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PostPosted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 3:26 
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Ooh, I'll try and do this all year this time (yeah, right).

1. Nidhogg - the greatest fighting game since bushido blade. Essential same room multiplayer. Even really enjoyed the, very short, single player.
2. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. - Short, sweet campaign and the best in years. The first since MW with a coherent plot, and the robosuits really freshen it up. But the end is a bit of a squib. Enjoyable fluff. (it appears to be Xmas tradition that the wife gets a copy - well done Activision).

3. Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze such a great game. Controls wonderfully, and so differently to mario. The lion king level is a musically masterpiece. Rayman legends gets so much love due to its graphics, but give me something that controls as well as this any day.

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1. Proteus (Vita) - finished the game
2. Desert Golfing (iOS) - played 1,000 holes
3. Heavy Metal Thunder (iOS) - finished story
4. Driveclub (PS4) - finished Tour with 175/225 stars

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1. Proteus (Vita) - finished the game
2. Desert Golfing (iOS) - played 1,000 holes
3. Heavy Metal Thunder (iOS) - finished story
4. Driveclub (PS4) - finished Tour with 175/225 stars
5. Peggle Classic (iOS) - finished Adventure Mode with 18m points

Really fancied a mobile version of Peggle after becoming addicted to Peggle 2 on the home consoles, but I wasn't going to touch the IAP-riddled freemium Peggle Blitz, so decided to play the original through again, after having originally finished it on the 360. Still as great as ever.

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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
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1) Sunset Overdrive (XB1)
2) Wolfenstein: The New Order (XB1)
3) Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (XB1) - meh. Just more shooting.
4) Monument Valley (DLC)(Android) - I love this game.

5) Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
6) Halo 2: Anniversary
7) Halo 3
8 ) Halo 4
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I've decided that I like the Halo games. I didn't think they were that long - I only started on Wednesday. But at the same time, I was up pretty late the last few nights playing it. I really like all of them, but it felt like 4 moved back a bit in a few things.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
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Dr Lave wrote:
Ooh, I'll try and do this all year this time (yeah, right).

1. Nidhogg - the greatest fighting game since bushido blade. Essential same room multiplayer. Even really enjoyed the, very short, single player.
2. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. - Short, sweet campaign and the best in years. The first since MW with a coherent plot, and the robosuits really freshen it up. But the end is a bit of a squib. Enjoyable fluff. (it appears to be Xmas tradition that the wife gets a copy - well done Activision).
3. Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze such a great game. Controls wonderfully, and so differently to mario. The lion king level is a musical masterpiece. Rayman legends gets so much love due to its graphics, but give me something that controls as well as this any day.

4. Game of Thrones: Episode 1 - Not bad at all. Never really got on with Telltale's Walking dead game, but I think that is possibly because I got the whole season at once. Playing this for a couple of hours every other month seems better somehow. Very enjoyable way to 'play an episode'. Excited to find out my partners choices when she plays it as I think she will be appalled at some of my choices.

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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
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I was enjoying the Walking Dead until i found out, around at episode 2/3 that my choices didn't matter one bit. What's the point then? These games have barely any game play, but until that point i was enjoying it as if i was enjoying a fighting fantasy book.

I'll probably play GoT eventually though, as it's GoT.

The Witcher 2 is a game of much bigger scope that wasn't afraid of a big rupture in half of it, depending on one particular choice


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I was enjoying the Walking Dead until i found out, around at episode 2/3 that my choices didn't matter one bit. What's the point then? These games have barely any game play, but until that point i was enjoying it as if i was enjoying a fighting fantasy book.

They don't tend to change the outcome, but they change the story quite a lot.

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Cookie197 wrote:
1) Sunset Overdrive (XB1)
2) Wolfenstein: The New Order (XB1)
3) Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (XB1) - meh. Just more shooting.
4) Monument Valley (DLC)(Android) - I love this game.
5) Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
6) Halo 2: Anniversary
7) Halo 3
8 ) Halo 4

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10. Xon episodes one and two (all that are available right now)
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1. The Wolf Among Us (PS4)
2. Assassins Creed Unity (PS4) It's alright, it's more Assassins Creed, co-op missions are pretty fun.
3. Assassins Creed Unity: Dead Kings DLC (PS4) Yeah I'm counting some DLC as a completed game, what of it? I did finish this one to 100% though.


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Yeah I'm counting some DLC as a completed game, what of it?

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Yeah I'm counting some DLC as a completed game, what of it?

Perfectly acceptable.

