Beat a game from your backlog this February: March Edition

Grimebox

The previous thread was a bit of fun so why not another!

So most if not all of us have a backlog of games. Why not try and get through a few of them. This month pick a game and beat it. Tell us what game you've chosen and a reason if you like. Then report back with any progress. At least feel a sense of accomplishment from your downtime.


I just bought Dark Souls so that's my goal. I hear nothing but good things.

Come the 12th Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm will be released so I'll be flying through that single player without a problem

deathrider

I'm jamming on a bit of GTA: Chinatown Wars, so hoping to beat that. Also, Red Dead Redemption is staring at me from the collection at the moment. If that happens to find it's way into my Xbox, that'll be on my Beat It list too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRdxUFDoQe0

Josey Wales

The first game from my backlog that I have started this month is Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One.

_Godot_

Final Fantasy IX from the PSN. Currently on the third disc, level grinding by killing dragons with level 5 death.

Chris_Heilong

Dark Souls (PC)

tyrion1234

Dead Space 2. its about time I finally play through it.

Stylesclash07

my goal is skyrim only got it lately so im going to do it hahah

sarumite

tyrion1234 wrote: »

Dead Space 2. its about time I finally play through it.

That is my game for March Also

DeSelby83

I'm planning on finishing borderlands for march, dont have a huge amount of time due or other commitments but loving it and can't wait to crack in borderlands 2. Iv just finished the part with kromm, anyone any idea how far I am into it or how much is left in terms of main quest, have all the dlc too

K.O.Kiki

Didn't finish Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

Not sure if I should continue or just give up & switch to Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath.

Retr0gamer

Might as well say Chrono Trigger since I'm near the end although I do want to finish off Riviera and Final Fantasy so I can change my Vita account to US.

Grimebox

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Might as well say Chrono Trigger since I'm near the end although I do want to finish off Riviera and Final Fantasy so I can change my Vita account to US.

You've never finished Chrono Trigger :eek: For shame

Retr0gamer

Grimebox wrote: »

You've never finished Chrono Trigger :eek: For shame

Oh I have, just thought the DS version the perfect excuse to play it again

bluestripe93

So many games to play, I'm gonna try finish The Walking Dead and Spec Ops The Line but I might just end up playing Tomb Raider

balkieb2002

As I mentioned in the other thread I finished RDR only today so while it was meant for Feb, it now belong to March.
Next on my list is to finish Catherine (another failed Feb attempt) and start on Uncharted 3.

tim3000

Finished Fallout 3 ..after getting it for Christmas in 2008 ha

Harps

Playing through Super Mario 3 for the first time in about 15 years on the Xperia Play, on World 4 so hoping to get that done before to long. Also playing Chrono Trigger where I've just landed in 600 AD after finishing up in the apocalyptic future, such a massive game so doubt I'll get the whole thing finished but I'm trying to get stuck into it

Far Cry 3 still going on the xbox since Christmas, slowly grinding my way through it so might make an effort to finally get it finished so I can get on to Mass Effect 3

YouSavedMyLife

Awww do i have toooooo?

Gunmonkey

Think I might try finish Demon Souls, well that was kinda easy, just stood behind Old King Allant and poisoned him repeatedly for 15 minutes. I would feel cheap for doing it that way....but I am a cheap, petty individual .

Also almost finished the 3rd chapter of The Walking Dead so may polish that off sometime too. Doesnt help I just bought Far Cry 3 and even after 30 minutes can see its good, crafting/exploration/side quests....oh yes

Amirani

I'm gonna do Spec Ops: The Line this month. Will be difficult because I'll still be playing a good bit of Civ and FM.

Banjo

Zelda twilight princess has been sitting idle for 4 years with 1 dungeon to go. I'm going to try and polish it off before my wiiu and Darksiders 2 arrive

How many chronotrigger endings constitute finishing it?

