What Games Have You Completed? (2020 Edition)

Batman Arkham Knight[PS4] - a very good game although a few too many BS areas especially involving the batmobile. The biggest plus for me was Mark Hamill as the joker. He was genuinely hilarious at times. [edit]

BioShock [PS4]- what an absolute masterpiece of a game. Enjoyed this so much. A definite must play if you like FPS/Horror.

BioShock 2 [PS4] - another fantastic game in the series, as enjoyable as the first with a few loose ends tied up.

Ratchet and Clank [PS4] - an excellent remake of an all time classic.

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

Another update

Final Fantasy X (PC) Technically brilliant at the time and a massive leap on from IX, but with a weird story, annoying lead character and awful voice acting it's a disappointment. Also, F*%k the sphere grid and F*&k blitzball.
Medal of Honor: European Assault (XBOX) A more modern feeling game than previous titles, it's a great (if short) campaign. Need to dig out my other MoH games now.
Project Gotham Racing 2 (XBOX) Kinda weird in that some cars and tracks are p**s easy and others will tear you a new A*&^%$£e. great game though.
Indycar Series (XBOX) technically well made but Christ it's boring.
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun (XBOX) Better than Frontline, let down a little by some poor level design in some areas.
Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis (XBOX) fun little war sim, meanders from super easy to ball-achingly hard missions.
Red Faction (PC) technically poor, but mad fun altogether
Red Faction II (PC) total crap, nothing to do whatsoever with the first game and other that the odd mech segment, an utterly forgettable 4 hours.
Sin Episodes: Emergence (PC) Plays well, but it feels like a HL2 mod. Great advertisement for not getting into episodic games.
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (PC) Great first half, dull second half. Typical MoH game, with one lone commando basically winning the war by himself.
Rise of the Tomb Raider (XBOX 360) Brilliant game from start to finish, campaign is a bit short but there's loads of side-stuff to do. I loved having to craft ammo and equipment on the fly. Terrible final boss though.
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (XBOX) Seriously. F*£k this game! I liked the story, the combat (when it worked), the atmosphere was too edgelord-y but it was tolerable. The controls were terrible, maybe as a consequence of every button doing about 50 different things so that you try to wall run but instead the prince decides to jump to his death. Other issues i can look past but the controls are always, always fighting against you.

Got the Plat in Lego Batman 3 the other day. Definitely one of the worse Lego games I've played. It still just about ticked the box of BREAK AND COLLECT EVERYTHING it does, but it's wrapped in a terrible choice of story (lets make the characters even more annoying) and the final round up to collect everything took way too long! Didn't help it doesn't indicate that a collectible is only available after getting a collectible on another map/world! Just didn't have the charm of the Lego Harry Potter series to keep going to the end. Even though I did. I wasn't going to be bet by a Lego game!

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

Batman Arkham Knight[PS4] - a very good game although a few too many BS areas especially involving the batmobile. The biggest plus for me was Mark Hamill as the joker. He was genuinely hilarious at times. [edit]

BioShock [PS4]- what an absolute masterpiece of a game. Enjoyed this so much. A definite must play if you like FPS/Horror.

BioShock 2 [PS4] - another fantastic game in the series, as enjoyable as the first with a few loose ends tied up.

Ratchet and Clank [PS4] - an excellent remake of an all time classic.

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture [PS4] - an interesting storyline but effectively a slow walking sim.

Divinity Original Sin 2

This was a slog. I haven't played this style of isometric RPG since the days of Baldur's Gate and Planescape Torment. And at first it really impressed me. There are so many mechanics that can interplay to how you approach situations in a variety of different ways. It feels incredibly empowering and flexible in the early game, as you unlock new abilities and suddenly get the teleport ability which you can use in battle to dunk an enemy in water, drop an explosive barrel on their head, or move your archer to a high ledge. But then you realise you can just as easily use it out of combat to access treasure chests you otherwise couldn't, get past locked gates, or teleport a watching guard down a pit where they can't get out while you sneak past. Likewise, when you first unlock a healing spell in combat you soon realise you can also use it to heal an injured person you find in town and unlock new dialog options. The turn based combat is challenging, rich and varied, with the terrain layout playing a large part, and a variety of different tactical skills that are crucial - there is never a single encounter in the game that you can just hack away with your sword to complete.

However, while the starter areas are incredibly well designed and really make the most of the mechanics as they get introduced, the game struggles to hold together as it opens up. You are rarely given the slightest guidance on where you should be going and often end up wandering the map trying to find stuff that matches your level through trial and error. And if you're unfortunate enough to walk the wrong way you will get ambushed and you will die and you will sit through a very lengthy reload, repeatedly.

The game regularly feels incredibly unfair, even battles at the correct level sometimes can one hit your entire party if you haven't discovered the "trick" to them and had the misfortune of approaching from the wrong side or with the wrong equipment selected. Aside from combat, there are also multiple occasions in the game where you can say the wrong thing in conversation and end up with a permanent debuff for the entire rest of the game. You can easily arrive at an area in the wrong order and speak to the wrong person and close off entire questlines by accident too.

Compounding this is the fact that XP is at such a premium. Enemies don't respawn, so there is a finite amount of XP available. If you accidentally close off a questline, or deal with a quest in a way that doesn't net much XP, you can find yourself hopelessly underlevelled in the next area. At one point I was completely stuck at a battle where I was getting utterly destroyed, and I ended up going back and slaughtering all the guards I had used my persuasion skill to talk my way past, purely because I needed to level up and there was no other way. It really hurts the role playing aspect of the game.

By the final act (a good 100 hours in at this stage), I was getting tired of frequent ambushes, unfair quest lines, and constant reloading, so I ended up turning the difficulty down. It made the last few battles a bit of a snoozefest as they were easy to walk through, but I was kinda done with the game at that point and just wanted to finish it. There is such a solid base game here, which really shone in the early sections in particular that were much more tightly designed, and the writing and voice acting was all excellent too, but the mission design just got away from itself as the game went on and really hurt it.