Beaten in 2008

[AcePuppy]

Going with tradition and starting a new thread for the New Year. What games have you beaten in 2008?

[Chainsaw_Charlie]

#1 Dark cloud

I never finished it the first time around because DC 2 was SO much better but I finally finished it this afternoon

[PsychoCandy]

I beat EVO: The Search For Eden last night, but I was close to the end saved already.

[roushimsx]

#1 - Dark Forces (PC)

Pretty neat little evolution of the sector-based FPS engines, but the level designs are hit and miss. Some are pretty ingenious (especially for the era), while others turn into tedious pains in the ass (notably: Level 4 when you don't know about entering codes). Also, the water temple in Ocarina of Time doesn't have shit on level 6 of Dark Forces :(

Shame there's no mid-level saving, because it makes some of the longer levels draaaaaaag out.

Still, it's a fun little trip down nostalgia lane. Probably should have played before I went on my Duke Nukem 3D binge, but all the same there was some good fun to be had.

Next up: Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight :)

edit - for anyone interested in using the mouse to turn in DOSbox, be sure to set your sensitivity to 150-200 in dosbox.conf, otherwise it's way too slow ingame.

[p_b]

#1 Baldur's Gate (including the Tales of the Sword Coast add-on). I finally finished slaughtering the werewolves and went to see Sarevok, who stood no chance against my couple of dozen summoned creatures, hahaha.

I'm currently installing Icewind Dale plus add-on right now, so more RPG goodness is on its way :)

[Juganawt]

#1 Cobra The Space Adventure (Sega CD)
#2 Metal Slug 3 (XBLA)

[XYXZYZ]

I finally got around to finishing NINJA MASTER'S, on three credits.

[Three-P]

My list thus far....

1-Final Fantasy for the PSP. (Excluding only the Labyrinth of Time, I beat every level.)

The year's still young.

[darkhades]

1. Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles (wii)

[Sparkster]

Trying my hand at finishing a game a day... not a resolution, just a challenge. So some of them will be games I've already beaten, some are brutally easy, some I will have to beat again in the year, and some just take a little time.

Jan 1 - NES Adventures in the Magic Kingdom - finished it many times before, just needed to get on track.
Jan 2 - NES Tetris B-game, Speed-9, Height-5... that's the toughest setting of the game.

Of course, this challenge will fail miserably very quickly since I'm moving on the 7th, and travelling to both L.A. and Florida before the end of the month... I simply won't have enough time or Gameboy games to take care of it everyday.

[Leo_A]

GT Advance 2

[jdc]

Just finished Ratchet And Clank Tools Of Destruction PS3.....(my vote for GOTY btw).....not once, but THREE TIMES and have just started my fourth. For those of you who are playing it....each and every time that you play it consecutively on Challenge Mode AFTER initially playing it on normal, the game keeps changing in small ways. They add one more new Omega weapon with every restart as well. Absolute mayhem ensues. Best game in years.

[kaedesdisciple]

#1: Ninja Gaiden Black
I'm so happy this one is done, it's been haunting me for the longest time.

I am currently working on:
-PSP Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions
-360 Marvel Ultimate Alliance
-DS Impossible Mission

Those should keep me busy for a while.

[darkhades]

2. Contra 4 (DS) On Easy & Normal difficulty
1. Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles (wii)

[KeyserSoze61]

1) Actraiser (SNES) - Took a break from my new 360 (Bioshock and Symphony of the Night) to finish the last bit of Actraiser. I was a bit disappointed that the end just relied on the platformer boss fights; it would have been nice to have a final city to build or something. Still, a great game.

Somehow I have put off playing Gunstar Heroes (which I've wanted for years, and finally got) in favor of Bioshock. Holy crap, what a treat Bioshock is. Take the best from System Shock, Deus Ex, and Psi-Ops and wrap it in a beautiful package.

[FantasiaWHT]

#1 - The Legend of Zelda.

I had never actually beat it before. Figure it's a good way to start the year out.

[Chainsaw_Charlie]

#2 Zelda Phantom Hourglass

Enjoyed it and now to play Twilight princess soon

[Sparkster]

Jan 3 - Contra - without the super cheat code. It was looking kind of sketchy when Level 7 got me down to 2 lives, but I had built up a few extra lives from not dying on Levels 5 or 6.

[7th lutz]

1.) Hyperzone-snes
2.) Qbert 3-snes
3.) Joe & MAc- Snes

[boatofcar]

I beat New Super Mario Bros., 2 Stars. Very rewarding experience.

