Officially this is my New Years resolution. I resolved to attempt to play all my unfinished games in the year 2012. I left myself the possibility of carrying over to 2013 because, well let's face it, there were a lot of games, and past your 28th birthday life just has a way of forcing itself and pushing everything else out.
However, I would say this actually goes back to August 2011.
My wife and I had spent the summer in Chicago taking improv classes. However, I had to come back two weeks earlier than she did because I was going back to work. So I started making plans in my head of little projects that I would set myself, do my own thing, and straight away I thought of de Blob. My wife had given me something like 4 Wii games one Christmas a couple years prior and I had yet to finish any of those games. I had started de Blob, and I had enjoyed it, but I had put it off for some other game I bought, and which naturally I didn't finish either.
You see that was essentially my problem. I would get a shiny new game, start playing it, begin to love it, and then stop mid way for some other game.
I'd decided that when I got back from Chicago I would pick up de Blob and finish it. I'm starting to remember why I stopped: the levels on this game, on average, took about an hour to complete. It's a game where you paint a whole bunch of buildings and then there's stuff to collect here and there, and it was actually a bit demanding on the time investment side. So anyway, I popped it back in and finished it. It felt good.
Work, school, life wrenched control again, and things went back to normal.
In November 2011, I pulled The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess off my shelf and started playing it. I finished that one right around Christmas.
It was those two games that led me to where I am now.
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