I have my sights set on:
Rainbow Moon (Vita)
Tesla Effect (PC)
To the Moon (PC)
If I somehow find myself with time to spare, I'll do more.
Picking two short games because I could see myself spending all month with RM if I'm not careful. Half of that time will be me falling asleep while playing.
I'm doing my own personal 36 games a year challenge. For January I'm going to start and finish MGS V, Witcher 3, and the new Tomb Raider if it releases early enough. If not then I'll sub it with something else I have on my list.
I feel it's ambitious especially given my schedule but I'm hopeful!
"Finished" the new Need for Speed yesterday. Traded it today. That game was kinda trash. I didn't bother to finish two of the disciplines before giving up. It teetered from too easy to frustrating at random.
Always online racing games are dumb. It means that me and another (real) guy will likely drift right into each other at the worst times. It happened at least 6 times while playing in the span of ~8 hours. Straight ruined the race each time. Although the flipside was an online player did also essentially win an event for me twice by colliding with AI cars.
Yeah, the new Need for Speed game is a disappointment. It's not bad, but it's also not good - just mediocre.
There are times where it feels really good, if you do something badass or get a great drift going (I guess those are the same thing), but the handling gives out from time to time and it's really cheap.
I 100%ed it, and was glad to be finished with it. Then they added more content. There's no way in Hell I'm wasting my time going for level 70, though.
Not bad. Not great but not bad. 16 games completed in 2015.
OVERALL for 2015 - 16/36 (44%)
RECAP from DECEMBER - 1/3 (33%)
1 - Wolfenstein: The New Order / PS4
An excellent game and was easily worth the $12 I spent on it during Black Friday.
JANUARY
1 - Bloodborne / PS4
Just started this game last night but im right in the beginning. With it being the only physical disc that I currently own and no games coming out that I want until February 9th, this is the best time for me to finally start and hopefully, play through the game.
2 - Mercenary Kings / PS4
One of the two games (other being listed below) that's in my backlog. Will hopefully play through this game at some point this month.
3 - Assassin's Creed Chronicles China / PS4
Will most likely wait until the other two games come out before I play this.
Suppose it's that time of year to get involved with the backlog hype! Came out of the sales relatively unscathed, and only three games as Christmas presents to conquer.
Currently playing Wolfenstein The Old Blood. It doesn't quite hit the heights of The New Order but still an enjoyable experience nonetheless, and I also appreciate the improved visuals due to it not being cross gen. 7 challenges to go and all the achievements will be mine!
Also looking to finish The Order, mainly because I've already started it and im wanting to clear some of my physical games.
Other than that I'll leave it open, should be achievable as long as I keep at it.
I have PS plus for one month, so decided to beat some games, which I received in 2015 and 2016.
Lumines beat, so one down. Btw it is very addictive game.
This will be a good idea for me as I attempt to tackle a 100 game PS Vita backlog...I'm going through alphabetically so the first 3 games are:
Big Sky Infinity
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend
Broken Age
I've given BSI an hour and it's not really for me. I haven't "completed" it as such but it's one of those games that you can't really complete as it's different every time.
BlazBlue is next. I'll try to beat the single player campaign a few times or something. ..
Bit of a cheat since I'm part way through these anyway but...
Halo 5 - Done~
Trails in the Sky SC - Done~
Xenoblade X
Extras:
The Beginner's Guide
Emily is Away
I don't think I will get the last one finished since I'm back to work tomorrow and I'll only get odd hours in the evening to play, SC will get done because ~commute~ and Vita time... Got Trails in Cold Steel as well as motivation to get through.
EDIT: Heh, in the time of posting I finished Halo 5 and also played through The Beginners Guide.
This month I wanna complete al least Gone Home, Hotline Miami 2 and That dragon, cancer. I'll start even The Witness and (hopefully!) Oxenfree but I'll probably finish them in February.
I signed up for the 52 in 2016 challenge, but for January I have burdened myself with 4 enormous JRPGs. I may have to fit in some small games around therm if I don't want to get too far behind.
In Progress:
Final Fantasy 7 (again), SMT: Digital Devil Survivor oc, Steamworld Heist, Trails in the Sky, Final Fantasy X/X2 remaster, lltp Destiny (not sure how I'd finish this exactly).
I'm mostly playing FF7 though.
Finished: Brothers A Tale of Two Sons and Danganronpa
I'll bite, especially as I'm within striking distance of completing Witcher 3 (!!!). I'm hoping to finish Affordable Space Adventures, too... and as for the third game, who knows? Subbed -- it will be interesting to return to this thread and see what I actually played/completed.
UPDATE: Witcher 3 is down, but I immediately started in on Hearts of Stone. About half way through it. I've also started Steins;Gate, but it's slow going so far.
