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What Games Have You Completed? (2020 Edition)

Gamer Bhoy 89

New Year.
New Decade.
New List of Games to Beat.

For those who have been here you all know the drill.

For newbies, it's quite obvious: Pop in here to share what games you managed to beat or fully complete this year. Compile a list if you wish. You'll be surprised by how many games you can beat in 12 months.

I think Jedi Fallen Order is imminent for me, as I'm nearing the end of the main campaign. I'll probably be back soon to cement it.

Happy New Year and Happy Gaming!

My Final List of Games Beaten in 2019
GAME|PLATFORM
SPYRO THE DRAGON|PLAYSTATION 4
OUTRUN (SEGA AGES)|NINTENDO SWITCH
DETROIT: BECOME HUMAN|PLAYSTATION 4
RESIDENT EVIL 2|PLAYSTATION 4
SUPER MARIO BROS.|NES
FIFA 17|PLAYSTATION 4
FIFA 18|PLAYSTATION 4
CASTLEVANIA II: SIMON'S QUEST (REDACTED)|NES
CASTLEVANIA III: DRACULA'S CURSE|NES
FLASHBACK: 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION|PLAYSTATION 4
FIFA 19|PLAYSTATION 4
STREETS OF RAGE 2 (SEGA MD CLASSICS)|NINTENDO SWITCH
MORTAL KOMBAT 11|PLAYSTATION 4
THE MESSENGER|NINTENDO SWITCH
ORI AND THE BLIND FOREST|XBOX ONE
SHAKEDOWN: HAWAII|NINTENDO SWITCH
CELESTE|NINTENDO SWITCH
SPEC OPS: THE LINE|PC
TETRIS EFFECT|PLAYSTATION 4
GRAND THEFT AUTO: LIBERTY CITY STORIES|PLAYSTATION 2
GRAND THEFT AUTO: VICE CITY STORIES|PLAYSTATION 2
INSIDE|PLAYSTATION 4
LIMBO|NINTENDO SWITCH
A WAY OUT|PLAYSTATION 4
METAL GEAR SOLID 2: SONS OF LIBERTY|PLAYSTATION 3
GUNSTAR HEROES (SEGA MD CLASSICS)|NINTENDO SWITCH
METAL GEAR SOLID 3: SNAKE EATER|PLAYSTATION 3
METAL GEAR SOLID 4: GUNS OF THE PATRIOTS|PLAYSTATION 3
METAL GEAR SOLID|PLAYSTATION
METAL GEAR SOLID: THE TWIN SNAKES|NINTENDO GAMECUBE
DOOM (93)|PLAYSTATION 4
GOLDEN AXE|SEGA MEGA DRIVE
STREETS OF RAGE 2|SEGA MEGA DRIVE
GEARS OF WAR 4|PC
FORBIDDEN SIREN 2|PLAYSTATION 2
THE OUTER WORLDS|PLAYSTATION 4
DEATH STRANDING|PLAYSTATION 4
CONTRA: HARD CORPS|SEGA MEGA DRIVE

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Retr0gamer

GAME|PLATFORM

Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing|PC
Gato Roboto|PC
Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker|PS3
D|PC
Dragon's Lair|PC
Return of Egypt|PC
Shin Megami Tensei: Synchronicity Prologue|PC
Florence|PC
Shin Megami Tensei Persona 3: The Answer|PS2
The Last of Us: Left Behind|PS4
3D Dot Game Heroes|PS3
Black Mesa|PC
Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei: Megami Tensei |SNES
Rusty's Real Deal Baseball |3DS
Donkey Kong Country 2 (102%) |SNES
Picross: Lord of the Nazarick |Switch
Pharaoh Rebirth+|PC
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2|PC
Megaman V|NES
Halo 2|PC
Sonic Adventure 2|PC
Mini Metro|Android
Halo 3|PC
Vermintide 2|PC
Bangai-O Missile Fury|XBox 360
Professor Layton and the Curious Village HD|Android
Final Fantasy XIII-2|PC
The Last of Us Part 2|PS4
Ace Combat 7|PC
The Room|Android
Halo Combat Evolved - MCC|PC
Deus Ex|PC
Panzer Dragoon|PC
Ys: The Oath in Felghana|PC
Sonic the Hedgehog|Master System
Sonic the Hedgehog 2|Master System

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

This sequel surpasses the original game in many ways and in others it's a step backwards. It's a lot better looking and is a stunning 8-bit game. It also runs a lot better than the original game with very few instances of less slow down. Levels are bigger now and unlike the first game have the classic sonic design of multiple routes through levels. Level design is better.... mostly. There's a few levels that feel awfully rushed. The water stages are atrocious and the pipe maze in the penultimate stage can die in a fire. Bosses as well are a mixed bag with a seal boss that.... I don't even know how it's meant to pose a threat. And then there's the counterintuitive hang glider that put an end to my previous attempts to beat the game. Chaos Emeralds as well are less intuitively placed in the game. Again the American's hate this game but that's because it really does not suit the game gear's screen. It's much better on master system even if the music isn't as good.

