I may have bought quite a lot of games last month, but I only spent $10 in total for that. It was for the iTunes card to buy Raiden Legacy earlier in December while Bug Panic and Super Hexagon were Christmas purchases from the extra money left. Kingdom Rush was free so I snagged it, Twinbee was also free from Club Nintendo and Grandia was bought from the extra money from my PSN wallet after I bought Persona 4 Golden last November. So I guess I still had some control on my spending and more importantly, still no Steam Sale purchase for me which I find to be quite a big achievement already.

It also took me three weeks of on and off play to get the Platinum on Persona 4 Golden which is my third and fourth playthrough and its still as impressive as I remembered playing it years ago. Anyway, for impressions on bought games, Raiden Legacy was all new to me. While I find each game fantastic (I suck at them though) controls are disappointing especially coming from Caves ports since its not as precise. Kingdom Rush was a surprise to me, possibly the best Tower Defense game I've played on iOS and I keep on replaying it! I dont know what to say to Twinbee, all I can say is that it feels like Xevious cant complain though since its free. Bug Panic on the other hand was a bit disappointing, I guess its because Im not a big fan of twin-stick shooters and its difficult to control using touchscreens. Super Hexagon was another fantastic game. It has this "Just one more try!" addictive gameplay to it and music is catchy as hell too! Grandia on the other hand might as well be one of the best RPGs Ive played which surprised me since its the first time I played it. Only around 10+ hours since Im kinda busy but can't wait to experience more from the game especially the battle system.

This is currently my final score for 2012 and hope someone creates a new one for 2013. This really helped me thin out my backlog and also a lesson for me to control my buying habits. If I didn't join this, I would have bought more games and my backlog would still be there. Goal for 2013 is to reduce my backlog to the point that I will replay my games since I have nothing left to play. Im currently unemployed so I really need to reduce my spending and Im hoping that I would buy less than 10 games in first six months of 2013.

http://www.backloggery.com/vall03

December: -6
Raiden Legacy
Kingdom Rush
3D Classics: Twinbee
Bug Panic
Super Hexagon
Grandia

December: +6
Raiden Legacy
Persona 4: Golden
Kingdom Rush
3D Classics: Twinbee
Bug Panic
Super Hexagon


Jan: +6
Feb: +6
Mar: -1
Apr: +1
May: +5
Jun: +7
Jul: -1
Aug: +2
Sep: +6
Oct: +2
Nov: +5
Dec: 0

2012 Overall

Purchased: -68
Finished: +106

Total Points: +38

I have failed you, thread title.

January Post - Score: -3

February Post - Score: -4

March Post - Score: -4

April Post - Score: -1

May Post - Score: -2

June Post - Score: -2

July Post - Score: -2

August Post - Score: 0

September Post - Score: 1

October Post - Score: 1

November Post - Score: 0

Current Score: ALL IS LOST (-14)

Bought in December 2012 (15):

Far Cry 3
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Fez
Scribblenauts Unlimited
Closure (Humble Bundle)
Shank 2 (Humble Bundle)
Snapshot (Humble Bundle)
Dungeon Defenders (Humble Bundle)
Legend of Grimrock (Humble Bundle)
Half Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax Ultimate Boy
Hotline Miami
Dark Souls
Mark of the Ninja
FTL
Lego: Lord of the Rings

Finished in December 2012 (-1):

Far Cry 3 - Exactly what I thought would happen this month, buy a bunch of games but really only focus on finishing this one. Luckily it's pretty fun. Wish the story was better though.

Currently Playing:

Borderlands 2 - Started from scratch on PC and bought the season pass.
Far Cry 3 - Replaying on PC cuz it looks so dang good.
various others - I started several of the new games I bought and am deciding how to pace myself. Think I may finish Hotline Miami as quick as I can and then jump into Mark of the Ninja and Fez.

Beaten in 2012: 29

December: 1

Dragon Quest IX: Sentinel of the Starry Skies (12/27) -- Got this one in just under the wire and I'm surprised I did. I just didn't want this game to end. I loved pretty much everything about this game. In fact the only thing I didn't enjoy about the game is the completely stupid accents that SE continues to insist on using for this series. It got so bad that there were some conversations I just skipped because I didn't feel like translating their "english" into english.

