Beaten in 2016

[JSoup]

Per tradition, the new topic is up a day in advance, the game systems are warmed up and you lot are going to document your year long beats here.


Previous years:
2003 (http://forum.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?23724-What-have-you-beaten-this-year-2003), 2005 (http://forum.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?51796-Beaten-In-2005), 2006 (http://forum.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?76644-Beaten-in-2006), 2007 (http://forum.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?94816-Beaten-in-2007), 2008 (http://forum.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?110989-Beaten-in-2008), 2009 (http://forum.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?126342-Beaten-in-2009), 2010 (http://forum.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?139708-Beaten-in-2010), 2011 (http://forum.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?150161-Beaten-in-2011), 2012 (http://forum.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?159063-Beaten-in-2012), 2013 (http://forum.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?165621-Beaten-in-2013), 2014 (http://forum.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?170509-Beaten-in-2014) & 2015 (http://forum.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?172752-Beaten-in-2015).

[Niku-Sama]

I beat 2015....it all just seemed like a game atleast

[JSoup]

You beat the spread and lived.
Where is that damn achievement notification?

[Aussie2B]

1. Puzzle & Action: Ichidant-R (Arcade via MAME) 1/1

My family rang in the New Year with some MAME gaming, and we somehow ended up on this game. By all accounts, it's a pretty dull, slow game consisting of nothing but a bunch of mini-games that aren't even fun, but for some reason we felt compelled to play to the end, haha.

[Arkanoid_Katamari]

1. Alien Hominid - PS2

First game of the new year. Cool run n gun shooter. It's behind and ahead of its time cuz it's a sidescroller that came out in 2003 but way before the rise of 2D indie games, but obviously way after 3D gaming became the thing. Check it out, it's a real great game.

[FieryReign]

*God of War: Ghost of Sparta

Sick game. Just don't know why it skips so much on pstv.

[AceAerosmith]

1. Left 4 Dead (single player) (360) 01/12/16
2. Superman: Shadow of Apokolips (PS2) 01/27/16
3. Rygar: The Legendary Adventures (PS2) 02/23/16
4. Gears of War (360) 02/26/16
5. The Wolf Among Us (XB1) 03/15/16
6. Fracture (360) 03/23/16

[FieryReign]

*God of War: Ghost of Sparta
*Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!!

[JSoup]

1. Labyrinthine Dreams

Simplistic RPGMaker game about a women on her death bed, so she has to run through a pile of mazes, running from a demon. Short, doesn't do anything that you haven't seen a hundred times before, but not really poor.

2. Minecraft: Story Mode: Episode 4: A Block and a Hard Place

Fitting end to the short story. Sort of wonder what the final episode is going to do, but I think a big hint for that has already been dropped.

3. Emily Is Away

Cute, but predictable. The real fun is working out the achievement icons.

[FieryReign]

*God of War: Ghost of Sparta(PSTV)
*Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!!(3DS)
*Color Commando(3DS)

Simple and short single-screen puzzle platformer.

[Arkanoid_Katamari]

Alien Hominid (PS2)
Conker's Bad Fur Day (N64)

I picked this one up and beat it tonight, funny as hell but pretty hard at times. Awesome game tho despite its certain flaws like the camera angles.

[FieryReign]

*God of War: Ghost of Sparta(PSTV)
*Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!!(3DS)
*Color Commando(3DS)
*Dracula X Chronicles(Vita)

That game is brutal. But doable. I dig it just as much as the original.

[JSoup]

1. Labyrinthine Dreams
2. Minecraft: Story Mode: Episode 4: A Block and a Hard Place
3. Emily Is Away

4. LEGO Legends of Chima: Laval's Journey

Much shorter and easier than the console LEGO games, which makes since. Chima is LEGO in house series and it's directed at kids. Still plays well, sounds good. Worth the few dollars I got it for.

5. Three Fourths Home: Extended Edition

Short visual novel type game. Story really isn't interesting, didn't make me care about the characters at all. Interface (Vita version) was clunky and slow.

[bb_hood]

NES Games 2016:
Jan
1. Super Spy Hunter - tough game but gets rather easy with practice.
2. Star Tropics
Feb
3. Star Tropics II
4. Super Dodgeball
5. Paperboy

[FieryReign]

*God of War: Ghost of Sparta(PSTV)
*Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!!(3DS)
*Color Commando(3DS)
*Dracula X Chronicles(Vita)
*Hotline: Miami(PSTV)

Hard-ass game. Had no idea what was going on with the storyline. Wasn't even about to attempt to find all the puzzle pieces just to solve a word scramble. Groovy music.

[JSoup]

1. Labyrinthine Dreams
2. Minecraft: Story Mode: Episode 4: A Block and a Hard Place
3. Emily Is Away
4. LEGO Legends of Chima: Laval's Journey
5. Three Fourths Home: Extended Edition

6. LEGO Marvel's Avengers

Good stuff. A bit more heavy on combat than previous games and I'm not a fan of endless hordes of spawning enemies when there are also a thousand goals on screen at the same time. Sound mixing is the best TT has done so far.

[Arkanoid_Katamari]

1. Alien Hominid (PS2)
2. Conker's Bad Fur Day (N64)
3. Yoshi's Wooly World (Wii U)

I've been slow playing games lately cuz of Arrow, but finished this little gem today.

[PrimordialHelios]

Just beat Quake. Gotta say, the final level was a LOT easier than I thought it would be.

