Games Beaten 2014

[RyaNtheSlayA]

Assassin's Creed IV WiiU
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon PC
Splinter Cell: Blacklist WiiU
The Wolf Among Us: Episode 1 PC
The Wolf Among Us: Episode 2 PC
Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut WiiU
Jazzpunk PC
Pikmin 3 WiiU
Call of Duty: Ghosts WiiU
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze WiiU
Tomb Raider (2013) PC
The Wolf Among Us: Episode 3 PC
Danganronpa Vita
Far Cry 2 360
The Witcher 2 360
Catherine 360
Gears of War 360
Forza Horizon 360

Portal PC

Recently I've just felt like playing through the Portal games again and since Portal is only about an hour and a half long I decided to knock it out tonight after work. It's still a brilliant game in just about every way. It doesn't outstay its welcome by any stretch of the imagination. It's starting to look a bit dated and just isn't as good as 2 but for what it was, and still is, it's not hard to recommend. My biggest complaint is still that the main campaign is just plain too easy. It wasn't hard the first time around and on this third playthrough I remembered everything.

[darsparx]

Portal PC

Recently I've just felt like playing through the Portal games again and since Portal is only about an hour and a half long I decided to knock it out tonight after work. It's still a brilliant game in just about every way. It doesn't outstay its welcome by any stretch of the imagination. It's starting to look a bit dated and just isn't as good as 2 but for what it was, and still is, it's not hard to recommend. My biggest complaint is still that the main campaign is just plain too easy. It wasn't hard the first time around and on this third playthrough I remembered everything.

Yeah that game is too short in my opinion. But darn it now I want to replay it...2 is so much better I have to agree. Now if only I didn't have bad timing in these games, that's always my problem....

[darsparx]

- Katamari Damacy
- Super Mario bros(deluxe on gb player)
- Remember me new
- Stick it to the man(ps4) new

forgot when I updated this to add remember me....glad I got it as a freebie on psn. It's a great game that will most likely get a replay next year or something, but it's not a great game so i'm glad it was free. The graphics are great but they may as well made it a 2d platformer since it's basically the same thing with the illusion of exploration(which I wish you could do since the city looks amazing).

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- Katamari Damacy
- Super Mario bros(deluxe on gb player)
- Remember me new
- Stick it to the man(ps4) new

forgot when I updated this to add remember me....glad I got it as a freebie on psn. It's a great game that will most likely get a replay next year or something, but it's not a great game so i'm glad it was free. The graphics are great but they may as well made it a 2d platformer since it's basically the same thing with the illusion of exploration(which I wish you could do since the city looks amazing).

I hope you can appreciate the inherent irony here.

[darsparx]

- Katamari Damacy
- Super Mario bros(deluxe on gb player)
- Remember me new
- Stick it to the man(ps4) new

forgot when I updated this to add remember me....glad I got it as a freebie on psn. It's a great game that will most likely get a replay next year or something, but it's not a great game so i'm glad it was free. The graphics are great but they may as well made it a 2d platformer since it's basically the same thing with the illusion of exploration(which I wish you could do since the city looks amazing).

I hope you can appreciate the inherent irony here.

Yea forgetting to add a game about remembering....took me a minute to get it kinda sad really Now I just need to get around to beating some of my other games...maybe I'll get some play time on my birthday tomorrow? *sigh*

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Castle of Illusion (SMS)

Beaten for summer games challenge. Cliff notes version: it's great and different enough from the Mega Drive game to be worthy of a play. Disney guys, gals and people of no specific gender will eat it up.

Rocket Knight Adventures (MD)

Also beat for the SGC (StarGate Command). Yeah, fucking great game. Like nearly Mega Man X good IMO. Top banana.

Batman: Arkham Origins: Cold, Cold Heart + Initiation (360)

I don't usually put DLC up as a beat but Cold, Cold Heart and Initiation are self contained storylines (though it's questionable how much story Initiation has) and are accessed from separate menus so up they go. Pad dat list, Sload.

Firstly, I didn't hate Arkham Origins. In fact I actually quite enjoyed it and I feel it has fallen off the same precipice of unjustified internet hate as Resident Evil 5 and Deus Ex: Invisible War by being not as good as their trailblazing forebears. Not perfect games but also not "teh worst games evar".

Cold, Cold Heart tells a story set just after the events of Origins. Bruce is holding a fundraiser when a new (to him) enemy appears in the form of Mr Freeze. Since this is the proper DCAU/comics Mr Freeze and not Arnie's puntastic version he is actually a threat and must be dealt with.

There's a small bit where you play as Bruce before donning the cowl. Freeze has iced up parts of town so only two sections of the city are available as well as one new interior, Gothcorp. There's about four hours worth of stuff here with a nicely paced story, some short side missions and stuff. The real draw is the new cold weather batsuit that I think looks pretty cool. Functionally the same as the regular outfit it kind of looks like a cross between the suit Batman wears in the Dark Knight Returns when he faces off against Superman and the armoured up Kingdom Come one. The final confrontation against Freeze is no way near as classy as Arkham City's and this team don't quite get the predator stuff like Rocksteady do but altogether it's a pleasing slice of Batman action (Baction?).

