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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 21:52 
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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
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief
39. Cabin Escape
40. Cryptic Caverns
41. Far Cry 4
42. The Mystery of the Crimson Manor
43. Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
44. The Lost Fountain
45. Pettson's Inventions
46. Spoiler Alert
47. Stealth Bastard
48. Hohokum
49. Tiny Dangerous Dungeons
50. Shadow Blade

51. The Tender Cut: Very short game based on a scene from a Salvador Dali film. Just as weird as you'd imagine from that premise, but pretty cool. There were two scenes I couldn't work out how to activate annoyingly but I couldn't come up with any further combination of things to do and the internet was no help.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 22:08 
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  1. Crysis (PC)
  2. Octodad (PC)
  3. Crysis Warhead (PC)
  4. Tomb Raider: Anniversary (PC)
  5. The Evil Within (PC)
  6. Torchlight (PC)
  7. Mass Effect (PC)
  8. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (PC)
  9. Tomb Raider: Underworld (PC)
  10. Monument Valley (Android)
  11. Impossible Mission (Commodore 64)
  12. The Tender Cut (PC)

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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
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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
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief
39. Cabin Escape
40. Cryptic Caverns
41. Far Cry 4
42. The Mystery of the Crimson Manor
43. Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
44. The Lost Fountain
45. Pettson's Inventions
46. Spoiler Alert
47. Stealth Bastard
48. Hohokum
49. Tiny Dangerous Dungeons
50. Shadow Blade

51. The Tender Cut
52. SURREALISTa: Another short and very fucking weird game. It's less a game and more an interactive gallery of works by Giorgio de Chirico but it's got levels and some platforming and suchlike so I'm counting it. An interesting wee thing, though very rough around the edges. According to the website there's a big update coming later in the year so I'll keep an eye on it. Sidenote: one of the paintings that appears looked really familiar and I eventually realised it was the cover of ICO. Although Giorgio de Chirico's stuff was apparently an inspiration for the cover of ICO it's not actually his so it's odd they've stuck that image in there with no context. There's some related chat here.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 22:57 
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Interesting factoid: ICO's creator bloke, I forget his name, Myziami(?), painted that ICO box art himself and they let him use it.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 10:23 
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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.
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.
9. BoxBoy - 3DS - Played it for 7.5 hrs. It cost about £4.50 - 5.50? And every tiny level was incredibly entertaining. I recommend it very highly. it's all about making squares.
10. Gunvolt - 3DS - the nes de-make that comes free with the 'real' game, or available for a couple of quid. Very slight, but fun enough. Doesn't set the world on fire.
11. Knights of the Round - Arcade, via PSP Capcom Collection, on a PS Vita - looks pretty, but absolutely mindless. A real example of how business models can make a game truly terrible (cf. F2P).


12. Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo - Vita, via PSP Capcom Puzzle Collection - on sale for £1.60. Bargain. and great fun, but I've yet to really click to why it's the tetris beater people claim. It must be so much better in multiplayer than the single player experience.

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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 10:27 
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Multiplayer is a real treat. If ever you can get someone about your level to compete against you you'll have hours of fun.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 18:39 
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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
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief
39. Cabin Escape
40. Cryptic Caverns
41. Far Cry 4
42. The Mystery of the Crimson Manor
43. Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
44. The Lost Fountain
45. Pettson's Inventions
46. Spoiler Alert
47. Stealth Bastard
48. Hohokum
49. Tiny Dangerous Dungeons
50. Shadow Blade

51. The Tender Cut
52. SURREALISTa
53. Nub's Adventure: a pretty sizeable Metroidvania platformer for Android/iOS which focuses mostly on exploration, with no small challenge in some sections, and it probably the most traditional implementation of the form I've yet played on Android. Very, very good stuff indeed and comes highly recommended as I've been totally gripped by it for the week or so it's taken me to finish it. You know it's a good mobile game when you' carry on playing it as soon as you get in the door after commuting home.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 21:47 
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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
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief
39. Cabin Escape
40. Cryptic Caverns
41. Far Cry 4
42. The Mystery of the Crimson Manor
43. Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
44. The Lost Fountain
45. Pettson's Inventions
46. Spoiler Alert
47. Stealth Bastard
48. Hohokum
49. Tiny Dangerous Dungeons
50. Shadow Blade

51. The Tender Cut
52. SURREALISTa
53. Nub's Adventure
54. Kraven Manor: short and pretty easy indie PC horror game which has you investigating the titular manor to find out what's going on with the metal statues that pop-up to chase you around. Surprisingly pretty for such an otherwise amateur-ish game actually. Taught me that I really don't spent enough time WASD-ing around these days as the fingers on my left hand are fucking killing me after spending the couple of hours it took to finish it.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
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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
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief
39. Cabin Escape
40. Cryptic Caverns
41. Far Cry 4
42. The Mystery of the Crimson Manor
43. Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
44. The Lost Fountain
45. Pettson's Inventions
46. Spoiler Alert
47. Stealth Bastard
48. Hohokum
49. Tiny Dangerous Dungeons
50. Shadow Blade

51. The Tender Cut
52. SURREALISTa
53. Nub's Adventure
54. Kraven Manor
55. Montague's Mount: an exploration/puzzle game described pretty accurately by one Steam reviewer as, "like Dear Esther with puzzles." It was an alright way to spent a few hours, but nothing special all in all.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
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Did....did you lock this thread to stop Bamba playing games? ;)

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1) GTA V

Finished it (well at least the main mission line). It really is an incredible technical achievement and a splendid game.

