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Previous Years: 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

First 50:
1. Tormented Souls - Switch
2. Battlefleet Gothic: Armada II - PC
3. Fantasy Empires - PC
4. Vagrant Story - PS1
5. Might and Magic 7: For Blood and Honor - PC
6. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown - Switch
7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project - NES
8. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth - PS5
9. Tomb Raider Remastered - PC
10. Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth - PS5
11. Unicorn Overlord - Switch
12. Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries: Solaris Showdown - PC
13. Princess Peach: Showtime - Switch
14. Fida Puti Samurai - PC
15. Fallout New Vegas: Dead Money - PC
16. Fallout New Vegas: Honest Hearts - PC
17. Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues - PC
18. Wrath: Aeon of Ruin - PC
19. Fallout New Vegas: Lonesome Road - PC
20. Super Buff HD - PC
21. SaGa Emerald Beyond - Switch
22. Blasphemous 2 - Switch
23. Trepang2 - PC
24. Homeworld 3 - PC
25. Blood West - PC
26. Marathon - PC
27. Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord - PC
28. Little Kitty, Big City - PC
29. Dread Delusion - PC
30. Alan Wake 2: Night Springs - PC
31. PO'ed: Definitive Edition - PC
32. Space Cats Tactics - PC
33. Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree - PS5
34. Balatro - PC
35. Afterimage - Switch
36. The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak - PS5
37. Lords of Exile - Switch
38. Infernax - Switch
39. Gravity Circuit - Switch
40. Doom 2: No Rest for the Living - PC
41. Doom 2: Legacy of Rust - PC
42. Doom 2: Master Levels - PC
43. The Lost Vikings 2 - PC
44. Visions of Mana - PS5
45. Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song Remastered - Switch
46. Warhammer 40000: Space Marine 2 - PC
47. Doom 2: TNT Evilution - PC
48. WrestleQuest - Switch
49. Doom 2: The Plutonia Experiment - PC
50. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom - Switch
51. Metaphor: ReFantazio - PS5
52. Mechwarrior 5: Clans - PC
53. Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred - PC
54. Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven - Switch
55. Dragon Age: The Veilguard - PC
56. STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl - PC
57. Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers - PC
58. Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake - Switch
59. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - PC
60. Extraneum - PC
61. Diluvian Ultra - PC
62. Starfield: Shattered Space - PC

Shattered Space is a piece of story DLC for Starfield that lets you finally engage with House Va'ruun, the folks who showed up as random bandits and were part of one of your party member's backstory. Unlike the base game, where planet hopping is the primary focus, here you spend almost your entire time on a single planet, evoking something closer to the Fallout model.

The DLC is triggered when you jump into a system that doesn't already have an event. You'll get a distress call from a space station, and after exploring it you'll trigger it to jump back home to the House Va'ruun homeworld, where the rest of the DLC takes place. The people have been working on experiments that ended up causing a bunch of people to turn into angry ghosts, as well as spatial distortions to open up and lock off the palace. Your goal is to get to the bottom of things.

There's not really much interesting things going on with the DLC, to be frank. They don't really do much with the whole ghost thing; once you learn the basis behind it you'll see the end coming a mile away, and it's not nearly as cool as the sidequest with multiple timelines. It's mostly an exercise in teleporting enemies that really drags down the combat, as now you just end up having to face tank everything and I hope you have enough medkits. Speaking of, the local shops carry very few, so come prepared.

The final thing that surprised me was just how short the DLC was. We definitely saw that with some of the Fallout DLCs, but in Starfield it feels even more egregious, due to the general scope of the game. I wouldn't recommend spending money on this, though if you already have it through a premium edition you might as well spend some time with it.
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1. Live A Live (RPG)(Switch)
2. Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion (Action)(Switch)
3. Pathway (Strategy [Tactics])(PC)
4. Rewind or Die (Horror Adventure)(PC)

5. Tomb Raider (Action Adventure)(PC)
6. Remnant: From the Ashes (Action RPG)(PC)
7. House Flipper (Simulation)(PC)
8. Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor (RPG)(PC)
9. Wild West and Wizards (FPS/RPG)(PC)
10. SPRAWL (FPS)(PC)
11. Lunacid (RPG)(PC)
12. PowerWash Simulator: SpongeBob SquarePants (FPS)(PC)
13. PowerWash Simulator: Warhammer 40,000 (FPS)(PC)
14. PowerWash Simulator: Back to the Future (FPS)(PC)