[bb_hood]

NES Games 2016:
Jan
Super Spy Hunter
Star Tropics

Feb
Star Tropics II
Super Dodgeball
River City Ransom (advanced)
Paperboy
Monster Party
Dragon Spirit
Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout
Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle
Bubble Bobble & Super Bubble Bobble
Felix the Cat
Bonk's Adventure
Fester's Quest
Dynowarz - The Destruction of Spondylus
Hydlide
Tiny Toon Adventures
Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Trouble in Wackyland
Ninja Gaiden II: Dark Sword of Chaos
Ninja Gaiden III: Ancient Ship of Doom -Both US & Famicom versions
Gargoyle's Quest II
Batman
Vice Project: Doom
Low G Man -1st & 2nd Quest only
Kabuki Quantum Fighter
Little Samson
The Flintstones: Rescue of Dino & Hoppy
Flintstones 2: The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak
Panic Restaurant
Kickle Cubicle -all levels including 'special game' levels
Marble Madness -31 sec. left on clock
Jaws

[Janus]

I beat level 60 on Candy Crush without buying lollipops!

[Aussie2B]

1. Puzzle & Action: Ichidant-R (Arcade via MAME) 1/1
2. Detana!! TwinBee (PC Engine) 3/7

I haven't had the time to finish off a handful of games I started in 2015, let alone seriously start something new (though there is one game I started in 2016 that I'm close to beating if I can just get back to it), but I gave my PC Engine Duo-RX some love after barely touching it the last few years. Played all the way through my old favorite Detana!! TwinBee, though on Easy and most of the way with two players (cleared the last stage by myself).

[Captain_N77]

JAN
01) Star Wars Battlefront (PS4)

FEB
02) Breakthru (NES)
03) Metal Gear Solid 5: Phantom Pain (PS4)
04) Godzilla (PS4)
05) Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes (PS4)

MAR
06) Jamestown + (PS4/PSN)
07) Grandia (PS1/PSN)

Little late to the party, but here's this year so far for me.

Battlefront I did all of the single player stuff in January, then this past month I finished everything on the hardest difficulty and got all the trophies.

My brother and I both finished Breakthru. We accidentally sort of put it in and got addicted quickly. Really fun little game.

Spent $15 on Godzilla and it was well worth it. I'm just glad I didn't pay full price! Still, a fun game to waste some time on if you're into Godzilla.

Metal Gear Solid 5: I played these out of order, but oh well. Really dig Phantom Pain. Sucks not having David Hayter as Snake's voice, but every time Snake spoke I was hearing Hayter's voice anyways. I also got really sucked into the base building aspect of the game. I kinda dreaded finishing it, I was so into the game.

Jamestown is a really fun shmup. Veeeeerrryyyy interesting setting for the game too.

Grandia: I've been curious about this game for years and downloaded it off PSN a few months ago. At first I was put off by having to maunally rotate the camera around to find doors and paths, and the game looked super pixelated at first(looked much better when I hooked up my PS TV to my newer television), but something drew me back after I played 1 hour and put the game down for over 1 month. First, I love the battle system: just awesome stuff. Secondly, the game has a gorgeous art style and the music is incredible. I really love how the game starts out as just a couple of kids seeking adventure and slowly builds from there. I really enjoyed my time with this one.

[sydpinkfloyd]

1. TMNT 4 - Turtles in Time (again)
2. Contra (again)
3. Mega Man 2 (again)
4. Guns, Gore and Cannoli
5. Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris

All I can think of at the moment, although I'm sure there's more.

[Arkanoid_Katamari]

1. Alien Hominid (PS2)
2. Conker's Bad Fur Day (N64)
3. Yoshi's Wooly World (Wii U)
4. Kickle Cubicle (NES)

What a great time this was!

[eskobar]

It was a very long journey to finish once again this game: Xenogears ...


I finished Xenogears in the fall of 1998 and started the game a few more times but didn't had the chance to actually finish the game. A few months ago I tried to complete the game once again and finally yesterday had the time to finish it.

Easily the best RPG for the PS1 and Top 3 of all consoles/computers (for me). It was a really good experience and found so much more than the first time and understood the plot better this time.

I want to thank you all and my family for making this a reality, you make the world a much better place (LOL) 8-)

[JSoup]

1. Labyrinthine Dreams
2. Minecraft: Story Mode: Episode 4: A Block and a Hard Place
3. Emily Is Away
4. LEGO Legends of Chima: Laval's Journey
5. Three Fourths Home: Extended Edition
6. LEGO Marvel's Avengers

7. The Shivah

Wonderful short story. Voice recording wasn't amazing, but still good. Worth a playthrough.

[Aussie2B]

1. Puzzle & Action: Ichidant-R (Arcade via MAME) 1/1
2. Detana!! TwinBee (PC Engine) 3/7
3. End of Serenity (PSP) 3/27

Instead of being smart and working on beating all the games I have half-finished right now, I started up and beat something I just bought, haha. There was a recent PSN Flash Sale that had discounts on some interesting stuff. I normally don't pay much attention to PSN sales because I want everything in physical form if possible, but I spotted two retro throwback RPGs created in a 16-bit/RPG Maker kind of style by Kemco that I vaguely remember being localized by Natsume and coming out digital-only in the dying days of the PSP (originally they were mobile games, though). For less than $5 each, I figured they were worth a whirl. The other I hear can be fairly long, so I'm putting it off for later, but I heard End of Serenity was super short, which cemented my decision to start it up. And true to what I heard, I did beat it in like 10-11 hours. It's nothing special, but it's fun for what it is, a breezy, fast-paced little traditional RPG that feels like it could've been a B-tier SNES RPG. Had it come out back in the day, I think it'd have a favorable legacy, though nothing like the greats of that era. It'd probably harder if it had come out back then, though. As it is, it barely puts up any kind of challenge.

