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  • midgamidga "There's so much hot dog in Rome" ~digi (> ^.(> O_o)> Icrontian
    edited January 2013
    Okay, so first things first, yes, they really are magical. (Try try try to understand... ;) )

    Now, I'm going to say up-front, social gaming will still trump this stuff. I'm not gonna nix my only real regular social activity for the sake of this competition. I'm also going to have days where fuck you I need to actually de-stress, so playing something else. If these things DQ me (lol Dairy Queen), well, I guess I'll just be DQ'd (or actually do shit besides gaming, which isn't a bad idea...). Won't stop me from participating, cause I wanna do this. Of course, this is going to take years, but I'm (kinda/almost/maybe/nopenotreally/I'llprobablygiveupeventually) okay with that.

    So, I'm just gonna toss my whole list on here (mostly cause lazy, also cause at work). TBH, I don't actually remember what all I've beaten, so I guess I'll just say as I come to it. Also, some of these I've owned in other formats and just picked up on Steam for convenience, so 0 hours doesn't necessarily mean not-played. I'll be honest, but I'm also pretty sure that by five years from now nobody's going to even give a fuck anymore.

    Anyway, here's the list. If you have a slow computer, I'm sorry about crashing you.

    --edit--

    Apparently there's a character limit for posts. Huh.


