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Games You've Beaten in July
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LoveAndBeer
Member
Beaten:
July 12: Watch_Dogs
July 13: The Wolf Among Us: Episode 5: Cry Wolf
July 25: The Walking Dead Season 2: Episode 4: Amid the Ruins
Work travel and vacation full of house fix-er-up to-do's kept me from gaming too much.
July 12: Watch_Dogs
July 13: The Wolf Among Us: Episode 5: Cry Wolf
July 25: The Walking Dead Season 2: Episode 4: Amid the Ruins
Work travel and vacation full of house fix-er-up to-do's kept me from gaming too much.
Ace Attorney Investigations - Not one of the best games in the series, but still a very enjoyable game. Loved playing as Edgeworth and some of the new characters (except Shi Long Lang. Fuck him) were great. Probably my favourite soundtrack in the series, too. Currently playing through Investigations 2. Just started case 3.
Ghost Trick - My favourite of the bunch. A bit too easy, but a very clever, intriguing game with a gripping story, great characters, and a catchy soundtrack.
Professor Layton and the Curious Village - A very charming puzzle game, with a good learning curve. Not a big fan of the slider puzzles, though. I hate those things. Also, the game felt a little too short and the point and click elements were lacking.
The Wolf Among Us - Episode 5 - A disappointing end to the series, in my opinion.
Ghost Trick - My favourite of the bunch. A bit too easy, but a very clever, intriguing game with a gripping story, great characters, and a catchy soundtrack.
Professor Layton and the Curious Village - A very charming puzzle game, with a good learning curve. Not a big fan of the slider puzzles, though. I hate those things. Also, the game felt a little too short and the point and click elements were lacking.
The Wolf Among Us - Episode 5 - A disappointing end to the series, in my opinion.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
Games i finished
PC:
The Wolf Among Us
Witcher 2
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
Resident Evil Revelations
Vita:
Stealth Inc/Bastard
Velocity Ultra
Unit 13
Muramasa (didn't like it, scratched it off my backlog because i aint playing it)
games that i got this month:
From Humble Bundles:
Mafia II
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
The Darkness II Standard Edition
Hitman Absolution
Cook, Serve, Delicious!
everything else:
Deponia: The Complete Journey
Ys Origin
SpeedRunners
Strider (from ps+. only put ps+ games i actually intend on playing)
so i ended up +2 in the end. Sigh. I've put a hardlock on purchases for both august and september so i aint buying shit for a while.
PC:
The Wolf Among Us
Witcher 2
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
Resident Evil Revelations
Vita:
Stealth Inc/Bastard
Velocity Ultra
Unit 13
Muramasa (didn't like it, scratched it off my backlog because i aint playing it)
games that i got this month:
From Humble Bundles:
Mafia II
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
The Darkness II Standard Edition
Hitman Absolution
Cook, Serve, Delicious!
everything else:
Deponia: The Complete Journey
Ys Origin
SpeedRunners
Strider (from ps+. only put ps+ games i actually intend on playing)
so i ended up +2 in the end. Sigh. I've put a hardlock on purchases for both august and september so i aint buying shit for a while.
Nocturnowl
Member
Slow month, started things off with a bout of Suckerpunch and then not much else.
Infamous
A game that had been squatting in my PS3 downloads folder since Sony's PSN fiasco gave it to me as a piece offering, I got about a third of the way through and dropped it. Then when downloading the first Sly Cooper title of PSN earlier in the month and noticing that it wasn't going to be quite as swift as I imagined I figured why not play Infamous in the mean time which somehow led to be me deciding to straight up marathon the game and then free up some space on the console.
So a friend of mine was quite the fan of this game and when he asked what I thought upon me finishing I just didn't have the heart to say what I really thought, punches were pulled but in the lands of Gaf there will be no such mercy.
The good news is that Infamous isn't what I'd consider a bad game, it is however what I'd consider something of a slog throughout. A superhero game where I don't particularly feel very super, a thoroughly bland visual style complete with boring looking characters and a ravaged city painted in the hues of brown and grey, the entire time I felt that the open world superhero game concept was being squandered, possibly held back by going with what I assume was a more deliberately down to earth approach.
Infamous is a game where our perpetually scowling hero ends up with the superpowers of third person shooting in the guise of lightning which can also take the forms of lightning grenades and even a lightning rocket. Okay so there are a few nifty moves and lightning focused traits such as how it can chain through metal or wet surfaces and the ability to leap off a rooftop and slam down with a mighty electric shockwave but for the most part things feel very far too shooter like for my liking, when my superpowered exploits often involve chest high wall shootouts trying to headshot guys with ever so accurate guns alongside health regen complete with greying screen visual I can't help but think that an opportunity was missed here.
