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Post by [Citrus] on Jan 3, 2018 1:47:54 GMT -5
In 2016 I finished 39 games. In 2017 I finished 40. So I want to continue this trend and finish 41 games in 2018. Can I do it? Maybe! Though my love of JRPGs makes it a challenge. No matter! In order to encourage myself to finish 41 games I am going to keep a regular thingy here, in this topic, where I will mention what I'm playing and where I am at. You can play along too and set your own fun goals.
Currently playing:
Persona 5 - Because of course I need to have something absurdly long as my first one. I just got to the second palace, and it's reminding me of what I like about Persona as well as being weirdly pertinent to last year for a game that was in development for so long. Still, very slick and cool, great game so far.
Crysis - Somewhere shooting North Koreans though it's leading to aliens eventually. It does look real good, even if it's a decade old, so good on them for the absurd requirements it had back in the day, but it doesn't seem very special so far. Also starting the game with a trailer for your cool suit is dumb.
7 Blades - Bless you emulation, letting me play a europe-only beatemup that I think is intriguing. It has a magical dragon tank and flying ninja spaceships and is just weird enough I want to push through even though it doesn't play great.
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Post by LazBro on Jan 3, 2018 8:23:56 GMT -5
In 2016 I finished 39 games. In 2017 I finished 40. So I want to continue this trend and finish 41 games in 2018. Can I do it? Maybe! Though my love of JRPGs makes it a challenge. No matter! In order to encourage myself to finish 41 games I am going to keep a regular thingy here, in this topic, where I will mention what I'm playing and where I am at. You can play along too and set your own fun goals. Currently playing: Persona 5 - Because of course I need to have something absurdly long as my first one. I just got to the second palace, and it's reminding me of what I like about Persona as well as being weirdly pertinent to last year for a game that was in development for so long. Still, very slick and cool, great game so far. Crysis - Somewhere shooting North Koreans though it's leading to aliens eventually. It does look real good, even if it's a decade old, so good on them for the absurd requirements it had back in the day, but it doesn't seem very special so far. Also starting the game with a trailer for your cool suit is dumb. 7 Blades - Bless you emulation, letting me play a europe-only beatemup that I think is intriguing. It has a magical dragon tank and flying ninja spaceships and is just weird enough I want to push through even though it doesn't play great. Get a job, hippie! |
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Post by [Citrus] on Jan 6, 2018 16:48:39 GMT -5
First game finished: Super Adventure Island (SNES)
Fun little platformer, can be finished in a couple hours, but controls really well and has kickass music. It's really pretty worthwhile, I'd recommend it.
Running total: 1
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Post by LazBro on Jan 7, 2018 10:24:29 GMT -5
First game finished: Super Adventure Island (SNES) Fun little platformer, can be finished in a couple hours, but controls really well and has kickass music. It's really pretty worthwhile, I'd recommend it. Running total: 1 Super Adventure Island is a great game, but it was really tough for me as a little'n. I think I only got to the final level a few times, and I honestly don't remember if I ever beat it. Soundtrack is dope. |
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Post by [Citrus] on Jan 15, 2018 1:03:48 GMT -5
First game finished: Super Adventure Island (SNES) Fun little platformer, can be finished in a couple hours, but controls really well and has kickass music. It's really pretty worthwhile, I'd recommend it. Running total: 1 Super Adventure Island is a great game, but it was really tough for me as a little'n. I think I only got to the final level a few times, and I honestly don't remember if I ever beat it. Soundtrack is dope. Not easy as a grown-up either, definitely designed one of those games where they made it hard to keep you playing. Still cool though, and not evil like Adventure Island can be. Also, I beat half of 7 Blades, but it's one of those games where you have two stories so I'm not done yet. Have to play as the girl. It's not a good game, but the story is totally insane so I am enjoying it. Running total: 1.5 |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jan 15, 2018 18:27:58 GMT -5
I still don't know how Hudson got away with Adventure Island when it is an ugly reskin of Sega's Wonder Boy.
-looks it up-
Apparently they bought the rights. It just makes me sad because Wonder Boy (and many Master System games) just looked so much better than their NES counterparts.