  • midgamidga "There's so much hot dog in Rome" ~digi (> ^.(> O_o)> Icrontian
    edited February 2013
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    Alien Zombie Megadeath
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    And Yet It Moves
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    ArcaniA – Gothic 4
    ArtRage Studio Pro
    Assassin's Creed 9.7
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    Aztaka
    Back to the Future: Ep 1 - It's About Time 2
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    Blocks That Matter
    Blueberry Garden 0.9
    Blur 5.7
    Borderlands 9.6
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    Borderlands DLC: Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution
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    Borderlands DLC: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx
    Borderlands DLC: The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned
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    Bully: Scholarship Edition
    Bunch Of Heroes
    Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box 4.1
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    Capsized
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    Castle Crashers 1.1
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    Castle Crashers - Pink Knight Pack
    Cave Story+ 3.8
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    Cities XL 2011
    Closure
    Cogs
    Commander Keen Complete Pack
    Coniclysm 1.6
    Containment: The Zombie Puzzler
    Costume Quest
    Crayon Physics Deluxe 2.8
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    Crazy Machines 1.5 Inventors Training Camp
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    Crazy Machines 2: Fluid Add-On
    Cthulhu Saves the World
    Dark Messiah Might and Magic Multi-Player
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    Darwinia
    Dead Pixels
    Dear Esther 3
    Death and the Fly
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    Defense Grid: Resurgence Map Pack 1
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    Defense Grid: Resurgence Map Pack 4
    Defense Grid: The Awakening 1.5
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    Deponia
    Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition
    Drawn: The Painted Tower 3.4
    Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
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    Duke Nukem Forever
    Dungeon Defenders
    Dungeons of Dredmor
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    Earthworm Jim
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    Earthworm Jim 3D
    EDGE
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    Eets
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    Eschalon: Book 1 2.4
    Eternity's Child
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    Everyday Shooter 6.6
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    FTL: Faster Than Light
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    Geneforge 5
    Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
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    Gothic 3 Forsaken Gods Enhanced Edition
    Gothic II: Gold Edition
    Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
    Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
    Gratuitous Space Battles 2.7
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    GridRunner Revolution 1
    Gumboy Crazy Features
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    Gumboy: Crazy Adventures
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    Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
    Half-Life 2: Episode One
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    Half-Life 2: Lost Coast
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    Hard Reset 7.8
    Hard Reset: Exile DLC
    Hector: Ep 1 3.1
    Hector: Ep 2 4.9
    Hector: Ep 3 5.5
    Hell Yeah!
    Home 1.4
    Hotline Miami 2.8
  • midgamidga "There's so much hot dog in Rome" ~digi (> ^.(> O_o)> Icrontian
    I Am Alive 5.1
    IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946
    Indie Game: The Movie
    Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet 0.7
    Insaniquarium! Deluxe 6.8
    Inside a Star-filled Sky 0.2
    Jamestown
    Jet Set Radio
    Jolly Rover 2.4
    Kaptain Brawe 2.9
    King Arthur: Collection 0.7
    Krater
    L.A. Noire
    Left 4 Dead 7.2
    Legend of Grimrock 3.7
    LIMBO
    Little Inferno
    Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
    Lucidity 0.3
    Lucius
    Lugaru HD 1.4
    Lume 1.5
    Lunar Flight
    Machinarium
    Magic: The Gathering — Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 5.4
    Magicka 6.5
    Magicka: Final Frontier
    Magicka: Frozen Lake
    Magicka: Holiday Spirit Item Pack
    Magicka: Nippon
    Magicka: Party Robes
    Magicka: The Watchtower
    Magicka: Vietnam
    Magicka: Wizard's Survival Kit
    Mare Nostrum
    Mark of the Ninja 13
    Mass Effect
    McPixel 1.3
    Metal Drift 1.3
    Miasmata
    Mightier 0.8
    Mini Ninjas 3
    Monday Night Combat
    Monkey Island 2: Special Edition
    Mount & Blade 55.3
    Mount & Blade: Warband 56
    Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword 18.5
    Mr. Robot
    Multiwinia
    Mutant Storm Reloaded 1.2
    NecroVisioN
    NecrovisioN: Lost Company
    Nexuiz
    Nexuiz Beta
    Nexuiz STUPID Mode
    NightSky
    Numen: Contest of Heroes 0.4
    Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus
    Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
    On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One
    On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode Two
    Osmos 6.7
    Overlord II
    Peggle Deluxe 0.8
    Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3
    Penumbra: Black Plague
    Penumbra: Overture
    Penumbra: Requiem
    Pid
    PixelJunk Eden 3.3
    Plain Sight 0.3
    Plants vs. Zombies: Game of the Year 1.9
    Poker Night at the Inventory 4.9
    Portal 0.8
    Portal 2
    Post Apocalyptic Mayhem
    Psychonauts
    Q.U.B.E.
    Quake
    Quake II
    Quake II: Ground Zero
    Quake II: The Reckoning
    Quake III Arena
    Quake III: Team Arena
    Quake Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon
    Quake Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity
    Quantum Conundrum
    Raycatcher 0.8
    Really Big Sky
    Realm of the Mad God 0.3
    Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale 35.2
    Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45
    Revenge of the Titans 2.1
    Risen
    Rock of Ages
    Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken 0.4
    Runaway: A Road Adventure
    Rune Classic 2.4
    Runespell: Overture
    RUSH
    S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
    S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky
    S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl 1.6
    Saints Row: The Third 60.2
    Sam & Max 101: Culture Shock 2.9
    Sam & Max 102: Situation: Comedy
    Sam & Max 103: The Mole, the Mob and the Meatball 1.8
    Sam & Max 104: Abe Lincoln Must Die! 6.8
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    Sam & Max 106: Bright Side of the Moon 3.2
    Sam & Max 201: Ice Station Santa 3.6
    Sam & Max 202: Moai Better Blues 3.2
    Sam & Max 203: Night of the Raving Dead 5.8
    Sam & Max 204: Chariots of the Dogs 4
    Sam & Max 205: What's New Beelzebub? 5
    Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone 5.4
    Sam & Max 302: The Tomb of Sammun-Mak 3.2
    Sam & Max 303: They Stole Max's Brain!
    Sam & Max 304: Beyond the Alley of the Dolls
    Sam & Max 305: The City that Dares not Sleep
    Samorost 2 2.3
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    Scoregasm 2.7
    Scribblenauts Unlimited
    Secret of the Magic Crystal 1
    SEGA Genesis & Mega Drive Classics 0.2
    Sequence 2.1
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    Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter
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    Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter 1.3
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    Shank 2.6
    Shank 2
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    Shattered Horizon
    Shoot Many Robots 0.5
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    Sid Meier's Civilization IV
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    Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
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    Sonic Adventure™ 2: Battle Mode DLC
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    Sonic CD
    Sonic Generations
    SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 4 Episode I
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    Spectraball 0.2
    Spore 10.3
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    Starscape 10.1
    Steel Storm: Burning Retribution
    Strong Bad Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner 4.2
    Strong Bad Episode 2: Strong Badia the Free 1.6
    Strong Bad Episode 3: Baddest of the Bands
    Strong Bad Episode 4: Dangeresque 3
    Strong Bad Episode 5: 8-Bit Is Enough
    Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse
    Super Meat Boy 0.1
    Super Monday Night Combat 28.7
    Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP 6
    Swords and Soldiers HD 3.9
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    Syberia 2
    Take On Helicopters
    Team Fortress 2 367.1
    Team Fortress 2 Beta
    Terraria 1
    Test Drive Unlimited 2
    The Baconing
    The Ball
    The Basement Collection 12.9
    The Binding of Isaac 7.7
    The Cave 3.8
    The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
    The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
    The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 92.3
    The Graveyard
    The Longest Journey
    The Path 0.7
    The Polynomial 1.5
    The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
    The Ship
    The Ship Single Player
    The Ship Tutorial
    The Tiny Bang Story 0.4
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    The Wonderful End of the World
    They Bleed Pixels 2.2
    Thief 2
    Thief Gold
    Thief: Deadly Shadows
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    Time Gentlemen, Please!
    Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers 4.3
    Titan Attacks
    Tobe's Vertical Adventure 0.3
    Toki Tori
    Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
    Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
    Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2
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    Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder
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    Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent
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    Torchlight
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    Towns 16.3
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    Unreal II: The Awakening
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    Unreal Tournament 3: Black Edition 2.6
    Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition 1.6
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    Wallace & Gromit Ep 1: Fright of the Bumblebees 3
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    Wanderlust: Rebirth
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    Who's That Flying?! 0.6
    Windosill 0.7
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    Zombie Driver 0.8
    timuchan
  • IlriyasIlriyas The Syrupy Canadian Toronto, Ontario Icrontian
    Midga wins largest backlog holy hell.
    timuchan
  • TushonTushon I'm scared, Coach Alexandria, VA Icrontian
    It's really about encouraging people to finish games, not necessarily zomg don't do anything else like Prime seemed to say at one point. Fuck that noise. I still play LoL and EVE :D
  • midgamidga "There's so much hot dog in Rome" ~digi (> ^.(> O_o)> Icrontian
    edited January 2013
    Ilriyas said:

    Midga wins largest backlog holy hell.

    Oh, that's not all backlog. That's all list. Like I said, I wasn't really in a position to pare it down, so I'm just gonna skip what I should skip. I'm pretty sure @Bandrik wins largest backlog...
    Tushon said:

    It's really about encouraging people to finish games, not necessarily zomg don't do anything else like Prime seemed to say at one point. Fuck that noise. I still play LoL and EVE :D

    <3

  • TushonTushon I'm scared, Coach Alexandria, VA Icrontian
    midga said:

    Ilriyas said:

    Midga wins largest backlog holy hell.

    Oh, that's not all backlog. That's all list. Like I said, I wasn't really in a position to pare it down, so I'm just gonna skip what I should skip. I'm pretty sure @Bandrik wins largest backlog...
    Tushon said:

    It's really about encouraging people to finish games, not necessarily zomg don't do anything else like Prime seemed to say at one point. Fuck that noise. I still play LoL and EVE :D

    <3

    @mertesn / @Winfrey
  • midgamidga "There's so much hot dog in Rome" ~digi (> ^.(> O_o)> Icrontian
    edited January 2013
    Okay, so 1000 Amps? It's shit. The concept is solid, and the music is nice, but the execution is something I'd expect from a free indie game fifteen years ago. /Maybe/ from a 2007 Flash game. If nothing else, I find it inexcusable for a game to allow me to become irreconcilably stuck. If it were possible, I'd return it. As it stands, I'm going to uninstall and move on.