I still prefer it over the original because you aren't battling against the lag most of the game.

Retr0gamer

GAME|PLATFORM

Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing|PC
Gato Roboto|PC
Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker|PS3
D|PC
Dragon's Lair|PC
Return of Egypt|PC
Shin Megami Tensei: Synchronicity Prologue|PC
Florence|PC
Shin Megami Tensei Persona 3: The Answer|PS2
The Last of Us: Left Behind|PS4
3D Dot Game Heroes|PS3
Black Mesa|PC
Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei: Megami Tensei |SNES
Rusty's Real Deal Baseball |3DS
Donkey Kong Country 2 (102%) |SNES
Picross: Lord of the Nazarick |Switch
Pharaoh Rebirth+|PC
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2|PC
Megaman V|NES
Halo 2|PC
Sonic Adventure 2|PC
Mini Metro|Android
Halo 3|PC
Vermintide 2|PC
Bangai-O Missile Fury|XBox 360
Professor Layton and the Curious Village HD|Android
Final Fantasy XIII-2|PC
The Last of Us Part 2|PS4
Ace Combat 7|PC
The Room|Android
Halo Combat Evolved - MCC|PC
Deus Ex|PC
Panzer Dragoon|PC
Ys: The Oath in Felghana|PC
Sonic the Hedgehog|Master System

Ys: The Oath in Felghana

This is an absolute gem. Falcom took the divisive Ys III and remade it as a typical Ys game and made one of the very best action RPGs. Combat is fast paced and challenging. The music is energetic and driving. The bosses are fantastic challenge. It's just brilliant and further cements Falcom as the best developer of action RPGs.

Sonic the Hedgehog

Not the megadrive game but the master system port which is very different. Completed with all the emeralds The Americans hate this game but mostly because they played the game gear version which reduces the screen size and makes it a lot harder. The master system version is a lot better. It's a lot slower paced than it's bigger brother. There's a few balancing issues, it's better to get less rings and go for the bonus stage than to go for the 100 ring extra life on a stage as you have a chance at way more lives. It looks gorgeous for a 8-bit game and plays well. It's challenging if a bit short. The Master System PSG sound isn't the best but Yuzo Koshiro makes the most of it with an excellent soundtrack. A great platformer even if it can't match the best platformers on the NES.

johnny_ultimate

Astro Bot Rescue Mission - Just going to throw something out there: Astro Bot Rescue Mission is the best non Nintendo 3D platformer. Not only that, it even rivals the best Nintendo has to offer. No game outside your Mario Galaxies or Odyssey feels so inventive and delightful on a consistent basis. So many ideas, matched by an eagerness to move you along quickly to the next delightful level. It’s something I savoured over like two years - rather than just rushing through it, it was something I was happy to pop into every six months to play through another world.

Of course, the VR is incredible. While Half Life Alyx has finally delivered on the idea of a full-length, immersive blockbuster VR game, Astro Bot seems modest in comparison but is ultimately no less impressive. The sense of scale - similar to that of Moss - is often jaw-dropping. Whether its big towering bosses or simply enjoying the playable dioramas back at base, it’s a magical thing to behold in action - and something you can’t really understand until that awkward headset is blocking you off from the outside world. There are lots of fun gimmicks and level / mechanical ideas that make smart use out of head tracking, motion aiming etc...

The annoyances are minor. The boss set pieces are great but slightly overlong when you have to retry them (they also awkwardly tack on a three-hits-and-you’re-out system). The limits of the PSVR headset can into play when you have to look behind you for something. But generally this is a joy to play, runs like a dream, and as said may be one of the most purely delightful games ever made. Hoping the PS5 non-vr sequel is a fraction as good. This, though, is a rare game that almost on its own justifies owning a piece of hardware (but thankfully your Tetris Effects and the recent Start Wars Squadrons are pretty damn good too).

kingbowser

Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Red Dead Redemption 1
Both on Xbox One X.

Gris on Switch

No time for much else but enjoyed the above immensely.

johnny_ultimate

Resident Evil 7 - a pretty good Resi game that only occasionally rises above pretty good. When it's being an environmental-based survival horror mood-piece it's at its best - there are a few eyebrow-raisers (why are there weird arcane puzzle contraptions in this particular environment?!) but par for the course for the series. Definitely has some pleasantly grubby and dank interiors to poke around in.

The main problem is the basic enemies you encounter are rather insipid blob monsters, and the game's back half has you facing off against them a lot. This is a particular problem in the final third where they mix up the locations to limited success. A lot of the weapons feel good, at least, but it's a game at its worst when facing off against these creatures (the bosses, on the other hand, are pretty standard fare but at least are suitably monstrous). That final stretch makes the game feel longer than its modest running time, although at least isn't quite as bad as Alien Isolation in that respect.

