Games Beaten 2014

[Flake]

1/12: Kirby's Adventure (NES)
1/20: Injustice: Gods Among US (WiiU)
1/25: Super Mario 3D World (WiiU)
1/29: Metroid Fusion (GBA)
1/30: Metroid II: The Return of Samus (GB)
2/8: Metroid Zero Mission (GBA)
2/23: Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes (WiiU)
3/9: Megaman Zero (DS)
3/14: Megaman Battle Network (GBA)
3/19: Star Fox 64 3D (3DS)
3/23: Megaman 6 (NES)
4/9: Project Justice: Rival Schools 2 (DC)
5/12: Capcom vs SNK (DC)
5/17: Megaman: Wily's Revenge (GB)
5/19: Megaman II (GB)
5/23: Megaman III (GB)
5/24: Megaman IV (GB)
5/25: Megaman V (GB)
5/25: Megaman Powered Up! (PSP)
5/27: Megaman X (SNES)
7/5: Mario Kart 8 (WiiU)
7/26: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii)
8/17:New Super Luigi Bros. U (WiiU)
8/31: Dragon Ball Z Budokai (GCN)
9/25: Metal Gear Solid Twin Snakes (GCN)
10/10: Mass Effect (PS3)

Metal Gear Solid Twin Snakes is a really superb game and every time I play it I find something new to like about it. This time I played through it attempting to keep my kill count as low as I could by using all the environmental gimmicks they patched in from Metal Gear Solid 2. Lots of flash grenades, shooting steam pipes, leaving porno in peculiar places, and dropping atop soldiers from ledges.

Twin Snakes feels a little primitive compared the newer Metal Gear games I've played lately like Peace Walker or Ground Zeroes but the difference feels like that between Super Mario World and Super Mario Galaxy. Progress on the series has not rendered the older game any less fun.

Mass Effect on PS3 is a real bad mess. I'm kind of amazed Sony signed off on this port. It's glitchy in a few game breaking, hope you have a recent save file, kind of ways. The saving and loading bits are too long and frequent. The framefrate stutters for absolutely no reason even when there is nothing happening on screen. The game itself is still a lot of fun. I played through as a renegade femshep who happened to make the right choices at the last minute, with an eye to diving into Mass Effect 2 (again) and Mass Effect 3 (finally), importing the same world all the way through. So compared to previous playthroughs, I let a lot more NPCs survive pissing my femshep off.

[Violent By Design]

Games where Gamerfolife dies: cheap fucking game fucking sucks! modern games fail!
Games where Gamerforlife does not die: game is my bitch! GOTY!

haha

[Gamerforlife]

Games where Gamerfolife dies: cheap fucking game fucking sucks! modern games fail!
Games where Gamerforlife does not die: game is my bitch! GOTY!

Any generic, big name shooter game i.e Borderlands, Destiny, etc, etc: dsheinem "Awesome! You guys all should play it!"

Games that are actually GOOD, ARTISTIC or ORIGINAL meh, dsheinem finds it's boring and doesn't get why people are making such a big deal about it i.e. Ico, Batman Arkham Asylum, etc, etc.

Oh, and dsheinem is a teacher and has a podcast so his opinion must be better than yours

[RyaNtheSlayA]

Why can't one like both?!

I like both.

[dsheinem]

Any generic, big name shooter game i.e Borderlands, Destiny, etc, etc: dsheinem "Awesome! You guys all should play it!"

Games that are actually GOOD, ARTISTIC or ORIGINAL meh, dsheinem finds it's boring and doesn't get why people are making such a big deal about it i.e. Ico, Batman Arkham Asylum, etc, etc.:

If any of this were true, I'd give it to you, but none of it is. I do like shooters, but Borderlands and Destiny are both fairly novel in their approach to genre (both hybrids of various FPS + RPG elements) and while I don't think "you guys should all play them" I do think that they would have wide appeal to people who enjoy those genres (which is most people).

I didn't like Ico but gave many reasons why (mostly due to the mechanics). I didn't like AA for similar reasons (mechanics that I don't enjoy). I do, however, "get" why people like them and make a big deal about them. They aren't especially boring.

As even a basic glance over my yearly posts in this thread would show, I play and enjoy a very wide variety of games and pride myself on doing so. Many "GOOD, ARTISTIC, or ORIGINAL" games regularly make my list of top GOTY choices.

