Games Beaten : 2011

[emwearz]

For quite awhile I didn't enjoy Metro while playing it, but by the end I was fairly impressed with the game. Very hard at times and it is pretty rubbish on the 360 compared to the PC, but overall I was impressed by it, really underrated game.

[Niode]

For quite awhile I didn't enjoy Metro while playing it, but by the end I was fairly impressed with the game. Very hard at times and it is pretty rubbish on the 360 compared to the PC, but overall I was impressed by it, really underrated game.

Yeah I had a friend tell me he thought the game was shit. I asked him what platform he played it on. 360. No surprise there then. It really is so much better on PC with decent hardware.

[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)
2/27 Capcom vs SNK 2 (DC)
2/27 Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (PS3)
3/3 Mega Man II (GB)
3/5 Super Street Fighter II: HD Remix (PS3)
3/6 Mega Man III (GB)
3/11 Mega Man IV (GB)
3/13 Mega Man: Powered Up! (PSP)
3/14 Garou: Mark of the Wolves (DC)
3/15 Street Fighter III 3rd Strike (PS2)
3/15 Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold (PS2)
3/15 Street Fighter Alpha 2 (PS2)
3/15 Street Fighter EX 3 (PS2)
3/15 Real Bout Fatal Fury Special (PS2)
3/16 The King of Fighters R2 (NGPC)
3/16 Project Justice: Rival Schools (DC)
3/17 Capcom Fighting Evolution (PS2)
3/20 Zone of the Enders (PS2)
3/21 P.N.03 (GCN)
3/21 Super Puzzle Fighter II (GBA)
3/27 Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition (3DS)
4/10 Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2 (GCN)
4/28 Vampire Savior (SAT)
5/3 Advance Guardian Heroes (GBA)
5/7 Virtua Fighter Kids (SAT)
5/12 Soul Calibur II (GCN)
5/13 Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland (GBA)
5/14 Dead or Alive 2 (DC)
5/14 Gigawing (DC)
5/15 Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 (Wii)
5/23 Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure (NGPC)
5/24 Mega Man 8 (SAT)
5/27 Kirby's Dream Land (GB)
6/4 Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land (GB)

I've put off playing this game for awhile because of how different it is from Warioland 2 and Warioland 4. It plays more like a hacked Mario Land 2 ROM. Once I got used to it, this game really grew on me. It's so very different from Mario Land 2 - and a great example of why Nintendo RD1 was such a bad ass group back in the 80's and early 90's. This game was probably not an easy pitch to make to the Nintendo executives but I am glad they signed off on it.

Like Mario Land 2, this game has also aged very well. The control is spot on and the games plot is genuinely funny. The influence this title has had on all future Wario games is also quite obvious - this is a real piece of Nintendo history.

[Xeogred]

Finally picked up Fallout New Vegas again to finish it, the ending was definitely worth it. Good times.

[Ack]

Serious Sam: The Second Encounter (PC)(FPS)
X-Men: Mutant Academy (PS1)(Fighting)
Street Fighter Alpha (PS2)(Fighting)
Extermination (PS2)(Survival Horror)
Spyro the Dragon (PS1)(Platformer)
Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! (PS1)(Platformer)
Myst III: Exile (PC)(Graphic Adventure)
Shaq Fu (GEN)(Fighting)
Spyro: Year of the Dragon (PS1)(Platformer)
God of War (PS2)(Action Adventure)
The Simpsons Game (PS2)(Platformer)
The King of Fighters '99 (PS1)(Fighting)
EOE: Eve of Extinction (PS2)(Beat 'Em Up)
Final Fight (Arcade)(Beat 'Em Up)
Gundam Battle Assault (PS1)(Fighting)
Dark Rift (N64)(Fighting)
Deadly Arts (N64)(Fighting)
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (PS2)(TPS)
Vampire Hunter (SAT)(Fighting)
Super Scribblenauts (NDS)(Puzzle)
Castlevania: Curse of Darkness (PS2)(Action Adventure)
Jet Force Gemini (N64)(TPS)

TOTAL: 22

Rare really did a good job with Jet Force Gemini, though I have to admit I had my ups and downs with this one. It's a bizarre game that holds up well on the Nintendo 64, especially considering Rare's other hit titles for the console. Jet Force Gemini is a third person shooter centered around a pair of intrepid children and their cyborg dog, who make up a small unit of the much larger interstellar human military. The children have been asked by the furry inhabitants of the planet Goldwood, known as the Tribals, to help save their planet from the evil insectile forces of King Mizar. The fight to save the Tribals takes place across a variety of worlds and spaceships, resulting in a final battle on board a meteor plummeting directly towards the Earth(as a nice touch the Earth is framed in the background of the final boss battle, a reminder of exactly what all is at stake).

Jet Force Gemini's control scheme is quite complicated, but once you get the hang of it it's really brilliant. The C buttons are used to strafe, jump, and crouch, but when the R button is held, it changes to operate like a D-pad while the analog stick aims. It works extremely well, but it takes time to get used to. The controls change a little during boss battles so that you don't have to hold the R button and can strafe back and forth freely.

The levels are also quite wide ranging, with a multitude of differing locales. But the game also offers a few side missions. This is one of the things I took issue with; the additions are things like racing missions and the "Floyd Missions." The racing missions make for an interesting distraction, but the Floyd Missions, in which you control a small flying robot, suffer from poor controls that force you to replay them over and over again. The levels require you to race through tight corridors in first person view, grabbing items and shooting various objects in extremely short periods of time. It wouldn't be so bad if they were optional, but at least one required object was only available by making it through one of these frustrating and asinine sections fast enough to receive a gold medal. I nearly threw my controller down in frustration over it. On the other hand the racing missions aren't so bad, but again they're purely optional.

