Thursday 13 February 2014

12 weeks, 12 games

It's a simple premise, can I complete 12 games in 12 weeks?

   Not so long ago, this would just be the normal, run of the mill thing for me, sadly, I have work and other commitments now that limits the amount of time spent having fun, both in front of a TV screen and away from it. This is a way to get me back in to games, where I have found myself drifting from. Far Cry 3 has definitely helped me realise this, having just finished it and feeling it was fantastic, hell, if I'd played it before the top 50 list, Peggle may have been in some trouble.
   So, a couple of parameters then. Firstly, I can't have finished the game before. This is not to say that I can't have played it before, there's many games that I've started, got an hour or so in and never come back to. If i were to play any of these games though, I would have to go back to the beginning and start again. Secondly, this isn't about 100% every game. In this time period, I wont have the time to scour the Internet to find a guide to some hidden secret down a 20 minute maze just to unlock a new colour of jeans (or something). It's just completing the main game/story.
   There's a few other gaming things that may get in the way though. Firstly, DLC. Now, it won't count, as it's not a full game (I may reconsider this on Far Cry Blood dragon as you can purchase it on it's own without the main game, so is it still DLC?). In this time period though, both The last of us left behind and Bioshock Infinite burial at sea part 2 will come out. Obviously, these will take time, I'm not complaining, because I'm really looking forward to them (hell, left behind is out tomorrow), but this will eat away at some time (plus, there may well be the walking dead S2: E2 in there).
   Another issue is how long will South park the stick of truth be? This is probably my most anticipated game of the first half of this year, and I've been waiting with baited breath for around 2 years for it now, and it's nearly upon us. I want it to be long (with the caveat here that it's also good), and deep, with replayability, but of course, this too will eat in to my time. On top of this, Titanfall is coming out (and everyone's raving about it) an as it's online multiplayer only does it have a story in the traditional sense? I'm hearing yes, but my heart tells me that it will just be some ongoing, never ending quest for xp.
   With these factors then, it means that I'm going to have to go against my usual style of playing only one game at a time. I will have to think what game i can play as my 'main' game, and what i can sneak in on the side (cheating on a game behind it's back, how dare I?). This may lead to some games being slowly chipped away at over the weeks, but I'm hopeful I can do it.
   I will just add before I finish that I'm not going to go out of my way to play short games. I'm not saying I wont, but I'll just play whatever I fancy, or more likely, whatever I already own and have never played/finished. So, join me weekly to see the progress, hear about the games and how I'm probably going to be cutting corners wherever I can. It's Thursday 13/2/2014, so I've got until 8/5/2014... Okay, Go!

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