15. Marathon (FPS)(PC)
16. Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force (FPS)(PC)
17. Rome: Total War (Strategy)(PC)
18. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (FPS)(PC)

19. Thief II (Stealth)(PC)
20. Jydge (Top-Down Shooter)(PC)

21. Command & Conquer (RTS)(PC)
22. Iron Lung (Horror Adventure)(PC)
23. Scorn (FPS)(PC)

24. Killer Frequency (Survival Horror)(PC)
25. Intravenous (Top-Down Shooter)(PC)
26. Outlast (Survival Horror)(PC)

27. Metal Wolf Chaos XD (Action)(PC)
28. Picross Touch (Puzzle)(PC)
29. Quake: Dimension of the Past (FPS)(PC)
30. Quake (FPS)(PC)
31. Quake: Dimension of the Machine (FPS)(PC)

32. MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries (Action)(PC)
33. Severed Steel (FPS)(PC)
34. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge (Beat 'Em Up)(Switch)

Shredder's Revenge is a love letter to previous Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles beat 'em ups, as well as the franchise as a whole. While playing, I feel the arcade game I used to play back in the Chuck E. Cheese back as a kid. I see the cartoon flashing before me, or the SNES fighting game I discovered in college. I can even adjust color palettes of my characters to appear like Game Boy characters. And it's fantastic.

But it's also fantastic because it's so well animated. Motion is smooth, control is elegant, and there are a lot of options for maneuvering, fighting, and taking down a horde of classic TMNT foes, along with some surprising appearance. There's a lot more here than just jump kicking, though you can still do that. You can also do a variety of throws (include at the screen), special moves, combos, even taunts to build up your special attack meter. And all of it is gorgeous.

So, you could experience all of this as the arcade game, but there is also a Story mode where you can build up characters' powers, like extra health points and enhanced jump attacks. And then there is a Survival mode, because who doesn't want to fight to the end? Also, plenty of characters, including Splinter and April, and Casey Jones is unlockable.

You like multiplayer? You got it, with some special bonuses, such as the ability to revive each other and transfer health quickly if one of you is suffering. In fact, multiplayer feels like how this is meant to be played, which is just how it was meant to be in the arcade. Grab a friend, or convince your significant other to jump in with you, because Donatello ain't taking out Super Shredder by himself.

End result: this is a big Cowabunga from me. And then you drop in a soundtrack with members of Wu-Tang going off on the mic? Son, this game is manna from Heaven.
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Re: Games Beaten 2024

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Previous Years: 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

First 50:
1. Tormented Souls - Switch
2. Battlefleet Gothic: Armada II - PC
3. Fantasy Empires - PC
4. Vagrant Story - PS1
5. Might and Magic 7: For Blood and Honor - PC
6. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown - Switch
7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project - NES
8. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth - PS5
9. Tomb Raider Remastered - PC
10. Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth - PS5
11. Unicorn Overlord - Switch
12. Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries: Solaris Showdown - PC
13. Princess Peach: Showtime - Switch
14. Fida Puti Samurai - PC
15. Fallout New Vegas: Dead Money - PC
16. Fallout New Vegas: Honest Hearts - PC
17. Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues - PC
18. Wrath: Aeon of Ruin - PC
19. Fallout New Vegas: Lonesome Road - PC
20. Super Buff HD - PC
21. SaGa Emerald Beyond - Switch
22. Blasphemous 2 - Switch
23. Trepang2 - PC
24. Homeworld 3 - PC
25. Blood West - PC
26. Marathon - PC
27. Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord - PC
28. Little Kitty, Big City - PC
29. Dread Delusion - PC
30. Alan Wake 2: Night Springs - PC
31. PO'ed: Definitive Edition - PC
32. Space Cats Tactics - PC
33. Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree - PS5
34. Balatro - PC
35. Afterimage - Switch
36. The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak - PS5
37. Lords of Exile - Switch
38. Infernax - Switch
39. Gravity Circuit - Switch
40. Doom 2: No Rest for the Living - PC
41. Doom 2: Legacy of Rust - PC
42. Doom 2: Master Levels - PC
43. The Lost Vikings 2 - PC
44. Visions of Mana - PS5
45. Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song Remastered - Switch
46. Warhammer 40000: Space Marine 2 - PC
47. Doom 2: TNT Evilution - PC
48. WrestleQuest - Switch
49. Doom 2: The Plutonia Experiment - PC
50. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom - Switch
51. Metaphor: ReFantazio - PS5
52. Mechwarrior 5: Clans - PC
53. Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred - PC
54. Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven - Switch
55. Dragon Age: The Veilguard - PC
56. STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl - PC
57. Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers - PC
58. Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake - Switch
59. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - PC
60. Extraneum - PC
61. Diluvian Ultra - PC
62. Starfield: Shattered Space - PC
63. X-Men: Children of the Atom - Arcade

