End-of-year Overload

Growing up, gaming for me was mostly Sonic the Hedgehog, and Micro-Machines on Sega Megadrive. I would play those games for hours on end, and I was never concerned about the fact I had too many games to play.

These days I struggle, I have a full time job, wife, child, house, reading various articles and documents to keep up to speed in my work, and somehow I have to fit in time for friends and gaming, usually trying to combine the two.

At present I am trying to work through through not only the current release of games, some older ones I have been meaning to get back to as well as regular multiplayer with my mates.

Multiplayer at present is being dominated two nights a week by Destiny and Halo 5. Destiny is pretty much raiding on Thursdays with me gradually relearning Halo Skills on Monday nights (but mostly it’s good to be online with mates). With two dedicated nights for Multiplayer, it doesn’t leave room for other multiplayer games like Star Wars Battlefront…

Campaign wise, my game dedication is suffering, I managed to get Assassin’s Creed Syndicate finished, but at the expense of the continuation of Witcher III, which I sacrificed playing Far Cry 4 and Dragon Age III to play.

This is compounded with the fact that recent additions like Forza 6 and Rise of the Tomb Raider have barely got a look in, while games like Rainbow Six Siege and Fallout 4 will require a significant amount of my time in the near future.

What really gets me about all these games coming out at this time of year, is not only the cost, but the distinct lack of these sorts of games in the early to mid-year time frame. Space to play games and enjoy them before moving onto the next one, free of the risk of spoilers.

Admittedly there is the market for Christmas, but when you have a lull in options in the other end of the year, there is definitely the market for a franchise to benefit from the groups with disposable incomes, or those that like to spread their budgets out.