Gaming Goals for the New Year – December 2018 – FINAL

I can’t believe that I’ve been doing this blog series for 4 whole years now and not only do I really enjoy it, but it really pushes me to play games. Not that I need the extra push, but it also does something else that I’ll discuss in my next blog which is about my goals for next year. Anyway, let’s get onto my final numbers for 2018 and see where I ended up.

Gaming Goals for 2018

Have a total of 125 platinum trophies. – FAILED

– Starting # of Platinum Trophies: 100
– Ending # of Platinum Trophies: 101
I was able to add one more platinum trophy to my count for the year making me past the 100 mark. While I’m extremely proud of finally being able to say that I have over 100 platinum trophies, I still didn’t hit my goal. It’s not that bad considering that I started the year off with having only 85 platinum trophies and ended the year with 101. With a total gain of 16 platinum trophies, I would call that a small victory.

Have a total of 10,000 trophies. – FAILED

– Starting # of Trophies: 8,982
– Ending # of Trophies: 9,075
Finally I hit over the 9,000 mark and it only took years upon years upon years to do. I feel like this is a huge accomplishment and even though I didn’t come close to hitting my goal of 10,000 trophies, I did go from starting the year with 8,074 trophies to ending with 9,075. That’s well over 1,000 trophies so I also think that this is a small victory and there’s always next year to hit the 10,000 mark.

Have 175 games completed at 100% – FAILED

– Starting # of Games 100% Complete: 145
– Ending # of Games 100% Complete: 145
I didn’t finish any games this month, which was kind of a bummer, but sometimes it happens. This wasn’t all that bad considering that I started the year of with having only 128 games completed to 100%. That’s 17 full games that I completed, not to mention the games that came off this list because they added DLC that I didn’t purchase. I would also call this a small win because at least I was able to say that I fully completed 17 games this year.

Have an overall completion rating of 75% – FAILED

– Starting Completion Rate: 55.20%
– Ending Completion Rate: 55.27%
I’m so happy with this number, mostly because this is what it was as of December 31st before I started playing games some new games. This number is totally going to be destroyed this year, but at least I can say that I finally got this number past 55%. This is a huge accomplishment even though I still haven’t hit the illusive 75% rate considering that I started the year at 54.38%. I’m really happy with this and can’t wait for it to be destroyed within the upcoming weeks.

Start and Complete 10 new games that are not in my backlog – COMPLETED!

– Starting Number of New Games Played and Completed: 13
– Starting Number of New Games Played and Completed: 13
This goal was completed in November so I’m happy with the number that I was able to get. I will say that I thought I would be able to complete more new games this year, but a lot of them just went right in my backlog which is growing to new heights with each passing day it seems. Anyway, at least I was not only able to accomplish this goal, but also crush it and get more than I wanted.

Play and complete 25 RANDOM games in my backlog – FAILED

– Starting Number of completed games in my backlog: 8
– Ending Number of completed games in my backlog: 8
Trying to complete backlogged games is so hard especially when new games are released constantly. Anyway, I did the best that I could this year and was able to take 8 games that were sitting in my backlog and finish them. It’s not the 25 that I wanted, but that’s 8 games that are no longer sitting in my backlog.

Only pre-order 10 new games and save the rest for Black Friday and holiday sales – COMPLETED!

– Starting Number of Pre-Orders: 7
– Ending Number of Pre-Orders: 7
I’m really proud of myself as I was able to keep this under goal this year. Pre-ordering games really takes a toll on the wallet and it’s something that I do a lot of because there are a bunch of games that I like to have day one. This kind of sucks, but I think that having a limit and sticking to it not only helps at the end of the year, because I can buy more games when they go on sale, but it helps save some money too and we can all do always do a little more of that.

I was only able to complete two goals last year, but I have to say that I’m really proud of myself for doing so. Last year wasn’t the greatest of years for me and I used gaming as a way to escape, but it also became a chore in some way’s. I’ll talk about that in my next blog as I unveil my gaming goals for 2019. I’m really looking forward to this new year though as I set some different goals for myself while keeping some the same. Come back tomorrow to see what my goals for 2019 will be.

