Beat a game from your backlog this January: February edition

Retr0gamer · 09-02-2014 2:38pm #1

I had a decent January. The tally is:

Gone Home
Dragons Crown
Tomb Raider
Rise of the Triad 2013
Rogue Legacy

I started this month off well. Put Shin Megami Tensei 4 to rest, beating new game plus with the neutral ending and all the dlc bosses. I also finished Dishonored last night but still have the dlc to play through.

Gummy Panda · 09-02-2014 3:58pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I had a decent January. The tally is:

Gone Home
Dragons Crown
Tomb Raider
Rise of the Triad 2013
Rogue Legacy

I started this month off well. Put Shin Megami Tensei 4 to rest, beating new game plus with the neutral ending and all the dlc bosses. I also finished Dishonored last night but still have the dlc to play through.

Try Volgarr the Viking

Retr0gamer · 09-02-2014 4:19pm

Bought it on gog, heard it's pretty damn good.

calex71 · 09-02-2014 4:35pm

AC:4 Black Flag enjoyed it but too many tail and eaves drop missions ruined it somewhat

The Maw - had it for ages never bothered with it, didn't think it was great.

Bastion - another from the back catalogue, was lost on me , didn't see what the fuss was about. Felt the story was wasted on the game , might have made a solid plot for a jRPG

Lococycle - never buying another twistedpixel title after this one :mad:

Heavy Fire : Shattered Spear ...... no comment

Also went back to finish The Saboteur, this really was a rough diamond, really enjoyed it.

Edit: Not surprised I forgot it , it was that bad, but I also want back and finished Two Worlds

Mal-Adjusted · 09-02-2014 4:39pm

Finished Transformers: Fall of Cybertron yesterday. In some ways it was a marked improvement over WFC, in others, it seemed a step back. First of all the bad, You loose the three member team & consequently the option of picking your character. The story also doesn't flow terribly well and comes off as very disjointed. The stealth section with Cliffjumper was also out of place.

Anyway, enough bitching! the game-play was tight and great fun. a wide variety of characters and special abilities and a far more varied landscape than in WFC.

The cliff-hanger ending also promises us the transformers game far closer to G1 with the action presumably taking place on Earth

. Rampant fan service was also a nice touch. All things considered, very pleased.

richymcdermott · 09-02-2014 4:43pm

Bioshock infinite
Tomb raider
Wind waker hd
Metal gear solid Rising revengence
Fire emblem awakening

Retr0gamer · 09-02-2014 4:51pm

calex71 wrote: »

The Maw - had it for ages never bothered with it, didn't think it was great

Lococycle - never buying another twistedpixel title after this one :mad:

Never understood why poeple lie Twisted Pixel's games. I find tem really dull and the 'humour' about as funny as open heart surgery. When you are trying to hard to be funny it doesn't work and these guys have made an art out of it and yet they still haven't made a good game.

sarumite · 09-02-2014 4:54pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I had a decent January. The tally is:

Gone Home
Dragons Crown
Tomb Raider
Rise of the Triad 2013
Rogue Legacy

I started this month off well. Put Shin Megami Tensei 4 to rest, beating new game plus with the neutral ending and all the dlc bosses. I also finished Dishonored last night but still have the dlc to play through.

How long did Rogue legacy take you. I am about 25 hours in and hitting the third boss now.

Retr0gamer · 09-02-2014 4:57pm

About 25 hours for me as well to beat it I think. Once you get over upgrading like crazy and actually go after the bosses you end up flying through the last few parts of the game.

calex71 · 09-02-2014 4:59pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Never understood why poeple lie Twisted Pixel's games. I find tem really dull and the 'humour' about as funny as open heart surgery. When you are trying to hard to be funny it doesn't work and these guys have made an art out of it and yet they still haven't made a good game.

That accurately sums up lococycle, it's the same joke over and over, and it's inter cut with these liveaction "tee hee hee" "we are so clever and funny" cut-scenes, I'd look some up on you tube to post but really I can't inflict them on the thread.

tailgunner · 09-02-2014 11:51pm

Lego City Undercover
Super Mario 3D World

Just finished ZombiU tonight. I wasn't overly optimistic about the slightly overweight Jake Smith: HR Manager's chances against the undead horde, but he took to bashing zombies with a cricket bat like a duck to water.

nesf · 10-02-2014 4:52am

calex71 wrote: »

That accurately sums up lococycle, it's the same joke over and over, and it's inter cut with these liveaction "tee hee hee" "we are so clever and funny" cut-scenes, I'd look some up on you tube to post but really I can't inflict them on the thread.

Just looked for a review... It doesn't even look bad enough to be enjoyable for bad it is, it just looks like really lazy shovelware sans the IP that'd make people pick it up.

rizzla · 12-02-2014 1:13am

Only twisted pixel game I enjoyed was Comic Jumper an boy that was very repetitive at times.

