I'm quite proud of myself, last Saturday while I was a work we had a bunch of games that had no cases that we were selling cheap. I was about to grab a bunch, when I stopped and thought "but then I'd have to blog about it and my finished/bought ratio will go to shit", and I actually put them back....well most of them! I was going to get Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and Batman Arkham Asylum, 2 games I really want. But it made me think, that this is another one of my game buying problems; if it's 'cheap' I simply have to have it and easily justify it. The problem then is, that I never get to play them and quite frankly if I waited I probably get it cheap, or even cheaper another time. So it was a bit of a breakthrough for me! But not entirely, I did buy 2 games, but in my defense, that were very cheap. I got Batman Brave and the Bold on Wii for $5 and the first Avatar Game on the Wii for $1! How could I not! So if anything, just doing this blog alone is helping me achieve my new years resolution! I've actually stopped myself from buying some cheap steam games of late as well, I almost caved on Bejeweled 3 for $5 a few weeks back....it will go cheap again I'm sure.
So my finish/bought ratio has gotten worse right? Not quite, you see as I mentioned in my last post I'm defining 'finishing' a game when you see credits rolling.....and guess what I saw? Yep, I finished all the 50cc courses on Mario Kart 7 and got credits, so technically I've finished it, technically..... I am going to do the 100cc and 150cc ones as well, so never fear. Also the other day, I thought 'screw it' and started playing inFamous 2 again, as it's on my 'must finish' list for this year. Now, I loved the first inFamous game and initially 2 didn't grab me so much and I was a little over half way through it. But last week I picked it up again and got majorly hooked! To the point where I think I now love it more than number 1! Now this brings me to my other problem I have with playing games; I could have quickly and easily breezed through the story missions, but I couldn't help myself and ended up doing all the side quests and collected all the blast shards.....man I'm a sucker. In case you didn't know I work part-time in games retail and I'm a full-time stay at home dad as well as a cartoonist. On Monday's my son goes into daycare and I spend the day drawing cartoons for my other cartoon blog. I decided recently to spend at least one Monday a month or so just relaxing and having a day to myself and last Monday I had one of these days off and I spent the whole day playing and finishing inFamous 2! And as I said before I enjoyed it so much that I couldn't stop playing it even after I finished it and I did all the side missions and got all the blast shards. I tell you what, it was one of my favourite game endings ever, it was really well done and it was very sad. So I've finished it, now all I have to do is play through it again on hard and evil....
So even though I bought 2 games, I 'finished' 2, so I'm still even! The problem is I'm about to buy 2 more games! Damn you Brandon! Yes, Brandon and I are getting the new Resident Evil Revelations on the 3DS and Rayman Origins on X360.....damn it they were cheap online, and they're both awesome. So my next plan is to try to improve my ratio, so I plan on cracking into some shorter games, probably of the downloaded kind. I'm thinking about trying to finish some of my stupidly large about of Steam games, possibly Shank and Limbo. Then I've got a heap of Xbox Live Arcade games, I'm thinking Ms 'Splosion Man and Outland....so 4 platform games, hopefully they won't take too long.
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