Upcoming Plans

Greetings, programs!  Sorry I've been away for so long, but Blogtober took more out of me than I anticipated.  Still, I've decided to take a brief break from my sabbatical to give a quick update on what you guys can expect to see here in the weeks to come.

To begin with, as I'm sure most of you are aware, the last couple months of the year are a busy time for pretty much everyone.  For starters, this Friday is my anniversary (five years and counting!), but that's just the beginning.  I have my second Thanksgiving in as many months, my birthday, Christmas and everything that goes into that, and the new year.

Add on to that the fact that my wife is changing jobs.  It's a better job, and thankfully she's moving from a shift-based schedule to a day job, Monday-to-Friday gig, which should add a lot of stability.  Still, a new job is stressful, and we're essentially changing our life around it, so the early days will involve a lot of getting used to things.

There's also just the fact that I'm lazy anyway.

But but but, this is actually all going somewhere positive, and I'll be getting to that presently.  I only bring it all up to explain why I won't have the kind of time I had in October.  And now we move on to the good news.

To me, the end of the year has pretty much always been about video games.  Not just because new games tend to come out then, but also because, as an only child with a lot of relatives that took Christmas pretty seriously, it usually meant receiving a host of them as gifts.  Also my birthday is exactly three weeks before Christmas, and I also got birthday presents.

I had a lot to do come New Year's.

However, as you may remember from the closing ceremonies of Blogtober, I've had a long history of not really finishing anything, and it might be video games that suffer the most from that.  To my own credit, though, the last couple of years have seen a serious upswing in the number of games that I actually finish.  And I have to say, this year I outdid myself.  I'm not saying I'm ripping through them left and right.  But, according to my records, I've finished an average of one game a month this year, which is extremely good for me.

But why is that important?  Well, because this is the subject of the next wave of reviews on the site.  For the next several weeks, all the way to the end of the year and possibly past it, I'm going to be rolling out reviews of every game I finished this year.  I'm pretty excited about it, but first let me go over the ground rules.

First, no mobile games or MMOs.  Not because I have anything against either type of game, just because they usually can't really be "finished."

Second, these aren't games that came out in 2017 and I beat them (though one and two fit that description).  No, this is any game that I beat for the first time in 2017.  Anything is fair game (as long as it's not discounted by point one.)

And third, when I say "finished" or "beaten," I don't mean "completed 100%."  I'm not a completionist by any stretch.  Instead the definition is a bit more vague.  Usually it just means I made it to the end credits, though I understand that there are certain games that aren't "finished" when you see the credits.  Basically, it's once the story is over.

I haven't decided on a set schedule or order yet (or a name for the "event"), but I'd like to get out two or three reviews a week, and they'll probably be vaguely in the order I finished them in.  Either way, it should be a lot of fun.

And there you go!  That's what you have to expect from me in the weeks to come.  I'm treating it as kind of a celebration of the fact that I'm slowly becoming a person that finishes things.  It's a relatively new aspect of my personality, one that I'm desperately trying to convince myself is positive.

Anyway, I'm gonna head back to kicking my feet up while I still can.  You can expect the first of the reviews to be up early next week.  Hopefully I'll have thought of a name by then.

Until next time!

Current interests:
Listening - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (David Bowie, 1972)
Playing - Flinthook (2017)
Reading - Fist of the Blue Sky (2001)
Watching - Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)