Games Beaten 2016

Post by **MrPopo** » Thu Dec 01, 2016 5:29 pm

First 50:

51. Ori and the Blind Forest - Xbox One
52. AM2R - PC
53. Total Annihilation - PC
54. I Am Setsuna - PS4
55. Planetary Annihilation Titans - PC
56. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - PC
57. Dark Reign - Rise of the Shadowhand - PC
58. Dragon Age Inquisition - Jaws of Hakkon - PC
59. Dragon Age Inquisition - The Descent - PC
60. Dragon Age Inquisition - Trespasser - PC
61. The Witcher 3 - Hearts of Stone - PC
62. The Witcher 3 - Blood & Wine - PC
63. ReCore - Xbox One
64. Final Fantasy Tactics - PS1
65. Resident Evil 6 - PC
66. Knuckles Chaotix - 32X
67. Assault Suit Leynos - PS4
68. Might & Magic 2 - Gate to Another World - PC
69. Might & Magic 4 - Clouds of Xeen - PC
70. Might & Magic 5 - Darkside of Xeen - PC
71. Might & Magic 4&5 - World of Xeen - PC
72. Rise of the Triad - PC
73. Batman Arkham Knight - PC
74. Rise of the Triad (2013) - PC
75. Dishonored 2 - PC
76. TIS-100 - PC
77. Tyranny - PC
78. StarCraft II - Nova Covert Ops - PC
79. Raiden Fighters 2 - Xbox 360

1cc w/ Fairy bitches!

When my work moved into a new office they set aside a room next to the kitchen as a game room with Foosball and a 360. So I brought in my copy of Raiden Fighters Legacy and have been working on it ever since. I've been bouncing around mostly between 2 and Jet; I've 1cc'd Jet for the other endings but I still have getting the true ending on my list to consider it truly beat. And 1 doesn't have the hilariously overpowered Fairy, so I've spent the least time with that.

Like Raiden Fighters before it, Raiden Fighters 2 consists of seven levels divided into two waves and a final boss level. Each wave is two regular levels and then a boss stage, where the boss stage involves slowly destroying all the pieces of some extremely large military vehicle. In this game the first wave's boss is a military convey train studded with turrets and the second wave's boss is some kind of giant crawling tank in the desert. The final stage consists of a pre-boss boss and a final boss. The pre-boss is a fixed emplacement that spawns the super nasty tanks the final level has and a couple of turrets, but has the same amount of health as the other bosses of the stages. But that merely transitions you to a short powerup sequence before the final boss, which is a mobile plane with tons of health.

Raiden Fighters 2 doubles the cast of playable ships from Raiden Fighters when everything is fully unlocked. There is something for everyone, so you just need to try it out and find the plane that matches your playstyle. In my case I went with the hilariously broken Fairy, which is the slave option of the Miclus ship. The Miclus's bomb is 5 seconds of a highly damaging firebreath that makes you invincible for the duration. The Fairy uses the same bomb and has the standard slave five way shot. This means boss encounters come down to point blanking the boss with a bomb and killing the boss before the invincibility wears off. Only the final boss is different; it requires three bombs worth of firepower and you have a half second of cooldown before you can bomb again, so you need to know his pattern enough to know if a shot is coming down the center or not. Or you could take the super hard route and use a normal ship.

Jet is going to be my next focus here at the office. They nerfed the firebreath bomb to only be threeish seconds long, so it's more critical to know the boss patterns so you only use it to skip past a fire pattern and maintain as much damage as possible, rather than dodging. The furthest I've gotten in Jet so far is to Real Battle 1.

