Games Beaten 2018

by **MrPopo** Mon Jul 23, 2018 1:16 am

The bat grab gives me a morbid fascination when there's a pack of them, because you can play "The floor is lava".

by **Ack** Mon Jul 23, 2018 10:44 am

1. Jungle Book (SNES)(Platformer)
2. Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge (SNES)(Light Gun Shooter)
3. Might and Magic VI (PC)(RPG)
4. Revenant (PC)(RPG)
5. Neo Turf Masters (NGPC)(Sports)
6. Fatal Fury: First Contact (NGPC)(Fighter)
7. Pac-Man (NGPC)(Action)
8. Golden Axe (Genesis)(Hack and Slash)
9. Blood and Bacon (PC)(FPS)
10. Gain Ground (Genesis)(Strategy)
11. Flicky (Genesis)(Platformer)
12. Zombie Shooter 2 (PC)(Top-Down Shooter)
13. Phantasmagoria (PC)(Point and Click)
14. SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighter's Clash - Capcom Version (NGPC)(Card Game)
15. Toonstruck (PC)(Point and Click)
16. Riven (PC)(Point and Click)
17. Dragon Wars (PC)(RPG)
18. Dungeon Hack (PC)(RPG)
19. SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium (NGPC)(Fighter)
20. Portal 2 (PC)(Puzzle FPS)
21. Goat Simulator: Waste of Space (PC)(Action)
22. Goat Simulator: Payday (PC)(Action)
23. Goat Simulator: MMO Simulator (PC)(Action)
24. Goat Simulator: GoatZ (PC)(Action)
25. Goat Simulator (PC)(Action)
26. Streets of Rage 2 (Genesis)(Beat 'Em Up)
27. Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon (PC)(Action Platformer)
28. Deadlight (PC)(Platformer)
28. Antichamber (PC)(Puzzle FPS)
29. S.C.A.R.S. (N64)(Racing)
30. Anvil of Dawn (PC)(RPG)
31. Earth Defense Force 4.1 (PC)(Action)

Do you want to shoot giant bugs?

Do you want to blast alien warships out of the sky?

Do you want to use a giant robot to beat up a giant lizard?

Do you want to do all of this while wandering through destructible environments, listening to the other grunts in your platoon lose all hope or sing songs while swarms of massive ants, spiders, wasps, dragons, killer robots, and alien fighter drones rip them a new one?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then Earth Defense Force 4.1 is for you! Just pick one of four classes, select one of the 89 levels, and pick your difficulty, and then go to town! Thrill as you level an unnamed Japanese city that you're supposedly protecting! Watch as the Earth is overrun with alien forces hellbent on conquering our planet! Listen as you are told that over half the Earth's population is wiped out, and areas like Hawaii or Sydney, Australia, have been wiped from the face of the planet.

Yes, the game looks like something from the PS2 days, but that's because if you see a building, you can blow it up! After all, aliens can't level the city if there's not a city to level! And as for sound, who doesn't want to listen to a bunch of goofy-sounding voice actors talk about what they want for dinner, whether they'll get married, and how this whole experience has ruined aliens for them forever.

If you have read to this point, it's time I get serious. Earth Defense Force 4.1 is a simplistic game: play a level, shoot stuff, collect weapons and more health, move to the next level, eventually win. It's formulaic, it's ridiculous and over the top, and it's also quite addictive in the way that a game like Dynasty Warriors is. The game also tracks progress across all difficulty levels and character classes, so you might become extremely good at the basic soldier, the Ranger, but have put no progress into improving the vehicle guy, called an Air Raider. Also, do the math: 89 levels, 5 difficulties, 4 character classes = 1780 levels to get through total. That's a lot of levels. EDF 4.1 is something that you get on discount and play a long time, not because it's visually stunning or mentally stimulating, but because it's good, clean fun with a setting reminiscent of kaiju movies or 1950s B-movie sci-fi from a Japanese perspective. And with so many levels, it's a lot of content to keep coming back to. EDF 4.1 will last you for ages. Heck, I've beaten the game on Normal now with one class, done 50 levels on Easy and 30 on Hard, and I'm not even 10% of the way into the game.

