Skattered Fragments - #7
The end of my 20/22 challenge and some random rambling
When the year started, I made the 20/22 Challenge to motivate myself to actually finish some of the better games in my backlog that I played for a while and then got distracted. I have, in fact, succeeded in this challenge and yet I’m kinda… disappointed?
Don’t get me wrong, in terms of gaming, 2022 was probably the best year I’ve had in forever. I’ve beaten a bunch of extremely good games but at the same time, I also haven’t played them as much as I would’ve liked. Some quick examples would be not doing all the postgame stuff in Monster Hunter Stories 2, barely touching the ng+4 true end game (underworld) in Nioh 2, only doing one playthrough of DMC5 (no vergil dlc or higher difficulties), completing only my first playthrough of Elden Ring and so on.
At the same time, I’ve also been burnt out on gaming towards the end of the year due to powering through some of the longest games I’ve played on steam (4 games at 100h+ and one at 92h on my 20/22 list alone, plus other stuff). I’ve also beaten (or tied) against my backlog in every month of the year (a complaint about that later too) as you can see in the monthly breakdown below:
Boring stats section - Beaten-Added:
January: 3-0
February: 6-0
March: 3-2
April: 4-3
May: 5-5
June: 13-9
July: 6-1
August: 6-6
September: 3-2
October: 4-3
November: 7-6
December: 14-12
Overall: 74-49 (A pretty overwhelming victory compared to previous years, I would say)
2023 Goals
So… what’s next then?
My goals for next year are actually pretty straightforward:
- Stop. Caring. About. Stats. This year I focused too much on trying to avoid losing against my backlog, especially towards the end of the year. While I succeeded, I don’t need gaming to feel like a job. It would also be far more difficult to achieve a good ratio from now on considering I mostly have long games left in my backlog.
- Buy 12 games (or fewer!). This is actually tied to the first point a bit. I have quite a few bundle keys I never activated to avoid screwing my stats (from the 49 new games in my account, only 25 were actually bought in 2022 - others were either old keys, giveaways or gifts). Cutting that number in half while potentially activating stuff I’ve already spent money on seems pretty reasonable to me.
- Keep focusing on the good games. Again, seems pretty obvious, right? In 2022 I’ve started using the “won’t play” section of blaeo quite a bit because the reality is, I still have 5-10 years worth of good games in my backlog (not even counting games on epic, uplay, JAST), so why do I keep playing mediocre/bad short games just for stats?
While not a strict rule, I’ll also definitely be revisiting the games I mentioned that I wanted to play more of but moved on to work on the rest of my challenge. Anyway, that’s about it. I’ll be back again in a few days with my top 8 games of 2022 once I gather my thoughts as this post would’ve probably been far longer than I’d like if I combined the two. Happy new year!
Congrats on beating your challenge (especially with those massive games you had into it) and congrats on those impressive stats (even if in a few hours you won’t care about them anymore ;p)
Best wishes for 2023, may you enjoy your gaming time :3 Can’t wait to see your top 8!
You ended up beating it way before me but I do have to say I’m a bit surprised I ended up with 22/22 in the end.
My top 8 is probably nothing too surprising for you or kale but 👀
Considering none of my games in that list were over 100h, you have way more merit than me tbh. After I made it to 20/22 i didn’t think I’d reach the 22/22 either because the pressure fell down, but at the same time I was so close I wanted to keep going XD It was a great challenge tho, and one of the first one I finished in a long time so thanks a lot for coming up with the idea!
Let me guess, Elden ring is part of it :tsukihismile:
Fair enough. To be fair I kinda rushed my last 2 completions with Ruina on the 30th and Katana ZERO a few hours before the year ended 👀
Perhaps.