    Next on the list, A Valley Without Wind (if we consider the whitespace in our alphabetizing). I've played over two hours, but the only thing I remember is that it /almost/ works with a controller; sadly you still have to use the mouse and keyboard fairly frequently. I'll probably start over considering I just jumped in and had no idea what was going on.

    --edit--

    Just to be clear, I know I'm technically skipping a game here. Considering the length of the list, and the fact that I'd probably sell the game to a pawn shop for a nickel if I had it in physical form, I feel fully justified. As far as I'm concerned, the only reason it's still in my library is because there's no benefit to removing it.

    I actually expect this to happen a few times.
    primesuspect
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    Carry on my wayward son!
    midgatimuchan
  • BasilBasil Nubcaek England Icrontian
    Yeah, 1000 Amps is just...eugh.
  • CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Der Millionendorf- Icrontian
    When that happened to me, I considered myself having bailed on the challenge.
  • midgamidga "There's so much hot dog in Rome" ~digi (> ^.(> O_o)> Icrontian
    CB said:

    When that happened to me, I considered myself having bailed on the challenge.

    That's cool. I have different expectations and goals in this. If I come across a game that I would rather delete than play, particularly when due to massive design flaws, it is not worth my time to just suffer through it anyway. The overall goal of playing through my whole collection is much more important to me than any individual game. There will be games I will stick it out and suffer through difficult and painful bits of. I also won't skip games I'm simply "not that interested in." Sure, I could say, "Oh well, first game incomplete. I give up. Challenge over." That seems counterproductive and not in the spirit of the challenge, though. I am going to play all of the unplayed games (melting mirthful maidenheads? get it? LAWL). I will play my fill, or beat them, or discover they are garbage, or whatever. Like I said before, no fucks given if I'm DQ'd; this is bigger than badges.
  • midgamidga "There's so much hot dog in Rome" ~digi (> ^.(> O_o)> Icrontian
    edited February 2013
    Well, I've been enjoying the hell out of A Valley Without Wind. Even as a keyboard+mouse platformer (normally not a fan) it's very solid. The city-building elements I'm not that into, but you can basically turn it off. It's kinda neat in that regard; there's separate difficulty sliders for the city management, the platforming, and the combat. I haven't moved them from default, but I might just to see what happens. My biggest complaint is that the game is HUGE. HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE. I can't possibly convey how large it is without using tags for increasing my font size (Results Guaranteed!). I'll try, though...

    So, you're on a continent. That continent is made up of probably ~100 squares or so called regions. Each region is an area that seems to be about 10-12 platforming screens. This is the surface. Then, each of these screens has a chance to have abandoned buildings (2-20 or maybe more rooms), caves (more than buildings, and bigger rooms), missions (short), and maybe other stuff. Each cave (maybe buildings, I haven't seen this in them yet though) can have buildings, missions, entrances to deeper caves, etc. Now, zoom out a bit. To go through a single region, it took me hours. There are probably around a hundred of these on a continent, and when you beat the overlord of a continent, you GO TO A NEW CONTINENT. There is no end. You don't even have a way to end the character as when you die, your "glyph" goes to a new person. It's a massive game that is literally infinite. I'm probably gonna quit at 10 hours and move on to the sequal just to see if it's any better.

    I recommend it, but only if you can curb your completionist urges.