The story is ignorable hokum even by Resi standards, and inventory management remains a chore. But it's a decent return to old form, and hopefully some improvements can be made for the ludicrously titled V11lage.

Cloudpunk - A LOT of effort has been put into making this voxel city a wonder to behold. For a small indie title, it's impressive that the first few hours of this game are compelling purely on the basis of marvelling at this big, Blade Runner-esque world of neon. Very one-note (rainy neo-future) but none the worse for it. I hope it runs well when it drops on console because it deserves a high resolution and decent frame rate.

It's the game around it that stops and starts. To a large degree it's a visual novel set in a free-roaming, lavish 3D city. The story stops and starts a lot (didn't really feel any stakes at all for long periods), and the characters are a mixed bag (your AI canine companion Camus is a good boy, though). It's fun driving your delivery holocar around for a few hours, and unlocking upgrades such as boosts. But it's probably twice as long as it needs to be.

The exploration is fun in terms of discovering some weird characters and side stories, but annoying in the sense you'll soon discover the limited pool of collectibles. Worse, a lot of the city areas are very, very similar - so you'll have discovered most of the limited variety the game has to offer early on. A technical marvel with some cool gamey bits, then, but it feels like a dazzling city in search of more game.

The Touryst - Another voxel game, and a bit of a technical marvel in a much smaller way than Cloudpunk. Thankfully, this is an altogether tighter and smarter game.

Kinda a quirky, lighthearted Zelda-like, this has you as a tourist trying to solve a cryptic ancient mystery by hopping between a bunch of different islands. It's full of mini-games, short platforming challenges, slightly annoying boss battles, and fun problems to solve. None of this is particularly deep or challenging, but it zips along at a fair old pace altogether and there's always another gameplay wrinkle just around the corner. Unlike Cloudpunk, it's a short and sharp game that doesn't even remotely overstay its welcome.

I played on PC (GamePass) and it runs like a dream - we're not talking a GPU melter here, but it's always nice to play a game that has barely a hiccup over the entire running time. I believe the Switch version is just as smooth, and was basically the studio pushing the limits of that hardware, so probably well worth picking up for a rare smooth-as-butter game on Nintendo's modestly-specced wonder.

Azza

Game
Crysis
Crysis Warhead
Crysis 2
Crysis 3
Death Stranding
Doom 64
Doom Eternal
Half Life: Alyx
Resident Evil
Resident Evil 3
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Sniper Elite 4

Resident Evil (Remake)

5 years after beating the game on normal difficulty with Chris, I returned to the mansion with only 1 bathroom for a Jill playthrough and completed it on hard. Took a little while to get into the swing of things but overall it still holds up fairly well in 2020.

Gameplay wise, I forgot how much more emphasis the original RE games had on puzzles than later games. Puzzles are not too challenging though I have no idea what the solution is for the amour suit puzzle but it seemed asy to brute force a solution anyway. Overall the puzzles are not too memorable but their fine and they do make you use your brain a least a little bit. Combat wise there isn't much depth, just point and shoot with an auto aim that can't be turned off in standard game modes. Of course it is survival horror and ammo is somewhat scarce so avoiding enemies where possible is the best approach. Once you figure out how to get around zombies even in tight spaces the game becomes a lot easier. A good chunk of the game really is just about finding a key or item to open a door and back tracking to the door, but it does have quite a bit of replayability in terms of figuring out optimal routes. I can see why speed runners like it.

Graphics wise, I installed a background upscaler mod, though the improvement is pretty subtle. The backgrounds do look somewhat blury but that's to be expected considering its a remaster of 2002 game. Character models are decent but they are not going to blowing anyone away in 2020.

The voice acting is better than the original 1996 game but its still awful by modern standards and its actually lost the laugh factor of the hilariously bad voice acting of the original. Music wise is abit meh, nothing really sticks out other than the save room music which has become something of a mainstay of the RE series.

Storywise the plot does hold a nostalgic place in my heart buts its just utter nonesense to be honest.

From a horror perspective, it sort of works at least for the first hour or so but that wears off.

Still overall an enjoyable experience. One I'll probably return to again in a few years time.

wotzgoingon

[Xbox]

The Outer Worlds DLC (Peril on Gorgon)

An excellent DLC, loved every minute of it. Well worth getting if you played the main game. Way longer than I thought it would be also. Lots of areas to explore.

Retr0gamer

Mal-Adjusted wrote: »

Delighted more people are experiencing this. It's been my favorite game for two decades. Tell me, what ending did you go for? and did you
save Jock from the helicopter explosion?

Sorry only saw this now:

The ending I got was the

blow up the internet ending. Seemed a little bit better than the join with the AI one so I went with that.

Also

I did save Jock but I probably wouldn't have realised it except I looked at a faq for that level to see how to get past a locked door and spoiled the Jock thing inadverently.

