Resurrection ahoy! It’s about the time of the year when I dust off my blogging gloves and list what’s been keeping me from doing stuff over the past 365 (or so) days.
The format is as follows: games in bold are ones I finished (to my satisfaction) in ’09, games in italics are ones that I plan to finish, and they’re sorted alphabetically by platform.
Let’s start with the Wii. The single and only game that I played on the Wii this year was… *sigh*
- Wii Fit
I spent a few hours on it at the start of the year – had some fun mini-games and stuff! However, doubt I’ll ever be going back to it.
DS
- GTA: Chinatown Wars
- Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box
- Scribblenauts
I’ll get to them, I promise…
360 (thank the Maker for online played history)
- Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
- Batman: Arkham Asylum
- Bionic Commando
- Brütal Legend
- Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
- Dragon Age: Origins
- Geometry Wars Evolved 2
- GTA IV: The Lost and the Damned
- Mirror’s Edge
- Peggle
- Red Alert 3
- Red Faction
- Resident Evil 5
- Rock Band 2
- Splosion Man
- Scene It? Box Office Smash!
- Shadow Complex
- Super Streetfighter 2: Turbo HD
- The Saboteur
- Trials HD
- WET
Once again my preferred platform – however, the PS3 took up a large chunk of my time with some great exclusives…
PS3
- Demon’s Souls
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of The Patriots
- LittleBigPlanet
- Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
- Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
- Valkyria Chronicles
PC
- Captain Forever/Captain Successor
- Empire: Total War
- Left 4 Dead 2
- RunMan: Race Around The World
- Spelunky!
- Time Fcuk
- The Last Express
- The Witcher
Similar to the DS, I didn’t really give enough time to my PC in ’09, despite getting decked out with a schw33t gaming rig. Will try and remedy that this year!
And finally, my top 5 for ’09 – a year that turned out to be pretty fantastic overall.
5. Demon’s Souls
4. Spelunky!
3. Valkyria Chronicles
2. Batman: Arkham Asylum
1. Dragon Age: Origins
With Uncharted 2, Brütal Legend, and GTA IV: The Lost and the Damned close runners up, and Dragon Age: Origins handily sneaking into first place in the final days of the year.
My goals for 2010? Turn quite a few of those italics into bolds, and to buy less games! My current plan is to buy one game a month, which is now looking like:
January: Mass Effect 2
February: Bioshock 2: Sea of Dreams
March: Splinter Cell: Conviction
April: Red Dead Redemption
May: Crackdown 2
June: Alpha Protocol
July: Mafia II
Whenever Heavy Rain drops, everything else will probably be delayed a month, and Max Payne 3, Alan Wake, and The Last Guardian all look pretty exciting as well. From what I can tell so far, it’s going to be pretty hard to stick to the plan… but hopefully it’ll give me time to finish some older games that I’ve been meaning to finish for a while, and for (hopefully) spending some more time making games as opposed to playing them.