Children of the Atom is the first of Capcom's Marvel fighting games, starring various X-Men and a few villains. It was developed around the same time as Darkstalkers, and in both you can see the iteration on Super Turbo's gameplay and the higher sprite fidelity. All the characters look great, with a bunch of gratuitous animation. X-Men is notable for having a large amount of verticality, to suit the superheroes featured.

The game features the standard Capcom layout of three punches, three kicks, and hold back to block. This game still uses the hold forward and medium/heavy attack to throw system, including being able to tech out of it by doing your own throw at the same time. New moves are a super jump (tap down before jumping), forward and back dashing (double tap the direction), and a recovering roll (direction and mash punch after landing from a fall). Each character has a handful of special moves and some supers. You have mid tier moves which tend to be some sort of passive boost which use a small portion of your energy but require it to be decently full to activate, and then you have your full super which requires a full meter, drains the full meter, and acts as your big damage.

The cast is 10 characters and two bosses, Juggernaut and Magneto. You will fight six of the ten (no mirror match) before doing the two bosses. Juggernaut is big and hits extremely hard, but he's not too bad. Magneto is utter bullshit, though. Aside from the standard input reading and the like, he has three different projectiles, two of which are incredibly spammable with low (or nonexistent) recovery, a command throw that leaves you stunned, a ranged homing grab that pulls you in for a combo, the ability to temporarily become invincible (he's locked out of moving, but he'll obviously be blocking coming out), a mid super that makes him completely invincible for a period, and his full super takes up the entire screen, so you better be blocking. Oh, and his super automatically fills. Just a giant pile of unfair mechanics.

Capcom will come to iterate on this formula through their partnership with Marvel, eventually culminating in Marvel vs. Capcom 2. It's interesting to see their first foray, which is mostly a reskin of Darkstalkers with some additional quirks.
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Re: Games Beaten 2024

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Previous Years: 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

First 50:
1. Tormented Souls - Switch
2. Battlefleet Gothic: Armada II - PC
3. Fantasy Empires - PC
4. Vagrant Story - PS1
5. Might and Magic 7: For Blood and Honor - PC
6. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown - Switch
7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project - NES
8. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth - PS5
9. Tomb Raider Remastered - PC
10. Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth - PS5
11. Unicorn Overlord - Switch
12. Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries: Solaris Showdown - PC
13. Princess Peach: Showtime - Switch
14. Fida Puti Samurai - PC
15. Fallout New Vegas: Dead Money - PC
16. Fallout New Vegas: Honest Hearts - PC
17. Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues - PC
18. Wrath: Aeon of Ruin - PC
19. Fallout New Vegas: Lonesome Road - PC
20. Super Buff HD - PC
21. SaGa Emerald Beyond - Switch
22. Blasphemous 2 - Switch
23. Trepang2 - PC
24. Homeworld 3 - PC
25. Blood West - PC
26. Marathon - PC
27. Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord - PC
28. Little Kitty, Big City - PC
29. Dread Delusion - PC
30. Alan Wake 2: Night Springs - PC
31. PO'ed: Definitive Edition - PC
32. Space Cats Tactics - PC
33. Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree - PS5
34. Balatro - PC
35. Afterimage - Switch
36. The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak - PS5
37. Lords of Exile - Switch
38. Infernax - Switch
39. Gravity Circuit - Switch
40. Doom 2: No Rest for the Living - PC
41. Doom 2: Legacy of Rust - PC
42. Doom 2: Master Levels - PC
43. The Lost Vikings 2 - PC
44. Visions of Mana - PS5
45. Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song Remastered - Switch
46. Warhammer 40000: Space Marine 2 - PC
47. Doom 2: TNT Evilution - PC
48. WrestleQuest - Switch
49. Doom 2: The Plutonia Experiment - PC
50. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom - Switch
51. Metaphor: ReFantazio - PS5
52. Mechwarrior 5: Clans - PC
53. Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred - PC
54. Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven - Switch
55. Dragon Age: The Veilguard - PC
56. STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl - PC
57. Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers - PC
58. Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake - Switch
59. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - PC
60. Extraneum - PC
61. Diluvian Ultra - PC
62. Starfield: Shattered Space - PC
63. X-Men: Children of the Atom - Arcade
64. Marvel Super Heroes - Arcade

Marvel Super Heroes is the follow up to Children of the Atom, shifting from an X-Men focus to the broader Marvel universe, with Dr. Doom and Thanos as your bosses. The playable roster is expanded from 10 to 12, and once again you fight six of them before the two bosses. In a weird touch, if you switch characters you can actually go back in time on the progression; I accidentally swapped and got a different character for fight four, then when I swapped back it was against the same character, but now they were fight two.