Even the missions are by the numbers, you've got your escort missions, waves of spongy enemies, protecting something from blowing up, fetchquests and more open world tropes from the lesser end of the spectrum.
It's kind of telling that some of the better points of Infamous for me were in the dank sewers that blended sticky yet serviceable platforming with enemy encounters built upon the new ability you required in said sewer. The high point of the game was its literal highest point I believe with Alden's Tower which plays more to the games strength of combining traversal with some lighter combat, there was even a pretty good boss battle mission shortly afterwards but for the most part I have little good to say about this games missions, even just getting around the drab city can be a chore since Cole only gets to move at a high speed via specific wires and the odd train track, otherwise you hop around clambering cumbersomely up buildings while enemies pot shot you from all angles with their supreme accuracy.
And of course just to cement my dislike I had a few glitches including falling through the floor and perishing in the watery void right near the end of some missions, grumble.
But hey its big plot twist was actually pretty neat so that's something, I have little doubt that both sequels trump this first entry quite handily but I don't rate this one much at all.
Sly Racoon (aka:Sly Cooper 1)
Interesting that the first game was given this title in the UK, I never really noticed.
So this game is a bit more my scene, 3D mascot platforming with stealth twist, it's a solid game that has its shares of ups and downs. For the most part things are pretty good, while it never pushes much beyond being simply good the platforming does its job well enough, the collecting elements aren't ever overbearing and you're well rewarded for seeking out the safes with new tricks and moves learned upon opening each one so there's a motivation in place there to not just run through every stage.
Sound design is all over the place, the sneaking sounds to match your movements are a great little touch but music is almost entirely absent otherwise and various background sound effects from seagull squawks to barking dogs can be ear splitting and pestering.
Midway through the game you get an ability to snap onto specific small points like a flagpole or tree branch for example which in an odd twist manages to water down the games platforming by removing player precision and just automatically placing you on the points in question which is a shame. You've got your mandatory minigames, most of which are typically subpar, the car one with the hippo was doing my nut until I grasped the rather unusual way to ensure you keep a high speed while still turning effectively, then there's boss battles with a rather unforgiving lack of checkpoints which I could deal with up until I failed the rhythm boss against a voodoo croc for the third time and had to go through every little thing yet again.
There's a pleasing style to the games visuals which scrub up quite nicely on account of the cel shading though you can see that it was still early days for the series just looking at Sly himself, the characters have distinct and nice designs for the most part even if Bentley was kind of grating, it's hard for me to disapprove of the final boss being an evil mechanical Owl. When it comes down to it Sly was a nice diversion for me, not nearly enough 3D platformers out there so I'm probably being lenient on it but I had fun so that's fine by me
Reports of Sly 2 and 3 gradually getting more and more minigame focused have me thinking I'll steer clear of them entirely, Sly 4 however I'm likely to give a look some point soon.
Replay: Xenoblade Chronicles
After seeing about 3 trailers for Xenoblade Chronicles X in the last year and a half and them failing to build much hype for me I began to wonder if I really liked the original Xenoblade as much as I did when I first played it back in 2011 where it was easily one of my favourite games of the year and I'd have easily proclaimed it as a top 5 Wii game.
Enough time has past since then so I decided to try giving it a replay fully expecting to stop halfway because I was sure that I'd have my fill at that point, 55 hours of gameplay later I was watching the end credits once more, well I'd say the game has still got it.
The back half of the game still comes off as weaker than the first half with the combat system becoming repetitive while the later locations gradually drop the oh so enjoyable exploration in favour of more direct and enemy heavy areas, but with that in mind the endgame is better than I recalled it being, possibly because I ensured I wasn't underleveled this time so that helped a bunch.
Also I mostly sidelined Shulk for the majority of the game to toy with other characters for a change, mostly Dunban and Melia, Dunban is still the man.
To just cut this one short it's still a great game which excels in open exploration, I'm not quite as big on it as I once was and its sequel still isn't grabbing me for some reason but as far as Wii games go this is one of the best.
Infamous
A game that had been squatting in my PS3 downloads folder since Sony's PSN fiasco gave it to me as a piece offering, I got about a third of the way through and dropped it. Then when downloading the first Sly Cooper title of PSN earlier in the month and noticing that it wasn't going to be quite as swift as I imagined I figured why not play Infamous in the mean time which somehow led to be me deciding to straight up marathon the game and then free up some space on the console.
So a friend of mine was quite the fan of this game and when he asked what I thought upon me finishing I just didn't have the heart to say what I really thought, punches were pulled but in the lands of Gaf there will be no such mercy.
