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What games have you completed? 2013 Edition

  • 06-02-2013 1:47pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭


    Inspired by Josey Wales thread Beat a game from your backlog this February, it looks like a lot more people are tackling their massive backlogs of games so here we have a 2013 edition of the What games have you completed? thread. This can just be used for keeping track of those finished as well as giving your view on the completed product.

    So far this year I've completed (i've also linked to the superthreads if any for those game):

    [PS3] God of War trilogy - Finished first 2 before on the PS2 but wanted to play through them again in preperation for the 3rd game (and the 4th later this year).
    [PS3]The Walking Dead - loved it and would highly recommend it to anyone!
    [PS3] Far Cry 3 - Better then most modern FPS with on OK story. Enjoyed the first half of the game more then second.


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  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 18,115 ✭✭✭✭ShiverinEskimo


    Finished Bordlerlands 2 (Main Quest) there on Monday. 92 hours it took me. Value for money right there.

    The humour in the main story is some of the best I've seen. Has to go down as one of the best darkly comic games there is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,496 ✭✭✭quarryman


    Nothing. I have the worst case of magpie syndrome ever.

    I really ploughed through a lot of Far Cry but seem to be struggling to see out the last 7-8 missions. I got distracted by Dragon's Dogma (which i've now shelved, poor game IMO, I really wanted to like it) and then went playing some XBLA stuff, Spelunky (what is the attraction to this? controls are awful), and then grabbed the latest DLC in Trials will keep me occupied for a while.

    Now I'm onto Halo 4 (which i have a good chance of finishing) and really need to get back onto Dishonored.

    I don't know what I don't finish any games, I just lose interest and see something shinier.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,997 ✭✭✭Mr.Saturn


    Games Finished 2013:

    1. Psychonauts (PS2)
    2. The Cave (PS3)

    I think that might be it for a couple weeks. I've recently rekindled my love for Mario Kart: Double Dash, so I'll be replaying that a lot for a while.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,896 ✭✭✭penev10


    X-Com bit the dust last week (will be coming back for another playthrough at some stage I reckon) and I'm on to HALO 4 now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    Tomba down on PS Vita. Other than that i have been dipping my toe in numerous games started but not finished.

    Current goals is :

    1. Complete Halo 4 again (xbox);
    2. Complete Pokemon Black(GB);
    3. Replay Skyrim as arcane assassin (PC), play dawnguard, heartfire and dragonborn for first time;
    4. Finish Far Cry 3 (PC);
    5. Finish Tomba 2 and Castlevania (PS Vita);

    I may have bit of more than i can chew but the above is current focus.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,283 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    The Unfinished Swan - PS3
    Hotline Miami - PC
    Motorstorm Apocalypse - PS3
    Knytt Underground - PS3
    Red Faction Guerrilla - PC

    Just about finished Mark of the Ninja on PC too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭deathrider


    Just about to hit the last world in Super Princess Peach. If I get an hour to spare tonight, I should get it finished. Only game I've actually finished so far is Doom 3. Should have my review sorted for that soon. Once again, Pokémon is eating up all of my time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Halo 4 which was a massive let down for me.

    I played through it on Heroic and was very disappointed with the whole experience, there's nothing that's changed in it as a game since Halo 1. They even managed to reset the whole ending of Halo 3 and bring the Covenant back in as enemies. I mean it's just lazy to return to shooting the same Grunts, Brutes and Jackals and still trying to convince people that you're trying to move the franchise forward.

    There was no personality to the enemies they did bring in, they felt like characterless robots and even the Cortana stuff felt like they just went back to the Flood controlled Cortana plotline from Halo 3. Worst of all though was the terrible story telling and the fact that they decided to hide anything interesting they had to tell away in Halo Waypoint. I only checked that stuff out after finishing the game as I thought it might spoil stuff, only to find that they gutted the game's main story and squirreled it away in a daft app for God knows what reason.

    Maybe if I had known who the Didact or the Librarian were during the game, I might have cared about their actions and motivations, as it was they were two strange looking aliens from a dead race doing things that made little sense.

    Luckily the multi-player remains great but as a single player experience, it only ranks ahead of Halo 2 and way behind Halo 3 and Reach.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    Halo 4 which was a massive let down for me.

    I played through it on Heroic and was very disappointed with the whole experience, there's nothing that's changed in it as a game since Halo 1. They even managed to reset the whole ending of Halo 3 and bring the Covenant back in as enemies. I mean it's just lazy to return to shooting the same Grunts, Brutes and Jackals and still trying to convince people that you're trying to move the franchise forward.

    There was no personality to the enemies they did bring in, they felt like characterless robots and even the Cortana stuff felt like they just went back to the Flood controlled Cortana plotline from Halo 3. Worst of all though was the terrible story telling and the fact that they decided to hide anything interesting they had to tell away in Halo Waypoint. I only checked that stuff out after finishing the game as I thought it might spoil stuff, only to find that they gutted the game's main story and squirreled it away in a daft app for God knows what reason.

