Wednesday, March 30, 2011

A New Direction

I have been following the CRPG Addict's blog for a few months now and I have to say that what he is doing, intrigues me.  He has set some rules and is systematically playing through CRPGs starting from the mid 80's to present in chronological order.  He is a self professed addict and is using the project as a way to do something productive with his hobby.  I am similar in some ways with my game playing, though different as well.  My problem is starting a game, playing if for a bit and then getting distracted by either real life or another game.  By the time that distraction is past, I either have no motivation to continue on in that game, have forgotten what I am doing, or have yet another distraction come up.

To remedy this, I created an account on the backloggery. The site allows users to post their game collections and the status of each game, whether it is unbeaten, beaten or completed.  There are also specialized status' called null and mastered.  Null is used for games you want to show in your collection, but have no way to truly win.  Mastered is used to denote completing a self imposed challenge to increase the difficulty of the game beyond the normal scope of the game.  An example would be a speed run, or a mega buster only run in a Megaman game.  This worked for a while to motivate me to make progress on my games, but lately is seems that is doing the trick.  Which brings be back to the CRPG Addict.

I figured I would take his example and impose a few rules, and use a blog to track my playing and thoughts about the games I am playing.  So, my rules that I will do my best to follow are as follows:

  1. Only one game from each system that I own can be in my now playing.  These are the games I will be writing about on the blog.  Null games do not count for this purpose, though they may get occasional posts if something interesting happens or I have something to talk about regarding those games.

  2. A game must be played for at least 6 hours unless beaten in less time before it can be removed and a new game can be added.  I considered making the time longer or even requiring beaten status to remove it, but that would just make it feel like a chore.  The blog will allow me to document my progress better than the backloggery site can anyway.

  3. For each game, a blog post should be made when the game is added to the now playing list after a bit of play to introduce it and my initial thoughts on it.  Another post should be made when the game is removed.  That post should give a good idea where I left off if the game is still unbeaten and my final thoughts when beaten.  Interim posts should be made as needed as well.  (I will shoot for roughly 3 hours worth of gameplay for each post.
Well thats about it for now.  Should be posts for Radiant Historia and Mass Effect soon.

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