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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
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
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief
39. Cabin Escape
40. Cryptic Caverns
41. Far Cry 4
42. The Mystery of the Crimson Manor
43. Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
44. The Lost Fountain
45. Pettson's Inventions
46. Spoiler Alert
47. Stealth Bastard
48. Hohokum
49. Tiny Dangerous Dungeons
50. Shadow Blade

51. The Tender Cut
52. SURREALISTa
53. Nub's Adventure
54. Kraven Manor
55. Montague's Mount
56. Jazzpunk: I...just...what the...fucking...lol! Yeah, people should definitely play this.


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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
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief
39. Cabin Escape
40. Cryptic Caverns
41. Far Cry 4
42. The Mystery of the Crimson Manor
43. Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
44. The Lost Fountain
45. Pettson's Inventions
46. Spoiler Alert
47. Stealth Bastard
48. Hohokum
49. Tiny Dangerous Dungeons
50. Shadow Blade

51. The Tender Cut
52. SURREALISTa
53. Nub's Adventure
54. Kraven Manor
55. Montague's Mount
56. Jazzpunk
57. That Level Again 2: the same setup as the original but not quite as many good ideas in it.


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1. The Evil Within (PS4).
2. Rogue Legacy (PS Vita & PS4).
3. Far Cry 4 (PS4)
4. Transistor (PS4)
5. Valiant Hearts (PS4).
6. Heir (Browser?)
7. COUNTER Spy (PS4).
8. Apothena (PS4)
9. Oddworld: New & Tasty (PS4).
10. Bloodborne (PS4).
11. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (PS4).
12. Burn it Down (iOS).
13. The Evil Within: The Assignment DLC (PS4)
14. The Evil Within: The Consequence DLC (PS4).
15. Bayonetta 2 (WiiU).
16. The Tender Cut (PC).
17. Monsterbag (Vita).
18. Murasaki Baby (Vita).
19. Super Mario 3D World (WiiU)
20. Resident Evil: Revelations (WiiU)
21. Infamous: First Light (PS4).
22. Towerfall: Ascension (PS4).


23. Betrayer (PC).

I love Monolith cause they've made two of my favourite games of all time: Blood and FEAR. This ain't made by Monolith. BUT it is made by some chaps who worked for Monolith and then set up their own company to make their own games. I believe this was their first.

Betrayer gets three things so very right, right off the bat:

1) I plug my 360 controller in and it works. No faffing about. It works.
2) The atmosphere is fantastic which is due to 2 things:
a. GRAPHIX. The black and white aesthetic is startlingly gorgeous (with smatterings of red here and there), and the graphics look tremendous as a consequence. It's mainly trees, forest and wooden shacks and outposts but the way in which the trees bend in the wind is just mindblowing. It's such a small trick as every tree starts to shift with the sound of the wind blowing through the leaves but even after completing the game I was never less than impressed at bendy trees. It just gave the place more life when, for the most part, there's not a lot going on.
b. SOUNDZ: There's no music. There's no, erm, nothing really. A few birds here and there. If you're near a beach (which is only at the beginning) you might hear the water a bit but the main sound is the sound of silence (and occasional gust of wind as aforementioned). Other sounds stand stark in contrast: the sound of a distant gun firing as enemies are alerted to your presence, the clang and smash of a bell which teleports you to the spirit realm, and in the spirit realm the dull ringing of the bell until you mute the sound to return to the real world. The absence of sound works in the context of the game which is supposed to be a bit mysterious.
3) There's zero hand holding. You arrive washed up on a beach. You collect your thoughts and off you trot. Why? Who knows? Where is everyone? Who knows? Why is every area map covered in red circles? Let's go off and find out.

That's the good stuff. It's kinda downhill from there.

The combat is at times piss poor and others quite thrilling. It takes forever to load a musket so combat can be spent backpedaling as much as shooting stuff. The baddies are vicious and once you've been spotted they'll be on you like a tramp on chips. An endless procession of baddies will follow you forever. And they will follow you because no matter what you do you'll always get spotted since they all have super vision apparently.

The game is meant to be played stealthily but the vision on these guys is ridiculous. They appear as tiny specks on the horizon and you're meant to hit them at that distance with a bow and arrow. I got quite good at it but I can imagine that some would get too frustrated by the pin-point precision needed. Plus, everyone is jolly awesome at hitting you with a bow or a pistol or musket round. I also got good at timing my jump dodges or running away but, by-gum, they aren't 'arff good at hitting you.

The cool thing is that you're supposed to run in when the wind blows through the trees to muffle your footsteps - and it works for the first map - but after the first two areas it stops being a viable way of going around and once you've got a few good weapons onboard you'll risk the larger fight than take all day waiting for the wind to blow.