Next up: Phoenix Wright: AJfA, and Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland.

[Sparkster]

Jan 4 - NES Bionic Commando. Finished it a bunch of times already, but not recently. The TV I was using cut off the bottom, so I ended up losing all my extra lives on Area 10 when you have to hop on the moving platform or die.

Today's TV showed the bottom, but since I wasn't used to Areas 11 or 12 anymore, they were slightly harder than I remembered.

[TheDomesticInstitution]

Just beat Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2 (XBOX) for the 2nd time in as many weeks. This time I beat it on extreme (vs. the previous "Hard") and unlocked the 2nd character. It's a good game and all- but 2 plays through with the same character is exactly the same- and there's not a whole lot to that game. It also won't let me get past a level 40 Barbarian.

[roushimsx]

#2 - Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight (PC)

Holy shit is the lightsaber combat annoying as hell in the game. Wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the forced lightsaber fight sequences with the dark jedi...ugh. Damn near gave up on the final fight until i saw a strategy online that involved exploiting AI bugs.

Other than that, the game is pretty amazing. Massive, vertigo inducting levels (some with multiple paths through them). Graphics haven't aged too well, but the movement is really slick...nice head/weapon bob (running actually feels like running). If you're prone to motion sickness, skip on this one. :)


Just beat Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2 (XBOX)

I've always been put off by how I couldn't import my characters from the first game :\ One of these days my friend and I will co op on through it, I guess.

Did you make it through without resorting to exploiting the duplication bug? Because I sure as hell couldn't (in the first game).

[Dreamcast]

Daxter for PSP

[marcus12024]

#1 - Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (PS3) - what a fun game. Sure, it does feel exactly like the others in the series, but there is enough new weaponry and ideas that it feels "fresh". And there isn't exactly a lot of choices for platformers these days!

#2 - January 20, 2008 - Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - sweet game, took me way too long to finish. Even did the final case that you get after the end credits...what a long-ass case!! Just now starting on the second game in the series. :)

[roushimsx]

#3 - Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies (PS2)

Surprisingly short, but pretty damn entertaining. I love the mostly arcadey approach that the game takes and the storyline / narration was pretty damn well done. Definitely looking forward to tackling Ace Combat 5 and, when it finally drops below $30, Ace Combat Zero.

[Sparkster]

Jan 5 - NES Super Mario Bros. I did it straight through (no warps). I also didn't bother with unnecessary pipes or the vines up to the clouds. Not my first time doing it straight through.

[Xexyz]

I'm actually keeping a log of what games I've beaten this year via Note Pad. I'm going to wait until we're at the end of the year before I post the list of games I've beaten in 2008.

However, seeing as I'm posting now, I mine as well list the first 2 games I've beaten so far:

1) Draglade (DS) - completed all four character quests, very tedious...

2) The Ignition Factor (SNES) - cool fire fighting game with a very odd script localization, but overall too short at only 8 stages...

[TheDomesticInstitution]

Did you make it through without resorting to exploiting the duplication bug? Because I sure as hell couldn't (in the first game).

I had no idea there was a duplication bug in the game. I haven't been using the internet for cheats as much since I've had to revert back to dial-up. And Hard (or was it medium?) mode was really really easy, so I never really got stuck. Extreme mode was a lot harder, and I had to change up the way I'd play. Instead of running in and just killing everyone, I had to take it a bit slower, and do a lot of running around stronger opponents. In extreme mode there are quite a few regular enemies that can kill you in 2 or 3 hits (its not exactly fair) so you have to run circles around them and hit them when they're not facing you. Another hint is to find a good crossbow (provided you don't use magic) to enemies out from a distance. Anyway today I just picked up Baldur's Gate: dark Alliance (1st one)- so I'll see how I like that one. It would be nice if you could go between part 1 and 2 with the characters. I do like the fact that you can import powerful characters into easy or hard games and just build up armor, money, and weapons. But there isn't a lot of point if you just have to play the same shit over again. Hey, sorry for the book I've written- I'm done now.

[Nirvana]

I beat Rock Band's Solo Tour (Drums) on Easy and Medium. 2 more songs to complete for Hard.

