Every New Years, millions of people make promises to themselves that they can never keep. They visualize themselves in the future, being all that they can be, ambitiously better than what they are now. “This year is the year!” they tell themselves.
Of course, that almost never happens. Ambitiously, they’re on that treadmill everyday, and each day, that enthusiasm becomes less and less until they give up, hopes shattered, and fall back into their old ways. It becomes a blow to their confidence. “I guess I really do suck…”
That’s the way I am too. Over the past year, I’ve learned many things, and now apply it to today. New Years resolutions seldom work. The problem is right in front of you – making resolutions. Don’t bother.
Does that mean you shouldn’t improve yourself? Make yourself better? Of course you should! But how you do it is important.
When you set a resolution, it might as well be wishful thinking. “I’m gonna be a kinder, more understanding person.” or “I’m going to lose all this weight!”. It’s vague, unmeasurable, and has no time frame. It’s trying to navigate in a storm, not knowing where your destination is, and that destination is always moving.
Myself, I’ve come up with some things to help me make these “resolutions” actually work.
1. Gain knowledge. Saying that you’re going to become a kick-ass artist is not realistic, especially if you aren’t an artist to begin with. But to be realistic, you have to first understand what it is you’re trying to achieve.
To do that, you have to do your research – find out what it takes to be an artist – what sort of courses you may have to take, how long those courses will run for, or if you’re learning on your own, find out what materials you would need to learn from.
2. Set a goal. Now that you know what you are trying to do, you need to set a goal. Setting a goal is easy. Setting a realistic goal is hard. But if you already have the knowledge, then setting a realistic goal becomes a lot easier. If say it takes 5 years to be a kick-ass artist, then you know realistically, that by the end of your first year, you’ll be a “decent artist”.
3. Make a schedule. Saying that you’re going to be a “decent artist” by the end of the year is still too hard to see realistically. Since you’ve already gained the knowledge of what you can expect and need to do, it will be a lot easier to create a working schedule of mini-milestones to achieve. By the end of your first month, you’ll know how to sketch, by the end of the second month, you’ll know how to shade, by the end of the fifth month, you’ll know basic anatomy, etc. etc. All of these elements are what help you achieve your overall goal.
4. Pace yourself. It’s one thing to follow a schedule. It’s a completely different thing to bash yourself over and over again if you don’t meet your schedule. It’s all part of learning. The schedule is your guideline – your initial forecast of your performance. It’s by no means a time limit, or your boss. In the first few months, you’ll learn more about yourself and what you’re capable of. You may find you’re going slower than you expected, but that’s no reason to “catch up”. You re-adjust your schedule to your newly discovered pace. And maybe sometimes you’ll find yourself performing better than you expected. This is dangerous too – as you could end up slacking.
5. Don’t break the chain! Have a consistent pattern that you can easily stick to and dedicate time to achieving your goal, and don’t ever miss it. If you plan to draw every day, draw every day. Buy a large calendar and put it on your wall. Put a mark on it for every day that you did your task. (a horizontal line from one edge to the other is usually best). Every time you break that chain, you’ll notice a gap in your calendar, and you’ll hate it. You’ll do everything that you can to make sure that gap doesn’t happen, and at the end of each month, you’ll be proud of yourself for not breaking that chain.
6. No Resolutions. Resolutions are a hoax. If you’ve made it this far, you’ll know. Setting realistic goals and executing a plan is what you should be doing. In addition, you don’t have to specifically wait until New Years to do this. You can do this anytime throughout the year. In fact, it’s recommended. A lot happens in a year, and if you wait until the New Years to plan for it, it may be too late.
So what are my plans this year? I haven’t thought it through enough yet. Generally, I want to improve my art skills – that’s a constant. I want to figure out a more workable gaming schedule, and rethink my figure buying criteria – all of which I can gauge using my tracking spreadsheets, and yes, I do want to get fit.
