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Jan 7 - Bleed (PC)
Jan 19 - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch)
Feb 11 - Super Mario Odyssey (Switch)
Feb 28 - Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition (PC)
Mar 8- Final Fantasy III (PSVita - PSP version)
Mar 21 - Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Switch) Three stars on all 150cc cups.
Mar 24 - Golf Story (Switch)
Apr 2 - Nier: Automata (PS4)
Apr 23 - Yakuza Kiwami (PS4)
May 3 - Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies - Turnabout Reclaimed DLC (3DS)
May 5 - Final Fantasy IV (PSVita - PSP version)
Jun 4 - Advance Wars: Dark Conflict (3DS - DS cart)
Jun 9 - Ratchet and Clank (PS4)
Jun 23 - Pocket Card Jockey (3DS)
Jul 13 - Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice (3DS)
Jul 14 - Mario Kart: Super Circuit (GBA) All 10 cups on 100cc
Jul 21 - Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3 (PS4) Arcade mode - Normal
Jul 29 - Final Fantasy V (GBA version on an emulator)
Jul 30 - Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (PS4)
Aug 19 - Professor Layton and the Curious Village (3DS - DS cart)
Sep 16 - Ridge Racer Type 4 (PSVita - PS1 classic)
Oct 7 - 80 Days (Android)
Oct 8 - Horizon: Zero Dawn (PS4)
Oct 20 - Final Fantasy VI (PSVita - PS1 classic)
Oct 27 - Celeste (Switch)
Nov 8 - Valkyria Chronicles 4 (PS4)
Nov 12 - Yoku's Island Express (Switch)
Dec 1 - Windjammers (PS4) (Arcade mode - Easy)
Dec 27 - Pyre (PS4)
Really good game. Getting to know your fellow Nightwings is great and the story is interesting. The Rites (i.e. the fictional sport) is quite fun, although I never got the hang of throwing as it takes too long. Usually this meant that my strategy was to tease out an opening for my faster characters to score. I don't usually go back to games but I may for this one. Given that I did an odd bit of cheating to win all the matches, I think any future run should be a True Nightwing run (very hard and possibly ironman, not 100% on that). Soundtrack is great again. I think Darren Korb may have a particular sound and style that I really like.

Dec 27 - Bleed 2 (Switch)
Finishing the year how I started then. Ditching some of the platform elements meant that I possibly felt less stylish jumping and shooting all over the place. But I'll likely replay this one more, as my copy of Bleed is on the PC. I've already played through half of this again as the blonde guy. Great fun and a great 90's/rock soundtrack too.

Great pick by the CaR team (James, maybe?). I wouldn't have played these otherwise.
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ThirdMan wrote: December 30th, 2018, 7:00 pm I'm usually a bit scatterbrained at the best of times, but further periods of ill health, professional exams, sporadic alcohol and drug abuse and, sadly, losing my father in February meant that 2018 was a particularly gruelling year. Beginning a new game, book or TV series was like slipping into a different life, one free of all of my baggage. But eventually the outside creeped in and my attention-span plummeted, forcing me to move onto something new, all while calmly justifying it, on this forum and elsewhere, when in reality I was in crisis mode.

It's a minor miracle, then, that I managed to put nearly 100 hours into The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, which is undoubtedly my finest gaming experience of the year. 30 minutes after lowering my father's coffin into the earth, I walked into CeX in my black funeral-suit and purchased a rugged-looking Wii U and that remarkable game.
Sorry hear all that man, your rip-raw approach hadn't gone unnoticed to myself at least -over the last few years your personality had come through in your posts.

Attempt to take some solace in the fact, that through a digital medium, you found some comfort.

There's plenty of members on here that have found similar relief in the same sort of thing.
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Yes, what Nick said.

It's good to know that the raw escapist power of something like Zelda could provide you with a modicum of comfort in your hour of need, at least.
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What Nick and Camille said. I've been known to drug myself with video games (in a responsible manner and when my time allowed it, mind ye) during tough times, including when losing family members. All the best.

