Anyone else have a gaming to-do list? You know, the pile of stuff you've been meaning to play or finish off for ages but never seem to get round to? Mine is made up of two types of game - worthy and leftfield. The former includes titles with steep learning curves that are clearly worth the effort - Medieval: Total War 2, X3: Reunion, anything by Sid Meier - but rarely outvote their more accessible brethren when it comes to those precious hours of post-work leisure time. The latter are the curios - ie Killer 7 - kept for occasional gaming espresso shots but rarely played to full completion.
The 360 has actually made things worse. Nowadays even the more obscure "finished" game can hang around on the to-do list while you plan one final achievement point raid.
And the pile has no time limit either. I recently rediscovered some PC games - Typing of the Dead! - that had been on the to-do list years ago but had continually been ignored, presumably because I'd stuck them in a dusty cupboard. The highlight was sci-fi title Outcast. This was a game I loved the potential of back in '99 but didn't have a PC powerful enough to do it justice. Eight years on I have the PC, but can I get the game to run in XP? Nope. Perhaps it's for the best. My hazy memories of the game - a hugely ambitious yet horribly unforgiving sci-fi adventure - are probably preferable to the reality. This recent retrospective, however, is tempting me to try again.
Gaming to-do lists then, what's on yours?