My criticism of your praise/derision of games lately is that you consistently heap glowing praise games that you don't seem to have much difficulty with (you didn't die in Morodor and pride yourself on your skill at the Batman games) while you ferociously condemn games that cause you to struggle (Guacamelee, Knack, Child of Light, etc.)...

[dsheinem]

Games Beaten 2014
January-June
Spider - iOS
Metal Torrent - NDS
Injustice: Gods Among Us - PC
Thief Gold - PC
Shovel Knight - 3DS
Wolfenstein: The New Order - PC
Spoiler Alert - PC
Battle Arena Toshinden - Game Boy
Dungeons and Dragons - Shadow of Mystara - PC
Diablo III - PC
Dungeons and Dragons - Tower of Doom - PC
Expendabros - PC
Doom III: The Lost Mission - PC
Borderlands 2: Headhunter 1: T.K. Baha's Bloody Harvest - PC
Kangaroo - Atari 2600
Escape Goat - PC *new*
Borderlands 2: Headhunter 2: The Horrible Hunger of the Ravenous Wattle Gobbler - PC *new*
Borderlands 2: Headhunter 3: How Marcus Saved Mercenary Day - PC *new*
Ninja Spirit - PCE
Borderlands 2: Headhunter 4: Wedding Day Massacre - PC
Proteus - Vita
Destiny - PS4
Karnov - NES
Bug Princess - iOS
Contra: Hard Corps - Genesis
Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge - PS3 *new*
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel - PC *new*
Vib-Ribbon - PS1 *new*

Total: 78

Games Beaten: 2013 2012 2011 2010


I played Revenge instead of Savior for quite a while last week to practice for the tourney and got through it on arcade mode…now I need to spend some time with the right game

Borderlands the Pre-Sequel is a series of small tweaks to the core Borderlands experience and fans of any of the other games should find a ton here to enjoy you guys should all play it!

Vib-Ribbon is a really charming little game, and though the last level gave me a nice mental workout, none of it was especially tough. This was just released on the PSN and works with your own CDs too if you play it on PS3, so give it a go if you have any interest! (I cleared the three modes [easy-normal-hard]..and a few tracks from Stankonia).

Gorf is a classic arcade shooter that was eventually ported to the requisite pre-NES systems. It's one of those "one screen" shooters like Galaga or Satan's Hollow, though you can move vertically as well. The game has four very distinct levels before looping, which was a nice surprise. The final boss is the big daddy spaceship which makes an epic static-y boom when it explodes. You know what I'm talking about.

I played Gorf on two Commodore systems. As expected the C64 port has better graphics and runs much more smoothly. Better explosion at the end too.

I have fond memories of playing Gorf on my grandfather's C64 back when I was in like 3rd grade or so. I don't know that I ever looped it, so that sounds like a new reason to boot it up.

Too bad I don't have a C64 I'll have to go the emulation route...

[noiseredux]

Bombs Over Bagdad?

[dsheinem]

Bombs Over Bagdad?

indeed

[BoneSnapDeez]

Gorf is a classic arcade shooter that was eventually ported to the requisite pre-NES systems. It's one of those "one screen" shooters like Galaga or Satan's Hollow, though you can move vertically as well. The game has four very distinct levels before looping, which was a nice surprise. The final boss is the big daddy spaceship which makes an epic static-y boom when it explodes. You know what I'm talking about.

I played Gorf on two Commodore systems. As expected the C64 port has better graphics and runs much more smoothly. Better explosion at the end too.

I have fond memories of playing Gorf on my grandfather's C64 back when I was in like 3rd grade or so. I don't know that I ever looped it, so that sounds like a new reason to boot it up.

Too bad I don't have a C64 I'll have to go the emulation route...

I think the speed increases every loop and you can increase your rank a few times if you keep looping. As far as I can tell though, there is no true ending - once you hit that top rank you just keep receiving it.

But yes - there are four named levels: Astro Battles, Laser Attack, Space Warp, and Flag Ship.

[Kidpanda]

Bombs Over Bagdad?

indeed

I'd be curious as to try some levels made from tracks by Squarepusher, the Flashbulb or a few tracks off of AT: RDJ Album. Those tracks are pretty busy most times. Bogdan Racynzski might be out of control too.