Previous games played:
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (1/1)
Flight Control HD (1/5)
Dungeons of Dredmor (1/12)
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (1/24)
Bastion (2/2)
No More Heroes (2/23)
Endless Ocean (2/24)
Limbo (2/28)
Ben There, Dan That (3/7)
Tidalis (3/10)
Endless Ocean: Blue World (3/20)
Time Gentlemen, Please (3/27)
Ace Attourney: Justice For All (5/1)
Xenoblade Chronicles (5/5)
Nights: Journey of Dreams (5/9)
The Bourne Conspiracy (5/14)
Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent (5/24)
CivCity: Rome (6/30)
Breath of Death VII: The Beginning (7/9)
Tobe's Vertical Adventure (7/31)
Eternal Sonata (9/12)
Ratchet & Clank (9/18)
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future (10/4)
Kirby Mass Attack (10/20)
Infamous 2 (10/30)
Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando (11/13)
Mercenaries 2 (11/26)
Super Mario 64 DS (11/24)

Bought: 49
Avadon: The Black Fortress
The Ball
Beep
The Binding of Isaac
Breath of Death VII: The Beginning
Cthulhu Saves the World
Deponia
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Dragon Quest IX: The Sentinel of the Starry Skies
Europa Universalis III
Forza Motorsport 2
Galactic Civilizations II
Gemini Rue
Greed Corp
Half-Minute Hero:Super Mega Neo Climax Ultimate Boy
Hitman: Blood Money
Infamous 2
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
The Last Remnant
Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes
Mount & Blade: Warband
Nikpol: Secrets of the Immortals
On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3
Orcs Must Die 2
P.A.M.
Penumbra: Overture
Penumbra: Black Plague
Penumbra: Requiem
Quantum Conundrum
Q.U.B.E.
Ratchet and Clank Collection
Resonance
Rhythm Heaven
Scribblenauts Unlimited
Sideway: New York
Space Pirates and Zombies
Stacking
Super Mario 64 DS
Supreme Commander 2
The Tiny Bang Story
Titan Quest
Tobe's Vertical Adventure
Trine 2
Vessel
Wasteland Angel
Xenoblade Chronicles
Xotic
Ys: Oath in Felghana
Zoo Tycoon 2

Total Score: -20

And I started out so well. Hell I'm already -1 for 2013.

November/December 2012

Bought: -6
Star Trek Generations
The Walking Dead
Fortune Summoners
Legend of Grimrock
The Binding of Isaac
Snapshot

Beat: +3
Sin and Punishment
Cave Story+
The Walking Dead

Games Bought in 2012: 43
Games Beat in 2012: 57

Final Score: +14

I bought more than I expected this year but I've done pretty well overall. For 2013 I'm imposing a rule of no new games until my backlog is less than 10. It's currently 25 so it should be doable.

Final tally for the year. Backloggery. New entries in italic:

Bought: -95

• A Kingdom for Keflings
• Amnesia: The Dark Descent
• Ancients of Ooga
• Avadon: The Black Fortress
• Band of Bugs
• BEEP
• Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor
• Bunch of Heroes
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
• Canabalt
• Cloning Clyde
• Critical Mass
• Crusader Kings II
• Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition
• Dungeon Defenders: Anniversary Pack
• Dungeon Defenders: Etherian Festival of Love
• Dungeon Defenders: Jester Hero
• Dungeon Defenders: President's Day
• Dustforce
• Faerie Solitaire
• Fallout: New Vegas - Lonesome Road
• Fallout: New Vegas - Old World Blues
• Fortix 2
• Fractal
• Future Wars
• Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords
• Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar
• Greed: Black Border
• Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes
• Hacker Evolution
• Hacker Evolution: Duality
• Hacker Evolution: Untold
• Hard Reset: Exile
• Icewind Dale
• Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter
• Icewind Dale: Trials of the Luremaster
• Icewind Dale II
• inMomentum
• Jade Empire
• Legend of Grimrock
• LIMBO
• Lone Survivor
• Lucid
• Lume
• Mass Effect 2: Arrival
• Mass Effect 2: Kasumi - Stolen Memory
• Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker
• Mass Effect 2: Overlord
• Mass Effect 3
• Max and the Magic Marker
• Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals
• Orcs Must Die! - Lost Adventures
• Outpost Kaloki
• Planetfall
• Plants vs. Zombies
• Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny
• Realms of Arkania: Star Trail
• Realms of Arkania: Shadows Over Riva
• RoboBlitz
• Rochard
• Sanctum: Slums
• Sanctum: Yogscave
• Shatter
• Sideway: New York
• Snuggle Truck
• Soulcaster
• Soulcaster II
• Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
• Terraria
• The Ball
• The Temple of Elemental Evil
• The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Enhanced Edition
• Trapped Dead
• Treasure Adventure Game
• Trine 2
• Twin Sector
• Ultima: Worlds of Adventure 2 - Martian Dreams
• Vessel
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Winter Assault
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
• Wasteland Angel
• Wizorb
• Worlds of Ultima: The Savage Empire
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown
• X-COM: UFO Defense
• Your Doodles are Bugged!
• Zen Bound 2
• Zombie Shooter
• Zombie Shooter 2
• Zork: The Great Underground Empire - Part I
• Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz
• Zork III: The Dungeon Master
• Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz

Beaten: +67

• And Yet it Moves
• Aquaria
• Baldur's Gate
• Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast
• Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
• Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal
• Bastion
• BEEP
• Blackwell Legacy, The
• Blackwell Unbound
• Blackwell Convergence, The
• Breath of Death VII: The Beginning
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
• Costume Quest
• Costume Quest: Grubbins on Ice
• Cthulhu Saves the World
• Dungeon Defenders
• Eets
• Faerie Solitaire
• Fallout 3
• Fallout: New Vegas - Dead Money
• Fallout: New Vegas - Honest Hearts
• Flight Control HD
• Fortix 2
• Half-Life
• Hard Reset: Exile
• Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia
• Heroes of Might and Magic III: Armageddon's Blade
• Jamestown
• Jolly Rover
• Lugaru HD
• Magicka
• Mass Effect 2: Arrival
• Mass Effect 2: Firewalker Pack
• Mass Effect 2: Kasumi - Stolen Memory
• Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker
• Mass Effect 2: Overlord
• Mass Effect 3
• Max and the Magic Marker
• Metro 2033
• Orcs Must Die! - Lost Adventures
• Plants vs. Zombies
• Puzzle Agent
• Puzzle Agent 2
• Samorost
• Samorost 2
• Sanctum
• Sanctum: Slums
• Sanctum: X-Mas Carnage
• Sanctum: Yogscave
• Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter
• Serious Sam 3: BFE
• Shadowgrounds
• Shadowgrounds: Survivor
• Shank
• Snuggle Truck
• Swords and Soldiers HD
• The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Enhanced Edition
• Toki Tori
• TRAUMA
• Trine
• VVVVVV
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
• World of Goo
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown
• Zombie Shooter
• Zombie Shooter 2

Final Total: -28

This thread was a bit fun to follow, and I think I ended up with about 20 beaten games, and 15 new games bought, of which I beat about half. Can't do any scores since a handful of the rest games - Saints Row 3, FTL, Fez, Borderlands 2, The Last Express - are games that I don't really care about I beat them. I have played them enough to know what I think about them.

There's going to be a 2013 thread right? I'm going to try and take care of this massive backlog that I have right now.

Do games you receive as gifts count as games you bought?

Negator said:

Do games you receive as gifts count as games you bought?

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For me any games that I plan to play counts regardless what I paid.

Jive Turkey said:

For me any games that I plan to play counts regardless what I paid.

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same. free ones, too. I don't count DLC add-ons, though; some people here do. Rules ain't so strict here, it's more about playing and beating your games

I count gifted games except for PS+ freebies. Those I only count if I ever boot them up. It would be impossible for me to get a positive score otherwise.

Negator said:

There's going to be a 2013 thread right? I'm going to try and take care of this massive backlog that I have right now.

Do games you receive as gifts count as games you bought?

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Yes there is! Sorry about the delay, I was out of town and today is the first time I have had a chance to sit down and work on it. Ideally it will be up later today.

I beat a game just now. Will wait for the 2013 thread since it is 2013 after all, plus I already did my "final update" for 2012.

Thanks Guest1321, looking forward to it!

Oh nuts, gotta do my last update before the thread change.

December Update

Main Post
Backloggery

Q1 Update
April Update
May Update
June Update
July Update
August Update
September Update
October Update
November Update

Score in 2012 Pre-December: -15
Bought in December 2012: -8
Beaten in December 2012: +4
Final Score: -19

Bought:

Heavy Rain- A used copy of this was in a clearance bin at Blockbuster, and I'd been meaning to get this for a long time.

Lone Survivor- I was doing kind of okay at controlling my impulses before the Christmas Steam sale started.

Journey- And then I also began getting Christmas presents. This was the first. I plan to play it before the 19th of this month because I suspect I'll be writing about it in the GAF GOTY thread.

Crimson Shroud- I'd been planning to get this on the eShop since its localization was announced. I'm super glad it got brought over, had to support that.

Guns of Icarus Online- Another gift, and a game I cannot beat! Love what I've played so far, though. Co-op airship skirmishes are the fucking best. I've been maining Engineer, though Pilot is also fun. IT IS ON SALE FOR THE NEXT TEN HOURS AS OF THIS POST GET IT

Cherry Tree High Comedy Club- The last gift of the month, and I did not know this game existed before I received it. The friend who got it for me knows I like quirky games though, and this definitely qualified. Or it did on the surface, anyway.