Worse still is the spirit world which is populated by rubbish skeletons and flying skulls. They aren't scary. They are annoying.The spirit world seems woefully under developed too as while the real world requires a bit of skill and stealth, the spirit world has none of that since some fights you can't avoid. And it's all grey and black which ain't anywhere near as good as the real world black and white aesthetic. I feel like they did the main game but didn't have much time to spend on the spirit domain. Which was a shame. They should have made it rain. On the plain. In Spain.

Anyway, the combat is good but mainly rubbish and so is the set-up of the game structure. It follows this pattern once it gets going: Hunt all the red circles, dig up all the clues, find the bell, transport to spirit world, find the spirits and give them the clues, they might send you somewhere else to get another clue, find it, bring it back. Maybe repeat it again until you run out of dialogue. Repeat for several spirits. Once you've done about everything in the area move to the next area and do it again.

Moving about the map is a ball ache too since you can't set waypoints so you are constantly in and out of the map every few seconds. Bit silly but at least it doesn't interrupt the clean UI. Actually, I kinda appauld them for this decision. One of the few times that design triumphs over ease of use.

Anyway, I'm boring myself now but the thing that made me stick to the end were the stories of the spirits. They are all delightfully dark and usually about murder, death, rape, lies and deceit; someone always dies; usually everyone. The stories are told well through basic text. The spirits can't remember what happened to them until the clues jog their mind and then sometimes it only jogs half a memory or they are lying so you don't get the full story and the next clue can yield a completely different story to what you were expecting. I really enjoyed this most about the whole game. No reams of Fallout style books. Just little tales told as a person would tell it.

I'mma score it 6/10. It would have been 5 but I liked the stories. No, hang on, I didn't like the ending much as it was too much like FEAR. Back down to 5 you go. I still really enjoyed it, mind. It ain't an easy game, in fact you can turn on Dark Souls style death drops if you wanted to since it's Dark Souls style difficult, you see, but it is very interesting and I want the Monolith people to keep making games cause there's greatness to be had from those folk. I can tell.

24. Thirty Flights of Loving (PC)

It's not really a game is it? It's a five minute trailer for a game that will never be made. Fun but not even worth my £1.49 I paid for it.

25. Aliens: Colonial Marines (PC)

It's not the worst game in the world, it actually looked kinda alright on my PC. And, yes, I did just run through whole sections of it because it's so fucking tediously dull. It has all the worst FPS tropes mashed into it:

Do x task z times in a row.
Shoot bazooka at y number of big guns z times in a row.
Go to A then to B then back to A. Then to B. Again.
Bad cut scenes.
Identikit corridors. Endless corridors.
Bad voice acting.
Bad dialogue.
Bullet sponge boss fights.
Boss fights where you do x task z times in a row before pressing button.
A boss fight where your actions directly kills the boss. Then it is revealed in a cut scene that it ain't dead and so someone else kills it off in that cut scene rendering everything you've done pointless.
Steam pipes. In space this time.
Endless door opening scenes. Every other door has to be cut open seemingly as everywhere was welded shut at the beginning of the game... Utterly fucking pointless. It serves nothing in the game. No tension can be granted by watching someone cut open a door . What does it do? Slows the game down and frustrates the player as they watch the same animation for the 30th time.
And so on.

1/10 for the pulse rifle noise. And that using the shotgun is alright. Oh, and that it gives you all of the weapons from the beginning was a really really smart choice. It's just a shame that the gun radial bollocks is fiddly to use and looks like dog shit.


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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
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief
39. Cabin Escape
40. Cryptic Caverns
41. Far Cry 4
42. The Mystery of the Crimson Manor
43. Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
44. The Lost Fountain
45. Pettson's Inventions
46. Spoiler Alert
47. Stealth Bastard
48. Hohokum
49. Tiny Dangerous Dungeons
50. Shadow Blade

51. The Tender Cut
52. SURREALISTa
53. Nub's Adventure
54. Kraven Manor
55. Montague's Mount
56. Jazzpunk
57. That Level Again 2
58. NaissancE: This one's pretty special. An 'exploration' game with light puzzle solving and, sadly, some first person platforming. Fuck all that though because the world itself is the real attraction. You'll split your time between claustrophobic tunnels and massive, massive open spaces but the entire thing is steeped in this lonely, subtle, sinister and utterly alien atmosphere. It definitely has it's issues (the afore mentioned platforming, the idiotic 'breathing' technique required to sprint for any length of time, the odd part which sacrifices clarity for visual design and ends up dipping into frustration) but there's enough of it that's properly breath taking to massively outweigh the bad stuff. I suspect this'll be a bit of a marmite game but if it's your kind of thing I reckon it'll get it's hooks in pretty deep. There's a review of it here which pretty much nails my opinion but much better written than my ramblings above.


