In other game related news, not only is Psychonauts 2 potentially happening thanks to the creator of Minecraft and a Twitter conversation, but the guy behind it is crowdsourcing funding for another game his studio is going to work on and provide various rewards for the different levels of support. Easy project to decide to support given my love for his other games, and I’m a sucker for cheap “indie” games anyway. Maybe this was the right answer to yesterday’s question about what my next purchase was going to be: all the games in the world.

So now with this in my hands, what’s going to be my next purchase? Well, upgrading my desktop I probably going to be delayed even a little more, so I’d put it in a timeframe possibly closer to my laptop (or potentially even next year). The Wii U launches this summer, and it’ll probably be close to a Day 1 purchase for me assuming I can preorder one successfully. The Vita definitely is not a Day 1 purchase, and while a new phone might be in the cards for this spring, the fall is more likely. Seems like for the next couple of months, my wallet is wide open for something to swoop in and steal both my heart and credit card.

By this point last month I was almost done with Arkham Asylum, but I’ve yet to start Mass Effect 2 at all yet. I did move my saves from the first game into the cloud (for whatever that’s worth at this point), and I’ve been keeping my other game playing desires in check. My reading desires not so much, but there was nothing in the YotGotYGP rules about that.

With my recruiting trip last week, there haven’t been two consecutive work weeks where I’ve been in my office all five days since December. I should be there all five days this week (barring a Wednesday where I stay home), and next week is looking pretty strong for 100% office time as well. Hmmm, I’ve already had weather and an unexpected trip be interruptions. Maybe a power outage in my building next time?

My Super Bowl plans tomorrow involve staying in my building but just heading down a couple floors to a party. It may not be as cool as the party from last year that I had, but it’ll do as a decent alternative. If the Giants win though, then the size of the party is completely irrelevant since it’ll be an awesome day regardless.

In other news, the PATV episode today was about the Child’s Play golf tournament and dinner last year, both events that I worked. You’ve seen the videos of PAX, you’ve seen the video of what Enforcers are like, so it seems only fair that I let you round out the video experience by seeing what the third component of my Penny Arcade volunteer life is like. Go watch, my readers.

The presentation went well today; as always there were more people than what Microsoft was anticipating it seemed like. You’d think that by now they should just plan on 300 people at presentations and reuse whatever is left over at the end. Oh well, I’m not the one who gets to make those decisions. In fact, my only real decision to make for the rest of the trip is the one in the first paragraph as aside from work, it’s the primary candidate for consuming the most of my next 40 or so hours.

As I’d think would be obvious, this trip is for recruiting, but it isn’t nearly to the scale of the fall one. Literally the only thing I have going on is a presentation at 5:30 tomorrow, and that’s it. I fly back on Saturday because while my normal plan would be Sunday (and was in fact that for 16 hours or so), there’s this little thing called the Super Bowl happening that I sort of want to watch. So yeah, heading back on a day that I’d otherwise just hanging around here rather than being on a plane getting updates from the pilot.

This trip is also the reason why I had to adjust my February YotGotYGP game; I decided that since a 360 is down here and hooked up, it might be worth my while for it to be a game that I could actually start. In fact, this is a game that I was planning on starting down here last Christmas, but Fable didn’t get played quite effectively enough for that to happen, and it’s been languishing on my shelves ever since. Never fear though, for now is the time to play it…

YotGotYGP Game for February 2012: Mass Effect 2

Speaking of, you’ll figure out just what that game is going to be in tomorrow’s post. It’s still a game that I owned before coming up with this idea; I’m at least going to try to focus on the ones I wanted to play regardless before I move into the category of games I had to buy just to fill out my calendar. In fact, I’ve even talked about it before, but I don’t expect that to be any sort of giveaway considering just how many games I mention.

I put some effort into Assassin’s Creed 2 over the weekend, but it’s just not going to get done by tomorrow. I’ll also admit that I might have broken down and started to play Skylanders as well. I really just played the “get to know the game” levels, but the gameplay is actually fun. I haven’t yet encountered anything that requires the use of any of the non-three starter figures. “Required” may be too strong of a word here; you never really need any other characters to beat the game, but if you want to get to all of the optional areas, then that’s when they start to become necessary. Also, they’re something to collect, and who doesn’t like collecting stuff?