Most of the mechanics are the same as Children of the Atom. They've slightly modified how you do your recovery roll, and characters tend to get an extra super move. The super meter is a more traditional bar that fills up to three times, with each super using a single bar. However, if you charge up all three then you get an extra powered version of that super and you use all the bars. Four characters return from Children of the Atom, two playable and the two bosses, with the rest being a variety of heroes and villains. There's a bit more variety in character movesets and hitboxes, showing a bit more Darkstalkers influence.

The biggest new change is the Infinity Stone system. In arcade mode you will collect these over the first several fights, while in versus then spawn based on conditions like "first hit". At any time you can activate one of the stones for a brief power boost; this consumes the stone. Particularly hard hits can dislodge the stone that is available for activation, letting your opponent grab it. Once you get to Thanos he steals all your stones to put into his Infinity Gauntlet, and they can't be removed. He also gets powered up versions, for example, while regular characters heal when they use the Soul Stone, he drains your life. But aside from this, he's an incredibly fair boss, like how M. Bison is a reasonable character in Street Fighter. He doesn't have any particular bullshit in his moves like Magneto did (btw, Magneto's moves are all heavily nerfed now that he's playable), so as a boss fight he's actually fun. I actually struggled more with Dr. Doom.

Overall, it's a marked improvement over the first game. You can tell they clearly took player feedback into account to make for a more polished experience.
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Previous Years: 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

First 50:
1. Tormented Souls - Switch
2. Battlefleet Gothic: Armada II - PC
3. Fantasy Empires - PC
4. Vagrant Story - PS1
5. Might and Magic 7: For Blood and Honor - PC
6. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown - Switch
7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project - NES
8. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth - PS5
9. Tomb Raider Remastered - PC
10. Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth - PS5
11. Unicorn Overlord - Switch
12. Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries: Solaris Showdown - PC
13. Princess Peach: Showtime - Switch
14. Fida Puti Samurai - PC
15. Fallout New Vegas: Dead Money - PC
16. Fallout New Vegas: Honest Hearts - PC
17. Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues - PC
18. Wrath: Aeon of Ruin - PC
19. Fallout New Vegas: Lonesome Road - PC
20. Super Buff HD - PC
21. SaGa Emerald Beyond - Switch
22. Blasphemous 2 - Switch
23. Trepang2 - PC
24. Homeworld 3 - PC
25. Blood West - PC
26. Marathon - PC
27. Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord - PC
28. Little Kitty, Big City - PC
29. Dread Delusion - PC
30. Alan Wake 2: Night Springs - PC
31. PO'ed: Definitive Edition - PC
32. Space Cats Tactics - PC
33. Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree - PS5
34. Balatro - PC
35. Afterimage - Switch
36. The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak - PS5
37. Lords of Exile - Switch
38. Infernax - Switch
39. Gravity Circuit - Switch
40. Doom 2: No Rest for the Living - PC
41. Doom 2: Legacy of Rust - PC
42. Doom 2: Master Levels - PC
43. The Lost Vikings 2 - PC
44. Visions of Mana - PS5
45. Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song Remastered - Switch
46. Warhammer 40000: Space Marine 2 - PC
47. Doom 2: TNT Evilution - PC
48. WrestleQuest - Switch
49. Doom 2: The Plutonia Experiment - PC
50. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom - Switch
51. Metaphor: ReFantazio - PS5
52. Mechwarrior 5: Clans - PC
53. Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred - PC
54. Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven - Switch
55. Dragon Age: The Veilguard - PC
56. STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl - PC
57. Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers - PC
58. Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake - Switch
59. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - PC
60. Extraneum - PC
61. Diluvian Ultra - PC
62. Starfield: Shattered Space - PC
63. X-Men: Children of the Atom - Arcade
64. Marvel Super Heroes - Arcade
65. X-Men vs. Street Fighter - Arcade

X-Men vs. Street Fighter is the first proper title in the Marvel vs. Capcom series. It plays closer to Street Fighter Alpha 2 than it does to Children of the Atom/Marvel Super Heroes. This is also the point where the Street Fighter characters start to get the crazier supers, to fit in with the style of the comic book characters.