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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
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief
39. Cabin Escape
40. Cryptic Caverns
41. Far Cry 4
42. The Mystery of the Crimson Manor
43. Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
44. The Lost Fountain
45. Pettson's Inventions
46. Spoiler Alert
47. Stealth Bastard
48. Hohokum
49. Tiny Dangerous Dungeons
50. Shadow Blade

51. The Tender Cut
52. SURREALISTa
53. Nub's Adventure
54. Kraven Manor
55. Montague's Mount
56. Jazzpunk
57. That Level Again 2
58. NaissancE
59. Lifeless Planet: Another exploration game with an initially interesting sci-fi hook i.e. you're an astronaut who lands on a distant planet and, fresh out of cryosleep, discovers that it's actually a barren wasteland rather than the verdant paradise it had been on long range scans. Even weirder you soon come across the remnants of a soviet settlement on the planet, despite the fact you're supposed to be the first person to set foot on it. What follows doesn't really hold up to that promise and the story's a bit weak. The gameplay is atmospheric and exploration with some particularly unchallenging platforming all of which, if I'm honest, gets boring after a while. The sound design and music were lovely and subtle, with great tranches of it rightly played to nothing but the sound of your footsteps, but it's a pretty ugly game all in. I did enjoy it and it was weirdly relaxing at points but I can't really recommend it unless you're specifically after something a bit meandering and laid back.


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  1. Crysis (PC)
  2. Octodad (PC)
  3. Crysis Warhead (PC)
  4. Tomb Raider: Anniversary (PC)
  5. The Evil Within (PC)
  6. Torchlight (PC)
  7. Mass Effect (PC)
  8. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (PC)
  9. Tomb Raider: Underworld (PC)
  10. Monument Valley (Android)
  11. Impossible Mission (Commodore 64)
  12. The Tender Cut (PC)
  13. Far Cry 3 (PC)


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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
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief
39. Cabin Escape
40. Cryptic Caverns
41. Far Cry 4
42. The Mystery of the Crimson Manor
43. Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
44. The Lost Fountain
45. Pettson's Inventions
46. Spoiler Alert
47. Stealth Bastard
48. Hohokum
49. Tiny Dangerous Dungeons
50. Shadow Blade

51. The Tender Cut
52. SURREALISTa
53. Nub's Adventure
54. Kraven Manor
55. Montague's Mount
56. Jazzpunk
57. That Level Again 2
58. NaissancE
59. Lifeless Planet
60. Shadowgun: Gears of War style shooter for Android/iOS. Considering it's a mobile game it controls very well and, despite knocking on a bit now, it still looks absolutely lovely. The AIs not brilliant so it's a bit of a pop-up shooting gallery at times, but you need to mix up your tactics and weapon selection when the tougher enemy type start to appear so it's not as mindless as it initially appears. Also it nails the satisfyingly meaty feel of the various guns in a way some AAA shooters never manage. Between this and the awesome 'Samurai II: Vengeance' Madfinger proved they were capable of putting together some very good original IP mobile games. So it continues to be a shame that they're now just dedicated to knocking out constant updates in their jaw-droppingly gorgeous but mind-numbingly boring Dead Trigger series. Which is also utterly dripping with horrible IAPs, because of course it is.
61. Neverending Nightmares: Indie 'horror' PC game. I put horror in scare quotes because despite a promising start and an eye-catching hi-res aesthetic (like someone off their meds got hold of the UBIart Framework) it's short, repetitive and never really goes anywhere. Shame.


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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.
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.
9. BoxBoy - 3DS - Played it for 7.5 hrs. It cost about £4.50 - 5.50? And every tiny level was incredibly entertaining. I recommend it very highly. it's all about making squares.
10. Gunvolt - 3DS - the nes de-make that comes free with the 'real' game, or available for a couple of quid. Very slight, but fun enough. Doesn't set the world on fire.
11. Knights of the Round - Arcade, via PSP Capcom Collection, on a PS Vita - looks pretty, but absolutely mindless. A real example of how business models can make a game truly terrible (cf. F2P).
12. Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo - Vita, via PSP Capcom Puzzle Collection - on sale for £1.60. Bargain. and great fun, but I've yet to really click to why it's the tetris beater people claim. It must be so much better in multiplayer than the single player experience.

13. Kirby: Triple Deluxe - 3DS Easy as pish. But lovely to look at and stunning in 3D. A joy to play, but so easy it may put people off. (actually finished this before number 11, but forgot to post it).

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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
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief
39. Cabin Escape
40. Cryptic Caverns
41. Far Cry 4
42. The Mystery of the Crimson Manor
43. Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
44. The Lost Fountain
45. Pettson's Inventions
46. Spoiler Alert
47. Stealth Bastard
48. Hohokum
49. Tiny Dangerous Dungeons
50. Shadow Blade
51. The Tender Cut
52. SURREALISTa
53. Nub's Adventure
54. Kraven Manor
55. Montague's Mount
56. Jazzpunk
57. That Level Again 2
58. NaissancE
59. Lifeless Planet
60. Shadowgun

61. Neverending Nightmares
62. The Moon Sliver: another day, another indie PC explore 'em up set on a deserted island. Not much to say about this one; it's short and slightly odd and tells an interesting enough story but the game itself is barely worth that description.


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Just noticed I spent 13 hours on Betrayer. Impressive.