What I haven’t figured out yet is – what I will be doing to improve my art, how I will tackle my game schedule, and how I will rethink my criteria, and also what realistic activities can I do to get fit without me dropping it all in a month.
Let’s take one of my “resolutions” as an example case study.
What is a more workable game schedule? For me, it would be something along the lines of “smaller backlog with no pressure to complete the backlog, with some room to make purchases. Maintain average 30hrs per month. Better quality of gaming.”
So, one of the first things I need to do is gather information. This is my tracking for the year 2010 gaming. (to learn how I do this, see last year’s post)
The chart on the left shows my backlog hours, and the chart on the right shows my monthly gaming trend over the one year timeframe.
In the left chart, the blue line shows the number of estimated hours I have in my game library to whittle down. The pink line shows the number of hours I’ve actually logged. You’ll notice that it doesn’t start from zero, because all this is carried over from last year.
I started with 876.5hrs left in January – if I didn’t buy any more games, that would require 73 hours per month of gaming to turn that to zero. From last year’s chart, I figure I average about 30hrs per month tops, so realistically, I would only be able to bring that down to 516hrs by the end of the year. Looking at the December mark – 725hrs, I obviously didn’t achieve that.
From April to June, I bought A LOT of games, that’s why the blue line started going up. And as you can tell from the pink line, I was not increasing my gaming hours all that much. It looked pretty constant throughout the year.
In February/March, the lines cross. This is a good sign – it means I’m putting in more hours than buying games. Should those lines cross again, that would be serious trouble. You can see it almost does in June.
In July, the blue line drops sharply – this was when I decided to cut out a bunch of games and either vow to never play them again, or sell them. From that point on, the backlog starts to flat line a bit. This shows that I was buying games as fast as I was completing them – something that I deliberately kept in check. I adopted a FIFO rule (First In First Out. An accounting/inventory management term).
I discovered that the FIFO rule allowed me to enjoy my games more, instead of throwing them into the pile with a priority somewhere. It also made me buy less games, because if I wanted to play a game in my backlog more than the game I bought, then I shouldn’t be buying it at all. At that point, only the games I really wanted to play were being bought, and were being played right away.
You’ll notice that my gaming trend was quite a roller-coaster. Since July onward, my hrs/mo spiked. But you’ll notice the backlog curve was flat lined. That’s a lot of games bought, and a lot of gaming! In November/December, it went back down. That’s because I was in Singapore. You’ll notice that during these two months, my blog posting was also sporadic in quality.
With this info, I can figure out my monthly average, and based on the events of last year, is that monthly average realistic. Should I be gaming less? Or should I allow myself more? What sort of things can I do to maintain it so I don’t have a roller coaster? (if that’s what I want) What sort of expectations should I have about my gaming patterns based on my current lifestyle and priorities? What sort of lifestyle changes will I be planning for in this coming year, and how will it affect my gaming patterns?
With these charts and stats, I can answer all of these questions and create a plan for myself, set expectations, and achieve goals.
In addition to that, these gaming patterns can also be used to analyze my other thought patterns. For example, I know that if I get stressed out, I “escape” by playing video games. I know that if I get REALLY busy, games become lower priority. With this, I can think back about what these event triggers were, and what I can do to stabilize them or minimize them.
The spike in October? Countless nights playing Valkyria Chronicles 2 in bed.