Retr0gamer

WhenPigsCry wrote: »

Hollow Knight done last night. 80%. Deleted it right away before I'm tempted to put myself through that again.

You've not really finished it until you've beaten the pantheon of the gods DLC. You're also not a real gamer and not a real man unless you have.

I jest, that DLC pretty much broke me and I uninstalled it when I realized the time and energy I'd have to dedicate to it and it was not worth it.

WhenPigsCry

Hollow Knight done last night. 80%. Deleted it right away before I'm tempted to put myself through that again.

The Phantom Pain

Azza wrote: »

Can't say I quite agree with Dishonored 2 rendering the first obsolete. I enjoyed both, though I did play them in order of release.
Have just installed Death of The Outsider, I hear its overall its quite good with one outstanding level but overall doesn't reach the standard of one or two.

I think Dishonoured 1 is a great game because it's basically Dishonoured 2 but IMO Dishonoured 2 just does it so much better in every conceivable way that I just cannot fathom why anyone would bother playing Dishonoured 1 first when they could just go straight to a much better version of it. You're right that maybe if I played it in the order of release I'd feel differently but playing the sequel first and then DOTO and then finally the first one definitely felt like a step backwards.

I know the level you're referring to and yeah, it's great.

Death of the Outsider is a glorified DLC so it's not quite on the level of Dishonoured 2 but I'd still put it up there with Dishonoured 1 personally. It doesn't have a chaos system though (for reasons that will be obvious if you understand the main character) so that could be a good thing if you want the freedom to play how you want without consequences or a bad thing if you...like consequences.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I think you might have ruined it on yourself with the save scumming. I did a pacifist run with a few... accidents. But the game is lenient enough that you should be ok with a few deaths. I never paid to much attention to the unconscious guards health.

PC definitely had quick saves as well.

The save scumming wasn't for deaths, it was for detection. Like I said, there would be no way of knowing you killed anyone until the end. Whenever I play Dishonoured for the first time my canon playthrough is always no kills. Not a single one. Not even an accident. It's not just about the chaos system. I like playing as the good guy in games wherever given the choice and I wanted Corvo to be a practical Saint.

Like I said, most of the reloading upon "detection" was probably unnecessary due the game being unclear as to how the detection system works. I never had to repeat a level due to ghost (or cleans hands) failure, but because the stats screen wasn't there I could never be too sure. Reloading removed all doubt. I still had a good time, it just made my first playthrough needlessly longer than it could have been.

I play on PS4. PS4 version does not have quick save.

Retr0gamer

I think you might have ruined it on yourself with the save scumming. I did a pacifist run with a few... accidents. But the game is lenient enough that you should be ok with a few deaths. I never paid to much attention to the unconscious guards health.

PC definitely had quick saves as well.

Azza

Can't say I quite agree with Dishonored 2 rendering the first obsolete. I enjoyed both, though I did play them in order of release.
Have just installed Death of The Outsider, I hear its overall its quite good with one outstanding level but overall doesn't reach the standard of one or two.

The Phantom Pain

Life is Strange season 2. | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)
The Outer Worlds. | Borderlands 3.
Far Cry: New Dawn. | Borderlands 3, Moxxi's Heist of the Handsome Jackpot (DLC)
Goat Simulator. | Borderlands 3, Bounty of Blood (DLC)
A Plague Tale: Innocence. | Borderlands 3, Love, Guns, and Tentacles (DLC)
Until Dawn. | Borderlands 3, Psycho Krieg and the Fantastic Fustercluck (DLC)
Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag.
Assassin’s Creed 4: Freedom Cry (DLC).
Control.
One Night Stand.
The Division 2.
Batman.
Star Wars, Jedi: Fallen Order.
Assassin's Creed II (Ezio Collection).
Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom.
Batman: The Enemy Within.
Battlefield V.
MediEvil PS4 remake.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm.
Fallout 76.
Mafia III.
Star Wars Battlefront II.
Mafia II Remastered.
The Last of Us Part II.
Call of Duty: World War II.
Erica.
Watch Dogs.
Watch Dogs: Bad Blood (DLC)
The Wolf Among Us.
Borderlands, The Pre Sequel.
Borderlands, The Pre Sequel: Claptastic Voyage (DLC).
Borderlands, The Pre Sequel: The Holodome Onslaught (DLC).

Dishonoured (Definitive Edition). Completed and platinumed. I’m a Dishonoured/Arkane studios fan and wanted to add the first one to my collection. It’s a good game and to be fair if I had played this when it was first released I would have said it was fantastic but knowing what’s to come and knowing what Arkane are truly capable of leads me to conclude that this is a great game… that you should totally skip and play its sequel instead.

