by bobafettjm
Here it is, year number five of me keeping track of which games I beat in a year. Last year ended up being the first year in this series in which I failed to beat more games than the previous year. 2014 was a much busier year for me in general than previous years. I am really hoping to beat more games in 2015 than I did in 2014, even better would be to complete more than I did in 2013.
I will quote my criteria from last year.
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.
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And the first game I beat this year is....Knightmare Tower. I got this one for super cheap on Steam and decided to check it out. For whatever reason I got hooked on it and ended up playing it for about 2 hours and beat it.
Next up I finished the single player of Nidhogg. The single player in this game is short but still really fun. Of course the multiplayer is where this game really shines.
Man, what a game. This would have been the first game finished this year, but I spent a little over 25 hours cleaning up every side mission and collectible until finally finishing the campaign. I knew going in that the game was good, but I did not expect to like it as much as I did. Rarely do I find myself wanting to do EVERY activity in an open world style game anymore, but I not only wanted to in this one, but found myself wanting even more. This might actually be the first game I get a platinum trophy.
So I had heard things about this game quite a bit at the end of 2014 so I thought I would give it a shot. This is one game that I am kind of on the fence about. On one hand I loved the ideas, setting, and story. On the other hand I felt like I died a lot of times fighting with the controls. I would say if you get this one for cheap or in a bundle give it a shot.
This is the first time I have ever finished the original double dragon despite playing it many times as a kid. I played through the arcade version of this on the Double Dragon Trilogy that recently released on Steam. I still found the game really fun, much better than I expected actually.
I was looking for some old educational DOS games to put on the computers at work for the kids to play when I remembered playing these Super Solvers games as a kid. I ended up playing through this entire game while testing it out to make sure it worked. The game is pretty simple, but the nostalgia alone had me play it until the end.
Another game I randomly picked from my Steam library. This one is a 3D platformer, but a very basic one. The game was made by a single person, but unfortunately many times throughout the game it shows. The art style and relaxing nature of it is great, but this game has one of the worst cameras in a 3D game.
What a strange experience this "game" was. I knew absolutely nothing about this before going in, just picked a random game from my Steam library. I don't understand anything that happened in this game, and I am not even sure how much of a game this is. It is more of an experience than anything else, and one that I would easily pass up if I knew what it was going in.
This is another game that I had beaten in the past but played through again. I had finished this one when it was first released on the Xbox 360, but this time I decided to give the Steam version a go. This game got some SERIOUS flack when it came out, and much of it was deserved. However there is something about this game I really dig. It is pretty short, but I actually liked the multiplayer a whole lot. Not many people still play the game online, but there still seems to be a small community for it.
What got me to play through the entirety of this game, let alone the SNES version? Jeff mentioning http://retroachievements.org in the Bombcast. Now I am addicted to getting achievements in retro games, enough so that I slogged through this thoroughly awful game.