Probably my biggest complaint is that it uses some of the old groan-worthy story tropes. I mean, I guess that's the point, in trying to be nostalgic and all, and the story and characters development is so paper-thin that it's practically nonexistent anyway, but I have to roll my eyes when there's a female villain second in command to the big baddie, and she's only "evil" because she *~loves~* him, and of course she looks like some sort of dominatrix because "sexually confident woman" = "bad girl". I just could do without some of the lamer aspects of old Japanese RPGs.

[JSoup]

1. Labyrinthine Dreams
2. Minecraft: Story Mode: Episode 4: A Block and a Hard Place
3. Emily Is Away
4. LEGO Legends of Chima: Laval's Journey
5. Three Fourths Home: Extended Edition
6. LEGO Marvel's Avengers
7. The Shivah

8. Minecraft: Story Mode: Episode 5: Order Up!

Fresh start from the previous four episodes that is apparently going to lead into a further three episode DLC story. Pretty good so far.

9. The Charnel House Trilogy

As far as adventure games go, this trilogy is pretty simple to follow, very few actual puzzles. On the other hand, the writing is damn good and the sound direction is perfect. Also features the voice work of Abe Goldfarb, which always pushes a games rating up a point with me. Highly worth a look.

[AceAerosmith]

1. Left 4 Dead (single player) (360) 01/12/16
2. Superman: Shadow of Apokolips (PS2) 01/27/16
3. Rygar: The Legendary Adventures (PS2) 02/23/16
4. Gears of War (360) 02/26/16
5. The Wolf Among Us (XB1) 03/15/16
6. Fracture (360) 03/23/16
7. Inversion (360) 04/02/16
8. Fantastic Four (Xbox) 04/22/16

[Az]

Managed to 1CC World Heroes Perfect on MVS last week with Fuuma on normal difficulty. Strange because it was only my second time ever playing the game. I have a CD-R of Saturn WHP and also World Heroes Anthology/Gorgeous on PS2 but never once actually sat down and played it. I've been on a World Heroes kick lately and always wanted to check out Perfect but it was the one game I didn't own on MVS.

Neo-Dio didn't have the usual SNK boss AI, beat him using cheap follow ups after blocking some of his specials. Fantastic game that really needs to be played on a 6-button setup.

[JSoup]

1. Labyrinthine Dreams
2. Minecraft: Story Mode: Episode 4: A Block and a Hard Place
3. Emily Is Away
4. LEGO Legends of Chima: Laval's Journey
5. Three Fourths Home: Extended Edition
6. LEGO Marvel's Avengers
7. The Shivah
8. Minecraft: Story Mode: Episode 5: Order Up!
9. The Charnel House Trilogy

10. Legend of Mysteria

Initially I was all over this for interesting use of the RPGMaker software, but as the game went on it just became more and more fiddly. The story payoff wasn't worth the time put into it, sadly.

[Arkanoid_Katamari]

1. Alien Hominid (PS2)
2. Conker's Bad Fur Day (N64)
3. Yoshi's Wooly World (Wii U)
4. Kickle Cubicle (NES)
5. Shovel Knight (Wii U)

So much fun, just kinda sad it's over!

[JSoup]

1. Labyrinthine Dreams
2. Minecraft: Story Mode: Episode 4: A Block and a Hard Place
3. Emily Is Away
4. LEGO Legends of Chima: Laval's Journey
5. Three Fourths Home: Extended Edition
6. LEGO Marvel's Avengers
7. The Shivah
8. Minecraft: Story Mode: Episode 5: Order Up!
9. The Charnel House Trilogy
10. Legend of Mysteria

11. Day of the Tentacle Remastered

I had only played a little of the original when it was new, it was nice to finally see the whole game through. I found it difficult mostly because I'm used to modern adventure games, which tend to not over flood you with items and use cartoon logic for puzzle solutions. Still not a fan of the OST, though.

12. LYNE

It's somewhat challenging, if not a bit overdone at points. Worth a dollar or two.

[Arkanoid_Katamari]

1. Alien Hominid (PS2)
2. Conker's Bad Fur Day (N64)
3. Yoshi's Wooly World (Wii U)
4. Kickle Cubicle (NES)
5. Shovel Knight (Wii U)
6. Mario Kart DS (DS)

[JSoup]

1. Labyrinthine Dreams
2. Minecraft: Story Mode: Episode 4: A Block and a Hard Place
3. Emily Is Away
4. LEGO Legends of Chima: Laval's Journey
5. Three Fourths Home: Extended Edition
6. LEGO Marvel's Avengers
7. The Shivah
8. Minecraft: Story Mode: Episode 5: Order Up!
9. The Charnel House Trilogy
10. Legend of Mysteria
11. Day of the Tentacle Remastered
12. LYNE

13. Ratchet & Clank

Really good. Simply beautiful game, OST is amazing. I did find the game a little easy, but it's basically a movie tie-in, so.

