The Feenwager Challenge
(starting March 6th)
The illustrious @feenwager has presented a challenge worthy of our efforts: to eradicate our “piles of shame” for good.
Here’s what some of us are prepared to do:
- Make a list of games that you REALLY want to play (not the fluff that sounded like a good idea during the Steam and/or GameStop sales).
- Play through the games WITHOUT ADDING TO YOUR PILE (except for the big games that you will be playing through without the risk of them collecting dust).
- OPTIONAL (but highly recommended): Team up with another Squaddie or two who shares a game on your list and knock it out in unison.
- OPTIONAL: Post about your thoughts on each game as a “field report” on the Squawkbox. We’d love to know why we should or shouldn’t play this thing.
- Breathe a sigh of relief as you cross off each title.
- Enjoy the camaraderie that only the Squad can provide.
If you’re in, post your list in the comments field. Feel free to cross off each game once your time with it has ended. You can add to your list until March 6th.
Let’s do this.
feenwager 1:20 am on March 3, 2012 Permalink
The list:
Xbox 360:
Arkham City
Dead Island
Castlevania: lords of shadowMajin and the forsaken kingdomDeadly PremonitionSingularitySkyrim
Sonic generationsCrysis 2Shadows of the damnedHomefrontRageGears 3: raam’s shadow
Beyond good and evil hd
Outland
Sam and max save the worldThe beaconing
Splinter cell convictionMafia 2The saboteurPS3:
Jak 2
Jak 3
Ico
Shadow of the colossus
Sly 3
Ghost of sparta
Shank
Rochard
Pixel junk sidescroller
Back to the future episodes 2-5
Dead nation
Trine
3d dot game heroes
PC:
Alice: Madness Returns
Amnesia: Dark Descent
Starcraft 2
To The Moon
Binding Of Isaac
Divinty 2: Dragon Knight Saga
Duke Nukem Fovever
Gemini Rue
Neverwinter Nights 2: Platinum
Tales of Monkey Island 2-5
Witcher 2
CMWhittington 1:30 am on March 3, 2012 Permalink
The List:
*Amnesia
*Baldur’s Gate
*Baldur’s Gate 2
Bulletstorm
Castlevania: Lord of Shadows
*Company of Heroes
Darksiders
*Dawn of War II
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Hitman: Blood Money
*Neverwinter Nights 2
*Planescape: Torment
Space Marine
Splinter Cell: Conviction
*S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
*The Witcher
*Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
Vanquish
*I currently have no way of playing these games until I get either Win 7 or a gaming PC. It might be awhile.
unmanneddrone 1:42 am on March 3, 2012 Permalink
PC:
Vita:
A.J. 2:54 am on March 3, 2012 Permalink
You bastards would start this the day that Mass Effect 3 comes out. Let’s see…
XBOX:
Alan Wake
Bullet Storm
Child of Eden
Crysis 2
Dragon Age 2
Fallout: New Vegas
Gears of War 3
Halo: Anniversary
Lost Odyssey
Red Dead Redemption
PS3
L.A. Noire
Mortal Kombat
Shadow of the Collosus
Ico
Wii:
Super Mario Galaxy 2
PC:
StarCraft 2
To the Moon
Phew, this may take a while.
CMWhittington 2:56 am on March 3, 2012 Permalink
Don’t worry, this is some long tail shit.
unmanneddrone 3:42 am on March 3, 2012 Permalink
Am I doing it wrong or is there no way to edit posts in comment threads?