    Maybe if I had known who the Didact or the Librarian were during the game, I might have cared about their actions and motivations, as it was they were two strange looking aliens from a dead race doing things that made little sense.

    Luckily the multi-player remains great but as a single player experience, it only ranks ahead of Halo 2 and way behind Halo 3 and Reach.

    Plagiarizing your post from the halo forum :), i agree with allot of what you say on reflection but when i played it through i loved it. Call a guilty pleasure or whatever but i really like the master chief.

    I didnt like the fact that allot of the story was on waypoint though and i really had to do research into what went on after the fact but as i like the whole series i enjoyed it but would have prepared for more to be in game.

    I know they arent going to have everything in the game as they need to fill 3 games with content but they could have at least explained why del rio was being an ass.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,406 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Not a lot this year so far.

    Farcry 2: Started off great but got old halfway through. Every mission was a variation on the last, could have done with more variety.

    Dark Messiah Might and Magic: This was a hell of a lot more fun than I thought it would be. Story was thrash but it didn't matter when the combat was so good. Great use of physics, it never got tiring kicking people into chasms, spikes, fires etc.

    Phantasy Star 4: An absolute class act. By far the best RPG on the Megadrive and even gives Chrono Trigger a run for it's money. Great characters, great story, well paced and some of the best pixel art I've seen. There's tonnes of little nods to the previous games in the series if you have kept with it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Dark Messiah Might and Magic: This was a hell of a lot more fun than I thought it would be. Story was thrash but it didn't matter when the combat was so good. Great use of physics, it never got tiring kicking people into chasms, spikes, fires etc.

    it always baffled me in the wake of this game that a lot of other fantasy games continued to use their bogey fighting systems including Skyrim


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,496 ✭✭✭quarryman


    Calhoun wrote: »
    1. Complete Halo 4 again (xbox);

    What difficulty did you finish it on and what are you replaying it on?

    I've solo'd all the other titles on Legendary, was wondering what its like compared to the previous games...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    quarryman wrote: »
    What difficulty did you finish it on and what are you replaying it on?

    I've solo'd all the other titles on Legendary, was wondering what its like compared to the previous games...

    Played it on normal as i just wanted to get allot of the story elements but didnt want want it to be to easy. Playing it on hard mode now and if i finish it again ill do legendary ( get some replay value that way).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,324 ✭✭✭chrislad


    Played: Assassins Creed 3
    Completed: Assassins Creed 3
    Currently Playing: Hitman: Absolution

    I am limiting myself to one game at a time. Simple as that. I don't have time for more than one anyways, and I have most of the last 9 months worth of releases to get through in any case.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,909 ✭✭✭sarumite


    I finished Batman Arkham city. By finished, I completed the main quest-line. I haven't done all the side quests.

    I also finished Borderlands 2. Same deal, completed the main quest-line (and most of the side quests) but there are still a few to do.


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 18,115 ✭✭✭✭ShiverinEskimo


    quarryman wrote: »
    I've solo'd all the other titles on Legendary, was wondering what its like compared to the previous games...

    I found it the hardest yet. The forerunners are a bastard.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,496 ✭✭✭quarryman


    I found it the hardest yet. The forerunners are a bastard.

    Good to know. I'll play through it on Normal first then which should give me knowledge of what sections are tricky by the time I get around to legendary.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,730 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Mortal Kombat (story mode. Finished it when it first came out but got it again from PS+ so replayed it)
    DmC: Devil May Cry
    The Walking Dead
    Lego Batman 2

    Played some Hitman Absolution but don't like it. Other than that, I've finished the new DLC for Borderlands 2 and am currently replaying it as a new class so that's taking up most of my gaming time.


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 18,115 ✭✭✭✭ShiverinEskimo


    Defo go with Heroic for the first play-through. Nice balance between challenge/flow.

    Legendary definately steps it up a notch though.


  • Moderators Posts: 5,580 ✭✭✭Azza


    Borderlands 2 is all for me this year.

    Good game when playing with friends.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,439 ✭✭✭Josey Wales


    So far this year I have completed:

    Syndicate [PS3]
    Sleeping Dogs [360]
    Max Payne 3 [PS3]

    Of those Sleeping Dogs was by far the best.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shiminay


    So far this year I've finished Far Cry 3 and Max Payne 3 and am about half way through Assassins Creed 3 atm.