I'm making some great progress this month, after a slow month last month where I didn't have much energy and hardly gamed. I seem to have gotten out of my funk.
So far, I've beaten:
1. Halo 5
2. Uncharted: Golden Abyss
3. Need for Speed: Most Wanted (Criterion)
4. Actual Sunlight
5. Entwined
6. The Plan
7. Emily Is Away
8. Depression Quest
Now, a lot of them are short and one only took 6 minutes. The shorter ones averaged an hour. But it felt good.
I wish I could have enjoyed Beyond: Two Souls more than I did. I usually enjoy narrative-focused games, but this one did almost nothing for me. The pacing seemed to be really off, and there were a lot of lengthy chapters that didn't seem necessary (no major character progression or important plot developments). It's weird playing this game after Life is Strange, which IMO delivered a much more meaningful and engaging narrative at obviously a much more restricted budget. I don't fault any of the acting in Beyond; I thought the leads did a fantastic job. More so, it's the dry, meandering plot that drags the rest of the package down.
Also, some of the game's QTE's felt ambiguous. There were several action scenes where I wasn't sure if I was meant to be moving out of the way of an attack to dodge it or countering with force of my own. I got better at recognizing the game's intentions as time went on, but for a game that emphasizes consequences of your actions, it's pretty frustrating to mess up moments by misunderstanding what was being asked of me.
My backlog has grown a lot over the last year, so I stopped buying games during the last couple of months (well, bought two in the Steam sales lol) and will start to finish my huge collection this year.
I have a lot of indie games that I want to finish that won't last more than a couple of days.
I started by finishing all 5 Blackwell games in December, and when I saw this thread I thought that I should keep the pace and fnishing at least three more games this month.
This week I beat Gemini Rue, and I have a couple of candidates for the other two: Life is Strange and Resonance.
I have a few more games half-finished (Witcher 3, South Park,...) so I will try to dedicate some time to then to, to prepare for the next months.
This month I am planning on starting Undertale and hopefully finishing it. I am going to platinum Fallout 4 if it counts as beating the game, even though I already finished the main story. Lastly I'm gonna finish Donkey Kong Country 2!
Got through SteamWorld Heist today; a fantastic little game, although I think I preferred Dig. I may swap out Resident Evil Revelations 2 for Gears of War Judgment; I haven't quite decided yet.
Blood Dragon was much better, than I expected. Especially preparation to last mission and this mission. Damn! Rocky 4 alive. Soundtrack is the best factor in Blood Dragon. Brillant.
Blood Dragon was much better, than I expected. Especially preparation to last mission and this mission. Damn! Rocky 4 alive. Soundtrack is the best factor in Blood Dragon. Brillant.
Let me know what you think of Kick & Fennick. I downloaded it with the intent of playing it, but am not sure if it will be for me or if it will get too difficult.
Let me know what you think of Kick & Fennick. I downloaded it with the intent of playing it, but am not sure if it will be for me or if it will get too difficult.
I don't like it too much. I've been playing since a few days (4,5 hours in game) and it's very mediocre title in my opinion. If you are patient, shouldn't have a problems with a some level difficulty.
Probably I am on the last chapter. I've played in many better platform games, than K&F.
I normally do these posts at the end of the month, but I'm trying something a little different this time and it means I may well have done all my completions I'll be doing for the month already:
Gurumin: I said last month that I felt it was getting samey, but I think the level design picked up a bit in the final two areas. It still has the slight design issue that
the second half of each world is a harder version of the first half, in reverse
, but the more interesting level layouts in the last couple of worlds go some way to alleviate that. The bonus boss was, of course, ridiculously difficult, which made the real final boss seem like a joke. Overall I think I did like it, it was just a bit too much of a slog for the middle portion where it felt like the levels were repeatedly Just A Series Of Square Rooms With Different Wallpaper.
Human Resource Machine: I'm ever a fan of programming-based games, but this wasn't quite what I was expecting, in that I had imagined that it would have a spatial-programming element much like the Zachtronics games, which keeps them somewhat original even for established coders like myself. This, though, is fundamentally just an assembly language coding game dressed up in a cute skin. That said, it's a very good assembly language coding game dressed up in a cute skin, with what looks to me like a really good progression of introduction of concepts (I may be a bit too inside-baseball to be quite certain) - for me, though, it was very much less "figure out how to make an algorithm to do this task" and more "figure out how to implement this established algorithm to do this task. Still, the optimisation challenges kept me on my toes - and the code editing tool has given me a few ideas for the programming game that's knocking around in the back of my head.