Now, what games did I complete in 2010? Of all these games I completed, the ones that I absolutely loved are highlighted. (you can click on each game)
- [amazon_link id=”B001HB7K6I” target=”_blank” ]Muramasa [/amazon_link](27.5hrs)
- [amazon_link id=”B00269DX5W” target=”_blank” ]Assassin’s Creed II[/amazon_link] (26hrs)
- [amazon_link id=”B001YHX4B0″ target=”_blank” ]Bayonetta[/amazon_link](15.5hrs)
- [amazon_link id=”B001TOQ8UW” target=”_blank” ]Zelda Spirit Tracks[/amazon_link] (20hrs)
- [amazon_link id=”B002CZ3SLO” target=”_blank” ]Silent Hill Shattered Memories[/amazon_link] (10hrs)
- [amazon_link id=”B000F5IH2I” target=”_blank” ]Final Fantasy XII[/amazon_link] (73hrs)
- [amazon_link id=”B000TP2UWC” target=”_blank” ]Touch Detective 2[/amazon_link] (8.5hrs)
- [amazon_link id=”B002BS4834″ target=”_blank” ]Ace Attorney Miles Edgeworth[/amazon_link] (10hrs)
- [amazon_link id=”B002BRYHY0″ target=”_blank” ]Resonance of Fate[/amazon_link] (73.5hrs)
- [amazon_link id=”B000W7X8WI” target=”_blank” ]Professor Layton and the Curious Village[/amazon_link] (12hrs)
- Fragile Dreams (16.5hrs)
- [amazon_link id=”B00354NAMS” target=”_blank” ]Alan Wake[/amazon_link] (12hrs)
- Flower (2hrs)
- [amazon_link id=”B002CZ38KA” target=”_blank” ]Heavy Rain[/amazon_link] (12hrs)
- [amazon_link id=”B002DC8GW2″ target=”_blank” ]Sakura Wars V[/amazon_link] (26hrs)
- [amazon_link id=”B003Q9RG9K” target=”_blank” ]Valkyria Chronicles 2[/amazon_link] (67hrs)
- [amazon_link id=”B001QTW2HS” target=”_blank” ]Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor[/amazon_link] (25hrs)
- [amazon_link id=”B003VR5PPY” target=”_blank” ]999 : Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors[/amazon_link] (15hrs)
I would especially recommend 999 if you’re into mystery visual novels with an incredible twist.
Now, with this info, I can gauge what kinds of games I will be buying in the coming year that match the same kinds of games I liked, and what games I will most likely avoid or set at a lower priority.
In addition, I’ve also kept track of prices of games by going to the store sometimes. I’ve found games going at discount prices that I bought day-1 at full price and are still in my backlog, collecting dust. I’ve also noticed that some games that I wanted to get but didn’t due to price, I no longer want.
Now, if you’re thinking about making a resolution similar to mine, but don’t have all that info, that’s okay. It can be generated. While not as accurate as mine, it doesn’t need to be:
Just pull out all the games that you completed this year, and write down the estimated number of hours it took for you to complete each game (or if the game has an in-game timer, use that info). Simply average the total hours into 12 months and you’ll have your gaming average.
Spread your games in a horizontal line on the floor in the order they were completed, and now with each game, push them vertically if you recall spending a lot of concentrated blocks of time on it. The larger the block you think, the higher up you push it. You’ll end up with a graph-like placement. This is your gaming pattern.
Now, put a sticky note on each game that you truly enjoyed. This is is your future purchase guideline. (chances are, the concentrated blocks also happen to be your favorite games).
So from all my information, I’m able to set some realistic achievements here:
- Continue using FIFO rule.
- Concentrate on improving my backlog hours rather than getting new games.
- Start a wishlist of games that meet the highlighted criteria. Do not buy these games until they are on huge discount, or I am in between games, or will become hard to obtain later.
- Maintain average of 30hrs/mo. I’ve found this to be realistic for my lifestyle.
- Improve gaming quality by cutting out backlog games that don’t meet the enjoyment level of the highlighted games.
- Cut the backlog down to 230hrs, with the rest being shelved.
- Take currently cut games, sell/trade-in some of them. Box the rest somewhere in storage – out of sight, out of mind.
- If a game feels sucky, drop it and cut losses. Immediately trade-in or drop in storage.
Goal: Achieve 0hrs backlog by Dec 31 2011. 30hrs/mo of quality enjoyment gaming.
Do all goals have to have all these charts and everything?