I'm not doing that this year - feels cheap to me.

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Yeah I'm counting some DLC as a completed game, what of it?

Perfectly acceptable.

I'm not doing that this year - feels cheap to me.


To be fair it took me about 8 hours to complete Dead Kings to 100%, which is longer than alot of indie and mobile games.


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Future Warrior wrote:
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Yeah I'm counting some DLC as a completed game, what of it?

Perfectly acceptable.

I'm not doing that this year - feels cheap to me.

Your mum and so on.


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lasermink wrote:
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lasermink wrote:
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Yeah I'm counting some DLC as a completed game, what of it?

Perfectly acceptable.

I'm not doing that this year - feels cheap to me.

Your mum and so on.

I was so on your mum last night.

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Ooh, I'll try and do this all year this time (yeah, right).

1. Nidhogg Vita/PS4 - the greatest fighting game since bushido blade. Essential same room multiplayer. Even really enjoyed the, very short, single player.
2. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. - PS4 - Short, sweet campaign and the best in years. The first since MW with a coherent plot, and the robosuits really freshen it up. But the end is a bit of a squib. Enjoyable fluff. (it appears to be Xmas tradition that the wife gets a copy - well done Activision).
3. Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze - WiiU such a great game. Controls wonderfully, and so differently to mario. The lion king level is a musical masterpiece. Rayman legends gets so much love due to its graphics, but give me something that controls as well as this any day.
4. Game of Thrones: Episode 1 - PS4 - Not bad at all. Never really got on with Telltale's Walking dead game, but I think that is possibly because I got the whole season at once. Playing this for a couple of hours every other month seems better somehow. Very enjoyable way to 'play an episode'. Excited to find out my partners choices when she plays it as I think she will be appalled at some of my choices.


Final Fantasy X - Vita The first time I've finished a FF game since VII at release. I thought JRPGs were dead to me. Full of grind and random battles and filler, but in a portable format I loved this. Would never have completed it on a couch, but it's made the last month of commuting a blast. Ignored every side quest and went straight down the path, so was constantly a somewhat low level, which made the combat fascinating, rather than the typically. Hammer-standard-attack-until-you-win style of others. Fell apart at the 3rd to last boss when I had to do X damage in 15 or so turns, and that was impossible with my skill set, so I had to grind to level a character for 2 hours, and then they had an attack that made the rest of the battles boringly easy. Looking forward to X-2.

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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
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Dr Lave wrote:
Ooh, I'll try and do this all year this time (yeah, right).

1. Nidhogg Vita/PS4 - the greatest fighting game since bushido blade. Essential same room multiplayer. Even really enjoyed the, very short, single player.
2. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. - PS4 - Short, sweet campaign and the best in years. The first since MW with a coherent plot, and the robosuits really freshen it up. But the end is a bit of a squib. Enjoyable fluff. (it appears to be Xmas tradition that the wife gets a copy - well done Activision).
3. Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze - WiiU such a great game. Controls wonderfully, and so differently to mario. The lion king level is a musical masterpiece. Rayman legends gets so much love due to its graphics, but give me something that controls as well as this any day.
4. Game of Thrones: Episode 1 - PS4 - Not bad at all. Never really got on with Telltale's Walking dead game, but I think that is possibly because I got the whole season at once. Playing this for a couple of hours every other month seems better somehow. Very enjoyable way to 'play an episode'. Excited to find out my partners choices when she plays it as I think she will be appalled at some of my choices.


Final Fantasy X - Vita The first time I've finished a FF game since VII at release. I thought JRPGs were dead to me. Full of grind and random battles and filler, but in a portable format I loved this. Would never have completed it on a couch, but it's made the last month of commuting a blast. Ignored every side quest and went straight down the path, so was constantly a somewhat low level, which made the combat fascinating, rather than the typically. Hammer-standard-attack-until-you-win style of others. Fell apart at the 3rd to last boss when I had to do X damage in 15 or so turns, and that was impossible with my skill set, so I had to grind to level a character for 2 hours, and then they had an attack that made the rest of the battles boringly easy. Looking forward to X-2.

X-2 was a bit of a disappointment, I found. (I liked FFX sufficiently to import the japanese version rather than wait for the eu release. The not-shit dub also helped)

Combat goes back to something a bit less tactical, but more akin to old final fantasys. The tone of the game is also quite different.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
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Yeah I'm counting some DLC as a completed game, what of it?

Perfectly acceptable.

I'm not doing that this year - feels cheap to me.

