put any time into was the PSP game Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower. It was a mash up of all the previous Darkstalker games, so the roster was nuts (I liked the Little Red Riding Hood girl who packed a machine gun in her basket). It was a neat game! And the Chaos Tower was a neat idea that didn't quite pan out. It was a 100 floor fight fest but (my memory is failing here) you either had to get as far as you could with a team you selected at the beginning or you played with predetermined characters along the way. I can't remember but it was entirely too hard and the PSP's control input didn't feel quite up to that level of play, but it was a blast just playing with all the characters in the regular modes.
That sound for deleting stuff from your harddrive is great! Sorry to hear about your Minecraft woes though. At least there is so much other stuff to play!
I remember one song in Streets of Rage 2 that I found really catchy. It came up several times. But people really love the soundtrack as a whole. I should probably spend some time just listening to it.
I appreciate that they tried something different with Gunvolt rather than cloning Mega Man more slavishly but I'll agree that it does lack the simple charm of Mega Man. The story is total anime nonsense lol. Fun to play though.
All of the Ace Attorney games are varying degrees of good but I think the original trilogy—Ace Attorney, Justice for All, and Trials and Tribulations—is still the best and still readily available. You can get the trilogy on pretty much any platform these days, Xbox included.
Oh dang, that sounds right up my alley. It's the world of Shadowrun that intrigues me so much and the world comes alive with good writing.
I like the idea of buying hints for pretty much anything. The puzzles in LEGO games can be so dang obtuse sometimes.
In a world where I have less games to play, I could probably get into that Wonder Boy Collection. I do have a copy of Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom which I've been meaning to play for several years now. Maybe I should finally get to that.
