It's the start of March and my New Years Resolution is going really well, probably for the first time ever! So after I smashed out inFamous 2 awhile back, I enjoyed the feeling of accomplishment so much I devised a plan to try and smash out some of my shorter games. Plus I couldn't help myself and I bought 2 new games, Resident Evil Revelations and Rayman Origins, so I had work to do to get my buy/finish ratio into the positive towards the finish side. As I perused my stupidly large Steam collection of games I settled on Shank, which was a lot of fun, I really got hooked on it and surprisingly I ended up finishing it after about 4 hours of play or so, one down.
Next, by pure fluke I must admit, I thought I'd take a look at my downloaded Wii games and I settled on Lost Winds, which once again an awesome game and only about 4 hours of gameplay long! By chance I just happened to probably pick 2 of the shortest games in my collection! Winner! So by the time I'd knocked those two out, my 2 new games turned up, so I'm back to good old breaking even once again.....
This finishing games feeling is awesome, I love the feeling of accomplishing something! I needed more! So I then moved onto Limbo on the PC, which I'd already started back when I first bought it last year in the Xmas Steam sale, and surprisingly I really didn't have much left to do, so another one down! So I should now be in the positive right? Wrong, I couldn't help myself.....I found this guy on Facebook who sells lots of old retro games (http://www.facebook.com/GamezTrader) and I just couldn't go past Killer Instinct on the SNES, man that game rules! Speaking of fighting games, I think I found another good 'loophole' in my quest. I bought the new Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 the other day, BUT I traded in my old MvsC3, so technically that cancels each other out, right? The other loophole I thought of is that in the beginning I defined 'finishing' a game is when you see credits and you know what games are pretty quick at getting credits? Yep, fighting games. So I may smash out some fighting games I think. So I'm back to being even again, I needed to finish something, so I turned to another quick to finish list, the DLC expanions. Yep, it's technically a game, so I finished the Gears of War 3, Raams Shadow expansion the other night. I'm in the positive finally! Something also occurred to me the other day as well, I finished Street Pass Quest 2 on the 3DS the other week, that's another game! Once again I turn to my trusty Steam pile of games and thought I'd give some of my many little indie puzzle games a crack. So I revisited a cool little puzzle game called Fortix 2, of which I was surprised to see I was already about 2/3rds of the way through anyway, so I finally finished it and damn it felt good....kind of, I did just finish it on easy and there's about 4 more difficulty levels to get through, but hey, it counts!
Ok, so here's my running scorecard for the year:
Bought:
- 3DS Mario Kart 7
- Wii Batman Brave and the Bold
- Wii Avatar the Last Airbender
- 3DS Resident Evil Revelations
- X360 Rayman Origins
- X360 Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3
- SNES Killer Instinct
Finished/Traded:
- 3DS Super Mario 3D Land (only main quest part)
- 3DS Mario Kart 7 (50cc and 100cc)
- PS3 inFamous 2
- PC Shank
- PC Limbo
- X360 Marvel vs Capcom 3 (traded)
- 3DS Streetpass Quest 2
- PC Fortix 2
- X360 Gears of War 3: Raam's Shadow
So I think I'm doing quite well so far! My buy/finish ratio is now 7/9! My plan at the moment is to still try and knock over some games that I'm either halfway through or nearly finished, here's a small list:
- Wii Epic Mickey
- de Blob
- X360 Battlefield 3
- PC The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition
- X360 Mortal Kombat (The story mode at least)
- PS2 God of War 2
So I think once I've done these I might start tackling some big games from the start, namely one's that have sequels out this year like Bioshock 1 and 2, Darksiders, Max Payne 2 and Mass Effect 1 and 2.....wow, what a mission this will be, wish me luck!
Brinks
Next, by pure fluke I must admit, I thought I'd take a look at my downloaded Wii games and I settled on Lost Winds, which once again an awesome game and only about 4 hours of gameplay long! By chance I just happened to probably pick 2 of the shortest games in my collection! Winner! So by the time I'd knocked those two out, my 2 new games turned up, so I'm back to good old breaking even once again.....
This finishing games feeling is awesome, I love the feeling of accomplishing something! I needed more! So I then moved onto Limbo on the PC, which I'd already started back when I first bought it last year in the Xmas Steam sale, and surprisingly I really didn't have much left to do, so another one down! So I should now be in the positive right? Wrong, I couldn't help myself.....I found this guy on Facebook who sells lots of old retro games (http://www.facebook.com/GamezTrader) and I just couldn't go past Killer Instinct on the SNES, man that game rules! Speaking of fighting games, I think I found another good 'loophole' in my quest. I bought the new Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 the other day, BUT I traded in my old MvsC3, so technically that cancels each other out, right? The other loophole I thought of is that in the beginning I defined 'finishing' a game is when you see credits and you know what games are pretty quick at getting credits? Yep, fighting games. So I may smash out some fighting games I think. So I'm back to being even again, I needed to finish something, so I turned to another quick to finish list, the DLC expanions. Yep, it's technically a game, so I finished the Gears of War 3, Raams Shadow expansion the other night. I'm in the positive finally! Something also occurred to me the other day as well, I finished Street Pass Quest 2 on the 3DS the other week, that's another game! Once again I turn to my trusty Steam pile of games and thought I'd give some of my many little indie puzzle games a crack. So I revisited a cool little puzzle game called Fortix 2, of which I was surprised to see I was already about 2/3rds of the way through anyway, so I finally finished it and damn it felt good....kind of, I did just finish it on easy and there's about 4 more difficulty levels to get through, but hey, it counts!
Ok, so here's my running scorecard for the year:
Bought:
- 3DS Mario Kart 7
- Wii Batman Brave and the Bold
- Wii Avatar the Last Airbender
- 3DS Resident Evil Revelations
- X360 Rayman Origins
- X360 Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3
- SNES Killer Instinct
Finished/Traded:
- 3DS Super Mario 3D Land (only main quest part)
- 3DS Mario Kart 7 (50cc and 100cc)
- PS3 inFamous 2
- PC Shank
- PC Limbo
- X360 Marvel vs Capcom 3 (traded)
- 3DS Streetpass Quest 2
- PC Fortix 2
- X360 Gears of War 3: Raam's Shadow
So I think I'm doing quite well so far! My buy/finish ratio is now 7/9! My plan at the moment is to still try and knock over some games that I'm either halfway through or nearly finished, here's a small list:
- Wii Epic Mickey
- de Blob
- X360 Battlefield 3
- PC The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition
- X360 Mortal Kombat (The story mode at least)
- PS2 God of War 2
So I think once I've done these I might start tackling some big games from the start, namely one's that have sequels out this year like Bioshock 1 and 2, Darksiders, Max Payne 2 and Mass Effect 1 and 2.....wow, what a mission this will be, wish me luck!
Brinks
