The 2016 Completed Games List

Clix

omegabyte wrote: »

Whew, my first game finished for 2016 is also my GOTY for 2015: The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel (PS3)

If you love classically styled RPGs, do yourself a favor and play this game. It's fantastic.

Final playtime was over 90 hours.

Just to check, do you want me to track your hours?

Adriaan den Ouden

Clix wrote: »

omegabyte wrote: »

Whew, my first game finished for 2016 is also my GOTY for 2015: The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel (PS3)

If you love classically styled RPGs, do yourself a favor and play this game. It's fantastic.

Final playtime was over 90 hours.

Just to check, do you want me to track your hours?

Nah. Just mentioned it 'cause its such a crazy long game.

Cassandra Ramos

I just completed the main story of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team for the DS. I also evolved ny partner, Lloyd the Charmander, into a Charizard. It's not a bad game, and I had some fun traversing through the dungeons and deciding the best time to use items. It's somehow aimed at a younger crowd than even the main games, and this is before the fifth generation, when Nintendo really acknowledged the older member of the Pokemon fanbase. It would be nice if there were a more direct way to recruit the Pokemon you want. I am glad that at least Absol joins as part of the story. I won't be doing any of the optional stuff. Time to move onto Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky!

Adriaan den Ouden

Wow, I must be special. Everyone else's names are separated by four hyphens, but I got a full on horizontal rule!

Clix

omegabyte wrote: »

Wow, I must be special. Everyone else's names are separated by four hyphens, but I got a full on horizontal rule!

And fixed. Not sure how I goofed that one.

Adriaan den Ouden

Just finished Aviary Attorney (PC)

This game is.... well, it's weird. It's part ace attorney clone, part visual novel, and all acting as a bit of historical fiction set during the February 1948 French Revolution. Starring a bird lawyer.

So weird.

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7thCircle

I have a weekend off with no plans for the first time since September, so I decided to lose myself in a 4X game for a couple days. I ran through a game of Endless Legend (PC) with the DLC I bought on sale over the holidays. Played on Hard and got far behind in the first half while remembering how everything worked. I was resigned to a loss, but got the #2 largest faction to declare war on the #1 faction just before the #1 guy declared war on me, and staged a huge comeback from there.

It's fun as a 4X change of pace and I'm continuing my slow plan to try each faction once.

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Ombres

One Finger Death Punch (PC)

That is a fun indie game, you only use the two buttons of your mouse.
Easy to play but hard to master, play around 13 hours, because I have that completionist urge of trying to get perfect and platinum medal on every stage, at the end I stop that cause I would have to play at least 10 more hours to do that and I have the master level to play now and then the grandmaster. Well will be able to play that a good long while :)

if you did not try this one, go ahead, I really recommend it! It is not an rpg but it a nice game to just lost yourself in and not think too much, you only have two buttons to press after all!

Nyx

Strawberry Eggs wrote: »

I just completed the main story of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team for the DS. I also evolved ny partner, Lloyd the Charmander, into a Charizard. It's not a bad game, and I had some fun traversing through the dungeons and deciding the best time to use items. It's somehow aimed at a younger crowd than even the main games, and this is before the fifth generation, when Nintendo really acknowledged the older member of the Pokemon fanbase. It would be nice if there were a more direct way to recruit the Pokemon you want. I am glad that at least Absol joins as part of the story. I won't be doing any of the optional stuff. Time to move onto Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky!

There is a huge part of me that hopes you'll retroview this. I almost bought this game years ago because of the cute factor. :D;

Anna Marie Privitere

omegabyte wrote: »

Just finished Aviary Attorney (PC)

This game is.... well, it's weird. It's part ace attorney clone, part visual novel, and all acting as a bit of historical fiction set during the February 1948 French Revolution. Starring a bird lawyer.

So weird.

Does it actually have an ending now?

Alex Fuller

Played through Contradiction - Spot The Liar! (PC) today. Had a lot of fun with it. It's an FMV investigative game (think Midsomer Murders sort of village setting - though not quite the ridiculous body count of that). Think the thing that makes it is the acting performance of the detective, just right amount of hamming it up to make it entertaining without being silly. Some of the contradictions are a bit iffy, but the game has a nice cheat/hint system so not a deal breaker.

Nyx

The Banner Saga (PS4) -- Thoughts to come in our console version review... coming soon!

Cassandra Ramos

Nyx wrote: »

There is a huge part of me that hopes you'll retroview this. I almost bought this game years ago because of the cute factor. :D;

I'll consider it, though I hadn't thought of writing one. My opinion of the game is better than that of the official review, but it doesn't feel like a game I really need to retroview.

MasterChief

1/18/2016 - Xenoblade Chronicles X (Wii U). Well, that was almost 200 hours. Good game for the most part, but it was needlessly grindy, especially toward the end. My end party was myself (L60, Lv9 Galactic Knight), Elma (L58), Lin (L57) and Hope (L56). Even with that, I felt like

Spoiler:

Lao's final form

was cheap as all hell. I was somehow able to beat the damned thing without taking the "lower difficulty" option, but really felt no sense of accomplishment or triumph. Also, there were enough arbitrary twists at the end to make M. Night Shyamalan proud.

