I keep buying games, but then just replaying games I already own. I want to finish Nier, Dishonored and Prey but I just keep playing FromSoft games and Overwatch.
Overwatch has signifantly worsened my ability to complete games haha. I was cruising in January and February, then I started playing Overwatch and now it’s hard to get myself to play anything else.
Monster Hunter World (ps4)
Night in the Woods (ps4)
Prey (ps4)
Yakuza 6 (ps4)
Steamworld Heist: UA (switch)
Attack on Titan 2 (switch)
Mario and Rabbids: Kingdom Battle (switch)
Finally beat Mario and Rabbids, there was a difficulty spike in the lava world (which in retrospect wasn’t that hard) that made me quit out of fustration.
Just finished Yakuza 6 and it was amazing. If i have time and less laziness I might make a spoiler discussion thread about it…
Man, I should probably start writing these down anyway, but it’ll be a hell of a time trying to remember everything I’ve played over the last four months. Here’s probably a partial list:
January
Genital Jousting
February
Darksiders
March
Iconoclasts
Into the Breach
Squidlit
A Way Out
April
Minit
God of War
God of War II
God of War: Betrayal
God of War: Chains of Olympus
God of War III
God of War: Ghost of Sparta
May
God of War: Ascension
Favorite of the year: Into the Breach
Favorite in general: Probably still Into the Breach, but Darksiders and God of War III would be runner-ups
Does 7 hours and one victory in Into the Breach count as a completion? I feel like there is so much more I could get out of that game.
First post! Thought I’d jump in with my completion list. Tabletop / roleplaying games have been priority one for most of 2018 insofar and my list is looking a little limited as a result.
Mass Effect
Mass Effect 2
Resident Evil 7
Yakuza 0
Yakuza Kiwami
Owlboy
Probably going to be digging into the backlog next – the Splatoon 2 campaign is probably next on the docket.
Mario Odyssey: This game was very fun. I played through it almost entirely in co-op with my 4 year old and we had a great time. We haven’t played much after the credits rolled, but I’d be happy to go back to it at some point.
Titanfall 2: I’ve owned this game since it came out, and while it had a lot of great level design and snappy mechanics, the story never hooked me so I had a tough time forcing myself to finish it up. I just never felt invested.
Cannon Brawl: I’ve had this game sitting on my hard drive forever, but a few months ago my kid discovered it and for some reason just can not get enough of it. He loses all the time, and he mostly doesn’t care. I think he just likes seeing the buildings go up and then explode? He beat roughly 90% of the campaign missions on his own and tagged me in to beat the final boss. It’s a great 2-player RTS/Artillery game, though the unlock system requires a fairly excessive amount of grinding/solo-play that’s pretty uncommon in modern games.
LittleBigPlanet 3: This game is just stinkin’ adorable. Sure the controls can be imprecise at times, but the goofy deaths just add to the fun since the game is hardly punishing. My partner and oldest kid are able to play this as a family, and that’s pretty special. Good on Sumo Digital for ditching the Sackboy term and going with the neutral Sackperson.
As you can see, most games I get to finish are games that are either bite-size in length, or games that I can co-op with my small child. There are probably some more small games I’m forgetting at the moment. If I think of them I’ll add them.
Celeste
God of War
It’s weird, I guess I’m playing more games to just play them rather than complete them. Destiny 2, Battlegrounds, Vermintide, Fortnight and of course Planet Coaster. These games never seem to ‘end’.
Grand Theft Auto 4
Mass Effect 3
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Axiom Verge
Assassin’s Creed Rogue
LittleBigPlanet
Prince of Pesia
Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition
Just Cause 3
The Swapper
God of War: Chains of Olympus
Rain
Papo y Yo
Mirror’s Edge
Pokemon Picross
Infamous First Light
Nihilumbra
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
Wow, I played a lot of games this year. I am trying to clear my backlog, so I am mostly playing older games.
Detention
Resident Evil 7
Finding Paradise
Gravity Rush 2
Celeste
Monster Hunter World
All Our Asias
Shadow of the Colossus Remake
Yume Nikki: Dream Diary
Hyper Light Drifter
Into the Breach
Until Dawn
Ratchet and Clank
Stardew Valley
Florence
Gorogoa
Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom
Genderwrecked
God of War
Detention was one of the best games I have ever played, definitely the best game I’ve played this year. In terms of what actually came out this year, I think my favorite so far has been Genderwrecked, a wonderful visual novel about gender and monsters. The ending was one of the most charming things I’ve experienced in a visual novel. Into the Breach was also great fun, really hope it gets a Switch port, that’s the kind of game I could play anywhere. It really reminded me how much I want a full tactics RPG, Final Fantasy Tactics style.
In terms of disappointments, I think the obvious one is God of War. I thought it was awful, from the story to a lot of the combat scenarios. I wasn’t excited for it, but I guess the reviews shifted my expectations (don’t even think I would’ve bought it otherwise, should’ve trusted my instincts). I was also disappointed by Ni No Kuni II though, which was a bit different because I had very high hopes for it, and I did like what was there, but got the feeling that I didn’t get really get to dig into the story and the world to the extent that I had hoped for.
