It’s that time of year again. Everyone is on a diet, gym memberships just went through the roof. It’s resolution season.
While fitness, education, and all the usual resolutions are great, they usually end up falling through. Since you’re going to ditch your resolutions for video games anyway, you might as well spice things up!
Achievements for the Everyman
If you’re having trouble thinking about what your gaming resolutions might be, it’s totally fine sticking with broad, general options. It really doesn’t matter if you’re a casual gamer who enjoys puzzle games, or a hardcore competitive player out for blood (and victory); there’s something you can do. Try a new game, maybe branching out from your usual genre, or take a familiar game and put a spin on it. It’s pretty easy, but in case you need some inspiration, I decided to show you the kind of thing that I’m talking about.
Simple Achievements For You To Try
- Beat 25 Video Games (Any)
- Beat 10 Video Games on the Hardest Setting (Any)
- Unlock every achievement/trophy for a game
- Replay 10 of your favorite older games
- Try a game from a genre you usually don’t play
Play Your Way
When it really comes down to it, these goals are for the sole purpose of your enjoyment and challenging yourself. You don’t have to think way outside the box to something impossible, and you don’t have to use a cookie cutter either. You know what games you like to play, and you know how you like to play them. Start there, and expand outward.
Explore every last inch of your favorite sandbox game, or get your 10th Prestige in Call of Duty. The possibilities are endless… unless you only play one game, and if that is the case, simply make a resolution to play another one. See? No excuses.
You can even make resolutions for mobile games! Mine is to stop playing this one.
A Few Personal Achievements Of Mine
- Reach Gold: Division 1 in League of Legends
- Get a character to max level in the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion
- Expand my Steam Library (Open-ended is OK too)
- Reach Driver and Cop Rank 60 in Need for Speed: Rivals
- Purchase a Playstation 4.
Achievement Unlocked: Play a game of Mario Party with your friends… and retain your friendship.
Why Does It Matter
It really doesn’t. It’s just a fun way of breaking in the new year doing something that you enjoy and being constructive. Nobody’s going to make you do these, but it wouldn’t hurt to try. Ask your friends if they’d be interested, and you guys can bounce around ideas, or attempt them together. You can get competitive with it, assign points to each achievement and see who has the highest ‘gamerscore’ at the end of the year.
If you really want a full experience, you can write about your challenges as you complete them right here on GameSkinny. Don’t just play your video games in 2014; conquer them!
P.S. Don’t forget to share your gamer resolutions with us in the comments!
Published: Jan 12, 2014 10:57 am