Monday, August 27, 2012

A Brilliant New Idea!

Many months ago, one of my friends passed me along this link:


Basically, somebody wrote a script to analyze your Steam account information and throw lots of interesting stats in your face.  For example, I’ve logged 494.8 hours in Sid Meier’s Civilization 5; my total time played while logged into Steam is 1572.50 hours; and I’ve never played 37.7% of the games I own through Steam (43).

Now, those last two factoids are actually wildly incorrect.  According to Steam I’ve never played any of the Half-Life series, nor have I played any of the first six Grand Theft Auto Games.  In some cases this is patently false, while others are half-truths (there are a number of games I originally bought and played outside of Steam, and then later repurchased as a digital copy through Steam for convenience).  There’s also the matter of DLC (downloadable content), which merely adds to a preexisting game rather than being something completely new.

Having said that, it was surprising to manually go through and see how many games I haven’t played, or have played for less than an hour (32 in all).  To rectify this embarrassing situation, I plan on spending one hour on each of these games and then sharing my thoughts with you.  I shall call it, “One (Hour) At a Time.” 

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