I finished Alan Wake, although I haven't played all of the extended content. I've finished the regular game, though. Next I'm tackling Alan Wake American Nightmare and Aquaria. I've decided to set my own rules about this play through, too. Technically Amnesia the Dark Descent should be done before Aquaria, but I played through half the game before, and I'm not really interested in doing the same thing all over again. Then I should do Anna, but I spent a bunch of time a while back and couldn't get through the first part, so I'm skipping that too. I'm going to do this as a college try sort of thing rather than having to beat every game or play 10 hours.
I went ahead and finished the Alan Wake DLCs. The DLCs are really trippy, and I feel like they're harder than the original game. After that, I played American Nightmare. It's great, a lot of fun compared to the original, but it's actually too easy. I played it on normal, which was pretty hard (for me, anyways) on the original, and it was far too easy. I wish I'd done it nightmare. It took me a while to play the first Alan Wake--a couple weeks with inconsistent playing, and it took me only two days to get through American Nightmare. I'd definitely still recommend picking up both games though, if they're on steam sale.
I'm playing Aquaria now. It's harder than you'd think at first. I've definitely ragequit once or twice already. In b4 mad cuz bad.
The next game on my list is Assassin's Creed, which I'm going to skip because I completed 99% of it before. So after Aquaria, it's off to Assassin's Creed 2. I might just play them co-currently.
So my list so far is below. Bolded= Finished. Strikethrough is attempted or partially completed but abandoned. Italics is in progress.
Alan Wake
Alan Wake's American Nightmare Alice: Madness Returns: (I played this previously-- the art direction is fantastic, and the card bridge level is generally one of the most soothing and fantastical levels I've ever played in a game. It was fairly buggy from the console port when I played like, 6 years ago, though.) Amnesia: The Dark Descent Anna-Extended Edition Aquaria Assassin's Creed Assassin's Creed 2
Aquaria continues to be kind of annoying because I'm bad. I also started playing Assassin's Creed 2. My main complaint with this one is that in an effort to be inclusive of consoles and different set ups, when trying to teach the game to you in the first section of the game, it shows you symbols instead of keys. I'm constantly switching back and forth between the controls menu-- which is buried a few menus deep-- to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. I hope that I get it all memorized quickly, because it's pretty annoying.
I'd also like to note that I'm actually playing Assassin's Creed 2 on UPlay instead of Steam-- the Steam launch no longer works. So I suppose I could disqualify this one if I wanted to
Went ahead and took care of Audiosurf and Bad Rats. I'd played Audiosurf back in the day--who didn't?-- and I don't have a whole lot of music downloaded anymore, so I went ahead and played all of the music on my PC and then called it a day. As far as Bad Rats--5 minutes is as long as anyone can play that, right? But in all seriousness, it was a gift, so it doesn't count in the play through anyways. So current list is:
Alan Wake
Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Alice: Madness Returns Amnesia: The Dark Descent Anna-Extended Edition Aquaria Assassin's Creed Assassin's Creed 2 Audiosurf
Bad Rats Bastion
So we'll see if I get through Aquaria, Assassin's Creed 2, or Bastion first
Update to my list, since I got the Freedom Humble Bumble
2064 Read Only Memories
7 Grand Steps, Step 1: What Ancients Begat
AI War: Fleet Command Alan Wake Alan Wake's American Nightmare Alice: Madness Returns Amnesia: The Dark Descent Anna-Extended Edition Aquaria Assassin's Creed Assassin's Creed 2 Audiosurf Bad Rats Bastion
2064 seems pretty neat so far-- the story is engaging and funny. I have to admit that I'm not totally into the 8Bit graphics and passive play style so far, though. Sorry! I'm a dirty millennial who never played 8Bit games growing up. I don't really get their appeal.
I finally finished Assassin's creed 2 last night. Felt like it took forever. I suppose it did-- this post indicates that I started it back in December. Waps.
Overall it was pretty good-- definitely better than the first one. It didn't feel like it had lost too much in the aging process, except that the controls were a bit clunky. I don't know how many missions I had to repeat because I wanted Enzio to climb up something and he decided to jump the other way. The music was fantastic. The plot dragged in the middle-- I was just killing people over and over and I couldn't keep track of why I was killing this particular guy, and then at the end it rapidly ramped up in a way that would have been better served coming earlier and a bit slower.