[bb_hood]

NES Games 2016:
Jan
Super Spy Hunter
Star Tropics

Feb
Star Tropics II
Super Dodgeball
River City Ransom (advanced)
Paperboy
Monster Party
Dragon Spirit
Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout
Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle
Bubble Bobble & Super Bubble Bobble
Felix the Cat
Bonk's Adventure
Fester's Quest
Dynowarz - The Destruction of Spondylus
Hydlide
Tiny Toon Adventures
Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Trouble in Wackyland
Ninja Gaiden II: Dark Sword of Chaos
Ninja Gaiden III: Ancient Ship of Doom -Both US & Famicom versions
Gargoyle's Quest II
Batman
Vice Project: Doom
Low G Man -1st & 2nd Quest only
Kabuki Quantum Fighter
Little Samson
The Flintstones: Rescue of Dino & Hoppy
Flintstones 2: The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak
Panic Restaurant
Kickle Cubicle -all levels including 'special game' levels
Marble Madness -31 sec. left on clock
Jaws

March/April
Phantom Fighter
Archon
Monster in my Pocket
Rockin' Kats
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
TMNT II: the Arcade Game
Dragon Warrior II - this game took forever..

[celerystalker]

NES Games 2016:
Jan
Super Spy Hunter
Star Tropics

Feb
Star Tropics II
Super Dodgeball
River City Ransom (advanced)
Paperboy
Monster Party
Dragon Spirit
Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout
Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle
Bubble Bobble & Super Bubble Bobble
Felix the Cat
Bonk's Adventure
Fester's Quest
Dynowarz - The Destruction of Spondylus
Hydlide
Tiny Toon Adventures
Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Trouble in Wackyland
Ninja Gaiden II: Dark Sword of Chaos
Ninja Gaiden III: Ancient Ship of Doom -Both US & Famicom versions
Gargoyle's Quest II
Batman
Vice Project: Doom
Low G Man -1st & 2nd Quest only
Kabuki Quantum Fighter
Little Samson
The Flintstones: Rescue of Dino & Hoppy
Flintstones 2: The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak
Panic Restaurant
Kickle Cubicle -all levels including 'special game' levels
Marble Madness -31 sec. left on clock
Jaws

March/April
Phantom Fighter
Archon
Monster in my Pocket
Rockin' Kats
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
TMNT II: the Arcade Game
Dragon Warrior II - this game took forever..

A lot of great stuff there. Nice to see that someone else finished Phantom Fighter! How'd you like it?

[bb_hood]

A lot of great stuff there. Nice to see that someone else finished Phantom Fighter! How'd you like it?

Its a really good game. Love the theme also.

[celerystalker]

Its a really good game. Love the theme also.

Me too. It has that special kind of creepy feel that black background NES games have, but enhanced by the concept of exorcising Kyonshees. Once you get a feel for the fighting, it's awesome.

[Arkanoid_Katamari]

1. Alien Hominid (PS2)
2. Conker's Bad Fur Day (N64)
3. Yoshi's Wooly World (Wii U)
4. Kickle Cubicle (NES)
5. Shovel Knight (Wii U)
6. Mario Kart DS (DS)
7. TMNT IV- Turtles in Time (SNES)

[Arkanoid_Katamari]

1. Alien Hominid (PS2)
2. Conker's Bad Fur Day (N64)
3. Yoshi's Wooly World (Wii U)
4. Kickle Cubicle (NES)
5. Shovel Knight (Wii U)
6. Mario Kart DS (DS)
7. TMNT IV- Turtles in Time (SNES)
8. Ico (PS2)

[Genjackson]

1. Addams Family (NES) - fml.
2. Kabuki Quantum Fighter (NES) - Not actually bad.
3. Ni No Kuni (PS3) - Great game. Got the Platinum.

[JSoup]

1. Labyrinthine Dreams
2. Minecraft: Story Mode: Episode 4: A Block and a Hard Place
3. Emily Is Away
4. LEGO Legends of Chima: Laval's Journey
5. Three Fourths Home: Extended Edition
6. LEGO Marvel's Avengers
7. The Shivah
8. Minecraft: Story Mode: Episode 5: Order Up!
9. The Charnel House Trilogy
10. Legend of Mysteria
11. Day of the Tentacle Remastered
12. LYNE
13. Ratchet & Clank

14. MISSING: An Interactive Thriller - Episode One

Not bad. It's short and the puzzles are pretty easy, but it flows nice and I'm interested in getting the second episode. This is how FMV games should be done, short, sweet and to a point. I really feel that the failing of many retro FMVs was overreaching.

[Aussie2B]

1. Puzzle & Action: Ichidant-R (Arcade via MAME) 1/1
2. Detana!! TwinBee (PC Engine) 3/7
3. End of Serenity (PSP) 3/27
4. Ozmafia!! (PC) 5/5

I cleared my first route in Ozmafia (Caramia's), but I'm doubtful I got the best possible ending for him. For one, clearing a route unlocked the CG Gallery, and I'm still missing half of his pics. The ending I got wasn't particularly bad or anything (I'm too used to visual novels where a bad end means somebody's gonna die, haha), but I definitely see room for a happier ending.