CMWhittington 4:00 am on March 3, 2012 Permalink
You should be able to.
unmanneddrone 4:01 am on March 3, 2012 Permalink
Cool. No stranger to doing it utterly wrong. Cheers, Roc.
mjpilon 4:11 am on March 3, 2012 Permalink
My list
360:
Saints Row the Third
Assassin’s Creed Revelations
Bioshock 2
Bayonetta
PS3:
Heavy Rain
Ico
Shadow of the Colossus
Uncharted 3 (currently going)Pixeljunk Monsters
Pixeljunk Eden
Wii:
Okami
Donkey Kong Country returns
Super Mario Galaxy 2
PC/ Mac:
Amnesia – this will kept for October as per @Bowlisimo suggestion)
Cave Story +
Original Deus: Ex
Rock of Ages
Terreria
VVVVVVV
And yet it moves
Blocks that matter
Civ V
I do have a issue I guess with my GameAccess subscription in that when I complete the game I have (right now Bayonetta) they will send me another one from my list…. but my pledge is to focus on the games I have right now and work on those once I clear these ones. Good with everyone?
RedSwirl 4:38 am on March 3, 2012 Permalink
Just wanna say, this is basically the reason for which the Squad was created… or at least why I joined it. Also, I can tell you right now that everything on my list ain’t gonna happen within the span of a year.
My Current Gen List:
Xbox 360:
Need For Speed Hot Pursuit
Dark Souls
Shadow Complex
Stacking
Gears 3: RAAM’s Shadow
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts n’ Bolts
Halo Anniversary
PS3:
3D Dot Game Heroes
Demon’s Souls
Top Spin 4
Sly Collection
Rayman Origins (nearly done)
GTA IV
PC (current gen):
Skrim
Fallout New Vegas
Bioshock 2
ArmA II
Metro 2033
STALKER Chermobyl
STALKER Pripyat
Gemini Rue
Magicka
Penumbra Black Plague
Penumbra Requiem
Amnesia
Civilization V
Sonic Generations
Super Meat Boy
Bionic Commando Rearmed
Command & Conquer 3
Cryostasis
Deathspank
Mount & Blade
Trine
feenwager 12:55 pm on March 3, 2012 Permalink
Don’t worry, Red. I don’t think anyone has any illusions about clearing these lists within 2012.
impynickers 8:53 pm on March 3, 2012 Permalink
My full pile of shame is pretty epic. The pile constitutes game I just never got around to beating, but I want to. I don’t intend on getting to most of it this year, but I would like to have it written down as a chronicle of shame. Just to remind me when I am bored what is waiting for me on my shelf, in a drawer, or digitally.
will designate games I actually intend on playing for the duration of this challenge.
Steam:
Aquaria
*Rage
*Magicka
*Freedom Force
*Trine
*Dead Space 2
*Scratches:Director’s Cut
Singularity
Breath of Death VII
Cave Story
The Binding of Isaac
Dino D-Day
Duke Nukem Forever
*Machinarium
Metro 2033
Torchlight
The Void
GOG:
*Gabriel Knight 3
Sanitarium
Beneath a Steel Sky
Messiah
Syberia
Broken Sword
Origin:
*Mass Effect 3
*Battlefield 3
CD’s:
Anachronox
Stalker: Misery
The Neverhood
Heretic II
Sin
Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller
Revenent
Under a Killing Moon
*The Legend of Kyrandia 2: Hand of Fate
Sneak King
*Saints Row the Third
*Rayman Origins
*Dead Island
*SSX
Dreamfall
Fatal Frame II
Jade Empire
Conker: Live and Reloaded
*Pixeljunk Shooter 2
*Resistance 3 co-op
Invincible Tiger
Everyday Shooter
Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne
Rogue Galaxy
Maximo
Tenchu Wrath of Heaven
Odin Sphere
Sabrina the teenage witch: A twitch in time
Vagrant Story
Crusader: No Remorse
Blood Omen: The Legacy of Kain
(you heard me):
*Last Story
Xenoblade Chronicles
F-Zero GX (Story Mode)
>NES>
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Videogame Adventure
River City Ransom
Dig Dug II
Battletoads
That is a relief. Its all out in the open. I hope I am not forgetting anything. Time to get to work.
impynickers 8:58 pm on March 3, 2012 Permalink
elements of this post have disappeared…. Interesting. You get the gist.