Plus, the game does get steadily more ridiculous, both in the foes you face and in the weapons you'll obtain. I recently found a grenade launcher that shoots a sticky bomb which ignites in a geyser of fire. Quite literally, a geyser, with force behind it. You can use it to set traps for enemies, but I get much more entertainment out of firing at an enemy and then watching as the flame geyser operates like a jet engine and launches them into the air. Now that's entertainment.

by **Flake** Mon Jul 23, 2018 5:35 pm

January:

Yakuza Kiwami (PS4)
Batman: The Telltale Series (PS4)
Super Mario Odyssey (Switch)
Mario vs Donkey Kong: Minis March Again (DSi ware)

February:

Roundabout (PS4)
Pocket Fighter (PSX)
Double Dragon Neon (PS3)
Batman Arkham VR(PSVR)

March:

Gundam Versus (PS4)

April:

Batman: The Enemy Within (PS4)
Megaman 9 (PS4)
Megaman 10 (PS4)

May:

The Legend of Zelda: BotW (Switch)
Injustice: Gods Among Us (PS4)
Metroid: Zero Mission (GBA/WiiU)

June:

Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors Dreams (Switch)
Megaman (Switch)
Megaman 2 (Switch)
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (PS4)
Ikaruga (Switch)
Batman: Tell Tale Series (Switch)
Gunbird (Switch)
Street Fighter Alpha 2 (Switch)
Caladrius Blaze (PS4)

July:

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater HD (PS3)
Street Fighter (PS4)
Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (PS4)

Revisiting old favorites in new wrappers this month! Not a lot to say about these games since they are so well known. A Haiku for each about how I felt, then:

Metal Gear Solid 3:
My despair at Trump
Solace in fighting Russians
Throwing poison scorpions

Street Fighter:
First time to play it
Since once at Taco Bueno
Back in '94[/b]

Street Fighter II: World Warriors
Not bad, truthfully
Slow movement, hard blows
Sagat is bullshit

by **prfsnl_gmr** Mon Jul 23, 2018 11:52 pm

I like your reviews.
They are all elegant poems.
Let’s bring back that thread!

by **dsheinem** Tue Jul 24, 2018 7:59 am

Games Beaten 2018
The first 50:

Super Night Riders - PC
Slap City - PC
Ultraflow - iOS
Grim Dawn - PC
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus - PC *new*

Total: 55

Previously: 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010

I thought that this was one of the weaker entries in the series and in the recent run of Bethesda-published classic iD revamps. It doubles down on a lot of what made the previous game in the series an interesting (and fun) reboot, but there was far too much story in this one for my taste - I don't play Wolfenstein games for 10 minute cutscenes and annoying missions where I have to run around a hub base to grab a trinket...to advance a NPC character's development...to watch another cutscene...to finally get into a mission where I get to shoot Nazis. Though the story's presence is too overstated, it is nonetheless interesting enough and has its fair share of awesome and/or WTF moments, and the gunplay is not too far off of the previous game...but the map design is largely built around a stealth system that doesn't work very well, enemy AI is lacking, and the boss fights aren't especially memorable compared to those in previous Wolfenstein games (the final boss "fight" is barely even a QTE). I am glad I played it, but I can't recommend it as easily as I can the other more recent iD reboot titles (The New Order, The Old Blood, Doom, Doom VFR, etc.).

by **Flake** Tue Jul 24, 2018 9:34 am

prfsnl_gmr wrote:I like your reviews.
They are all elegant poems.
Let’s bring back that thread!

To that fun format
I am planning a return
Thanks for the Feedback!

- no but seriously, I forgot how much fun it is to try and encompass a game experience into 5x7x5. I also miss an even older thread I did forever ago where you would recount the plot or point of a game in the most literal way possible.

Like Super Metroid: Space bondsman goes off on her own to murder a planet of kidnappers and save a baby. Fails to save baby.

by **Forlorn Drifter** Thu Jul 26, 2018 7:31 pm

@dsh,

I haven't played TNC yet, but I've been put off by most of the reviews I read on it. Mostly stuff like the weird ups and downs in difficulty, and stealth not working as well (none of the reviews I read pegged down why though). Any thoughts on that? You mentioned stealth, I just want to get a bit more in depth on that.

by **MrPopo** Thu Jul 26, 2018 8:10 pm

My experience was that you have only one or two weapons that let you stealth, and then lots of weapons for going loud. And the level design definitely is not designed to allow you to go full stealth; there are points where unless you are hyper patient then you are going to have to tip off SOMEONE that you're around. I ended up using stealth as a way to conserve resources until I failed it, then I would go loud. The weird thing is there are a ton of spots where you get tools for going stealth, like getting under a narrow opening to be able to pop out and axe someone without them raising an alarm. But then there's other parts where there just is no hole in the enemy coverage.

by **pook99** Fri Jul 27, 2018 12:02 am

219. Rescue rangers (nes)
220. Life force (nes)
221. Mega man 3 (nes)
222. Contra 3: alien wars (snes)

Had the day off today and played through these 4 games, all games I have played in the past, and just like to replay from time to time.