[Arkanoid_Katamari]

1. Alien Hominid (PS2)
2. Conker's Bad Fur Day (N64)
3. Yoshi's Wooly World (Wii U)
4. Kickle Cubicle (NES)
5. Shovel Knight (Wii U)
6. Mario Kart DS (DS)
7. TMNT IV- Turtles in Time (SNES)
8. Ico (PS2)
9. Guacamelee (XBLA)

[JSoup]

1. Labyrinthine Dreams
2. Minecraft: Story Mode: Episode 4: A Block and a Hard Place
3. Emily Is Away
4. LEGO Legends of Chima: Laval's Journey
5. Three Fourths Home: Extended Edition
6. LEGO Marvel's Avengers
7. The Shivah
8. Minecraft: Story Mode: Episode 5: Order Up!
9. The Charnel House Trilogy
10. Legend of Mysteria
11. Day of the Tentacle Remastered
12. LYNE
13. Ratchet & Clank
14. MISSING: An Interactive Thriller - Episode One

15. Epic Battle Fantasy 4

Pretty amazing game, particularly when you consider it was all done by one person. Looks great, plays great, sounds amazing. Has a biting difficulty curve, but also a reasonable one. Much of the game is simplified by properly planning ahead and making use of scanning to keep track of what monsters are weak against what. Very much recommend and I'm ready for Epic Battle Fantasy 5, in production right now.

[AceAerosmith]

1. Left 4 Dead (single player) (360) 01/12/16
2. Superman: Shadow of Apokolips (PS2) 01/27/16
3. Rygar: The Legendary Adventures (PS2) 02/23/16
4. Gears of War (360) 02/26/16
5. The Wolf Among Us (XB1) 03/15/16
6. Fracture (360) 03/23/16
7. Inversion (360) 04/02/16
8. Fantastic Four (Xbox) 04/22/16
9. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3) 05/14/16
10. The Punisher (Xbox) 05/25/16

[Arkanoid_Katamari]

1. Alien Hominid (PS2)
2. Conker's Bad Fur Day (N64)
3. Yoshi's Wooly World (Wii U)
4. Kickle Cubicle (NES)
5. Shovel Knight (Wii U)
6. Mario Kart DS (DS)
7. TMNT IV- Turtles in Time (SNES)
8. Ico (PS2)
9. Guacamelee (XBLA)
10. Flower (PS3)

[calthaer]

Thread made me look at my Backloggery.com account to see what I've beaten. Man. Not much.
Beat Shadowrun: Dragonfall around New Year's day this year.
Beat "Dead Space" for the PC.
Beat the digital card game "Chainsaw Warrior: Lords of Night" on Steam.
Finished a Talisman: Prologue with the first character (Warrior) and am going to call it a day on that one.

But that's it. I've unfortunately been playing a bunch of games that really aren't quite beat-able - the Project 1999 Everquest retro server, for one. Also, Terraria, which I got close but haven't finished. Started playing Spelunky on Steam, but I honestly don't think I'm ever likely to finish that - it's super difficult. I just don't have the patience these days to sit down and slowly master the skills necessary to beat a super-difficult platformer - even one where the entire run-through is programmatically identical (e.g., most Nintendo games - where you can "memorize" everything), let alone a game like Spelunky where it's totally random.

[JSoup]

1. Labyrinthine Dreams
2. Minecraft: Story Mode: Episode 4: A Block and a Hard Place
3. Emily Is Away
4. LEGO Legends of Chima: Laval's Journey
5. Three Fourths Home: Extended Edition
6. LEGO Marvel's Avengers
7. The Shivah
8. Minecraft: Story Mode: Episode 5: Order Up!
9. The Charnel House Trilogy
10. Legend of Mysteria
11. Day of the Tentacle Remastered
12. LYNE
13. Ratchet & Clank
14. MISSING: An Interactive Thriller - Episode One
15. Epic Battle Fantasy 4

16. Final Fantasy Type-0 HD

This game is just....goddamn. The script is bad, the gameplay is clunky, the voice direction is a crash course on how to take a group of pretty good voice actors and make the horrible. It's disjointed, has random difficulty spikes The one thing I can say for it is it's got a pretty decent OST.

[AceAerosmith]

1. Left 4 Dead (single player) (360) 01/12/16
2. Superman: Shadow of Apokolips (PS2) 01/27/16
3. Rygar: The Legendary Adventures (PS2) 02/23/16
4. Gears of War (360) 02/26/16
5. The Wolf Among Us (XB1) 03/15/16
6. Fracture (360) 03/23/16
7. Inversion (360) 04/02/16
8. Fantastic Four (Xbox) 04/22/16
9. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3) 05/14/16
10. The Punisher (Xbox) 05/25/16
11. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 (Xbox) 05/31/16
12. Lego Indiana Jones- The Original Adventures (360) 06/07/16
13. Spider-Man 2 (Xbox) 06/12/16
14. Shellshock: Nam '67 (Xbox) 06/17/16
15. WinBack: Covert Operations (PS2) 07/05/16
16. Serious Sam: Next Encounter (PS2) 07/28/16

[JSoup]

1. Labyrinthine Dreams
2. Minecraft: Story Mode: Episode 4: A Block and a Hard Place
3. Emily Is Away
4. LEGO Legends of Chima: Laval's Journey
5. Three Fourths Home: Extended Edition
6. LEGO Marvel's Avengers
7. The Shivah
8. Minecraft: Story Mode: Episode 5: Order Up!
9. The Charnel House Trilogy
10. Legend of Mysteria
11. Day of the Tentacle Remastered
12. LYNE
13. Ratchet & Clank
14. MISSING: An Interactive Thriller - Episode One
15. Epic Battle Fantasy 4
16. Final Fantasy Type-0 HD

17. The Walking Dead: Michonne

This is out of order, I guess I never got around to writing this one down, but I cleared it a few months ago. The game uses the new engine TT is developing for future games and it really stands out from previous work. Gameplay is fluid, little to know hicups, no syncing problems. The story itself is..ok, but you already know how it's going to turn out, since it takes place between other stories.