Something that came out of the blue was a sequel to Yume Nikki, my favorite game of all time. It certainly didn’t bring the same feeling as playing the original did, but I don’t think any game at this point could. It did take things in a direction that felt like genuine catharsis after almost 20 years. I still grapple with whether what it did was earned or unearned, but I am sure that I was desperate to play more as that character, in that world, and I didn’t even know it.
Celeste
Golf Story
Into the Breach
Hot damn is that only three games or what. I don’t play a ton of games that get completed, I guess, which I’m trying to change, but I wish that list was a lil longer. I’m pretty sure I’ll get to the end of Long Live the Axe and Minit soon but we’ll see how it plays out
Started and beat The Sexy Brutale in one session last night, which never happens. That game had me captivated from start to finish.
A surprising amount, considering I’ve spent my last semester writing a thesis and a novel draft. Lot of short games, I think I’ve done nothing but write and play games for five months. Also, the Switch helps. In rough order, bolding the ones I sunk the most time into:
Probably going to try and take on Horizon Zero Dawn next, though I might also wait to avoid burning out on open-world games. So maybe Gravity Rush intead. Or Nier. Or I might finally play The Last of Us. (My backlog is way too much right now.)
(Editing to add more.)
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I think the only games ive completed this year are doom4 and We Know the Devil, and Grow Home [/details]
This thread made me realize I play games even less than i thought i did, which makes me sad that Im too busy to even be able to enjoy my hobbies 
I haven’t completed many games this year so this is more of something to keep track of.
Completed:
Started:
Need to Start:
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
Pyre
Dishonored 2
The Order is a game I have a fascinating history with. I was about 13 when this game was announced at E3 2013 and, whether it be genuine intrigue, PlayStation brand loyalty I had at the time, or both, I was super hyped for this game. I was so obsessed that at one point in my life I was even looking up information about the game every day just to see if anything new came out about it. When it came out, all that hype crashed down HARD. I didn’t touch it until a couple weeks ago. After finishing it, I’ve gotta say there’s something about that game that really intrigues me. I’d love to do some sort of write up about the game but I don’t know whether to do it as a new topic or to create a blog post for it.
For Dishonored 2, I remember playing the first one when I was younger, and I remember getting super frustrated by it. I want to see if I still feel that way today. It kind of bums me out to dismiss Arkane’s output as not for me in spite of the praise their games get (especially from Danielle).
I have completed Xenoblade Chronicles 2 this year. Which I feel is roughly the same as completing four “normal” games.
Just finished Assassin’s Creed: Origins. Always liked the series - or at least admired their ambition - using video games to recreate certain periods in history is a thing I’d love more games to do.
AC: Origins is not without it’s flaws. The whole ‘spot with eagle’ mechanic gets a little boring the more you do it, and I feel the Dark Souls esque combat gets a little samey too. However, I liked Bayek as a character and I loved the scope of the game, the realism of the world, is probably Ubisoft’s best work in the series to date.
AC: Origins is a decent Assassin’s Creed. I’m even tempted to go into the DLC.
And that photo mode? Fantastic.
So far this year:
AC: Origins and all DLC. I utterly adored Curse of the Pharaohs, and it’s made me utterly rethink my planning for the family D&D campaign I’ve been planning. The sub-realms are fantastic, and the game’s understanding and exploration of both Egyptian history and mythology was brilliant. And I agree, the photo mode is amazing. No idea how I access the images I took on my Xbox, though…
Far Cry 5. It’s not the peak of the series - I’m a huge defender of FC4 - but it was a good, solid bit of fun. Looking forwards to the DLC, hating the Arcade side of it (there’s seemingly zero curation going on, and a lot of the stuff I’ve played through was either poorly made or downright broken). The weekly events seem like a massive missed opportunity.
The Witness. I started it on PC ages ago, and the free GwG copy drove me to push on. Now, I’ve done it, bar that super hard timed end puzzle. It all clicked a lot faster the second time, for sure.
Monster Hunter World, sort of. I’ve killed the Xeno’Jiva and for me that’s where it ends for now. I’ll likely go back, maybe in the Summer, to push for the “true end”, but for now? Really enjoyed what I put in.
In order of me being able to remember them:
Breath of the Wild’s DLC, since I beat the main game last year.
Monster Hunter: World. 110+ hours and still going strong with some reluctance.
Splatoon 2. The most recent major update with DLC hadn’t come out yet.
Destiny 2’s DLC. 2/3 characters, but it still counts.
MHW is very likely going to be my GOTY, to be honest.
I forgot Destiny 2’s DLC. Currently grinding like hell to get my Light level up, because wow did they sure make that hard for a solo player.
This weekend’s Steam event is doing something very smart and highly relevant to this thread. But it also annoys me as I don’t want to go around starting more games when I still have a dozen or so that I’m currently in the midst of.
