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What did you finish in 2024?
« on: January 07, 2024, 02:26:48 PM »
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New year, new thread. Time to discuss what we've all played and beaten so far in the new year!


  • Sonic Superstars (PS5) (including the extra stories)
  • Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (GC)
  • Luigi's Mansion (GC)
  • Venba (Switch)
  • Super Adventure Island II (SNES)
  • Demon's Crest (SNES)
  • Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth
  • FF7 Rebirth
  • Super Mario 1 (All Stars)
  • Super Mario 2 (All Stars
  • Super Mario 3 (All Stars)
  • Super Mario Lost Levels (All Stars)
  • Star Ocean: Blue Sphere (GBC)
  • Knight Quest (GB)
  • Theatrhythm: Final Bar Line (Platinumed) (PS4)
  • Mega Man 8 (Saturn)
  • Mega Man 1 (GB)
  • Mega Man 2 (GB)
  • Ninpen Manmaru (Saturn)
  • Sea of Stars
  • Mega Man 3 (GB)
  • Resident Evil 4 (GC)
  • Wario World
  • Mega Man and Bass/Rockman and Forte (SFC)
  • Xardion
  • Trails through Daybreak
  • Ys: The Vanished Omens (SMS)
« Last Edit: September 05, 2024, 11:48:53 PM by tiesto »
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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2024, 03:32:30 PM »
I'm off to a strong start. I've already finished A Little to the Left (NSW) and Cocoon (PS5). Both are great!

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2024, 01:51:13 PM »
Mario Wonder

Yeah its good. If I was 12-18 I could see myself put in another 10-15 hours finding more seeds.

Best Mario since...? 64? World?

Rahxephon91

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2024, 02:06:39 AM »
2003 Stuff:

Cyberpunk 2077+Phantom Liberty-PS5-Game is fantastic

Phantom Liberty-PC-Replayed PL then on PC. Very good expansion.


Spider-man 2-Kind of meh.

Resident Evil 4(2005,PC)- Still an all time classic.

Resident Evil 4 Remake(PC)-Pretty good.

Baldurs Gate 3-Great game.
« Last Edit: February 04, 2024, 11:34:57 PM by Rahxephon91 »

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2024, 12:29:37 PM »
I finish maybe less than 25% of the games I buy.

You brehs make me feel lazy AF

 :existential

I'm much more likely to replay one of my favorites again than dip into my backlog.

Rahxephon91

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2024, 08:21:51 PM »
Lies of P-PS5-Pretty solid souls type game, probably the best non From Software one. Intriguing story and setting, cool visuals(though the levels do drag in thier aesthetics), but most importantly very solid feeling gameplay.

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2024, 11:30:03 PM »
Tekken 8(Story Mode)-I guess they finally figured out how to do this. Still goofy Tekken nonsense, but really makes ever making a Tekken cgi movie pointless when the single player gave that experince well and more.

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2024, 09:10:39 AM »
I finished Summon Nights: Swordcraft Story (GBA) plus the postgame dungeon last night.
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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #8 on: February 11, 2024, 04:08:03 AM »
- Saints Row (2022) PS5

Will post more thoughts in dedicated thread, but:
It's a Saints Row game. A few story missions, most time is spent in Activities. The emphasis is on murder and mayhem, not woke-ness. The co-hort are fun and have their own vibe, but the Boss is the main character in terms of being a maniacal murder machine.

It may have shipped buggy, but I encountered nothing stopping my progress, just a few things which lacked polish.

Good game, had a blast. It doesn't compare to the first play through of Saints Row 2, which was AMAZING at the time — AND had a shit-tonne more bugs than this did.

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #9 on: February 15, 2024, 03:24:26 PM »
Xbox:

Splinter Cell
Splinter Cell - Pandora Tomorrow
Splinter Cell - Chaos Theory

Xbox One:

Hotel Translyvania 3: Monsters Overboard
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth

PS1:

Dr. Slump (translation)
Iblard: Laputa no Kaeru Machi (translation)

PS2:

Wild ARMs 3

PS5:

Silent Hill: The Short Message
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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #10 on: February 17, 2024, 04:38:30 PM »
- Tomato Adventure (GBA, Fan Translated)
- Moldorian: The Sisters of Light and Darkness (Game Gear, Fan Translated)
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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #11 on: March 03, 2024, 01:27:18 PM »
FF7 Remake

Alan Wake

Rahxephon91

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #12 on: March 06, 2024, 08:04:48 PM »
Persona 3 Reload-A trip down memory lane. I enjoy Persona 3 and I think that it does have a better story than at least Persona 4. I feel like the character's arcs are better interwoven with the main narrative. That said, I'm not sure about the Remake. It's fine, the QoL changes make the game easier to play. It looks great with the character model work being excellent. I just feel as a straight remake mostly, it may be hard to come from Persona 5 to this as P5 is such a bigger, more confident, and perfected exacutuion of the modern Persona style.