Grimebox

I don't know if I can do Dark Souls. Spent half the morning playing at I'm still near the very start and its driving me absolutely insane. Its so damn hard

CrabieCrawford

Grimebox wrote: »

I don't know if I can do Dark Souls. Spent half the morning playing at I'm still near the very start and its driving me absolutely insane. Its so damn hard

I'm exactly the same, started last night and have been getting my ass handed to me with very little progress. There definitely no hand holding, like a baptism of fire from the start

Grimebox

CrabieCrawford wrote: »

I'm exactly the same, started last night and have been getting my ass handed to me with very little progress. There definitely no hand holding, like a baptism of fire from the start

I've died around 30 times in the same stretch. I think I might just pack it in to be honest. I'm not enjoying it

Falthyron

Gonna try for the following:

Bioshock 1 (I know, I know... :P)
The Cave
Bastion
Sniper Elite V2
L.A. Noire

and if I have some time left over; Company of Heroes expansion packs.

ShadowHearth

It will be hard to beat any game from backlog for me this month. SC2 expansion is coming and Bioshock.

Though i am still trying to beat Batman. It says i am 37% in so far.

Problem is i am dipping my toe in to so many free to play games and diablo 3, i dont get a chance to finish anything lately!

ShadowHearth

Well, I am trying to join you lads. Playing dead space 2 for the last hour. I know it is not dead space 1, but it still damn good game. It has the sence of horror survival in its core. I am playing in survivalist, so few hits and I am dead meat, so far I had to be very carefull with my supplies and credits. Happy days!

ShadowHearth

Just finished Dead space 2. Freaking Loved it.


dead space 1+2 are A must play for anyone who is in to horror survival.

Such a shame dead space 3 had to be like this :mad:

entropi

Metro 2033 or Titan Quest it'll be this month.

ShadowHearth

Master of Nothing wrote: »

Metro 2033 or Titan Quest it'll be this month.

Metro!!! Titan quest going to be a huge time sink for months.

Kirby

Far Cry 3 although I'm not too confident. Been playing it in spurts since it came out and people keep mentioning "a second island" which I haven't seen yet so I'm probably less than halfway through. However I've unlocked most of the perks so I dunno. At the moment I'm helping Buck with a load of missions. Have like 5 pieces of compass now.

The Walking Dead which I definitely will finish. On to Episode 4 now.

Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm. coming out in a week or so but I'm sure i'll play it do death so it won't stay on the backlog list for long.

nesf

5 years ago I bought a game, I fell in love with it and played it obsessively, I never ventured onto Multiplayer because I had crap and unstable internet back then but I invested many hours into single player games against the AI. My boy was just barely a toddler back then.

Fast forward to 2013 and for various reasons I've not been playing this game or its expansions, but because of my love of the original I've been buying the expansions anyway with the view that the time will come and I'll be want to play them.

My son is now six, obsessed with war, strategy and so on and was begging me to play a complicated game so he could watch me play. I considered Shogun Total War 2 (he loves the turn based iPad spin-off version of this game) and Civ V (he plays Civ Rev on the iPad somehow despite not being able to read properly yet) but I thought back remembered this game from so long ago and the expansions that have lain dormant in my Steam account for so long and tried the game out for him and he loved it and has spent the last two days bugging me with questions about the strategies involved in space combat (he's gotten his head around the whole rock-paper-scissors aspect of RTS games from playing Shogun Total War Battles on the iPad).


So, the goal for the month (somehow because Sim City is coming out and I finally got off my ass and ordered XCOM) is to beat the AI in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion at Hard or better. Preferably better since I used to beat Hard quite easily in the original. There's no single player campaign or anything like that, just the equivalent of "Skirmish vs AI" from traditional RTS games. It's a RTS/4x hybrid which makes it rather interesting. The AI has apparently been improved, which is nice. The game is also a good deal more complicated. So, a lot of playing Sins whilst giving a running commentary and fielding questions for my son for the next while.

deathrider

Borrowed Need For Speed: The Run last night. Finished it today. It wasn't on my To Beat list, but I'm adding it in now anyways :P

sweetie

Currently looking to finish Gears of War 3, Portal 2 and Black ops 1. The latter two are on the gamestop trade list so will try to get through them this week and then I have the Gears 3 dlc to play too. And by that stage I'll have Tomb raider and dead space 3 to start.

folan

Feb - finished Hitman
March - started Batman: AC.

