My bizarre credit crunch saviour!

As some of you may have noticed I have been absent from blogging on Ready Up for a couple of months now due to illness. My immediate thought when I got ill was “hurray! I’m gonna get so much gaming done!” but unfortunately I just wasn’t well enough to stick to it. People play games in many different ways, as has been touched on by a previous blog of mine, with some playing one or two games to death at a time while others play a little bit of a HUGE stack of games at a time. Always favouring the first option myself I was appalled to find out that, after a quick count up, being ill has meant I am currently playing 7 games!

It’s almost like a neat-freak obsession of mine to play, trade in and repeat to stop a huge pile of games building up so now I’m now desperately trying to get some finished and out the door. Where I would usually strive to get ridiculous achievements on the couple of games I am playing, I find myself struggling to get on top of the ones I’m already playing and even finish them. In this horrible time of the “c” word (I may have used it in the title but I despise it!) this is saving me a small fortune.

I would normally be buying up every title I didn’t quite get round to playing in 2008 in the January sales but I haven’t purchased anything! Sure, I got the compulsory game for Xmas from my Dad (Fallout 3) but I refuse to even start that until I finish some others off. It’s a good game and deserves the attention I can only give it whilst not juggling games like some ridiculous circus act!

So there we have it. I’m back from being ill and I’m back blogging with more money in my pocket thanks to being sick… I’m just so behind! I hope everyone is enjoying any Xmas pressie games they got and sticking to their resolutions. Speaking of which I fully intend to break down the lead on the Ready Up scoreboard. I’m fed up of being second and this year I’m at least gonna get closer. Don’t panic too much Jake, I’m still not gonna resort to playing King Kong!


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4 responses to “My bizarre credit crunch saviour!”

  1. blagmasterg avatar
    blagmasterg

    Hear Hear! I have been having much the same thoughts of late. I am a compulsive Magpie by nature when it comes to games usually, and because of this I have a huge pile of unfinished pile of games. However, a combination of the credit crunch, the fact that I work in the mortgage industry and the fact that I am supposed to be saving money to finally make an honest woman of MrsG means that I do not have the budget to continue with this habit.

    Yet I do not feel resentful about this restraint on my wallet, rather I feel grateful as it means that I too now have to play the games that I have, getting the maximum enjoyment from each one. If this carries on much longer, I will be in the (for me) uniquie position of actually having played to completion all of the decent games that up until now have stared accusingly at me from the shelf as I played the first few hours of the next new shiny thing. Its all good people, its all good.

  2. Lorna avatar
    Lorna

    Agreed. I have so many games deserving of attention, that when I found myself automatically surfing the net in search of bargains, I stopped myself. Not only do I have a stack of 360 games which either are half played or still in their wrappers, but a ton of PC and retro games which are laying untouched. Not everything to come out of the big crunch has ben bad then 😀

  3. Rob avatar
    Rob

    glad your feeling better. I’m still ye to play fallout either. Its probably tenext gae to buy on my ever growing list

  4. Dave G avatar
    Dave G

    Ah, how things have turned. Recently I’ve been breaking old habits and actually finishing games…which I’ve rarely done in years. I usually only get about a third of the way into a game before the next shiny one appears and I’m lured away.

    However, recently I’ve completed Tomb Raider Underworld, Dead Space, Gears 2 and am well on the way with Prince of Persia. Now you’re not completing games! What next, my gamer score beats yours?

    Okay, maybe not – LOL.

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