It’s been nearly a month since my PS5 got here and I resolved to complete games before I buy anymore. How has that gone?

Not bad actually. I have bought 1 game (Fitness Boxing 2) for the Switch, and as that’s an ‘exercise’ game, it doesn’t count. So I have kept my resolve and not bought any new games. I was helped in this endeavour by sending mum my christmas list early. I put them on the list so I can’t get them for myself.

How has completing the games gone? Mixed is the answer.

I completed the free Astro’s Playroom game that came with the PS5. It’s not 100% because I haven’t beaten the time trials. I’m not good with timers so I’m giving myself a pass on that. Otherwise it’s completed, I think it’s showing 92% or something which is close enough.

The next game on the list was Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 on the Switch. That confuses me a bit. There’s some equippable crystals, what’s good? I don’t know. There’s some other advancement trees and I’m not sure what I’m supposed to put the currency into first. Why do they have to make it so complicated? I haven’t quite got to the end of the story, and then I think the idea is you start over at the beginning on a harder difficulty. I’ll go back to it eventually but it does feel like one of those ‘never ending’ things rather than something I can actually complete.

Which brings me to Assassin’s Creed: Origins. I’ve become fairly obsessed with it again over the past week, ever since I discovered I could link my PS5 controllers to my PC and use those instead. All my camera problems, my complete inability to aim a bow and arrow? Gone. Turns out the right controller solves all of that. Today I finished the main campaign but I still have a ton of sidequests, all the DLC and most of the achievements to tackle.

I’ve played Ratchet and Clank a couple of times on the PS5 but I’m not very far into it yet. Now I’ve got to a natural pause point with AC: Origins I should perhaps go back to it. On the other hand I do have about another 9 AC games still to go.

AC: Origins is such a beautiful game though. Visually it is stunning. It’s also easy to understand what I need to do for gear, ability points, quests etc. I’ve had little trials of some of the other AC games and I know I found parts of them confusing. I’m probably easily confused. I read yesterday that they are thinking 2024 before another AC game comes out. Given how much I have to complete I’m relieved. Maybe I’ll be up to date by then.