What game have you recently beaten?

just got through ultimate alliance, and me and a couple of buddies are just about to beat Heavenly Sword!!!!

i just beat tales of destiny for psx. gotta love the classics

Just beat Final Fantasy VI (SNES). The final boss battle was epic, as I chose to assign three people to a group instead of four.

Finished off Advance Wars II during the forum downtime.

edit: And during the recent forum downtime, I beat Final Fantasy IX. Had both the Hammer and Save the Queen in my inventory, so I apparently got an alternate ending.

Might as well start posting in this one. :wacko:

Anyway, while the forums were down, I ended up finishing Tales of Graces. Enjoyed it a lot! Did all of the sidequests I could find, too, though I've yet to tackle the bonus dungeons. That shall be a challenge for another day. Since I only post here like once every two decades, I'll proceed to write my usual wall of text. Though I'm probably only doing this now because the game's JP-only, and I want others who would otherwise dismiss it to learn more about it. :wacko: So if you want to know more, read on. If not - tl;dr, the game's good.

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Couple of words about the game. The battle system is a lot of fun and highly addictive, but that's to be expected from Team Destiny. I also had fun with Abyss's system, but Free Run was way too abusable, which they ended up severely nerfing here by making it cost CC for every step - a welcome change. So yeah, the game uses the CC system, which I personally find much better compared to the regular TP system many other Tales games use. In any case, this feel like a healthy mixture of the combat mechanics of Abyss and the Destiny Remake on PS2. Other familiar gameplay mechanics from ToDR make a return here - there's a new and improved version of the "food bag" - a container you can put food (and other items) into, and they will automatically activate in battle when certain conditions are met. As in, "use hamburger when HP is below 50%", or something along those lines.

Another thing is the crafting system, which is called, uh... デュアライズ (Dualize, I guess?). You pretty much mix two things together to create something new. I don't want to go into details (there are guides online), but this is a more or less universal system. You upgrade your weapons this way, combine materials to create new materials (for further crafting, or a sidequest, or whatever), and you can use it to mix together ingredients and cook meals. And you can create special stat-boosting gems, too, but as I've said, I don't want to go into further details or this post will be even longer than it already is.

Now, the plot didn't seem anything special. I had to rely on the bits and pieces I understood of the spoken dialogue, and a few subtitled videos I came across online, so from what I understood it mostly boiled down to "guy who's the villain isn't the villain because he's actually being possessed by the real villain of the game". Said real villain seemed to fall into the stereotypical "not evil, just misunderstood" category, who wants to destroy the world because no one loves him. Or something. The ending of the PS3-exclusive Future Arc was all kinds of lovely, though. Not sure whether this is because because I've grown attached to the characters, or simply because I'm getting more lenient with generic happy endings as I get older, but in the end, I just liked it.

As for the main cast, I pretty much liked everyone. Though Asbel might become annoying to some people due to his obsession with protecting his friends/everyone. I mean my God. The word "mamoru" is uttered at least a dozen times every other minute when he's around. Sophie does something similar, except in her case it's the Japanese word for "friend". Other than that, I actually liked her a lot, plus she has some of the cutest skits in the game. :wacko: Cheria is your stereotypical "chick with a crush on the MC" character, except she's never annoyingly naive or overly girly. And so on.

Also, I find it interesting how only Team Destiny games have full body skits. It just looks so much better, so I'm not sure why other Tales games aren't doing it. I'll chalk it up to laziness. :wacko:

So anyway, it's pretty good. From a gameplay point of view, I can strongly recommend it. Otherwise, it has its share of anime clichés, though it can be tolerated. The game itself is shorter than some of the longer installments in the series. Took me 60 hours to beat with pretty much every sidequest done and a bit of grinding thrown in there (only because I liked the battle system that much. Not because there's any actual need to grind). So the main story is less than that, probably, uh... 50-55? I dunno. To me, that's still the perfect length, but people who liked the bajillion hours you could spend in Abyss (or Vesperia?) tend to complain, even though a good chunk of that game was pretty boring/filler-y because of this.

Speaking of which, the difficulty is... somewhat lacking. The game's way too easy on Normal if you know what you're doing. I pretty much ended up beating the later half of the game on Second and Hard, the two difficulty settings above Normal.

That's pretty much it. It's not perfect, but in many ways it's better than previous 3D installments.

I beat Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands and Front Mission Evolved over the last couple of days. I liked the Armored Core style play for FM but needing to use certain parts was annoying. Prince of Persia was just awesome :D! Usually I don't go for trophies but I ended up getting 72% on my first play through :wacko:.

I have beaten Nier Gestalt and opened all four endings (too bad saves were deleted in the process of viewing the last ending). Awesome game with many sad moments.

I just Beat Crash Mind Over Mutant.

I don't recommend this game even if you liked Crash of the Titans.

Sonic Adventure on PSN with Sonic. 20% of the trophies (lol).
I'll be damned if I'm ever playing that again, I was raging towards the end due to terrible camera angles. :wacko:

Just got 100% on Linger In Shadows. Someone else paid for it on the gameshare account, so why the fuck not? :wacko:

Xmmm...
Crash Twinsanity ps2
Metal Gear Solid 1 ,2 ,3 (like a zillion times) ps1 and ps2
Final Fantasy VII (1st time believe it or not) ps1

crash twinsanity was a complete surprise !! good gameplay and lots of fun !!
metal gear solid trilogy is perfect nuff said
final fantasy vii aaahhh what a game !! this game is like wine : the older it gets the better it tastes !!

