So I love my games, sometimes I wonder if I actually like buying games more than playing them as I buy way too many and nowhere near finish enough of them. But I do have a massive collection of freebies I've gotten from my work and the rest I usually buy pretty cheap, like those damn Steam sales! (My general rule of thumb is nothing over $5, unless it's something I really want) So other year has gone and I begin to ponder all the awesome games that were released last year, and I look towards what this year has in store for me....Holy crap, nearly all the good titles released this year are sequels for games I haven't finished yet! For example:
- Bioshock Infinite (I own 1 and 2, got halfway through 1 and got distracted by something else, now have no idea what the hell I was doing...restart!)
- Max Payne 3 (I actually finished 1 and loved it, bought 2 on the Xbox when it was at the end of it's life-cycle and all the games were going cheap, haven't touched it since, but I want to)
- GTA5 (Honestly I wasn't much of a fan of the single player, loved the multiplayer though, not sure if I'll bother with this one)
- The Darkness 2 (Loved the comic when it first came out, got the game played for awhile then got distracted and never went back, but I intend to)
- Ninja Gaiden 3 (Played 2, got way too hard for me, so I wussed out and traded it in, so no go on that one)
- Mass Effect 3 (I own 1 and 2, yet never got around to playing them! I know I really should, to be honest I got both for free so I was never in much of a hurry)
- Metal Gear Solid 3D (I still own the Gamecube Metal Gear Solid remake and I never played it! I should do that one day)
- Assassin's Creed 3 (Look I loved 1 and 2 to death and I actually 100% completed 2, I just never got around to buying Brotherhood and Revelations, but I want to)
- Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm (Got 2, need to finish it)
- Borderlands 2 (I do really want to finish 1, I do, one day! I'd love to co-op it more but I'm pretty sure all my mates are over it now)
- Tomb Raider (I've still got Anniversary and Underworld to play yet, man I'm slack)
So you can see a bit of a running theme here, which is I tend to get a game and either not play it or I start it and get distracted by anther shiny new game.....but no more!! Which brings me to the whole point of this, after a very long intro.... This year I'm making a new years resolution to not buy as many games and finish more games I already own! (I can hear my fiancée cheering already) So I plan to document my year long journey of me vs my backlog here. I need some sort of plan first I think, so I'm going to make a rough list of what I want to finish, to help with this I've set up a Backloggery Account here: http://backloggery.com/mr_brinks and I'll detail my progress here as I go as well. I kind of got the idea for this blog from this page here: http://bitmob.com/articles/5-tips-for-tackling-your-pile-of-shame how it said to make a list of the games you've finished, and I thought 'screw it, I'll just blog it instead!'.
Now I just need to formulate a plan of attack, I think for my next post I'll list the games I want to try and finish and I'll also start making a catalogue of all my games to help with this. Phew, that could be a big job! So let me know what you think of this whole idea, any suggestions would be awesome, anyone else care to join me in my quest?
Brinks
- Bioshock Infinite (I own 1 and 2, got halfway through 1 and got distracted by something else, now have no idea what the hell I was doing...restart!)
- Max Payne 3 (I actually finished 1 and loved it, bought 2 on the Xbox when it was at the end of it's life-cycle and all the games were going cheap, haven't touched it since, but I want to)
- GTA5 (Honestly I wasn't much of a fan of the single player, loved the multiplayer though, not sure if I'll bother with this one)
- The Darkness 2 (Loved the comic when it first came out, got the game played for awhile then got distracted and never went back, but I intend to)
- Ninja Gaiden 3 (Played 2, got way too hard for me, so I wussed out and traded it in, so no go on that one)
- Mass Effect 3 (I own 1 and 2, yet never got around to playing them! I know I really should, to be honest I got both for free so I was never in much of a hurry)
- Metal Gear Solid 3D (I still own the Gamecube Metal Gear Solid remake and I never played it! I should do that one day)
- Assassin's Creed 3 (Look I loved 1 and 2 to death and I actually 100% completed 2, I just never got around to buying Brotherhood and Revelations, but I want to)
- Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm (Got 2, need to finish it)
- Borderlands 2 (I do really want to finish 1, I do, one day! I'd love to co-op it more but I'm pretty sure all my mates are over it now)
- Tomb Raider (I've still got Anniversary and Underworld to play yet, man I'm slack)
So you can see a bit of a running theme here, which is I tend to get a game and either not play it or I start it and get distracted by anther shiny new game.....but no more!! Which brings me to the whole point of this, after a very long intro.... This year I'm making a new years resolution to not buy as many games and finish more games I already own! (I can hear my fiancée cheering already) So I plan to document my year long journey of me vs my backlog here. I need some sort of plan first I think, so I'm going to make a rough list of what I want to finish, to help with this I've set up a Backloggery Account here: http://backloggery.com/mr_brinks and I'll detail my progress here as I go as well. I kind of got the idea for this blog from this page here: http://bitmob.com/articles/5-tips-for-tackling-your-pile-of-shame how it said to make a list of the games you've finished, and I thought 'screw it, I'll just blog it instead!'.
Now I just need to formulate a plan of attack, I think for my next post I'll list the games I want to try and finish and I'll also start making a catalogue of all my games to help with this. Phew, that could be a big job! So let me know what you think of this whole idea, any suggestions would be awesome, anyone else care to join me in my quest?
Brinks
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