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Another game down: BoxBoy + BoxGirl on Switch. 100% completed the main campaign, but I'm gonna try the bonus and co op campaigns for sure. I love this series.

I'm playing in a competitive league in Star Wars Squadrons for all my game time. I swear I'll finish World War Z with my son by Sunday haha. I have matches scheduled for tonight and tomorrow for Squadrons already. Man-eater will probably be my next finish afterwards.

I played through Super Turrican on Switch earlier. Seems like a cool series that I'm just now getting into.

Game #12, 6th console - Super Turrican on
I don't think this meets the criteria for any badge as it's a side-scrolling shooter, not hop/bop.

Beat it, like several other members, for the Retro GotM club. Decent title but some sections were annoying and I really didn't get the hang of the ball form and didn't use the freeze ray a whole lot.
I vaguely recall the box art from some ad or something as a kid as it looked familiar, otherwise I knew about nothing of the title. It being a Factor 5 game is pretty cool.

Rockin' Kats

This game brings back alot of good memories.

8/10

Good soundtrack, above average platforming. On the easy side.

razeak wrote:

I'll believe it when I see it.

And updated!

Mother Russia Bleeds, Streets of Rage 4 - Pile Drivin @Antipop

Antipop wrote:

2022 isn't that far away!

@Antipop Please move The Witcher over to . Thanks!

I def have some catching up to do but I'm sticking to mostly RPGs right now.

Starting Persona tonight. I've heard the localization of this one is basically WD level lol.

Gypsy wrote:

So filled with 90's pop culture references that have no meaning now

Not totally sure on pop culture but they definitely made some heavy handed changes to attempt to give it broader appeal in the us.

The first Persona, that game is rough. Its the only one I don't like.

It's hard to go back to Revelations but I remember I enjoyed playing the PSP version, which made it alot more accessible. I'm just starting P4G for the first time and I see alot of P1 from PSP version staying in the series.

PSP version also added back some cut content.

@Antipop I am missing Gunpoint for PC.

Also can somebody remind me what the rules are regarding beating the same game on a different platform?

EB wrote:

I'm assuming this isn't allowed to be counted. But if it is, let me tell you what, I may just end up hating Souls game by the end of the year again.

EB wrote:

Yeah, those will count as unique completions in your running total. On the other hand, duplicate games won't be considered unique in the pursuit of badges.

Game #14 Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order - 7.5/10. I can't really give it any higher than that. I dumped it down to story mode cause I just didn't like the janky/un-precise combat.

However, game spoilers for Second Sister

Alright, I tightened up a few errors for @GamersLyf, @EB, @Kommie, and @Lunar.

Additionally, being that we're doing a monthly leader, I figured it's about just as easy to keep track of everyone's monthly totals. Those have been given a new set of columns beneath the "games beaten" and "systems covered" running totals. Being that I'm not one for generic rewards, however, I created custom 's for every month. I'll leave it up to you to ascertain the reasoning for all of the different color schemes.

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yeah I just am not feeling Jedi Fallen Order. Not gonna say it sucks, but it doesn't grab me like Tomb Raider games do.

Anyway, I beat - Dungeon Village
Continuing my kairosoft marathon.

I liked Fallen Order, but it wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

razeak wrote:

I think the big deal was it was an EA Star Wars game that wasn't a Microtransaction crap fest and had no microtransactions at all

It was good. But going for the plat made me sour on it.

I tried to replay it since it hit gamepass, but just don't have it in me to play through it again.

It's not bad. It's just solid. I would play a sequel with the hopes it would improve on the formula for sure

Archer wrote:

You don't have to plat everything.... You know this, right?

Kommie wrote:

My completion % is super low actually. I only have 89 plats. Out 750 games played in the PS ecosystem (PS3, Vita, PS4, PS5). Across 10 years, I think trophies didn't start until 2010. And 38 of those are throw away trash games that only exist to get the plat.

I used to play trash like games for 360 for Achievements. I might have like 5 or so Plats

I loved JFO. Beat it twice. Platinumed it also. Wasn't perfect but in a universe now void of anything really substantial from this franchise, I'll take what I can get. Really hoping those KOTOR remake rumors are true. Be still my aching heart.

Supposedly some other studio not owned by EA is making another KOTOR. I hope it's From Software.

Don't tease me bruh

Here goes.

So every year on my birthday I usually do some sort of gaming related nonsense. Last year I beat all the Barbie games I owned. This year I decided to speedrun all the games I've ever run, back to back in one sitting. The result was a 13 hour marathon where I beat 26 games (and portions of two others).

Before I list them down, I'd like to preface that I did in fact beat 1 game in January: Death Squared on Switch, a cheap but surprisingly fun coop puzzle game. I think it got it for a buck on sale, definitely worth that.