The good news is that Infamous isn't what I'd consider a bad game, it is however what I'd consider something of a slog throughout. A superhero game where I don't particularly feel very super, a thoroughly bland visual style complete with boring looking characters and a ravaged city painted in the hues of brown and grey, the entire time I felt that the open world superhero game concept was being squandered, possibly held back by going with what I assume was a more deliberately down to earth approach.
Infamous is a game where our perpetually scowling hero ends up with the superpowers of third person shooting in the guise of lightning which can also take the forms of lightning grenades and even a lightning rocket. Okay so there are a few nifty moves and lightning focused traits such as how it can chain through metal or wet surfaces and the ability to leap off a rooftop and slam down with a mighty electric shockwave but for the most part things feel very far too shooter like for my liking, when my superpowered exploits often involve chest high wall shootouts trying to headshot guys with ever so accurate guns alongside health regen complete with greying screen visual I can't help but think that an opportunity was missed here.
Even the missions are by the numbers, you've got your escort missions, waves of spongy enemies, protecting something from blowing up, fetchquests and more open world tropes from the lesser end of the spectrum.
It's kind of telling that some of the better points of Infamous for me were in the dank sewers that blended sticky yet serviceable platforming with enemy encounters built upon the new ability you required in said sewer. The high point of the game was its literal highest point I believe with Alden's Tower which plays more to the games strength of combining traversal with some lighter combat, there was even a pretty good boss battle mission shortly afterwards but for the most part I have little good to say about this games missions, even just getting around the drab city can be a chore since Cole only gets to move at a high speed via specific wires and the odd train track, otherwise you hop around clambering cumbersomely up buildings while enemies pot shot you from all angles with their supreme accuracy.
And of course just to cement my dislike I had a few glitches including falling through the floor and perishing in the watery void right near the end of some missions, grumble.
But hey its big plot twist was actually pretty neat so that's something, I have little doubt that both sequels trump this first entry quite handily but I don't rate this one much at all.
Sly Racoon (aka:Sly Cooper 1)
Interesting that the first game was given this title in the UK, I never really noticed.
So this game is a bit more my scene, 3D mascot platforming with stealth twist, it's a solid game that has its shares of ups and downs. For the most part things are pretty good, while it never pushes much beyond being simply good the platforming does its job well enough, the collecting elements aren't ever overbearing and you're well rewarded for seeking out the safes with new tricks and moves learned upon opening each one so there's a motivation in place there to not just run through every stage.
Sound design is all over the place, the sneaking sounds to match your movements are a great little touch but music is almost entirely absent otherwise and various background sound effects from seagull squawks to barking dogs can be ear splitting and pestering.
Midway through the game you get an ability to snap onto specific small points like a flagpole or tree branch for example which in an odd twist manages to water down the games platforming by removing player precision and just automatically placing you on the points in question which is a shame. You've got your mandatory minigames, most of which are typically subpar, the car one with the hippo was doing my nut until I grasped the rather unusual way to ensure you keep a high speed while still turning effectively, then there's boss battles with a rather unforgiving lack of checkpoints which I could deal with up until I failed the rhythm boss against a voodoo croc for the third time and had to go through every little thing yet again.
There's a pleasing style to the games visuals which scrub up quite nicely on account of the cel shading though you can see that it was still early days for the series just looking at Sly himself, the characters have distinct and nice designs for the most part even if Bentley was kind of grating, it's hard for me to disapprove of the final boss being an evil mechanical Owl. When it comes down to it Sly was a nice diversion for me, not nearly enough 3D platformers out there so I'm probably being lenient on it but I had fun so that's fine by me
Reports of Sly 2 and 3 gradually getting more and more minigame focused have me thinking I'll steer clear of them entirely, Sly 4 however I'm likely to give a look some point soon.
Replay: Xenoblade Chronicles
After seeing about 3 trailers for Xenoblade Chronicles X in the last year and a half and them failing to build much hype for me I began to wonder if I really liked the original Xenoblade as much as I did when I first played it back in 2011 where it was easily one of my favourite games of the year and I'd have easily proclaimed it as a top 5 Wii game.
Enough time has past since then so I decided to try giving it a replay fully expecting to stop halfway because I was sure that I'd have my fill at that point, 55 hours of gameplay later I was watching the end credits once more, well I'd say the game has still got it.
The back half of the game still comes off as weaker than the first half with the combat system becoming repetitive while the later locations gradually drop the oh so enjoyable exploration in favour of more direct and enemy heavy areas, but with that in mind the endgame is better than I recalled it being, possibly because I ensured I wasn't underleveled this time so that helped a bunch.
