Completion Thread 2012: Hai! Dekimashita!

(RE)47. Dishonored 820/1000

Both are great, but I had an even more fun time playing through this as a no kill ninja than slicing people up. I think. Either way the differences in the world are actually very noticeable, which is nice! I like the low chaos ending much better, and the differences in the levels, objectives and whatnot was refreshing to see. I didn't even bother to retrieve my gear from the Flooded District since I wasn't going to be shooting anyone. Maybe choked out 30 people the whole playthrough, it was more exhilarating to blink around them and their patterns. Made for some very tense moments that got my blood pumping and I was very into it. I thought the stealth in this game was handled admirably, even without other powers (I've still not tried the rat swarm or shadow kill or possessing people, but I missed being able to possess rats for the little shortcuts, and not having bend time made me have to rethink a few approaches). Also knowing the levels (mostly) and where to expect enemies (again, changes a little on low chaos) expedited the playthrough, took me about half the time if not less. Just have a few more achievements to clean up related to killing things in various ways, but the handy dandy mission select will make that no problem. Overall I thoroughly enjoyed this game, great stuff.

48. Madden 12 (360) 920/1000

I've just about had my fill. I have 2 achievements left, one for a ridiculous 100 yard out of the endzone interception return for a touchdown (apparently jumping out of the endzone and landing on the 1 yard line before running it back DOESN'T FUCKING COUNT) and another for building a super fantasy team. That one requires either buying in game cards with real money (lololol), or playing a shit ton more games to get points to buy the cards, so maybe the occasional one or two I play add up enough to buy them. Maybe by the time Madden 14 is out.

Professor Layton and the Curious Village- I've been meaning to play this for a while and i hate-loved it. i hate the puzzles and trick questions, I hate poking the screen to progress, I hate the math problems where I gave up and just started entering numbers that I knew were close, but holy crap do I love Hershel Layton and that village full of charm. The actual answer to the mystery was stupid, but the creators pulled all the right strings. I-I wasn't crying, i just saw another hidden puzzle...

The math problems never involve for reals math. If you're pulling out paper and trying to do calculations you missed the trick.

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I kinda want the Layton game even though I am sure the puzzles are for babies.

DNG and I beat Halo 4 co-op the other day. The game looks amazing, but for the most part the new enemies are not fun to kill, the alien weapons are not fun to use and the grenades suck ESPECIALLY the alien ones--I have no idea how they managed to playtest this game for an obscene amount of time and not come to the conclusion that those pieces of garbage are the most ineffective weapons of all time.

I wish there was more outdoor stuff as it seems impossible to have excellent indoor/non-organic level design in a Halo game. I didn't think Bungie knew how to make good levels of this type, and since the formula for this game seems to be 'we can't deviate from the originals for fear of fanbase wrath', the indoor levels have retained the same level of mediocrity. But they are slightly better (but also more of them).

The first two campaigns of Spartan Ops, particularly when fighting the Covenant, are better than the main game IMO.

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Originally Posted by Mzo

The math problems never involve for reals math. If you're pulling out paper and trying to do calculations you missed the trick.
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Maybe I "missed the trick," but I'm pretty sure I had to do some basic algebra on several occasions throughout the franchise.

Yeah, there are a few, and there are some math problems where you have to use trial and error. Like it gives you a set of numbers and tells you that they have to multiply to get the same number in every direction, or you had to subtract two unknown numbers made of 123456789 to get 33333. The hint coins were really useful for those. You'll have like 80 at the end of the game, so you don't have to worry about using them up.

The worst ones were the trick questions with math, where there was seemingly some missing variable but it was really right in front of your face.

There was only one puzzle that i really fucking hated: THE FUCKING SLIDING TILE PUZZLE. Those should never be in any game. There was only one that i was aware of, though, and it wasn't necessary to complete the game. I liked the "move the car" or "move the ball" through the blocks puzzles.

Oh, also kind of spoiler: The antagonist was really stupid. He wasn't even necessary with everything else going on, it seemed like his only motivation was to annoy Layton. I think they said he wanted the golden egg too, but he never expressed any interest in anything besides being an asshole

All the trick questions. Every single one of them. It was like they were trying to ruin the game on purpose so they filled it with garbage.

Thankfully, they made sure to first fill it up with a big batch of charming.

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You'll have like 80 at the end of the game, so you don't have to worry about using them up.

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Yeah, there are a few, and there are some math problems where you have to use trial and error. Like it gives you a set of numbers and tells you that they have to multiply to get the same number in every direction, or you had to subtract two unknown numbers made of 123456789 to get 33333. The hint coins were really useful for those. You'll have like 80 at the end of the game, so you don't have to worry about using them up.

The worst ones were the trick questions with math, where there was seemingly some missing variable but it was really right in front of your face.

There was only one puzzle that i really fucking hated: THE FUCKING SLIDING TILE PUZZLE. Those should never be in any game. There was only one that i was aware of, though, and it wasn't necessary to complete the game. I liked the "move the car" or "move the ball" through the blocks puzzles.

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I refused to use any hint coins until the third game I think. But even then only very sparingly, and usually for the slide puzzles (where they can be pretty helpful). Once I've used a hint coin I feel like I've already failed. I also reset the DS if I make a mistake. I'm terrified I won't have enough picarats at the end to unlock everything otherwise.

I have no idea what some of you are on about with the "trick" questions. I'm sure it happened here and there, but I have no specific memories of being bothered by those in any of the five games. The slide puzzles are the major drag, but even those I kinda learned to like. The simpler ones anyway. I think I did all of them in ...Curious Village​, but they get completely ridic at the end of the next three games, and I cheated with abandon.

34. Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward

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Big ol game. Ludicrous in all the ways I was in the mood for. Pretty good puzzles, though it's lame that some puzzles are reused. And I agree with Mzo that the game would look better if it weren't done with models. They work alright for the most part, but you'll get some ugly angles from time to time, and on the rare occasions you do see hand-drawn characters, it's hard to not be distracted by how much you want the rest of the game to look like that. These are pretty minor issues, though. Very easy game to recommend. Looking forward to the next one.