    Borderlands 2, FTL and Walking Dead are getting play time too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,431 ✭✭✭ziggyman17


    trying to finish dark souls, have put 80 hours into it.. but Ive hit a brick wall, game becoming a pain... its so frustrating, but I can't put it down.. that boss duo are still doing my head in and idiots invading my game and instead of helping me, try to kill me..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,381 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    So far:

    The Walking Dead - easily see why it won so many awards!
    Limbo - thank you PSN, very good game with great atmosphere
    God of War 2 & 3 - had them all finished already, and had just finished 1 about a month before xmas. Still great games.

    Should have finished Dishonored by now, and i'm fairly sure i'm on the last mission, but just can't get the motivation to finish it. Was disappointed by it.

    And now that i'm up and running on my shiney new pc, i'm sure i'll have a large catalogue of games to finish this year!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭ronkmonster


    Assassin's Creed 3
    Syndicate
    Medal of Honor: Allied Assault - Breakthrough
    Blackwell Bundle
    Transformers: War for Cybertron
    Gemini Rue
    The Simpsons Hit and Run
    Iron Brigade
    To The Moon

    All of PC so far and trying to clear some older stuff too eg. MOH and Simpsons.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,932 ✭✭✭YouSavedMyLife


    Darksiders - PC
    Deadlight - PC

    Although i finished them in 2013 i started them both in 2012. Working on Bioshock 2 atm in between games of LoL, Path of Exile and Smite

    I also finished Path of Exile on normal hardcore yesterday if that counts :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 866 ✭✭✭LuckyFinigan


    Finished Bulletstorm and Dishonored, working on Vanquish at the moment.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,406 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    So I just beat Mass Effect 3 and I have to ask, what the hell was the backlash over the ending all about? It wasn't amazing now but then again it wasn't Halo 2 bad either. I think the people that confused Mass Effect the generic space opera with an Isaac Asimov sci-fi masterpiece were expecting a bit more than they were ever going to get.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,932 ✭✭✭YouSavedMyLife


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    So I just beat Mass Effect 3 and I have to ask, what the hell was the backlash over the ending all about? It wasn't amazing now but then again it wasn't Halo 2 bad either. I think the people that confused Mass Effect the generic space opera with an Isaac Asimov sci-fi masterpiece were expecting a bit more than they were ever going to get.

    The ending wasn't bad no. But the fact that from the first game all your decisions have an impact on the second and third game and for the ending of ME3 its just like Bioware said "**** everything you did, here are 3 choices, go" People are right to have expected more...


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,406 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Other than a change of dialogue here and there Is still found if anyone died there was always someone there to stand in and you were still funneled into all the same missions. There really wasn't much choice in the games at all.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭elekid


    So far this year I've finished:

    Professor Layton and the Mask of Miracles
    Paper Mario: Sticker Star
    To The Moon
    Fez
    Deus Ex: Human Revolution
    Mighty Switch Force HD Edition

    I played the bulk of the first 2 in 2012 though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,439 ✭✭✭Josey Wales


    Just updating my listed of completed games this year.

    Syndicate [PS3]
    Sleeping Dogs [360]
    Max Payne 3 [PS3]
    Spec Ops: The Line [360]

    - Added -
    inFAMOUS 2


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


    Battlefield Bad Company & Bad Company 2
    Tales of Graces F
    Ni No Kuni
    Mass Effect 3
    The Walking Dead
    Skyrim

    Think that's it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,785 ✭✭✭eddhorse


    Call of Duty Black Ops II completed now onto Sleeping Dogs, not difficult gaming but good fun so far !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,726 ✭✭✭qwertz


    I have finished Dishonored and enjoyed it more than most games I tried over the past couple of years.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


    qwertz wrote: »
    I have finished Dishonored and enjoyed it more than most games I tried over the past couple of years.
    See, this is one of the games on my list I haven't even gotten around to buying yet. I'm looking forward to playing it, but like Borderlands 2, it wouldn't make as much sense to buy now as I would like.

    I can't get my 360 online, which means I can't get the DLC, or even play multiplayer (in the case of Borderlands 2) so buying either right now just doesn't make sense to me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,160 ✭✭✭tok9


    I'm pretty sure I'm after finishing a good few games this year.

    PS3:

    GTA: TBOGT
    Skyrim (Main Quest and I'm content i'm done with it :) )
    Dead Island
    Borderlands 2

    Vita:

    Uncharted GA
    Gravity Rush
    Mortal Kombat
    Mutant Blobs Attack
    Little Big Planet

    Wii:

    Zelda Skyward Sword
    Zelda Ocarina of Time

    There may be more for the PS3 but thats all I can think of now anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,923 ✭✭✭kearneybobs


    qwertz wrote: »
    I have finished Dishonored and enjoyed it more than most games I tried over the past couple of years.
    Finished it too the other day. The gameplay was quite satisfying but I dont think I would be going back to it anytime soon.