I know seems daft to recommend skipping an enjoyable game simply because its sequel is better - I wouldn’t say the same of Uncharted 2 just because I personally think Uncharted 4 is the best of the lot but that’s because its predecessors are integral to Nathan Drake’s character development. Uncharted 4 is merely a resolution of Drake’s journey so you can only truly appreciate it if you’ve played the previous games. The same can’t be said for Dishonoured. The story is so basic that Dishonoured 2 literally sums it up in one minute during the opening credits and it’s also the exact same story line done better in Dishonoured 2. The sequel is just so superior in every creative aspect (not technical, but more on that later) that it doesn’t feel like a sequel but an outright do-over that renders its predecessor obsolete.

The main character, a mask donning assassin and also bodyguard to the empress he is avenging, doesn’t speak so his character “development” is done through the low/high chaos morale system i.e. non lethal versus lethal approach. If you play high chaos you’ll encounter more guards, rats and “weepers” (plague infected zombie-like victims). Characters will change how they interact with him and they can live or die depending on the level of chaos. The chaos system is one of the defining features of the Dishonoured series and encourages multiple playthroughs but because (Corvo) is voiceless here we never get his perspective on things, he is only viewed through the lens of others.

In Dishonoured 2, Corvo (and Emily, the canon protagonist) are voiced and this makes a huge difference to their characters. High Chaos Emily, in particular, becomes more vindictive to the point that even her seemingly good actions are always undercut with dialogue that reveals sinister motivations. So in Dishonoured 2 not only are your choices shaping the world around you but they’re also shaping your character.

The best aspect of Dishonoured is its “play your way” approach to missions. That level of freedom, the way you can cleverly combine your supernatural powers and equipment, the way it gives you choices you don’t even know you have until you ask yourself, “can I do this?” and to your delight the answer is always, “yes”. This, alongside the chaos system, gives it tremendous replayability. All of that is present in Dishonoured 2 with the added bonus of missions like A Crack in the Slab where you have to navigate two timelines to figure out the best way forward while being very aware that whatever you do in the past, god or bad, affects the present (I know Titanfall 2 did this. D2 did it better), or the Clockwork Mansion that contorts itself at the click of a switch changing how you can move through it – which in turn legitimises the ‘no powers’ run.

There is one standout mission in the first one that turns the gameplay on its head by having you engage in social stealth rather than action stealth. You have to blend in at a masquerade ball, establish who the target is and take her out without ruining the party - and the target is randomised depending on how you do it. This level gives you a glimpse of the true greatness of Dishonoured 2 where nearly every mission is as inventive.

Technically, it’s better optimised than Dishonoured 2 but that’s largely because it’s so ahead of its time that it has strict technical limitations on a platform that cannot accommodate its ambitions. For instance, in Dishonoured 2 you could seamlessly navigate one big level and when you were done exploring there you were done. In Dishonoured 1 you can travel back and forth between another section of the same map but that other section will be locked behind a loading screen, which I could not be bothered to sit through unless a side mission took me there.

Art design is subjective but the constant grey/blue palette made the world seem absurdly bleak and depressing even in low chaos. Dishonoured 2 has way more variety in location, colour and even day/night cycle. The steampunk inspired world felt more real, like I was only uncovering a small part of it whereas Dishonoured feels like a “sandbox”.

Like I said, there isn’t anything "wrong" from a gameplay perspective, it’s Dishonoured for goodness sake. However, it does have a quality of life oversight that’s just so hard to believe… a stats screen... that you can’t view until the end of the mission. Now this may seem like first world problems but if you’re going for a ‘ghost’ / ‘clean hands’ run (no detection/no kills) in a stealth game it is vital that you can view the stats screen whenever you damn want. The detection system is not always clear like Dishonoured 2 and it’s very easy to kill someone without knowing.

For instance, if a swam of rats spawn and devour an unconscious body you left behind even though you’re far away and long gone at the time that’s classed as a kill. Knock a body out and he rolls over later face down? He’s suffocated, that’s a kill. This means you have to double check that a body is still alive and reload whenever in doubt about detection. The game turned into a save/load simulator during my first playthrough all because of no stats screen. It’s highly likely I was reloading unnecessarily but I couldn’t take the risk, and there’s no ‘quick save’ feature either which means I was overwriting manual saves I rather wouldn’t. Dishonoured 2 has ‘quick save’, just sayin’

Given that the missions are long on your first playthrough requiring you to go through multiple areas with loading screens you have to hope and pray that the stats screen at the end shows a nil kill count because there would be no way of knowing where the potential kill was.

