It’s funny to imagine how we did ours just seven years ago Video game resolutions for 2021. Now we’re back at it, planning our hopes and dreams for how we’ll play and think about games in 2022.
Last year I said I would play more games with friends online in order to regain some social connections that have been lost due to the dangers of 2020. For the most part, I’ve done that. In the spring, I immersed myself in for hours Pioneer. I did the same in autumn Back 4 blood. My winter so far has been shaped by Halo infinite‘s multiplayer mode that includes the gloriole Community. Its free-to-play model has undoubtedly drawn newbies’ attention to the game, and I not only played with old gaming friends, but made new ones as well.
I also said that I was done Mass effect 2 for the first time. (I did, but screwed up, with half of my squad dead.) I said I would do it a second time as well as it was buffed up as part of Mass Effect: Legendary Edition. (I have not and am still sitting on a saved file before the last mission, for fear of screwing it up and killing half my squad.) The goal here was essentially to play through the trilogy, plus Mass Effect: Andromeda, before whatever next Mass effect is called comes out. Yes, this game is under development at BioWare, but there isn’t even the slightest hint of a release window – meaning I have … some time.
So, besides lazily repeating one of my resolutions from last year, what’s on the agenda for next year?
“My game resolution is just to play more, especially smaller indie games.” Kotaku That’s what the editor Lisa Marie Segarra tells me. “I’ve taken a lot more time for games like unpacking or Over board! this year, and it was a great pleasure to dissolve longer titles. “
“My breakup is simple: Quit more games!” Says Kotaku Contributor to the author Jeremy Winslow. “I’m the longest behind with games from 2017 that I would like to beat. My problem, however, is that I quickly ricochet off one game and land on another. So for 2022 I only want to finish the games that I start. “
I personally would like to KonMaric my completing mindset. That’s not to say I don’t want to see everything a game has to offer or get the credits for every game I start. I do. But if I stop sniffing every single rose, let’s say February Horizon Forbidden West, I don’t have time for that really stunning Line of cool looking games also planned for February (not to mention the rest of the year). I’d also like to at least consider getting into PC gaming, an ecosystem of games that I’m sadly unfamiliar with. Maybe that recently delayed Steam Deck is the easy way to get started?
At the end of the day, we should all be proud that I haven’t cracked a stupid, inferred one-liner about my resolution of 4K or 1440p or so in this post. This is what we call character advancement – and it’s just proof that we’re all capable of achieving our goals. So share yours!
Happy New Year, Kotaku.
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