The cast consists of 8 X-Men characters and 8 Street Fighter characters. The former are mostly from Children of the Atom, though we get a few new ones which match up with popular characters from the cartoon adaptation running at the time. The latter are all from Alpha 2. You will fight five pairs, then the Bison/Magneto boss pair, and finally a fight against Apocalypse, which is a unique fight where he turns giant and you beat up his face and his arm. This messes up some character moves, so you'll need to adjust your approach. Finally, the pair you selected will fight each other one on one, with you controlling whoever landed the final blow on Apocalypse. This is also the character whose ending you see.

The shift in fighting engine definitely changes how things feel; characters are a bit heavier than in the previous games. You still have the super jump and roll recovery, but the big change is the tag team gameplay. At any point on the ground you can tag in your partner, who comes in with a flying blow. Your inactive character will recover some of their health; you can see how much is recoverable by the red part of the bar (vs. empty for unrecoverable). Be careful; tagging in will clear out any red bar remaining, so you can't swap too often. You also have the option of having them tag in to counter when you're blocking (costs super) or do a double super (costs two supers), which will then tag in the new character.

Aside from the fun of a crossover, the tag team gameplay is a major game changer. Squeaking by with a low health victory doesn't help you out much, as it's a single continuous fight, rather than round based. Knowing when to change vs. when to keep up the pressure is important. And if you have characters that can cover each other's weaknesses, so much the better. Definitely a great sign of what's to come.
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1. Wolfenstein 3D (XB360)
2. Gears of War Judgement
3. Gear of War 4
4. Doom 3: The Lost Mission (XB360 BFG)
5. Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil (XB360 BFG)
6. Ultimate Doom | Thy Flesh Consumed (XB360)
7. Ultimate Doom (Unity Port, XBSX)
8. Call of Duty Classic (XB360)
9. Doom II: Hell on Earth (Unity Port, XBSX)
10. Gears of War (XB360, XB1 Enhanced)
11. TMNT Wrath of the Mutants (XSX)
12. Halo 4 Spartan Ops via MCC (XSX)
13. Halo 3 - Heroric (XB360, XB1 Enhanced)

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Just finished up the original 360 Halo 3 on Heoric difficulty. I was running this on a Series X which nets you the XB1 Enhanced version. I think this is my 3rd or 4th time beating this campaign all the way through.

The original Halo 3 ran at an odd resolution (640p upscaled to 720p IIRC). So this XB1 version gets a 9x res treatment and is then scaled up to 4K output. While it's not true HDR applied, the colors have been improved. Load times are much better... but the glaring omission is 30 fps.

Halo 3 on MCC is the definitive edition these days (true 4K, HDR, 60 fps, control customization), but I enjoy going back to this original 360 version with some quality of life enhancements. The art style is very clean and the sci-fi aesthetic holds up very well today. I tend to lean camp Halo 2, but H3 continues to be the overwhelming fan favorite and I can see why.

The Flood missions really make me hope the murmurings of a Halo Flood themed sci-fi horror-centric game are real...
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Previous Years: 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