Initiation however isn't so good. It's basically five difficult challenge maps in row with a threadbare story about Bruce's pre-Bats training in a North Korean ninja school framing it. Batman gets no lines, though obscure Bat character Master Kirigi turns up to racially abuse him. COOL. Yeah, if I didn't get it cheap I would have been pissed. The final battle is kind of cool though, a real test of your reflexes. On the other hand there are challenge maps as difficult in the main game anyway so...yeah.

Overall though I liked Cold, Cold Heart. It's much better value for money than Harley Quinn's Revenge and actually expands a bit on the Batman mythos. Not the best bit of DLC ever but also didn't make me feel like I'd wasted my money. Initiation can go hang though.

Bulletstorm (360)

I quite liked People Can Fly from what I'd played of Gear of War: Judgement. Bulletstorm is like a FPS version of that game x1000 and on a sugar rush. This is a truly outrageously stupid game but in the best way possible.

The basic gimmick is that your character Grayson (a precise mix of Marcus Fenix and Jack Black in Brutal Legend) has an energy whip strapped to his arm that he can use to lash enemies and objects. So, you can grab an enemy, whip him towards you and finish him off with a headshot. Or you can get creative. The game is designed so there are plenty of pitfalls and traps laying in wait to lash goons into such as spiked walls, electric fences, turbines, burning pits, cactus', giant venus flytraps etc. Or you can whip an explosive barrel near a group of foes and open fire netting yourself more points.

You get points for more creative kills and you need the points to upgrade your weapons so there is a nice synergy between the arcadey mentality and the OTT FPS action.

You can also do a Vanquish like slide that punts enemies up into the air if it connects. That and this game brings back the FPS boot-up-the-arse button absent since Duke Nukem 3D which also puts enemies into a sort of slo-mo state ripe for manipulation. Or you can just kick them off a ledge. Whatever floats your boat.

The guns are suitably over the top. All I'll say is the shotgun has four barrels and its super attack can flense the flesh clean off multiple enemies in one blast. Really dumb but so cool.

There are some odd relics of Gears in here. Firstly the visual style is almost exactly the same with chunky necked space marines and phosphorescent bad guys. The graphics themselves are excellent with some very pretty vistas though. The sound design is equally Gears-a-like almost to the point I could have sworn they reused the roaring sound effect for heavy units. And for whatever reason you roadie run a la Gears with the A button which is a bit awkward for a console FPS.

The tone is completely different though being generally much more light hearted by which I mean more immature. I'm sure I got called a "shit tit" at one point among other more colourful pejoratives. There are no moody renditions of Tears for Fears songs to be found here.

It's a big dumb carnival of a game in total and I'd rate it as a better single player experience than any of the Gears Of War installments. It's not a return to old-skool Quake style FPS games but it is somewhat closer than most modern FPS experiences.

[Violent By Design]

Castle of Illusion (SMS)

Beaten for summer games challenge. Cliff notes version: it's great and different enough from the Mega Drive game to be worthy of a play. Disney guys, gals and people of no specific gender will eat it up.

Rocket Knight Adventures (MD)

Also beat for the SGC (StarGate Command). Yeah, fucking great game. Like nearly Mega Man X good IMO. Top banana.

Batman: Arkham Origins: Cold, Cold Heart + Initiation (360)

I don't usually put DLC up as a beat but Cold, Cold Heart and Initiation are self contained storylines (though it's questionable how much story Initiation has) and are accessed from separate menus so up they go. Pad dat list, Sload.

Firstly, I didn't hate Arkham Origins. In fact I actually quite enjoyed it and I feel it has fallen off the same precipice of unjustified internet hate as Resident Evil 5 and Deus Ex: Invisible War by being not as good as their trailblazing forebears. Not perfect games but also not "teh worst games evar".

Cold, Cold Heart tells a story set just after the events of Origins. Bruce is holding a fundraiser when a new (to him) enemy appears in the form of Mr Freeze. Since this is the proper DCAU/comics Mr Freeze and not Arnie's puntastic version he is actually a threat and must be dealt with.

There's a small bit where you play as Bruce before donning the suit. Freeze has iced up parts of town so only two sections of the city are available as well as one new interior, Gothcorp. There's about four hours worth of stuff here with a nicely paced story, some short side missions and stuff. The real draw is the new cold weather batsuit that I think looks pretty cool. Functionally the same as the regular suit it kind of looks like a cross between the suit Batman wears in the Dark Knight Returns when he faces off against Superman and the armoured up Kingdom Come suit. The final confrontation against Freeze is no way near as classy as Arkham City's and this team don't quite get the predator stuff like Rocksteady do but altogether it's a pleasing slice of Batman action (Baction?).

Initiation however isn't so good. It's basically five difficult challenge maps in row with a threadbare story about Bruce's pre-Bats training in a North Korean ninja school framing it. Batman gets no lines, though obscure Bat character Master Kirigi turns up to racially abuse him. COOL. Yeah, if I didn't get it cheap I would have been pissed. The final battle is kind of cool though, a real test of your reflexes. On the other hand there are challenge maps that difficult with the main game anyway so...yeah.

