1: Play shorter games!
In 2022 I played way too many overly long, over 50 hours games that take up months of game time that could be better spent on shorter, less time-consuming and life-consuming games. Not that this isn't worth it for some titles but overall, some of them clearly didn't deserve my time commitment, and sometimes, I just don't need to play another 80 hours long rpg
2: Take breaks from games.
Sometimes, just spending a day, a week or two away from consoles is immensely rewarding and it makes me feel a lot less burned out. I did it once in July, between finishing Shin Megami Tensei IV and starting Xenoblade 3 and it reinvigorated my love for games more than anything
3: Vary up the genres.
Self-explanatory, playing shorter games will likely help on that front! I'd also count playing more indie games on that category
4: Only buy games when I intend to play them immediately.
This is the easiest for me as it's just continuing what I already do but it's helped me alleviate the backlog problem significantly. I know the urge to buy a physical edition of a game I'm barely interested in because it will disappear forever and I will never be able to play it otherwise and we're all doomed if I miss out on this underappreciated masterpiece and ugh... That is tiring, let's not do that
Just throwing this out here, New Years Resolutions are fundamentally broken. A year is far too long a time frame for our monkey brains to stick with something and also generally unnecessarily long for a good habit to form. Also setting very specific targets are the worst way to achieve a change in behaviour
What you should actually have would be something more like "themed seasons". Where you set a theme of something you want to do better generally and stick at it for 3 months. So to rework your list you might have something like:
Jan-Mar: Season of Backlog
Generally a fairly quiet time of the year especially if you're been grabbing stuff over the last month or so. So yeah, good time to not buy anything new and just crunch through some of the titles you've been putting off starting.
Apr-Jun: Season of Zelda
Lets be honest with ourselves, this is happening regardless. But also before TotK it might be a good time to go back and revisit some of the older Zelda titles. Maybe you never really finished off Majora's Mask or something. Maybe you haven't played Phantom Hourglass since you beat it years ago
July-Sep: Season of not-games
Doesn't have to be no-games, maybe just dive into some other interests a bit more than you usually do. Jump into some new TV series or use your weekends to explore some music or movies. Maybe pick up a book or something.
Oct-Dec: Season of Discovery
Maybe spend some time playing less larger scale games and focus on smaller titles. Possibly indies, maybe some games with more unique ideas. Maybe when new big releases come out instead of going for the numbered annualised release go for a new IP or at least a game in a franchise you haven't played before
I want to actually stick and learn a fighting game! Because I really want guilty gear since the ultimate edition is on sale, buuuut I’m afraid I won’t play it.
I'm going to say something that won't be unique to this subject: Tackle the backlog.
My job hours are just horrible for gaming. The few hours a week (if that) I can carve aside for gaming force me to be very precise on how I spend them for game(s)
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1. Get more PS3, PS4 & PS5 games.
2. Get Beatmania IIDX controller.
3. Get either another PS4 Slim machine again or an external hard disk 1 TB for my first PS4 Slim.
I've kinda made this my resolution the last couple years, but I'll say it again. Stop forcing myself to continue on with a game I'm only "semi" enjoying. Especially longer games like jrpgs. I've actually gotten better at it, so I can definitely see myself following through. Oh...and not buying a game unless I plan on playing it as my next game. That'll keep the Backlog down.
I want to do this but I know how much of my life is gonna be spent on Tears of the Kingdom next year, and I probably will get around to Xenoblade:DE after I'm done with that. That'll alone will be beyond 200 hours of my time.
If I have a similar resolution though, its to not tolerate games disrespecting my time. Spending too much time on things I'm not liking in even good games is just not something I want to waste my time on anymore. Sidequests that just feel empty in terms of both gameplay and story investment in games is not worth my time.
That aside, I mostly want to finally deal with my Switch backlog and play more indie games. Switch has been the best indie machine and after spending the Wii U era really pushing for indie games I'm really disappointed how few I've played on the Switch.
@kkslider5552000 Yeah, I also need to get that checklist syndrome out of my mind. Even in games I'm not enjoying that much, I'll still get that FOMO of "ohh but what if that quest is actually great" but then it ends up being a bit lame.
This year, the third game I spent the most time on (aside from Xenoblade 2 and 3) is Astral Chain, a game I mostly like a lot. So, seeing that big achievement list I had the urge to 100% it, and I made the stupid decision to follow up on that urge, so I completed it, which took me 120 hours (lame reward btw)... and I'm so sick of that game now😂. Did it all in one month and it required so much time and grinding the memory itself is painful. Worst part is, I would've enjoyed this way more had I done so over a couple years, but now I do not want to replay it at all.
