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Your '07 Gaming conquests
Witchsight
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Seeing as its the last month of the year i thought id look back and try to remember what the fuck ive accomplished since January. As usual, not a whole lot.... But in gaming terms i should have gotten payed by the hour!
This thread shall require you to review your year and list any games you have Started and Beaten to Completion since January. And i dont mean 07 titles only, or finally finishing the last 2 hours of Okami or any shit like that.
And if there was any goals of specific interest that you set for yourself or inadvertantly succedded in, they should be noted as well. But seeing as i dont play MMORPGs, i have few of those.
Anyway for me it was the year of the backlog.... All games i have started and beaten this year;
PS2
PSX
SNES
Genesis
Various games on the Sega collection.
Gaming Failures;
I gave up in whimpering frustration on RE4 Hard mode
Told Dark Cloud 2 to go fuck itself
This thread shall require you to review your year and list any games you have Started and Beaten to Completion since January. And i dont mean 07 titles only, or finally finishing the last 2 hours of Okami or any shit like that.
And if there was any goals of specific interest that you set for yourself or inadvertantly succedded in, they should be noted as well. But seeing as i dont play MMORPGs, i have few of those.
Anyway for me it was the year of the backlog.... All games i have started and beaten this year;
PS2
- God of War II
- Mercenaries (With Mui, the wuss)
- Fatal Frame 2
- Silent Hill 2
- Viewtiful Joe
- Soul Calibur 3 (all unlockables)
- SW Battlefront 2
- Metal Gear Solid 3
- Red Faction
- SoTC (Hard mode)
- Ico
- God Hand
PSX
- Riven
- Space Hulk; Pixels of the Blood Angels
SNES
- Uniracers (gold in all tracks)
- Flashback
- Super Metroid
- Yoshi's Story
Genesis
Various games on the Sega collection.
Gaming Failures;
I gave up in whimpering frustration on RE4 Hard mode
Told Dark Cloud 2 to go fuck itself
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Earth Defense Force 2017
Wow, I think that's it.
puzzle quest
ffxii (stupid amount of hours into this one)
klonoa 2
ratchet and clank up your arsenal
guitar hero 3
guitar hero 80s
phoenix wright 2
portal
half life 2
chibi robo
knytt story
im sure im forgetting some
Wait wait wait wait....
Lord Bane was meant to be beaten?
I thought he was just a cruel joke, and I abandonned the game at that point.
Mass Effect
Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2: Episode 1
Portal
Halo 3
Metal Gear Solid 1
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
Elite Beat Agents
Yoshi's Island DS
Super Mario Galaxy
I think thats it
This rule has various caveats, such as the ability to purchase any Wii party titles if I'm having mates round and Virtual Console and XBLA titles are also exempt.
With that in mind, this year I have completed:
Crackdown
Another World (Quite a number of times)
Prince of Persia (2D original)
Heart of Darkness (I got addicted to this type of game, see the two above!)
Super Paper Mario
TMNT (oddly I got very very addicted to this game)
Psychonauts
Zack and Wiki
Portal
Assassin's Creed.
I'm currently getting on with Super Mario Galaxy and enjoying it immensely. Mass Effect has already been bought thanks to a cheap-ish deal and I've given it a quick play, but I don't know if it's the type of game I can really sink a lot of time in to.
Best game I've played and completed this year though would definitely go to Zack and Wiki. Fantastic.
::Edited:: To my shame I forgot Portal, my second favourite title of this year!
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And at the rate I'm going I'll be able to list Mass Effect 3 or 4 times
Ratchet and Clank
(Can I list Resistance from a year ago to make my list longer?
Gears of War (on Hardcore, so does that count twice?)
Oh, and I beat World of Warcraft.
Fire Emblem: Scared Stones
Puzzle Quest
GC/Wii
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
360
Halo 3 (Heroic, working on Legendary)
Mass Effect
Slow year, but then I spent most of it either on my trip around central america, or paying for it when I got back.
