I've been in a bit of a rut lately.
I did an analysis of my Steam library, tabulating the games I have played, and the amount of time I spent on each of them, and I notice a pattern: I spend most of my time playing a handful of games, at the expense of other titles I own. (The same is true of my Desura account).
So, which games HAVE I been playing over the past year? On my Steam account, I spent the majority of my free time in 2012 playing multiplayer co-op titles, mainly Team Fortress 2 and Killing Floor. Between these two titles, I have spent over 600 hours (though not all in the past year). On Desura, I played mainly Fist Puncher, Tomes of Mephistopheles (before the game was put on hold), and UnEpic. I also played ALL of the standalone games I purchased this year from Wadjet Eye Games, an indie developer (Gemini Rue, Resonance, and Da New Guys). Of the 89 games that I own on Steam (I blame Steam sales, haha) I've only ever played about 60% of the titles. Fully 40% are games that I own and have never played.
I get quite a lot of mileage out of free-to-play games like TF2 and others, and haven't really expanded my gaming horizons, despite my attempts to do so buying quality titles. My favorite games still are epic RPG's, First Person Shooters, and turn-based and real-time strategy games like Warlock and Civilization.
If I were to have a New Year's resolution for 2013 it would be to stop buying games because they are critically acclaimed or on sale, and buy only games that interest me. It's all too easy to get drawn in by marketing hype (influencers) and what my friends are playing. This year, I'd rather have fewer games that mean more to me, than have a whole bunch of games that mean nothing.