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Post by [Citrus] on Jan 18, 2018 1:21:41 GMT -5
I still don't know how Hudson got away with Adventure Island when it is an ugly reskin of Sega's Wonder Boy. -looks it up- Apparently they bought the rights. It just makes me sad because Wonder Boy (and many Master System games) just looked so much better than their NES counterparts. The weird thing is how the Adventure Island and Wonder Boy series immediately wildly diverged in strange and complicated ways. Like how Wonder Boy got medieval and complicated and kinda cool. Anyway, finished 7 Blades completely. The girl is a worse game than the guy, because she has a gun but no real special moves or anything. The story is fun and stupid and weird, but the game isn't great really. I enjoyed it, a lot, but I would never recommend it. Running total: 2 |
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Post by [Citrus] on Feb 4, 2018 22:11:39 GMT -5
Finished Crysis! It was an okay FPS but hardly amazing. I found the fmv intro hilarious because it was so counter to the games whole look at how cool our graphics are thing, since it was so badly compressed. Otherwise it learned a bit hard on being impossible to run because it didn't really have much else.
Also finished Kirby's DreamLand 2 but didn't get the secret ending so I'm not counting it yet.
Running total: 3
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Post by [Citrus] on Feb 25, 2018 20:53:26 GMT -5
I am really off the pace.
But I finished Detention! It's pretty cool. Not as spooky as you would expect for a spooky game but still pretty neat, and the story was interesting. Well done Detention guys.
Running total: 4
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Post by [Citrus] on Mar 7, 2018 14:47:48 GMT -5
Aeon Genesis did fan translations of all the main SNES The Great Battle games, so I finished the first one, since it's both fun and very short. The controls could be better and, more importantly, the dudes could move WAY faster, but it was fun!
Running total: 5
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Post by [Citrus] on Mar 19, 2018 0:53:47 GMT -5
Liberation Maiden, though the ending is such a weird cliffhanger that I thought I wasn't finished. Kinda not that fun - control scheme is weird and unweildy - and incredibly short, plus they forgot to put the final boss in, right after setting it up. Not something I would recommend, but I did apparently finish it so...
Running total: 6
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Post by [Citrus] on Mar 22, 2018 19:35:42 GMT -5
Drakengard: Okay technically I'm not getting ending E because I'm not going to go through and collect all the goddamn hidden weapons because I'm a grown-up and have things to do and the game isn't fun enough to justify the busy work. But I did get up to ending D and that last chapter is certainly something.
Running total: 7
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Post by [Citrus] on Apr 7, 2018 16:41:38 GMT -5
Pac Man World: The intro is delightful, so delightful that I went in much more of a fan than I wound up being at the end. I wound up skipping a lot of the mazes because they got really poorly done as the game got harder - increasingly difficult and full of traps - but without being much fun. There's also something a bit iffy with the controls, it's just not quite right. Still, whoever did the FMV was a genius and it has regular Pac Man in it, not bad for a game I got for $1.
Running total: 8
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Apr 7, 2018 19:42:39 GMT -5
Pac Man World: The intro is delightful, so delightful that I went in much more of a fan than I wound up being at the end. I wound up skipping a lot of the mazes because they got really poorly done as the game got harder - increasingly difficult and full of traps - but without being much fun. There's also something a bit iffy with the controls, it's just not quite right. Still, whoever did the FMV was a genius and it has regular Pac Man in it, not bad for a game I got for $1. Running total: 8 Citric, given that you're not presently on pace to play 41 games this year, have you considered playing some easier games like Reader Rabbit's Interactive Reading Journey 2, in order to make it more likely that you reach your quota?  |
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Post by LazBro on Apr 7, 2018 19:50:46 GMT -5
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Apr 8, 2018 9:03:50 GMT -5
Those were after my time, but now I kind of want to play one of their earlier games, Rocky's Boots*. * That video is really annoying, but it's the C64 version that I'm used to. |
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Post by [Citrus] on Apr 15, 2018 2:03:57 GMT -5
The Starship Damrey: Neat little 3DS adventure game. Kinda oversells its exploration gameplay - goes on about how it doesn't have tutorials but apart from the opening it doesn't really confuse the player very much. Wound up being pretty neat!