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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
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief
39. Cabin Escape
40. Cryptic Caverns
41. Far Cry 4
42. The Mystery of the Crimson Manor
43. Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
44. The Lost Fountain
45. Pettson's Inventions
46. Spoiler Alert
47. Stealth Bastard
48. Hohokum
49. Tiny Dangerous Dungeons
50. Shadow Blade
51. The Tender Cut
52. SURREALISTa
53. Nub's Adventure
54. Kraven Manor
55. Montague's Mount
56. Jazzpunk
57. That Level Again 2
58. NaissancE
59. Lifeless Planet
60. Shadowgun

61. Neverending Nightmares
62. The Moon Sliver
63. A Story About My Uncle: Indie first person platformer. Yes, I know, totally recipe for disaster right? Well the saving grave here is that as well as jumping you get a science-y hookshot thing and a pair of rocket boots so you're not relying entirely, or indeed often, on pixel perfect landings. And for a decent chunk of the game it works; grappling around the place is great fun and it becomes more of a Spiderman simulator than anything else. Things take a turn for the frustrating though in the last level when the difficulty jump up and by the end of that level, which feels like it goes on for fucking ever, you're happy for it to end. It's a shame as there's definitely potential there, but in the end the randomly varying difficulty (you'll breeze through huge swathes of it then have to re-try a particular twenty times) and the fact that it's not always clear where you're supposed to be going take the shine off it. I imagine the latter is to give an open enough design for speed runners to pick different routes through, and certainly I expect to find YouTube video full of people doing jaw-dropping stuff with the game, but it just annoyed me personally.


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1. The Evil Within (PS4).
2. Rogue Legacy (PS Vita & PS4).
3. Far Cry 4 (PS4)
4. Transistor (PS4)
5. Valiant Hearts (PS4).
6. Heir (Browser?)
7. COUNTER Spy (PS4).
8. Apothena (PS4)
9. Oddworld: New & Tasty (PS4).
10. Bloodborne (PS4).
11. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (PS4).
12. Burn it Down (iOS).
13. The Evil Within: The Assignment DLC (PS4)
14. The Evil Within: The Consequence DLC (PS4).
15. Bayonetta 2 (WiiU).
16. The Tender Cut (PC).
17. Monsterbag (Vita).
18. Murasaki Baby (Vita).
19. Super Mario 3D World (WiiU)
20. Resident Evil: Revelations (WiiU)
21. Infamous: First Light (PS4).
22. Towerfall: Ascension (PS4).
23. Betrayer (PC).
24. Thirty Flights of Loving (PC)
25. Aliens: Colonial Marines (PC)


The Walking Dead (eps 1-5) (PC).

Absolutely fucking brilliant. Episode 4 is the weak link but other than that it was spectacular.


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I really enjoyed The Wolf Among Us as well so you should check that out. I grabbed a pack of all the Telltale games for the PS4 recently in some deal so will be playing through them all at some point.


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I'd be quite content to never play another one again. That was such a nice, interesting piece of storytelling in isolation that I'm sure I'd get fed up playing more of those types of games. I'll just leave it alone as being a great bit of gaming.


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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
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief
39. Cabin Escape
40. Cryptic Caverns
41. Far Cry 4
42. The Mystery of the Crimson Manor
43. Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
44. The Lost Fountain
45. Pettson's Inventions
46. Spoiler Alert
47. Stealth Bastard
48. Hohokum
49. Tiny Dangerous Dungeons
50. Shadow Blade
51. The Tender Cut
52. SURREALISTa
53. Nub's Adventure
54. Kraven Manor
55. Montague's Mount
56. Jazzpunk
57. That Level Again 2
58. NaissancE
59. Lifeless Planet
60. Shadowgun

61. Neverending Nightmares
62. The Moon Sliver
63. A Story About My Uncle
64. Outside World: An Android game that nicks the isometric viewpoint and some of the visual stylings from Monument Valley. Sadly that's about all it has in common as the game itself is a fairly boring and obscure puzzler with really annoying controls.


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I'd be quite content to never play another one again. That was such a nice, interesting piece of storytelling in isolation that I'm sure I'd get fed up playing more of those types of games. I'll just leave it alone as being a great bit of gaming.


Same with me, but you should try "life is strange". It improves considerably on the telltalle formula.


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Saturnalian wrote:
1. The Evil Within (PS4).
2. Rogue Legacy (PS Vita & PS4).
3. Far Cry 4 (PS4)
4. Transistor (PS4)
5. Valiant Hearts (PS4).
6. Heir (Browser?)
7. COUNTER Spy (PS4).
8. Apothena (PS4)
9. Oddworld: New & Tasty (PS4).
10. Bloodborne (PS4).
11. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (PS4).
12. Burn it Down (iOS).
13. The Evil Within: The Assignment DLC (PS4)
14. The Evil Within: The Consequence DLC (PS4).
15. Bayonetta 2 (WiiU).
16. The Tender Cut (PC).
17. Monsterbag (Vita).
18. Murasaki Baby (Vita).
19. Super Mario 3D World (WiiU)
20. Resident Evil: Revelations (WiiU)
21. Infamous: First Light (PS4).
22. Towerfall: Ascension (PS4).
23. Betrayer (PC).
24. Thirty Flights of Loving (PC)
25. Aliens: Colonial Marines (PC)
26. The Walking Dead (eps 1-5) (PC).


27. Ori & The Blind Forest (PC)

Here's my review in the style of ACE Magazine.


