Games with Gold Challenge

I didn't make any New Year Resolutions this year.  Why?  I just wasn't feeling it.  With a resolution I was feeling the pressure of "I have to do it" . . . when in reality I rarely do.  So I didn't make any and I felt okay about that for a while.  Around the middle of January a thought occurred to me.  Instead of resolutions, why not a challenge? I had a moment of epiphany and I knew exactly what "challenge" I would undertake.

Every month I download the Games with Gold free games on Xbox . . . unless I have them already (that's happening more often than not nowadays).  Why not play ones of those?  Why not make a challenge out of it?  And so I did.

I've decided to pick one of the free games each month and try playing them.  Maybe even finishing them.  If I did that it would be 12 finishes in a year.  That might be a record for me.  I probably won't record them but I'll play them.

So far I've dabbled in Back to the Future: The Game and Zombi.   I got a little frustrated with Back to the Future because I had to go through and select every response option before I could progress the story.  It was at the Professor's house and you're trying to get the book back from Biff.  Having to go up to your dad and talk to him about 4 times before you could progress things was annoying.  But I'll keep playing.

In Zombi I got out of the training missions and was feeling only so-so confident in my ability to move on.  But it was time to go to bed so when I get back to it I might start all over to refresh my skills and be more confident in my ability to survive.  I am a serial starter after all.

It's an interesting concept for a challenge and I'm curious to see how it all plays out at the end of the year.  I'm not setting it as resolution as I don't want to force myself to do it and feel guilty if I fail.  There is no failure this way . . . just more new games to start playing.

Are you up to the challenge?  Could you pick one free game each month and play it to see what it's like?