Long Term Goals
As alluded to in my last post, I want to set down some specific goals for myself to complete by the end of the year. In other words, I have a little over four months from this point to reach these goals.
| Stat | Current | Goal |
|---|---|---|
| Games Beaten or Completed | 10% | 20% |
| SteamGift Wins Played | 21% | 50% |
| AStats Ranking | 2035 | < 1500 |
I will make a monthly status report, updating my progress on these goals, and possibly raising my goal if I find them too easy. I also believe I will start doing individual posts for each game I complete or which I play to the point I am leaving it currently (e.g. simulator, sandbox, fighting etc type games that have no clear end). I feel like writing a little review will allow me to reflect on my experience and “digest” it a little more (so I am not totally rushing from one game to the next) and will allow me to keep my writing skills up. Hopefully these little reviews will be interesting and/or useful to others.
Current Game Progress
The Wolf Among Us - in progress, completed episode 1
Jack Lumber - installed, going to start tonight
Victor Vran - installed, may start tonight or tomorrow
Grim Legends 2 - installed, will start tomorrow or Wednesday, whenever I have The Wolf Among Us completed
Megamagic: Wizards of the Neon Age - to be beat soon
2064: ROM - to be 100% soon
Awesomenauts - on-going
SimplePlanes - on-going
Ichi - on-going
SpaceChem - soon to be started and will be on-going, worked on slowly
Flix and Chill: Millenials - near future
Enigmatis 1 & 2 - near future
RUSE - near future
Toadled - near future
Toki Tori - near future
That is the goal I’m most uncertain about, to be honest. I’ve made pretty steady progress since coming back to Steam / gaming (I have barely played games on PC in the last 1.5 - 2 years until about a month or two ago). I think I was around 2400 or so when I came back. Obviously it gets harder the higher up the chart you go though.
It also totally depends on what games you have in your library, and what your skill-set is like. For instance, I got a significant boost from Pinball Arcade achievements recently which, for the time spent, were quite “affordable”, because I’m pretty good at pinball. Not everyone is though, and Pinball Arcade is kind of pricey, so many achievements are still kind of valuable.
If you’re looking to climb fast, I think the best games are probably ones that few people have and/or that require high skill of some kind (whether that’s pinball or racing or shoot-em up or whatever). Alternatively / additionally, knocking out lots of little games helps too.
psst, you didn’t post this comment as a reply to Blue so they won’t get a notification for it :p
I don’t know how hard the astats goal will be but bringing your % of SG wins up seems like a good challenge.
I feel like writing a little review will allow me to reflect on my experience and “digest” it a little more (so I am not totally rushing from one game to the next) and will allow me to keep my writing skills up.
I realized that I couldn’t remember much of some games I had played even relatively recently, because I didn’t actually stop and think about them after I was done with them, so I went with the same approach you want to take.
Pausing for a bit and reflecting about why I did or did not like a game or parts of it and writing that down on virtual paper was a great way to keep a “trace” of games I’ve played.
I mostly quit the writing part of that process now as I was constantly going back, editing and rewriting large parts of my “reviews”, which ended up becoming walls of text no one was really reading anyway :D
Those are great goals! Good luck achieving them! :)
Orcs Must Die 2, Mark of the Ninja and Dishonored are pretty enjoyable and not that challenging games to increase your percentage.
Congratulations on your great progress and good luck with reaching your goals. There is nothing that can stop you :) Have fun.
wow how hard will it be fore you to drop in the astats rankings?
*‘m asking cause I’m around 2900 and have a quarter your points >_<
29000, not 2900 :v
Ceildric answered but not as a direct reply to you, check the page :p
Well that’s much less impressive :3 <
I call haxs
Blue weeb can’t read numbers
blue weeb has it up to here with your bullshit -_-‘
Sorry, wrote you a reply yesterday but apparently replied to my main post, not to your reply.
“That is the goal I’m most uncertain about, to be honest. I’ve made pretty steady progress since coming back to Steam / gaming (I have barely played games on PC in the last 1.5 - 2 years until about a month or two ago). I think I was around 2400 or so when I came back. Obviously it gets harder the higher up the chart you go though.
It also totally depends on what games you have in your library, and what your skill-set is like. For instance, I got a significant boost from Pinball Arcade achievements recently which, for the time spent, were quite “affordable”, because I’m pretty good at pinball. Not everyone is though, and Pinball Arcade is kind of pricey, so many achievements are still kind of valuable.
If you’re looking to climb fast, I think the best games are probably ones that few people have and/or that require high skill of some kind (whether that’s pinball or racing or shoot-em up or whatever). Alternatively / additionally, knocking out lots of little games helps too.”
a really good game to increase your ranks is civ 5 because it has a huge amount of really rare achievements that are relatively easy to get if you have the DLC.
alot of them amount to “win game with _____” and that can be done in a easy difficulty.
so if I really cared about increaseing my ranks I would go back and play that a bunch more
You’re right, Civ 5 is a good idea… and I should make sure to remember that.
I have only 28% of the achievements for it (and I own all the dlc), so there should be some easy points left for me to clean up if I’m having trouble with that AStats goal I’ve set for myself.
The “Dr Livingstone I presume?” achievement takes like 15 min to get following the guide (using the map then moving down etc) and it counts as an epic achievement worth 28.9 for example.
Although currently I’m just trying to raise my overall completion rate I’ve been thinking of doing that (trying to get a bunch of the high value civ cheevos) and working to raise my rank.