by bemusedchunk
These are games I've finished (or got close to or just gave up) in 2014.
2014 has been an interesting year so far. Traded in my Vita for a 3DS XL after picking up a Wii U and have been checking out some older gems that I passed over in the past.
Edit: And it looks like I jumped into the Playstation 4 pool this year too - thanks to a few nagging friends....
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The first game I finished in 2014 (that I can remember). Started to get real tedious toward the end. Enjoyed the humor and style - but the gameplay felt off at times. Almost no enemy variation and sometimes it felt like my only option was to runaway and recover health slowly. Still, generally an enjoyable experience, but glad it's over.
30 hours. And I still didn't liberate all the camps. This game just kept going and going and going. Far far too long for my tastes. Maybe it was because all I did in the first 10 hours or so was explore, craft and upgrade - but thats generally what I do in open world games. Really enjoyed Vaas and Dennis. Didn't care for Hoyt or the rest of the cast.
You'd be hard pressed to find 10 better memes than Brothers.
Deserves all the praise it gets. I don't like adventure games. But I could not stop playing this and exploring every nook and cranny.
Another one of those games that just would not end. As enjoyable as it is frustrating.
Pure nostalgia. Amazing music. Fun mechanics.
My first mainline Kirby game. Lots of fun mechanics and powers here, and the 3d is very nice. Music is great, but didn't have the effort to go back and get all the keychains and other items I missed. Still was a very enjoyable side scrolling platformer.
(3DS Version) Unlocked all characters and stages - so to me thats beating it. I'll continue to play and I'm actually finding Smash Run addicting - getting deep into the customization and it's so much more of a deeper "party fighter" than I've ever realized. It's been awhile since I've felt like this about a fighting game.
Probably the most perfect mobile game ever created, Minimalist. Simple. Addicting. Perfectly zen.
Dat nemesis system. This takes some fairly well known batman combat moves and combines that with the easy traversal of assassin's creed while dropping you into the desolate land of Mordor. The nemesis takes a fairly generic open world games and transforms it into an unpredictable mess. The downfall of this game is the same of all open world games. With everything so open so early there you can get powered, and overpowered, very quickly. Toward the end of my 25+ hours I felt like a god - literally being untouchable by Uruks and Caragors. This may be how I play open world games - or this may be just how open world games are. The journey was well worth it, and the first 10-15 hours were so so enjoyable. Unfortunately the game does fall flat toward the end with the last 2 quests/fights being laughably pathetic.