Oh, one other issue I have is with the AI. For the most part it's very good, with enemies running up behind cover, popping in and out to shoot at you, chucking grenades to flush you out, etc. I found it quite good, what all with it being a Nintendo 64 game. Unfortunately later on I had to rescue the tribals, which the AI decided would be better to shoot than to let me have. One level in particular I was forced to play through again and again because the AI continuously decided it would rather murder the little guys than fight me.

Oh, that final boss fight? It's pretty epic too, not just with the view. It's tough, but it's fair and nowhere near impossible. More final bosses should be like that.

[Xeogred]

Congrats, I was never able to conquer that game. Someday...

[Gamerforlife]

Didn't Mega Man X7 require you to find robots that gave you all of your upgrades, but said robots could be killed, making it impossible for you to get them? I seem to remember that...I've played a few levels of MMX7, but I've never really been big on the X series in general.

They kind of did this in both Mega Man X 6 and Mega Man X 7, but it was much, much more annoying in Mega Man X 6. Yet another reason why I liked MMX7 a bit more than its predecessor. MMX8 schools the both of them though

[Ack]

Congrats, I was never able to conquer that game. Someday...

Hey, thanks. Truthfully I started this game about two months ago and didn't really care for it, and then after messing around with Castlevania 64 a bit, I decided I'd go back to it last week. I'm really glad I took the time to beat it, but it was a whole lot longer than I expected, which I suppose I should consider a bonus.

Didn't Mega Man X7 require you to find robots that gave you all of your upgrades, but said robots could be killed, making it impossible for you to get them? I seem to remember that...I've played a few levels of MMX7, but I've never really been big on the X series in general.

They kind of did this in both Mega Man X 6 and Mega Man X 7, but it was much, much more annoying in Mega Man X 6. Yet another reason why I liked MMX7 a bit more than its predecessor. MMX8 schools the both of them though

So could you ever get an upgrade that was lost if the robot was killed then?

[geozeldadude]

6/4 Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land (GB)
I've put off playing this game for awhile because of how different it is from Warioland 2 and Warioland 4. It plays more like a hacked Mario Land 2 ROM. Once I got used to it, this game really grew on me. It's so very different from Mario Land 2 - and a great example of why Nintendo RD1 was such a bad ass group back in the 80's and early 90's. This game was probably not an easy pitch to make to the Nintendo executives but I am glad they signed off on it.

i agree; this is a wholly enjoyable game. have you played WL3? it's really good. i'm working my way through the last few wario games i haven't played yet and the whole series is pretty solid.

[KillerJuan77]

I know it's not that impressive but here's the list:

January 2011:
BFBC2 - iPod Touch - Beaten January 4rth - MEH
Deadliest Warrior: The Game - PSN - Completed January 5th - Shit
Medal Of Honor - PS3 - Beaten January 5th - Good
Broken Sword: Shadow Of The Templars DC - iPod Touch - Completed January 13th - Amazing
R-Type - iPod Touch - Beaten January 13th - Crap
Star Wars Arcade: Falcon Gunner - iPod Touch - Beaten January 17th - Good
Tigger's Honey Hunt - N64 - Beaten January 18th - Great (Seriously, it's pretty good)
Bionic Commando: Rearmed - PSN - Beaten January 24th - Amazing

February 2011:
Road Blaster - iPod Touch - Beaten February 12th - Good
Dead Space - iPod Touch - Beaten February 16th - Great
Calling - Wii - Beaten February 17th - Meh
Space Invaders: Infinity Gene - PSN - Beaten February 20th - Good
Blue Toad Murder Files: Episode 1 - PSN - Beaten February 20th - Crap
Devil May Cry 4 refrain - iPod Touch - Beaten February 21th - Meh
Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD - PCDL - Beaten February 28th - Good

March:
The 7th. Guest - iPod Touch - Beaten March 4th - Good
Sonic Adventure - Dreamcast - Beaten March 8th - Good
Dead Space: Extraction - Wii - Beaten March 15th - Great
Cryostasis - PCDL - Completed March 17th - Meh (It would be good if it was polished and well optimized)
Stuntman Ignition - Xbox 360 - Beaten March 20th - Good
Amnesia: The Dark Descent - PCDL - Beaten March 21st - Great
Enemy Zero - Saturn - Beaten March 22nd - Meh

April:

X-Men - Xbox Live Arcade - Beaten April 3rd - Great
R-Type - Xbox Live Arcade - Beaten April 12th - Good
Blair Witch Volume 1: Rustin Parr - PC - Completed April 14th - Good
R-Type 2 - Xbox Live Arcade - Beaten April 15th - Good
SSX: Out Of Bounds - N-Gage - Completed April 17th - Great
Blue Toad Murder Files: Episode II - Playstation Network - Completed April 19th - Crap

May 2011

Heavy Rain - PS3 - Beaten May 4th - Amazing
Gyromancer - Xbox Live Arcade - Beaten May 8th - Great
Enslaved: Odyssey To The West - PS3 - Beaten May 18th - Amazing
Zone Of The Enders - PS2 - Beaten May 19th - Amazing
Comic Jumper - XBLA - Completed May 20th - Great
Splatterhouse - PS3 (Arcade) - Completed May 22nd - Meh
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Team Stealth Action - N-Gage - Completed May 30th - Crap

June 2011

Medal Of Honor Frontline - PS3 - Beaten June 1st - Meh
Bulletstorm: Epic Edition - PC - Beaten June 4th - Good
Tron Evolution - PC - Beaten June 4th - Meh