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #13 on: March 26, 2024, 08:15:39 PM »
Immortals: Rise of Fenyx - was good but overstayed its welcome with a final stage that was like an exam that by-the-numbers covers everything I studied that semester.

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #14 on: April 11, 2024, 01:18:22 AM »
Since last post...

Xbox:

Blinx The Timesweeper

Xbox One:

Remnant 2
Alone in the Dark
Dead Island 2

Gamecube:

Freedom Fighters

PS3:

Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves
Sly 4: Thieves in Time

PS5:

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth

Nintendo DS:

Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled

PC:

My Friendly Neighborhood
Ad Infinitum
Bendy and the Ink Machine
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Rahxephon91

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #15 on: May 16, 2024, 08:49:27 PM »
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth-Bloat, that's the word I'd use to describe this game. It took me 100+ hours to finish the game and it would be insane to say there weren't moments of enjoyment. The game's production values should make any jrpg fan scream. Amazing animation and those stylistic cutscenes during boss battles turly live up to the dreams of what HD JRPGS could be. But beyond that you finally have Square capture the feeling and scale of PS1/PS2 worlds. But what they fill that world with, the Ubisoft side stuff is....obxnious and pretty archaic. There's so much of it, it really feels like it makes up most of the game. The stuff you're actually here for being few and far between. That said, I loved Yuffie's energy and playing as her.

Rise of The Ronin-A good game, at 80 hours though maybe too long. In a way it feels like a soulsbourne mixed with Batman Arkham. An emphasis on countering/parrying as you clash rhythmically with other blade users. It's fun and very engaging, but once you find what you like you kind of just stay with it and progression dosen't keep up.  That said, I really enjoyed it. The story was interesting and the characters fascinating as they are based on real people. It's obviously not 1:1 history with the game sometimes breaking it's realism. That said it for sure made me interested in Japanese history.

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #16 on: May 17, 2024, 06:33:25 AM »
Pokemon Ultra Moon-3DS

I remember getting stuck on the Ultra Necrozma boss fight like 6 years ago and never went back. I was underleveled and all my transferred team were too high level and wouldn't obey me.  Did some leveling and came back and beat him first try, but it was actually a fun fight? I wasn't ready for a pokemon boss fight to actually test my team like that.

Also realized all of my kept 20+ years of transferred pokemon are on that cart, I should move them over to switch at some point lol.

Rahxephon91

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #17 on: May 27, 2024, 08:54:04 PM »
Stellar Blade-It was fun I guess.

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #18 on: May 28, 2024, 01:10:12 AM »
Ah, should note: re-started and finished Watch_Dogs: Legion entirely. Enjoyed it much more this time around. Also finished the Bloodlines DLC, a standard story driven prequel chapter to Legion, starring Aiden Pearce from WD1 and Wrench from WD2. It was great, and puts most of WDL to shame, in terms of having a story and the player feeling great about what they're doing and why they're doing it.

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #19 on: May 28, 2024, 10:24:53 AM »
Ah, should note: re-started and finished Watch_Dogs: Legion entirely. Enjoyed it much more this time around. Also finished the Bloodlines DLC, a standard story driven prequel chapter to Legion, starring Aiden Pearce from WD1 and Wrench from WD2. It was great, and puts most of WDL to shame, in terms of having a story and the player feeling great about what they're doing and why they're doing it.
I need to get back to this at some point, I bought the DLC for super cheap and never played it.

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #20 on: May 29, 2024, 08:31:13 PM »
It's MUCH MORE what I was expecting from Legion, after the tone of WD1 and 2. I had a blast - hope you get to it soon.

Rahxephon91

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #21 on: June 02, 2024, 09:24:13 PM »
Alone in the Dark 2024-Played through the campaign, nothing great. Combat is'nt broken, but it dosent feel great. Feels like kind of what you'd expect. A meh western Resident Evil. No real progression or whatever to deal with and encounter design is "flesh monsters shamble towards you and you awkwardly shoot them". Rinse and repeat. If you're looking for b level Resident Evil, I guess you got it here. But all and all a very mid game.