Overall though I liked Cold, Cold Heart. It's much better value for money than Harley Quinn's Revenge and actually expands a bit on the Batman mythos. Not the best bit of DLC ever but also didn't make me feel like I'd wasted my money. Initiation can go hang though.

Bulletstorm (360)

I quite liked People Can Fly from what I'd played of Gear of War: Judgement. Bulletstorm is like a FPS version of that game x1000 and on a sugar rush. This is a truly outrageously stupid game but in the best way possible.

The basic gimmick is that your character Grayson (a precise mix of Marcus Fenix and Jack Black in Brutal Legend) has an energy whip strapped to his arm that he can use to lash enemies and objects. So, you can grab an enemy, whip him towards you and finish him off with a headshot. Or you can get creative. The game is designed so there are plenty of pitfalls and traps laying in wait to lash goons into such as spiked walls, electric fences, turbines, burning pits, cactus', giant venus flytraps etc. Or you can whip an explosive barrel near a group of foes and open fire netting yourself more points.

You get points for more creative kills and you need the points to upgrade your weapons so there is a nice synergy between the arcadey mentality and the OTT FPS action.

You can also do a Vanquish like slide that punts enemies up into the air if it connects. That and this game brings back the FPS boot-up-the-arse button absent since Duke Nukem 3D which also puts enemies into a sort of slo-mo state ripe for manipulation. Or you can just kick them off a ledge. Whatever floats your boat.

The guns are suitably over the top. All I'll say is the shotgun has four barrels and its super attack can flense the flesh clean off multiple enemies in one blast. Really dumb but so cool.

There are some odd relics of Gears in here. Firstly the visual style is almost exactly the same with chunky necked space marines and phosphorescent bad guys. The graphics themselves are excellent with some very pretty vistas though. The sound design is equally Gears-a-like almost to the point I could have sworn they reused the roaring sound effect for heavy units. And for whatever reason you roadie run a la Gears with the A button which is a bit awkward for a console FPS.

The tone is completely different though being generally much more light hearted by which I mean more immature. I'm sure I got called a "shit tit" at one point among other more colourful pejoratives. There are no moody renditions of Tears for Fears songs to be found here.

It's a big dumb carnival of a game in total and I'd rate it as a better single player experience than any of the Gears Of War installments. It's not a return to old-skool Quake style FPS games but it is somewhat closer than most modern FPS experiences.

Rocket Knight Adventures was da bomb when I was a kid. I need to revisit that game.

[ExedExes]

1. Metal Gear - NES (February 27)
2. Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault - PC (March 4)
3. Thunderbirds - NES (March 9)
4. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 - Gamecube (March 22)
5. Army Men: Sarge's War - Gamecube (March 22)
6. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas - PC (April 5)
7. Army Men Advance - GBA (April 16)
8. Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death - PC (April 27)
9. Contra Advance: The Alien Wars EX - GBA (May 17)
10. Symphony - PC (May 24)
11. Serious Sam: The First Encounter - PC (May 30)
12. The Lost Vikings - GBA (May 31)
13. Star Wars Rebel Squadron II: Rogue Leader - Gamecube (June 21)
14. Sonic CD - Android/Mobile (June 24)
15. Psychonauts - PC (June 30)
16. Kabuki Quantum Fighter - NES (July 8 )
17. *NEW* Army Men Air Combat: The Elite Missions - Gamecube (August 2)

After completing Sarge's War, I started this one. It was pretty long, which is good, and it was just straight helicopter combat in backyards, gardens, and indoor settings. Lots of 'copters, co-pilots, and tons of cutscenes with a decent story featuring the "cowboy tactics" of the Green Army's top pilot and their battle against the Tans. It looks like it has a pretty good multiplayer as well.

[noiseredux]

1. King of Fighters R-2 (NGPC)
2. Dead or Alive 2 (Limited Edition) (DC)
3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles In Time (PS2)
4. Metal Gear (PS2)
5. Capcom Vs. SNK 2 (DC)
6. Sonic The Hedgehog Pocket Adventure (NGPC)
7. Bust-A-Move Pocket (NGPC)
8. Super Puzzle Figher IIX (DC)
9. Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge (DC)
10. Puyo Puyo Fever (DC)
11. Phantasy Star Online (DC)
12. Among The Sleep (PC)
13. Titanfall (PC)
14. Wolfenstein: The New Order (PC)
15. Shovel Knight (PC)
16. Dragon's Lair (PC)
17. Escape Goat 2 (PC)
18. Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara (PC)

Credit-fed thru Shadows OVer Mystara for TR. Hated every minute. Think it's safe to say at this point that I just don't like the beat-em-up/RPG cross-genre.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Do the D&D games even let you repeat stages or grind in any way? From what I recall the RPG elements are kinda superfluous. Surprised to hear you hated the game though.

I think you would enjoy Code of Princess and Murumasa (though the later is more of a RPG/Metroidvania crossover).