slaying the beast (aka my gaming backlog).
So, to my joy, I inherited some 35 PS2 games from my wife's cousin. Most of the games I've never even heard of, let alone played. This however brought up a question "how the fuck do I plan on tackling my backlog?".
I have a propensity for playing the same games in rotation: one of the Halo games, Stardew Valley, Minecraft, maybe the odd random game that I get a wild hair up my ass to play. I have a lot of games, but I tend to just play the same thing. I don't beat games often for this reason, my copy of Ocarina of Time still glares at me from my shelf knowing I haven't gotten past the forest temple.
It's not like I'm not enjoying the game, I just... stop playing for whatever reason. I want to beat them, so I'm devising a plan to do that.
so what am i going to do about it?
To try and get myself to have more variety. I've made a plan for what to do about it.
Each day I'm selecting a new game at random. I have to give that game a minimum of 3 hours of playtime before moving to a different game. If I don't enjoy that game in 3 hours, I stop playing and don't force myself to return. However, if I find I DO enjoy that game. That will be one of 2 games in rotation until I've beaten it.
This has worked out in the past, it's how I got around to beating Bulletstorm for the first time this year.
If I find myself getting bored with the game for whatever reason, I will pause it for a few days, but make the point to return to it before switching to a different game.
the goal.
The point isn't inherently to beat every game, because not every game is really worth more than a simple pick-up-and-play session. The point is to get more playtime out of the games I don't normally touch.
So starting out, I'm going to be playing the Oblivion Remaster this week in-between playing Halo game nights with my friends. It will for sure take me some time to beat it, hell I don't think you really can beat it. But I wanna get all the achievements for it like I did the XBOX 360 version.
With longer games like Oblivion, Cyberpunk 2077, etc. I will add it to my "wildcard" rotations; Where when I take a break from one game I'm trying to beat for a week, those are the games I fill it with.
Because I have ADHD and like novelty, I have added a "wildcard" day, where I pick up and play some game that I don't really care to beat, but might have fun just chilling and playing for a bit. This includes games like Super Mario 3/World/64, Champions of Norrath, Smackdown vs. Raw, etc.
To keep track of everything, I'm writing down everything in my journal. Logging what I've played, when I last played it. I might even start a gaming blog for reviewing games I've been playing and sharing them. Who knows, maybe you'll find a new favorite?
Anyway, I don't want gaming to be a chore, I want to keep it fun and engaging and try and force myself into some more variety to maybe find a new top 10. I don't care if I don't beat every game in my catalogue, so long as I gave it the ol' college try.
Pirate is wearing black Linkin Park concert tee, black pants
Pirate is feeling tired.
Pirate is listening to Social Distortion and Pearl Jam
Pirate is playing Oblivion Remastered
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