Okay, What Are Your Gaming-Related New Year's Resolutions?
See Full ImageEveryone has New Year's resolutions, right? Well, you should also have some related to video games...we can all better ourselves!
So what do you resolve to do in 2013? Do you resolve not to research one of your most anticipated titles just because you'd like to be surprised for once? With the explosion of the information age, we often see a lot of hotly anticipated games long before they ever arrive and for many, that kinda kills the excitement.
Or maybe you resolve to try a new genre, maybe one you've always wanted to try, or one that has always intimidated you for one reason or another. Perhaps you've heard about certain games in those categories winning all sorts of awards, or maybe you have a lot of friends who have enjoyed such experiences, and now you want to check it out for yourself. Then again, maybe you've been playing one genre - or even one game - too much, and you resolve to jump back into the mix and get caught up. Some of you addicted to Minecraft or World of Warcraft might want to make such a resolution, for example.
Then again, maybe you resolve to actually do something in the gaming industry. Perhaps you're young and ambitious and love video games, but you've been hesitant to take that next step, to actually go to school for gaming, or to apply for that entry-level position. Now's the time, yes?
Tags: new years resolutions, gamers, video games, gaming culture
12/31/2012 10:34:14 PM Ben Dutka
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Beamboom
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 1:00:03 AM
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WorldEndsWithMe
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 2:08:33 AM
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Lawless SXE
Monday, December 31, 2012 @ 11:27:24 PM
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emily lockwind
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 8:46:55 AM
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Underdog15
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 11:05:32 AM
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Lawless SXE
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 2:08:56 PM
Bah, it has games I want and I'll need a portable system. My PSP, I fear, will have depleted its backlog well before mid-year.
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firesoul453
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 2:26:37 PM
I hope sony goes all out on it at E3
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Gordo
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 3:58:24 PM
I love Zero Escape: Virtues Last Reward at the moment. Perfect game for a handheld. Persona 4 Golden looks brilliant (not out in Australia yet). Gravity Rush and Uncharted are both excellent. Lumines is like crack cocaine... Fifa, Golf, Virtual Tennis are all brilliant for handheld versions.
All the PSN downloadable games, PS1 and PSP games. I can't see where this negativity is coming from...
You will love it!
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emily lockwind
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 5:26:40 PM
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sawao_yamanaka
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 6:30:14 PM
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Underdog15
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 8:33:15 PM
But vita isn't the only slow selling piece of hardware in it's first year or two. Other systems that sucked in year one? Ps1, ps2, ps3, psp...
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___________
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 2:54:22 AM
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first to stop being so obsessive having to unlock everything and search every nook and cranny!
spent so much time in FC3 ive searched every cave by now at least 100 times!
2 is to spend less time gaming and more time doing my work.
really starting to fall behind with my engine work, but that really wasent my fault a certain unreliable manufacture with overpriced products is.
amazing how companies can charge people 4,5,6,7,8,9,10+ thousand dollars for a laptop and it be so unreliable!
ended up failing 2 of my major courses because i lost my work and couldent finish it in time.
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Simcoe
Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 11:22:36 AM
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WorldEndsWithMe
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 3:04:41 AM
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Ultimadream
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 3:41:49 AM
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GuardianMode
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 7:17:41 PM
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sirbob6
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 3:51:53 AM
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Hmmmm, I guess mine is to plat Demon's Souls now
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MartyRules
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 4:45:10 AM
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Dukemz_UK
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 4:59:54 AM
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2. To ween myself off CoD, even when I have a spare 30 minutes to play, to play something alternative.
3. To avoid buying the next gen console from Sony until I've completed my PS3 library
4. To make full use of my PS + subscription
5. To play even more co-op games with my kids
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Dukemz_UK
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 5:11:16 AM
To stop supporting game developers who keep producing more of the "same old"and support newer and fresher ideas, such as those found in original experiences like Journey.
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Jed
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 5:17:40 AM
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And...of course, PLAY MORE!!
Happy new year!!!
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Jed
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 5:21:39 AM
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Akuma07
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 8:18:52 AM
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emily lockwind
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 8:24:07 AM
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Beamboom
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 9:07:41 AM
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I got this idea that's been brewing in my head for a while. It's a geeky idea, quite niche setting, but it would be incredibly interesting to create and I will learn a lot along the way.
I got the tools I need installed on my PC, there really are very few excuses left to not get started on this project now.
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Beamboom
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 3:43:48 PM
Set in the antarctica, a science expedition where many of the real threats of such an endeavour is implemented. The camps, the feeling of loneliness, remains of other expeditions, shortage of resources, the vast, ice cold plains to discover, the snow storms, the wildlife... And the science experiments that could be done. Cause I want science to be central here.
I am inspired by the science team who right now are drilling through kilometres of ice on one of the poles, to study the lifeforms in waters that's been 100% isolated from the rest of the world for thousands - maybe millions of years. Just imagine what *could* be found... And how that could work in a game.
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emily lockwind
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 5:31:11 PM
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WorldEndsWithMe
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 5:58:54 PM
My current writing project is pop fiction based around Final Fantasy VII in a way no one has attempted before.
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Lawless SXE
Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 1:58:20 AM
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Beamboom
Wednesday, January 02, 2013 @ 8:53:00 AM
@World, your idea of that Nazi base could work extremely well as one of the main dungeons in the game! We could find hints to the whereabouts scattered around on the surface, with the story of the base being told Bioshock style inside the dungeon!
As for realism I am going for as realistic as possible while still being fun in a game, to put it that way. If you draw aggro from a polar bear you don't stand much of a chance unless you got high skills and a high powered rifle at hand and clear sight, to put it that way.
I have always been fascinated by storms, cold and extreme weather in general, so a virtual world that could give me just a slice of how it must be to be part of such a scientific excursion would be fantastic.
I do want the most fantastic discoveries to be found as "high level content", when you are able to drill yourself down to what I am thinking to be huge pockets of air (dungeons) deep down in the polar ice, each represent an isolated environment who has evolved in independent parallel to our world, with a different outcome. And *those* locations holds plenty of room for unrealism and fantasy. Could make a great contrast.
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Gordo
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 3:45:44 PM
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Seem to have several games that I have not given my full attention to. Have more games than time to play them.
Off topic: Last year I finally ticked off one of my resolutions. I wrote a book and have posted it on Amazon as an ebook (The Cwmgoody Murder). Its a true crime historical story of this 17 year old farm worker in 1848 who killed his colleague and was on the run for months before being captured, tried and executed. I came across the story when researching my family tree as the murderer pretended to be my great great grandfather on one occasion. It is a fascinating story and worth a read for anyone with an interest in true crime or British history.
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GuardianMode
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 7:19:59 PM
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Also to finish Star Ocean TLH someday.
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WorldEndsWithMe
Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 7:35:11 PM
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FatherSun
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Monday, December 31, 2012 @ 11:19:48 PM
Happy New Year to all!!