impynickers 9:02 pm on March 3, 2012 Permalink
To Simplify:
*Rage
*Magicka
*Freedom Force
*Trine
*Dead Space 2
*Scratches:Director’s Cut
*Gabriel Knight 3
*Mass Effect 3
*Battlefield 3
*The Legend of Kyrandia 2: Hand of Fate
*Saints Row the Third
*Rayman Origins
*Dead Island
*SSX
*Pixeljunk Shooter 2
*Resistance 3
*The Last Story
impynickers 9:06 pm on March 3, 2012 Permalink
And yes, one day I intend on beating both Sneak King and Sabrina the Teenage Witch: A Twitch in time … thank you very much.
feenwager 10:32 pm on March 3, 2012 Permalink
Wow, man. You went deep. Godspeed.
unmanneddrone 2:39 am on March 4, 2012 Permalink
What a cracking list! Some great titles there, Impy. Great to see Revenant in the mix.
Pete Davison 6:03 pm on March 4, 2012 Permalink
ALL RIGHT FOOLS. Here we go. I am doing my own slight twist on the challenge which is to go without buying any new triple-A games for a whole year and see if it’s possible to exist on indie, retro and slightly lesser-known titles alone. I think it’ll be possible.
Then at a games night last night someone pointed out that if Diablo III came out this year, we should play multiplayer. So I have amended my challenge to be “go without buying any new triple-A games (except Diablo III) for a whole year and see if it’s possible to exist on indie, retro and slightly lesser-known titles alone.”
My pile includes a few games that I haven’t bought yet. While this may seem like a bastardisation of the very Pile of Shame concept, I have long been intending to play these games and just haven’t got around to it. In short, I would have bought them anyway, and adding them to my list means I might actually get to them. Non-owned games have been marked with a dollar sign.
So here goes. I will probably have to make several edits to this list.
PS2
Killer7
ICO
Shadow of the Colossus
Metal Gear Solid 3
Odin Sphere
Persona 3 FES
Shadow Hearts
Shadow Hearts: Covenant
$ Yakuza 2
Project Zero (aka Fatal Frame)
$ SMT: Digital Devil Saga
$ SMT: Digital Devil Saga 2
PS3
3D Dot Game Heroes
Demon’s Souls
Dark Souls
Yakuza 3
$ Yakuza 4
Midnight Club LA
PSP
Corpse Party (currently playing)
$ Persona
$ Persona 2: Innocent Sin
$ Persona 3 Portable (this may replace Persona 3 FES in the above list)
$ Trails in the Sky
Xbox 360
Rayman Origins
PC
Amnesia
Aquaria
Assassin’s Creed II
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (OnLive)
Breath of Death VII
Chantelise
Cthulhu Saves the World
Far Cry 2
$ Fortune Summoners
GTA: San Andreas
GTA IV
GTA IV: Episodes from Liberty City
Hacker Evolution
Hacker Evolution: Untold
HeXen II
Hard Reset
Jade Empire
King’s Bounty
King’s Bounty: Armored Princess
King Arthur: The Role-Playing Wargame
Magicka (Squad multiplayer sometime, hmm?)
Mata Hari
Neverwinter Nights 2
Portal 2 Co-Op
Puzzle Agent
Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper
Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened
Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy
Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Persian Carpet
Sherlock Holmes: The Secret of the Silver Earring
Take On Helicopters
Thief: Deadly Shadows
Time Gentlemen, Please!
TRAUMA
Trine
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines
VVVVVV
X-COM Apocalypse (and possibly the previous two)
Baldur’s Gate II (inc. Throne of Bhaal)
Gabriel Knight 3
Ghost Master
Master of Magic
Ultima Underworld
Ultima Underworld II
$ Ultima VII
Wii
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
Zack & Wiki
Xenoblade Chronicles New Game + run alongside anyone else playing it… maybe
RedSwirl 1:05 am on March 5, 2012 Permalink
Honestly, I’m too scared to break out my handheld backlog. Even limiting it to the DS and PSP just looks scary. The bad part is that almost all of my unfinished handheld games are long-ass RPGs.