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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, finished free DLC trophies
5. Peggle Classic (iOS) - finished Adventure Mode with 18m points
6. OlliOlli 2: Welcome to Olliwood (PS4) - completed all stages on Amateur
7. Daytona Rush (iOS) - unlocked all tiers, top on friends leaderboards for all tiers
8. Super Mega Baseball (PS4) - won the League Championship
9. Please, Don't Touch Anything (Mac) - 17/21 endings

I liked the idea of this, but some of the clues were way too cryptic for my brain. The music is excellent, though.

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1) Far Cry 4 - Fantastic.

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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
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief
39. Cabin Escape
40. Cryptic Caverns
41. Far Cry 4
42. The Mystery of the Crimson Manor
43. Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
44. The Lost Fountain
45. Pettson's Inventions
46. Spoiler Alert
47. Stealth Bastard
48. Hohokum
49. Tiny Dangerous Dungeons
50. Shadow Blade
51. The Tender Cut
52. SURREALISTa
53. Nub's Adventure
54. Kraven Manor
55. Montague's Mount
56. Jazzpunk
57. That Level Again 2
58. NaissancE
59. Lifeless Planet
60. Shadowgun

61. Neverending Nightmares
62. The Moon Sliver
63. A Story About My Uncle
64. Outside World
65. Sword of Xolan: Fantastic hack and slash platformer for Android. Tight controls and a light exploration element to keep things interesting. Reminded me a lot of Devious Dungeon, albeit with a nicer art style, which is fine as DD was a great game as well.


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64. Outside World
65. Sword of Xolan: Fantastic hack and slash platformer for Android. Tight controls and a light exploration element to keep things interesting. Reminded me a lot of Devious Dungeon, albeit with a nicer art style, which is fine as DD was a great game as well.


You should totally wrap the first 52 in a spoiler tag now to save my poor mobile scrolly finger.

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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
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Bamba wrote:
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64. Outside World
65. Sword of Xolan: Fantastic hack and slash platformer for Android. Tight controls and a light exploration element to keep things interesting. Reminded me a lot of Devious Dungeon, albeit with a nicer art style, which is fine as DD was a great game as well.


You should totally wrap the first 52 in a spoiler tag now to save my poor mobile scrolly finger.


That's a really good idea, I've done the first 60 for the sake of a round number.


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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
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief
39. Cabin Escape
40. Cryptic Caverns
41. Far Cry 4
42. The Mystery of the Crimson Manor
43. Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
44. The Lost Fountain
45. Pettson's Inventions
46. Spoiler Alert
47. Stealth Bastard
48. Hohokum
49. Tiny Dangerous Dungeons
50. Shadow Blade
51. The Tender Cut
52. SURREALISTa
53. Nub's Adventure
54. Kraven Manor
55. Montague's Mount
56. Jazzpunk
57. That Level Again 2
58. NaissancE
59. Lifeless Planet
60. Shadowgun

61. Neverending Nightmares
62. The Moon Sliver
63. A Story About My Uncle
64. Outside World
65. Sword of Xolan
66. Adventures of Poco Eco: You play as the titular Poco Eco who's tasked with returning music to the odd world he lives in. The gameplay consists generally of just tapping the ground to direct Poco around the place and while there are buttons and platforms to be manipulated there's no challenge at all because you just follow where your 'helper' fairy thing leads. It is very pretty--with no small amount of artistic debt owed to Monument Valley as always--although the view is feels a bit too zoomed in to properly appreciate the look of the thing. The music is lovely of course, as you'd expect from a game about sound. If you treat is as just something to be experienced rather than actively played it's very nice, and it's pretty short so doesn't outstay it's welcome at all


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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
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief
39. Cabin Escape
40. Cryptic Caverns
41. Far Cry 4
42. The Mystery of the Crimson Manor
43. Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
44. The Lost Fountain
45. Pettson's Inventions
46. Spoiler Alert
47. Stealth Bastard
48. Hohokum
49. Tiny Dangerous Dungeons
50. Shadow Blade
51. The Tender Cut
52. SURREALISTa
53. Nub's Adventure
54. Kraven Manor
55. Montague's Mount
56. Jazzpunk
57. That Level Again 2
58. NaissancE
59. Lifeless Planet
60. Shadowgun

61. Neverending Nightmares
62. The Moon Sliver
63. A Story About My Uncle
64. Outside World
65. Sword of Xolan
66. Adventures of Poco Eco
67. Puzzle House: Mystery Rising: Desperately wants to be The Room and, surprisingly, mostly succeeds. It's not as slick as The Room (though what in this world is?) and the beginning section is a bit confusing but once you get rolling it all works very well and is excellent fun. Properly grabbed me for the time it took to complete and hopefully there's a sequel in the works.


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14. Deponia - Not Daedalic's finest hour. Nice visuals but otherwise plain average point and click adventure.

15. The Fall - Pretty good sci fi adventure. Great story and atmosphere.

16. 1954 Alcatraz - Mediocre point and click adventure. Don't bother

17. Pillars of Eternity - Don't believe the hype. It's not that good, and it certainly isn't half as good as any of the infinity engine games.