Running total: 9
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Post by [Citrus] on Apr 15, 2018 16:12:12 GMT -5
Beyond Oasis: Cool looking Genesis adventure, feels a bit cut down, like they ran out of space so they had to cut out a bunch, but it looks cool and had a lot of fun ideas.
Running total: 10
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Post by [Citrus] on Apr 18, 2018 18:43:01 GMT -5
Peggle: As though I needed to respond to Rando's edutainment joke, I played through a the regular mode of this silly puzzle game. Peggle is sort of like Cheetos, it's not that good but you don't stop and then suddenly you've done the whole thing and are looking at the extra content thinking maybe it'd be fun to go on to that. Note: It was free on EA's Origin thing, I didn't buy Peggle.
Running total: 11
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Post by [Citrus] on May 4, 2018 0:26:09 GMT -5
Dangerous Golf: Silly fun! Some of the challenges are irritating - didn't get all gold after a while because I was pulling my hair out over it - but it's a fun way to smash stuff and blow off steam. Recommended!
Mighty Switch Force: Haven't finished the bonus levels but whatever. Pretty fun little platformer apart from level 15 which is bad and should feel bad.
Running total: 13
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Post by [Citrus] on May 11, 2018 0:48:35 GMT -5
Smash TV: It's fun but also I am happy that the version I played had unlimited continues because holy balls it's hard and one hit kills are irritating.
Running total: 14
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2018 12:41:04 GMT -5
Pac Man World: The intro is delightful, so delightful that I went in much more of a fan than I wound up being at the end. I wound up skipping a lot of the mazes because they got really poorly done as the game got harder - increasingly difficult and full of traps - but without being much fun. There's also something a bit iffy with the controls, it's just not quite right. Still, whoever did the FMV was a genius and it has regular Pac Man in it, not bad for a game I got for $1. Running total: 8 Toc-Man is a good, bizarre final boss. |
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Post by LazBro on May 14, 2018 14:22:51 GMT -5
Smash TV: It's fun but also I am happy that the version I played had unlimited continues because holy balls it's hard and one hit kills are irritating. Running total: 14 Which version did you play? |
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Post by [Citrus] on May 14, 2018 17:15:50 GMT -5
Smash TV: It's fun but also I am happy that the version I played had unlimited continues because holy balls it's hard and one hit kills are irritating. Running total: 14 Which version did you play? Arcade version included on a PS1 compilation called Arcade Party Pak. |
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Post by [Citrus] on May 17, 2018 1:33:18 GMT -5
Strider 2: I remember when this came out a bunch of reviews complained about unlimited continues and I didn't get why that was bad but playing it I understand the problem, though reviews at the time couldn't explain it well: there is no real incentive to get better because there is no impact to failure. Limiting continues is not the solution, but it was really easy and short. Looked cool though.
Running total: 15
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Post by [Citrus] on May 24, 2018 0:55:10 GMT -5
Army Men: Green Rogue - It's bad, but in a really kind of easy way, and it's short, so I plowed through in one sitting. Waste of time though, and a bad game. It also has an insane opening sequence that does not pay off at all.
Running Total: 16
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Post by [Citrus] on Jun 14, 2018 21:18:58 GMT -5
Off the pace but still confident.
Bonk's Adventure: Pretty fun and the design has a ton of personality but the controls are not quite as good as I would like. Still, solid game, probably will play more Bonk games in the future.
Running total: 17
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Post by [Citrus] on Jun 15, 2018 21:46:01 GMT -5
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter: They sure are proud of the whole "it doesn't hold your hand!" thing, but that mostly just seems to mean that it's kinda aimless and occasionally you can miss important stuff if you're not careful. The big twist is kinda dumb, reminds me of creative writing projects in grade 8 where you're trying to blow the teacher's mind so you throw in a very stupid twist right at the end. I mean, a lot of it is supposed to be written by a kid but I thought it was all kinda dumb. On the upside, it's very pretty.
Running total: 18
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Post by [Citrus] on Jun 21, 2018 18:26:25 GMT -5
Backstreet Billiards: It is a weird PS1 pool game about getting a magic pool cue back from the Triads and the physics isn't great but I discovered that doing trick shots in 9 ball makes it go real fast. Also I will succeed so long as I keep playing weird short games.
Running total: 19
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2018 19:34:43 GMT -5
Does it really count? Might as well just play steam trash.
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