RedSwirl 1:18 am on March 5, 2012 Permalink
The worst thing about having a backlog though is that it ensures you’ll always be moving from game-to-game. You never have the time to just stick with one or a handful of really great games like you used to. I hate that.
There are a bunch of games I bought last year that I would still be playing the shit out of if I still had the time. I think it’s devaluing the games themselves.
RedSwirl 1:26 am on March 5, 2012 Permalink
And shit I didn’t even mention my Wii backlog. Yeah I got a Wii backlog. It’s the reason why I still own the system.
Wii:
Rhythm Heaven Fever
Sin and Punishment: Successor to the Stars
Endless Ocean
Endless Ocean 2
Punch-Out
Metroid Prime Trilogy
unmanneddrone 2:19 am on March 5, 2012 Permalink
Don’t stress too much. And if you do, why not go swimming with the cetaceans in Endless Ocean!
sinfony 4:27 am on March 5, 2012 Permalink
Here is my very sad list:
(all on PC)
Total War: Shogun 2 (1 complete, non-tutorial game)
The Witcher 2
Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl
Shift 2: Unleashed (reasonable progression)
Alpha Protocol
Left 4 Dead 2 (one attempt at each campaign)
Sadly, this list is probably too ambitious. But let us see!
unmanneddrone 4:32 am on March 5, 2012 Permalink
We’ll have to be Shogun 2 buddies, Sin. Let me know a tentative window when you plan to kick it off and we’ll compare notes. I’ll probably be ready for a little Shogun in a month’s time if Jagged Alliance can be dusted in that time.
sinfony 4:56 am on March 5, 2012 Permalink
I’m afraid my schedule will be too erratic to figure out when I’ll give it a crack. I plan to read over frogbeastegg’s extremely elaborate walkthrough before I give it a go as well.
Shingro 6:05 am on March 5, 2012 Permalink
I’d love to get some good squaddie info about Shogun 2 from you guys, I got the game but I’m having trouble keeping myself motivated to really dive into it.
unmanneddrone 12:52 pm on March 5, 2012 Permalink
@sinfony Whenever you’re up for it, let us know. I’ll busy myself with Real Warfare 2 until we hit Shogun.
@shingro I totally (and somewhat shamefully!) just checked out your Steam list for comparisons…and you’ve got quite the swathe of hours on Civ V! I dunno, with the strategic map, it’s kind of the same thing…what’re your concerns at this point? (should this be a discussion outside the Challenge thread? I dunno. Make the call, sir!)
CMWhittington 4:18 pm on March 5, 2012 Permalink
I’ve culled my list over the weekend and dropped Darksiders. I figure that if I’m going to commit to playing through my pile, the games need to serve my entertainment needs at an acceptable level. Darksiders is just pissing me off. Too much of what’s turned me off to Zelda is angering me.
Shingro 6:57 pm on March 5, 2012 Permalink
I just feel like there’s more I should be doing, In civ I’m always trying to work additional tiles, managing building queues, get more technology and manage my social tree. Comparitively I feel like I somehow got through Shogun 2 without identifying the things that I’m supposed to be managing and working with per turn.
impynickers 7:08 pm on March 5, 2012 Permalink
I am in the same boat, I just included the games I got onto my list. When I am done, obviously I want my moneys worth. Games I rent through the service aren’t piling up like my pile of shame, they will stay at a consistent number. So I don’t see a big issue.
impynickers 7:14 pm on March 5, 2012 Permalink
Count me in for some Magicka or Portal 2 co-op. These are both things I have yet to finish.
Also, Baldur’s Gate II has co-op i think. I don’t know how that would manage on modern computers, maybe through Hamachi. You may want to solo it first though. The prospect gives me a joyous shiver. I am sure there will be some time synchronization we could manage.
unmanneddrone 8:05 am on March 6, 2012 Permalink
There’s a lot of stuff below the surface, unlike Civ where all options are laid out on the table, so to speak. Granted, the Total War titles aren’t as fully-featured as a Civ game, but it’s primarily a wargame franchise. That said, I love the Shogun 2 diplomatic model and the tactical combat is fine as well.
