by bobafettjm
Here it is, year number seven of making a list of games I beat. Last year was a low year for sure at only 35 games beaten. I am really wanting to buckle down this year and get through more games in my backlog.
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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This was the remastered version on the PlayStation 4. I haven't played it in a really long time and it was a real treat to play through. The writing is still so great, so much so that I ended up playing through the entire thing in one sitting despite not setting out to do so.
I wasn't expecting a phone game to be the second game I finished, but here it is. What a weird game this one was. This is one of those games that appears to be one thing at the beginning and gets more crazy by the end.
I have no reasons as to why I actually spent the time to finish this game. I honestly believe it was mainly to do with this list and my need to finish more games this year. This game was so incredibly monotonous and boring, with each of the games stages being exactly the same besides adding more zombies. On top of all that it is glitchy and basically a bunch of Unity store assets. Do not bother buying or even playing this one.
I finally got to finish the game that was my number one game of last year. I had gotten all the way up to about halfway through the last mission before the year ended. What an incredible game. There is so much to do in this game and so many ways to go about doing it. I went through the whole game trying to finish each mission in some way I had previously known nothing about so I had to figure it out on my own, and it was a blast. I plan on putting a lot more hours into this one trying all the different ways to take out my targets, and I look forward to it for sure.
Played through this one many times over to write up the article on the wiki. I remembered this one from my childhood and then noticed there is next to no information for it online. I wanted to make the Giant Bomb page for it the place to go for information on the game.
What a game this was. I really wish I had been able to play this before GOTY 2016 because this would have been high on the list for sure. I finished this one on the Xbox One and did a no powers, no spots, and no kills run. It was so much more difficult to play this way, but SO much more rewarding. The game felt like a stealth puzzle game rather than a first person shooter. I will go back at some point to play it in high chaos, but I don't anticipate it will be nearly as fun. This play through took me about 15 hours.
This is the first of the Telltale games I have finished in quite a while. Since Wolf Among Us I think. Picked this one up for $10 in an Xbox Live sale on the Xbox One on a whim and decided to give it a go. I really ended up enjoying the story quite a lot. It seems like a lot of people thought it was too slow, but that didn't bother me. What did bother me however is that these games still perform so poorly. There was issues with framerate and weird graphical glitches throughout. I would stil recommend it to anyone looking for a good story based game or a Batman fan.
I finally got around to playing The Order. I remember wanting to play this before release, but after hearing a lot of negatives about it I figured I would just wait on it. Well, I got it for $5 during a flash sale and I am so glad I did. I actually really liked this game a lot. It looks real pretty, I thought the story was interesting, and the game play itself was good. The time it takes to beat it is certainly fairly low, but honestly that is something I am perfectly happy with. I really do hope there ends up being a sequel to this one.
I never got around to finishing, or really getting too terribly far in the original Ratchet & Clank. I was pretty in to the Jak & Daxter games at the time and for whatever reason just sort of skipped the Ratchet series. Well I recently purchased this remake/reboot/re-whatever this is and...WOW. I had a TON of fun playing through this game, so much so that I immediately started in on the challenge mode after. It looks great and plays great, if you have not played this yet and have a PS4, get it.
I knew absolutely nothing about this game before it popped up for download. I downloaded and proceeded to fill in the wiki credits page for it before even playing it. I THEN decided to dive in to the game. It seems like a decent, but VERY short beat 'em up. Didn't seem like anything too special to me, but it is free.
