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The "No New Games in 2015" Self-Challenge
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FFTA2 also arrived in the mail thanks to a generous friend, and I've been playing a whole lot of that. I'm about 20 hours in, with characters between 20 and 27. 65 or quests completed, and I'm off to repair the air dome.
Chris picked up Type-0 so that we could have impressions of the FFXV and it for the podcast, but after watching him play the first hour or so, he thinks it may be more of my type of game than his. We'll see, I may fit it in somewhere this year!
Much as I've been really digging into FFTA2 over the last few weeks, it's probably time to wrap it up and move to another game. I didn't plan on going for a perfect run, but I'd like to try to complete around 200 quests before I mail it back.
Still mulling over what to try next, feel free to make suggestions -- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11jk4XLwl15XT-a592RAz-CEvYJmoQTW8sbXOHL1CCfM/edit?usp=sharing
Not sure if you've played FF5 or FF6 before.
The bad: Ar Nosurge. It's a poorly designed game and not worthy of your time.
Epic Yarn and Treasure Tracker should both be fast to clear. Mario 3D World and even FF7 should be fairly fast to clear also.
I was playing it when I needed to be at my computer so I could respond to stuff quickly but had large chunks of downtime and no idea when that may happen, which is why I was playing it. I'll get back to it, possibly this month!
Rumble World is good, but it's getting pretty repetitive as I don't have the diamonds to buy new balloons and I've farmed nearly everything I can from my current set. Frustratingly, I'm actually missing some common types because I keep getting Fever when I don't want it; I wish there was a way to turn it down.
S.T.E.A.M. as I've complained elsewhere is all over the place in terms of map difficulty (and introducing characters without subweapons is annoyingly frustrating). It's really dampening my enjoyment. Kind of makes me wish there was an easy mode.
Akiba is...interesting. It's nowhere near as salacious as some sites make it out to be, and the combat system is really fun. The pacing is a little helter-skelter (especially if you wanna do side missions. I DON'T CARE IF THE CAKE IS SQUISHED EAT IT ANYWWAYS) and I wandered around for ages when I first started not realizing I'd turned off map markers inadvertently. The story's pretty goofy, but I like it enough to keep going.
So I mentioned this on the podcast but thought it might be an interesting discussion point here as well. So far I guesstimate I've spent about 100-150 on games so far this year. If I look at what games I would have normally purchased new/full price, were I not working through my backlog I could have easily accrued 500 or more of games this year. Was interesting to try to math that out.
I might by the time E3 rolls around, haha. Mostly it's keeping Chris from buying games for me when they're on sale...so maybe he needs the accountability buddy!
I decided not to get the game and instead i'm going to try finish what i have. I don't have a huge backlog but enough to last me the year. As of now there really isn't any day one purchase games being released for the rest of the year, so hopefully it will stay that way. Thanks Anna for sharing your great idea and progress along the way, hopefully you can continue to get through your backlog!
Also enjoying hogging the Vita, as Chris broke down and started to play Disgaea 4 on the Vita TV and it's fun watching him play