Also I mostly sidelined Shulk for the majority of the game to toy with other characters for a change, mostly Dunban and Melia, Dunban is still the man.
To just cut this one short it's still a great game which excels in open exploration, I'm not quite as big on it as I once was and its sequel still isn't grabbing me for some reason but as far as Wii games go this is one of the best.
ArkkAngel007
Member
Was finishing out my gens in Titanfall and a lot of personal stuff going on, but managed to get around to and beat Dead Rising 3. Pretty good except the progression of the character Red and some of the humor with the bosses like Sgt. Hilde.
MidEvlDed
Member
Wow, some of you guys finished a lot. The Destiny beta took up a good week of my time. Other than that I finished 2 games.
(PC) Shadowrun Dragonfall - Good crpg and the addition of save anywhere that they added was welcome. I believe that feature is retroactive to Returns as well but I had already finished Returns before that. I prefer the first half of the story in Returns the best, but Dragonfall is probably better overall.
(PS4) Infamous: Second Son - The game looks amazing. The story is okay and I thought that the gameplay was very repetitive. There isn't a lot of variety in the mission types. You basically go to an area, kill like 50 guys, and then complete an objective. There are different powers each with their own skill tree but I never really felt that powerful. They have a nice base to start with but I would like to see more variety in the mission types and enemies as well. Very good looking game though.
(PC) Shadowrun Dragonfall - Good crpg and the addition of save anywhere that they added was welcome. I believe that feature is retroactive to Returns as well but I had already finished Returns before that. I prefer the first half of the story in Returns the best, but Dragonfall is probably better overall.
(PS4) Infamous: Second Son - The game looks amazing. The story is okay and I thought that the gameplay was very repetitive. There isn't a lot of variety in the mission types. You basically go to an area, kill like 50 guys, and then complete an objective. There are different powers each with their own skill tree but I never really felt that powerful. They have a nice base to start with but I would like to see more variety in the mission types and enemies as well. Very good looking game though.
Robert at Zeboyd Games
Banned
NES Remix 2 (Wii U) & 4 Swords (3DS) for me. NES Remix 2 was fun but not as good as the first one IMO. 4 Swords was kind of meh - I remember the Gamecube game being a lot better but then again, I was also playing it in 4 player mode on the Gamecube game & single-player on the 3DS.
MattPeters
Member
Fallout: New Vegas (twice) PC.
Thats it :\
Thats it :\
Twenty7KVN
Member
Dark Souls 2 PC
MidEvlDed
Member
I just read your post on the first Infamous after making my own on Second Son. You actually felt pretty much the same way about the first game as I did about Second Son. The sad thing is, the gameplay hasn't improved much. The game looks fantastic though so they managed to make one improvement.
Ace Attorney Investigations - Beat it for the 2nd time to start w/ the fan translation.
Earthbound - Beat it for the first time ever, finally. Last Boss took forever for me to figure out.
Witcher 2 - Dark souls came out in the middle of my first playthrough, so it got derailed. Started a new file w/ Witcher 3 hype and I finally beat it. Very happy.
I think that's it. Witcher 2 took up a lot of time. I also played hearthstone, and chipped away at other games. I started Twilight princess again to get ready for zelda Wii U (i re-beat all zelda games ever once a new zelda game is revealed)
Edit: Oh yeah, and Shovel Knight.
Earthbound - Beat it for the first time ever, finally. Last Boss took forever for me to figure out.
Witcher 2 - Dark souls came out in the middle of my first playthrough, so it got derailed. Started a new file w/ Witcher 3 hype and I finally beat it. Very happy.
I think that's it. Witcher 2 took up a lot of time. I also played hearthstone, and chipped away at other games. I started Twilight princess again to get ready for zelda Wii U (i re-beat all zelda games ever once a new zelda game is revealed)
Edit: Oh yeah, and Shovel Knight.
Nocturnowl
Member
Your memories aren't wrong, even in single player the Gamecube Four Swords was a much bigger and better game then its GBA origins.
Though it doesn't help that the GBA one didn't actually have single player originally so the 3DS version had to sort of shoehorn it into the existing frame.
I did play a little of Second Son a few months back, not enough to really judge it but it didn't appear to have made too many strides forward though I could see myself enjoying it more, traversal options seemed to be a lot better.