The full list:
Barbie, Battle Chess, The Chessmaster, Die Hard, Donkey Kong, Home Alone, North & South, Paperboy, Pirates!, Spot: The Video Game
Barbie Super Model
Barbie Fashion Pack Games, Barbie Game Girl, Dragon's Lair: The Legend, The Pagemaster
Bing Yuan Li Xian Ji II
Barbie Horse Adventures: Blue Ribbon Race, Secret Agent Barbie: Royal Jewels Mission
Barney's Hide & Seek, The Lion King
Wirehead
Ax Battler: A Legend of Golden Axe, Coca-Cola Kid
The Daedalus Encounter
VA-11 HALL-A, What Remains of Edith Finch

The entire VOD is up on my twitch channel and here's a screen cap from when I finished the last page.

Antipop wrote:

Cool. In that case I may be finishing up Celeste for Switch today or tomorrow. I'm coming in strong this month.

@sharif dropping 26 at once, taking the top spot.

@sharif Holy crap! And happy b-day!

Well any hopes any of us had at earning the top games completed mushroom for February seem about busted now. But no joke 26 games in 13+ hours is mighty impressive. Nice work @sharif
I also beat Death Squared I think in '19 on X1, concur it's a solid title.

Finished World War Z on PC with my son. I think another category or another icon could be for online coop and couch coop.

#5 Crash Nitro Kart

@sharif nice barbieman, making antipop work

@Antipop loves to give out the Barbie badge

Damn, nice @sharif. And happy birthday as well!

I'm gonna be starting up what is surely to be a delightful jankfest, Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood hopefully this weekend. Honestly the gameplay looks kinda even though I'm sure its repetitive. Cyanide has made some decent stuff

#19 The Medium sigh. Why don't we have more Silent Hill esque games like this? I was sucked in and it wasn't even great. Just a solid atmospheric horror game that this market is starved for. Damn you Konami. Damn you to heck.

Kommie wrote:

I'll have you know that the first badge I devised for this thread was the Barbie icon. So talk to the hand.

Cevil wrote:

Yeah and I've spent over an hour updating and fooling with this thread today, so I ain't messing around with it anymore!





...this weekend.

Same. I enjoyed the game mostly, but the maps are terrible, and I still haven't finished the platinum because I keep getting lost trying to find collectibles. I hate the lack of fast travel. I can't even find the ship to leave half the time.

Archer wrote:

Antipop wrote:

And didn't you create it for @sharif last year too when he did his run on the Barbie titles? All coming full circle.

Have to admit that the badges were a key reason why this thread hooked me last year and I want to earn more again this year, so I do appreciate them a lot.

Slickriven wrote:


You are correct, sir.

I beat Portal on Xbox One X via BC.

Also, I finished up Celeste on Switch since it's a different platform.

Game #15 and System #9

Concept Destruction -

A fun little destruction derby game. The cars are all made out of cardboard and run on AA batteries. Not a lot of meat to this one. Its very short career mode. And doesn't have an online mode, which seems strange. It has a multiplayer option in the menu, but its not accessible. So I think they haven't added it to the game yet or something. Played this with my nephew today for about 2.5 hours. Local split screen is decent. But can be hard to see during a pile up due to the camera not really being all that great. The career mode only took about an hour as well.

@Antipop

Tuff E Nuff

I beat ABZU on last night. I liked this WAY more than Journey but it's still just a walking sim... That gives me the Guybrush badge (Shuyan Saga). I was planning on running through some other games last night but I just wasn't feeling it. Gonna start The Witcher 2 now

#20 - Eastshade so this is what it would feel like to be a painter by trade in an Elder Scrolls universe. Very immersive exploration game but
on the short side.

I'm going back to playing The Legend of Heroes series for now, so I won't be beating stuff that fast anymore.

i joined a d&d group last week, so my gaming is gonna drop some and ive been playing longer games

#19 down: Immortals: Fenyx Rising on PS5. This had an interesting story, and I actually enjoyed the dialogue, although I know not everyone did. The art style is the sort that isn't typically my thing, but it grew on me. The combat was interesting (although I never felt like I had very cool powers (with a couple of exceptions) even with all these level-ups, skill points assigned to various upgrades, and blessings from the gods. For a game steeped in mythology, I was hoping I would get some fancier tricks. Also, I hate puzzles, and this game is just filled with them. Some of them were interesting, but I just felt like most of them were tedious things I had to slog through to get to the next part of the story. I bought the gold version and already redeemed the season pass right away, so I'll be back to this for the DLC and the platinum eventually though. All in all, it's a pretty good but not great game. I'd give it a 7/10.

@Antipop- Could you please add a PC to my list? I have a new gaming PC coming in this week and preemptively loaded up on a bunch of games, so I'll definitely have something for that before too long.

Just finished Super Mario 3D Land for 3DS. I played half of it on my 3DS, then carried it over to my PC to play it on the TV upscaled to 1080p. I will say it had its pros and cons. Pro was the game looked really nice in HD and controlled great with an Xbox One/Switch Pro controller. Con was the lack of 3D. The game was absolutely made to be played in 3D, and without it the depth perception is super off.