I sound like I’m negative on this but I’m really not – I want to stress this is a very good game, you’ll love it, but Dishonoured 2 makes it completely unnecessary. You should only play this if you’re a die-hard fan who cannot get enough. If you’ve not played Dishonoured before please avoid until you’ve played Dishonoured 2. Let the fabulous sequel be your first impression of this awesome series.

quokula

Spiritfarer
You are the spiritfarer, roughly analogous of the river styx boatman of Greek mythology, taking recently departed spirits aboard your boat, seeing to their needs, and laying them to rest when they are ready. This mostly plays out in crafter-gatherer gameplay, where you sail your boat around a map getting the resources to meet the needs of each character that boards your boat. You get to know the characters, details of their life, and how they died. Nothing is ever too explicit, details are generally left open to interpretation. Thanks to brilliant animation, sound effects (there is no voice acting but the character's personalities come through surprisingly well in their grunts and gasps) and one of the best soundtracks I've come across in a game for years, you really come to care for these characters as you feed them and house them and generally care for them in their final days. And when that final moment comes, it can really hit hard in a way few other games do. One character's arc in particular made me turn off the console and just sit and contemplate for a while.

It's not without missteps however. The early characters seem much more fleshed out than most of the later ones who can seem more one dimensional. This isn't helped by the increasing complexity of the crafting as you go along. In the early game you're growing a particular vegetable or cooking a particular meal for a particular passenger, and they're always present in your mind. In the later game you can be searching for resources, mining, logging, milling, smelting, smithing etc. for so long that you start to forget about the passengers you're doing it for and you lose some of that connection that the game is so good at creating early on. The grind got to the point where I was just pleased to get it over with by the end, which is a pity after such a strong start. I'd still recommend it despite that though, there's not really any other game like it.

Retr0gamer

GAME|PLATFORM

Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing|PC
Gato Roboto|PC
Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker|PS3
D|PC
Dragon's Lair|PC
Return of Egypt|PC
Shin Megami Tensei: Synchronicity Prologue|PC
Florence|PC
Shin Megami Tensei Persona 3: The Answer|PS2
The Last of Us: Left Behind|PS4
3D Dot Game Heroes|PS3
Black Mesa|PC
Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei: Megami Tensei |SNES
Rusty's Real Deal Baseball |3DS
Donkey Kong Country 2 (102%) |SNES
Picross: Lord of the Nazarick |Switch
Pharaoh Rebirth+|PC
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2|PC
Megaman V|NES
Halo 2|PC
Sonic Adventure 2|PC
Mini Metro|Android
Halo 3|PC
Vermintide 2|PC
Bangai-O Missile Fury|XBox 360
Professor Layton and the Curious Village HD|Android
Final Fantasy XIII-2|PC
The Last of Us Part 2|PS4
Ace Combat 7|PC
The Room|Android
Halo Combat Evolved - MCC|PC
Deus Ex|PC
Panzer Dragoon|PC

Panzer Dragoon

I think the team that did the best they could with this remake with the material they had. Panzer Dragoon was more a tech demo for the saturn and felt rushed and wasn't that great a rail shooter. It seriously needed a visual overhaul and looks great although I had loads of tearing as I couldn't turn on v-sync. Gameplay is very faithful to the original which is both a good and bad thing. If you are good at the game it will only last about an hour with the final stage being the only real challenge and not much scope for replayability.

Hope the rumours are true that the same team is remaking Panzer Dragoon Zwei as that is one of the all time great rail rail shooters.

Mal-Adjusted

Retr0gamer wrote: »

And the sequels get waaaaay beter. FFXIII-2 is a great game but FFXIII-3 is a real under appreciated gem.

That's good to know. i'll probably check them out at some time. I bought XIII-2 at the same time as XIII for about €3 and it's sitting in a shelf somewhere.

By the by...

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Finally completely one of my great gaming sins, never having completed this game. Glad I did as it lives up to the reputation of being an extraordinary game. An absolute masterclass in RPG and level design. There's so many options to role play, so many ways to approach each level and it's just so much fun to sneak around and plan out how your character will develop. The sci-fi conspiracy theory story serves its purpose and is equal parts enjoyably silly and at other points very on the nose.

Quite simply one of the absolute best games of all time.

Delighted more people are experiencing this. It's been my favorite game for two decades. Tell me, what ending did you go for? and did you

save Jock from the helicopter explosion?

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Another one from gamepass for me, Night in the Woods. This has serious charm and humour and I loved the art style and script. The dialogue between Mae and Gregg especially was great. **** those mini games though, the rogue-lite one on the computer was tough but I had to get my partner to help with the guitar hero one and we took 2 buttons each to cheese it.

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Mal-Adjusted wrote: »

Final Fantasy XIII.
I finally went back to it and powered through. It has plenty of issues but to be honest, they are massively exadurated by people. Honestly, it's grand... not terrible but not very good either.

And the sequels get waaaaay beter. FFXIII-2 is a great game but FFXIII-3 is a real under appreciated gem.

