So next week is the annual TA Bean Dive. I have yet to participate in this event, but I'm thinking I might this year. See, I usually didn't join in the fun because I only had maybe half a dozen games I hadn't started in my possession. This year, thanks to the Games with Gold program, I have quite a few games I can "dive" and not feel like it is a wasted thing. I think for it to not be a wasted event a gamer should "dive" at least 20 games. I'm thinking I have that many on my backlog. Here's what I can find in esoteric order:

1. Defense Grid 2
   
2. Goat Simulator
   
3. Grid 2
   
4. Super Meatboy
   
5. Sunset Overdrive
   
6. The Crew
   
7. Alien: Isolation
   
8. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
   
9. Costume Quest 2
   
10. Deus Ex: Human Revolution
    
11. DiRT 3
    
12. DiRT Showdown
    
13. Doritos Crash Course
    
14. Dungeon Siege III
    
15. Game of Thrones
    
16. GoW: Judgment
    
17. How to Survive: Storm Warning Edition
    
18. Just Cause 2
    
19. Killer Instinct
    
20. Knight Squad
    
21. Massive Chalice
    
22. MGS V: Ground Zeros
    
23. Monaco: WYIM
    
24. SSX
    
25. Styx: Master of Shadows
    
26. Tales From the Borderlands
    
27. TC's RainbowSix: Vegas
    
28. The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing
    
29. The LEGO Movie Videogame
    
30. The Witcher 2
    
31. Thief
    
32. ZHEROS
    

That's a long list and that's only from looking at what I can play on my X1 download menu. I still have 11 or so Win 8 games I bought when they were ten cent a piece and I'm sure a handful of 360 games that aren't backward compatible. Close to 50 games I can bean dive. I think I might actually do it this year and see if that gives me motivation to play any of these. If it doesn't I guess my massive completion percentage of 53 or so will really go into the tank.

-F