My Recommitment to Gaming for 2018

I’m in for another year of gaming. MLB 17: The Show, which I purchased, as usual, late in the year at half price, sits in my suitcase. I made a commitment to buy a keyboard extension to my PS4™ controller so I can ask Rocket League opponents why they feel the need to run up the score on me. Based on the reviews, the Bluetooth connection between the keyboard and the console dies after a minute of non-use, which sounds like a very short amount of time. A similarly short amount of time elapses between the “second screen” iOS app, which Sony had the wisdom to make a separate app, and it disconnecting. Standing in the Best Buy, with a week between my reunion with my gaming platform of choice, I decided to buy the Chatpad or Chatboost online, and ordered closer to when I get back so it will be waiting for me at the door (or at least arrive shortly thereafter).

I have gone 2 weeks without gaming, for the bulk of Rocket League’s Winter Event, now over. My time with the event was long enough to get the banner, which is all I wanted in terms of items. 2018 will bring season 7, coming soon, and who knows what kind of special event that I’ll almost certainly be traveling for half of. I still like Rocket League enough to want to be better than just good at it, somewhere between good and great, or at least just good enough that my teammate in 2-on-2 doesn’t express their frustration with me. That might involve coaching beyond the lessons that are inside the game, which I have opinions about.

This single-year blog turned into a multi-year effort, hence the renaming in August of the site to The Gaming Years. I registered a Twitter account for the site if following that is more your bag. As long as there’s time to kill, I’ll keep gaming, and as long as I’m gaming, I’ll keep writing about it.