How did you fare with your 2023 gaming resolutions?
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Today is 2024 and while many of us are thinking about what we want to do this year, I’m still reviewing 2023 in my head to see if I fulfilled my resolutions for the old year. The answer is a definite maybe.
I had named 2023 the “Year of the Backlog” and I hoped to make some progress in playing and completing games that I’ve been putting off for years now. I went into the year resolved to spend less time doing busywork in games like World of Warcraft and instead make a real effort to play other games. And while I was able to reduce my playtime in WoW I didn’t do as well working on my backlog. The big issues? I got addicted to the Persona series of games as well as the “choices matter”/visual novel genre (I blame Life is Strange: True Colors).
I’m not going to beat myself up too much, though, because I accomplished something I’ve probably never have done in my entire gaming career: completed over a dozen games. And not just your typical 6-10 hour indie game, either — several of the games I played to completion were 75-100+ hours. While the fact that many of these games were not present on my backlog when the clock struck 2023 puts a little damper on my celebration, I was able to expand my gaming range in two new directions without increasing my backlog either. So if I stick with my current playstyle in the coming year I may be able to make better progress and go into 2025 with a smaller number of games still to play. That’s the hope, anyhow — The War Within and a few other games I’m looking forward to could pose a stumbling block if they end up consuming a lot of time. But I’m optimistic.
So how about you? Are you starting 2024 feeling good about what you resolved to accomplish last year? Or are you giving yourself a fresh start and not worrying about 2023 at all?
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