First 50:
1. Tormented Souls - Switch
2. Battlefleet Gothic: Armada II - PC
3. Fantasy Empires - PC
4. Vagrant Story - PS1
5. Might and Magic 7: For Blood and Honor - PC
6. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown - Switch
7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project - NES
8. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth - PS5
9. Tomb Raider Remastered - PC
10. Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth - PS5
11. Unicorn Overlord - Switch
12. Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries: Solaris Showdown - PC
13. Princess Peach: Showtime - Switch
14. Fida Puti Samurai - PC
15. Fallout New Vegas: Dead Money - PC
16. Fallout New Vegas: Honest Hearts - PC
17. Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues - PC
18. Wrath: Aeon of Ruin - PC
19. Fallout New Vegas: Lonesome Road - PC
20. Super Buff HD - PC
21. SaGa Emerald Beyond - Switch
22. Blasphemous 2 - Switch
23. Trepang2 - PC
24. Homeworld 3 - PC
25. Blood West - PC
26. Marathon - PC
27. Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord - PC
28. Little Kitty, Big City - PC
29. Dread Delusion - PC
30. Alan Wake 2: Night Springs - PC
31. PO'ed: Definitive Edition - PC
32. Space Cats Tactics - PC
33. Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree - PS5
34. Balatro - PC
35. Afterimage - Switch
36. The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak - PS5
37. Lords of Exile - Switch
38. Infernax - Switch
39. Gravity Circuit - Switch
40. Doom 2: No Rest for the Living - PC
41. Doom 2: Legacy of Rust - PC
42. Doom 2: Master Levels - PC
43. The Lost Vikings 2 - PC
44. Visions of Mana - PS5
45. Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song Remastered - Switch
46. Warhammer 40000: Space Marine 2 - PC
47. Doom 2: TNT Evilution - PC
48. WrestleQuest - Switch
49. Doom 2: The Plutonia Experiment - PC
50. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom - Switch
51. Metaphor: ReFantazio - PS5
52. Mechwarrior 5: Clans - PC
53. Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred - PC
54. Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven - Switch
55. Dragon Age: The Veilguard - PC
56. STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl - PC
57. Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers - PC
58. Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake - Switch
59. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - PC
60. Extraneum - PC
61. Diluvian Ultra - PC
62. Starfield: Shattered Space - PC
63. X-Men: Children of the Atom - Arcade
64. Marvel Super Heroes - Arcade
65. X-Men vs. Street Fighter - Arcade
66. Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter - Arcade

Just like Marvel Super Heroes expanded to the wider Marvel universe after Children of the Atom, Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter swaps out some Street Fighter characters and most of the X-Men for other Marvel characters. It's also the most obvious of a low-effort release, as it makes very few changes to X-Men vs. Street Fighter.

The roster size is the same as X-Men vs. Street Fighter, and just like that game, you go through six fights before the Apocalypse boss fight, which is identical. After that, instead of the duel, you fight against Cyber Akuma, which is just Akuma with a double sized health bar. The one new feature is that you have the ability to call in your partner to do their tag in attack without actually tagging in. Otherwise, from the stages to the rest of the mechanics, this is more effort than Super Street Fighter II (due to significant roster changes, even if they're all from existing games), but less effort than an actual sequel like all the preceding entries.
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Previous Years: 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

First 50:
1. Tormented Souls - Switch
2. Battlefleet Gothic: Armada II - PC
3. Fantasy Empires - PC
4. Vagrant Story - PS1
5. Might and Magic 7: For Blood and Honor - PC
6. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown - Switch
7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project - NES
8. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth - PS5
9. Tomb Raider Remastered - PC
10. Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth - PS5
11. Unicorn Overlord - Switch
12. Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries: Solaris Showdown - PC
13. Princess Peach: Showtime - Switch
14. Fida Puti Samurai - PC
15. Fallout New Vegas: Dead Money - PC
16. Fallout New Vegas: Honest Hearts - PC
17. Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues - PC
18. Wrath: Aeon of Ruin - PC
19. Fallout New Vegas: Lonesome Road - PC
20. Super Buff HD - PC
21. SaGa Emerald Beyond - Switch
22. Blasphemous 2 - Switch
23. Trepang2 - PC
24. Homeworld 3 - PC
25. Blood West - PC
26. Marathon - PC
27. Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord - PC
28. Little Kitty, Big City - PC
29. Dread Delusion - PC
30. Alan Wake 2: Night Springs - PC
31. PO'ed: Definitive Edition - PC
32. Space Cats Tactics - PC
33. Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree - PS5
34. Balatro - PC
35. Afterimage - Switch
36. The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak - PS5
37. Lords of Exile - Switch
38. Infernax - Switch
39. Gravity Circuit - Switch
40. Doom 2: No Rest for the Living - PC
41. Doom 2: Legacy of Rust - PC
42. Doom 2: Master Levels - PC
43. The Lost Vikings 2 - PC
44. Visions of Mana - PS5
45. Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song Remastered - Switch
46. Warhammer 40000: Space Marine 2 - PC
47. Doom 2: TNT Evilution - PC
48. WrestleQuest - Switch
49. Doom 2: The Plutonia Experiment - PC
50. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom - Switch
51. Metaphor: ReFantazio - PS5
52. Mechwarrior 5: Clans - PC
53. Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred - PC
54. Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven - Switch
55. Dragon Age: The Veilguard - PC
56. STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl - PC
57. Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers - PC
58. Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake - Switch
59. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - PC
60. Extraneum - PC
61. Diluvian Ultra - PC
62. Starfield: Shattered Space - PC
63. X-Men: Children of the Atom - Arcade
64. Marvel Super Heroes - Arcade
65. X-Men vs. Street Fighter - Arcade
66. Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter - Arcade
67. Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes - Arcade

Marvel vs. Capcom proper is the third game in the vs. series, bringing things ever closer to the culmination that is Marvel vs. Capcom 2. This is definitely a proper new game compared to Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter; the large number of new characters (although only Venom is new on the Marvel side) and the addition of the assist characters makes for a significant change compared to its predecessor.

