by bobafettjm
Here it is, ten years of making lists on Giant Bomb of all the games I finished. I have noticed a trend over the years of these getting smaller and smaller for the most part. It is kind of sad as the number of games I seem to be acquiring is growing at a rapid rate. As life goes on and gets more busy, the amount of games I have the time to beat seems to drop. On top of that there are always online "service" type games that eat in to that time as well.
This year I am going to try and hit 40 games, a much more attainable goal than I have previously set.
I will quote my criteria from previous years.
As with every year I am counting games that I finish the story or campaign mode on, or whatever the equivalent may be. In some cases a game may not have a story mode, so I will count it if I finish every achievement or goal. In the case of some pinball machines (on Pinball Arcade) I will count them if I finish every standard and wizard goal. I will also count a game beat if I put a ton of time into it if it has no way of finishing it.
There are some games that for one reason or another are not on Giant Bomb. They either just need to still be created, which I will work on or they are homebrew or whatever.
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I was certainly not expecting this to be the first game finished of the year. Got this one in the Humble Monthly Choice Bundle so I downloaded it. Despite hearing a lot of negativity surrounding this game, I had quite a bit of fun with it. I ended up playing through all the story and arcade modes.
Boy, this was not a great VR game. Played it on PSVR after I bought it on a whim on sale for $5. This is incredibly light on content with a majority of it being dialog followed up by the same shoot at stuff out of a cannon mini game. Sure is a lot of talking to very...well endowed female characters as well. I would avoid this one at all costs.
Finally got around to really giving this one a go. I got a code pre-release and played it some then, but only just now got around to assembling the entire ship and finishing the game. I played and enjoyed the original on the Sega Genesis a long time ago and still do now. I am not sure if this would appeal to those who never played the original, but I would say it would still be worth checking out.
FINALLY finished the campaign in this game. I got it at the very end of 2018 along with my PSVR. I played through about half of the campaign before giving up on it as I did not like extra objectives such as limiting hand movement or needing to miss notes on purpose. Well after getting to the point of being able to complete all the songs on expert in the free play mode I decided to get back to the campaign. Turns out I was only a handful of stages away from finishing it. This is my favorite VR game by far.
I have been playing this off and on since it was released in Early Access. I played it a bunch on Steam, but kind of dropped off before finishing it. I picked it back up again, this time on Xbox One thanks to Game Pass. A lot has been added to the game since my initial playing, and it sucked me right back in. I actually ended up beating the game in only a couple of runs and enjoyed it a ton. I am still going back to it to try and unlock more and go through runs on harder difficulties.
One of the many Ratalaika published games that offers up easy achievements. I did enjoy the fairly simple 2D platformer. I continued on to finish the game after getting all the achievements. This is not a super great game, but for an hour or so experience of light platforming I can't say I think I wasted my time.
Played this on PC as a part of the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection. I had never played much of this game beyond a quarter or two in the arcades. I really liked my time with it, and I wish I had gotten farther in to this back in the day. This will probably be one I go back to every once in a while for a fun shooter.
Beat the Game Gear version of this one. I had never even thought about playing it really either but I was browsing retroachievements.org to see what games had achievements now. I came across this and realized I had not played it so I did. It is an interesting game, and totally different from the console versions. I would have probably loved to play this on my Game Gear on a car ride or something. Now days it is interesting, but does not hold up as well as the console counterparts.
Finished this one on Xbox One. Duck Souls is an indie 2D platformer. It reminds me somewhat of Super Meat Boy, although easier in difficulty. The game has 100 levels and took me probably about an hour or so to complete. at only $5 it was a pretty good time, and was honestly better than most of the other Ratalaika published games.
I can honestly say I did not expect to finish this game again this year. I ended up playing it again because of RetroAchievements. Last year I went through the Dreamcast version, but this time was the good old original PlayStation version. While I don't think the first game holds up QUITE as well as the next couple sequels, it still holds up pretty darn well. I actually went through the entire game with two characters so far, and plan on doing at least a couple more.
