Sticking to the plan
By Valkyr 4 Comments
Back in February (scroll down) I made a blog post about my 2011 gaming goals. 2010 was in terms of numbers the best gamer year of my life, I bought a 360 (phat jasper Elite) and a PS3 to fully jump into the gaming wagon after several years sitting behind, watching how everyone had a good time while I was burning my brain with college studying Software Engineering (which I'm still doing but the difficult part is over). The 360 exclusive library was short compared to the mammoth amount of PS3 games I had to buy to 'catch up', my initial list consisted of 24 games which I managed to slim down to 9 getting a lot of good deals, old games that were on sale or fine pre-owned stuff.
The problem arose when the list only consisted of games that I was not so pumped, situation that led me to succumb and spend money on day one games that if I had been patient the task of catching up with the 2006-2010 stuff would be done by now. To make matters worse a lot of AAA stuff was released (or will be released soon), so I was doubtful all the time, what did I have to do, keep buying subpar titles to clear out the list or buy new games (obviously at a slower rate than the old ones). Finally, the Wii price cut, I don't own a Wii, should I buy it and play once and for all SMG 1 and 2 like god intended or stick to the plan?. Doubts clouded my mind!.
But you know what, I decided to succumb to my new overlord the list, is the only way to get out of gaming limbo, the state when you don't know what to do with the discrete resources you have, if you check out the list of beaten games of 2011 I haven't been playing anything at all, nothing, long nights wondering what should I do next, go to sleep, study a bit more, read?.
So my advice is: don't make long term plans about gaming, gaming should be about fun and not about work (unless you are a gaming journalist o a developer)