18. The Last Door - Pretty interesting take on the adventure genre. Low-fi visuals and amazing soundtrack and lovecraftian atmosphere.

19. The Inner World - Very likable point and click adventure. Quite conservative but very good.


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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
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief
39. Cabin Escape
40. Cryptic Caverns
41. Far Cry 4
42. The Mystery of the Crimson Manor
43. Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
44. The Lost Fountain
45. Pettson's Inventions
46. Spoiler Alert
47. Stealth Bastard
48. Hohokum
49. Tiny Dangerous Dungeons
50. Shadow Blade
51. The Tender Cut
52. SURREALISTa
53. Nub's Adventure
54. Kraven Manor
55. Montague's Mount
56. Jazzpunk
57. That Level Again 2
58. NaissancE
59. Lifeless Planet
60. Shadowgun

61. Neverending Nightmares
62. The Moon Sliver
63. A Story About My Uncle
64. Outside World
65. Sword of Xolan
66. Adventures of Poco Eco
67. Puzzle House: Mystery Rising
68. Lifeline: Ostensibly a 'chose your own adventure' type of thing done purely in text. A spaceship crashes on a distant moon and one of the crew manages to contact you for help and advice. The entire thing then plays out as a load of text squirts from the scientist in question, like a text message conversation, with periodic questions that allow you to guide his actions.

The USP here is that it doesn't (initially) allow you to just batter through the whole scenario but actually adds forced pauses at appropriate times. So, for example, at the end of the first day your guy has the choice of bedding down either in a relatively exposed section of the wrecked ship or settling down near the intact reactor. One choice means a cold night whereas the other offers warmth but possible radiation issues. You make your choice and then he goes silent while 'sleeping' and you only find out hours later whether he survives or not. This is a surprisingly immersive technique which has your choices playing on your mind while you wait for the next update and brings the whole thing to life in a weird way.

The dialogue is well written and the story itself is engaging and interesting. Well, it falls apart a bit at the end on the branch I landed on on but overall I was satisfied with it. The only annoying thing is that, after you hit an end point for the first time, you can go back and pick the alternative for any decision you made and the story carries on from there; you can even turn on a 'fast mode' so everything flows through instantly and you're not made to wait through stuff you've seen before. I tried doing that so I could play for a better ending but some of the decisions I changed didn't seem to carry through. As a minor and non spoilery example, my guy fucked up his ankle at one point so I replayed it and changed the decision that led to that. Later on though he's still moaning about his buggered ankle even though he never ended up hurting it the second time round. This sucked away my desire to replay the game which would've been a big factor in it's favour.

Generally I really enjoyed it though and as an experience it's pretty unique so well worth trying.


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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.
9. BoxBoy - 3DS - Played it for 7.5 hrs. It cost about £4.50 - 5.50? And every tiny level was incredibly entertaining. I recommend it very highly. it's all about making squares.
10. Gunvolt - 3DS - the nes de-make that comes free with the 'real' game, or available for a couple of quid. Very slight, but fun enough. Doesn't set the world on fire.
11. Knights of the Round - Arcade, via PSP Capcom Collection, on a PS Vita - looks pretty, but absolutely mindless. A real example of how business models can make a game truly terrible (cf. F2P).
12. Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo - Vita, via PSP Capcom Puzzle Collection - on sale for £1.60. Bargain. and great fun, but I've yet to really click to why it's the tetris beater people claim. It must be so much better in multiplayer than the single player experience.
13. Kirby: Triple Deluxe - 3DS Easy as pish. But lovely to look at and stunning in 3D. A joy to play, but so easy it may put people off. (actually finished this before number 11, but forgot to post it).


14. New Super Mario Bros 2 - Special Edition - 3DS Another much maligned Mario games. By this time people had become bored of the graphical style and really disliked it. The idea that you had to grind a million coins made people hate it, but throwing that idea out of the window and focusing on the 3 coins per level gives you a wonderful, wonderful game. I've really enjoyed it but it's nowhere near the heights of NSMB:U or the original DS title.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 18:13 
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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
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief
39. Cabin Escape
40. Cryptic Caverns
41. Far Cry 4
42. The Mystery of the Crimson Manor
43. Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
44. The Lost Fountain
45. Pettson's Inventions
46. Spoiler Alert
47. Stealth Bastard
48. Hohokum
49. Tiny Dangerous Dungeons
50. Shadow Blade
51. The Tender Cut
52. SURREALISTa
53. Nub's Adventure
54. Kraven Manor
55. Montague's Mount
56. Jazzpunk
57. That Level Again 2
58. NaissancE
59. Lifeless Planet
60. Shadowgun

61. Neverending Nightmares
62. The Moon Sliver
63. A Story About My Uncle
64. Outside World
65. Sword of Xolan
66. Adventures of Poco Eco
67. Puzzle House: Mystery Rising
68. Lifeline
69. Gravity Duck + City DLC: An Android platformer wherein you control the titular duck by inverting gravity; so it's basically VVVVVV but split into bite sized levels rather than one sprawling game. And I do mean bite sized as each level is completed in a matter of seconds, once you've cracked the method of course. Not the most challenging game in the world but excellent fun while it lasts.