Put bluntly, the endgame sucked, which cheapens an otherwise great experience. Hopefully there'll be some better post-game stuff, because I really would hate for that to be my last impression of this title.

Adriaan den Ouden

Paws wrote: »

omegabyte wrote: »

Just finished Aviary Attorney (PC)

This game is.... well, it's weird. It's part ace attorney clone, part visual novel, and all acting as a bit of historical fiction set during the February 1948 French Revolution. Starring a bird lawyer.

So weird.

Does it actually have an ending now?

I got ending 4C. I think there are several endings depending on the choices you make in the third chapter.

Adriaan den Ouden

Just finished D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die - Season One (PC)

Man, this game is so cool but it's basically unfinished. Only two episodes, and nothing is answered. I dunno if it's gonna get a second season or not, but I'll keep my fingers crossed.

Michael Baker

I saved the world from an asteroid impact (in the most stupidly deus ex machina way) in Kyoryu King - The 7 Fragments (DS) and got end credits, so I am counting this one as done. The fact that multiple new zones (including the continents of Africa, South America, and Australia) only open up in the post-game is... seriously, enough is enough.

The developers couldn't even come up with a decent plot hook for it; the big bad doctor just shows up, says "Neener-neener-neener, I'm gonna take your magic rock and try and conquer the world -- again!" and you have to go chase his evil minions down, again. And the difficulty curve continued to climb steeply. >_<;

So. End-credits achieved. World saved. Dr. Rausonid can go choke on his own neck-beard. I'm out of here.

-- edit: Just discovered that this got a release in all English-speaking regions as Dinosaur King

Crono

Destiny: Xbone. Main Campaign. It was fun, but the second I fired up the DLC I REALLY started enjoying the game. Seriously, why couldn't Destiny have been this the whole time?

TheDoomhammer

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen (PC)

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FoxConfessor

Mass Effect 2 (PS3)

This was great. I finished the first one last year and enjoyed many aspects of it, but this one just improved near enough everything that the first game failed on. And of course this one has Jack and how can you not love her badass-ness. Hoping to start the third instalment sometime soon.

Ombres

Swords and Soldiers(PC)

I finally manage to beat that one, the last Chinese stage was very hard

TheAnimeMan

FoxConfessor wrote: »

Mass Effect 2 (PS3)

This was great. I finished the first one last year and enjoyed many aspects of it, but this one just improved near enough everything that the first game failed on. And of course this one has Jack and how can you not love her badass-ness. Hoping to start the third instalment sometime soon.

Cause I'm not a fan of Jack? At least not her look, the look in ME3 for her I thought was better. My favorite is still Tali

Adriaan den Ouden

And just finished up Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (PC). I gave up on this game halfway through when it first came out because it got too easy. I must've played it differently this time around, because I had a lot more fun. Skipped a lot of the side quests, that probably helped. At the end of the game I was a lvl 40 shadowcaster (finesse/sorcery) and destroyed everything I came across :D

Macstorm

omegabyte wrote: »

And just finished up Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (PC). I gave up on this game halfway through when it first came out because it got too easy. I must've played it differently this time around, because I had a lot more fun. Skipped a lot of the side quests, that probably helped. At the end of the game I was a lvl 40 shadowcaster (finesse/sorcery) and destroyed everything I came across :D

Yes, that's what I did. Really enjoyed it without worrying about the side quests, and especially enjoyed juggling around character builds.

Michael Baker

Just rolled credits on Net Ghost PiPoPa: PiPoPa DS @ Daibouken! (DS). The ending sequence wasn't much, but it was enough to show me that the developers could have done a lot more with the graphics engine on this game and its 3D-modeled sprites.

Clocked it in at just over 10 hours, mainly because the boss of the next-to-last level dropped an Escape Crystal that I could use to avoid every random encounter from that point onward. Saved me a lot of time. Review to come!

PS: Clix, could you change "Kyoryu King" to "Dinosaur King"? Just for the sake of googling, if anyone's curious about it.

DarkRPGMaster

Mana Khemia: Student Alliance (PSVita) - via PSN

Managed to finally finish this. Game was really lighthearted and only got dark a few times, especially towards the end. Battles were fun turn-based action, and I liked how stats were linked to a book you filled out via crafting. Battles were challenging towards the end, and the bosses were always difficult. I hope other games in the Atelier meta-series have the calendar system this one uses, because it was timed without really having you crunched to complete things (outside of assignments when you enter the dungeon for them) on it.

Clix

GaijinMonogatari wrote: »

PS: Clix, could you change "Kyoryu King" to "Dinosaur King"? Just for the sake of googling, if anyone's curious about it.

Sure thing. I had considered just putting Dinosaur King originally, but I figured there had been a reason for you using the original series title. It is now localized.