[Nate Nanjo]

1. Star Ocean 3, none of the extra's have been done. May do that another time though.

[roushimsx]

#4 - Duke Nukem Zero Hour (N64)

Zero Hour suffers from three crippling flaws:
1) Generally low framerate
2) Crummy controls
3) No mid mission saving (which becomes an issue due to intentionally cheap designs at points that are geared towards ramming it down your god damn throat that you don't own the game, the fucking game owns you)

Thanks to the magic of emulation, all three of these problems can be cured and the game transforms from a subaverage exercise in pure frustration into a fairly entertaining third person action game.

1) In Project64 the game runs at 30fps...most of the time. Even with the high res turned on (!)
2) With the NRage input plugin, you can fairly easily configure the game to control with the mouse and keyboard. It feels fairly natural, with the right mouse button to jump, scroll wheel to select weapons, left mouse to fire, middle mouse for item use, and mouse 4 and 5 for item selection. WASD moves like normal, and spacebar is use. Navigating the menus with the mouse was a bit iffy, but the actual gameplay was pretty choice.
3) Save states do fucking wonders.

With a mouse and keyboard, the boss fights (other than the third boss, anyway) were trivial and my only real complaint remaining with the control was the lack of a hang/shimmy/mantle action.

If anyone else wants to give this a shot, it's pretty easy to set up (install PJ64, either NRage 1.83 or 2.0b, and the latest PJ64 RDB, configure your resolution and controls, everything else works peachy), but I could also send you my prebuilt configuration as well. I'll probably be doing a similar runthrough of Duke Nukem 64 in the future as well... perhaps after I give the Saturn version another couple of plays so I can more fairly compare the Saturn / PC / N64 differences (some of those level design differences between the three are pretty staggering).

too long; didn't read summary - Zero Hour can be pretty fun thanks to emulation.

[jcalder8]

1. Keith Courage
A friend at work had this growing up and she was never able to get very far in it so I had to sit down and beat it. Pretty enjoyable overall. Too bad they never made another.

2. TimeShift: 360
I really enjoyed this game for the most part. It did drag a bit near the end but it's still a fun play through. I'll definitely be going through it at least a couple more times.

[kainemaxwell]

Beat Willow (NES) last night.

[Sparkster]

Ended the goal last night, but this week would have stopped me for sure if I hadn't stopped myself, but I finished Super Dodge Ball (normal), Chip N Dale's Rescue Rangers, and Actraiser before that.

Also kind of pissed that my Final Fantasy II save vanished... close to 11 hours.

[Chainsaw_Charlie]

#3 Legend of Heroes 3

Great finish to a good series of rpgs

next up finishing Lunar Knights

[roushimsx]

#5 - Super Mario Sunshine (GC)

Beat this one a few days ago (on the 8th) but forgot to post about it. Camera (and as a direct result, the control) was pretty shitty throughout the game, though there were a few instances of extremely clever and interesting mission / level designs. All of that shit went out the window in the final series of missions during a stage created for the sole purpose of exploiting every problem in the camera.

Final level was decently interesting and the end boss sequence was pretty much the creepiest sequence in a Mario game yet. Come on, bad guy with his son and the kidnapped princess chilling in a hot tub together? Sounds like a precursor to an homoerotic rape sandwich. Thank god Mario got in in time to stop 'em!

[DigitalSpace]

And the first game I beat this year would be BreakThru on the NES. Did that earlier today.

[Ryaan1234]

I have a boring Webmastering class, and all the students get their own file on the school's server. So, I keep a NES emulator ready to play at all times. I was inspired by DeceasedCrab's Let's Play, so I beat Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu (NES) in about 3 one hour school periods, and I did other stuff too so I'd say it took about an hour and a half. It's a good, solid game. It has nice controls and pretty good graphics. I like the action/platforming combo it has as well as the spontaneous mini game thrown in every once in a while. I'd give it 7/10

This puts me at 2 games beaten at shool, the other game was Ninja Crusaders (NES). I've also gotten pretty far in Fine N' Ice.

[JSoup]

#1 - Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana
Finally got around to polishing it off. Great game, but requires a surprising amount of patience, especially if you want some of the better items and character back stories.

[Chainsaw_Charlie]

#4 Lunar Knights

God damn this is the most annoying Lunar game I have played to date. I managed to win each ship battle by losing mutiple times and watching attack patterns.