Post by **Sarge** » Thu Dec 01, 2016 6:25 pm

January:

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November:
144) Castlevania (NES)
145) Chip 'N' Dale's Rescue Rangers 2 (NES)
146) Chip 'N' Dale's Rescue Rangers (NES)
147) Gain Ground (GEN)
148) ActRaiser 2 (legit) (SNES)
149) The Rocketeer (NES)
150) Adventures in the Magic Kingdom (NES)
151) Kung Fu
152) Spartan X 2
153) Xexyz (NES)
154) Warlock Bentspine (PC)
155) Rise of the Tomb Raider (PS4)
156) Rise of the Tomb Raider - Baba Yaga: The Temple of the Witch (PS4) (DLC)
157) Rise of the Tomb Raider - Cold Darkness Awakened (PS4) (DLC)
158) Rise of the Tomb Raider - Blood Ties (PS4) (DLC)

December:
159) Rise of the Tomb Raider - Lara's Nightmare (PS4) (DLC)

How do you get your game count up? NES games, and short DLCs!

I actually thought Baba Yaga was part of the main game, but it's not. I ended up enjoying it quite a bit, it's a nicely involved sub-area that will probably take around two hours to mop up. Definitely solid content, although I don't know how much they charged for it on release.

Cold Darkness Awakened is a little different. It's basically Lara Croft vs. zombies. Yay. Well, it's not that bad, but it is a bit insubstantial compared to the other offerings. You can only take it on as an expedition mission, and it has randomized elements each time you play through it. Shutting down the towers basically revolves around a simple binary tree. Are there more than eight fuses in the three fuse boxes? Then connect this conduit. Otherwise, pull this switch. Of course, you get to fight zombies in the meantime. You're looking at an hour to finish a run through this, depending on how thorough you want to be.

Blood Ties has zero action whatsoever. It's more exploratory stuff that fills in Lara's backstory (and her parents). It's actually pretty interesting overall, and provides a nice amount of character building. A completionist run is around 1.5 to 2 hours.

The last bit of DLC that I need to finish is Lara's Nightmare, which apparently combines a zombie-infested manor with floating skulls that shoot fire at you, and a pretty tough final boss? This should be different.

Post by **Stark** » Thu Dec 01, 2016 6:45 pm

Baba Yaga was $10 on release.

Post by **Sarge** » Thu Dec 01, 2016 9:13 pm

Pretty pricey for two hours of content... but then, there are games that only last five these days, for $60. So perhaps not so bad.

Post by **ElkinFencer10** » Thu Dec 01, 2016 9:34 pm

I just finished the Baba Yaga 100% last night. Still working on 100% the rest of the game - I'm about at 75% I think - but with the exception of the hanging lantern challenge (two of my ten were glitched so that there was no flame and they were snapping all around the radius of the rope, so I had to just rapid fire at it and hope I eventually hit something), it was a damn solid little side story.

Post by **ExedExes** » Fri Dec 02, 2016 12:16 am

1. Flag to Flag - Dreamcast (January 12)
2. The Battle of Olympus - NES (January 18)
3. Thunder Force AC - Arcade/MAME (February 6)
4. Golden Axe - Arcade/MAME (February 14)
5. Rod-Land - Arcade/MAME (February 22)
6. Xexyz - NES (March 14)
7. Smuggler's Run: Warzones - Gamecube (March 26)
8. Rad Racer - NES (March 27)
9. Rad Racer II - NES (March 27)
10. Rise of the Triad 2013 - PC (April 23)
11. Call of Juarez: Bound In Blood - PC (June 2)
12. Call of Duty: World At War - PC (June 26)
13. Medal of Honor: Infiltrator - GBA (June 27)
14. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon - Island Thunder - PC (July 14)
15. Feel The Magic XY/XX - DS (August 9)
16. Clubhouse Games - DS (September 1)
17. Alone In The Dark - PC (October 12)
18. Super Ghouls N Ghosts - GBA (October 31)
19. *NEW* Solaris - Atari 2600 (December 1)

I never thought I could do it, playing the game for years and getting NOWHERE as a result, but this was the game that gave 2600 owners like me up to 1989 a little more bang for our buck. I used this site and finally did it, on my last life and one unit of fuel. It doesn't get anymore more dramatic than that.