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GAME|PLATFORM
Final Fantasy X|PC
Medal of Honor: European Assault|XBOX
Project Gotham Racing 2|XBOX
Indycar Series|XBOX
Medal of Honor: Rising sun|Xbox
Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis|XBOX
Red Faction|PC
Red Faction II|PC
Sin Episodes: Emergance|PC
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault|PC
Rise of the Tomb Raider|XBOX 360
Prince of Persia: warrior Within|XBOX
Enter the Matrix|XBOX
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind|PC
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West|XBOX 360
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines|XBOX
Shellshock: Nam'67|XBOX
Medal of Honor (2010)|XBOX 360
Medal of Honor: Warfighter|XBOX 360
King Kong|XBOX
Dead or Alive Ultimate|XBOX
Dead or Alive 2 Ultimate|XBOX
Men of Valor|PC
Final Fantasy XIII|XBOX 360

Dead or alive 2 Ultimate.
Much nicer looking than the first game, moves flow into one another a lot smoother than the first game and overall it just feels better.

Men of Valor.
I really wanted to like this game, and it does so many things well with the setting and visuals but it has awful design decisions just comming out the ass, mostly regarding issues with health and health regeneration as well as enemy spawn points and awful, awful checkpointing.

Final Fantasy XIII.
I finally went back to it and powered through. It has plenty of issues but to be honest, they are massively exaggerated by people. Honestly, it's grand... not terrible but not very good either.

Retr0gamer

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Star wars jedi fallen order - PS4
Gears of war ultimate edition - Xbox one
The witcher 3 - PS4
Hellblade senuas sacrifice - Xbox one
The walking dead michonne - Xbox one
Rage 2 - PS4
Sniper elite 4 - PS4
Call of duty modern warfare remastered - PS4
Pes 2019 - PS4
Shadow warrior 2 - Xbox one
Final fantasy 7 remake - PS4
Burnout paradise - PS4
Streets of rage 4 - Xbox one
Blair witch - Xbox one
Doom eternal - PS4
Wreckfest - PS4
Pes 2020 - Xbox one
The last of us part 2 - PS4
Sherlock holmes crimes and punishments - PS4
Doom 64 - Switch

Deliver us the moon - Xbox one

The Phantom Pain

Life is Strange season 2. | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)
The Outer Worlds.
Far Cry: New Dawn.
Goat Simulator.
A Plague Tale: Innocence.
Until Dawn.
Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag.
Assassin’s Creed 4: Freedom Cry DLC.
Control.
One Night Stand.
The Division 2.
Batman.
Star Wars, Jedi: Fallen Order.
Assassin's Creed II (Ezio Collection).
Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom.
Batman: The Enemy Within.
Battlefield V.
MediEvil PS4 remake.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm.
Fallout 76.
Mafia III.
Star Wars Battlefront II.
Mafia II Remastered.
The Last of Us Part II.
Call of Duty: World War II.
Erica.
Watch Dogs.
Watch Dogs: Bad Blood (DLC)
The Wolf Among Us.
Borderlands, The Pre Sequel.
Borderlands, The Pre Sequel: Claptastic Voyage (DLC).
Borderlands, The Pre Sequel: The Holodome Onslaught (DLC).

Borderlands 3. Completed and platinumed. It’s a mixed bag with moments of greatness and frustration taking turns on a dime towards the second half. If you’re already a Borderlands fan you will definitely enjoy it although you may have issues with the story due to a late game plot development that literally comes out of nowhere.

The game peaks in its first half where you’re rewarded with tons of great loot. Weapon variety is so vast you’ll welcome the hoards of enemies thrown at you to give you a chance to try them all. Some of the perks on the legendaries are so good that you can play with them for a very long time before having to discard them when your level can no longer justify holding on to it (farewell my beloved Speedloadin' Hellwalker). The bosses are also initially varied and memorable.

Also, as someone who went from the second instalment and the Presequel straight to this, the visual and quality of life improvements were instantly noticeable. It’s more sophisticated and modern in how it enables the player to navigate its systems, showing Gearbox has clearly taken note of their contemporaries. It’s also very, very pretty.

…but then the second half of the game happens where you start to feel the padding of its length, and the hoards of enemies become a chore to clear rather than a test of your capabilities. This is partly because the enemy spawning becomes excessive but also because as enemies grow stronger (spongier), levels become more important than the parks on the gear which means if your weapons are two or three levels below it’s not as effective.

And it has to be said: this is one of the most poorly optimised games I have ever played. The graphics are constantly loading in, the fast travel load times are way too long and you’ll never be able to play without the nagging thought that you are one game breaking bug away from ruining your progression. My anger at the amount of times I had to quit the game and restart from a checkpoint due to a progression breaking bug was only intensified by how long it takes to load into the game in the first place. One of the side missions has the cheek to mock broken, early access microtransaction fuelled games. At least those games are early access. What’s Gearbox’s excuse?

On that note, at least the humour is not as obnoxious as before but I will say this: there is a moment where Claptrap (the traditional comic relief character in a game full of comic relief characters) goofily dances with and, in turn, cheers up a wheelchair bound woman who is initially angry at her predicament. Moments like this show what the writers are capable of when they’re not embarrassed to show a little bit of heart. It shows they can write touching stories that are also funny. If the series can home in on that going forward I think the overall tone would be so much better.

