The Plan For '11

I've most certainly been neglecting keeping this updated, partly because I've been grinding away at the gPotato free-to-play MMORPG Aika Online, and partly because I've been trying to decide what I'm going to do with this blog, exactly.

I've finally decided that at the turn of the new year, I'm going to start work on a year-long excursion to beat a game a week for the duration of 2011. That's a total of 52 games. Crazy, I know... but eh, it'll be fun. If I end up falling a bit behind, I'll try to catch up by completing more than one game in a single week; or I might even end up beating multiple games in a week. Regardless, my goal will be to complete at least fifty-two games next year. While I'm working toward this ridiculous goal, of course, I'll be posting here to chronicle my journey, and hopefully you all will join me for the ride.

If anyone has any suggestions of what games I ought to include in my ridiculous endeavor for 2011, PLEASE let me know! I'm rather indecisive, so I'll need all of the help I can get! Naturally, try to suggest games that I already own, can easily pick up or can emulate (NES, SNES, etc.) -- I have a library of all of the current games I own on my Raptr account, and I have a list of the games I'm planning on playing listed in my Game Completion Googledoc.

With that said, I probably won't be posting too much until 2011... but I promise that there will be a steady stream of delicious rant-y goodness from my odd self, and hopefully it will be just as amusing for you to read as it will be for me to write about.

Until next time, game on, brothas and sistahs.

Emulators

 On my way from a friend's 21st birthday party, I was taking in the awesomeness that is Autumn. The colors, the temperature... and then I realized something odd. Have you ever had moments of like, well... I guess it's sorta like deja vu, but not really. Certain types of weather and temperature seem to trigger times where I've played certain games in the past; Autumn, in particular, for some odd reason, gives me the odd craving to play one of the Harvest Moon games. During the summer, I yearn for a good romp through EarthBound, since I played through it so much during my summer breaks.

 I'm sure it's something deeply psychological, and not really something I'd like to think too hard about... I just think it's an occurrence that I've noticed -- certain moods, seasons, and weather effects the things we like to do, and... in my case, what video games I feel like playing.

 My thinking process is a snowball effect, of course, so I'm like "Mmm... Harvest Moon... 64...", and then I'm like "Wait, I don't have that cartridge any more...", which then leads to "Wow, I really need to stock up on emulators."

 And that leads us to what I'm really posting about, today, in my sleep-deprived state (I got rather drunk at the party and ended up with a second wind, being unable to fall asleep and playing through an entire game of Civilization V on my laptop). I really don't care for emulating and pirating games that are easily and readily available in retailers, but games that are excessively expensive and hard to find? Yeah. For sure.

 I've had emulators for the SNES and NES for a while, and although I have tons of "ROMs" for them both, I'm sure that I don't have EVERY game for them, I'd like to. Why not, right?

 So, as terribad as so many people think it may be... I'm wanting to mayhaps find decent emulators for various "classic" systems and amass a collection of the games which I know I'll probably ever have raw copies of. It'll certainly help me work toward that massive list of games to complete (which I still need to get around to posting up there, next to my wishlist... I'd do that now, but my body is dying for a nap... which will more than likely evolve into hibernation....) and discover others that I'd like to try out.

 Anyone have any suggestions, places for me to look for easy, massive rom downloads, or anything like that? I don't really know where to start -- what I have were actually given to me by a friend years and years ago.

... Oh! And while my mind is still on it, I've totally decided what I'm gonna do to make steady progress. I'm going to do a "fortune cookie" random-pick thing to choose which game I'm gonna work on each week. If I finish a game early, I'll just get a head start on the next week's game... although I certainly have a feeling it'll be much more likely that I'll end up falling behind. Regardless, I'm too fickle and indecisive to actually pull this thing off without a plan, so we'll see if it works!

... and now, off to bed with me. It's beckoning to me with the force of a thousand ... um... okay, I don't really know where I'm going with this. Shutting up and sleeping, now.

How 'bout a Plan?

 Alright, things seem to just be getting worse and worse. I keep starting up games in the middle of playing others, and I got a handful of new ones for my birthday, making it almost impossible to sit down and complete a single title. That's why I need some help.

 I'm wondering if there might be some plan or something I can enforce upon myself. Like, "complete a game per week", or "X amount of games per month"... I dunno, something like that. So far, I've pretty much done awfully. I keep starting a game, and then I start another, and another... I have so many games I'm playing now, I'd have lost track if I didn't keep a list of my active games on this blog. Yikes.

 I'm asking for advice. Does anyone have an idea for what would be reasonable, steady pace to complete games? I could really use your input! Thanks!