Also Rocket Slime (main plot), Phantom Hourglass (main plot), Pokémon Pearl (main plot), Hotel Dusk and Guitar Hero on easy.
I also unlocked every truck and every paint job in Excite Truck.
I blame university life and my general incompetence when it comes to high-level gaming - you'll notice that the three DS games I completed are more about collectathons than beating the main game.
Halo 3
The Darkness
Dead Rising
Bioshock
Mass Effect
Crackdown
Lost Planet
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
PS2
Persona 3
Final Fantasy XII
PC
Portal
Titan Quest
Titan Quest: Immortal Throne
I really need to get out of the habit of half finishing games
Sonic the Hedgehog 1 on Master System (first time I'd played it and possibly my favourite sonic game!)
Super Mario Land on Gameboy (on original grey gameboy brick no less)
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Oculus Rift: Sir_Grinch
D:D:D:
I guess I am pretty space rich.
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Half-Life 2: Episode Two
Half-Life 3: I'm Joking
Portal
The Darkness
Halo 3 on Legendary (Co-op)
Guitar Hero 2 on Hard
That's about it I guess.
I didnt include the many hours i spent destroying people in Soldat... It alone is enough to let me know that online gaming will dominate me if i let it. And dammit i wont let that happen!
Digital Devil Saga 1 (for the 2nd time)
Digital Devil Saga 2
Uncharted (both normal and hard)
Heavenly Sword
Guitar Hero 3 (medium.... not quite through hard yet...)
Final Fantasy 3 DS
I'm currently trying to get through FFT PSP and Metal Gear Solid 3
Failures
Grand Theft Auto 3 (meh, kinda bored me after a while)
Resident Evil 4 (the game's just too freaking intense for me)
Final Fantasy 1 PSP (the girlfriend took the psp and played this game, so I did somethings else)
Disgaea (Kinda got bored, but more I dunno...just didn't feel like finishing)
Psychonauts (Or was that last year? I can barely remember.)
Half-Life 2: Episode Two
Portal
Tomb Raider: Legend (I played it for free through Gametap.)
I stopped playing WoW, but I don't know if that counts.
DS
New Super Mario Bros.
Pokémon Diamond
Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Wii
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2
Metroid Prime 3
Super Mario Galaxy
Virtual Console
Sonic 3
Super Metroid.
I think that's all of it. Initially I wouldn't say that I've bought/played that many games, but listing them like this make them seem like a lot.
Guild Wars: Eye of the North
Neverwinter Nights 2
Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer
Company of Heroes
Command and Conquer 3
Pathologic
Tomb Raider: Anniversary
Tomb Raider: Legend
Metal Gear Solid 2
Bioshock
Call of Duty 4
Stalker
Rainbow 6: Vegas
Half-Life 2: Episode 2
Unreal Tournament 3
Portal
Peggle
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
Test Drive: Unlimited
Started
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
World in Conflict
Witcher
Gave Up
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts - Waiting for a patch
DiRT - Lost Disc
Psychonauts - Got annoyed at shittyness of gameplay
Jade Empire - Couldn't get widescreen to work properly
Crysis - Runs like a dog
Rollover
Gothic 3
PC
System Shock 2
Bioshock
DS
Phoenix Wright 1
Phoenix Wright 2
Castlevania: DoS
Castlevania: PoR
Hotel Dusk
PS2
God Hand
GBA
Spyro - Eternal Night
Guess that's about it.
That counts bigtime. I wont state my unrelenting hatred of WoW in depth here, but i am not a fan.
Thats the thing... I was kind of shocked to realize how many games i played this year. I had no idea until i focused my powers of list making on them. I dont know if its been my busiest year, but it sure as hell looks like it. I had 2 on the go pretty at all times.
