Hey, how are you? This is my first blog post on here. My name is Richard, and I used to do a YouTube thing with this same name, but I decided to switch it up to a blog instead. I realized that I like writing better than making videos, and I also have a lot more skill in doing this. Welcome to the new EfreetEater blog.
Have you heard about Four in February? It doesn't seem like it's particularly well known, being created in 2013 by writers at Kotaku and Joystiq. It's an initiative to complete four video games in February, as a lot of gamers don't get around to actually completing games that they own or play. There have been minor studies and amounts of research into this phenomenon, and basically, less than 50% of players tend to finish games. It seems that around 5% (or more) of owners don't even play the game that they own. I can say that I am certainly guilty of both of these as well. I own something like 2,000 physical video games and 500 digital games, but I have only finished around 350 video games total. That total also includes games that I do not own as well. I should mention that some of the games I own, probably around 10% of them, cannot actually be completed. These are mostly games from the late 70s and early 80s, stuff on the Atari 2600 and Intellivision, that don't have a story or ending. But that still leaves around 1,700 to 1,800 games that I could have completed. Last year, I completed 117 games, because I wanted to buck this bad trend. It started with Four in February. This year, I intend to do something similar
Last year, I picked Light Crusader on Sega Genesis, and Ghost in the Shell, Saiyuki: Journey West, and Loaded on the original Sony PlayStation. Of these games, I only completed Ghost in the Shell in Februrary. I completed Saiyuki: Journey West, a game that I had started years ago, later in the year. I did play Loaded in February but found it to be too difficult once I reached a certain level; I do intend to go back and finish that one day. As for Light Crusader, possibly the first RPG of any sort that I ever played (it's either that or Spiritual Warfare for my first action-RPG), I never even got around to getting around to it again. This February, I don't plan on missing the mark.
My Four in February for 2019 are Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstein (Dreamcast), The Bouncer (PlayStation 2), The Adventures of Cookie & Cream (PlayStation 2), and Undertale (Steam). I have played Star Gladiator: Episode 1 - Final Crusade on the original PlayStation, and have been excited to play its sequel for quite some time. I watched my friend Shane play much of The Bouncer back when that was new but did not play it that much myself. My partner Kaiti and I started The Adventures of Cookie & Cream fairly recently and the same can be said of Undertale (except I'm playing that solo). It's gonna be a fun month of finishing these games, and I am sure that I will complete many other games too. I hope that you come back and read about my adventures into these, and other, virtual worlds.
Last year, I picked Light Crusader on Sega Genesis, and Ghost in the Shell, Saiyuki: Journey West, and Loaded on the original Sony PlayStation. Of these games, I only completed Ghost in the Shell in Februrary. I completed Saiyuki: Journey West, a game that I had started years ago, later in the year. I did play Loaded in February but found it to be too difficult once I reached a certain level; I do intend to go back and finish that one day. As for Light Crusader, possibly the first RPG of any sort that I ever played (it's either that or Spiritual Warfare for my first action-RPG), I never even got around to getting around to it again. This February, I don't plan on missing the mark.
My Four in February for 2019 are Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstein (Dreamcast), The Bouncer (PlayStation 2), The Adventures of Cookie & Cream (PlayStation 2), and Undertale (Steam). I have played Star Gladiator: Episode 1 - Final Crusade on the original PlayStation, and have been excited to play its sequel for quite some time. I watched my friend Shane play much of The Bouncer back when that was new but did not play it that much myself. My partner Kaiti and I started The Adventures of Cookie & Cream fairly recently and the same can be said of Undertale (except I'm playing that solo). It's gonna be a fun month of finishing these games, and I am sure that I will complete many other games too. I hope that you come back and read about my adventures into these, and other, virtual worlds.
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