Another New Gaming Plan

It’s been a while since I have rambled about gaming, and it’s actually been a while since I focused on gaming in any sense. I would like to change all that, but I know I have a tendency to get all worked up…get started in a game…then burnout leaving unwritten posts, unfinished quests, and a character that sits forever in limbo somewhere between the first quarter and first 3rd of the game.

It’s genuinely frustrating…and I would like to break out of this pattern.

I’m currently running through LOTRO with a Hobbit Warden and with a Beorning on Treebeard, but those have been languishing for a bit (as in over a month)…I haven’t even published anything about my Out of the Park Baseball Mulligan season, and I’m frustrated that MLB is doing it’s best to ruin the 2022 season.

Things are just all out of whack, and I need something to get me back on track in gaming…in rambling…in my BTG world.

With COVID…lockouts…war looming in Ukraine…I need something to rewrite the narrative and turn me away from the troubles in the world and give me a chance to focus on a diversion that I can sink my teeth into and one that I can be motivated to complete.

So I started looking around and saw the upcoming March Madness tournament. It’s always fun to plan out my brackets, and at one point in my life, I actually knew which teams were good. Now, I typically pick the teams with the best record or coolest mascot and get lucky if I don’t have a busted bracket after the second round.

But I’m not looking to use the NCAA tournament for my breakout, nor am I looking to one of my favorite March Madness tournaments – the March Mammal Madness tournament, which starts soon, and I’ll try to cover again.

No…I’m looking to put together a Gaming Tournament. Not one to pit people playing games against each other, but to pit the games themselves against each other in my own battle to determine and pick a game that I want to dedicate myself to completing.

So here’s the basics of my plan…

1) Put together a list of 64 games that I would reasonably enjoy playing.
2) Set them up in a tournament grid randomly.
3) Let the fun begin by choosing which game takes the match based purely on subjective and personal preference.
4) One game will eventually win the tournament and will become my go-to game until I finish it, reach endgame, or some semblance of completion.

I am looking forward to testing this out, and if it works, perhaps I’ll use this method to pick all my future games…we’ll see how it goes.

Ramble 86 |Dingo 1| 2022.10 | Another New Gaming Plan