If you’ve already completed a run, though, I don’t know what to add, but if you’re feeling like you’re missing something, I second Sinfony’s statement of checking out FrogBeastEgg’s guide, as it’ll give you a great overview of things like province management and land development…
SUPER DUPER GUIDE
…once you’ve got an idea of what you felt was in deficit prior, have a crack at at a few different early game runs with different clans. And, of course, if you choose Shimazu, three cheers for you! I’m a few pixels west of Kagoshima on the Satsuma peninsula and will spur on the troops and the peasants for you.
scribl 8:21 am on March 6, 2012 Permalink
@sinfony I just started on The Witcher 2 recently. It’s fantastic. It’s got everything I could ask for in a choice-centered WRPG.
Would definitely be interested in playing along whenever you hit Alpha Protocol, STALKER, or Shogun 2. Also, I love me some L4D/2.
Pete Davison 11:54 am on March 6, 2012 Permalink
Excellent, I would love to play some Magicka and Portal 2. Who’s around this weekend? I may make this a separate post to ensure people see it.
Shingro 6:03 pm on March 6, 2012 Permalink
I’m game for this! I never did finish the game entire, missed the early boat on it =P got maybe halfway through the Portal 2 co-op but it’s a bit of a tarred experience ’cause my friend has already solved everything before
cgrajko 6:27 pm on March 6, 2012 Permalink
PS3
Nier
Final Fantasy XIII
LA Noire
Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time
Resonance of Fate
PSN
Wipeout HD
Costume Quest
Little Big Planet
Xbox 360
Alan Wake
Child of Eden
Deadly Premonition
Lost Odyssey
Portal 2
Child of Eden
XBLA
Perfect Dark (I have beaten it, but not on the hardest difficulty)
Rez (cannot beat Area 5 for the life of me)
Puzzle Quest 2
Scott Pilgrim
PC (There’s way too much here as it is, so I’m not listing all of the Indie Bundle stuff)
Amnesia
Aquaria
Baldur’s Gate
Baldur’s Gate II (I want to do both with the Tutu mod)
The Blackwell Games
Beneath a Steel Sky
Cryostasis
The Dig
All 3 Deus Ex games.
Fallout: New Vegas
Limbo
The Longest Journey
Loom
Machinarium
The Penumbra series
Recettear
Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
The Witcher
Where the hell do I even start with this?
cgrajko 7:42 pm on March 6, 2012 Permalink
Oh, yeah, I just remembered that I also have the Ico collection (both of which I beat on PS2, so they may not count.
I also have STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, and Uncharted.
unmanneddrone 11:43 pm on March 6, 2012 Permalink
What do you reckon you’ll tackle first, man?
cgrajko 12:37 am on March 7, 2012 Permalink
I don’t even know. I was thinking that I may try to knock out some of the easier/shorter things first, but maybe I should play through an RPG concurrent with some of the shorter stuff on the list, so that I always have a longer game to fall back on if I’m in the mood for that and a shorter game to play in bursts if I want something bite sized.
I guess I will finish up Nier and try to beat some of the PSN and XBLA stuff.
How long are LA Noire and Alan Wake?
RedSwirl 2:15 am on March 7, 2012 Permalink
I think we all need to start with the shorter stuff: downloadable games and stuff we’re almost done with.
unmanneddrone 1:00 pm on March 7, 2012 Permalink
Hmm, I think Pete and Mark would be able to answer those two enquiries.
Can I request a nice big @cgrajko spiel on Nier once you’ve dusted it?
cgrajko 7:37 pm on March 7, 2012 Permalink
Oh, don’t worry, there will definitely be a nice, big spiel on Nier once I’ve finished it. Though, from what I understand, there are four endings. So, maybe there will be one spiel per ending or something.
unmanneddrone 3:17 pm on March 8, 2012 Permalink
Looking forward to it. Only knowing it by reputation, both Nier and the Souls games seem to evoke some sort of Eastern Euro vibe.
