Games Beaten : 2011

[NeverGoBak]

Well I've been updating on the challenge thread instead of here, so I'll go ahead and post the whooping three games I've beaten(2 for the summer challenge, one before that.)

1. Wario Land 4
2. Donkey Kong Country
3. Mario Galaxy

[dsheinem]

Once you get the Burnout License the credits unlock and start playing immediately. So I figured that would be beaten, and 100% completed would be the Burnout Elite License +all cars / Billboards / Yellow Gates / Super Jumps and ruling all the roads in time and crash.

I actually have most of the billboards / yellow gates / super jumps, but I said hell no to the Burnout Elite license and ruling all the roads. Too time consuming for very little reward. Though maybe one day I will 100% my PC copy. You never know.

Hmm, I will have to check out my own progress in that game at some point - didn't know this!

[REPO Man]

Got Alice: Madness Returns today. Currently at the Vale of Tears in the Original, and just arrived at the Mad Hatter's in the AMR.

Is that what you count as beating

No. I was just saying how far I am.

I mean, shouldn't we be posting in on how far we are to beating the game? That way, it's just a beat easier to call bullshit on bullshitters.

[o.pwuaioc]

Got Alice: Madness Returns today. Currently at the Vale of Tears in the Original, and just arrived at the Mad Hatter's in the AMR.

Is that what you count as beating

No. I was just saying how far I am.

I mean, shouldn't we be posting in on how far we are to beating the game? That way, it's just a beat easier to call bullshit on bullshitters.

I feel sorry for whoever has to lie about beating a game on some message board...

[Flake]

That and the...ermm...topic kinda implies something.

[dsheinem]

Got Alice: Madness Returns today. Currently at the Vale of Tears in the Original, and just arrived at the Mad Hatter's in the AMR.

Is that what you count as beating

No. I was just saying how far I am.

I mean, shouldn't we be posting in on how far we are to beating the game? That way, it's just a beat easier to call bullshit on bullshitters.

Really? "Bullshitters"? You do realize that no one here sees this as a competition, right? And that we all employ our own definitions of what counts as beating a game?

[noiseredux]

1. Mercs (PS2)
2. Darkstalkers 3 (PS1)
3. House Of The Dead Overkill (Wii)
4. Mega Man 3 (PS2)
5. Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters (PS2)
6. Halo 2600 (Atari 2600)
7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game (NES)
8. Castlevania Chronicles (PS1)
9. Shadow Of The Colossus (PS2)
10. Capcom Vs. SNK Pro (PS1)
11. Capcom Vs. SNK 2: Mark Of The Millennium (PS2)
12. Super Street Fighter IV (PS3)
13. Mobile Light Force (PS1)
14. Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 (PS3)
15. Galaga Arrangement (PSP)
16. BlazBlue: Continuum Shift (PS3)
17. Mr. Driller (PS1)
18. Dead Or Alive (PS1)
19. Super Puzzle Fighter II HD Remix (PS3)

OK, so I'm a huge Puzzle Fighter fan. No secrets there. I had to get this for online play. The new balance mode proves to be WAAAY too easy... at least on single player mode. I just ran through the 1 Player mode in like 15 minutes. As far as difficulty goes, I'd say PS1 was the hardest version, GBA was slightly easier and this is the easiest. Though it doesn't matter since I got this for online anyway.

It LOOKS amazing. I'm thrilled. Just beautiful presentation. And Puzzle Fighter is one of the few games that I care about unlocking EVERYTHING so it'll be fun to re-do all that shit on here again.

[J T]

01/16: Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within (PC)
02/16: Sanitarium (PC)
03/15: Give Up Robot 2 (Browser)
03/22: Cardboard Box Assembler (Browser)
04/01: King's Guard (Browser)
04/02: Sarah's Run (Browser)
04/13: Peggle Nights (PC)
04/13: Terra: The Legend of the Geochine (PC)
04/16: Genji: Dawn of the Samurai (PS2)
05/05: Beautiful Escape: Dungeoneer (PC)
05/11: Chef Boyardee's... Barkley: Shut Up and Jam Gaiden (PC)
05/23: Vanguard Princess (PC)
06/15: Fate By Numbers
06/16: The Otherside: Realm of Eons

Fate By Numbers was quick and easy (about 10 minutes total), but a cool concept executed reasonably well. You are a criminal detective interrogating your only suspect on a kidnapping case. You have to say the right things to get the person to talk and save the kid. It could have been done better, but I would love to see scenes like this in other cop games. An interrogation scene is intensified by having dialogue trees and right and wrong approaches to getting information out of a suspect.

