by extintor
Only those games that I have completed are scored
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| Score | release | time 2014 | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 2014 | 100 | Dragon Age: Inquisition |
| 5 | 2014 | 120 | Dark Souls 2 |
| 5 | 2010 | 30 | Dark Souls |
| 5 | 2009 | 35 | Demons' Souls |
| 5 | 2010 | 10 | Halo Anniversary |
| 5 | 2014 | 10 | Shadowrun Returns: Dragonfall |
| 5 | 2014 | 100 | Don Bradman Cricket 2014 |
| 5 | 1997 | 6 | Blade Runner |
| 5 | 2014 | 3 | Tales from the Borderlands |
| 4 | 2014 | 4 | This War of Mine |
| 4 | 2014 | 15 | Wolfenstein: The New Order |
| 4 | 2014 | 25 | Alien: Isolation |
| 4 | 2014 | 80 | Wasteland 2 |
| 4 | 2014 | 10 | The Banner Saga |
| 4 | 2014 | 70 | Divinity: Original Sin |
| 4 | 2014 | 15 | Halfway |
| 4 | 2014 | 7 | Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (single player) |
| 4 | 2014 | 5 | Kentucky Route Zero. Act 3. |
| 4 | 2014 | 30 | Shadow of Mordor |
| 4 | 2014 | 25 | Grand Theft Auto V (remastered 2014 version) |
| 4 | 2013 | 15 | Dead Rising 3 |
| 4 | 2011 | 30 | Dragon Age 2 |
| 4 | 2012 | 10 | Dishonored |
| 4 | 2014 | 5 | Super Time Force |
| 4 | 2010 | 10 | Dead Island |
| 3 | 2013 | 10 | Battlefield 4 (single player) |
| 3 | 2009 | 15 | Bioshock 2 |
| 3 | 2014 | 10 | Titanfall |
| 3 | 2014 | 5 | The Vanishing of Ethan Carter |
| 3 | 2014 | 5 | The Fall |
| 3 | 2013 | 5 | Brothers |
| 3 | 2009 | 20 | Wolfenstein 2009 |
| 3 | 2014 | 11 | South Park: The Stick of Truth |
| 3 | 2003 | 5 | Deus Ex: Invisible War |
| 3 | 2012 | 20 | Game of Thrones |
| 3 | 2006 | 5 | The Blackwell Legacy |
| 3 | 2013 | 15 | Arkham Origins |
| 3 | 2013 | 10 | Saints Row 4 |
| 3 | 2012 | 25 | Dragon's Dogma |
| 3 | 2013 | 5 | Deus Ex: The Fall |
| 2 | 2014 | 25 | Destiny |
| 2 | 1995 | 5 | The Dig |
| 2 | 2012 | 10 | Silent Hill: Downpour |
| 2 | 2012 | 5 | Operation Raccoon City |
| ABANDONED | 2014 | 5 | (due to dislike of game). Watch Dogs |
| ABANDONED | 2005 | 0 | (due to dislike of game). Still Life |
| ABANDONED | 2011 | 0 | (couldn't get into it). E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy |
| ABANDONED | 2014 | 5 | (didn't really care for it and lost momentum. Eventually gave up). Transistor |
| ABANDONED | 2010 | 5 | (checking out user-created content only). Fallout New Vegas |
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(DRAGONFALL DLC release date: February 27, 2014) COMPLETED.5/5. A DLC with slightly better design, slightly better writing, slightly better pacing, and slightly better character progression than the main game. All the minor niggles of Shadowrun Returns are addressed in this separate DLC story. Harebrained schemes have really tapped a rich vein of potential with these games and I really hope that they keep making them. I'll keep buying them if they do. This DLC will probably end up in my top 10 of 2014 by the end of the year.
(release date: August 7, 2013). COMPLETED.3/5. Well wow. Even with Brad's glowing praise last year, it took me a long time to pick this up. And it was absolutely worth the 4 hrs of my time it took to go through the story.
(release date: October 19, 2010)MAIN GAME COMPLETED IN 2012. DID NOT FINISH (Project Brazil mod). Pretty decent and I enjoyed playing it but didn't really care for the story or characters too much. Not to knock it too harshly though because it is a really well made mod and I think it would really appeal to people about 10yrs younger than me.
(release date: August 20, 2013)COMPLETED.3/5. Predominantly gratifying, often smart, and occasionally outstanding. The good kind of absolute nonsense... but not as consistently good as SR3.
(release date: July 29, 2011) ABANDONED. First 30 mins played. This is a tough one to engage with.
STARTED.
(release date: January 14, 2014) COMPLETED.4/5. An early 2014 top ten game candidate. Very pleasing art style and story delivery.
(release date: September 22, 2011) COMPLETED.5/5. After watching the various Souls streams I took the plunge back into Lordan. I did complete the game back in 2011 but this time around, with the benefit of hindsight and the fact that there's not much current competition for my gaming time, I decided to make my way through again. This time I had much more fun and took my time to develop and perfect a personalised build and playstyle. This is a game that rewards the meticulous and punishes the impatient. This time around I had my head on right with regards to appreciating this for what it is... (and also not just something to rush through ahead of Skyrim as was the case first time around). This really is a wonderful game and hugely satisfying to complete.
(release date: June 19, 2012) STARTED. Well this is an intriguing adventure title with some nice twists on the genre to keep things interesting. Put down after a couple of hours but will return to finish this at some point.
(release date: February 9, 2010 ) COMPLETED.3/5. The first time around I put this down after an hour or two but this time I persevered. Having breezed through the main game I feel as if this could have been a lot better, which was also ,oddly, exactly how I also felt about my Bioshock Infinite playthrough last year. Neither of these sequels have delivered on their premise in as satisfying a way as they might have. In both cases the premise has been engaging but the end result has felt disjointed... rushed even. In the original there was a fascinating story about individual agency vs external control. Individual vs individual away from the moderating hand of the state. Capitalist libertarianism taken to an extreme. Pure dog-eat-dog. Bioshock 2 looks at the opposite extreme. State and collective as the be all and end all. The destruction of the self and the removal of free will as a path to utopian balance. So once again, an interesting premise and generally I'm happy when videogames try to explore these kinds of topics. Such high minded premises are ultimately jarringly dissonant with the primary gameplay loop that is, as usual, running around murdering people to advance the game. In Bioshock 1, this very dissonance was addressed beautifully via the 'would you kindly' masterstroke moment. Bioshock 2 has no such moment. It lacks coherence, and in the end the overall story of Bioshock 2 is weaker than Bioshock 1. The characters are mostly throwaway and two dimensional. Their weakness is even more evident when compared to the eerie excellence of Ryan, Fontaine, and Cohen in Bioshock 1. Minerva's Den is arguably better than the main game on this particular front, but in both the cases of the main game and the DLC there is nothing superior here. Worth playing (just).