30-12 New Super Mario Bros. U (Wii U)

I wanted to get my hands on the New Super Luigi U DLC before the Wii U eShop disappears (yeah, NSMBU and the DLC are coming to Switch, but I don't feel like shelling out in full for this game again), so I figured I'd finally get through world 8, aided by my 8 year old boy, who dealt the killing blow to Bowser's final form. Good work, boy! And fun times.
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Got the platinum on Gran Turismo 6 today :)

Getting golds on a few of the Super License tests sure took some work on version 1.22 (or whatever the final version is).

Amazing game, certainly one of the PS3's best. The amount of content and replay value in GT6 even without it's online functionality is truly impressive. A 9/10 game in my opinion. Highly recommended.
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January 2018:
Bleed
Crackdown
Rez Infinite
Resident evil directors cut
Bioshock
Resident evil 2
Bioshock 2
Resident evil 3:Nemesis

Feb 2018:
Bioshock infinite
Def Jam: fight for Ny
Zone of The Enders
Resident Evil:code Veronica
Resident evil zero
Hyper light drifter
Braid
Yoshi’s Woolly World
Resident evil 4

March:
resident evil 5
resident evil 6
Lostwinds
lost winds 2
Ico 3D
Dead space
Dead space 2
Heavenly Sword

May:
Horizon Zero Dawn plus Frozen Wilds
Enslaved
Dmc
Steinsgate 0
Hellblade
Shadow of the Colossus Remake
Resident Evil 7

June:
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Bastion
Detroit
Vanquish
Battlefield 3 Singleplayer
Alice: Madness Returns

July:
Prince of Persia
The Last Guardian
Syndicate
Binary Domain
Call of Duty Classic HD

August:
Cave story 3ds
Eternal Darkness
Luigis Mansion
Mickey’s castle of illusion
Super Mario Bros
Silent Hill 2 HD Collection
999: 9 persons, 9 doors...
Shenmue

September:
Shenmue 2
Half-life
super Mario Bros 2
Deadly Premonition

October:
Half Life 2
Half life 2:episode 1/2
Portal
System Shock
Alan Wake
Nier
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
Star Fox
El Shaddai

November:
Zelda II
LA Noire
Streets of Rage Trilogy
Metro 2033
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Zone of the Enders 2nd Runner

December:
Silent Hill 3
Starfox 64 3DS
Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past
Starcraft 2
StarFox Adventures
StarFox Assault
Psychonauts
30/12

Nex Machina

Everything about this game makes me cool. I know I haven’t “completed” the game but I saw the credits roll for the first time this evening. I’ve mainly played couch co-op only getting through the first few levels so was nice to see the end.
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Don't think I'm going to finish anymore before the 31st is over, so here's my year.

