Good
morning folks,
First Happy
New Year folks! Hope you had a good holiday and had some great fun. My new year
did not start off great since I woke up on the first with a cold which I’m still
trying to get rid of. But I’m not letting it get me down and decided that it
would be a good time to do a new blog post. So I thought it would be good to
talk about this year’s challenges and last years.
If you read
my blog in the past you will already know this but for those who I don’t, every
year I set myself a challenge to complete so many games or earn x amount of Gamerscore.
So in 2015
I had a couple of goals and they were:
- 15 Platinum Trophies
- Do not let the pile of shame get any bigger
- Finish all games I buy this year
How did I
do? Well the first goal I clocked at the end of the summer which I was really
surprised with since I did not think I would get it. In fact, I think I
finished on 16 so no bad but in a way it was a little disappointing since I
could have earned a lot more in the last few months of the year.
Second goal
was very good throughout the year but I did slip up in the Christmas period.
That cannot be helped due to the fact I work in retail and it’s the busiest
time of year. Plus, I work in gaming retail so add all those new releases into
the mix and you be surprised how tired you get when you get home. If I was to
grade this goal It would be a B-, good but could had been better.
Finally, as
you just read thanks to retail I did not complete goal 3 since I still have new
releases from the end of the year waiting to be finished/played. Part way
through Tomb Raider at the moment.
2015 was
not a bad year overall and I’m happy with how it went so that now leaves to set
this year’s goals. This year for 2016 I’m going to go overboard with it and set
some stupidly hard challenges. Should be a laugh I’m hoping so what are they
you ask? Goal one is to hit 200,000
gamerscore on the Xbox. Very hard goal since in the past when I did focus on
achievement hunting I was earning roughly 17,000 a year. I need 29,000 to hit
that goal but I do have in my favour that since the PlayStation 4 came out I’ve
not really played much on the Xbox. This means there is quite a back log of
games to earn achievements in.
Second goal
is to again earn another 15 Platinum Trophies which I do think I should reduce
since of my Xbox challenge. But then where is the fun in that! Set the goal
high and give it a shot, least I can say I failed a hard challenge and tried.
Of course I
want to keep my pile of shame down so I must again try to complete all the
games I buy this year. I know it’s hard at the end of year since I work in
retail but I know deep down I can do better.
Final goal
is stop buying games on impulse, this is how my pile of shame happens and in
fact I did pick up a few purchases the other day already even though I got a
few games to work through (will blog about them later). Need to reign this in
and be good, this will be my true challenge this year.
Quick look
at the summary for this year’s challenges.
- 200,000 Gamerscore
- 15 Platinum Trophies
- No pile of shame this year and complete all the games I buy this year
- Stop buying on impulse when I have games to play already (Ties in the with third goal)
- HAVE FUN
Should be a
good year for gaming and in fact I have got a post planned to write about what
I’m looking forward to this year so keep an eye out for that soon. On this note
I’m going to end this blog post and again hope you all had a good new year. Don’t
forget to comment with any challenges/goals you setting yourself this year.
~Iznic