No.
The important thing is being aware of your goals, and being aware of past history to pave the way to proper planning.
Say for example “I want to be happier this year.” you could look at the past and figure out when you were happiest, and try to maximize the opportunity for those situations to occur. Or if something makes you sad, minimize those situations. Sometimes it can be the people that make you happy or sad. Keep the people that make you happy close to you, and get rid of the people that make you sad. This could require things like changing your lifestyle, or your job, or getting a divorce!
Whatever the case may be, by simply being aware of yourself and your surroundings, you’ll be able to set more realistic goals.
Follow those 6 steps (you’ll notice that all 6 steps involve being aware), and you’re on your way to fulfilling yourNew Year’s Resolutions.
So what’s your new years resolution? Post a comment here, and I’ll randomly giveaway some sweet swag to the best ones!
Read more!
A very valid point regarding New Year’s resolutions. While it’s good to have them (you should always have ambition and a sense of where you want to go/do in life), they should remain realistic and attainable.
As an imouto fan, my New Year’s Resolution for 2011 is to play the top 10 imouto-ge routes according to ErogameScape. I started this a couple of months ago and I’ve cleared 3 of the 10 already and working on a fourth. A reasonable goal and one that I will enjoy doing.
lol Micchi. 🙂
What other goals do you have for the year?
I guess actually write those reviews I said I was going to? XD
But ya, as some other people have mentioned, you don’t need to wait for the beginning of a new year to make goals (whether they be short or long term). I’m sure I’ll think of something later on in the year ^^
Any sort of “self improvement” type goals?
Over the past year, this has quickly become my favorite blog probably. True advices, now I might actually NEED a calender just so I can look back on it and see the blank days that I don’t draw and feel crappy about it.
(That and I need to seriously cut down my game hours if my game hours this year is actually more than yours.)
thanks! I’m happy that my advice has been helpful to you!
It’s one thing to look back at something and feel bad. It’s another thing to take that emotion and learn to never let it happen again. 🙂
I think that my gaming hours are fairly low compared to the typical gamer, so it’s not really hard to beat. I feel comfortable with this average, so I probably won’t change it.
I don’t make New Year’s resolutions either, all of my goals are set throughout the year and that has been working fine for me so far. When I started blogging, for example, my goals were to reach 50 visitors per day, have my blogging be self-succifient (make enough money to pay for hosting), and find other like-minded people. Several months later I achieved all of those goals, but I’m still blogging just to see how far I get.
I’m amazed you have so much time on your hands for gaming. From October to December I didn’t have a chance to play a single game.
I think that it’s good to “re-align” yourself every 6 months or so, to see how your long-term goals are doing. That’s why my “resolutions” usually involve things that I’m already doing.
Sometimes, new things get introduced into the mix, and the new year is a good psychological boost to get you started.
I think everyone’s gaming hours are different. Some people play more games because they like it more than say, watching anime. It’s all relative, really.
Woa…i do make resolutions, just for the sake of it, even thought you right that most of the time its not realistic. but sometimes it helps remind you what you wanted to achieve…well it also depends on motivation in which i lack a LOT.
and Dam…the only game i touched was….Tekken 6 lol. its funny you see an decreasing hours then suddenly a burst of increasing amount of hours then back to nothing lol im guessing the trip to singapore decreased your gaming hours quite a bit right?
I hope my blog post will be of help to you. Stop making the resolutions, and start making plans with goals. The motivation will come easier when you see it as achievable.
Perhaps you’re not as fond of gaming as I am, which is fine. 🙂 I just happen to like playing games for entertainment. I mean, I watched like, two movies this year. One’s Avatar, and the other I can’t even remember anymore. I watched one anime series this year I think. (I keep saying “this year” when it’s really “last year” lol).