[bb_hood]

Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom
Kung Fu games A + B
Ninja Crusaders
Journey to Silius
Blaster Master
Faxanadu

Princess tomato is such a cool game. It actually really easy except for the 1st person dungeon areas.

[otaku]

yoshi's new island and working on donkey kong country both 2ds games

xbox one working on halo collection and some others but its tough with my limited game time

[Arkanoid_Katamari]

1. Alien Hominid (PS2)
2. Conker's Bad Fur Day (N64)
3. Yoshi's Wooly World (Wii U)
4. Kickle Cubicle (NES)
5. Shovel Knight (Wii U)
6. Mario Kart DS (DS)
7. TMNT IV- Turtles in Time (SNES)
8. Ico (PS2)
9. Guacamelee (XBLA)
10. Flower (PS3)
11. Super Mario Land (GB)

Yea great little Mario game. Beat it on a Super Gameboy, really the best way to play it. Feels like a forgotten Mario game which is sad cuz it's really great

[Arkanoid_Katamari]

1. Alien Hominid (PS2)
2. Conker's Bad Fur Day (N64)
3. Yoshi's Wooly World (Wii U)
4. Kickle Cubicle (NES)
5. Shovel Knight (Wii U)
6. Mario Kart DS (DS)
7. TMNT IV- Turtles in Time (SNES)
8. Ico (PS2)
9. Guacamelee (XBLA)
10. Flower (PS3)
11. Super Mario Land (GB)
12. Super Dodge Ball (NES)

[Aussie2B]

1. Puzzle & Action: Ichidant-R (Arcade via MAME) 1/1
2. Detana!! TwinBee (PC Engine) 3/7
3. End of Serenity (PSP) 3/27
4. Ozmafia!! (PC) 5/5
5. Adventures of Mana (Vita) 7/4

I've never played Final Fantasy Adventure, the game Adventures of Mana is a 3D remake of, but this version was a fun little game. I'm glad Square Enix caved and brought it to Vita, and I'm glad I dropped the 14 bucks on it. I was thinking of trying to platinum the game, which I've never done for any game so far, but I didn't get a few trophies that I was hoping to have earned by the end, and I don't know if I want to do the backtracking to find what I missed. Plus, on top of that, I'd have to do a lot of level grinding. Well, we'll see. Maybe I'll stick with it.

[JSoup]

1. Labyrinthine Dreams
2. Minecraft: Story Mode: Episode 4: A Block and a Hard Place
3. Emily Is Away
4. LEGO Legends of Chima: Laval's Journey
5. Three Fourths Home: Extended Edition
6. LEGO Marvel's Avengers
7. The Shivah
8. Minecraft: Story Mode: Episode 5: Order Up!
9. The Charnel House Trilogy
10. Legend of Mysteria
11. Day of the Tentacle Remastered
12. LYNE
13. Ratchet & Clank
14. MISSING: An Interactive Thriller - Episode One
15. Epic Battle Fantasy 4
16. Final Fantasy Type-0 HD
17. The Walking Dead: Michonne

18. LEGO Star wars: The Force Awakens

The TT LEGO games are normally always good, but they really shine with Star Wars. It great platforming, pretty visuals, the Star Wars OST, all that. Of note, the movie sound bites are clean and clear this time, unlike the last LEGO movie adaption.

[Aussie2B]

1. Puzzle & Action: Ichidant-R (Arcade via MAME) 1/1
2. Detana!! TwinBee (PC Engine) 3/7
3. End of Serenity (PSP) 3/27
4. Ozmafia!! (PC) 5/5
5. Adventures of Mana (Vita) 7/4
6. Xeodrifter (Vita) 7/14

Took me a bit longer than expected because I got hopelessly stuck until I wandered around just about everywhere (darn you, map, for making a room with a door look like a dead end), but I knocked out Xeodrifter pretty fast. There were a number of things that irritated me about the game, but it was decent fun overall. Now to just 100% the map and find the remaining health upgrades (already found every gun upgrade). Definitely not gonna go for every trophy this time. I'm not interested in replaying to speedrun, nor do I want to practice enough to beat the final boss without taking a single hit.

[Rickstilwell1]

I haven't finished beating any games this year yet, but I finally came back and updated my list from 2015. Entries 10-17 were added. I got really busy and changed my setup multiple times. After finishing King's Field II for PS1 in November I started playing Suikoden III for PS2 again and some other PS2 games but didn't 100% finish any of them yet. Then I started playing Pokemon Gold, Silver and Crystal. I'm getting close to done with all three, but it still might be a while. I started a file in Pokemon X and Y versions just so I could download multiple rare Pokemon from these monthly giveaway events but haven't tried to progress beyond the first town with a Pokemon center. I want to play all the older games first.

I don't know if you guys are on Facebook or not but I've done most of my talking about games with people in groups on there for the past year now so I haven't even come to the forums I used to all the time.

[JSoup]

1. Labyrinthine Dreams
2. Minecraft: Story Mode: Episode 4: A Block and a Hard Place
3. Emily Is Away
4. LEGO Legends of Chima: Laval's Journey
5. Three Fourths Home: Extended Edition
6. LEGO Marvel's Avengers
7. The Shivah
8. Minecraft: Story Mode: Episode 5: Order Up!
9. The Charnel House Trilogy
10. Legend of Mysteria
11. Day of the Tentacle Remastered
12. LYNE
13. Ratchet & Clank
14. MISSING: An Interactive Thriller - Episode One
15. Epic Battle Fantasy 4
16. Final Fantasy Type-0 HD
17. The Walking Dead: Michonne
18. LEGO Star wars: The Force Awakens

19. A Date in the Park

Not bad for a small, sort of thrun together AGS game. I'd like to see more AGS games that aren't just trying to copy Wadjet Eye. In any case, free game, worth a look.