    --edit--

    Oh, and with all that, I'm still doing level 1 stuff. MMOs got nothin' on this.
    primesuspect
  • CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Der Millionendorf- Icrontian
    The Mitey Worriers tried Valley without wind, thinking it would be a cool co-op exploration game. It was neat until we all got stuck in a room with no exit, and spend an hour trying to figure it out before we quit. We found out later that the missing door was a bug in a build that was only live on the day we played, but we still haven't been back since. Perhaps it's time to give it another shot.
    midga
  • midgamidga "There's so much hot dog in Rome" ~digi (> ^.(> O_o)> Icrontian
    @CB I have no idea what it'd be like multiplayer, but if you want another player, I'd like to give it a try :)
  • midgamidga "There's so much hot dog in Rome" ~digi (> ^.(> O_o)> Icrontian
    Okay, I'm 11 hours into AVWW, and I've defeated the first sublieutenant. Since this is technically an endless game, I'm going to call it good for now and move on to the sequel. It's a good game, but I'll hold off on recommending it until I see what they did with AVWW2.
  • midgamidga "There's so much hot dog in Rome" ~digi (> ^.(> O_o)> Icrontian
    Okay, so I'd actually written that last post about six hours earlier and just forgot to post it. By then, I'd played a couple hours of AVWW2. It's....different. There's more emphasis on the strategy part (it's been boosted from just general strategy to a sort of turn-based system), and most everything else is streamlined and simplified. I'm not going to say that's a good thing, though it's not a bad thing. It can be played with a controller (mouse for some menu stuff still), which is a nice change, but you lose the put-platforms-almost-anywhere aspect which was such a defining feature of the first game. The music got a pretty huge upgrade (though I don't know if I like it better than the chiptunes from the first), as did the graphics. It's also not NEARLY as open-ended as the first; all that bit within a bit within a bit within a bit has been slimmed down significantly, and this one doesn't even have graphic spatial-relation diagrams (it doesn't need them) (and yes, I could have said "maps" but that wouldn't be entirely accurate).

    All in all, it's kinda nice that they're two rather different games with a similar style and the same general setting. I recommend them both, especially if you enjoy both strategy games and action platformers. I turned the strategy element down...it's just not my thing. I'll be playing this one at least the ten hours, and it's pretty certain I'll be going back to the first at some point as well.

    Be warned, it is possible for the game to start you in a position where you can't even progress, but you can tell rather early on, and it was solved by deleting that world generation and restarting. Was a bit annoying, but the game technically isn't complete yet, and I've got a feeling the chances of that happening are rather low. It would, actually, probably be completely bypassed if you skipped the tutorial.
    primesuspect
  • midgamidga "There's so much hot dog in Rome" ~digi (> ^.(> O_o)> Icrontian
    So, being in a hotel in Abilene with my laptop and crappy internets, I wasn't going to bother playing anything I'd actually write here about. I ended up cleaning off my hard drive, though, and in the process noticed "Hamlet or the last game without MMORPG features, shaders and product placement" in my list. I had snagged it because title, interesting premise and decent art, and decided it looked short enough to play tonight.

    Well, it delivered on the title, premise and art. Holy crap it sucked, though. It sucked bad enough that I recommend you just don't play it. The story was fun, the art was cool, but the gameplay was so bad I only finished it so I wouldn't have to play it again later.

    So, at first glance it seems like your typical point-and-click adventure game. A fairly simple one at that, having no inventory. Between puzzles that required fast clicking of tiny targets, discovering that what I thought was a help system of sorts was actually part of some puzzles, puzzles that any functional three-year-old could have done, and a color-based puzzle that was not only designed difficult for a colorblind person to navigate (there were actually two), but even MENTIONED COLORBLINDNESS IN THE SETUP (dicks), I found myself bouncing between completely bored and entirely frustrated like a Pong pixel on meth. The paddles would be boredom and frustration. Yeah, it's late.

    Don't buy this game. Don't play this game. Do gift it to your sibling's asshole children for Christmas.
    primesuspect
  • midgamidga "There's so much hot dog in Rome" ~digi (> ^.(> O_o)> Icrontian
    Well....I beat A Valley Without Wind 2. At least, I think I did. I beat the final boss, got the achievements, and then nothing happened. I went back to that room a few times, but nothing. Yay beta.

    Anyway, 17 hours and 137 achievements (I think these game designers missed the point of achievements...) and I'm calling it beat. Definitely a good game. Definitely wait until it's no longer in beta. Go play the first one while you wait.
    primesuspect
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