2012, The Year of the RPG

So the past few years I had set some rather lofty goals in terms of gaming.  Last year, for example, I set a goal to beat 50 games.  That took some serious game time to pull off.

For 2012, I'm going a different direction.  This year, it won't be about quantity at all.   Out of necessity, in order to meet the target number in 2011, I deliberately avoided RPGs.   This year however, I think it's going to be all about RPGs.

I took a look at my library and decided that there's a whole mess of RPGs that I really want to play.   So that's pretty much it, 2012 will be the Year of the RPG.   So what's on my list?   These are the RPGs I'd like to play.   I am not saying that I am going to beat all of these, rather, I just want to play them and if I don't get to them all, that's probably cause I was having a great time with some of the others on the list:

So here is it roughly in the order that I want to tackle it:

• Demon's Souls (well I already did this in January, but it was a 2012 beat)
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
• Kingdom Hearts II
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
• Final Fantasy XIII-2
• Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana
• Borderlands
• Suikoden II
• Wild Arms: Alter Code F
• Tales of Destiny
• Fable
• Xenogears
• Folklore

On the handheld I'd like to beat:

• Star Ocean: First Departure
• Final Fantasy IV (DS version)
• Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 2: Innocent Sin
• Etrian Odyssey

And one final thing I'd like to do is actually get a C on a Final Fantasy game so I've decided I'm going to, at some point this year, Complete Final Fantasy I.   I'll be playing the Origins version on Hard.  And I have to get 100% on the Beastiary and unlock all the art to do so.

And that's it!  No other goals or anything.  Just a bunch of games I want to play.