So yeah, I need to understand when I'm playing for fun or for grinding, like work. And the latter burns me out
Btw, Xenoblade DE may have streamlined the questing, but I did as many of them as I could and they're really not that worth it, especially as they destroy the story's pacing, so unless you love exploring the gorgeous world and the combat, like me, don't bother, you're not missing much.
This year, the third game I spent the most time on (aside from Xenoblade 2 and 3) is Astral Chain, a game I mostly like a lot. So, seeing that big achievement list I had the urge to 100% it, and I made the stupid decision to follow up on that urge, so I completed it, which took me 120 hours (lame reward btw)... and I'm so sick of that game now😂. Did it all in one month and it required so much time and grinding the memory itself is painful. Worst part is, I would've enjoyed this way more had I done so over a couple years, but now I do not want to replay it at all.
Oh yeah, I got sick of Astral Chain by the time of the post-game content and some of the failures I had at some of that stuff, and that was only 55 hours i put into it. Which granted, considering how I didn't replay the actual main game, is still dramatically longer than any other Platinum game I've played and only at post-game was I sick of it.
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@kkslider5552000 Some of these post game missions really felt like the devs going out of their way to squeeze as difficult a challenge from their limited pool of enemies
One particularly funny one to me had Jena Anderson, a ceiling homunculi and a protolegion literally right in front of you, already spawned, as you arrive, they don't give you a chance to breathe! Granted, it is satisfying to overcome them but some of them were way too long, so it took me up to a dozen retries to clear them. A nightmare
1) At least a third of the games I play next year should be either visual novels or independently developed games (A ton of cool-looking indies released in 2022, and I ignored them all in favor of my usual mix of first-party Nintendo titles and AA Japanese titles like Triangle Strategy and Monster Hunter Rise. Not that I regret my choices, but, next year, I'd like to give indies more of my time. Ditto with visual novels, which I often love to play, but which I also ignored pretty hard last year.)
2) Catch up with the Fatal Frame series (Simple enough. I'll have to emulate the second game, but I borrowed a copy of The Tormented from a friend, own Maiden of Black Water, and will be buying Mask of the Lunar Eclipse)
3) Play and finish more games than I buy (I think this will become a mainstay on my lists, as it helps to control the accumulation of the backlog)
4) Play and finish Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition (I've bounced off this game so many times over the years; time to finally sit down and just git er done)
5) Collect at least three platinum trophies in the Playstation ecosystem (Don't expect to be spending a TON of time playing my PS4 or Vita, but I do like trophy hunting, and I bought a few games on Black Friday, so this seems like a natural fit)
Finish DQXI. I don’t remember where I am or what I am doing but I would like to pick that back up.
Play more fighting games. I didn’t do much with SF5 or Soul Calibur this past gen so I would like to dig back into those.
Start beating 3DS games again. I’m only gonna get older so I need to start cleaning out my DS/3DS backlog since I can’t play those on a tv.
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Like a few here, only buy a game if I intend to play it right away - but also, if I intend to see it through.
I feel like I buy games on a whim a bit, and also get bored of them very quickly. It's a horrible waste of money.
Guess part of the problem is there is so much damn choice these days. GamePass, PS Plus, whatever else - it's so easy to turn a game off and turn to the plethora available at your fingertips now.
It's different from when I was a kid where if I bought a game, I'd save for ages for it and would be fully invested in it as getting another game to play would likely be a while off.
I kind of want to return to when getting a new game was a big deal. Getting a new game has lost its shine for me these days as I can buy whatever the hell I want. So the aim here is to be buying less, but investing in more.
New years resolutions are dumb but going along with what others have said. For consoles I'm generally pretty good at keeping a small backlog although I think for the Switch I'm a tad behind. The highest completion rate I had on any console was the Wii U but I also had less games on it. The Switch has my second lowest completion rate for a console (57%), ahead of the Wii (47%).....
.....but both pale in comparison to my PC backlog where one way or another I have more games than I do on every console I've ever owned and a completion rate that must be something like 5%. And TBH, I'm ok with my completion rate on PC being as low as it is. At this point I've made a point of not buying anything new on PC just because its cheap or on sale. I only buy stuff now if I intend to install it and play it then and there. But given how big the backlog is and given there's no real "death" of the platform for PC? I'm ok with not completing stuff there
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