Gaming Goals for the New Year – December 2017 – FINAL

This is the final update for the year and it feels like I just started these goals yesterday. Anyway, this past year felt super short and although I played a lot of games, I didn’t really accomplish all that much when it came to my goals. December was a pretty crappy month as it was a holiday month, which meant I had very little time to game, and I was also sick for most of the month which was not fun. Even though I failed all of my goals (totally hanging my head down in shame), let’s see how close I came to them.

Gaming Goals for 2017

Have a total of 100 platinum trophies. – FAILED

– Starting # of Platinum Trophies: 84
– Ending # of Platinum Trophies: 85
I unfortunately didn’t hit that 100 mark, but I kind of came close. At the beginning of the year I had a total of 68 platinum trophies. Although I didn’t even hit the 20 mark, I feel like I played a lot of games this year that took a lot of time and I really didn’t have all that much time. I’m also pretty proud of the platinum trophies that I did get because some of them were super hard. Anyway, I’m pretty happy with my progress on this goal although I didn’t come close to hitting it.

Have a total of 8,500 trophies. – FAILED

– Starting # of Trophies: 8,022
– Ending # of Trophies: 8,074
This number barely even budged this month and it was because it was the holidays and I spent almost two weeks not gaming. That doesn’t really help in the trophy department. Seeing as I started the year off at 6,879 trophies I’m pretty proud of the progress that I did make especially because I didn’t even think I would hit that 8,000 mark. Not only did I hit 8,000 but I also went over it.

Have 150 games completed at 100% – FAILED

– Starting # of Games 100% Complete: 127
– Ending # of Games 100% Complete: 128
Another failed goal, but I did make some progress as I started off the year with only having 107 games at 100% complete and have gone way up from there. Not as much as I wanted, but at least it was something.

Have an overall completion rating of 75% – FAILED…AGAIN

– Starting Completion Rate: 54.56%
– Ending Completion Rate: 54.38%
This number hit its highs and lows this past year like it does every year, but I’m pretty happy because at the start of the year this number was at 52.79%. While I didn’t hit that 75%, I did make a lot of progress on this goal and that was really important to me. I’m glad I was able to do that and I’ll continue to have this goal on my yearly list until I actually hit it.

Complete 10 RANDOM games featured in my I Never Finished…Because…blog – HUGE FAIL

– Starting Number of Games Played from I Never Finished…Because: 0
– Ending Number of Games Played from I Never Finished…Because: 0
I just couldn’t accomplish this goal if my life depended on it. I really wanted to play some of these games that I blog about, but I never got around to doing it. I had some time and I tried to play some of them but I had this problem, which I mentioned before, that every time I went to play on my PS3, I ended up playing Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer.

Play and complete 20 RANDOM games in my backlog. – FAILED

– Starting Number of completed games in my backlog: 8
– Ending Number of completed games in my backlog: 8
Although I didn’t hit my goal of 20, I started off this year with a big fat 0 and at least got 8 games out of my backlog. I think this is a good thing even though I added a bunch of games to my backlog. It really is a never ending cycle, but at least I was able to finish some games that were just sitting there and there were a couple of really good games that I was holding onto and this goal pushed me to play them and actually enjoy them.

Only pre-order 5 new games and save the rest for Black Friday and holiday sales. – FAILED!

– Starting Number of Pre-Orders: 11
– Ending Number of Pre-Orders: 11
No pre-orders hit month! Yay! I totally blew this goal though about half way through the year and I pre-ordered a bunch of games that I really had no intention to. I don’t think I even played all of them to be honest with you. I went 6 over my limit, which was not good, and there was still a bunch of games that were left over for Black Friday and holiday sales which increased my backlog by tons. With the next year looking action packed full of games…this number is going to have to increase in my goals so I can actually accomplish it.