Marvel vs. Capcom actually has the smallest roster of any of the games with vs. in the title at 15. It also doesn't have any villains in it (outside the final boss); Venom comes closest but at this point he had firmly moved into anti-hero territory. Once again you pick two characters to fight in tag team battles, this time seven of them before a fight against Onslaught. The assist attacks of the previous game have been replaced with dedicated assist characters; these are randomly selected on match start and are one of the multitude of other Marvel or Capcom characters that weren't full fighters. You only get a limited number of uses per fight (different for each one), but they also have a lot more utility than the previous assist attacks. They tend to last long enough for you to use them to combo. There's also a feature where you can bring out both characters at once for a limited time; this is an additional option on top of the existing double super action of previous titles.

The final boss is Onslaught, and he is definitely a major pain in the ass. He floats, which has implications in terms of what moves can hit (many crouching attacks cannot). His moveset mostly consists of super-caliber attacks that he will spam pretty relentlessly. He even gets Magneto's projectile grab from Children of the Atom (though thank god the homing is far worse on these ones). He can be put into hitstun, but assists are the only reliable way to do so. And once you deplete his health bar he goes into phase two, which is reminiscent of Apocalypse from the previous two games, though he is much more mobile and often will go off screen while still attacking (which means you can't hurt him but he can definitely hurt you). While not as utterly nasty as Magneto from Children of the Atom, he's definitely in the "unfair boss" category.

This game definitely feels like a prototype of what we will get with its sequel. There's a lot more going on than in previous titles, but it's still fairly restrained.
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Re: Games Beaten 2024

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Previous Years: 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

First 50:
1. Tormented Souls - Switch
2. Battlefleet Gothic: Armada II - PC
3. Fantasy Empires - PC
4. Vagrant Story - PS1
5. Might and Magic 7: For Blood and Honor - PC
6. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown - Switch
7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project - NES
8. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth - PS5
9. Tomb Raider Remastered - PC
10. Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth - PS5
11. Unicorn Overlord - Switch
12. Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries: Solaris Showdown - PC
13. Princess Peach: Showtime - Switch
14. Fida Puti Samurai - PC
15. Fallout New Vegas: Dead Money - PC
16. Fallout New Vegas: Honest Hearts - PC
17. Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues - PC
18. Wrath: Aeon of Ruin - PC
19. Fallout New Vegas: Lonesome Road - PC
20. Super Buff HD - PC
21. SaGa Emerald Beyond - Switch
22. Blasphemous 2 - Switch
23. Trepang2 - PC
24. Homeworld 3 - PC
25. Blood West - PC
26. Marathon - PC
27. Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord - PC
28. Little Kitty, Big City - PC
29. Dread Delusion - PC
30. Alan Wake 2: Night Springs - PC
31. PO'ed: Definitive Edition - PC
32. Space Cats Tactics - PC
33. Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree - PS5
34. Balatro - PC
35. Afterimage - Switch
36. The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak - PS5
37. Lords of Exile - Switch
38. Infernax - Switch
39. Gravity Circuit - Switch
40. Doom 2: No Rest for the Living - PC
41. Doom 2: Legacy of Rust - PC
42. Doom 2: Master Levels - PC
43. The Lost Vikings 2 - PC
44. Visions of Mana - PS5
45. Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song Remastered - Switch
46. Warhammer 40000: Space Marine 2 - PC
47. Doom 2: TNT Evilution - PC
48. WrestleQuest - Switch
49. Doom 2: The Plutonia Experiment - PC
50. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom - Switch
51. Metaphor: ReFantazio - PS5
52. Mechwarrior 5: Clans - PC
53. Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred - PC
54. Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven - Switch
55. Dragon Age: The Veilguard - PC
56. STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl - PC
57. Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers - PC
58. Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake - Switch
59. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - PC
60. Extraneum - PC
61. Diluvian Ultra - PC
62. Starfield: Shattered Space - PC
63. X-Men: Children of the Atom - Arcade
64. Marvel Super Heroes - Arcade
65. X-Men vs. Street Fighter - Arcade
66. Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter - Arcade
67. Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes - Arcade
68. Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes - Arcade

MvC2 is the culmination of everything Capcom has been iterating on as they went through all the Marvel fighting games. They even took an extra year to produce it. It's the craziest crossover they produced, with three on three battles, a gigantic roster, and a jazzy soundtrack that WILL be stuck in your head after the game is over.

