February 2021
Well, February was a good month but my plans got disrupted pretty quickly. My first intention was to continue playing Xenoblade Chronicles on the Wii but I didn't. The reason is that after catching up with The Expanse, I really wanted to play a space game. I picked The Outer Worlds, the last game I bought in 2020, and it sucked me in for 53 hours. My second objective was to knock at least one game off my Tag Challenge list. I did try but after 41 hours, I'm still not done with BlazBlue: Chronophantasma Extent!
You may be aware of my personal challenge to refrain from buying any game except for Humble Choice and looking at the 14 games I added this month, you may think I've failed. I came quite close but there is a twist to the story. The day the new Artifex Mundi bundle came out, I was really tempted to get it. I told my kids about it (my daughter loves HOGs) and my son said to me: "Look Daddy, I'll give you 5 euros out of my pocket money to get the bundle and I'll trade it to you. I offered him 4 TF2 keys so he could sell them on Steam and make a little profit. He agreed and I activated 8 new games into my account :) The rest are just trades I've made on Steamtrades.
For March, I don't have a definite list of games I want to play but I'm going to make it "Couch March" and exclusively play from my couch. My computer is hooked to my TV so I'll only play Steam games with controller support, my Nintendo consoles (SNES Mini, Wii, Switch, DS, 3DS) and my emulation handheld (Pocket Go).
Stay safe and keep playing. Lengray out :)
Ahaha smart move (and smart kids). I’m glad I’m not the only one who caved in getting this bundle. After all, it was quite a good one for HoG addicts, there was (almost?) no repeats.
A month of couch gaming sounds like a great idea! I really need to sort my games by which ones work well in remote play and which ones don’t. It’s a shame that most VNs don’t work with a controller cuz I’d totally snuggle on the couch to read them. Good luck for your march objective!
That’s one of the reasons why I got a Steam controller when they were having that “last chance” sale and I almost exclusively use it for VNs and other relaxing games.
Thanks for supporting my couch potato effort :)
I will regret forever not getting one on that last sale. I was even regretting not having a steam link but when I got the fiber they upgraded my freebox to the mini and the tv module is basically an android box and works with the steam app, so that solved that. Still wish I had got one of those steam controllers for cheap.