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ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
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
17. Gene Effect
18. Nihilumbra
19. Limbo
20. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
21. The Cat Lady
22. Lily Looking Through
23. Botanicula
24. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
25. That Level Again
26. Helidroid 3D
27. Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey New n Tasty
28. Mind: Path to Thalamus
29. Heir
30. Rivers of Alice
31. Ascent of Kings
32. Silly Sausage in Meat Land
33. Catastrophe Escape
34. Mystery of the Ancients: Curse of the Black Water
35. Random Heroes 3
36. Never Alone
37. Aaru's Awakening
38. Tiny Thief
39. Cabin Escape
40. Cryptic Caverns
41. Far Cry 4
42. The Mystery of the Crimson Manor
43. Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
44. The Lost Fountain
45. Pettson's Inventions
46. Spoiler Alert
47. Stealth Bastard
48. Hohokum
49. Tiny Dangerous Dungeons
50. Shadow Blade
51. The Tender Cut
52. SURREALISTa
53. Nub's Adventure
54. Kraven Manor
55. Montague's Mount
56. Jazzpunk
57. That Level Again 2
58. NaissancE
59. Lifeless Planet
60. Shadowgun

61. Neverending Nightmares
62. The Moon Sliver
63. A Story About My Uncle
64. Outside World
65. Sword of Xolan
66. Adventures of Poco Eco
67. Puzzle House: Mystery Rising
68. Lifeline
69. Gravity Duck + City DLC
70. Arkham Knight: I'll write some stuff about it later in the appropriate thread. To sum up though, it's a bit patchy in that some of the things it does are awesome and some are a bit annoying.


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1. Shadow Complex

2. Counterspy

A little Vita (and PS3+) game which is a tiny bit like Shadow Complex except you're a spy and you sneaky-sneak (or try to). It's presented really nicely and it's pretty fun.

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1. The Evil Within (PS4).
2. Rogue Legacy (PS Vita & PS4).
3. Far Cry 4 (PS4)
4. Transistor (PS4)
5. Valiant Hearts (PS4).
6. Heir (Browser?)
7. COUNTER Spy (PS4).
8. Apothena (PS4)
9. Oddworld: New & Tasty (PS4).
10. Bloodborne (PS4).
11. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (PS4).
12. Burn it Down (iOS).
13. The Evil Within: The Assignment DLC (PS4)
14. The Evil Within: The Consequence DLC (PS4).
15. Bayonetta 2 (WiiU).
16. The Tender Cut (PC).
17. Monsterbag (Vita).
18. Murasaki Baby (Vita).
19. Super Mario 3D World (WiiU)
20. Resident Evil: Revelations (WiiU)
21. Infamous: First Light (PS4).
22. Towerfall: Ascension (PS4).
23. Betrayer (PC).
24. Thirty Flights of Loving (PC)
25. Aliens: Colonial Marines (PC)
26. The Walking Dead (eps 1-5) (PC).
27. Ori & The Blind Forest (PC)


28. Dead Rising 3 (PC).

It's alright but it's a backwards step for the series.

Dark Souls doesn't have an easy mode. Dark Souls doesn't have an easy mode. Dark Souls doesn't have an easy mode. Say it with me "Dark Souls doesn't have an easy mode."

29. Entwined (PS4).

Why does this game exist? I don't know what it's about or why I should care. It left me cold. And it's dreadfully boring too since 9 stages of the same shit - often with frustrating consequences - is too much. You do the same boring crap (hitting gates) and then turn into a dragon. And the dragon isn't even fun to fly around. And it's over far too quickly. The dragon bit. Not the game, by the way, that might last 2 hours and that's still far too fucking long.

Then it ends in such an ostentatious way that the game is virtually fucking nudging you hard in the ribs with a bony elbow whilst winking at you. "See that? Aye, Aye, AYE? AYE!?" Yes, I fucking saw it and no it didn't make any fucking sense at all. I just played two hours of fish and bird and then fish and bird had sex and made dragon and dragon went right up his own gaping arse and out popped a fucking fish and a bird. NOW FUCK OFF.

Honestly, I wouldn't bother with this.


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PostPosted: Tue Jul 14, 2015 7:49 
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Saturnalian wrote:
Dark Souls doesn't have an easy mode. Dark Souls doesn't have an easy mode. Dark Souls doesn't have an easy mode. Say it with me "Dark Souls doesn't have an easy mode."

Yeah it does. It's called "Coop"


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Tue Jul 14, 2015 9:42 
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Mr Dave wrote:
Saturnalian wrote:
Dark Souls doesn't have an easy mode. Dark Souls doesn't have an easy mode. Dark Souls doesn't have an easy mode. Say it with me "Dark Souls doesn't have an easy mode."

Yeah it does. It's called "Coop"

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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Tue Jul 14, 2015 9:57 
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Also they patched it to make it easier, so actually "they took away Dark Souls' hard mode".

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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Tue Jul 14, 2015 10:12 
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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2015
PostPosted: Tue Jul 14, 2015 10:15 
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I'm a pre-patch completionist.

And patching a game isn't adding or subtracting modes of playing the game - the patch altered the one core experience. But you knew that cause you are a silly bum.


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