Series probably just isn't for me when it comes down to it, that said the rather high scores of the original elude me somewhat, must've been a dry period.
grosvenor_92
Member
Skulls of the Shogun Bone-A-Fide Edition
Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death
Gaucamelee
Whistleblower dlc
Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death
Gaucamelee
Whistleblower dlc
REMEMBER CITADEL
Banned
- Banjo-Kazooie XBLA
- finished the standard ten season career in Forza Motorsport 4
- wrapped up all the remaining achievements and challenges in Crimson Dragon
- finished the standard ten season career in Forza Motorsport 4
- wrapped up all the remaining achievements and challenges in Crimson Dragon
PirateSpawner
Neo Member
PS4:
Watch Dogs
Transistor
3DS:
LoZ: LBW
Watch Dogs
Transistor
3DS:
LoZ: LBW
I haven't really completed much recently, I've mostly been progressing in a number of games but only finishing a few. The only game that I started this month and finished was Touhou 2 which I played as I realized I installed it ages ago.
Circuits 7/7/14
The Wolf Among Us: Cry Wolf 9/7/14
Offspring Fling 9/7/14
Touhou 2 29/7/14
Circuits 7/7/14
The Wolf Among Us: Cry Wolf 9/7/14
Offspring Fling 9/7/14
Touhou 2 29/7/14
Mass_Pincup
Banned
PC
Shadowrun Returns
Binary Domain
The Wolf Amoung Us
Far Cry 3
3DS
Fire Emblem: Awakening
Shadowrun Returns
Binary Domain
The Wolf Amoung Us
Far Cry 3
3DS
Fire Emblem: Awakening
TheGreatLugia
Banned
I only finished Xenogears in July.
PS3
Nier Gestalt
Well I finally got around to finishing Nier Gestalt; well endings A and B. I may go back and do the other two endings since I have the required
.
Now I'm trying to decide what to play next. I think Batman:Arkham City will be next as I'm excited for the upcoming game. Guess I'll need to play Arkham Origins first though.
Nier Gestalt
Well I finally got around to finishing Nier Gestalt; well endings A and B. I may go back and do the other two endings since I have the required
weapons
Now I'm trying to decide what to play next. I think Batman:Arkham City will be next as I'm excited for the upcoming game. Guess I'll need to play Arkham Origins first though.
PC: Splinter Cell Blacklist
I thought I was gonna really dislike this game but ended up loving it.
I played it in Perfectionist mode without that "auto-kill" bullshit mechanic and all the see through walls stuff and it was actually pretty intense and awesome.
Really really good game... and the amount of detail that Ubisoft puts into the environments of their games it's always great.
I thought I was gonna really dislike this game but ended up loving it.
I played it in Perfectionist mode without that "auto-kill" bullshit mechanic and all the see through walls stuff and it was actually pretty intense and awesome.
Really really good game... and the amount of detail that Ubisoft puts into the environments of their games it's always great.
TomcatTheLion
Member
Only Blood Knights and Assassin's Creed III (both PC).
The Destiny Beta took up a large amount of time at the end of the month.
The Destiny Beta took up a large amount of time at the end of the month.
Nothing1016
Member
DmC (PS3) - absolutely mediocre.
Shovel Knight (Wii U) - Pretty enjoyable.
Mario Kart 8 50cc, 100cc, and 150cc (Wii U) - 150cc AI are a bunch of cheaters. My god did it take forever.
Edit: 3 Stars on every GP for Mario Kart. Gonna work on Mirror mode next.
Shovel Knight (Wii U) - Pretty enjoyable.
Mario Kart 8 50cc, 100cc, and 150cc (Wii U) - 150cc AI are a bunch of cheaters. My god did it take forever.
Edit: 3 Stars on every GP for Mario Kart. Gonna work on Mirror mode next.
Cornbread78
Member
Mass Effect (PSN)
Final Fantasy X-2 (vita)
Pretty much ripped through these all month long and loved them both.
Final Fantasy X-2 (vita)
Pretty much ripped through these all month long and loved them both.
Last Uchiha
Banned
Wolf Among US
Wolfenstein: The New Order
btw I spent a lot of my time in Destiny beta :]
Wolfenstein: The New Order
btw I spent a lot of my time in Destiny beta :]
BrosukeHanamura
Member
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
PS4:
Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Xbox 360:
Grand Theft Auto V
The Walking Dead (Episodes 4-400 days)
The Walking Dead Season 2 (Episodes 1-4)
The Wolf Among Us (Episodes 1-5)
The only thing I can say about all of these is that they are really amazing and I would easily recommend them all to anyone who hasn't played them yet.
Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Xbox 360:
Grand Theft Auto V
The Walking Dead (Episodes 4-400 days)
The Walking Dead Season 2 (Episodes 1-4)
The Wolf Among Us (Episodes 1-5)
The only thing I can say about all of these is that they are really amazing and I would easily recommend them all to anyone who hasn't played them yet.