02/01: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past [SNES Classic]
04/01: Oxenfree [Switch]
13/01: Axiom Verge: Multiverse Edition [Switch]
14/01: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim [Switch]
15/01: Super Mario World [SNES Classic]
20/01: BioShock Infinite [360]
23/01: The Fall [PSN]
26/01: Celeste [Switch]
31/01: Super One More Jump [Switch]
05/02: Night in the Woods [Switch]
08/02: Dandara [Switch]
14/02: Dragon Quest Builders [Switch]
20/02: Bayonetta [Switch]
21/02: Puzzle Puppers [Switch]
23/02: Fe [Switch]
24/02: Old Man's Journey [Switch]
26/02: Portal Knights [Switch]
28/02: Bayonetta 2 [Switch]
07/03: Subsurface Circular [Switch]
14/03: Coffin Dodgers [Switch]
15/03: OPUS: The Day We Found Earth [Switch]
18/03: Tesla vs. Lovecraft [Switch]
22/03: Fear Effect Sedna [Switch]
23/03: Destiny 2 [PS4]
31/03: Devious Dungeon [Switch]
31/03: Warp Shift [Switch]
01/04: Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap [Switch]
02/04: Paper Wars: Cannon Fodder Devastated [Switch]
09/04: Attack on Titan 2 [Switch]
11/04: The Bunker [Switch]
14/04: Streets of Red: Devil's Dare Deluxe [Switch]
16/04: Slayaway Camp: Butcher's Cut [Switch]
18/04: L.A. Noire [Switch]
23/04: Rayman Legends: Definitive Edition [Switch]
01/05: Saturday Morning RPG [Switch]
05/05: Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze [Switch]
06/05: God of War (2018) [PS4]
13/05: Secret of Mana (2018) [PS4]
15/05: Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle [Switch]
19/05: Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition [Switch]
22/05: Shadow of the Colossus (2018) [PS4]
25/05: Runner3 [Switch]
30/05: Resident Evil 7: Biohazard Gold Edition [PS4]
06/06: PixelJunk Monsters 2 [Switch]
09/06: Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn [Switch]
13/06: The Banner Saga [Switch]
16/06: Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion [Switch]
28/06: Hollow Knight [Switch]
30/06: Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus [Switch]
30/06: Star Fox [SNES Classic]
01/07: Bleed [Switch]
01/07: Bleed 2 [Switch]
03/07: Infinite Minigolf [Switch]
04/07: Crash Bandicoot [Switch]
07/07: Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back [Switch]
07/07: Mario + Rabbids: Donkey Kong Adventure [Switch]
08/07: Crash Bandicoot: Warped [Switch]
12/07: Riptide GP: Renegade [Switch]
14/07: Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker [Switch]
29/07: Zelda II: The Adventure of Link [NES]
04/08: The Walking Dead: A New Frontier [PS4]
18/08: Titan Quest [Switch]
23/08: Immortal Redneck [Switch]
27/08: Slime-San: Superslime Edition [Switch]
01/09: Picross S [Switch]
03/09: Poi Explorer Edition [Switch]
08/09: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time [Arcade]
08/09: Sunset Riders [Arcade]
14/09: Marvel’s Spider-Man [PS4]
16/09: Rogue Trooper Redux [Switch]
18/09: SteamWorld Dig [Switch]
19/09: The Legend of Zelda [NSO]
21/09: Super Mario Bros. 3 [NSO]
23/09: The End is Nigh [Switch]
29/09: Overcooked 2 [Switch]
03/10: Shadow of the Tomb Raider [PS4]
05/10: Red Dead Redemption [360]
11/10: Mark of the Ninja: Remastered [Switch]
26/10: Starlink: Battle for Atlas [Switch]
04/11: Diablo III: Eternal Collection [Switch]
12/11: Valiant Hearts: The Great War [Switch]
05/12: The Mummy Demastered [Switch]
06/12: Xeodrifter [Switch]
15/12: Dark Souls Remastered [Switch]
17/12: Red Dead Redemption 2 [PS4]
20/12: Firewatch [Switch]
26/12: Donut County [Switch]
29/12: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate [Switch]
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rob25X wrote: December 30th, 2018, 10:04 pm Got the platinum on Gran Turismo 6 today :)
That is very impressive, congrats!
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Alex79uk wrote: October 6th, 2018, 10:34 am JAN - Lumino City (Android)
MAR - Dark Souls 3 (PS4)
MAR - What Remains Of Edith Finch (PS4)
MAR - Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS4) MAR - Infamous: Second Son (PS4)
APR - Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception
MAY - Shadow Of The Colossus (PS4)
MAY - Uncharted: Lost Legacy (PS4)
JUN - God Of War (PS4)
JUL - Dying Light (PS4)
JUL - Resident Evil VII: Biohazard (PS4)
AUG - Yakuza Kiwami (PS4)
AUG - Gorogoa (Android)
AUG - The Last Of Us Remastered (PS4)
SEP - Metro 2033 Redux (PS4)
OCT - Little Inferno (Android)
OCT - Assassin's Creed 2 (PS4)
OCT - The Last Of Us: Left Behind (PS4)
NOV - Shenmue (PS4)
NOV - Hollow Knight (PS4)
NOV - Salt & Sanctuary (PS Vita)
DEC - Outrun 2SP (Sony PSP)
DEC - Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate (PS Vita)


DEC - Street Fighter Alpha 3: Arcade Mode as Ken & Ryu (PSP on Vita)

Thought I'd cram one last entry to the list seeing as I'm not likely to finish any of my longer games before tomorrow! Bashed through arcade mode as Ken and Ryu. The game is still so good, but Bison is such a cheap bastard, no matter what difficulty you play on. I whizzed through on one star to test it after playing through on whatever default is, and he just spams the same attacks and ultras all the time! I swear he reads your inputs!! Anyway, it was a fun half an hour or so!

