This year I decided that it might be fun to track how many level ups I would get in a year. The more i thought about it, the more I thought I could track other gaming statistics, such as, how many hours or did I complete the game. I told my buddy Keef about it who had a large back log and was looking for a way to make some real progress into taking it down. So I made this list and a spreadsheet to track all my data. I am not going to keep this platform specific and I will post only games I am currently playing or finished this year. I am also counting games I finished multiple times under games beaten this year.
Each game listed will have some comments, impressions, mini reviews or other notes to let the reader know was going on with regard to the game posted. I was trying to come up with silly ways to score the games after I completed them. I decided to score based on what I think you should do if you are reading this.
The scores are going to be broken down as follows:
Buy it: This is worth full retail price, if its on PC i am getting it on a steam deal so keep that in mind Rent it: Not the best, but worth playing. Rent it or buy it for cheap on Steam if possible. Skip it: Some games aren't worth your time or mine. Some games I will quit playing not because of dislike but mainly because something else caught my eye. If its unfinished, don't take that as a slight. I am easily distracted.
As of 12/31/2013
Games Finished: 23
Games Quit: 1
Total Number of Level Ups: 516
Total Number of Hours spent this year: 605
1/1/2014 Update:
What a great year of games. I didn't get to finish as many as I would have liked. AC4 was a lot longer than I had anticipated. I suppose I will have a lot of half finished games to finish in the next month or so. Thanks Phil Kollar for giving me the inspiration to make a game journal. I think I am going to do this every year.
Happy New Year Everyone
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Finished: 12/31/2013 (for breakfast). Food of the year. It wins every year. No surprise. Looking forward to what bacon offers in 2014.
Finished 12/17/2013. BUY IT(FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD)! I just wrapped this up and I was in love with the game start to finish. I have not played a Zelda game since LTTP that kept me this enthralled. I could not put it down. Its a pretty short game, but I feel like replaying it all over again. I got all of the hidden goodies save a couple pieces of the last container heart. I can go back and get that eventually but getting 19/20 hearts and 100% of everything else is a solid save in my opinion. This might be one of my favorite games of the year. Along with Diablo 3 (PS3), Ni No Kuni, Last of Us, Sleeping Dogs (did that come out this year?) and Guacamelee. Nintendo brought it with this one.
Currently Playing PS4 Really fun racer. I have a few issues with it like the lack of the pause feature if you are playing single player but in large its pretty good.
Currently playing PS4 1st impression: This game is a lot better looking than what I thought a Lego game could look like. I might actually like this game as much as the Lego Star Wars games.
Currently Playing PS4 I have only got to the first town. Been putting this off for my Christmas vacation. 12/31/2014 Half way thought the game according to the % tracker. Its a lot longer than I had anticipated. Still Had a lot of fun so far. Should be finishing it up with in the next week or so.
Finished 11/30/2013 Buy it! (PS+ its free). You don't really finish this game because of the high score chase. But I finished all the levels in arcade mode. Going to be playing more.
Finished 11/27/2013 Single player Rent it. This game is old school learn by failing. Decent story, great graphics, very fps by the numbers. Not bad but not good either. Online to be determined. So far its fail because of lack of group chat in an online shooter that has objectives. How was this left out?
Added to Backlog This game looks great on my PC. I really need to sink my teeth into this. I am only a hour in but my PS4 is coming soon I don't know when I will get to it. This might get pushed to 2014
This game is a chore. I am starting to notice I don't much care for these Mario themed games as much as I used to. I am ready for this game to be over.
Currently Playing: I am 60+ hours in and still enjoying the game. I have to put this down often as I think I wouldn't enjoy powering through it as much. Picked it up again on 12/19/2014. Maybe I will finish this before the new year.