The ones i didnt mention were;
Ecco 1 & 2
Sonic 1 & 2
Altered Beast
Golden Axe
and Ristar
Wii - 8
Trauma Centre : Second Opinion
Metal Slug Anthology
Zelda : Twilight Princess
Godfather : Backhand Edition
Wii Play
Super Paper Mario
Super Mario Galaxy (114 stars)
Metroid Prime 3 : Corruption
VC - 3
Paper Mario
Super Mario Bros
Gunstar Heroes
PS2 - 4
Valkyrie Profile 2 : Silmeria
Shin Mengami Tensei : Persona 3 (twice)
Ratched Deadlocked
YS : Ark of Naphistim
PS1 - 1
Valkyrie Profile
DS - 6
New Super Mario Bros
Phoenix Wright : Ace Attorney
Phoenix Wright : Justice for All
Phoenix Wright : Trials and Tribulations
Castlevania : Portrait of Ruin
Contra 4 (only on easy so far tough)
GBA - 3
Super Mario Advance 3 : Yoshi Island
Castlevania : Aria of Sorrow
Golden Sun
--
Currently in progress
Wii - 1
Fire Emblem : Radiant Dawn
VC - 3
Beyond Oasis
Soldier Blade
Mario 64
DS - 3
Sonic Rush
Contra 4 (normal mode / challenges)
Zelda : Phantom Hourglass
GBA - 2
Castlevania : Harmony of Dissonance
Mario and Luigi Super Star Saga
GCN - 1
Baten Kaitos Origins
--
I think I can say I had quite a productive year gaming wise
All played and beaten.
R6: Vegas
GRAW 2
Crackdown
Oblivion
HL2
Portal
HL2: Episode 1
HL2: Episode 2
Assassins Creed
Call of Duty 4
Halo 3
Call of Duty 3
Call of Duty 2
Guitar Hero 2
The Darkness
FEAR
Bioshock
Overlord
Stranglehold
Super Paper Mario
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (That should count as 3 or 4)
ExciteTruck
RE:4 wii
Crackdown (Got the meatwagon achievement!
COD4 (working through veteran now)
Halo 3 (+skulls)
Metal Gear 2: Substance
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow & Dawn of Dissonance (full completion of this sweet double pack)
Wario Ware
Mario Party 8 (if that counts)
Rock Band (solo tour)
Guitar Hero 2 (finishing medium was a feat for me)
Next on my list is SOtC when my DualShock3 arrives. Should I play through Ico first? I have both, just sitting there saying "hey, come check us out. Do something good for yourself you fat bastard"
But I never do.
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Gears of War
Halo 3
Mass Effect
Virtua Fighter 5 (beating 4th and 5th Dan is an achievement, in my books)
Dynasty Warriors Gundam
Superman Returns
Xbox
King of Fighters 2002
Star Wars: Republic Commando
PS2
Bleach: Blade Battlers
Bleach: Blade Battlers 2nd
Another Century's Episode 2
The King of Fighters 2006/Maximum Impact 2
DBZ: Budokai Tenkaichi 2
Garou (Fatal Fury): Mark of the Wolves
PC
Warhammer: Mark of Chaos
Half-Life 2
I'm still working my way through Overlord and Ninety-Nine Nights as well as Another Century's Episode 1. These will all get demolished if I get Another Century's Episode 3 for Christmas, though.
Bioshock
Halo 3
Half-Life 2
Portal
...And I think that might be it.