My year in gaming has seen a fair amount of wandering around desolate wastelands killing variants of zombies, I think next year I need to inject some colour and fun in to my games! I've got Red Dead to finish, Spider-Man to start and a couple of Assassins Creed remasters to get through so the first few months are looking good!
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Thought I might get to the end of Rise of the Tomb Raider today, but the hub world / side mission stuff has side tracked me so that’s not going to happen. Doubt I’ll be first to finish something in 2019 either, Someone usually has something ready to go to snipe the thread :)
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Jan 1 - Neon Chrome (PC)
Jan 2 - Dispersio (PC)
Jan 9 - Numbus (PC)
Jan 11 - Hero Siege (PC)
Jan 14 - Castle of no Escape 2 (PC)
Jan 20 - Toy Odyssey (PC)
Jan 23 - 20XX (PC)
Jan 25 - Battle Chef Brigade (Switch)
Jan 29 - Kamiko (Switch)
Feb 1 - Guild of Dungeoneering (PC)
Feb 3 - KByte (PC)
Feb 7 - Cat Quest (Switch)
Feb 11 - DYE (PC)
Mar 7 - The End is Nigh (Switch)
Mar 10 - Shadow Warrior 2 (PC)
Mar 16 - The Keep (PC)
Mar 17 - The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd (PC)
Mar 18 - Hue (PC)
Mar 22 - Song of the Deep (PC)
Mar 28 - Metro: 2033 Redux (PC)
Apr 4 - Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King (Switch)
Apr 6 - Xeodrifter (Switch)
Apr 8 - Has-Been Heroes (Switch)
Apr 14 - Slime-san (Switch)
Apr 20 - ReThink (PC)
Apr 22 - Little King's Story (PC)
Apr 24 - Headlander (PC)
Apr 28 - Dex (PC)
Apr 30 - SUPERHOT (PC)
May 6 - Azure Striker Gunvolt (Switch)
May 7 - The Ball (PC)
May 21 - Drakensang (PC)
May 23 - Spectrum (PC)
May 25 - Oceanhorn: Monster of the Uncharted Seas (Switch)
May 27 - The Sexy Brutale (PC)
Jun 4 - Immortal Redneck (PC)
Jun 5 - Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight (PC)
Jun 11 - Prey (PC)
Jun 14 - Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap (Switch)
Jun 16 - Scrap Garden (PC)
Jun 17 - LostWinds (PC)
Jun 20 - Straimium Immortaly (PC)
Jun 25 - Dreaming Sarah (PC)
Jun 26 - Poi: Explorer Edition (Switch)
Jun 29 - Dungeon Souls (PC)
Jul 2 - Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Switch)
Jul 6 - Bleed 2 (Switch)
Jul 11 - Risen (PC)
Jul 18 - Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus (PC)
Jul 22 - Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (PC)
Aug 8 - Styx: Master of Shadows (PC)
Aug 9 - Steamworld Dig 2 (Switch)
Aug 15 - Owlboy (Switch)
Aug 18 - DOOM [2016] (PC)
Aug 21 - Unbox: Newbie's Adventure (PC)
Sept 5 - Nioh (PC)
Sept 10 - Weapon Shop Fantasy (PC)
Sept 11 - Hard Reset Redux (PC)
Sept 15 - Ghost 1.0 (PC)
Sept 16 - The Turing Test (PC)
Sept 20 - Azure Striker Gunvolt 2 (Switch)
Sept 28 - Battle Chasers: Nightwar (Switch)
Sept 28 - Metroid: Samus Returns (3DS)
Oct 1 - A.R.E.S. Extinction Agenda EX (PC)
Oct 5 - On Rusty Trails (PC)
Oct 8 - Metro: Last Light Redux (PC)
Oct 9 - Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Switch)
Oct 22 - Escape Goat 2 (PC)
Nov 4 - EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair (PC)
Nov 6 - Mordheim: City of the Damned (PC)
Nov 7 - NeuroVoider (Switch)
Nov 11 - Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings (Switch)
Nov 17 - Beyond Good & Evil (PC)
Nov 23 - Asura: Vengeance Expansion (PC)
Nov 26 - Bayonetta (Switch)
Nov 27 - Monster Slayers (PC)
Dec 4 - Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon (Switch)
Dec 7 - The Tenth Line (PC)
Dec 13 - Furi (Switch)

