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2011 Gaming plans

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2011 is a good year to be a hardcore gamer, 2 new portable consoles will be launched, a bunch of AAA games are coming out and most important of all, one of them is Mass Effect 3 (Sorry Uncharted, I love you too but I'm a ME junky).This is maybe the first year in a long time that I'll spend the greatest part of my gaming money in full price day one purchases, 2010 was easy on my wallet since I got a 360 and a PS3 late on the cycle and most of the games I got had several price cuts on them or I managed to find fine pre-owned copies.  
 

The backlog sliming-down initiative

 Yep, I didn't have the long trousers
 Yep, I didn't have the long trousers
As a 'story gamer', the way I define my self, it is pretty hard to maintain a steady flow of games to play without going bankrupt, Killzone 3 is maybe the competitive multiplayer FPS that will make me go back to my roots and sink a few hours every night. There is still a lot of games that I have to get to keep sliming down the backlog since I'm a little ashamed of enjoying stories and the expanded stuff of games and at the same time having in my list of games to play, gems like Bioshock and Dead Space. 
To start closing the gap in the home console front, I will have to finally buy a Wii and get the must have AAA games, damned 3DS and NGP, I was going to be up to day!.
Apart from old games I have these day one buys planned.
  
 

The expanded universe initiative

      Most of you have read them, I didn't
      Most of you have read them, I didn't
Having so many games available since mostly 2010 made me go through a lot of them in a very short time, keeping the trend in 2011. The problem with the crazy speed of beating games is the lack of time between them to dig into the expanded content, books, comic books, story DLC and even art books, elements that give a game collection a bit more depth than a shelf full of games. I'm not talking about collector edition thingys but material that can add pieces of information to fill the gaps between games and make every setting a more realistic touch. I imagine my future kids, after some IPs had grown old and perhaps no more new games or remakes are coming, going 'retro' and enjoyed all the money I had invested in this pricey hobby. 
It' won't be an easy task to buy English written video games books, I live in an Spanish speaking country and there is nothing like Amazon or Barnes & Noble to help me, the only way will be asking a friend that travels to Miami several times a year for work related duties or usually orders books from Amazon that are then shipped to the International Airport, an impossible location for me to go and pick them up by my self.
 

The Charity initiative

 Heal the world, at least be good with it till the inevitable end in 2012
 Heal the world, at least be good with it till the inevitable end in 2012
If you had paid attention at my user icon you surely had notice my love for MJ, the most talented genius of our time that sadly passed away in 2009. Leaving aside the controversy of child molestation trials, trials in which he was found not guilty, MJ was a very eccentric philanthropic rich man who invest several hundred million dollars to help children and needy people around the world (more money than the latest times debts he ended having). You may remember his speech at the Clinton inauguration gala, to ask the new president publicly to invest money in the search for an AIDS cure or the 'We are the world' single to relief some of the African famine, the Heal the World organization, between others. 
The influence of this man life work made me think that I had to contribute in some way to relief some of my country's problems, the hate that emerges from my heart to the Peron's party that made us go from being an European-esque gem located in South America to a poor narc paradise full of famine and ignorance (if you watched the movie 'Evita', the birth of the evil, you surely understand what I'm talking about) 
My initial idea is to do an online show with a gamer pal, something between  The Speed Gamers and NoobToob, the paypal money would go to Argentine charity to help kids, you may be thinking helping foreign kids if you can give away that money to someone of your own country, the answer is simple, with a few bucks or even cents per donator, a lot of things can be done in this poor country, it's like the EuroTrip movie scene where they go to Bratislava. 

Games that I was already planning to play or were left unfinished that could be a good Let's Play/Endurance Run experience: 
  • Lost Odyssey - 360(abandoned at disc 4 but I want to start over again)
  • Tales of Vesperia - 360 ( I wish I knew Japanese to get the PS3 full voiced acted one!)
  • Bioshock 1, 2 and Minerva's Den - PS3.
  • Mass Effect 2 and 3 - PS3 with a custom lady Shepard (I want to finish ME3 first with my default 360 male Shepard ME1 and 2 save)
  • GoW Collection and GoW 3 (only played GoW: Chains of Olympus, never played a home console GoW!) - PS3
  • Final Fantasy 1,2 and 4 Complete Edition - PSP
  • Final Fantasy Type-0 - PSP (If it doesn't come out this year it's ridiculous)
  • Dead Space 1, 2, Ignition and Extraction - PS3
  • Persona 3 Portable - PSP
  • Ratchet & Clank Future Trilogy - PS3
  
I already own some of those games and others will be bought during the year, I'll make another blog post only about this when we get ready to start, after buying the capturing equipment and figuring out what to do. 
 
I'll be improving my KZ 3 skills at the beta to be a good Tactician when it comes out  (PSN ID: Valkyr-R), see ya!
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