Games Beaten 2014

[emwearz]

First 40 Games...

1. Back to the Future: The Game - PC
2. Syndicate - PC
3. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag - PC
4. Resident Evil: Revelations - 3DS
5. The Walking Dead - PC
6. The Walking Dead: 400 Days - PC
7. Cyber-Lip - Neo Geo (Via Neo Geo X)
8. Metal Slug 4 - PS2
9. Aliens: Colonial Marines - Stasis Interrupted (DLC) - PC
10. Metal Slug Advance - GBA (Via Emulation)
11. Assassins Creed III: Liberation HD - PC
12. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations - NDS
13. Sam & Max Save the World - PC
14. Bust-a-Move Pocket - NGPC (Via Emulation)
15. South Park: The Stick of Truth - PC
16. SNK Gals' Fighters - NGPC (Via Emulation)
17. Grand Theft Auto V - PS3
18. Titanfall - PC
19. Super Mario 3D World - Wii U
20. Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask - 3DS
21. Uncharted: Golden Abyss - Vita
22. Gravity Rush - Vita
23. Hotline Miami - Vita
24. BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea Episode 1 - PC
25. BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea Episode 2 - PC
26. LittleBigPlanet PS Vita - Vita
27. The Last of Us - PS3
28. Peggle Nights - Peggle Nights - PC
29. Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes - Vita
30. Donkey Kong Country - SNES
31. Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 - PSP
32. Wolfenstein: The New Order - PC
33. Thief - PC
34. Lylat War (Starfox 64) - N64
35. The Wolf Among Us - PC
36. Knack - PS4
37. The Unfinished Swan - PS3
38. Entwined - PS4
39. SteamWorld Dig - PC
40. Infamous: Second Son - PS4

41. Killzone: Shadow Fall - PS4
42. Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction
43. Super Monkey Ball 3D - 3DS
44. InFamous: First Light - PS4
45. The Last of Us: Left Behind - PS4
46. Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep - PC
47. Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel - PC

Total for 2014: 47

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel - PC
This game was a bit hit and miss with me. I had heard a quite a few people say it felt like a big piece of DLC for Borderlands 2 and I guess that is the best way to describe it. It does not bring all that much new to the table and other than the anti gravity stuff, most of the new things I don't really care for.

The accents (Australian, way over the top) and the overall "Aussie-ness" of the game by 2K Australia is over the top, every second character talks like Steve Irwin (Who of course is Parodied in the game), I just felt they went too far with it and it go old pretty fast. Another major weakness are the side missions, they are really fetch questish, which is normal, but they tend to go a lot longer than the ones in BL2, with nothing really interesting happening in them.

The story and game picks up a bit in the second half, it is quite a bit shorter than BL2 as well. I would say the gameplay lies between BL1 and BL2, but everything is is sub BL1.

[Flake]

Another game not beaten:

Metal Gear Solid 4.

I freaking hate this game. I go through a phase every now and then where I convince myself that all the rave reviews, rabid fans, and popularity that surrounds this game has got to mean that I'm wrong.

No, I'm not wrong. Everything about this game sucks because the developers demonstrated no restraint whatsoever. The game timer says I've been playing for 12 hours - no, that can be right because I don't feel like I've gotten to play for 12 hours. Maybe 3 or 4. It's all cutscenes.

Worse yet, the story is stupid. You can only suspend disbelief so far before your brain buys a plane ticket, leaves a passive aggressive note, and moves on without ever looking back.

I am going to bookmark this page so that I can refer to it later on in life when I convince myself for some reason to pick this game up again.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Yeah that game is horrendous. I got it free in a B2G1 sale so at least I don't feel cheated out of money.

[BogusMeatFactory]

Another game not beaten:

Metal Gear Solid 4.

I freaking hate this game. I go through a phase every now and then where I convince myself that all the rave reviews, rabid fans, and popularity that surrounds this game has got to mean that I'm wrong.

No, I'm not wrong. Everything about this game sucks because the developers demonstrated no restraint whatsoever. The game timer says I've been playing for 12 hours - no, that can be right because I don't feel like I've gotten to play for 12 hours. Maybe 3 or 4. It's all cutscenes.

Worse yet, the story is stupid. You can only suspend disbelief so far before your brain buys a plane ticket, leaves a passive aggressive note, and moves on without ever looking back.

I am going to bookmark this page so that I can refer to it later on in life when I convince myself for some reason to pick this game up again.

You are not crazy. I have been trying to get through the Metal Gear Solid series for a long time and only recently finished the first and moved on to the second, which I am finding to be unbearable. I do not find the story to be interesting, the characters to be likeable and the game design to be horribly unintuitive. The game just doesn't click to my style of play in the slightest.

Oh well. I guess I still have the old-school Splinter Cell games.

[dsheinem]

MGS4>MGS1>MGS2>MGS3

[BoneSnapDeez]

That may technically be true but all of those games are pretty terrible. It'd be like ranking the Bubsy games in order.

I'm not going to win many friends around here.

[MrPopo]

That may technically be true but all of those games are pretty terrible. It'd be like ranking the Bubsy games in order.

I'm not going to win many friends around here.

Bubsy 3D is the Paradise Lost of our generation.

[Flake]

I actually quite like all the Metal Gear games except Solid 4. The reason Solid 4 makes me so frustrated is that it is the canonical end of several of the series' main characters - and it's terrible. They are still making excellent prequels but whenever I play those, somewhere in the back of my head is the knowledge that no matter how enjoyable this game may be, it all ends in the shit storm that is Solid 4.

[dsheinem]

I actually quite like all the Metal Gear games except Solid 4. The reason Solid 4 makes me so frustrated is that it is the canonical end of several of the series' main characters - and it's terrible. They are still making excellent prequels but whenever I play those, somewhere in the back of my head is the knowledge that no matter how enjoyable this game may be, it all ends in the shit storm that is Solid 4.

In fairness, my ranking of the MGS games has very little to do with the inane story they tell

[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 *new*
Total: 82

Games Beaten: 2013 2012 2011 2010

Add my voice to the chorus of people who enjoy this game. It is a little slow to get going (I wasn't sold in the first hour or two), but once you kind of get the hang of things and the combat opens up a bit, it is quite fun. Probably the best Middle Earth-based game ever made, not that there was a very high bar to begin with...