The year is ending and a new decade is upon us, which means a chance to reinvent ourselves and embark on new adventures. It also means more video games. As the new year approaches, we ask: what are your video game resolutions?
Resolutions are largely arbitrary, but thereās still fun in setting a goal. Head to the gym, find a new hobby, get your legal name changed, go skydiving. You might also try something a bit more digital: Beat your old Pac-Man high score, play through all the Final Fantasy games finally. When it comes to video games, thereās a lot of things to do, and the new year is a great chance to do them.
āIām finally upgrading the storage on all my consoles because lifeās too short to keep deleting and re-downloading The Witcher 3,ā my coworker Ethan Gach told me. A modest resolution that will pay off in the long term.
āI really want to try to climb Timberwolf Mountain in The Long Dark,ā Editor at Large Riley MacLeod said when asked. I donāt know how hard that is, but every game has their āmountain,ā a challenge that you really want to buckle down and face.
I want to do both of these kinds of things. First, I want to clean up and organize my terrifying gaming shelf before its coils of possibly-sentient HDMI cables choke me to death. I might even bite the bullet and pack up some of the console Iām not using. Still, Iām in a competitive mood heading into 2020. I want to keep climbing the ranks in Hearthstone Ā and, if time permits, I want to find folks to raid with in Final Fantasy XIV. At a minimum, I want to start clearing more āExtremeā fights on release. Grind up my gear, join groups of motivated people, and defeat bigger challenges.
What about you? What are your gaming resolutions in the new year? (Also, if youāre in the comments like āmy resolution is 1080pā or whatever, my new resolution is to fight you.)