So yeah, you’ll love it if you’re already a Borderlands fan and I’d say it’s a great jumping in point for newbies due to its quality of life improvements but if you didn’t like the previous games you will almost undoubtedly hate this one.

Borderlands 3, Moxxi's Heist of the Handsome Jackpot (DLC). Completed, got 100% trophies. I can’t really say much without spoiling it for those who haven’t played Borderlands 2 but will say if you liked Handsome Jack you will like this. If you didn’t the story will make you groan despite the gameplay loop still being enticing enough to keep you playing. I’m in the latter camp.

Borderlands 3, Bounty of Blood (DLC). Completed, got 100% trophies. Interesting story and characters with a more balanced tone to fit its cowboy western setting but the world is padded out with too many ‘challenges’ and the map was annoying to trudge through.

Borderlands 3, Love, Guns, and Tentacles (DLC). Completed, got 100% trophies. This is the best of the DLCs, firing on all cylinders with the best characters and locations. It does contain the hardest boss in the game though which if you’re not a fan of platforming will be frustrating at first but nothing the average gamer can’t overcome.

Borderlands 3, Psycho Krieg and the Fantastic Fustercluck (DLC). Completed, got 100% trophies. Largely pointless. The side missions and challenges were fun and I like the Kreig character but the bosses sucked. There is a boss involving a train – let me be more specific - there is a boss that is literally a train and will have you scratching your head as to whether this is supposed to be funny or not. If it’s not supposed to be then it’s a really bad boss fight. If it is supposed to be humorous then it’s not funny and it's a bad boss fight. The final boss was so lazily designed and repetitive and had no thematic point when you consider what the story is about. When I first saw his health bar and how spongey he was I rolled my eyes. Worst part I was playing the DLC blind like I do with any game so I missed a related trophy that required me to replay the boss again. If I didn’t clear it so (relatively) quickly I wouldn’t have bothered with the trophy. The only DLC for the game that I would say is skippable.

soloJennie

Diablo III
Dungeon Siege I
FIFA 19
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GAME Mafia: Definitive Edition
PLATFORM Xbox One

Beat it on Classic difficulty.

Good game -- plays well, but I kind-of wish someone else developed it. Something about it seemed a bit clunky - I couldn't put my finger on it. Ran into a few glitches as well but nothing game-breaking (cars colliding with nothing, and there was also one instance where an A.I.-controlled car I was chasing fell through the ground, causing me to fail the mission).

I have to say, Hangar 13 aren't the best. But other than my complaints I mostly had fun playing it. It was nice to play an open world game that wasn't covered in collectibles and icons, and was also linear. I'm on free mode now - gonna see if I can be bothered picking up everything else I missed but I doubt I will.

Games Beaten in 2020 So Far
GAME|PLATFORM
STAR WARS JEDI: FALLEN ORDER|XBOX ONE
MY FRIEND PEDRO|XBOX ONE
UNTITLED GOOSE GAME|XBOX ONE
FLOWER|PS4
CASTLEVANIA: SYMPHONY OF THE NIGHT|PS4
NBA STREET|PS2
FINAL FANTASY VII: REMAKE|PS4
STREETS OF RAGE 4|PS4
ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS|NINTENDO SWITCH
THE LAST OF US: REMASTERED|PS4
THE LAST OF US: LEFT BEHIND (DLC)|PS4
POWER RANGERS: THE MOVIE|SEGA MEGA DRIVE
FINAL FIGHT|NINTENDO SWITCH
THE LAST OF US PART II|PS4
GHOST OF TSUSHIMA|PS4
UNCHARTED: THE LOST LEGACY|PS4
SHADOW OF THE TOMB RAIDER|PS4
TONY HAWK'S PRO SKATER 1+2|PS4
MAFIA: DEFINITIVE EDITION|XBOX ONE

Mr.Fantastic

Think the true ending is behind ten successful runs have managed three so far

the art style and the connection to Greek myth is great, The combat is a just one more go variety aswell, legit addictive.

Currently still playing the above, Greedfall and I just downloaded Tony hawks 1 and 2 remake which even with a short go of it, its hitting the nostalgia part of my brain, even if THSP3 was my first real one I played by myself.

Control DLC:AWE
Won't say too much not to spoil it , but gives an element of horror to control more so than the base game, Worth playing for any fans of Alan wake. Tad short though the main quest a lot more than the foundation I found, and seemed less tied to the main story than the previous DLC.

Sephiroth_dude

Metro Exodus - Ps4
Devil may cry 5 - ps4
Yakuza 6 - ps4
FF7 Remake - ps4
Mafia 2 - ps4
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy ps4
The Outer Worlds - ps4
Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order - ps4
Trials of mana - ps4
Judgement - ps4
Ghost of Tsushima - ps4

Mafia - ps4

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