Next up Astonshia Story

[Dreamc@sting]

After dying on the final boss in Heavenly Sword and putting it on hold I finally took him down. Now to fullfill my new years resolution to finish Genesis collection..... ::sigh::

[roushimsx]

#6 - Call of Duty: Finest Hour (Xbox)

Remarkably bad game on so many levels. Awful checkpoint system ensures that you're going to be repeating either entire levels or massive portions of them in the event of a death, AI (for both squadmates and enemies) seems locked at "pants on head retarded", map lighting is completely fucked (especially if you go by the calibration they offer in the options menu), and mission design fluctuates between fairly average and offensively bad.

The presentation is pretty nice and it's at least not a technical failure (unlike, say... Ghost Recon 2: 2007), but god damn if it wasn't a frustratingly bad game.

[djbeatmongrel]

I've been slacking but i am proud to say Simple 2000 Series Vol. 95: The Zombie vs. Kyuukyuusha (ps2) is the first game i've beaten.

so the list starts, lets hope i make it past 40 games (last years count)

1- Simple 2000 Series Vol. 95: The Zombie vs. Kyuukyuusha (ps2) 1/15/08

[djbeatmongrel]

2- Geometry Wars: Galaxies *medals on all planets besides ds unlockable ones, all drones are maxed (wii) 1/16/08

[incubus421]

First couple games of the year beat to get the ball rolling:

1/8 - Resident Evil 4 (Wii) (normal mode; time = 19:05'30'') Mercenary mode also complete. And am playing through the Seperate Ways story now.

1/14 -Growlanser II Sense of Justice (PS2) (Riviera met; time = 20:06) half way through this a second time with all my previous end game items in an attempt to unlock more bonus features of Growlanser Generations and hopefully meet someone besides Riviera.

[Chainsaw_Charlie]

#5 Spartan Total warrior

I like this style of game and it was decent

next up finishing AS and Zelda TP

[darkhades]

3. Call of Duty 4 (360)
2. Contra 4 (DS) On Easy & Normal difficulty
1. Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles (wii)

[PentiumMMX]

Last time, I beat a total of 21 games. I'm going to try and break that this year, probably with some new games and some games I've played to death. I'm going for at least 22 or higher this time.

I haven't beaten anything yet, but I'm close to beating Ratchet & Clank, Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure, and .hack//Infection. I'll start listing what I've beaten here soon (Might do a speedrun of Super Mario Land to kick things off)

[refan]

I Beat Harvey Birdman on the Wii. It was easy and short but it's a start.

[NinjaJoey23]

Beautiful Katamari (360)

I've also gotten most of the achievements, including 100% collection.

[Dreamcast]

Dead To Rights Reckoning for PSP

[skylark]

Three so far. That's means I'm almost halfway to beating last year's number already.

3. Mass Effect (360): Very good, but not without flaws. The side missions were just a waste of time, as was all the scavenger hunting. Good story, but Baldur's Gate 2 is still Bioware's high-mark.

2. Call of Duty 2 (360): Pretty generic, I thought. Wasn't bad, but I was ready for it to be over long before it actually was.

1. Call of Duty 4 (360): Very good. I can definitely see why the FPS crowd is raving about it.

[PentiumMMX]

I've officially kicked it off:

#1: Super Mario Land [Normal & Hard] (Game Boy)

(This is the first time I've actually gotten around to beating SML on Hard Mode)

[parker619]

2 games allready on my list

1.enduro racer - sms
2.taz-mania - sms

[Streetball 21]

On Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 2, I beat (with unlimited continues lol)

Captain Commando
Knights of the Round

Also trying to beat Street Fighter (the original) but damn is it difficult!

[Nintendo Gamer]

.....

[GarrettCRW]

I just got 100% on Lego Star Wars II for the 'Cube.

Go me. :bday:

[MASTERWEEDO]

Rampage - NES

[code52]

3 games so far:

1. Mass Effect
2. Assassin's Creed
3. PGR 3

[p_b]

2. Icewind Dale including the add-on. The final bosses are hell. I hate it when you can finish a game without any enormous difficulties and the end boss is about 15283 times harder than the rest of the game together. Gah.
Now installing Baldur's Gate 2 including add-ons. Do you see a trend?

[refan]

finish game #2 for 2008
Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga
Game Boy Advance

[Sotenga]

So far, there's not a lot of ass that I haven't already kicked. Still, I am finding new games to whomp in my downtime. What I've got so far...