20. Torchlight

Going from the second game back to this one, all the improvements are very striking. This game is good, very good in fact. Just it's fairly glitchy and is sometimes less clear on what it wants you to do. Worth playing.

[AceAerosmith]

1. Left 4 Dead (single player) (360) 01/12/16
2. Superman: Shadow of Apokolips (PS2) 01/27/16
3. Rygar: The Legendary Adventures (PS2) 02/23/16
4. Gears of War (360) 02/26/16
5. The Wolf Among Us (XB1) 03/15/16
6. Fracture (360) 03/23/16
7. Inversion (360) 04/02/16
8. Fantastic Four (Xbox) 04/22/16
9. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3) 05/14/16
10. The Punisher (Xbox) 05/25/16
11. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 (Xbox) 05/31/16
12. Lego Indiana Jones- The Original Adventures (360) 06/07/16
13. Spider-Man 2 (Xbox) 06/12/16
14. Shellshock: Nam '67 (Xbox) 06/17/16
15. WinBack: Covert Operations (PS2) 07/05/16
16. Serious Sam: Next Encounter (PS2) 07/28/16
17. Winback 2: Project Poseiden (Xbox) 08/20/16
18. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 - Black Arrow (Xbox) 08/21/16
19. Medal of Honor: European Assault (Xbox) 10/06/16

[Arkanoid_Katamari]

1. Alien Hominid (PS2)
2. Conker's Bad Fur Day (N64)
3. Yoshi's Wooly World (Wii U)
4. Kickle Cubicle (NES)
5. Shovel Knight (Wii U)
6. Mario Kart DS (DS)
7. TMNT IV- Turtles in Time (SNES)
8. Ico (PS2)
9. Guacamelee (XBLA)
10. Flower (PS3)
11. Super Mario Land (GB)
12. Super Dodge Ball (NES)
13. Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (Genesis)

Yea last 2 levels took me many many tries, finally finished it tonight, quite an amazing game, never beat it before, it might be the best Genesis Sonic game. The biggest challenge to the ending here wasn't in the battle itself, it's in doing it before the stupid time runs out. There's a slow cut scene in the middle of it and u hafta beat the whole level and Dr. Robotnick's 3 machines and watch the cut scene in 10 minutes. Not easy.

[PekoTAS]

I'm only listing games I've beaten for the first time. :)

Game Boy

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back From the Sewers
Solar Striker
Donkey Kong
Wave Race
Wizards and Warriors X: Fortress of Fear
Nemesis


Game Boy Colour

Azure Dreams
Game and Watch Gallery 3
Revelations the Demon Slayer
Pocket Bomberman
Mega Man Xtreme

[Arkanoid_Katamari]

1. Alien Hominid (PS2)
2. Conker's Bad Fur Day (N64)
3. Yoshi's Wooly World (Wii U)
4. Kickle Cubicle (NES)
5. Shovel Knight (Wii U)
6. Mario Kart DS (DS)
7. TMNT IV- Turtles in Time (SNES)
8. Ico (PS2)
9. Guacamelee (XBLA)
10. Flower (PS3)
11. Super Mario Land (GB)
12. Super Dodge Ball (NES)
13. Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (Genesis)
14. Bucky O'Hare (NES)

This ones total Konami goodness. Everyone should play this game. If you're a fan of Mega Man or any good NES platformers for that matter, dig into this masterpiece.

[Aussie2B]

1. Puzzle & Action: Ichidant-R (Arcade via MAME) 1/1
2. Detana!! TwinBee (PC Engine) 3/7
3. End of Serenity (PSP) 3/27
4. Ozmafia!! (PC) 5/5
5. Adventures of Mana (Vita) 7/4
6. Xeodrifter (Vita) 7/14
7. Chou Gals! Kotobuki Ran 2: Miracle Getting (GBC) 10/22

I've been sick with a cold these last few days, so I wanted something simple I could play while lying around. I pulled out this little Konami puzzler and breezed through the story mode. The license is lost on me, since I've never read the Gals! manga nor seen the Super Gals anime adaptation, even though both were apparently localized for the US, but it's a cute, decently fun game.

[bb_hood]

Since last post:
Adventure Island 3
Adventure Island 2
Dr. Chaos

[celerystalker]

Since last post:
Adventure Island 3
Adventure Island 2
Dr. Chaos

How'd you feel about Dr Chaos?

[Aussie2B]

1. Puzzle & Action: Ichidant-R (Arcade via MAME) 1/1
2. Detana!! TwinBee (PC Engine) 3/7
3. End of Serenity (PSP) 3/27
4. Ozmafia!! (PC) 5/5
5. Adventures of Mana (Vita) 7/4
6. Xeodrifter (Vita) 7/14
7. Chou Gals! Kotobuki Ran 2: Miracle Getting (GBC) 10/22
8. Supipara - Alice the magical conductor. Chapter #01 - Spring Has Come! (PC) 11/18

In my attempt to actually finish off some of the games I started this year before the year is over, I polished off this kinetic novel today. A pretty light, fluffy affair compared to the visual/kinetic novels I'm usually drawn to, but that's not a bad thing once in a while. It's a shame that the second chapter still isn't localized and the ones after that might never even be made, but it was still satisfying as a standalone story. It's also a shame that the second chapter is Amano's route, who I like least of all the girls (Sakura, whose route is in this first chapter, doesn't super grab me personality-wise either, but it was still an enjoyable read). To be honest, the protagonist is my favorite character. He's a great straight man, with a dryly delivered comeback for everything. Maybe it was just how it was localized, but I've never seen so much sarcasm in a piece of Japanese media before.

