Gaming apocalypse

Day 406

Every time I get two days off, I plop down on the couch and stare vacantly into my TV screen in preparation for what will surely be two days full of fun and productivity--and then proceed to get absolutely nothing done on what is technically the first night of my time off. I think this is a poor idea on my part and I should probably try to get out of that habit. I'm closing in on what I can only assume is the latter stages of Persona 2: Innocent Sin and I should really try to get that finished during my time off. I still have a lot of games left in my backlog and I'd still like to make a concerted effort to hit the 30 mark for games completed this year. After Innocent Sin is done, I'll only have four games left to go.

If I continue to adhere to my plans, the next two games I play will be Monkey Island 2 and Torchlight 2, both games from my Steam backlog. I'm also playing Lufia II at work. None of these games should take a very long time to finish, but that still leaves one more game to complete. If I really buckled down, I could finish Lufia II in a couple of evenings, but I'm not currently at the stage where I'd need to do that. If at any point I only need one more game to hit 30, I'll blow through the rest of Lufia II. I have plenty of other games I could potentially play at work.

Technically, the shortest game in my backlog would be Mega Man 9, which I own for Xbox Live Arcade. I haven't hooked up my Xbox 360 for well over half a year. The last game I played was Lost Odyssey and even then only briefly. I listened the game on my backlog for quite some time, but after trying to play through it again, I realized I didn't have much interest in finishing it. It seems like quite the hassle to dig out that console just to play Mega Man 9. I wish it were available in other ways aside from the PlayStation Network and WiiWare. I don't have any of those consoles hooked up right now! I will of course need to hook them both up at various points to play games from my backlog--although I may well purchase a Wii U before it's necessary to drag out the Wii.

I wouldn't be entirely opposed to purchasing both Mega Man 9 and Mega Man 10 for WiiWare or on the PlayStation Network because I enjoy the classic series a lot. Honestly, the only reason I never finished MM9 in the first place was because it's so hard! I'ts definitely a game I could finish with some dedication and practice, though. If I can get through Dissidia 012, I can get through anything. That's not really a fair comparison, but I'm going to go with that story anyway. The point is that MM9 is only short in theory. I'm sure it would still take me quite some time to get through it.

I've been thinking a lot lately about games I'd like to play outside of the games in my backlog--and it's certainly a valid concern with games like Super Smash Bros coming out soon. So far, I've only bypassed the rules of my Backlog Eradication Marathon to play cooperative games--specifically Borderlands 2 and Divinity: Original Sin. I enjoyed both games a lot, but they're not the only newer games I've really had an interest to play. I'd love to play Persona 4: Arena, for instance, and the as of yet unreleased Persona Q looks like it's going to be right up my alley. There are a number of other games that have come out semi-recently that I'd love to try as well, such as Xenoblade Chronicles and Disgaea D2. I think I might work on compiling a wishlist so I don't forget about these games. As if I would ever run out of games to play. . .