Mine so far;

World of Keflings
Magic The Gathering DOTP 2013
Uncharted: Golden Abyss
An a bunch of Windows Phone, Windows 8 games

Temptamperu · 14-02-2014 4:26pm

Just finished borderlands 1. I started it a few years ago but never got round to finishing it.

abbir · 17-02-2014 12:01am

Batman Arkham Origins finished now. I've mostly been playing Pokemon the last couple weeks so haven't had a chance to finish much.

Retr0gamer · 17-02-2014 12:54am

Finished the DLC for Dishonored so that's done now. The DLC was great. Think I'm getting near the end of Riviera, although I ****ed up getting the extra chapter for the PSP version. I won't be playing it again anyway so a normal ending will do fine.

pablomakaveli · 17-02-2014 1:25am

Finished Space Marine, first two episodes of The Wolf Among Us and the first episode of The Walking Dead Season 2.

tok9 · 17-02-2014 10:38am

Finished Mass Effect 3 yesterday (May have finished ME2 also... but I think that was January)

Overall I enjoyed it... I can see why there was a bit of talk regarding the ending although I'm surprised at the scale of it. Good games with an average ending.

Finished TLOU Left Behind dlc. Absolutely no surprise that I loved that and would recommend to anyone who enjoyed the main campaign.

Next up - I'm pretty confident I'll finish Outlast tonight or tomorrow.

Then onto Metro Last Light and Bulletstorm.

tok9 · 18-02-2014 11:50pm

That is Outlast done with.

Have to say I don't play horror games but it was enjoyable... funny streaming it to a few friends too.

pablomakaveli · 19-02-2014 12:18am

Finished The Novelist. Nice game. I voted for it when it was on Greenlight and i'm glad it got greenlit in the end. Lived up to the promise it showed when i voted for it.

Retr0gamer · 19-02-2014 1:23am

Finished Riviera: The Promised Land on PSP. Great little RPG that completely messes with what a RPG should be.

Potential-Monke · 19-02-2014 6:39am

Just finished Risen 2: Dark Waters thanks to a 14 hour session. I believe i'm going to start Batman: Arkham Asylum tomorrow (on PC, have already played and finished the first 2 games on console). With the intent of playing Arkham City and then purchasing Origins.

Taylor365 · 19-02-2014 1:37pm

Still haven't finished dead island.

Think its nearly 2 years....

MadYaker · 19-02-2014 3:59pm

I haven't finished it either. Is it just me or is it a sh!t game? I just can't get into it.

Temptamperu · 19-02-2014 4:05pm

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Just finished Risen 2: Dark Waters thanks to a 14 hour session. I believe i'm going to start Batman: Arkham Asylum tomorrow (on PC, have already played and finished the first 2 games on console). With the intent of playing Arkham City and then purchasing Origins.

You must have the patience of a saint :pac:

Retr0gamer · 19-02-2014 7:20pm

MadYaker wrote: »

I haven't finished it either. Is it just me or is it a sh!t game? I just can't get into it.

It's not just you

tok9 · 19-02-2014 9:18pm

It's a terrible game.. only reason I played it was because I played with 3 other friends and we were able to laugh at it.

calex71 · 20-02-2014 12:12am

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Just finished Risen 2: Dark Waters thanks to a 14 hour session. I believe i'm going to start Batman: Arkham Asylum tomorrow (on PC, have already played and finished the first 2 games on console). With the intent of playing Arkham City and then purchasing Origins.

Did they ever patch that section in Risen where if you opened the map on one of the later islands it crashed the game? I was playing on Xbox at the time and had a nightmare trying to get off that island without using the map :mad:

Manach · 20-02-2014 12:44am

Dishonored - Very much enjoyed it.

Potential-Monke · 20-02-2014 11:55am

Temptamperu wrote: »

You must have the patience of a saint :pac:

Ah i enjoyed it. Yeah, it has its flaws, and the main character is voices by someone made out of wood, but it was enjoyable.

calex71 wrote: »

Did they ever patch that section in Risen where if you opened the map on one of the later islands it crashed the game? I was playing on Xbox at the time and had a nightmare trying to get off that island without using the map :mad:

Played it on the PC and the only problem i had was one quest not completing (an early one, give meat to some dude, apparently if you didn't do it a certain way the dude you're supposed to give the meat to doesn't look for it).

MadYaker wrote: »

I haven't finished it either. Is it just me or is it a sh!t game? I just can't get into it.

I thought it was a great game, repetitive, but enjoyable. Same with Riptide.

murphyebass · 20-02-2014 12:12pm

tok9 wrote: »

Finished Mass Effect 3 yesterday (May have finished ME2 also... but I think that was January)

Overall I enjoyed it... I can see why there was a bit of talk regarding the ending although I'm surprised at the scale of it. Good games with an average ending.

Finished TLOU Left Behind dlc. Absolutely no surprise that I loved that and would recommend to anyone who enjoyed the main campaign.

Next up - I'm pretty confident I'll finish Outlast tonight or tomorrow.

Then onto Metro Last Light and Bulletstorm.

Out of curiosity how long did it take you roughly? I've heard its fairly epic length wise. I got it for the Wii U recently and am kinda putting it off until I have the time to put in to it.

Beat a game from your backlog this January: February edition

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