My 2018 Resolutions:
Update my collection on here: This took about a week, but i successfully recataloged my entire collection, taking into account a year's worth of games I sold and also some that I acquired. I still find a straggler here and there that either should have been removed or added, but in all 99.99% of my collection is up to date in the VGcollect DB.
Participate in the 52 games challenge: I not only participated in this challenge, but I completed it, and then some! My intention was just to try it out, but I ended up getting carried away and played way more games this year than I had originally intended. Sadly next year I will not be participating in this challenge at all until I renew my tech certs which expire the end of May next year; this will be my goal and priority over all else this next year.
Work on downsizing my collection: I decided to scrap this goal since I felt like my collection could no longer shrink without me regretting selling anything else left in my collection. I've definitely added to my collection if anything.
Replay my old top 10 games list: I not only replayed the games in my old top 10 list, but also replayed many other games that I felt had a fair shot at entering my top 10 games. Some did, many didn't, but i'm happy that within one year I replayed all these amazing games that I've considered the best I've ever played.
Build my import collection: I certainly did build my collection of imports, but sadly I probably didn't even add 10 new import games this year. I rarely come across these for obvious reasons, and what I do acquire is usually because of birthday or xmas presents from my GF since she knows I love them. But regardless I did add some import games and hopefully with Xmas right around the corner I'll add even more to my collection. Hell, maybe I'll break 10 before the year is over :p
In summary I was very successful in completing my 2018 video game resolutions. Now it's time for my video game related resolutions for next year:
2019 Video Game Resolutions:
Reach 2000 games in my collection: I came extremely close (1990 to be exact) to reaching this before I had to start downsizing my collection in 2017, and with me being only 32 games away from that goal I am very confident I'll finally reach this milestone.
Obtain an NES console and reach 30 NES games in my collection: Despite having a few NES games left from my original collection of about 50, I sold almost all my NES games, and also sold my top loader that I scored on ebay close to a decade ago. This year I'd like to find a decent chunk of these games again and rebuy them as well as get another NES console to play them on. I figured 30 is a reasonable number since most of the games I want for the NES are the cheaper, more common titles.
Add at least 10 new games respectively to my Gamecube, Genesis and SNES collections: Not as bad as the NES, but these collections took a beating as well in terms of me selling off a fairly large chunk of them. I figure buying at least 10 new games for each of them would sufficiently put me on the right path towards rebuilding these collection, and at least in the case of the Gamecube would pretty much rebuy all the games I wish I didn't have to sell. I imagine this will be the hardest goal to complete since it involves retro games and they aren't exactly the most abundant or reasonably priced games out there. But we'll see what happens and hopefully I'll be able to meet this one in a year.
So there they are, my 2019 gaming resolutions! Notice how they all involve collecting and not playing games. I will certainly be playing games this next year, however since buying a game takes way less time and effort than playing through one these goals seem acceptable in light of me needing to buckle down and maintain my technical certs. I imagine that until I renew these certs I doubt I'll beat more than half a dozen games and certainly none of them will be RPGs, adventure games, or really any game that would take me more than a few hours to play through and beat. Once I get my certification I plan on starting to play games again and there are a few I have in mind that I definitely want to play, including Shenmue III which comes out next Fall (supposedly).
