Gaming Goals

[Prof. Amy Lupin]

One of the things I'm looking forward to this year is playing boardgames more regularly. My usual gaming group generally meets twice a week, though in the past I've only aimed for once a week due to the distance. Between this group, potentially two smaller groups, and a gaming day that the one retailer puts on roughly once per month, I'm hoping to play boardgames at least 4-6 times a month going forward.

I'm also aiming to play at least 1-2 new boardgames a month (at least new to me), including several that have been sitting on my shelf for a while. Fortunately, the gaming day I mentioned has 300-400 demos to choose from.

A goal that seems popular in some boardgaming communities is "10x10", or in other words, playing 10 different games 10 times each, usually aimed at reducing the number of unplayed games one owns. This isn't a goal I'm especially aiming for as I tend to enjoy variety and even some of my favourite games I try to space out, lest I lose interest in them. That being said, there were some games I definitely did get at least 10 plays of last year, such as Azul and Century: Spice Road.

As far as video games are concerned, last year saw me get back into them with the Mass Effect trilogy. I'm aiming to finish off Mass Effect 3 this month or next, and am hoping to fit in a few more older titles this year, such as Shadowrunner, Thief (one of my brothers played a fair bit of the series) and Lost Odyssey (I've been wanting to play this ever since it first came out as it was around the time I got into Final Fantasy VII, and it was produced by the same company). I'm also hoping to explore other video game genres, such as strategy games.

Do you have any gaming goals for the year ahead? Are there any high scores you want to try beat or games you'd like to win?

[Prof. Alexander Brighton]

I play some board games, I sometimes have game nights with friends and sometimes family and we'll play games like Sorry, Skip-bo, Apples to Apples, Harry Potter Scene It and I just got a Harry Potter Clue game, and another board game called Harry Potter Maze Game, so we'll probably add those in.

I am really into Videogames. Harry Potter, Pokemon, Mario Kart, and Uno are a few of the videogames I play. My goal right now is to beat my brother in Uno on the Nintendo Switch! But another goal is to get a high score in Mario Kart.

[Shadow Gaunt]

My goals are very simple: try and gather my family at least once a month for a bunch of board games. We have several favorites: Sushi Go, Dominion, Scotland Yard, etc. (I'm forgetting a lot) and I think that actively trying to play them (in fall 2018, for instance, we only played 3-5 times) will be really fun and connecting!

[Prof. Amy Lupin]

One month into the year, and I seem to be on track with my goal of playing boardgames more regularly. I've also enjoyed following the progress a friend of mine is making with their own boardgaming goals (as well as contributing to it). They've already reached their 5x5 goal (6 plays of my copy of Mint Works helped with this) as well as their goal of playing 10 new games (which also helped with my own goal of playing some of the unplayed games on my shelf). Their other two goals are a 10x10 and playing 20 new games, though they're already talking of expanding those.

In terms of scores, I'm hoping to get as close to 100 as I can in a game of Azul… I've managed somewhere in the 90s once or twice before, but I'm curious to see if I can manage more than 95 at least once.

[Blake Gaunt]

I play fortnite regularly, sometimes for several hours a day. There's never more of an outcome than me de-stressing, or generally having a good time, which is totally fine, cuz it is "just a game" However, my goal for this year is to play in as well as place in a cash cup.

[Mabel Maee]

My goal right now is to finish every single game in my library, becase I have bad habbit of buying games and then not playing them. So I really wish to finish 2 more AAA games this year. (I am almost finished with Hogwarts Legacy, and then I want to finish Days Gone and Red Dead Redemption).

[Adeline Morior]

Mine is to just go back online and finish building our base, cause now I have 50 tamed wolfs still not in their little area I am busy building for them on Valheim Also I need to stop buying games and actually play the ones I baught but haven't touched...

[Janne Halla]

I really want to branch out of my comfort video games genre. I usually only play single-player Western RPG, because they're the most accessible ones and I can't really participate on teamspeak, for example, unless it's text only.

However, past year or so, I've been playing genres or play-styles I don't normally do, like soulslike games, roguelikes, and even turn-based games. The latter especially, I really disliked to do. I connected them to heavy-strategy, which isn't really my forte. But! I recently beat Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and despite it being turn-based game, I loved it! Story especially is something on another level.

I saw just how much I limited myself focusing only on one narrow genre. So, my goal is to branch out even more and see what I've been missing all these years.

[Anne-Marie Gagne]

I have so many video games I need to play through. Connecting Amazon Prime to my Twitch account is great for that free subscription to a streamer but it also gives out free games so often that my backlog just keeps growing and growing and growing and growing. (And then I just play the same games I'm always playing.)

I will say, after I finish stuff for Legends Z-A, I may yoink my brother's copy of Legends Arceus so I can finally play that one. Though I may go and finish some games I have started, like Assassin's Creed Liberation that I started on my Switch or Yakuza 0 that I started on my PC and on my PS4 heh.

I will say, I'm definitely going to get my family to play Clue again this Thanksgiving. It was a lot of fun when we did it last Christmas and my mom has a really nice Clue board that has a glass top and everything. My dad is also 3D printing his own chess board/pieces so if that's done, we'll have to play that too haha.

[Rosalyn Riddle]

Hey everyone! I'm a Hogwarts Legacy player, and I really enjoy the game(I just wish there was more school life and normal Hogwarts things). Overall so much fun though! My goal is to find all of the Field Guide Pages(things to find all around the map), and to get to the max level. I love some of the mods people have made, because now my character is really pretty!

[Sal Angline]

I would really like to finish FFVII as well as the remake. I got into FF7 back in 2021 and bought the original game. But I was dying to play the remake, and I bought that as well only a few months later. I've been playing the remake on and off since 2022, but still haven't sat down and finished it. I'm so close! Maybe over the break I'll finally finish the remake and even the original, because I would love to play Rebirth someday.