New Year Resolutions
So the New Year is upon us and in many parts of the world 2010 has already been ushered in, but to all I wish a Happy New Year! For me, this has been a fun an interesting year particularly in gaming. Many new games were played and many old favorites found themselves to the table. But for the past few years I bought games at an alarming rate where it felt like for every three games I bought I managed to get one to the table before I bought my next three, but this past year I have started to really focus my tastes and start to ask myself “What do I really want from gaming?” And to that question I developed a lot of different answers but through those answers, I realized that about 50% of my collection really needed to go. That was my resolution for ‘09 - To trim down and focus my collection, which for the most part was a success, though I didn’t hit my 50% goal. An amendment to that resolution was to not buy so much, which again has succeeded where a few years ago there’d be two or three “must-have” titles but this year it seems like a “must-have” title for me only came around about once a month.
So again this year I’m looking at doing much of the same - Ship out more games than I bring in. The bringing in part shouldn’t be a problem because my answers to “What do I want from gaming?” really helped in focusing and limiting my purchases. The problem is I know there’ll be games next year that are “must-buys” and the games to ship out are getting fewer and fewer. But this is my problem to deal with (and really not that much of a problem) but this has always been the time of the year to set some goals and I plan on following suit. So if I were to sum it up in one phrase, the 2010 mantra for me is to: Play more of what I own and buy only the games I know will be played.
‘Til Next Time - Happy Gaming
And a Happy New Year
LvT