There you have it. The final totals for 2017. I failed all of my goals, which is kind of funny in a way. Even though they were all failures, a lot of them weren’t total failures and I can live with that. For next year, I’m going to have even bigger goals and I really want to challenge myself so stay tuned for that blog because it’s coming tomorrow.

Gaming Goals for the New Year – December 2016 – FINAL

So this year was just crazy as a lot of you might already know if you read this blog at all. I set these huge goals thinking it was going to be the same year that it was last year and was completely blown away when I was interrupted from my “normal” gaming schedule time after time after time. I know my goals were a little ambitious to begin with, but I do like a challenge. Anyway, here’s my final total on my goals for the year.

2016 Gaming Goals

Have a total of 80 platinum trophies. – FAILED
– Starting # of Platinum Trophies: 65
– Ending # of Platinum Trophies: 68
While I didn’t hit 80 platinum trophies this year, I did have a good year of platinum trophies. I started the year with only 48 platinum trophies and ended with 68 which was a gain of 20 platinum trophies. Not too bad if you ask me. Yes, I didn’t hit my 80 but there was still a gain of a whopping 20 platinum trophies which was no easy feat. I’m pretty happy about this even though this overall goal had to be marked as a fail.

Have a total of 8,500 trophies. – FAILED
– Starting # of Trophies: 6,772
– Ending # of Trophies: 6,879
This month was a pretty hard one to game in, which honestly was to be expected. There are holidays and holiday parties, which were work related, and then that last tattoo session that I had to get in, so a lot of things prevented me from gaming and it was kind of impossible for me to reach this goal by the end of month anyway. I did make some decent progress on this though since I started the year with 5,616 trophies and was able to get well over 1,000 trophies throughout the year. Still another goal that I didn’t meet but was happy with the end result.

Have 120 games completed at 100%. – FAILED
– Starting # of Games 100% Complete: 104
– Ending # of Games 100% Complete: 107
I really really thought I would hit the 120 mark this year. I seriously did, but it just didn’t happen. I have to say out of all of my goals this is the one that I’m upset about the most. Yes I did make progress as I started the year with only 81 games at 100%, I really thought the 120 would be nothing. I did make it over the 100 mark, but not hitting that 120 stings.

Have an overall completion rating of 75%. – FAILED
– Starting Completion Rate: 52.96%
– Ending Completion Rate: 52.79%
I knew this number was a far stretch to begin with when I first put it out there. I knew there was no possible way that I would even reach this goal, this year, next year, or maybe even the year after, but I still wanted to give it a try. I have to say that even though I failed this one I’m pretty happy with myself as I got my overall completion up from 50.62% to well over 52% even though I had that drop from last month. I was so close to 53%, but then I had to start a bunch of games at the end of the year. This is win for me and I’m happy about it. One day I’ll get to 75%, one day.

Start and get the platinum trophy or 100% completion on 30 backlogged games. – FAILED
– Starting Number of Backlogged Games Completed (Out of the 30 That Were Listed): 2
– Ending Number of Backlogged Games Completed (Out of the 30 That Were Listed): 2
After thinking about this goal over and over again, I think the main thing that kept me from getting this done was that I made an actual list of games that needed to be completed. The child inside of me looked at this list and was like “I’m not playing these games” and I think that’s where the problem was to begin with. I told myself what was OK to play and this was not cool and part of the problem on why I didn’t meet this goal. It’s better if I can just pick and choose the games I want to play and not have to stick to an actual list.

Get the platinum trophy or 100% completion on 20 already started backlogged games. – FAILED
– Starting Number of Backlogged Games Completed (Out of the 20 That Were Listed): 4
– Ending Number of Backlogged Games Completed (Out of the 20 That Were Listed): 4
All I can say about this goal is that there are 4 less games sitting on my trophy card that aren’t completed. Once again this was a list type of thing, I made a list of games that had to be played instead of going back and playing what I wanted to play and tried to stick to the list. This resulted in me getting bored and basically throwing a temper tantrum with the list and wanting to shred it in a million pieces because I didn’t’ want to play these games. Lesson of the year – LISTS ARE BAD!