I recently beat Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, and Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations. Both of which were streamed live.

Patapon 2

Currently working on: Disgaea 2 Dark Hero Days

Ghost of Sparta

Loved it.

I beat Back to the Future Part 1 yesterday. It was kinda short but since the game is broken up I'm not surprised. All I could think while playing was: OMGOMGOMGOMG BACK TO THE FUTURE :D! Awesome game, and a must play for anyone that likes the movies :wacko:.

Iron Man 2 and Midnight Club Los Angeles:platinum:

You guys need to post systems. It's not like I know anything about video games.

Finally picked up and finished Advance Wars: Days of Ruin (NDS) pretty recently. Kickass game, that. I need another sequel.

The BttF game is PC.

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I have beaten Nier Gestalt and opened all four endings (too bad saves were deleted in the process of viewing the last ending). Awesome game with many sad moments.

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My saves weren't deleted, I saved my final playthrough to usb before I started and removed it from the console. This protected my save and let me view the fourth ending without any worries :D

I just finally beat Lockes Quest for DS after almost 2 years of playing it

Just :platinum: Fallout: New Vegas.

Now I feel empty.

Recently beat Red Dead Redemption. Will attempt now to get 100% but can't be bothered with online achievements.

Mafia II (PS3) on hard.

Third time since it was released that I've beaten it on hard. I love this game.
I'll :platinum: it eventually.

I just finished Super Paper Mario. I'm kind of disappointed in this game. And there isn't much to do that's worth while after finishing the game, either. A Thousand Year Door was easily leagues above this game. >_>

Super Paper Mario was fun for the first play through, and that was about it. :shrug:

Anyways. Beat MM9 last night. Admittedly, with a little bit of rage thrown in. :disgust:

Good game, though.

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Super Paper Mario was fun for the first play through, and that was about it. :shrug:

Anyways. Beat MM9 last night. Admittedly, with a little bit of rage thrown in. :disgust:

Good game, though.

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MM9, good shit. the music is great.

Ran through Parasite Eve II again. Decided I own it, may as well play it. Harder to do in Japanese though. :P

not long beat Donkey Kong Country for the first time

Finished Bioshock, PLAYING IT AGAIN :awesome:

Ghost Hunter. Good looking game, if anything. Story was promising, but execution killed it.

Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone. Garbage.

Manhunt 2. Lame ending, lame plot twist.

Castlevania: Curse of Darkness. Fun game, but fuck backtracking for items. Also, lol last boss. Standing around, blocking, whilst a bird tears through Dracula doesn't satiate my need for a good boss fight. At all. Also, shit "hidden" super boss.

Dirge of Cerberus. Fun game, if a bit on the easy side. Again, much like other games of the genre, too many "zomg kool shit" moments. Wish melee attacks hadn't been entirely useless.

Beat Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. Argh, damn Metal Gear games always come with the heart punch at the very end

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Game makes me really like Kaz's character, and want to see more of him. Then...they reveal he was actually McDonnell Miller and goes on to be killed in MGS. Bah :(

Got :platinum: on both Sly 1 and 2, think I might just try to get every single trophy in this collection. :fdance:

Star wars Force Unleashed 2:destroy:

is it any good? , beat the first one never tried the 2nd one

Just finished the the main game of Divinity 2: The Draon Knight Saga, aka the Ego Draconis storyline. Really cool game, pretty much Gothic with dragons. :wacko: And since I encountered no major glitches, I'll assume this version already patched out most of the bugs of the original.

Anyway, time to move on to the Flames of Vengeance expansion. I don't expect it to be as long as the main game, but it's more content, so I can't complain. Plus, all of my stuff carries over, so I can pretty much continue on with the exact same character. Huzzah.

Prey.

Finally decided to play, and attempt to beat all the games I have on Steam(Singleplayer of course).

Might take me a few months.

Dragon Age I
Resident Evil 1,2,3,4 (All in the last 2 weeks)
Chrono Cross
Parasite Eve 1 and 2 (now playing again)
Dragon Ball Z Tenkaichi 3 ( the Best one I think)
Disgaea 1,2 oh yeah can someone tell me how 3 is for ps3
Breath of fire III (psp)
Legend of dragoon

Dungeon Keeper. A game I could never beat during my childhood. :D

honestly ill play a game for 5 mins, test it out, make some rants and turn it off.
... x-cept for TXR on the DC thatl keep me buizy for hours... lol recently ive beaton a kid at dodge-ball =)

Just unlocked the complete ending on GT5. I'm not classing this as complete, but the game seems to think so. :wacko:

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Just unlocked the complete ending on GT5. I'm not classing this as complete, but the game seems to think so. :wacko:

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Grand trismo's have endings?????

got about 86% in DBZ Budokai 3. not planning on spending all the Zennies to buy all the "memory capsules" though. what a waste that would be lol.

Peace Walker.