McPixel- I had played the original LudumDare version of this back when it was created and it was cute. I'd been curious on how it expanded into a full game, the Steam sale was the final push I needed to check it out.

The Walking Dead (PC)- I ignored it the first time Steam put it on sale this month. Then it won a bunch of GiantBomb GOTY awards. I begrudgingly got it the second time, will try to play through in time for the GAF thread's deadline.

Beaten:

Final Fantasy X- Finally! The first mainline FF I've beaten, actually. I liked it a lot, even though it's not perfect. It's currently my 3rd, maybe even second favorite FF overall. I'm planning on playing through IX, my current favorite, again this year to see if it keeps that ranking, and also to finally beat it. FFX took me like half a year on and off, so we'll see how that goes. I tend to shy away from lengthier RPGs during the endgame for some reason.

Cherry Tree High Comedy Club- The presentation was surprisingly nice, especially the soundtrack, but the gameplay got a bit tedious and repetitive. I'm not going to bother going for the best ending.

McPixel- This is also a game with really fun presentation that eventually got dull.

To The Moon- It feels weird to count this because it was essentially a visual novel without much input besides moving the character from cutscene to cutscene, and a few (very easy) puzzles. But it's a pretty solid visual novel, a very impressive indie effort, and one worth "reading".

Year In Review:

In my November post I said "Let's see if I can keep myself from reaching -20 this year," and I barely reached that shitty last-minute goal. However this thread actually motivated me to beat more games than I beat last year, and it was a really fun way to keep track of my collection. Writing these brief impressions has also helped me feel vaguely productive, so I'm definitely on board for the 2013 thread. Hopefully my progress rate improves again this year!

I suppose it could be worse. About half of us ended up with a positive score. Better luck this year!

Backloggery

Bought in 2012: -40
Beat in 2012: +41
Current Score: 1

Beaten:

• Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
• Assassin's Creed: Revelations
• Batman: Arkham Asylum
• Halo 3: ODST
• Dead Space 2
• Pure
• Batman: Arkham City
• Nightsky HD
• Jamestown
• Mass Effect 3 $
• Crysis 2 $
• Rayman: Origins $
• Project Gotham Racing 4
• Bulletstorm $
• Saints Row: The Third $
• The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition $
• Rage $
• Uncharted: Drakes Fortune $
• Uncharted 2: Amont Thieves $
• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots $
• Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction $
• Max Payne 3 $
• Uncharted: Golden Abyss $
• Mortal Kombat Vita $
• Heavy Rain $
• Starhawk $
• Metal Gear Sold 2: Sons of Liberty $
• Warhammer 40k: Space Marine
• Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus HD +
• fl0w $
• Flower $
• Motorstorm RC +
• Journey $
• Sly 2: Band of Thieves +
• Resistance 2 $
• Little Big Planet Vita $
• The Walking Dead: Episode One +
• The Walking Dead: Episode Two +
• Dyad $
• Dishonored $
• Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception $
• Resistance 3 $
• Halo: Reach
• Halo 4 $
• Assassin's Creed 3 $
• PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale $

Currently Playing:

• Halo 4 $
• Portal 2
• Need for Speed: Most Wanted $
• Forza Horizon $
• NBA 2K13 $
• Far Cry 3 $
• Mark of the Ninja $

Backlog Priorities:

• Sleeping Dogs $
• Ratchet & Clank: A Crack In Time $
• BIT.TRIP RUNNER
• Metal Gear $
• Metal Gear 2 $
• Metal Gear Solid $
• Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater $
• Super Meat Boy
• Sly 3: Honor Amont Thieves +

Impressions:
N/A


$ - indicates game was purchased in 2012
+ - inidicated game was a PS+ freebie or was free in some other form, no points are awarded to these titles for completion or ownership.

Notes: It has been a fun year, I'm looking forward to 2013 being a better year.

2013 Edition


Thanks for your patience guys, good luck next year!

archnemesis said:

Thores Bought/Comp: ?

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I Bought 44 games and beat 25 this year. I kept track of the full numbers in my main post, also linked to in all my monthly posts.

guest1321, thanks for creating the new thread!

And for the record, I ended 2012 with -36. Had a few more deep sale impulse buys at the end there.

ghibli99 said:

guest1321, thanks for creating the new thread!

And for the record, I ended 2012 with -36. Had a few more deep sale impulse buys at the end there.

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I'll adjust your score