by bobafettjm
Wow, this is now my eighth year now making these lists on Giant Bomb. Last year was a much better year for completing games than the previous year for sure. I ended up just shy of 50 games, which is going to be my goal for this year.
I will quote my criteria from previous years.
As with every year I am counting games that I finish the story or campaign mode on, or whatever the equivalent may be. In some cases a game may not have a story mode, so I will count it if I finish every achievement or goal. In the case of some pinball machines (on Pinball Arcade) I will count them if I finish every standard and wizard goal. I will also count a game beat if I put a ton of time into it if it has no way of finishing it.
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Well I guess I started this year with one I have already previously beaten, but this time around it was on the Xbox One rather than Steam. No matter how many times I play this game I don't get tired of it. This was my game of the year in 2016 and continues to be one of my favorite games in years.
Finished this one on veteran on the Xbox One. Every year, despite what I may feel about the multiplayer portion of the Call of Duty series, I always enjoy playing through the campaign. This one was no different as I quite enjoyed my time with it, but I do think it was weaker than the previous few games have been.
Got this one on sale for a couple of bucks on the Xbox One. This is a puzzle game that involves changing colored orbs by clicking on them to try and make them all the same, similar to the classic Lights Out game. It is a pretty short and average game. Unless you want to get 1,000 achievement points in about 20 minutes I would maybe pass this one up.
Man, what a game this was. It took me quite a lot of hours to play through it but it was worth it for sure. I do have to say for about half of this game I was not really enjoying the combat, but once I started unlocking weapons and skills I grew to like it more. Where this game really shines however is in the writing. The storytelling was just so good, I can't wait for a sequel to this. I wish I had played it earlier because it would have made my GOTY list for sure.
Another easy achievement Xbox One game. It is a pretty minimalist platforming game that involves trying to just hit all of the buttons. It was a pretty relaxing game that only lasted for maybe 20 minutes or so.
I finally got around to playing this one. It went on sale on Xbox One for something like $7 so I figured now would be a good time to finally get it. I got way more hooked on the story than I thought I would initially, and even all the way up until the end of the game I was really digging it. Towards the very end however when the game reveals what it has been building to it kind of hit with a thud rather than a bang. Despite the anti-climactic end, I still enjoyed my brief time with it. Also, it was an easy 1,000 achievement points.
Going way back for this one. Actually I played this one on Atari Flashback Classics Vol. 2 on the Xbox One, but I have owned this on Atari 2600 since I was 2 years old. Despite playing this game a lot as a kid I never did finish it as it always confused me. Playing it now I realized how easy it is, but it is still a really interesting game in what it ushered in and how it accomplished what it did on such a basic system.
This might just be one of the most disappointing games I have ever finished. I was actually quite excited to play this as I loved both Trials and Far Cry: Blood Dragon. I had foolishly thought this would be mostly just Trials with the setting and theme of Blood Dragon. I couldn't have been more wrong as I feel a good amount of this game is spent running or driving something that is not a bike in any way. I certainly don't come to Trials for poorly controlling on foot and shooting sequences, which this game had in spades. If you are a fan of Trials, just skip this one.
Every once in a while achievements make me do embarrassing things, let's just not talk about this. Don't buy this, don't play this, move on.
Man, this game is so much fun. I was using this game as my test game for the retroachievements.org N64 emulator and ended up playing through the whole thing. I've played this one many hours on the N64 already, but it was a few years since I played through the single player content.