Lare Croft Go (The Shard of Life): I formally finished LC:Go a couple of months back, but they released an extra chapter in the interim, so I revisited it. Only really one new feature in this one:
The enemies from the previous chapters return in a 'fire form', which allows them to resurrect after death
. That's used to good effect in some puzzles, although some others don't really take advantage of it (Most notably page 6, which I think is entirely implementable without the new feature). The puzzles themselves are still consistently good; not quite as bloated as Hitman Go's, allowing much more solving the puzzle rather than stumbling onto a solution as I've commented before. It's really just, well, more of the same - but that's all I've wants.
Dragon Quest VI Haven't really touched this in the last week while I got my ducks in a row and got ready to start...
Xenoblade Chronicles X: Much of this week - in amongst getting my head back in work-mode! - has been prepping to start this off (finishing off my currently-active couch games, getting USB HD, downloading optimisation packs), and I should be good to kick off play tonight
So, yes; unusually, I happen to have two huge RPGs on the go at the same time. I generally try to avoid that, although I think they're different enough from one each other that I don't think one will put me off playing another. I'm not expecting to complete them this month - indeed, it may well be optimistic to have finished them by the end of next month, but we'll see!
I don't like it too much. I've been playing since a few days (4,5 hours in game) and it's very mediocre title in my opinion. If you are patient, shouldn't have a problems with a some level difficulty.
Probably I am on the last chapter. I've played in many better platform games, than K&F.
Finished Kick&Fennick. Much longer, than I expected and a waste of my time. However I beat next game from PS plus.
Currently working on Hotline Miami. Oh boy. This game is a real challenge.
Rise of the Tomb Raider (Xbox One)
Need For Speed (Xbox One) Call of Duty: Black Ops III (PS4)
Assassin's Creed: Syndicate (PS4)
Yakuza 3 (PS3)
Shadowrun Returns (PC) Persona 4: Dancing All Night (Vita)
Two down, working on Rise of the Tomb Raider next. I'm 38% complete according to the main menu, so I'm hoping by the end of the weekend to have it complete. I'm getting there!
Need to finish before Tomb Raider and XCOM 2 come out on PC:
My unending Fallout 4 playthrough
Xenoblade Chronicles X
and actually start Shovel Knight thats been sitting on my Wii U now that I have the Amiibo just sitting at my desk.
Finished Uncharted Remastered yesterday and it was a lot worse than I remembered. I've played through the game three times since launch in 2007 and won't do it again. I still like the the environments but there's too much shooting with weak gunplay and the encounter design is bad.
EDIT:
Also finished Uncharted 2 and 3 Remastered. 2 is still great. Never enjoyed 3. The Remaster didn't change that. I think it has some of the worst shootouts in the series.
EDIT2
Also finished Oxenfree and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.
EDIT3
Finally finished Sega Rally Online Arcade. Bought and played through Gone Home: Console Edition.
EDIT4
Played through the Baba Yaga dlc for RotTR today. Terrible. Can't recommend this.
DONE - Great story, so-so mission and collectathon structure means I probably won't revisit the game to get to 100%. Shame a sequel isn't looking likely, I think they set up a great, engaging universe.
2. YS I (PC)
I've always wanted to play an YS game, think this month I'll break my duck with a view to pushing through all of them in Q1 2016.
3. Wolfenstein : The Old Blood
In progress - has its moments but on the whole I'm not feeling it, not sure why. I'll press on to the end as the core mechanics are entertaining enough and its a relatively short game I'm lead to believe.
The only games I've beat this month is Danganronpa and Fallout 4.
I would have loved to have created a LTTP Topic about the former (if I had the privileges) as I genuinely feel the game left such an impression. It was by no means a perfect game, but conceptually and thematically it was brilliant. Taking a break to play something more light hearted before I start on Danganronpa 2.
I did download Virtue's Last Reward over the festive break though to continue appeasing my dark desires...
Persona 4 Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze I Wanna Be the Guy
Just finished DK:TF. Knew that it was a hard game going in but damn. It's very tough. Feel bad for all the people that played this on non calibrated tvs (turning off stupid settings that increase input lag or turning on your respective game or PC screen mode). Timing is everything on so many levels and if you mess up a little it's over. Unforgiving.
Still, I'll replay many levels to find the secret levels and I feel like I have to collect the KONG chips in each level. But the game as is, is completed.
Sadly I haven't gotten to complete anything, because Final Fantasy VII is taking my time. But I have started playing smaller games besides FF VII now as well. So I actually hope to finish Oxenfree, Undertale and Until Dawn this month.
Just finished Miami. What I can write? To be honest after all this hype I expected 10/10 game, but in my opinion it's only average title.
Moreover I must change my game list a little. Added Carter on PS4 and removed Remember Me on PS3.
PS3 Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
PS4
Grim Fandango Remastered
Vanishing of Ethan Carter