I agree with you about resolutions. It’s not necessary to wait until a new year to make goals, and in most cases that’s not the ideal way to make goals anyway. A lot of people also use resolutions as an excuse to put things off – if every goal is given a whole year to accomplish regardless of whether it could be achieved in a shorter time period, it becomes an easy excuse for procrastination, and it also becomes an excuse not to make goals throughout the year. “Oh, it’s too late. I’ll make that a resolution for next year.”
I think phrasing your goals is really important as well. Regardless of the impetus for the goal, a goal should sound positive and desirable. A good example of that: where some people would say “I need to play less games/limit my gaming”, you’ve set a time goal for “quality enjoyment gaming”. The former sounds like a bad thing, which could make it hard to stick to. After all, why would you want to achieve something that sounds bad? But quality enjoyment, sounds great, and would do even if you were being more strict with the hours. It emphasises the maximisation of quality, not the minimisation of time, and that subtle difference can really help motivation.
I never thought of the procrastination angle. Probably because I don’t procrastinate to set goals… Does that really happen? But I think I see what you mean with stretching out a task, and using that as an excuse. If you read my Optimizing Myself post, I talk about compressing time to accomplish more.
Oh you raise an interesting point about phrasing! I never thought of that! No wonder I feel good about my goal! 😀
You’re so right, the positive phrasing not only makes it more motivational, and enjoyable, it also makes it achievable. I’ll keep that in mind for my other goal phrases. 🙂
This is yet another great post!
I’ve also realized how resolutions are often broken and I feel like I’ve heard/read similar sentiments probably in TV or magazines before but this is better since you’ve given yourself as an example, although I don’t think I’d be as hardcore as you to make a chart and excel sheet for games. o.o;
I do have some similar goals as you do with regards to figure purchases. Especially with myself because looking back at my purchases last year (and yes, I do have an excel sheet for that). I’ve spent so much on figures that I don’t think I’ve saved money at all. So I’ve really tried my best to avoid pre-ordering items and cancel on items that are somehow on impulse. I kind of regret that I was not able to cancel on my BRS LE BD+DVD set because what I really wanted was just the artbook. So like you, I am searching for a way on how to cut down on my purchases. Although my current therapy is just to gush about the figures I want and then stop there. Haha.
I think procrastination is a huge waterloo for a lot of us. I myself have that as a waterloo… and I think I usually get to number 4 and 5 of your list and that’s the hardest part to maintain!
I made a long list of goals that hopefully I’ll be able to do!
– To blog in TanTango at least twice a month
– To be able to review a figure at least once every two months
– To be able to write at least a simple cohesive paragraph again in Japanese by March.
– To be able to save at least 500PHP a week
– To be able to have a good discernment on what to buy for my collection a.k.a. requirements
– To be able to read and finish at least one book a month
– To be able to watch a movie at least once a month
– To be able to finish a game OTL
I still have not thought of any goals for work though. LOL. Most of these are hobby-related. Haha.
Good luck to all of us and let us survive this new year! XDD
Thanks for posting your thoughts, and your goals. Hope you’ll be successful in making it happen, especially the blog posts! 😀
I made a resolution to not be bogged down by resolutions. 😉
lol… deep… 🙂
Happy new year! Sorry I haven’t commented on more of your posts! 🙁
Your points in making new years resolutions, or any promise to yourself is very valid. I think your point of pacing yourself really works for me. I find that I get more things done when I don’t stress myself out about it.
There were actually studies done that claim when you keep your personal goals private rather than make them public, you will be more likely to complete the task. The reason being that when your friends and family acknowledge your intentions, that acknowledgment satisfies the brain and it has become a ‘social reality’ even when you haven’t done anything at all. Causing you to have less motivation to complete the task. Of course it doesn’t happen to everyone, as a lot of people like the pressure and turns it into an obligation to deliver on the announced goal.
My new years resolution would be to spend less time on facebook gaming and more time on facebook stalking. Also to improve my art even more, but I don’t think it is really a resolution when I’m constantly striving for it new years or not. 🙂
Hey dude, happy new year! I haven’t seen you here in a LONG time! What’s been up?!
