Completion Thread 2012: Hai! Dekimashita!

I kind of wish I hadn't played it! Because it did the whole zombie thing so perfectly, I don't think another zombie game will every really live up to it. Lollipop chainsaw feels like a series of minigames now. And many of the RE games now feel silly.

I wish more games would go for that kind of gameplay. Where you get dumped in an area and have to survive or escape in so much time. And everything else is a sandbox and you can do what you want.

The 53,000 kill achievement felt like a Brock Samson game. Or at least the way I did it, did. I went to the basement with a car and would ram into a large group of zombies and then knock the car into reverse and sling the rear end around in a circle, then jet forward again.

Man, that needs to be a game. Brock Samson escapes the league of calamitous intent.

Just go play DR2 OTR now.

Assassin's Creed: Revelations

With AC 3 getting really close, I wanted to be up to date. Took me a few months of stop and start, but I finished the story and messed around with it for a bit longer after that, so I count it as done and I'm moving on. I really liked Brotherhood and while it took awhile for me to get in the groove, this was a good follow up. Puts Altaire and Ezio to rest so the story can move on. Keeps the assassin recruitment and training mini game which I liked, I always liked rolling around town with serious back up. New was the "tower defense" mode for defending your assassin dens. Didn't like it. Don't want to do that shit in a AC game and thankfully I only had to go through it twice (thankfully, it's pretty easy to avoid). I wasn't a fan of the bomb crafting addition, but ended up loving it. You can make different bombs for distraction, kills and cover. You constantly get supplies to build them so you never have to hoard them, just experiment and have fun. My favorite: sticky shrapnel bombs with fuses! Tail a guard, peg him in the back and slink away. Couple seconds later, bodies go flying and no one is alerted to your presence.

It's a solid game, a ton of things to do and collect, good mission variety. High production value all around, still looks really good, great VO and soundtrack. The running controls felt stiffer than I remember from Brotherhood (easy to get caught on stuff) and they STILL haven't made an animation for walking upstairs. Drives me nuts. They make all these crazy detailed animations for fighting and climbing but everyone glides up steps like a ghost.

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Originally Posted by GohanX

I haven't played it either, it looks really cool. Maybe I should make a few...

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Yes please!

#18.

Great game! I really would like to play this with dual analog and updated visuals. The bosses were really easy though, and the game is kind of short (only 5 stages in all). If Sega's not going to give us a true sequel, then it should remake this one. This is a true Saturn classic that deserves more love.

The replay value is just the collect-a-thon aspect but I would purchase a remake at full price.

Beat doom 3 again. Still the best survival horror game.

27) Deus Ex (PC) - Normal, "The Collapse" ending. Cut off coolant to reactor at Area 51, then mess with switches in the reactor lab to bring it all down

This was a LONG game clocking in at around 21 hours to finish, but it did not seem to "drag on". You're going around the world here- starting off in New York, while ending up in Hong Kong and Paris eventually. What you do (or fail to do) in the game at key points can come back to haunt you later, leading to certain NPCs dying, being pissed off and not giving you helpful items, or even returning to kill you. Melee combat is deeper than Human Revolution's since you don't just use takedowns. It's not "Ohhh-K, press Q and slam this fucker into the flloor- goodnight". The riot prod allows you to go for non-lethal KOs, while there are several deadly weapons like the crowbar and even the Dragon Tooth sword that can kill most enemies in one hit. The latter helped out on stealth kills, and all the other H2H weapons became worthless to me once I got it.

I didn't bother playing pacifist style (Dragon Tooth sword, Assault rifle, and GEP Gun were usually in my arsenal along with an occasional sniper) but the tranquilizer darts were handy at times. Men in Black go KABLAM when killed- good if you have one near some other enemies. If there's a friendly character nearby, that can suck.

The GEP Gun (launcher) isn't a bad weapon, but there was another thing I found it even more useful for: blowing doors to splinters when short on lockpicks. While the hacking just involves waiting a few seconds for the ICE Breaker to do its thing, it's awesome to hijack a security bot and watch it mow down MJ12 troops.

Still a solid FPS title overall, especially with the New Vision upgrade installed to spruce up the majority of textures. I wouldn't mind seeing a remake done with DXHR's engine.

80. Torchlight II

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Beaten on Normal. I loved this game. I haven't played a top-down, loot-based action RPG since the very title they molded this from (including staff from the original D2). So much to enjoy. Presentation is a noticeable softening and much more detailed edition of the graphics from the first game. Cartoony/surrealistic WoWish art. Four classes, which may sound little, but they are all interesting enough to try out. I started out as an Engineer and usually around this time of year, I immediately skip to the next game to make good time, but I enjoy this so much, I re-started almost right away to play as a female Embermage (Sorceress) to mix things up.

Character creation now goes the fair amount of choices I expected in the first game (which I haven't finished). Gender, face, hair, eye color, but an assortment of 7-8 different kind of pets, which you can feed food you fish in ponds (the ponds have rarity ranks) to momentarily transform them into beasts, each with their strategic strengths and weaknesses.

There are a ton of things done extremely well with menus, they either picked up from successful game or based on feedback from the first game. Being able to use your pet as an inventory mule, send it off to town to sell items and even request him/her to order you more HP/MP Identity/Warp Scrolls is genius. I love that. Simple clicks to switch tabs between you and your pets inventory are great. Shift+Click to move junk or prized possessions from owner to pet and vice versa. Right-click to auto-swap the currently highlighted inventory item with an equipped one. An auto-organize button to not waste time sorting things every time.

Loot, like most games is classed by font color (orange being the highest) and I found quite a bunch of things during my sole playthrough (took me roughly 15 hours). Some sadly reserved for other classes, but I've yet to check if the stashes in towns can be used to swap items with other owned characters.

Like I said, I picked an Engineer, who is more a crowd-centric tank who can summon bots and turrets to help him. There are skills for both dual-wielded weapons and large cannons. With some pricey mana and hp leaching/regen stones socketted into them, I was pretty much invincible for a good while. Already on my 2nd playthrough, the Embermage is a great deal of fun.

There's also a Fame system for doing good acts, saving people in quarrels with monsters or downing rare beasts yourself. It's like the four bar next to HP/MP and XP. It only raises a title, but its a subtle nuance to make the player feel proud of their accomplishments (in-game and active rewards, very well done).

81. Ikaruga (DC/GC/XBLA)

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I was rather hesitant adding this, having beaten it before, but I really haven't played it in years and went through it pretty thoroughly over the past few two weeks. A friend of mine had a weird challenge night that we all bring some game to play in front of friends. I picked this and though I was really rusty, I tried to practice myself back up to old stature. I'm weird, so I had fun going through the three owned DC/GC and XBLA versions to see the subtle nuances between each. Beat the game well over 30 times now. Final score was 14'400'000+ points, but just like years ago, everything goes smoothly and one hick-up at the end makes me lose critical amounts of time and lives. It's too bad. Still, I think everyone had a fun time watching. After beating it five or six times last week, I figured that wasn't enough and tried another 20+ times and even tried to Dot Eater a bit (got bored at Chapter 3). Still one of my favourite games.

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Originally Posted by Rocca

Some sadly reserved for other classes, but I've yet to check if the stashes in towns can be used to swap items with other owned characters.

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The shared stash can be found right next to your personal stash in town.

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Originally Posted by Rumpy

The shared stash can be found right next to your personal stash in town.

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Thanks!