How about demos?

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How about demos?

Depends what you mean by a demo.

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Future Warrior wrote:
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How about demos?

Depends what you mean by a demo.

Demonstration.

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How about demos?

Depends what you mean by a demo.

Demonstration.

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X-2 was a bit of a disappointment, I found. (I liked FFX sufficiently to import the japanese version rather than wait for the eu release. The not-shit dub also helped)

Combat goes back to something a bit less tactical, but more akin to old final fantasys. The tone of the game is also quite different.


Ah bum. Well at least my expectations are suitably lower, so I won't be suprised. That does sound a lot worse. I'll be starting Majora's mask in a week or so anyhow, so I might have a try later.

I remember it back on the day on my mates PS2, and thinking how crazy the job-sphere.

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How about demos?

Depends what you mean by a demo.

Demonstration.

Is PT a demo because it's free? It takes 2-3 hours, which is the same as some indie games. You can blitz through the main mission of MGS V: GZ in under an hour, should that count? Or is it different because it cost money?

By all accounts the events of PT (and even the first-person view) won't be included in the final game of Silent Hills. So :shrug:

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Who are you arguing with here? Given that no one else has brought up money as a factor anywhere.


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Who are you arguing with here? Given that no one else has brought up money as a factor anywhere.

Grim... has asked if it's ok to have demos - I'm assuming he's referring to PT and MGS V:GZ which I had on my list from last year. So I'm positing the question: what is a demo?

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So I'm positing the question: what is a demo?


Well you started doing that, which is fair enough, then went off on a tangent about cost even though no one else had brought that up.


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So I'm positing the question: what is a demo?


Well you started doing that, which is fair enough, then went off on a tangent about cost even though no one else had brought that up.

I brought it up, because it's relevant. PT and Ground Zeroes are both teasers for future games, but one is free. Are they seen differently?

If a demo is an ad for a future game, they're definitely demos. If it's a free playable chunk of a full game to see if you want to buy it, they aren't, because they're both original content.

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Yeah! Or something.

I was just wondering what was going to "count" (for you, obv, as we all have our own rules) if DLC didn't.

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Yeah! Or something.

I was just wondering what was going to "count" (for you, obv, as we all have our own rules) if DLC didn't.

I dunno, I might not exclude all DLC - if it's like a proper expansion pack or something. I don't know.

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It's an interesting discussion.


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It's a grey area and definitely worthy of discussion


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But where will I get my spinny chair selfie videos if you do that?

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But where will I get my spinny chair selfie videos if you do that?

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To me, I think any game/demo/dlc that gives you a sense of completion and achievement at it's finish counts. DLC has to have it's own 'arc' as it were.

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Ooh, I'll try and do this all year this time (yeah, right).

1. Nidhogg Vita/PS4 - the greatest fighting game since bushido blade. Essential same room multiplayer. Even really enjoyed the, very short, single player.
2. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. - PS4 - Short, sweet campaign and the best in years. The first since MW with a coherent plot, and the robosuits really freshen it up. But the end is a bit of a squib. Enjoyable fluff. (it appears to be Xmas tradition that the wife gets a copy - well done Activision).
3. Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze - WiiU such a great game. Controls wonderfully, and so differently to mario. The lion king level is a musical masterpiece. Rayman legends gets so much love due to its graphics, but give me something that controls as well as this any day.
4. Game of Thrones: Episode 1 - PS4 - Not bad at all. Never really got on with Telltale's Walking dead game, but I think that is possibly because I got the whole season at once. Playing this for a couple of hours every other month seems better somehow. Very enjoyable way to 'play an episode'. Excited to find out my partners choices when she plays it as I think she will be appalled at some of my choices.
5. Final Fantasy X - Vita The first time I've finished a FF game since VII at release. I thought JRPGs were dead to me. Full of grind and random battles and filler, but in a portable format I loved this. Would never have completed it on a couch, but it's made the last month of commuting a blast. Ignored every side quest and went straight down the path, so was constantly a somewhat low level, which made the combat fascinating, rather than the typically. Hammer-standard-attack-until-you-win style of others. Fell apart at the 3rd to last boss when I had to do X damage in 15 or so turns, and that was impossible with my skill set, so I had to grind to level a character for 2 hours, and then they had an attack that made the rest of the battles boringly easy. Looking forward to X-2.