But yes, very keen to hear your thoughts on Kainé especially.
beige 4:25 pm on March 8, 2012 Permalink
Re: Neir. Yeeeeeah…. I think I said everything I currently need to say on the subject here here and here. I’d repost in its entirity but this is the kind of thing that throws the board into discord. I’ll just add that if you are at all curious, give it a read. It’s shonuff a pretty thorough analysis of my thoughts on the game.
cgrajko 7:56 pm on March 8, 2012 Permalink
Whoa, AJ, we have a lot of games in common. Just let me know when you want to start up Alan Wake, Child of Eden, Lost Odyssey, LA Noire, or one of the games from the Ico collection 🙂
cgrajko 12:36 am on March 9, 2012 Permalink
Let me know when you start up Deus Ex, because I have never made it all the way through. I think I may need some external motivation or something.
RedSwirl 6:35 pm on March 10, 2012 Permalink
After I finish ME3 I’m probably gonna catch up on my Film/TV Pile of Shame before I start on games.
feenwager 11:14 am on March 11, 2012 Permalink
At my current pace, the Feenwager Challenge shall last approximately…forever.
unmanneddrone 3:35 pm on March 11, 2012 Permalink
I smell a good ol’ TV show/film discussion on the Squawk!
unmanneddrone 3:35 pm on March 11, 2012 Permalink
Bodes well for the pocket book! Enjoying it so far.
mjpilon 12:22 am on March 12, 2012 Permalink
I’m actually making decent headway…. two down already. But now I enter the “open-world” games with AC Revelations and Saints Row, so my pace will slow down
cgrajko 8:07 pm on March 16, 2012 Permalink
My girlfriend bought the most recent Mortal Kombat the other day. I’m not sure that counts as a title I would put up on the list, but it certainly counts as a title that will steal my free time, because, I’ve got to say, it’s pretty damn fun.
feenwager 2:24 am on March 19, 2012 Permalink
Alright, kids…Mass Effect be done. The list is up there. What next?
CMWhittington 2:38 am on March 19, 2012 Permalink
@feenwager Conviction’s on my list, too. Want to tackle some co-op?
Side note, I went and tried Amalur. I don’t own it but has been in my GameFly queue. I’ve been playing too many RPGs with great stories but unsatisfying gameplay so this game’s a welcome relief. Man, do I feel good about playing one where I don’t give 3 shits about the story and just enjoy fucking shit up. May have to take this one the distance.
feenwager 12:46 am on March 20, 2012 Permalink
I actually decided to go with Singularity, mostly because it was already downstairs.
impynickers 1:12 am on March 20, 2012 Permalink
@feenwager interesting choice. Its on my list too, I played about 3 hours of it. It takes a lot of interesting ideas from other games and mashes them together to some suprising success.
@cgrajko I played Mortal Kombat a couple of months ago and was a fan. I am not a fighting game guru of any sort, but I felt like they finally brought MK back to its roots. Brutal and fun to play with people.
Also, I am interested to hear your take on Deus Ex. Its a game I don’t get sick of talking about.
I am done ME3. I wonder what to get into next. I was thinking of going old school. I dunno.
Impending exams and papers are choking my free time, but slick time management might ensure I down another game in the next week.
unmanneddrone 12:08 pm on March 20, 2012 Permalink
Oh damn. So, the new patch for Jagged Alliance has some sort of really heinous way of dealing with my GPU, so I can’t get more than fifteen or so minutes into a level without my laptop overheating and shutting down. Crazy. Thought it was a hardware problem, but can run everything else fine without a hitch or a hint of this overheating problem.
So, back on the digital shelf this goes until that one is sorted. A shame, because it’s great fun.
Next up, back into Wargame!
unmanneddrone 1:07 pm on March 21, 2012 Permalink
Turns out the heinous patch was simply a heinously corrupted or corrupting something or another in Windows that seemed to push my GPU into some sort of overdrive. Either way, formatted and now have a rather clean system once again. But yes, Wargame for now…will get back to JA down the line.
