It’s the end of the year, so it feels like a good time to look back at the books and games I’ve gone through in 2013.
I guess it’s my lack of focus really but my reading rate has really gone down over the past few years, I guess in favor of TV, comics and games. (I guess comics count as reading too, but I’m talking about full-length novels.
For 2013 as far as I can tell I only finished reading the following novels:
- Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
- Foundation Trilogy (Isaac Asimov) – I only read up to Second Foundation, I’ll get around to the later books sometime I guess
- A Memory of Light (Sanderson/Jordan) – been reading the Wheel of Time for years and I’m glad Sanderson was able to bring it to a decent end
- Shadows in Flight (Orson Scott Card)
I suppose I should make it a new years resolution to read more books. I have a reading list that I have stored on Dropbox that I’m trying to work through. I think getting more paper books helps – most of my reading the past few years has been mostly e-books but having at least one paper book around that I can pick up without worrying about a charger or something is also good. I’m around halfway through a copy of Dune I picked up at a used bookstore.
As for games, this is the hobby that takes up most of my free time, however my backlog is horrendously large. Inspired by a NeoGAF thread, I’ve started tracking purchases and finishes/completes.
Here are the game purchases I made in 2013:
- Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm (PC retail)
- FTL (humble bundle)
- Humble Weekly Sale: Telltale Games (8 games)
- Humble Bundle 8 (9 games)
- WB Humble Bundle (9 games)
- Borderlands 2 + season pass + mech/psycho dlc (GMG + Steam)
- Civilization 5: Brave New World (GMG)
- Morrowind GOTY (Steam)
- Oblivion GOTY (Steam)
- Legend of Grimrock (steam)
- Duels of the Planeswalkers 2014 (steam)
- Tales of Graces F (PS3 retail)
- Injustice (PS3 retail)
- The Last of Us (PS3 retail)
- Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD Remix (PS3 retail)
- Final Fantasy 13-2 (PS3 retail)
- Tales of Xillia (PS3 retail)
- Capcom vs SNK 2 (PS3 via PSN)
- Ni no Kuni (PS3 via PSN)
- Speklunky (Vita via PSN)
- Guacamelee (PS3/Vita via PSN)
- Marvel vs Capcom 2 (PS3 via PSN)
- Shin Megami Tensei 4 (3ds retail)
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link between Worlds (3ds retail)
- Persona 4 Golden (Vita retail)
- Disgaea 3 (Vita retail)
- Street Fighter x Tekken (Vita retail)
- FF9 (PSN)
- Persona 3 Portable (PSN)
And the games I finished in 2013:
- Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm campaign
- Duels of the Planeswalkers 2014
- Borderlands 2
- Injustice story mode
- Mass Effect 3
- The Last of Us
- Tales of Graces F
- Tales of Xillia (Milla side only)
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link between Worlds
- Persona 4 Golden
- Disgaea 3 main story
- Civ5 BNW (I’m going to go ahead and count this since I’m sure I got more than a full game’s worth of it already)
So the count is at -41 or such. It’s pretty bad, but also around what I expected lol. I’m fairly close to finishing a number of those games (I’m at the SMT4 final dungeon and the last chapter of FF 13-2 right now). A lot of the backlog is due to me randomly picking up Humble Bundles which increase the count significantly. Hopefully I’ll be able to have a much smaller backlog in 2014 – but there are already a number of release I’m looking forward to, not to mention the possibility of picking up a PS4 early next year.
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