Post by **Exhuminator** » Fri Dec 02, 2016 1:26 am

126. Exile | TGCD | 1992 | 7/10

Exile is 1991 remake of XZR II, a 1988 PC-88 game. It was first developed for PCECD, and then ported to Mega Drive. In 1992, Working Designs published Exile in English for the TurboGrafx-CD, while Renovation Products published the Genesis version. These two versions of the game in English had some significant differences. Firstly the Genesis version censored things like poo flies buzzing, naked women, and villagers burning at the stake. While the Working Designs TGCD localization was less censored, Vic got a little carried away with his "jokes" at times. He just couldn't help himself, poor guy.

If you like slicing with a sword you've come to the right game.

The game itself is an action-RPG/platformer hybrid. It reminded me of Ys III, Prince of Persia, and ActRaiser all blended together. You slash monsters with your sword and magic, gain experience for leveling up, collect gold to buy better gear, you know the drill. What was not conventional was Exile's plot line. It's basically insane, and to think the USA version was toned down! I really don't know what was going on, other than your protagonist Sadler wants to save the world using a mythical long lost device. However, I really enjoyed Sadler's bad attitude. At one point Sadler audibly threatens to strangle someone to death with their own entrails. And speaking of the dub, it's actually rather good! A real rarity for when this game was released.

Your companions will constantly change throughout the adventure.

While Exile's first half hour is pretty rough (read: hard) as soon as you gain some levels and get better gear, the difficulty starts to taper off. Yeah the maze dungeons will aggravate you sometimes, but you'll get by. The bosses however can be excruciating bastards if you're not at the appropriate level yet. So expect some mandatory grinding for levels and cash. I doubt the Japanese version's bosses were such ridiculous brick walls, it's likely another case of Working Designs "improving" the localization. At least you can listen to an excellent soundtrack* while you whack away countless baddies. Some people prefer the Genesis' OST, but I'll stick with the TGCD's.

They stole his loincloth.

So dear reader, if you are of fine enough gaming taste to enjoy platforming action-RPGs, I recommend Exile for TGCD. It's not perfect sure, especially at the beginning, but it just keeps getting better and better. (It's also pretty short, I finished Exile in less than four hours.) You may or may not appreciate the offbeat humor, but the great anime cutscenes will keep you interested. So come and enjoy conversing with Pythagoras while you drink wine with dancing nudists.

TGCD does what Genesisdon't!

*My favorite track "Big Junction": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1VNCbOjXaQ

Post by **BoneSnapDeez** » Fri Dec 02, 2016 9:28 am

As I recall, in the Genesis version it was very easy to power-level at the beginning and then sail through the remainder of the game.

Have you played Ys III?

Post by **Exhuminator** » Fri Dec 02, 2016 9:40 am

BoneSnapDeez wrote:Have you played Ys III?

Yes, I beat the TGCD version years ago. I had a good time.

Post by **Sarge** » Fri Dec 02, 2016 1:27 pm

Instead of posting the list again, here's my impressions of Lara's Nightmare. It's intense. Like, seriously so. You've got pretty limited ammunition, the zombies never stop coming, and you've got to poke around for those three rage skulls before taking on the big bad version. It looks like something straight out of DOOM, honestly.

Anyway, enemies don't stop coming in that final fight. You've got to get your shot in, but keep your head on a swivel so you don't get swarmed by zombies. When you do enough damage, it will pop up a force field and summon a bunch of zombies you have to kill. This gets really tricky when it starts throwing the demon dogs at you. Anyway, the most effective weapon for shooting the boss was the bolt-action rifle, since one good shot brings him to his next phase each time. You've got to time it right, though, because there are also rocks swirling around him that can block your shots.

Did I mention that you have no checkpoints with this? If you die, you get to do it all from scratch. It's short (and randomized), but again, intense. And if you get cornered, you're probably going to die. Lara's not in her fully-leveled form here, so it doesn't take much to die, and recovering from damage takes quite a bit of time. The main game, with the right skills, almost makes you into a tank.

Anyway, fun DLC, and way, way different from the main game. And with that, I'm pretty much done with all the content I'm going to play in Rise of the Tomb Raider. Again, totally worth the wait.

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