6. Kick and Fennick - Vita - I've said it all over the place, but this is such a surprising delight. A genuinely novel and new 2D platformer. Game of the Year contender. I'll be wittering about this all year. Fantastic. As I said in the PS+ thread, there is something really primal and entertaining about parabolas. Must be evolution getting us to enjoy chucking rocks at mammoths. Or the use of urinals. Or something. But whatever the reason, a 2D platformer based on the recoil from a sniper rifle sending you flying in beautiful parabolas across the map is just superbly enjoyable to play. Binged and completed it over 3 days. Didn't outstay it's welcome, and bar a tiny dip in the middle where there is too much of a focus on timing puzzles, it fires on all cylinders throughout.

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1. The Book of Unwritten tales
2. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
3. Trine 2
4. The Banner Saga – Probably one of the best looking games I've ever played. I wish these guys could make an animated full length film, it’s just gorgeous. The game is a CYOA book mixed with a tactics game, and both are very well done. The tactics part has every elegant and clean mechanics, but I wish there were a bit more variety in the battles. It was still extremely enjoyable, and some extra appreciation must go to the fantastic soundtrack.


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1. Wolfenstein: The new order. It was good in a "hold your hand all the way through" kind of way.
2. Fruit Ninja: I'm claiming this as I've got all the achievements on my phone.
3. Shark Dash: Same with this.


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Ooh, I'll try and do this all year this time (yeah, right).

1. Nidhogg Vita/PS4 - the greatest fighting game since bushido blade. Essential same room multiplayer. Even really enjoyed the, very short, single player.
2. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. - PS4 - Short, sweet campaign and the best in years. The first since MW with a coherent plot, and the robosuits really freshen it up. But the end is a bit of a squib. Enjoyable fluff. (it appears to be Xmas tradition that the wife gets a copy - well done Activision).
3. Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze - WiiU such a great game. Controls wonderfully, and so differently to mario. The lion king level is a musical masterpiece. Rayman legends gets so much love due to its graphics, but give me something that controls as well as this any day.
4. Game of Thrones: Episode 1 - PS4 - Not bad at all. Never really got on with Telltale's Walking dead game, but I think that is possibly because I got the whole season at once. Playing this for a couple of hours every other month seems better somehow. Very enjoyable way to 'play an episode'. Excited to find out my partners choices when she plays it as I think she will be appalled at some of my choices.
5. Final Fantasy X - Vita The first time I've finished a FF game since VII at release. I thought JRPGs were dead to me. Full of grind and random battles and filler, but in a portable format I loved this. Would never have completed it on a couch, but it's made the last month of commuting a blast. Ignored every side quest and went straight down the path, so was constantly a somewhat low level, which made the combat fascinating, rather than the typically. Hammer-standard-attack-until-you-win style of others. Fell apart at the 3rd to last boss when I had to do X damage in 15 or so turns, and that was impossible with my skill set, so I had to grind to level a character for 2 hours, and then they had an attack that made the rest of the battles boringly easy. Looking forward to X-2.
6. Kick and Fennick - Vita - I've said it all over the place, but this is such a surprising delight. A genuinely novel and new 2D platformer. Game of the Year contender. I'll be wittering about this all year. Fantastic. As I said in the PS+ thread, there is something really primal and entertaining about parabolas. Must be evolution getting us to enjoy chucking rocks at mammoths. Or the use of urinals. Or something. But whatever the reason, a 2D platformer based on the recoil from a sniper rifle sending you flying in beautiful parabolas across the map is just superbly enjoyable to play. Binged and completed it over 3 days. Didn't outstay it's welcome, and bar a tiny dip in the middle where there is too much of a focus on timing puzzles, it fires on all cylinders throughout.

7. The Swapper - PS4/Vita if anything this year has proven it's that 2D platformers are such a vibrant platform for different experiences. Wonderfully explores it's central idea, and the mechanisms tie so well with its, actually great, plot. Genuinely good scifi. Which is rare in any format outside books. Highly recommended.

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1. The Book of Unwritten tales
2. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
3. Trine 2
4. The Banner Saga
5. Shadowrun Returns – This game doesn’t do anything wrong, but on the other hand it also doesn’t do anything exciting. For the first couple of hours the story is interesting enough to make us keep going, but I started to get bored somewhere along the 5 hour mark. The game is too linear, the world is too static and the fights are boring. In the end, I had to force myself to finish it, only because I knew the game wasn’t too long.