RedSwirl 7:12 pm on March 24, 2012 Permalink
Looks like the Mickey Mouse Illusion games just got bumped up on my backlog. Nintendo Power just revealed the fourth one: Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion for the 3DS coming out this fall.
impynickers 5:02 pm on March 29, 2012 Permalink
Keeping on top of this challenge is tough. Knee deep in The Legend of Kyrandia 2, a game I previously had not touched since sometime in the mid 1990’s. I beat the 2 other games in the series, but some people have been telling me 2 is the actual better game. It is certainly a unique adventure game. Your character being somewhat of an alchemist ensures a few non-traditional puzzles, and the dialogue so far is still charming. I think I may be resorting to FAQ’s just to fast track things though… at the pace I am going I wont be making it through my list until I am a senile old man.
RedSwirl 4:28 pm on March 30, 2012 Permalink
Symphony of the Night is down. Impressions over at my new blog: http://noplatform.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/late-to-the-party-castlevania-symphony-of-the-night/
RedSwirl 3:41 pm on April 2, 2012 Permalink
My report on Sonic CD: http://noplatform.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/late-to-the-party-sonic-cd/
In short, it’s the real sequel to Sonic 2.
I think I’m moving on to BioShock 2 next, if for no other reason than “Minerva’s Den”. Somehow I’ve figured out that I can’t subsist entirely on “small” or “indie” games for too long. I can play them in-between the big shit, but they alone won’t quite satisfy my appetite.
Pete Davison 12:14 pm on April 3, 2012 Permalink
My progress is going slowly, not helped by my looting of Game and Gamestation stores over here adding Eternal Sonata, Lost Odyssey, Resonance of Fate, FFVII Crisis Core, Harvest Moon Hero of Leaf Valley, Dissidia Final Fantasy and doubtless some other ones I’ve forgotten to the mix.
In the meantime, I’m still finishing up Shadow Hearts: Covenant. The final dungeon has been “open” for a while now. I thought I’d just go and do a few quick sidequests. 15 hours later…
Full thoughts when I’ve finished it.
impynickers 6:32 am on April 5, 2012 Permalink
Finished Legend of Kyrandia 2. Set up a tumblr specifically for this kind of thing…. impressions at:
http://arpeegee13.tumblr.com/
Ill say that this game does something unique and horrifying, it takes the worst part of adventure games (the impenetrable puzzle logic) and uses it to basically troll you everytime you think you have figured the game out. This is the Dark Soul’s of adventure games, though I use that term not so much to suggest you should actually play this game. The results are rather entertaining to read about I am sure.
cgrajko 8:11 pm on April 6, 2012 Permalink
Since Nier is going to be put to bed (and will have deleted my saves once it is), I’m going to need something else to play. Does anyone want to recommend a game on my list? I have the house to myself for a week and a half, which should be more than enough time to beat anything you all can dream up.
RedSwirl 2:21 pm on April 7, 2012 Permalink
BioShock 2 is down for the count. Just need to roll on “Minerva’s Den” which I got for $5.
RedSwirl 4:04 pm on May 18, 2012 Permalink
Demon’s Souls is down motherfucker. Final impressions.
cptcarnage 4:19 am on June 1, 2012 Permalink
Figure’d I’d weigh in on this… although listing my complete pile would reach massive wall of text territory. Current tally on Raptr is 422 games… yeesh
here’s the main ones
PS3
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Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time
GoW Collection
Shadow/Ico Collection
Sly Collection
L.A. Noire
Uncharted 3
Journey
Dark Souls (I highly doubt i’ll finish this…)
DarkSiders
FFXIII
XBOX360
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FEZ
Batman Arkham City
Fable III
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
Bastion
Rayman Origens
Assassins Creed Brotherhood
Assassins Creed Revelations
PC
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Bulletstorm
Mass Effect 3
Diablo 3
Torchlight
Sword and Sworcery
Skyrim
Thats probably not even 1/8th of my titles. Still got to start somewhere.