Metroid Prime 3 (100% items, but I missed a few logbooks entries, dagnabit)
Mega Man Powered Up (All stages beaten on Hard with Mega Man and all 100 challenges obliterated! WHEW!)
Front Mission (Both the OCU and UCS sides completed... I had beaten the OCU [original] scenario a while ago, but I rebeat it for the DS remake and accomplished the all-new UCS side to boot)
Shin Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun - Kunio Tachi No Banka (One of the best games in the Kunio series of beat-em-ups for the Super Famicom)
Live-A-Live (One of the greatest RPGs that no one knows about and is BEGGING for a Virtual Console translation and rerelease)

And although it's not an official game, I consider the well-done Castlevania hack "Chorus of Mysteries" to be a separate game that is far harder than the original, and well worth a play.

[7th lutz]

4.) Secret of Mana

[roushimsx]

T2. Call of Duty 2 (360): Pretty generic, I thought. Wasn't bad, but I was ready for it to be over long before it actually was.

1. Call of Duty 4 (360): Very good. I can definitely see why the FPS crowd is raving about it.

I just picked up Call of Duty 4 because of this, btw. Call of Duty 2 got rave reviews when it came out while I found it to be fairly bland. Better than Call of Duty, for sure, but that's like saying United Offensive was better than Spearhead; it's not hard to be better than substandard.

Either way, I'm going to plow through CoD2 before I tackle CoD4 just to make CoD4 that much sweeter. That and I just played through Finest Hour (which was so bad that it made CoD look wonderful), Big Red One (which was pretty neat, if unevenly paced), and CoD3 (which I'm a bit mixed on, but generally feeling pretty positive about).

For updates since #6...

#7 - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (PS2) - Fun third person action game. Controls take a little bit to get used to and it's not polished quite enough, but it's still pretty fun. I enjoyed the fairly small level "zones" (frequent auto saving!), fantastic graphics, voice acting that wasn't bad, and generally enjoyable gameplay. The one tank level reminded me of how much more fun I had with the PS1 GitS game, though. (and I'm not a fan of the source material, so if you dig GitS then you'll probably like it that much more)

#8 - Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (Xbox) - An alien concept for CoD: Almost the entire game takes place from the perspective of a single character and shows the events of the war while in one unit. Pretty neat idea with some really novel concepts throughout, including a fresh and original take on the D-Day invasion. Stilted pacing is the one weak point of the game, as since you can't open doors yourself, you have to wait for the AI triggers to kick in and progress the mission forward.

#9 - Battle Engine Aquila (Xbox) - Imagine a real time strategy game fought between two AI opponents, with you playing a single powerful unit on one side that can tip the scales. Now imagine that that one unit is a mech that can transform into an aircraft with limited flight capabilities. It's pretty god damn fun, though some of the later levels can get ridiculously hard.

#10 - Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II (Xbox) - Not as bad as the first game, but still not very good. If you play co op and exploit the hell out of the character import/export options then it's actually a lot of fun, but played either solo or straight and it's a fucking chore.

#11 - Call of Duty 3 (Xbox) - Recharging health system returns from CoD2 (PC/360) with an awesome balance of scripted sequences and pretty solid AI. Generally neat mission designs hindered by the senseless inclusion of QTE-like events. I guess in the 360/Wii versions they added some senseless motion controls in lieu of QTEs, and apparently those are even MORE annoying. Had it not been for those bits, I would easily have placed it above BRO as my favorite of the series.

Might be a bit longer before I beat anything else...I don't know. Playing Baten Kaitos right now, but I might fire up CoD2 (PC) and breeze through it this weekend.

[MeTmKnice]

Contra
Super Mario Galaxy
Super Mario 64

[namzep]

1) Snood 2: On Vacation (DS) on puzzle and world tour modes.

[xtremegamer]

TMNT: Xbox 360, 100% Achievments

[fahlim003]

Finally beat EarthBound. Got the Sword of the Kings, but no Gutsy Bat.

[Three-P]

Final Fantasy II for the PSP.

Still working on the Dawn of Rebirth mode.

[p_b]

3. Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. That is, I played through the story mode for the first time, I know that I could repeat that twice more. But I won't :)

At least not in the near future.

[strassy]

for the NES:

Commando
Duck Tales 2

[otaku]

god hand on ps2. God power makes my pimp hand strong...
awesome game tough as hell but aswesome

[Sotenga]

Mother/Earthbound Zero for the Famicom has been my latest experience, and a good time was had by me... except when I was getting raped by enemies on Mt. Itoi, but I managed. Dammit, we better get Mother 3 somehow, even if we have to settle for a fanslation.

[Chainsaw_Charlie]

#6 Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess

earns my vote as the #2 zelda of all time