So it begins. I was thinking about how I could keep a record of my progress. I thought about streaming, but I did a test stream once and didn’t feel comfortable doing it. I thought about recording it and posting it to Youtube, but it seems like a lot of work that I could put into playing more, and that’s not taking into consideration if something went wrong with the recording, or issues from false copyright claims and the like once it was posted. I settled on taking screenshots, and choosing a select few from each of my gaming sessions to post publicly on my Steam profile and on updates here. Simple enough, doesn’t take too much time from actually playing, minimal problems that can arise.
So to get more in-depth on how I plan to do this: I won’t care about 100% completion most of the time. I’m aiming for an end, if not a good end (if applicable). For instance, I will play out the four routes for good endings in Amnesia: Memories so that I can unlock the hidden route, but after I beat that hidden route, I’d consider the game done. I’m not going to go for every bad ending that the game has. Or in Skyrim, I have the majority of the achievements unlocked, but the ones I don’t will probably stay that way, because I don’t have enough interest in finishing the Dark Brotherhood, or the Thieves Guild, or being a Werewolf or a Vampire (Lord).
Also, I’m going to be starting these games over from the beginning, even if I have a save file on hand for them. Chances are, I won’t remember very much on what I was up to last on those old saves, so I’d much rather start fresh than wander around aimlessly in the more open-world games, or be stumped about what the overall goal of the game is in the more linear ones.
Which reminds me, I’m going to be unofficially including non-Steam games as well. Thinking about all of this made me realize that I never officially “beat” Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition, or Mass Effect 3 (in the sense that, I played all three until I was about to pass the point of no return, then stopped playing for reasons that I don’t recall. I know how they end, though). Never finished SWTOR before KotFE became a thing either, but I don’t see myself going back anyway.
Anyway, this is going on a bit too long for right now, so I’ll leave things here.
Sounds like a good plan, you’ve really thought things through. Welcome to the site :)
I mostly got the plan from looking at other user’s plans, but it does feel like a good one. Now I just need to make sure I stick to it.
Thank you!
Well that’s interesting, I enjoyed both the Dark Brotherhood quests and the Thieves Guild quests more than the main story in Skyrim.
You’re not the only one who writes about non-steam games, they’re still part of the backlog after all. :)
Welcome! btw!
It’s a strange reversal from when I played Oblivion, back before I used Steam. I was drawn in by the Thieves Guild and the Dark Brotherhood (after accidentally murdering this one guy in Kvatch) so much more than the Fighters’ Guild, Mages Guild, or the main story. Though in the case of Skyrim’s main story (before the DLC at least), it was less that I was drawn in and more that I was constantly determined to not leave things where they were at any moment. That also drove me to bring the war to an end, when I’d normally remain neutral in a situation like that.
And thank you!
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If you have windows 10 you can press Win + Alt + G and save a video file of the last 30 seconds of gameplay. I changed the binding to Alt + Z and increased the clip length to one minute in the settings menu. I’ve kinda been messing around with uploading them to youtube and then syncing them with my Steam account. You can check out what I’ve done in my Steam profile (click video). I kinda like it so far and it isn’t much trouble (cooler than pictures anyway, I can never take them right when I want to).
http://steamcommunity.com/id/KroganAlly/videos/
You’ve recently joined, I assume? If yes, then welcome! Looks like you’ve already got a plan sorted out.
Good luck and have fun! :)
Yes, I’ve only just joined. I really had no plan at all up until thirty minutes before I wrote this post, and most of the inspiration came from checking other people’s pages to see how they were handling things.
Thank you, and I endeavor to!