TPD

Never got round to starting Stalker: Call of Pripyat last month, as the Misery mod wasn't working. I'll try again when version 2 of that is released.

I started playing Morrowind again lately, so I'll finish the main quest and a few guilds in that before moving on.

abbir

I'm going to try to finally finish Crysis. I'm about half way through I think. Then hopefully Half Life Episode 2. The problem is Tomb Raider and Starcraft Heart of the Swarm will be arriving soon....

D4RK ONION

Started MGR:R last month and poor old Borderlands 2 has fallen by the wayside so I guess I'll try to get back to that!

Monty - the one and only

back to dungeon defenders for me it seems... need to finish strike suit zero aswell, havent gotten round to the last level yet

triseke

Finished "The Walking Dead" yesterday. Going to attempt Assassin's Creed this month

elekid

I'm currently playing Pandora's Tower on the Wii. I've done the first 9 towers and I'm really enjoying it - the chain is a fun weapon to play with. It seems fairly short so I expect to have it finished well before the end of March.

I'll be starting Radiant Historia after that, which I'm less sure about finishing on time.

martineatworld

elekid wrote: »

I'm currently playing Pandora's Tower on the Wii. I've done the first 9 towers and I'm really enjoying it - the chain is a fun weapon to play with. It seems fairly short so I expect to have it finished well before the end of March.

I'll be starting Radiant Historia after that, which I'm less sure about finishing on time.

Currently halfway through Radiant Historia, I'm finding it very enjoyable! One of the best JRPG's I've played in years, although I haven't got my hands on Ni no Kuni yet.

Back on topic, my aim for the month is to finish Radiant Historia. Maybe try and start DQ IX once I'm finished.

entropi

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Metro!!! Titan quest going to be a huge time sink for months.

Looks like this wins! Stuck a few hours into it tonight, it's quite a decent game. Not creepy, but interesting!

Dravokivich

Finally started Rage last night. Odd, there are times when it looks amazing and then really really fuzzy. Also, how many times do you need to shoot a guy in the head to take'em down?

sweetie

Dravokivich wrote: »

Finally started Rage last night. Odd, there are times when it looks amazing and then really really fuzzy. Also, how many times do you need to shoot a guy in the head to take'em down?

PC or console? Never noticed on the 360. I finished it last week and really enjoyed it. Got the dlc and its great value for 400 points and has more of an 'end boss' than the main story, altho that didnt annoy me as much as some people.

Dravokivich

Playing it on the PC.

miser44

Feb: Completed Far Cry 3
March: Just completed Uncharted there, didnt have left of the game to do.

Hopefully start and complete Batman Arkham Asylum and them move onto
Batman Arkham City, Should be a fun month

abbir

I got Crysis done last night. Waiting for Tomb Raider to arrive and I'll just play that before Starcraft. Maybe I'll give Metal Gear Solid Rising a go while I'm waiting.

Falthyron

Falthyron wrote: »

Gonna try for the following:

Bioshock 1 (I know, I know... :P)
The Cave
Bastion
Sniper Elite V2
L.A. Noire

and if I have some time left over; Company of Heroes expansion packs.

Sniper Elite V2 finished. Enjoyable enough, but generally a write off in everything bar the x-ray kill cam. Very satisfying when you get a great shot from 300m+

About half way through Bastion, so will probably finish that next and then The Cave.

BrianG23

Dead Space. Did not find it scary first time around so stopped playing

YouSavedMyLife

Playing Torchlight 2 again, got to level 15 or so when it was first released but the game just didn't stick. Hit level 8 on a new character today and i'm already bored of it

God of War is out this month about the 15th so i reckon i will finish that by the end of the month. I wish i didn't have money so i could buy a game every 6 months and play the hell out of it instead of jumping back and forth between 500 million games :mad:

First world problems...