Only pre-order 5 new games and save the rest for Black Friday and holiday sales. – ACCOMPLISHED!
– Starting Number of Pre-Orders: 4
– Ending Number of Pre-Orders: 4
I finally did something right this year as I stayed below a certain goal of pre-orders. My wallet thanked me this year, even though by the end of the year I still felt broke, thanks holiday sales! I’m proud of myself for only pre-ordering 4 games this year which means that I really didn’t need that many games day one and it was perfectly fine to wait for a sale. Another lesson learned – NOT ALL GAMES NEED TO BE BOUGHT DAY ONE TO ENJOY THEM!

I had a really fun time this year telling you guys about my gaming goals and letting you know my progress each and every month. I hope you guys had a fun time reading about my ups and downs and my overall gaming experiences. Also, this is the start of a new year! You know what that means right? New goals for 2017, stay tuned and I’ll let you know what they are tomorrow! I hope everyone had a happy and healthy New Year and that you continue to read and comment whenever you feel like it. Here’s hoping that you guys continue reading and that I make some more impossible goals for this upcoming year!

Gaming Goals for the New Year – December 2015 – FINAL

This is the end of the year and the start of the new one, and now it’s time to see if I was able to complete the goals that I set for myself for 2015. I can tell you right now that I didn’t complete a lot of them, I did come close to the majority of them, but they weren’t complete. While this is upsetting, I did make a lot of gaming progress this year and I had a lot of fun doing so which was the main point of this whole thing. Let’s take one last final look at my gaming goals as we say goodbye to 2015 and hello to 2016.

2015 Gaming Goals

Have 50 Platinum Trophies by the end of the year – FAILED
– Starting # of Platinum Trophies: 47
– Ending # of Platinum Trophies: 48
So I didn’t make it to 50, but you have to admit I was pretty damn close. I’m pretty impressed with myself though since I did start the year out with 33 platinum trophies and was able to add another 15 to my collection this year.

Have 6,000 overall Trophies – FAILED
– Starting # of Trophies: 5,473
– Ending # of Trophies: 5,616
I did have a couple of hiccups this year when it came to getting trophies and gaming in general since there were times that life got in the way and I just couldn’t play, but I did make some progress on this goal since I started the year off at 4,498 trophies. So I was at least able to get well over 1,000 trophies this year which was really no small accomplishment.

Have a total completion rate of 60% – FAILED
– Starting Completion Rate: 50.06%
– Ending Completion Rate: 50.62%
This was one of those goals that was way out there and I thought that I could maybe come close, like 59% close, but I couldn’t even make it that far. Starting new games and not finishing them was my overall downfall as I really didn’t even make all that much progress on this goal throughout the year since I started at 47.17%.

Complete 75 games at 100% – GOAL COMPLETE
– Starting # of Games 100% Complete: 79
– Ending # of Games 100% Complete: 81
Yes! One goal complete. It’s not a lot but it’s something after seeing failure after failure. I was even able to get over the number that I had set for myself which makes me do a little happy dance inside especially since I started the year off with only 60 games at 100%.

Stop Pre-Ordering Ubisoft and Square Enix games! – GOAL COMPLETE
– Starting # of Ubisoft and Square Enix Games Pre-Ordered: 0
– Ending # of Ubisoft and Squre Enix Games Pre-Ordered: 0
I did it! I made it through the whole year without pre-ordering any games from these companies. Yes I bought them later on during the year (on really great sales), but that wasn’t the point. The whole point was to not pre-order games that were mediocre or filled with bugs and glitches from these companies only to be fixed later on when I had already moved on.

While I was only able to complete 2 out of the 5 goals that I set forth for myself last year, I really had a lot of fun tracking my progress and reporting in at the end of the month. I have a whole other set of goals that I set for myself for this new year and I’ll be debuting them tomorrow. I will give you a little sneak peek and let you know that these goals will be a hell of a lot harder and involve a lot more gaming. Will I be able to get any of them done? Honestly I have no idea, but I’m looking forward to a whole new year of gaming.