I figured playing it on PC was the best alternative to that game ever getting an HD port since it was fundamentally built for the 3DS.

Finished up Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood on Xbox Series X. 5/10 at best, and thats only because werewolf slashing mofos to heavy metal is pretty metal. Everything else is just boring, and some of the cheaper enemies can sometimes make the combat frustrating (seems to sometimes demand more skill than it offers the player to work with). Meh. Its FS/FT if anyone wants it. I got most of the achievements as well, but it requires a 2nd playthrough to see the different ending since it relies on autosaves only - and thats another thing with some games lately, only relying on autosaves, I dont like this practice.

The heavy metal feature was a big draw for me. I was like werewolves + metal? Uh yes please! Think I'll wait now for a deep deep sale and I'm not a fan of auto-save only. Auto save is fine, but let me manual save too and have the best of both worlds. Let me choose my own fate!

Tried to play something on Xbox & the the video constantly cuts out nonstop. Not sure what happened. It was fine last time I played it a few months ago.
Then my Wii isn't outputting audio at all & not sure what's up with that. Worked fine last I played it too.
If video isn't misbehaving from PS2, is playable enough. Last game I played last year, later looking at the disc after it was acting up, there's a circular scratch going around the disc. Not sure if my PS2 did it, or was already like that when trader sent it to me. A little worried about trying another game & it scratches the game, if it is my system that did it. Want to run a laser clear disc on it first, I can tolerate that getting scratched. Can't find & don't remember where I last put that laser cleaner disc. Although it did play dvd for hours & disc wasn't scratched.
hmph

MFCOMMAND wrote:

What game?

just beat pokemon x for pc

Well..got the 9 year plaque today.

Nice try but you don't beat GTZ until you get that 18 year plaque.

But congrats!

Hey I'll still be here as long as it's not a graveyard.

#20 down: Armored Warriors on PS4 via Capcom Beat 'Em Up collection. This was pretty fun. It's a classic side scrolling beat 'em up with the twist that you're in a mech and can change your parts by picking up pieces of mechs you destroy. (You can get faster wheels, a drill arm, an electric beam cannon thing, etc.)

beat Kingdom Hearts III

ErickRPG wrote:

Can you explain what actually happens in these games?

Kommie wrote:

I only played KHIII so nah. Haha. Best I can understand is it centers around Xehonart the main villain. There are the keyblade wielders that are the light, and the 13 which are agents of dark. A lot of the bad guys are copies of the good guys using replicas. Yeah it's a lot of wishy washy bullcrap. But I was able to follow it. I did recognize Aqua and the other 2 boys which were playable characters of Rebirth on PSP, which I did play a little of.

I beat Paper Mario: The Origami King tonight. I guess ErickRPG was right about the writing, but I liked it overall. I'd still put it below the first 3 PM games, though.

I'm a KH fan and I have no idea what happened in the 3rd game other than some order 13 crap I forgot immediately. The first 2 games though are more coherent with a higher focus on Xemnas and Riku with a bit more emotional depth as you felt more invested in the characters and their separation and reconnection, sacrifices and triumphs, but there's still convoluted plot holes they try and fill in with the other 2029292 spin off bs games. KH3 just felt tacked on and rushed in some areas and I felt they couldn't close thr trilogy properly to give it a meaningful send off. The lack of Square FF characters was an odd choice I thought for KH3 too.

BloodPuppetX wrote:

I still "like" it. It's just while I was playing I remember back to Super Paper Mario and that dorky Fulawful or w/e his name was. (the online posting nerd). It was so funny, charming and well written. I guess the Fire Emblem team made this game? They just don't have that charm of Nintendo. Nintendo needs to handle these types of games themselves and not outsource it to secondary 1st party teams.

Intelligent Systems (studio behind FE) has always developed the Paper Mario series. It just comes down to who did the writing. The last 3 games were all written by Taro Kudo, while the first 3 games had different writers.

Another game down: Leo's Fortune for iOS. I played this a few times before a couple of years ago, but I didn't remember a ton about it. Neat little physics platforms that looks absolutely stunning years later. Somewhat janky though.

Only one system left: Quest 2. Maybe I'll clear Robo Recall Unplugged or Pistol Whip 2089, I'm not sure.

Beat Silent Hill: Shattered Memories for the PSP today. The following screencap describes my feelings for the game perfectly.

BloodPuppetX wrote:

I see, last 3 games include Sticker Star? I think the writing in Color Splash was damn good actually. In fact I think I like it better than Origami King. Maybe it's just the oragami girl thing, guess everyone is allowed a slight dud every once in awhile.

@Antipop beat GTZ today! Grats!

ErickRPG wrote:

Yeah, he started writing them beginning with Sticker Star. I didn't play Color Splash for long at all. I think that's when my game pad broke and I never replaced (or fixed) it.