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #22 on: June 12, 2024, 11:15:58 AM »
Summon Nights: Swordcraft Story (GBA)
Tomato Adventure (GBA, Fan Translated)
Moldorian: The Sisters of Light and Darkness (Game Gear, Fan Translated)
Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite (GBC)
Alan Wake 2 (XSX)
Persona 5 Tactica (XSX)
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (PS5)
Disco Elysium (Switch)
The Shell Part II: Purgatorio (PC)
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (GBA)
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree (XSX)
Trails from Zero (Switch)
Trails to Azure (Switch)
Dragon Quest V (DS)
Emio: The Smiling Man - Famicom Detective Club (Switch)
Astro Bot (PS5)
Metaphor: ReFantazio (XSX)
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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #23 on: July 22, 2024, 12:03:07 AM »
Doom Eternal: The base game anyway. I'm a believer now I guess. An always thrilling, edge of your seat FPS experince. My original thought was that it felt limited with it's lack of ammo and seemingly need for specific weapons to take down enemies. But I was wrong, I see now a game that constantly is pushing you to make the next move and constantly make use of your toolset to create one of the most pulse pounding fps I've ever played.

Though it can become a little exhausting.

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #24 on: August 21, 2024, 10:58:47 AM »
Dead Space Remake on PC.

Honestly, very good game. Almost up there with RE4, but I do think it runs a little long. I say this because the game really feels it thanks to level design starts to blur together. The encounters also start to feel just kind of samey and nothing but waves thoughtless thrown at you. Still combat is so good and always tense.

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #25 on: August 25, 2024, 08:15:28 PM »
Call of Duty 4 Campaign on PC.

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #26 on: September 01, 2024, 08:24:50 AM »
Modern Warfare 2(2009) campaign on PC.

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #27 on: September 03, 2024, 01:53:04 AM »
Over the weekend I fished the campaigns on PC:

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (2009)

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 (2011)

Call of Duty Ghosts.

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #28 on: September 03, 2024, 10:50:27 AM »
Over the weekend I fished the campaigns on PC:

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (2009)

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 (2011)

Call of Duty Ghosts.
Which was the best out those?

tiesto

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #29 on: September 05, 2024, 11:49:26 PM »
Been continually updating my list, so far I've played 3 100+ hour games this year, and a host of smaller ones.
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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #30 on: September 09, 2024, 08:36:33 PM »
Over the weekend I fished the campaigns on PC:

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (2009)

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 (2011)

Call of Duty Ghosts.
Which was the best out those?
Its still Modern warfare 2, but 3 is such a bombastic over the top campaign I don't know how anyone into these couldn't like it. At the end of the day it's CoD gameplay. So you're either into cinematic whack a mole with airsoft guns or not, but I truly believe all the IW games are solid.

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #31 on: September 17, 2024, 03:43:29 PM »
Finished the single player campaigns now for:

Advanced Warfare

And

Cold War

Both solid. Advanced Warfare has aged fantasticly. Looks great.

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #32 on: October 05, 2024, 12:47:44 PM »
Astro Bot: What a charming and confidently made game. They were really firing on all cylinders here.

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #33 on: October 05, 2024, 12:49:58 PM »

Titanfall 2-PC: One of most genuinely fun single player campaign I've ever seen in a AAA cinematic bombastic FPS. While it shares a straightforward set-piece driven structure like its CoD cousins. It's infused with so much personality. Thrilling set-pieces that make use of the games fast paced platforming and rendered in loving care as Respawn presents it's military mecha sci-fi fantasy world. The story while pretty basic, is nevertheless very wholesome and facilitates a fun sci-fi shooty bang adventure that never bores. Thanks in part to movement that feels incredibly smooth and responsive and while the gunplay still has that CoD lightness, it still feels punchy and smooth.

Titanfall 2 is just the definition of an excellent video game.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2019-PC: Call of Duty ounce again deploys the Modern Warfare series to ground the series and reflect modern times. It really is a step forward in many ways.

The gunplay feels punchy and weightier than ever before, creating gun feedback that feels almost brutal in achieving the cool feeling of shooting guns. It is at it's release the best feeling CoD, weapons no longer feeling like air soft guns, but true mechanical killing sticks.

It's presentation is top tier, invoking modern films such as 13 Hours and Zero Dark Thirty. Depicting a warzone that is not big battles of moving armies and mechanical movements, but more strategic strikes, terrorism, and in general more believable. Toning down the 80s/90s action movie vibe. It's rendered amazingly at times, looking life like at plenty of times.

It's sound design captures the grittiness.

The problem is many of these missions are rather dry and boring and its attempts at creative missions often just dull.

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #34 on: October 05, 2024, 12:51:33 PM »
Call of Duty Infinite Warfare-PC: One of the best Call of Duty Campaigns. Featuring a story that has little more humanity to it's cast and characters. A story focused on soldiers simply doing....... the call of duty frankly and dealing with the sacrifice that may entail. At the end of the day still a pro-military with an America fuck yeah framing, but with a dash of at least an America that boosts the best of the best. Optimistic Call of Duty may be impossible to make, but this is the closest.