PS2:
Gun
Genji
Phantasy Star II (Part of the Genesis Collection)
Phantasy Star III
Phantasy Star IV (in all fairness, I beat these games every year so a playthrough doesn't take very long)
Xenosaga (started in 2005, just finished this year)
Persona 3
Final Fantasy XII
Champions of Norrath (co-op with my partner)
Champions of Norrath: Return to Arms (co-op with my partner)
X-Men Legends (co-op with my partner)
X-Men Legends 2 (co-op with my partner)
Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows (co-op with my partner)
Ico
Shadow of the Colossus
Shining Force Neo
Rez (beat level 5, haven't unlocked everything)
Guitar Hero (finished easy, medium, hard, and expert)
Guitar Hero II (finished easy, medium, and hard)
Wii/GC
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
Trauma Center: Second Opinion (haven't finished X missions)
Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition
Games I have started and will probably finish before the end of the year
Shadow Hearts (PS2)
Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus (PS2)
Metroid Prime (GC)
Deus Ex (PC)
System Shock 2 (PC)
XBOX 360-
Crackdown
Dead Rising
The Darkness
Bioshock
Gears of War (Harcore and Insane)
Halo 3 (Legendary)
Assassin's Creed
Call of Duty 4 (Hardened)
Mass Effect (Hardcore, working on insanity)
Dynasty Warriors Gundam Original mode
PS2-
Guitar Hero 2 on Hard and Expert (except Freebird, fuck you)
God of War 2
Final Fantasy XII
Gamecube-
Twilight Princess
DS-
Phoenix Wright 2 (I think that was this year?) and 3
Hotel Dusk
Castlevania Portrait of Ruin
PC-
Rainbow Six Vegas
Splinter Cell Double Agent
Portal
HL2 episode 2
Soul Reaver 2
I think that about does 'er
Completed
Wii
Metroid Prime 3
Xbox 360
Saints Row
Mass Effect
Call of Duty 4
Halo 3
Dynasty Warriors 5: Empires
Dynasty Warriors: Gundam
Crackdown
Beautiful Katamari
Lego Star Wars: OT
Ninety-Nine Nights
Marvel Ultimate Alliance
Portal
Playstation 2
Ratchet and Clank
Jak and Daxter 3
Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI
Dragonball Z: BT2
My incomplete list is about 4 times as long and deserves me getting thrown into videogamer prison.
Star Wars: Republic Commando
KotOR
UT2k4 single player campaign (basically just played through again while bored)
Portal
Half-Life 2
HL2:Ep1
HL2:Ep2
HL
HL:Op4
Peggle Deluxe (didn't finish all the challenges, but fuck 'em)
Civilization 4 (At least, completed a campaign or two. Kinda hard to judge what "beating" it is.)
Some singleplayer mods here and there, like Minerva: Metastasis
PS2:
Persona 3
Guitar Hero 3 (cleared through hard single-player, almost cleared through hard on co-op. still working on expert)
Katamari Damacy (beat again when bored, already completed it sometime in 2005)
DS:
Final Fantasy III
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
Elite Beat Agents (cleared all stages in all modes)
Metroid Pinball
Sonic Rush
Phoenix Wright 1
Final Fantasy V Advance
New Super Mario Bros.
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time
..I think I'm forgetting a few here. My brother got a DS for his birthday so I lent him a bunch of the stuff I beat this year.
Gamecube:
Zelda: Twilight Princess
Working on:
Bioshock (picked up on Black Friday for $25)
Portal
Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2: Episode 1
2 lvl 50s in City of Heroes/Villains
Wii:
Super Paper Mario
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Super Mario Galaxy (Main Story)
VC:
Paper Mario
Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country 2
DS:
New Super Mario Brothers
Kirby's Squeak Squad
Pokemon Diamond
Currently Playing:
Guitar Hero 3
Deus Ex
Deus Ex:Invisible War
Lost Planet
Crackdown
Bullet Witch
Forza 2
Call of Juarez
DiRT
Shadowrun
Darkness
Project Sylpheed
Overlord
Bioshock
Medal of Honor: Airborne
Stranglehold
Earth Defense Force
Eternal Sonata
Project Gotham 4
Blazing Angels 2
Beautiful Katamari
Halo 3
Orange Box (all parts)
Jericho
Timeshift
Assassins Creed
Rock Band (on hard, so far)
Fear Files (both expansions)
PS3
Ninja Gaiden Sigma (on easy mode...)
Warhawk
Lair
Heavenly Sword
Ratchet and Clank Future
Eye of Judgement
Uncharted
PS2
God of War II
Metal Slug Anthology
Raiden III
Final Fantasy XXII
Devil Summoner
Red Star
Guitar Hero: Rocks the 80's
started, but gave up on....
Fuzion Frenzy 2 (couldn't even play it for the achievement points.....)
Rogue Galaxy (I feel guilty about not playing this more)
Motorstorm (meh)
Spider-Man 3 (the pain!)
