Completion Thread 2013: Prove the Justice of Our Culture

[Thief Silver]

Interesting, well this was the first SNES game I got to play through and beat on the SNES, which was part of the appeal.

[A Robot Bit Me]

8. Rescue Rangers

The world map is clumsy and adds nothing. As is usually the case, the game would have played better as a succession of all its stages. Other than that, not a masterpiece like Ducktales, but not bad! I dig the fast jumps and movement.

[Compass]

Yay compass played BBS!

I did it the other way around and 100%ed each character one by one. Didn't work out too hot because I burnt out before finishing Aqua's story D=

It is seriously good, right? I even like the stupid board game.

You're pretty much starting the game from scratch three times. I knew there was a high risk of burnout, and I'd be able to go back later for completion, so I didn't go for 100% with anyone. Still took me like three years off and on to finish.

But yeah, it's way good.

[MechDeus]

I was really scared of burnout because of that starting from scratch three times, but I found that the layouts were changed enough and I learned how to power up quickly for the subsequent times that it was never an issue.

[Schlep]

3. Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3)
Only played for about an hour when it first came out. Turned out to be a good game with a good story. On the downside, the story missions needed more variety, not having checkpoints was occasionally frustrating, and Niko's friends are the biggest bunch of hyper sensitive babies ever.

[Yoshi]

7. BioShock Infinite (PC, 1999)



This one certainly took longer than expected to complete, due in large part to vacation and my daughter's soccer season. I am a big fan of underwater settings in games, whether it's Ecco, Deep Fear, or the original BioShock. Taking that away from me stacked odds against this one a bit. My early impressions that this was an anti-American statement didn't help either. However, as the story unfolded, and I understood the real message being sent, I came to greatly appreciate it. Yes, Irrational fell short of delivering a nonlinear experience, but in some ways, wasn't that the point? Infinite may not have matched the impact of the original, but next to a sea of Call of Duty and Halo, it's certainly a lighthouse.

8/10

2013 Totals
Platforms: 4 PC, 3 PS3
Scores: 3-7s, 3-8s, 1-9

[Timber]

There was probably something before this but...

1. FTL (PC, 2012)

After months of playing I finally defeated the flagship on normal difficulty. This is one of the best games I've played in a long time and I can see myself playing it for years to come. I still need to unlock 2 ships and the crystal men but those will require luck more than anything else.

[Jeremy]

Beat Injustice's story mode late Tuesday night. Really good acting from the whole cast, the plot's pretty good, and it's got Solomon Grundy getting mad at ARROW MAN. He's a real highlight of the whole thing since he has very few lines, but they're all comedy gold.

[James]

13) Papo & Yo- short, lovely, sad, clever, unpolished. Definitely a mixed bag, but the metaphor of the monster worked and I loved its use of 3D space. I can't say it was a great game but it's unquestionably memorable, and I'm glad I played it.

James

[Mzo]

#31 - Rayman Jungle Run (iOS)

Really good endless runner type game with actual levels and collectibles. It's really more like Rayman Origins except Rayman doesn't stop moving ever. It's a lot better than I'm making it sound. Missing the last two achievements because I don't really want to memorize the whole main game. Found everything in the basic game and the three extra levels that have been added.

#32 - Rayman Origins (Vita)

The iOS game inspired me to go back and finish off this game, which is excellent. Finished off all the trophies. Great game, got all the trophies.