1 year 50 games

I like video games a lot. Strangely, I don't play a lot of video games, at least not to completion. I tend to buy them and they collect dust on my shelf or steam account, and if they're lucky I'll slog through the opening levels. According to my backloggery account, I have over 430 unfinished games. I get handfuls every year and I maybe finish only about a half dozen, or so it feels like. Some of this is due to other hobbies getting in the way, and some of it has to do with me just preferring to spend my time moping. This is also between a ~20 hours a week job and 6 to 15 credit hours of class (over the last 6 years, going to be 6 to 9 hours from now on). Mind you, that isn't the worst of responsibilities, but it floats in and out of the range of a normal adult's 40 hour work week (did you know for every hour of lecture you're supposed to be doing an hour or two of home study! Tell your kids that!).

Seeing another person start an attempt to read through 50 books over the year gave me the idea for this. My time would probably be better spent on the books but fuck you I have all these fucking games I'm gonna play them. On paper, this works out to be about 1 game a week, over the course of about 50 weeks, given I'm starting a bit late and not like the year ends on a flat week. Games, however, are a bit longer. A poll on good reads of ~1800 people says most people can finish 300 pages in less than 10 hours, with a third being between 3 and 6.

On Paper

Most Games are 10-20 Hour Long

I say anecdotally. Specifically, that's the goal zone for a lot of modern AAA games in terms of length. I'd wager to guess a lot of my collection will fall into that range. Which is good! That means about an hour and a half to three hours of games a day will wrap me up about a game a week. I can do that pretty easily!

Some Games are Shorter

Many early era games are not 10 hour experiences. I could easily play Super Metroid for 20 hours, but in practice I know I'll finish it in about 5 depending on how much attention I'm paying. Mega Man games, if I'm playing well, are a few hours. (I have passing interest in learning the speedrun to MMX actually!). A lot of modern games are bite-sized experiences as well, such as the critically acclaimed Brothers. This games will be super beneficial to this process, because...

Some Games are Way Longer

JRPGs are well known for their long ass play times. Very rarely do they clock in under 20, and when they do, its because they're oldies like FF4. Games like that, from a more modern era, can easily clock in to over 100 hours! My Persona 4 file, little less than half way through the game, is likely around 40 hours. My Pokemon Y file, at 6 of 8 badges plus end game and post game is at 26 hours. I cannot, as hard as I'll try, finish games like this in under a week. Because of this, specifically long games, unless its something I really want to play like Bravely Default, will be back burner games. If I finish a game of the week early, or am some how ahead of schedule, I can start picking at one of these in the time being.

The base goal is to get an hour and a half of games played a day, and a minimum of 10 hours a week. Hopefully by then, that'll end within a shot of my goal of fifty games. My backloggery account fluctuates in and out of accuracy, but I'll be trying to keep more detail stats here, and a log of my playing here.