The boss rush game I was looking forward to getting to. Controls are really responsive but the dodge takes getting used to. See, the dodge can be charged which affects how far you move during it. This has a side effect that you dodge when you release the button instead of press it which will throw off your timing of things for a bit. Playing through normal difficulty, you never need the charge but you certainly do on hard.

Each boss gives you 3 lives to beat. Getting past a phase of a boss full heals you and gives you back a life (max 3) so you get plenty of chance to learn whatever attacks are coming your way. Losing a life only puts you back to the start of the phase, only a full game over puts you back to the fight's start. You must slash and shoot your way through the boss when you can and use the dodge and parry (it even heals you slightly) to avoid damage yourself. Things get frantic very fast and I love it. There isn't a single unfair attack in their repertoire. Getting hit means you somehow screwed up, not that the boss got in a cheap shot. The hard mode is a great example of how to do difficulty right. Bosses take more damage to get through their phases but their attack damage is unchanged. Their attack patterns, however, are greatly changed to make things much harder to avoid. As an idea, the 4th boss on hard took me more deaths than all of normal (which honestly wasn't too bad).

The only negative I have here are the between bosses bits. You do the walk and talk with an NPC but the walking is quite slow and it can sometimes be confusing which way you need to go. There is a button that makes the walking automatic but I only realized this right before the final boss. The automatic walking probably should have been the default.

Dec 16 - World to the West (PC)

Another puzzle game from the makers of Teslagrad. This time its isometric and the puzzles are not so good. I found them very straight forward with no thought required. Even with that, what really sunk this game for me is the character swapping. You get to swap between four characters here and you can only swap at totems that scatter the world. The totems also serve as teleporters. The big problem is that you can only teleport to totems you've been to with that specific character. So if Character A gets to Totem X, Character B can't teleport to Totem X until they manage to walk over to it themselves. This makes things very tedious, having to regularly go over the same exact areas multiple times just because they don't activate for all characters. It makes it all feel like it is wasting your time.

Dec 19 - Leap of Fate (PC)

A mostly nifty little roguelite (hey, I had to get one of these in here). Isometric action and you only get currency for your upgrades on special kills (any non-basic attack) so it requires some planning to get the most out of it. Permanent rewards are earned by doing missions during the game. Annoyingly, hard mode is unlocked by these missions so it is very possible to beat normal and hard mode is still locked. Hard mode also gets a bit RNG. The upgrades you get are in a tree and the available upgrades you can choose from are always there but the position of them in the tree is all RNG so some of them early on can make a run significantly easier than others.

Dec 25 - Bomb Squad Academy (PC)

Last for the year, a puzzle game. Defuse the bomb within the timer to move on. It is all very basic logic gates and a couple other bits to stop the boom. It is extremely easy and short. As in, 45 minutes to do everything. It is really not worth it. If you really want a bomb diffusing game, look at Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes instead for a fabulous multiplayer game.

Year End

This is the first year I've paid attention to the count. It was 82. Things from all over the spectrum in there but out of all of it, Doom 2016 and as a very late entry, Furi, lead the pack for me. Still need to get around to things like Octopath that I'm starting January and Celeste whenever. Here's to a new year, everyone.
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