I failed
Pardon the overtly dramatic title, but there's a new Dragon Age game coming out this month (Oct.). And I'm cautiously excited for it.
I've been a fan of this series for a bit now. I played the games quite late, as in within the past two years. There's three of them. I've only finished the first two.
My plan, in preparation for this new release, was to replay the first two and finally finish the third one.
The new one was revealed (via a pretty weird trailer, tone wise) in June. I figured I could handle one game a month. So, Dragon Age: Origins in July; Dragon Age II in Aug.; and, finally, Dragon Age: Inquisition in Sept. That'd leave me a month for my brain to decompress from RPG-goodness and lie in wait.
However... I completely failed. I legit only played like an hour of the first one. I guess I just got too preoccupied with life. That, and I'm not particularly good at time management when it comes to my hobbies. Part of the problem is that I have so many: playing video games, reading, programming / game development, 3D modelling, folding origami, etc. Too much shit to do in one day. And that's not including life / work commitments.
Also, even though I've played the first two, they're still big-ass role-playing games. I feel they take a bit more commitment / effort to get through considering things like story and lore, characters, relationships, stats, armor and weaponry, skills, and so one. There are a lot of moving parts as opposed to something like a multiplayer game where I can "turn my brain off."
Too bad. Either way, I'm broke, so it's not like I have pocket money for a $70 game right now. I do plan to eventually replay the games... once I've cleared my backlog, hah.