Games Beaten : 2011

[Croooow!]

Trax for Gameboy
Super Mario RPG for SNES
Ikaruga for Gamecube
Mercs for PSP
A Space Shooter for Two Bucks! *new* If you like shmups and have a PSP there is no reason not to get this game. It was a little on the easy side but had a lot of character and was well worth the money.

[noiseredux]

Trax for Gameboy
Super Mario RPG for SNES
Ikaruga for Gamecube
Mercs for PSP
A Space Shooter for Two Bucks! *new* If you like shmups and have a PSP there is no reason not to get this game. It was a little on the easy side but had a lot of character and was well worth the money.

I was thinking of grabbing this. Though I hate DL-only titles.

[dsheinem]

Interesting thoughts. Im a huge fan of the first game myself, but I have not decided if I like it better or not. I felt that 2 did several things much better, while some things were lacking. But as you say it was still all fun. So I am just going to address a few of your points and how I felt regarding them...

Sorry I missed this very thoughtful reply to my last post in this thread

I guess what it comes down to for me was that I liked the first game more because everything in the universe was new. Yes, the enemy encounters are more varied in DS2 but they are basically the same enemies as in DS1. In DS1, they were all new. In DS2, there's no real mystery to anything that's going on, there's no moment like the reveal of the marker on the first game, and though I agree the logs are better (I did read and listen to them all when and where I found them), that wasn't enough to compensate for me already having a pretty good idea of where the story was going and why.

As for the sprawl, it came across as Bioshock-in-space at points and it lost a lot of that gritty/industrial feel that I felt marked the first game.

If all this makes it sound like I didn't like DS2, that is unfortunate because I most certainly did and I appreciated the refinements in the engine, the game play mechanics, etc. But those components of the games were never the draw for me in the first place, the mood/atmosphere, story, and creativity were. In some ways I feel much the same about Dead Space 2 as I did Bioshock 2: fun, refined, but lacking the soul and sense of wonder of the original.

[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 - DC
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 *new*
Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess - PSP *new*

Total: 22

I have gone through several 1cc runs of MVC3, and it certainly lives up to the hype - the most fun I've had with a fighting game so far this gen. Too bad I get my ass handed to me when I go into ranked online matches...

Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess is the first PSPmini I have played and has a great Behemoth feel to it. The basic story is fairly easy to complete, but the score attack mode and puzzle components are often addicting and difficult. Definitely worth a look!

[Flake]

1/11 Guardian Heroes (SAT)
1/14 Sonic Adventure (GCN)
1/17 Marvel vs Capcom 2 (DC)
1/17 X-Men vs Street Fighter (SAT)
1/22 Dragon Ball Z Budokai (GCN)
1/24 Street Fighter III - The New Generation (DC)
1/24 Street Fighter Alpha 3 (DC)
1/25 Mega Man X (GCN)
1/26 Dragon Ball Advanced Adventure (GBA)
1/31 Tatsunoko vs Capcom (Wii)
2/1 Megaman X2 (GCN)
2/2 Marvel vs Capcom (DC)
2/3 Megaman X3 (GCN)
2/3 Megaman X4 (GCN)
2/4 Megaman X5 (GCN)
2/5 Megaman X6 (GCN)
2/7 Gundam SEED: Never Ending Tomorrow (PS2)
2/8 Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (DC)
2/9 Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors Dreams (PS2)
2/9 The King of Fighters XI (PS2)
2/11 The King of Fighters '99 Dream Match (DC)
2/13 SNK Gals Fighter (NGPC)
2/16 The King of Fighters '98 (Wii)
2/17 The King of Fighters '96 (Wii)
2/17 Metal Slug (Wii)
2/17 Metal Slug 2 (Wii)
2/18 SNK vs Capcom: The Match of the Millennium (NGPC)
2/19 The King of Fighters '97 (Wii)
2/19 Street Fighter II' (Wii / VC)
2/22 Metal Slug 3 (Wii)
2/25 Super Street Fighter IV (PS3)

So I FINALLY got to play SSFIV. It's pretty good. But that's it. It does not blow my mind like Street Fighter 3 or Street Fighter Alpha 3 Upper. The graphics are impressive but I feel like the absence of detailed sprite work is more loss than gain. I will give it a few kudos though: The roster is spot on with only one or two omissions (No Karin? No R. Mika? No EX characters at all?) so I am happy with that. Also, the addition of Ultra moves on top of the standard Super moves really brings a risk and reward strategy to the game play.

[YoshiEgg25]

Flake, you're on pace to finish nearly 200 games.

[Flake]

Flake, you're on pace to finish nearly 200 games.

My goal for the year is at least 100. It helps that I mostly play shorter games.

[Dakinggamer87]

Vanquish - Quite an enjoyable game

Great game!!

[LoganX1187]

1. Lego Indiana Jones 2 (360) - 1000/1000
2. Star Wars The Force Unleashed II (360) - 1200/1200
3. Afterburner Climax (XBLA) - 200/200 + both avatar awards
4. Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing (360) - 1000/1000
5. Bully Scholarship Edition (360) - 1000/1000

I have a tremendous backlog going back to games on Genesis and SNES (that I bought when those were still "Current" platforms) and stretching even further back for games I bought after a console generation had ended (so I have NES and Sega Master System games and older that need to be played, but I got them after that generation had ended). I was gaming heavily in the NES/Master System era, but back then I was a kid and I only got a few games a year. When I got a game back then, I beat the hell out of it every which way. It's probably why I'm such a weird completionist now.

That said, I have always been at a loss on how to attack my backlog... do I start with the older stuff or do the current stuff ASAP before it loses it's luster? This always stymied me, and as I'd buy new games because they looked awesome I could never quite decide what to do with the games I already had that "looked awesome" just a year prior. The advent of achievements has worked well with my weird obsession with completing games, so I find that I'm gladly attacking my 360 backlog first.

I thought Bully was fantastic. I haven't played any of the GTAs (although I have them all) aside from about 20 minutes of GTA 3 back when it first came out and I haven't played Red Dead Redemption (don't have that one yet), so this was was my first Rockstar sandbox game. I definitely wasn't disappointed. The only thing I would change if I had a chance would be to loop the school year once you beat the game instead of having it be "Endless Summer" forever. I was pretty adept about getting away from authorities by Chapter 3 so I never served detention in winter, and therefore never tried shoveling snow. I also threw several snowballs, but never actually started a snowball fight in game, and now I won't be able to unless I play again. While these things don't effect game completion at all (I still got the "100% completion" achievement and unlocked all of the unlockables) it irks me that I didn't do them. I also could have avoided this by saving in more than one slot, but I didn't. Live and learn. Maybe in the distant future I'll do a fresh replay of this game, but for now I'm content with the excellent experience I had with it. Time to push forward and kill another game!

[Croooow!]

Trax for Gameboy
Super Mario RPG for SNES
Ikaruga for Gamecube
Mercs for PSP
A Space Shooter for Two Bucks! *new* If you like shmups and have a PSP there is no reason not to get this game. It was a little on the easy side but had a lot of character and was well worth the money.

I was thinking of grabbing this. Though I hate DL-only titles.

I think you owe to yourself to try it. If you don't like it you're only out two bucks.