The Otherside: Realm of Eons is a hidden object game (or HOG, as I like to call them). I bought it on a Steam sale awhile back so I could say I at least tried this genre of game. But when dsheinem started the thread recently about what genres have you NOT played, I decided I really hadn't given this a fair shot so I played it all the way through. Though I still dislike this genre, I feel I understand it a little better now after playing through the entire game and continuing to ask myself "why would someone want to play this?" I think this kind of game must tap into some primitive hunter/gather need to identify things that are hard to see. Though I find this genre to just be a non stop session of "Christ, where did I put my damn keys now?", it has its merits. There were times when I was genuinely surprised to find hidden items that were cleverly concealed in the image. It takes a keen eye to notice things and there is a certain amount of fun to finding that really well camouflaged thing that you've been looking for over the last 10 minutes of staring at the same picture. This genre is terrible for storytelling though. They came up with sooooo many bullshit excuses for me to have to sort through crap to find items and I found every fetch quest I was sent on to be exceedingly annoying. Every time you find a bunch of things and feel like you get to move on, then you suddenly have to find another bunch of things. Each task feels frustrating because it gets in the way of telling the story, and the story becomes exceedingly ludicrous to justify all of the hidden object finding, so the whole things just falls apart. Though, I actually enjoyed myself more once I had given up on the story being of any interest and just got in a rhythm for object detection.

[dsheinem]

Metal Torrent- DSiWare
Kirby Super Star Ultra - NDS
DoDonPachi - PS1
Cruis'n USA - N64
Cruis'n World - N64
DonPachi - PS1
Cut the Rope - iPhone
Cut the Rope: Holiday Gift - iPhone
Mass Effect - 360
Galaga Remix - Wii
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom - Wii
Mushihimesama Futari 1.5 - 360
DoDonPachi Dai Ou Jou - PS2
DoDonPachi Resurrection - iPhone
Triggerheart Exelcia - Dreamcast
Heavy Barrel - Wii/Arcade
Tetris (Rev A and Rev B) - Game Boy
Street Fighter IV - iPhone
Killzone - PS2
Dead Space 2 - PS3
Marvel vs Capcom 3- PS3
Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess - PSP
Killzone 3- PS3
Lost Planet 2 - PS3
Star Wars: Dark Forces - PC
Nemesis - Game Boy
Space Invaders Extreme 2 -NDS
Kirby's Dream Land - Game Boy
Mass Effect 2 - 360
Mass Effect 2: Shadow Broker - 360
Mass Effect 2: Kasumi - Stolen Memory - 360
Kirby's Dream Land 2- Game Boy
Ginga Fukei Densetsu: Sapphire- PCE-CD
Soul Calibur - Dreamcast
Dragon Age II - PS3
Espgaluda II - iPhone
Portal 2 -PC
Metroid: Zero Mission - GBA
Vanquish - PS3
Terraforming -PCE-CD
Dark Nebula 2 - iPhone
Gunblade NY - Wii*new*
LA Machine Guns - Wii*new*
F.E.A.R. 2 - PS3*new*

2011 TOTAL: 44

2010 Games Beaten

The Gunblade NY/LA Machine Guns bundle for the Wii is really a lot of fun - some of the most fun I've had in a light gun shooter ever, even if the games are relatively simple.

I decided to do a second playthrough of FEAR 2 ahead of the sequel coming out next week, and am going to tackle the add-on DLC next. I am a big fan of this series and really, really like FEAR 2 for its gameplay mechanics and AI (the story and the "frights" are a little lacking, though). The mech sections are a lot of fun, too.

[yomomma1]

1. Deja Vu
2. Lunar Legend
3. Skies of Arcadia Legends
4. Streets of rage 2
5. No more heroes 2
6. Rogue Galaxy
7. Pokemon White
8. Dragon Age 2
9. Call of Duty: Black Ops
10. Mafia 2
11. ArcaniA: Gothic 4
12. Two worlds II
13. Divinity 2 flames of vengeance
14. Rune Factory 3
15. Persona 4
16. Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2010(new)


I really enjoyed Big game hunter 2010. It is one of the most unrealistic games I have played, but it is fun.