Odin Sphere
War Tech (more pain)
Monster Madness (terrible, just terrible)
Vampire Rain (worse)
Two Worlds
Sega Rally Revo (sucks)
Persona 3
I'm not sure if I am proud of this list of embarassed...
edit: was STALKER this year? If so, add it to the list.
Final Fantasy XII
God of War 2
Suikoden V
Zone of the Enders: The Second Runner
PlayStation 3:
Heavenly Sword
Rainbow Six: Vegas
Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction
Resistance: Fall of Man
PlayStation Portable:
Jeanne d'Arc
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
360:
Gears of War
PC:
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
Right now I'm playing through Assassin's Creed and will be getting Uncharted and Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow by the end of the week. Oh and I didn't list my gaming failures because it wounds me when I remember some of the awesome games I didn't finish (like FFT
PS2:
God of War
God of War II
Xenosaga III
Shin Megami Tensai: Devil Summoner
Shadow Hearts III: From the New World
Rogue Galaxy
Front Mission 4
PS3:
Heavenly Sword
Ratchet and Clank Future
Oblivion: Main Questline (working on Knights of the Nine)
X360:
Mass Effect
Guitar Hero II
Guitar Hero III
Rock Band (solo guitar expert, I'm working through drums on medium and hard right now)
Warriors Orochi (for some reason mindless hack-'n'-slash games draw me in)
Half-Life 2 (still need to get through Episodes 1 and 2 and Portal)
Dynasty Warriors 5: Empires
Right now I'm working my way through Assassin's Creed on 360 and Witcher on PC.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
Bioshock
Halo 3
Portal
Half Life 2: Episode Two
Assassin's Creed
Mass Effect
----
I've had a shitty year so I wasn't able to game much until recently, I didn't even have Internet for most of the year.
Supreme Commander
Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl
PS3
Resistance
Motorstorm
Virtua Fighter 5
Heavenly Sword
Ratchet and Clank
Folklore
PS2
Psychonauts
Beyond Good and Evil
MGS2
Misc
Super Mario World
Mario 64
Phantasy Star 4
I thought I'd spent more time on PC this year but when I think about it I've only really been playing those two games. Also, I know I'm late to the whole Mario thing but I never had nintendo consoles growing up so BACK OFF. And I've assumed that getting the highest rank in VF5's quest mode and beating the arcade mode on the highest difficulty constitutes 'beating' it. As does gold on all tickets for Motorstorm, though that tested my usually zen-like calm.
PC:
Portal, Episode 1, Episode 2
uh...
fuck.
Lego Star Wars II
Big Brain Academy (got an A so.. I declared myself winnarz!)
Marvel Ultimate Alliance (all unlockables on hard)
Xbox/360
Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows
Dungeons and Dragons: Heroes
Perfect Dark Zero
Halo 3 (heroic done, legendary in progress)
Guitar Hero 3 (expert done, working on 5 starring them all)
PS2
Guitar Hero 80's
Karaoke Revolution Party
Karaoke Revolution American Idol
Timesplitters: Future Perfect
God of War
Mass Effect
Earth Defense Force 2017 (no achievements though because it's stupid)
Prey
Lost Planet
Deus Ex
Psychonauts
Prince of Persia Classic
Gears of War
There's probably some others, but I don't remember.
Gears of War
Gun
Halo 3
N64:
Pokemon Puzzle League (v. hard)
Banjo Kazooie
PS2:
Bully
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Guitar Hero 3
DS:
EBA (hard rock)
GBA:
Metroid Zero
that's pretty pathetic really =\
Xbox : gunst4r
PS2:
Shadow of the Colossus
God Hand
Viewtiful Joe
Guitar Hero 2
We
GTA: San Andreas [again]
Metal Slug Anthology
Nintendo DS:
Castlevania: Portrait or Ruin
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
PC:
Half Life 2, Episode 1 + 2
Portal
Bioshock
XBox 360:
Halo 3
Kay, maybe that's not so bad. I still wish that I'd completed more of my DS backlogage.