The game features the return of every single character from all the previous games, a couple new Marvel characters, and a bunch of extra Capcom characters to have a 50/50 roster. They even created a couple of absolutely brand new characters for the game, which is a bit weird, considering there were still a bunch they could have pulled in from existing properties.

The biggest change, gameplay-wise, is the switch to three on three battles. Not only does this mean you have three health bars and the ability to do up to a triple super, it also means for control reasons they dropped it down to just light and heavy punches and kicks. The final two buttons call in a designated partner to assist; doing a swap is instead pressing punch and kick of a given strength. The assist move is selected from one of three at character select; this allows you to tailor things a bit better so that you can have weaknesses covered or set up combos. On the flip side, chaining supers between the team is harder; you activate the next super during the previous one, which cancels the remainder of the previous super. This also means that if you don't have the right attack coverage on your supers you can waste them as an enemy is knocked out of the line of fire.

The arcade mode consists of seven fights against completely random teams, followed by a boss battle against Abyss, another new character created for the game. Phase one involves him having infinite super armor, so you're best off playing defensively and getting in hits when he's on cooldown between attacks and just taking your chip damage. Phase two is the breather phase, where he has a close range attack and the ability to disappear for a bit and generate bubbles that will stun you. Phase three is the most annoying phase, as he becomes this very large creature while the view stays zoomed in, so he is constantly off screen. He is shockingly mobile, and it's quite hard to read his attacks. His vulnerable point is in midair, so I hope you have characters that can do decent damage to aerial targets. Take out all three targets and the game is yours.

MvC2 is famously terribly balanced for top-level play, and is full of bugs that show up at the same top-level play. But for casual "I learned the special moves of my favorite characters", it's a complete delight.
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Marvel Infinity War 100 Edition

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Ugh, what a shit developer ZVitor is. The more I play his games the more I realize what a no talent hack he is. Every level is just fifty thousand enemies with way too much health. That's it. Every fucking stage. He's not creative. He's not imaginative. It's just throw everything including the kitchen sink at the player in every level. This game is so goddamn repetitive. Every wave of enemies lasts way too long, then you move forward a few screens and it's just another wave of the same goddamn enemies. It's so fucking boring

Also, he boasts that his game has 100 playable characters. I literally only found ONE character that didn't suck. Jean Grey. Her running dash attack is OP and demolishes everything in the game. It instantly knocks down enemies and can infinitely juggle any enemy that gets caught against the left or right side of the screen. Basically, if your character doesn't have a powerful dash attack, then that character sucks. Sometimes less is more. I don't care if your game has 100 playable characters when maybe 5 of them are actually worth using. Course, this might not be an issue if the game wasn't so overboard with its difficulty balancing. It throws so much shit at you all the time that you won't want to play as a character that isn't overpowerd.

His Justice League games are pretty much the same formula, just endless waves of enemies with too much health, until you just get goddamn sick of it. There's no thought put into enemy encounters whatsoever. It's just fill the screen with enemies over and over again.

Oh, and lest I forget, there's a few shitty platforming levels, because who doesn't love platforming in their beat 'em up. If you're playing as a character who can't fly in a platformer level in Marvel Infinity War...have fun.

Jesus man, beat 'em ups can be more imaginative and creative than this mindless drek.

The one good thing I'll say is that I like the various NPC heroes that will fight alongside you, kind of like the AI companion option in Final Fight 3. Though it can be hard keeping them alive sometimes with the endless waves of cannon fodder the game throws at you. I'll give the game credit though, I like that the AI is smart enough to grab health items if you don't grab them first. That's a nice touch. I also like the variety of moves that all of the playable characters have. However, as I said, it hardly matters as some characters clearly are stronger than the rest of the cast and it's typically characters with strong dash attacks that can take down groups of enemies quickly. That's all you do with Jean Grey, dash back and forth across the screen knocking down groups of enemies to the left and right of her, and occasionally busting out a super move if something goes wrong (like an enemy just dropping out of the sky on top of you). It's so boring. This is why I hate beat 'em ups with high difficulty, as it just encourages you to find one powerful move and spam it over and over again as there's no point in doing anything else. Some developers are too brain dead to realize this though.
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