Completion Thread 2011: Challenge of the Gods

[Diff-chan]

It's definitely one of the funnest games to just fuck around with.

Probably about 36 of those hours are me just fucking around. And it never got old, even a little bit.

[Glass Joe]

9. L.A. Noire

This game was pretty good. It was at its best when you were in homicide and chasing the Black Dahlia murderer. It almost felt like a video game version of the movie Seven. Besides that, the story was pretty solid but I found the main character really unlikable. The interrogation seemed to be kind of hit or miss too but maybe that was just me over thinking things. Overall it was a pretty cool experience and I would welcome a sequel as long as these mother fuckers stop climbing drain pipes. That shit was a bit out of hand.

[Andrew]

Much as I didn't think I would like it, I ended up loving the arson cases. It felt like I was in Chinatown.

[Mzo]

#14 - Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (PS3) 100% Trophies

I remember being really impressed by this game when I played it originally on release, and it still holds up fairly well. Did the thief sprints even though they weren't linked to trophies. Some of them were hard!

Playing Sly 2 now, I had never touched it before but going back to play it I couldn't help but notice that it's basically a simpler Assassin's Creed years before that game was ever made. Weird!

[Rumpy]

The Sly series is really great, I think a lot of people skipped it for whatever reason.

[A Robot Bit Me]

There was a glut of 3D platformers at the time, and Sucker Punch couldn't throw the same marketing muscle behind Sly as the Sony-backed Insomniac and Naughty Dog could with their franchises.

[Rumpy]

Don't think I've liked many Insomniac games.

[MechDeus]

Don't think I've liked many Insomniac games.

They make very technically competent games that I find very boring to actually play.

[Rocca]

They make very technically competent games that I find very boring to actually play.

Ding.

[Yoshi]

Yeah, Mech is dead on with that. Naughty Dog and Sucker Punch are far better than Insomniac, mostly due to having "it" -- that intangible quality that ties the check marks together.