Games Beaten 2014

[J T]

DocHauser, I just wanted to say that I am impressed with your gaming skills. You 1CC some really difficult shmups at a brisk pace and anytime I play a Steam game with online leaderboards, I see that your scores are almost always miles ahead of mine (though I think I might have one or two Pac Man CE DX+ levels on you).

[DocHauser]

Thanks JT! I think I've still got a long way to go to match the top players, though.

[noiseredux]

just finished ep4 of The Wolf Among Us. After each episode, this game has slowly climbed its way higher on my list of 2014 games. I really love the world it has created. I'm sure I'll finish it up tomorrow.

[prfsnl_gmr]

just finished ep4 of The Wolf Among Us. After each episode, this game has slowly climbed its way higher on my list of 2014 games. I really love the world it has created. I'm sure I'll finish it up tomorrow.

Awesome. The last episode is one of the best. I hope you enjoy it!

[noiseredux]

just finished ep4 of The Wolf Among Us. After each episode, this game has slowly climbed its way higher on my list of 2014 games. I really love the world it has created. I'm sure I'll finish it up tomorrow.

Awesome. The last episode is one of the best. I hope you enjoy it!

jeez if the last is the best, I'm for a treat. I'll be honest, I thought the whole fairy tale thing would be kind of lame. But in fact it's far more compelling than Walking Dead 2's storyline. And I can't tell you all the grins I've had bumping into fairy tale and public domain figures...

The Little Mermaid is a stripper?
Bloody Mary revels in kids reciting her name in mirrors?
The fucking Jersey Devil owns a pawn shop?

It's all brilliantly weaved together, as if the public domain were set in the same town as David Lynch's Blue Velvet and glossed over in 80's hyper-pink. I adore this game.

I've also just this last chapter got a hunch about Snow that is making me uneasy, but I'll wait until the game is over until I reveal my inkling and see if I was right. At any rate - yeah. Amazing game and I'm so glad I didn't wait on this one.

[Exhuminator]

Well here's my final tally of games beaten in 2014:

999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
Armored Core
Armored Core: Master of Arena
Armored Core: Project Phantasma*
Assassin's Creed III: Liberation
Back Street Billiards
Bourin
Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars
Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
Crystal Beans From Dungeon Explorer
Dokapon Kingdom
Double Dragon Neon
Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl
Final Fantasy Tactics*
Front Mission 4
Guacamelee!
Gun
King's Field (JPN)
Mario Kart 8
Marvelous: Mōhitotsu no Takarajima (AKA Marvelous: Another Treasure Island)
MechAssault
MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf
Metal Gear Acid
Metal Gear Acid 2
Monument Valley*
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Otogi: Myth of Demons
Ravensword: Shadowlands
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles
Samurai Warriors 3
Sonic Colors*
The Conduit
The First Templar
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
Trauma Team
Yakuza 2
Ys Origin*
Ys Seven
Ys: The Oath in Felghana

That's a total of 40 games, not too shabby I guess.

*These are the games I enjoyed the absolute most, recommended to all.

[prfsnl_gmr]

It's all brilliantly weaved together, as if the public domain were set in the same town as David Lynch's Blue Velvet and glossed over in 80's hyper-pink. I adore this game.

I know! Isn't it awesome! Not knowing what choices you made along the way, it will be interesting to read how the last episode play out for you. Also - and like any good mystery...

...almost everything you think you know is wrong.

Have fun!

[BoneSnapDeez]

Ys Origin*

At this point I'm ready to declare that Origin is the second-best Ys game.

Have you played Napishtim yet?

[Exhuminator]

At this point I'm ready to declare that Origin is the second-best Ys game.

It's the best Ys game I've played. Streamlined Ys action with every bit of fat cut out.

Have you played Napishtim yet?

I beat it back in 2009. I thought it was decent but it had some issues with grinding and a weak final boss design.

[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
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel - PC
Vib-Ribbon - PS1
Deathsmiles (360 Mode) - 360
Vampire Savior (Darkstalkers 3) - PS3
Forza Horizon 2 - - Xbox One
Shadow of Mordor - PS4
The Novelist - PC
Luftrausers - Vita
Monument Valley - iOS
Dragon Age: Inquisition - PS4
Sonic Advance - GBA *new*
Titan Attacks - - Vita *new*

Total: 88

Games Beaten: 2013 2012 2011 2010

I know I like to regularly trot out my view of the slump in the quality of Sonic games from Sonic 1 onward until Colors/Generations, but that criticism is really just about the mainline console games. Along the way, there were a few phenomenal Game Boy Advance games that were much truer to the first couple of console titles in the series than anything since. I took occasion to revisit Advance last night on my GB Micro (on a 2" screen) and then finish it up today on the Retron 5 (on a 55" screen) using a Genesis pad. It was an interesting visual/tactile experiment, but of course the game works equally as well in any form. I think, in my push to 100, I may reacquire SA2 and SA3 and try to move through them, too.

Titan Attacks is a fun Space Invaders-style game that works great on the Vita (and where I prefer it over the PC version I toyed around with a year or so ago). It was recently a free game on PS+, so many of you may have it - you should give it a look!

I started Sunset Overdrive today too, which is...ok. Hoping to get through it in the next day or two whilst playing a few shorter games too.