In honor of mega man 11 being released this year I decided to play through all 10 mega man games and mega man 3 is the last one I needed to play.

I don't think I need to write a review of mega man 3, it is likely that the vast majority of people on this board have played it and probably love it. Mega man 3 typically gets put on a pedastel alongside mega man 2 as the best mega man game. Although I have played all of these games in the past, and many multiple times, I have never played all 10 in such a short time span, as such I will try and order mega man games from my favorite to least favorite and would like to hear everyone else's opinions on the subject, here is mine:

Please note, regardless of where the game falls on the list, I love every one of these games(except the one I placed last), and feel that even the mega man games that rate lower on this list are still among the best games of all time.

Favorite:
1) Mega Man 9 --one of the few mega man games I have never replayed until now and it really blew me away, amazing level design and the most useful sub weapons alongside a really solid challenge makes this my new favorite mega man game, I did miss the charge shot and am looking forward to its return in 11, but it does not hinder the immense enjoyment I got from this game.

2) Mega Man 2 and 3: tied for second place, I'm going to not pick a side on which one is better, they are both amazing games, they both pull at my nostalgia strings as I play them. 2 in particular brings out lots of warm fuzzy memories for me, I remember reading about it in nintendo power and was so excited to play it. When I finally got it I remember being completely blown away by the larger than life sprites(things like the fish in bubble mans stage, the dragon boss, the platforms in air man stage and so much more) Mega Man 2 was one of the greatest games I had played in my life up to that point but when I take the nostalgia goggles off I can't say for sure that it is better than 3. three does a ton of great things, has lots of great levels and weapons, introduces the slides, and is a much longer game thanks to the 4 extra stages you have to play before wilys caslte.

4) Mega Man 5: IMO, the most underrated game in the series. 5 gets lumped in with 6 as being lackluster entries, but I just don't see it. I did not play 5 as a kid so no nostalgia goggles here, I first played it in my late teens/early twenties when I was managing funcoland and really enjoyed it at the time, every few years I replay it and I always completely fall in love with it when I do. After playing it so close to the other mega man games it definitely falls into the upper tier of the series

5) Mega Man 1: Realistically, this game probably deserves to be lower on the list, but I am letting nostalgia win here.

6) Mega Man 4: I love the charge shot, lots of people mark 4 as the downturn of the series, but it is a very solid title that does the series justice. I think how you feel about 4-6 depends alot on how you feel about the charge shot, I love it, as a result I love this game, but many purists hate the charge shot and for that reason(that and not much new being introduced at this point) hate this game

7) Mega Man 6: I loved the rush suits in this game, particularly the jet pack. 6 is probably the easiest game in the series, but the only real complaint I have about it is how clunky it is to constantly switch suits, this game could have really benefited from more buttons.

Mega Man 7

9) Mega Man 8 (ps1): I enjoyed 8, but the gameplay felt clunky compared to other games in the series. I also absolutely hated the stupid skateboard segments. Still a fun time, if for nothing else to enjoy the worst voice acting in the history of gaming, I can't help but laugh everytime Dr. Light opens his mouth.

10) Mega Man 10-- I played 10 and 9 in pretty close proximity, after I beat 9, I went back to 6 and then started 10. Mega man 10 is the only game in the series that I did not enjoy at all and it is the only game I am likely to never play again. I felt the level design was not fun and it was hard for all the wrong reasons. A huge step down from 9.

by **dsheinem** Fri Jul 27, 2018 8:00 am

pook, how have you managed to beat more than a game per day so far this year? I mean, I realize a lot of these games you have played can be super short, but many of them also require a lot of trial and error, route memorizing, etc. in order to be completed without save states, credit-feeding, cheat codes, etc. Are you just using some of these things to play the games through to the credits, or are you beating them all under the default conditions? Either is fine - I am just curious. I don’t think we’ve seen these kinds of numbers from anyone in the 8 years or so we’ve run this thread....

On TNC - the game is more difficult if you try to employ stealth, I think, because neither the AI nor the levels are well designed for it. The game encourages you in a number of ways to try to be stealthy, but there’s really no reason to do so unless you want to go for stealth achievements or some such. By contrast, there are lots of places in the game where a ton of ammo and health is laying around, and enemies always drop weapons and armor, so I never really felt I had to worry about resource management. I think people who have complained about difficulty likely tried to do what the game steered them towards (stealth)...but there’s no real reason to play it that way.

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