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Game is still creepy as fuck. No Ravenholm, though.
omfg stupid Alan Wake is stupid h8
I finished Alan Wake, although I haven't played all of the extended content. I've finished the regular game, though. Next I'm tackling Alan Wake American Nightmare and Aquaria. I've decided to set my own rules about this play through, too. Technically Amnesia the Dark Descent should be done before Aquaria, but I played through half the game before, and I'm not really interested in doing the same thing all over again. Then I should do Anna, but I spent a bunch of time a while back and couldn't get through the first part, so I'm skipping that too. I'm going to do this as a college try sort of thing rather than having to beat every game or play 10 hours.
I went ahead and finished the Alan Wake DLCs. The DLCs are really trippy, and I feel like they're harder than the original game. After that, I played American Nightmare. It's great, a lot of fun compared to the original, but it's actually too easy. I played it on normal, which was pretty hard (for me, anyways) on the original, and it was far too easy. I wish I'd done it nightmare. It took me a while to play the first Alan Wake--a couple weeks with inconsistent playing, and it took me only two days to get through American Nightmare. I'd definitely still recommend picking up both games though, if they're on steam sale.
I'm playing Aquaria now. It's harder than you'd think at first. I've definitely ragequit once or twice already. In b4 mad cuz bad.
The next game on my list is Assassin's Creed, which I'm going to skip because I completed 99% of it before. So after Aquaria, it's off to Assassin's Creed 2. I might just play them co-currently.
So my list so far is below. Bolded= Finished. Strikethrough is attempted or partially completed but abandoned. Italics is in progress.
Alan Wake
Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Alice: Madness Returns: (I played this previously-- the art direction is fantastic, and the card bridge level is generally one of the most soothing and fantastical levels I've ever played in a game. It was fairly buggy from the console port when I played like, 6 years ago, though.)
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Anna-Extended Edition
Aquaria
Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed 2
Aquaria continues to be kind of annoying because I'm bad. I also started playing Assassin's Creed 2. My main complaint with this one is that in an effort to be inclusive of consoles and different set ups, when trying to teach the game to you in the first section of the game, it shows you symbols instead of keys. I'm constantly switching back and forth between the controls menu-- which is buried a few menus deep-- to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. I hope that I get it all memorized quickly, because it's pretty annoying.
I'd also like to note that I'm actually playing Assassin's Creed 2 on UPlay instead of Steam-- the Steam launch no longer works. So I suppose I could disqualify this one if I wanted to
Went ahead and took care of Audiosurf and Bad Rats. I'd played Audiosurf back in the day--who didn't?-- and I don't have a whole lot of music downloaded anymore, so I went ahead and played all of the music on my PC and then called it a day. As far as Bad Rats--5 minutes is as long as anyone can play that, right?
But in all seriousness, it was a gift, so it doesn't count in the play through anyways. So current list is:
Alan Wake
Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Alice: Madness Returns
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Anna-Extended Edition
Aquaria
Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed 2
Audiosurf
Bad Rats
Bastion
So we'll see if I get through Aquaria, Assassin's Creed 2, or Bastion first
Ps, Audiosurf reminded me of how good Bastille's covers are:
Update to my list, since I got the Freedom Humble Bumble
2064 Read Only Memories
7 Grand Steps, Step 1: What Ancients Begat
AI War: Fleet Command
Alan Wake
Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Alice: Madness Returns
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Anna-Extended Edition
Aquaria
Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed 2
Audiosurf
Bad Rats
Bastion
2064 seems pretty neat so far-- the story is engaging and funny. I have to admit that I'm not totally into the 8Bit graphics and passive play style so far, though. Sorry! I'm a dirty millennial who never played 8Bit games growing up. I don't really get their appeal.
I finally finished Assassin's creed 2 last night. Felt like it took forever. I suppose it did-- this post indicates that I started it back in December. Waps.
Overall it was pretty good-- definitely better than the first one. It didn't feel like it had lost too much in the aging process, except that the controls were a bit clunky. I don't know how many missions I had to repeat because I wanted Enzio to climb up something and he decided to jump the other way. The music was fantastic. The plot dragged in the middle-- I was just killing people over and over and I couldn't keep track of why I was killing this particular guy, and then at the end it rapidly ramped up in a way that would have been better served coming earlier and a bit slower.
7/10, glad I stuck it through.
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