[AceAerosmith]

1. Left 4 Dead (single player) (360) 01/12/16
2. Superman: Shadow of Apokolips (PS2) 01/27/16
3. Rygar: The Legendary Adventures (PS2) 02/23/16
4. Gears of War (360) 02/26/16
5. The Wolf Among Us (XB1) 03/15/16
6. Fracture (360) 03/23/16
7. Inversion (360) 04/02/16
8. Fantastic Four (Xbox) 04/22/16
9. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3) 05/14/16
10. The Punisher (Xbox) 05/25/16
11. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 (Xbox) 05/31/16
12. Lego Indiana Jones- The Original Adventures (360) 06/07/16
13. Spider-Man 2 (Xbox) 06/12/16
14. Shellshock: Nam '67 (Xbox) 06/17/16
15. WinBack: Covert Operations (PS2) 07/05/16
16. Serious Sam: Next Encounter (PS2) 07/28/16
17. Winback 2: Project Poseiden (Xbox) 08/20/16
18. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 - Black Arrow (Xbox) 08/21/16
19. Medal of Honor: European Assault (Xbox) 10/06/16
20. Diablo III - Reaper of Souls: Ultimate Evil Edition (XB1) 11/16/16

[AceAerosmith]

1. Left 4 Dead (single player) (360) 01/12/16
2. Superman: Shadow of Apokolips (PS2) 01/27/16
3. Rygar: The Legendary Adventures (PS2) 02/23/16
4. Gears of War (360) 02/26/16
5. The Wolf Among Us (XB1) 03/15/16
6. Fracture (360) 03/23/16
7. Inversion (360) 04/02/16
8. Fantastic Four (Xbox) 04/22/16
9. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3) 05/14/16
10. The Punisher (Xbox) 05/25/16
11. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 (Xbox) 05/31/16
12. Lego Indiana Jones- The Original Adventures (360) 06/07/16
13. Spider-Man 2 (Xbox) 06/12/16
14. Shellshock: Nam '67 (Xbox) 06/17/16
15. WinBack: Covert Operations (PS2) 07/05/16
16. Serious Sam: Next Encounter (PS2) 07/28/16
17. Winback 2: Project Poseiden (Xbox) 08/20/16
18. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 - Black Arrow (Xbox) 08/21/16
19. Medal of Honor: European Assault (Xbox) 10/06/16
20. Diablo III - Reaper of Souls: Ultimate Evil Edition (XB1) 11/16/16
21. Psy-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy (Xbox) 12/14/16
22. South Park: The Stick of Truth (360) 12/31/16

[WulfeLuer]

1. Blue Dragon (360)
2. Atelier Rorona (PS3)
3. Rogue Galaxy (PS2)
4. Kingdom Hearts Final Mix (PS3)
5. Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana (PS2)
6: Atelier Iris 2: Azoth of Destiny (PS2) (third kill)
7. Wild ARMs 2 (PS1)
8. Tales of Graces f (PS3)
9. Castlevania: Symphony of The Night (PS1) (second kill)

I had to tear though the annals of glorious victory (really nerdy blog) to be sure.

[Arkanoid_Katamari]

1. Alien Hominid (PS2)
2. Conker's Bad Fur Day (N64)
3. Yoshi's Wooly World (Wii U)
4. Kickle Cubicle (NES)
5. Shovel Knight (Wii U)
6. Mario Kart DS (DS)
7. TMNT IV- Turtles in Time (SNES)
8. Ico (PS2)
9. Guacamelee (XBLA)
10. Flower (PS3)
11. Super Mario Land (GB)
12. Super Dodge Ball (NES)
13. Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (Genesis)
14. Bucky O'Hare (NES)
15. Stubbs The Zombie (Xbox)

Yea weird amusing game, lotsa fun wrecking havoc

[Arkanoid_Katamari]

1. Alien Hominid (PS2)
2. Conker's Bad Fur Day (N64)
3. Yoshi's Wooly World (Wii U)
4. Kickle Cubicle (NES)
5. Shovel Knight (Wii U)
6. Mario Kart DS (DS)
7. TMNT IV- Turtles in Time (SNES)
8. Ico (PS2)
9. Guacamelee (XBLA)
10. Flower (PS3)
11. Super Mario Land (GB)
12. Super Dodge Ball (NES)
13. Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (Genesis)
14. Bucky O'Hare (NES)
15. Stubbs The Zombie (Xbox)
16. Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2x (Xbox)

[exit]

1. Shovel Knight (PS4)
2. Magical Quest: Starring Mickey Mouse (SNES)
3. Power Moves (SNES)
4. Mega Man 6 (PS4, MM Legacy Collection)
5. Mega Man 5 (PS4. MM Legacy Collection)
6. Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams (XBOX)
7. Captain Toad (Wii U)
8. Infamous: Second Son (PS4)
9. Metal Gear: Snakes Revenge (NES)