That was the year it was: 2012

So this will be my last post for 2012 - Because the festive season is here and there are people who I should spend some time with. And besides, I haven't had a lot to say recently but considering the time of year, it doesn't seem that much of a surprise.

So what does 2012 represent for me in gaming terms? I think it can be easily be boiled down to two things: Online gaming and Good Old Games. It may not sound like much to some of the rest of you but since when I've been concerned with what people think about this blog? I move to my own beat and I like it like that.

But I digress.
Firstly, online gaming. I haven't had much to do with it previously, but 2012 will forever be the time I took my first step into this unfamiliar territory.  And what better way than with the untouchable king of all online games, World of Warcraft. As a newcomer to this I did find a lot to enjoy with playing a game with the same group of people, regular meetings (twice weekly) for questing and making friends. In retrospect, I think I enjoyed the social element of online gaming better than the actual game itself.
But I also found that online gaming does indeed require a large time commitment - even to the point of excluding all other games. And it does seem absurd to have sunk countless hours into World of Warcraft when I have so many other games left unbeaten.
So in the end I did find much to enjoy with online gaming and it's something I would indeed like to return to future - but to do so would require two things on my end: a) a game that is actually heaps of fun to play and b) a lot more strikings from my Hall of Shame.

And then there's Good Old Games. It's not my first foray into downloadable games but it as a source of tracking down classic games it can't be beat. Much of the games I've picked up through GoG have been the kind that slipped my grasp the first time around and it's great to finally play something my gaming comrades experienced years earlier. I like the preservation that GoG offers and one can only wonder how much effort their lawyers went to to make these games available.

Funnily enough, since discovering GoG, along with World of Warcraft, a lot of time has been devoted to my PC as a gaming platform. As such my 360, Wii and even my PS2 have been looking rather unused of late. Needless to say, it would be interesting to see, over the course of the next twelve months, which platform gets the most use.

And that's the end of Game Tumour for 2012. Thank you for reading this blog throughout the past twelve months and I hope to see you on the other side of 2013.
(unless of course the Mayans turned out be right all along....)