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1) Broken Sword 2 (iOS)
2) Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies (iOS) - This was pretty good as Phoenix Wright games go. It's got all fancy video and voiceover cut scenes now, and all the courtroom and investigation settings are animated and fancy, rather than being static images. You get one case included, and then it's around £13 for around all the DLC, but they're all worth it. Do recommend.

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Dr Lave wrote:
Ooh, I'll try and do this all year this time (yeah, right).

1. Nidhogg Vita/PS4 - the greatest fighting game since bushido blade. Essential same room multiplayer. Even really enjoyed the, very short, single player.
2. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. - PS4 - Short, sweet campaign and the best in years. The first since MW with a coherent plot, and the robosuits really freshen it up. But the end is a bit of a squib. Enjoyable fluff. (it appears to be Xmas tradition that the wife gets a copy - well done Activision).
3. Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze - WiiU such a great game. Controls wonderfully, and so differently to mario. The lion king level is a musical masterpiece. Rayman legends gets so much love due to its graphics, but give me something that controls as well as this any day.
4. Game of Thrones: Episode 1 - PS4 - Not bad at all. Never really got on with Telltale's Walking dead game, but I think that is possibly because I got the whole season at once. Playing this for a couple of hours every other month seems better somehow. Very enjoyable way to 'play an episode'. Excited to find out my partners choices when she plays it as I think she will be appalled at some of my choices.
5. Final Fantasy X - Vita The first time I've finished a FF game since VII at release. I thought JRPGs were dead to me. Full of grind and random battles and filler, but in a portable format I loved this. Would never have completed it on a couch, but it's made the last month of commuting a blast. Ignored every side quest and went straight down the path, so was constantly a somewhat low level, which made the combat fascinating, rather than the typically. Hammer-standard-attack-until-you-win style of others. Fell apart at the 3rd to last boss when I had to do X damage in 15 or so turns, and that was impossible with my skill set, so I had to grind to level a character for 2 hours, and then they had an attack that made the rest of the battles boringly easy. Looking forward to X-2.
6. Kick and Fennick - Vita - I've said it all over the place, but this is such a surprising delight. A genuinely novel and new 2D platformer. Game of the Year contender. I'll be wittering about this all year. Fantastic. As I said in the PS+ thread, there is something really primal and entertaining about parabolas. Must be evolution getting us to enjoy chucking rocks at mammoths. Or the use of urinals. Or something. But whatever the reason, a 2D platformer based on the recoil from a sniper rifle sending you flying in beautiful parabolas across the map is just superbly enjoyable to play. Binged and completed it over 3 days. Didn't outstay it's welcome, and bar a tiny dip in the middle where there is too much of a focus on timing puzzles, it fires on all cylinders throughout.
7. The Swapper - PS4/Vita if anything this year has proven it's that 2D platformers are such a vibrant platform for different experiences. Wonderfully explores it's central idea, and the mechanisms tie so well with its, actually great, plot. Genuinely good scifi. Which is rare in any format outside books. Highly recommended.

8. GoT: Episode 2 - PS4 yep, I guess this will count as six games over the year. Treaded water, slightly, and I'm hesitant about the importance of our decisions. But it's interesting how different me and my partners choices were.

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1. The Wolf Among Us (PS4)
2. Assassins Creed Unity (PS4)
3. Assassins Creed Unity: Dead Kings DLC (PS4)
4. Plants Vs Zombies: Garden Warfare (PS4) My favourite online multi-player FPS game in ages, put in a ridiculous amount of time on it. Feel like I can tick it off as I've got each character up to level 10 and I've got all the different types of characters bar the Legend of the Lawn ones.
5. Championship Manager 2001/2001 (PC) Played 10 seasons with the updated data for this season. Firstly I was Newcastle manager, winning everything under the sun and creating a team that good, even Stuart Pearce could win everything when he took over. Decided to take over Notts County, who were battling against relegation of Division 2 and took them to winning the Premiership, almost won all 4 main cups in the last season but lost the Champions League in the final, I've had my fill now.
6. Rogue Legacy (PS4) Love this game, even though it's grindy it doesn't feel like it when I'm playing it. Completed the story once and I am still playing through a new game+.


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1. The Room
2. The Room 2
3. Monument Valley
4. The Unfinished Swan
5. Flower
6. Age of Zombies
7. P.T.
8. Thomas Was Alone
9. Space Expedition
10. Xon episodes one and two (all that are available right now)
11. Republique episodes one, two and three (all that are available right now)
12. Gunman Clive
13. Pixel Staff
14. Hellraid: The Escape
15. Forever Lost: Episode 1
16. GTA 5


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