Cool to hear that my little advice is sound to you… now to practice what I preach lol!
I had my suspicions about keeping my goals private and all that, and was on the fence whether telling people would prevent you from meeting your goals, or pressure you to meet them. I guess it’s really all personal taste, since statistics like these only shows majority preferences rather than objective effectiveness.
The whole social media thing has got me thinking too – we spend so much time on facebook that it becomes an excuse not to meet up. I had a conversation with one of my wife’s colleagues whom I haven’t seen in a while, and catching up with him is far different than on facebook. He raised a good point “how are you doing?” on facebook elicits a quick one sentence response, while meeting for a coffee face to face brings out much richer details.
I did something slightly similar for last year, not near as detailed as you though but that doesn’t really matter to me. After all to me it is important not how much I play a game but how many games I play.
Last year, I kept a list of the games I finished each month. I finished 27 games last year, a someone of a high number I suppose. Still, I feel that it was not high enough when taking into consideration the ridiculous high number of games I buy.
Exactly because of that I changed my purchasing habits, for the most part unless it is a game that I been specifically waiting for or wish to support the developer I stopped buying games on release day. Now I wait patiently for a price drop or sale.
As for my resolutions, I simply think resolutions are silly. Goals on the other hand with a clear end are more my cup of tea. I made my list of goals to fulfill, but they are not year long goals. They are quarterly long goals at best, in 3 months, heck even in one month I will easily see if I failed in keeping them or not.
– Practice Object Oriented Programming
– Develop a simple shmup using XNA
– Learn SQL Basics
– Play the piano daily
– Apply to 10 jobs daily
I like these goals, every day I can easily tell if I working towards them or not, they are also broad enough that I can have flexibility in how I go about to fulfill them and set more specific short term goals.
Hmm… I think this might just be my longest comment ever.
P.S.
Forgot to mention it last time I posted a comment. Thanks for sending me that link to the Santa Miku picture, much appreciated.
It’s all a personal preference/style/taste for sure. Good on you for beating 27 games last year! I think I did *roughly* that much last year. This year I seemed to have played a few more lengthier games which lowered the count.
Checking up on your goals quarterly is a very good idea! I think I’ll adopt that strategy as well!
Glad you liked the Xmas Miku! :3
Some of my friends put a lot of effort into making New Year resolutions. I know that one of them has a poster pasted on the wall in front of her desk so that she will be reminded of them whenever she sits down to work. As for me, a method like that would be a bit of an overkill and be stress inducing instead of motivating.
I’m the type of person who tends to go with the flow on matters, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have goals. Some of my aims for the year include:
– To work towards overcoming my shyness and become better at public speaking since I am required to present seminars for my postgraduate year.
– To not succumb to procrastination and laziness. (Sigh)
– And in general, to get through the year without any mishaps.
I do hope I have time outside my studies to finally get my website fully up and running.
Everyone has their own ways of maintaining their resolutions and goals for sure. It’s what you feel most comfortable with. Though a little bit of a push usually goes a long way too!
Procrastination is a big problem for me too. I’m still trying to figure out how to stop that from happening… I guess the only way is to keep berating yourself when the outcome of your procrastination is negative “See?! If you only did that earlier, it would have been EASIER/FASTER!”
Study is more important. I wouldn’t worry about the blog too much. 🙂
Happy New Year Radiantdreamer. =D
Its always cool to read your post and as usual this new year post is great. XD
From what i can see I think if one create a record of what they did and the num of hrs, its really useful to plan for next stage. Maybe not year to year basis. A month to month will also do.
My goal is to aim for pixiv and Japan >_<
Happy New Year, Jun! 😀
I check and update my gaming records on a monthly basis, and also when I complete a game, so it’s usually on track. You’re right too – checking on yourself often is a much easier and better way to stay on track.
