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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n2018 had been a rough year for me personally. Finances are tighter than ever, additional pressure of more people to take care of in our house, my almost three year old son potentially having a developmental disorder, and more. Since video games are a costly hobby, I\u2019m going to heavily cutback my purchases in 2019. At least, that\u2019s what I hope to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Which leads to my mission in 2019. I\u2019m going to try and write a weekly piece discussing a game I\u2019m playing from my backlog whether it a recent title or something from many console cycles ago. It won\u2019t be an actual review, but more of my impressions of the game up to that point. I also want to touch on any games in the zeitgeist by acknowledging if I\u2019m missing out and how hard it might be to pass them up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Though spoilers: I\u2019m not going to be successful 100%. There are certainly titles that will release I can\u2019t resist. For example, if\u00a0The Last of Us 2<\/em>\u00a0drops this year, I\u2019m not holding out on that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the end though, I have plenty at my disposal to choose from, but the following titles are some games in my backlog just quickly browsing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are plenty of others I\u2019ve picked up along the way through PS+, Humble Bundles, or just fantastic sales in general. So it\u2019s time for me to put up or shut up and dive into some games I\u2019ve had on the backburner for far too long. Maybe I\u2019ll finish them, maybe I won\u2019t. But I will finally be able to say I\u2019ve at least played them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then at the end of 2019, I would like to take a look and see what all Ive played throughout the year and even reflect on whether the focus on the backlog felt worth losing out on the brand new titles. I know I\u2019m particularly eager to see my response at that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n -Written by Josh Miller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (January 2, 2019) It\u2019s inescapable. No matter what you do, no matter how much time is devoted to it, it can\u2019t be stopped. It affects us all \u2013 the backlog. Comics, tv shows, movies, video games; so many avenues of media that we as human beings push aside with the honest (but foolish) intention that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102109308,"featured_media":245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12080],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vgu.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/dujkfjn7dzkrgwbydkehr6-320-80.jpg?ssl=1\")
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