The gameplay is still standard fare. A linear arcade millitary shooter, but this time with a gritty but "realistic" depiction of sci-fi marines. It's all believably rendered and impressive, sporting some of the most detailed set-pieces the series has ever seen. The structure also aims to match the visuals in how immersive the game is. Featuring at least surface-level hub world gameplay ideas. Nothing in depth, but you're battleship serves as a place to witness the crew and aspects of the world in between missions. It's a nice touch and adds to the feeling of the space captain experince they are going for.

Beyond that, the shooting is still typical of this era of CoD. Packing some more punch, but still feeling airsofty. Being in the future there are tools and whatnot that feel like they curb from Advanced Warfare, but not as visually exciting as they were in that game.

The biggest weakness of the game is probably the Space Russian Enemies, the SDF that feel hacky and so one note that it stands out compared to how on point the rest of the game is.

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #35 on: October 08, 2024, 10:04:37 PM »
Homefront-PC

I guess if you've played every Call of Duty and are looking for more this is ok. Espically if you like CoD Ghost's setting. But it's still very mediocre. If CoD at this time is a Michael Bay blockbuster, Homefront is a direct to redbox copy cat. Understanding the assignment, but not having the talent or resources to do it.

The story for sure feels very dated. I love it when old video games attempted serious storytelling, as if presenting something like "actually Americans can be bad" and "mass graves" when everything looks so ridiculous and is amped up to 100. Coming off and looking more like a bad 90s edge comic than something anyone could take seriously.

The gameplay feels more like shooting high powered nail guns than anything else. Even than that is being gracious as the difference of guns at times simply feels like "this gun shoots at this pace" and makes this muffled sound. It just feels cheap, playable but very cheap. Like every encounters which without the cinematic presentation of CoD, just feels like low energy whack a mole with little environmental switch up. 

Still, it replicates a COD campaign. If you're hungry for more and have already partake in literally everything(CoD Ghosts, the Battlefield games, Titanfall2) and want more, well at least you can say you've seen the bottom. 

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #36 on: October 11, 2024, 12:27:09 PM »

Titanfall 2-PC: One of most genuinely fun single player campaign I've ever seen in a AAA cinematic bombastic FPS. While it shares a straightforward set-piece driven structure like its CoD cousins. It's infused with so much personality. Thrilling set-pieces that make use of the games fast paced platforming and rendered in loving care as Respawn presents it's military mecha sci-fi fantasy world. The story while pretty basic, is nevertheless very wholesome and facilitates a fun sci-fi shooty bang adventure that never bores. Thanks in part to movement that feels incredibly smooth and responsive and while the gunplay still has that CoD lightness, it still feels punchy and smooth.

Titanfall 2 is just the definition of an excellent video game.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2019-PC: Call of Duty ounce again deploys the Modern Warfare series to ground the series and reflect modern times. It really is a step forward in many ways.

The gunplay feels punchy and weightier than ever before, creating gun feedback that feels almost brutal in achieving the cool feeling of shooting guns. It is at it's release the best feeling CoD, weapons no longer feeling like air soft guns, but true mechanical killing sticks.

It's presentation is top tier, invoking modern films such as 13 Hours and Zero Dark Thirty. Depicting a warzone that is not big battles of moving armies and mechanical movements, but more strategic strikes, terrorism, and in general more believable. Toning down the 80s/90s action movie vibe. It's rendered amazingly at times, looking life like at plenty of times.

It's sound design captures the grittiness.

The problem is many of these missions are rather dry and boring and its attempts at creative missions often just dull.
I need to give Titanfall 2 campaign another go.  Like Doom 2016, I bounced off of it a couple times before it sunk in. Always hear very positive things about it.

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Re: What did you finish in 2024?
« Reply #37 on: October 28, 2024, 12:37:37 AM »
Call of Duty Black Ops 6: I didn't really care for it honestly. Look, I like CoD for the arcade cinematic military action. American Time Crisis. An open world is not what I want. Zombies is not what I want. I found this game's riff on them the weakest element. Every time the game strayed from what CoD single player is, it felt tedious and half-baked. What good is variety if it's shit? The story even for CoD was just odd? it's hard to describe, but as a sequel to Cold War it's really not. Sure characters from that game show up, but largely the game really wants you to care for this new team. It's hard because they just seem very presence-less. CoD characters are never deep, but they have enough presence and personality to get the achtype they are going for. This game kind of just mentions the archetype and then does little else with it, odd because the game seems to think the team and ocean's 11 esque mission are the centerpiece of this installment. Saying they just feel there is being kind. The story also seems to hinge on this late-game twist involving a character not seen for over half the game. Very odd. I can't say if the warzone influence and general reuse of environments is a result of modern game development and/or the quick pace of these game's development. Yet, if it means more games unable to deliver the set piece-driven campaigns of olde at the same caliber, then I'm not sure its worth making them.