    Next on my list to finish are System shock 2, replaying Deadspace for the umpteenth time and Mark of the Ninja.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,112 ✭✭✭Dacelonid


    Walking Dead
    Straight after I finished it, I put it straight into the "Will not play again" category. But I think that was more to do with the trauma of the ending, because on reflection I will play it again. Just not any time soon

    Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy
    Won't be playing it again. Didn't enjoy it at all

    World of Goo
    Was hanging around unfinished for a long time, so eventually managed to "finish" it

    Machinarium
    Another one that was hanging around unfinished for a while. Although if I had've known how close I was to the end, I might have finished it ages ago.

    Spec ops: The Line
    Decent and fun shooter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 271 ✭✭Gi joe!


    Finished Max Payne 3, Halo 4 and Dishonored.

    Loved Max Payne, it had its issues with difficulty and unskippable cutscenes but the whole noir atmosphere and setting was well realised. The gunplay was a lot of fun too.

    Pretty meh about Halo, as a long time fan I'm beginning to think its losing it lustre and going the way of Call of Duty, both online and off. Think it needs some drastic changes if I'm to buy the next one.

    Really enjoyed Dishonored, again loved the setting but felt it could have been fleshed outa bit more. Reading books and listening to repetitive monologue is getting old in these types of games. Regardless think the industry needs more single player focused experiences like this.

    Looking forward to Starcraft 2 next month, maybe getting Dead Space 3 and finally giving Shogun 2 a chance(last one seems unlikely!).


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,439 ✭✭✭Josey Wales


    Just updating my listed of completed games this year.

    Syndicate [PS3]
    Sleeping Dogs [360]
    Max Payne 3 [PS3]
    Spec Ops: The Line [360]
    inFAMOUS 2 [PS3]

    -- Adding --
    Vanquish [PS3]
    Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One [PS3]


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 171 ✭✭civilnug


    Finished:
    Dishonored
    The Walking Dead
    Spec Ops: The Line
    Far Cry 3
    Torchlight II

    I loved Spec Ops, one of the first games I went straight back into to play the final mission to see how the ending changes. Excellent story with decent gameplay.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 124 ✭✭tyrion1234


    Just finished Ni No Kuni. Now onto Assassins Creed 3


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,730 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Penn wrote: »
    Mortal Kombat (story mode. Finished it when it first came out but got it again from PS+ so replayed it)
    DmC: Devil May Cry
    The Walking Dead
    Lego Batman 2

    Played some Hitman Absolution but don't like it. Other than that, I've finished the new DLC for Borderlands 2 and am currently replaying it as a new class so that's taking up most of my gaming time.

    Can add:
    Sleeping Dogs
    Urban Trials Freestyle
    Metal Gear Rising


  • Moderators Posts: 5,580 ✭✭✭Azza


    This year

    DmC and the DLC Vergils Downfall.
    Mass Effect 3 DLC Citadel
    Crysis 3

    Also have gone through Borderlands 2 twice. Waiting for sale on the season pass before going back to it.

    Was half way through Dead Space 3 in co-op when my partner abandoned me. Either he's dead or Guilds Wars 2 got him. Pretty much the same thing.

    Currently playing SC2 HOTS.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,167 ✭✭✭Notorious


    So far this year I've finished Borderlands 2 (including the Capt. Scarlett and Mr. Torgue's DLC) and GTA: The Ballad of Gay Tony. Borderlands 2 was excellent and I'll be going back to the Big Game Hunt DLC with some friends. The Ballad of Gay Tony was by far my favorite add-on for GTA. I never finished the standalone game, mainly because the story or characters didn't inspire me to. TBoGT was what I wanted from a GTA game; wild and fun with some wacky characters thrown into the mix (though there were way too many boat and helicopter missions).

    I've been doing a lot of jumping through different games in the last few weeks. I think that because I've so little time to game at the moment, I just keep changing it up. I picked up Metal Gear Rising on Monday, so I've promised myself that I'd stick to it until I've finished it. I've also put some time into MGS3 on the 3DS, Ni No Kuni and Dishonored. All of them are great games and I've really given myself a dilemma as to which to get stuck into next.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,110 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Just amnesia so far this year, was great.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭balkieb2002


    So far this year I've completed (i've also linked to the superthreads if any for those game):

    God of War trilogy - Finished first 2 before on the PS2 but wanted to play through them again in preperation for the 3rd game (and the 4th later this year).
    The Walking Dead - loved it and would highly recommend it to anyone!
    Far Cry 3 - Better then most modern FPS with on OK story. Enjoyed the first half of the game more then second.

    Can add to above:

    Read Dead Redemption
    Uncharted 3


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,602 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    So far in 2013 -

    Phantasy Star IV
    Earthbound
    Working on Mother 3 (Earthbound 2) at the moment.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,447 ✭✭✭richymcdermott


    Journey - Masterpiece
    Nights into dreams
    xenoblade
    Gravity rush


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