Open World Blues
2015 was a wonderful year in gaming. I mean we got Batman , The Witcher 3 , Metal Gear Solid V , Fall Out 4 , Xenoblade Chronicles X (XCX), and a whole list of other blockbusters. Hundreds of hours of content released in a single year, and all I can think about is all that time. Vast and sprawling worlds have been made for me to explore and enjoy—and there is so much to see and do in them—but I can't help thinking of the lack of time there is to do so. 2015 brought that realization: I simply didn’t have time to enjoy every game I wanted to. My backlog of Steam games is so big that I don't even remember what games are in my library! I sometimes peruse games on sale only to realize that I already own them. For some reason, discovering that I already own the game makes me averse to actually playing it. So I took a step back and decided to forgo my Steam backlog. I had this sense of wonder with the gaming world in 2015, simply because I played the games I really w...