Not sure what you mean by “aim for pixiv”?
LoL..
My meaning is to aim to get into pixiv artbook =D
http://www.pixiv.net
Oh! That would be cool! Let’s aim for it together!
You’re right, lol. I shall not resolve to do things, I’ll just do em. I already know my issues- I need to stop slacking and start paintin’!
That calendar idea is marvelous! I don’t have a calendar, so I’ll just draw one. Thanks for the advice 😀
Glad I’m able to inspire you! 😀 GO GO GO!
Hi Radiant Dreamer, nice to meet you, I am the new reader in this blog, hope u don’t mind about it ><
Well, after read your post, I realized tat I still haven't make any resolution for this year and yet, I already waste too much time without doing anything….the time was just passed by without noticed…==
I make an resolution NOT ONLY for this year but in 5 years time, does it too much in time???
Here my aim that i thought:
– Keep exercise everyday
– Further studies until graduating from university
– Learn web programming, photography, and also blogging( i
tried to make it last year but not success at all…)
– Learn and speak more on English and Japanese
– Earn much money as possible so that i can continue my dream
(or future??)in Japan
I hope that I can keep on track and achieve these aims.
Oh ya, hope your blog can well-noticed by everyone as your blog quite interesting and also achieve your New Year Resolution this year ^^
Hi there for3v3rshin3! Glad to have you on board! 😀
You’ve definitely got a lot of resolutions going on. Have you made any plans on how to achieve these? Definitely keep track of them, but definitely make a plan!
Thanks for the complement. If people like you are able to spread the word, then more people will see my blog!
Plan????
AHHHHH…..i haven’t think about that yet. What a shame….But somehow i already have a “plan” (i think so) roughly. Well, i think i should “polish” it 1st before getting started, right??
Oh ya, now i have become a blogger dy (very new on that thing) thanks to you. But somehow the result still not in my expectation. I need to get some friends to “support” me. After that, i will add/introduce you to my friends. So stay tuned. (Approximately 6 to 8 months or even a year?! Well i will gambateh about that, to get “famous”) ^^
p/s: I might write something about you in my posts NOT ONLY one but maybe some sorts of it, so don’t be so surprise after viewed my blog.^^ But still you need to wait until that time comes…I APOLOGIZE to you 1st. ><
Yes, definitely need a good, well polished plan! 🙂
You’ve become a blogger thanks to me? Wow, that’s quite flattering to know! Definitely let me know when you’re ready! Gambatte!
I won’t mind if you blog about me. If it can help you generate content, by all means!
“The problem is right in front of you – making resolutions. Don’t bother.” Yup I agree, I don’t bother.ALSO you already defeated 999? It feels like I only just got that in the mail recently and I pre-ordered it and everything. I wanted to finish Dragon Quest IV before I started it but I seem to be at an awkward spot where I need to spend some time grinding in awkward areas in order to defeat the next boss. You didn’t care for AR Tonelico I see, for some reason I really liked that game. But when people ask what’s so great about it…I don’t have a definite answer. But you seem to be a very efficient gamer in terms of how many hours it takes you to defeat something. To be honest I’m not sure how many games I defeated this year…although I know I off and on played Final Fantasy XIII throughout the year and barely finished it before 2011.
Yeah, finished 999. It was an exceptional game! Surprisingly turned out to be my game of the year! Excellent plot and everything.
I still haven’t started on DQIV yet, and I don’t think I’ll be able to this year, from the looks of how I plan to game.
I can’t say whether or not I didn’t care for Ar Tonelico or not, because I honestly haven’t even tried it yet. There are some games that I bought because I know they would be out of print eventually, and these are collectors editions too. I figured I’d buy it, and play it whenever. But it’s low priority right now. 😐
Almost done with 999 🙂 going to play Theresia next
YES!!! Theresia is SO GOOD! I think it’s an excellent follow-up to 999!