What game have you recently beaten?

[Drageuth]

My son and I powered through the rest of Toy Story 3 before his bedtime tonight for the .

The game itself is a lot of fun and is actually a really cool kids game, but the PS3 version suffers from some terrible load times that rendered it virtually unplayable at points. I don't know how it compares with the 360 version, but considering loadtimes are usually faster on 360, I'm going to assume it handles it a little bit better.

Still. Onto something else. Might take him shopping tomorrow to find a new game for us to play.

[Chicken Boo]

Koumajou Densetsu II: Stranger's Requiem

Recorded on the other laptop before my sister gets home tomorrow

[Elin]

Have started playing quite a few games again after a seven or eight month hiatus in Japan, both for Japanese language exposure and because I'm feeling a bit run down over leaving the country, and it's a fun means of escapism. :'D Yesterday I went back to my Japanese replay of the Xenosaga series, and finished up 2 after dropping it for six months at the Omega System. Have always defended the second game, mostly because of the nice story stuff with Jr and the other URTVs on the first disc, but in hindsight, the second disc is really, really bad. I remember Tetsuya Takahashi and Soraya Saga saying that they were cut out midway through the game's development, and only directly worked on the scenes with the URTVs, after which the new team mostly their own thing with the rest of the game. It kind of shows, as there's really almost no story to speak of on the second disc. Some stuff happens, but it's just a vaguely linked sequence of events and dungeons, without any real central narrative binding it together as in the rest of the series, and most of the few story scenes that there are are just action set pieces. Contrary to many people, I actually found the gameplay in the second game okay (except for the ES battles, which are duuuuuull), and the boss fights, in particular, were pretty fun. But to me, it's nowhere near strong enough to hold together a second disc that is basically just a long gauntlet of mediocre dungeons.

Not that I think that only Takahashi and Saga are capable of handling Xenosaga, of course. After all, the third game turned out great without much of their involvement at all. But it's obvious looking at the game that there was a scramble to piece together a complete story and script without their involvement in time for the game's release, and the second disc was a real slog for me this time. I have such a big backlog that I don't tend to replay games a lot, but when I do, I'm generally left with lots of warm, nostalgic feelings, and the resolution in my head that I'll definitely go back and replay them again five or six years down the line. I felt that way after my replay of Episode 1 in Japan, after my replay of Skies of Arcadia back in late 2011 to early 2012, and after my replay of Chrono Trigger in French just before leaving for Japan. But Xenosaga 2 is a game that I have now finished in both English and Japanese, and that feels like more than enough. It has its good points, and I still think the first disc is not bad at all. But next time I play the Xenosaga series, I'm just going to watch 2's cutscenes on Youtube. :'D

[Pokemongenius]

Mario Galaxy 2 120 Stars :> but now green star time X_X and Castlevania Legacy of Darkness again just cuzz I wanted to revisit the game again.

[Drageuth]

Sleeping Dogs

[SwarmOfOrphans]

Completed Exhumed for about the 30th time. Never gets boring.

[Inferno.]

F1 2011 (Vita)

Well, I beat my first career, won the drivers championship. That'll pass as "complete" for me. Crap game, crappy crap crap.

[Sprung]

F1 2011 (Vita)

Well, I beat my first career, won the drivers championship. That'll pass as "complete" for me. Crap game, crappy crap crap.

I wondered how you "beat" a racing game. That's kinda like saying you beat the new football game

[Inferno.]

I wondered how you "beat" a racing game. That's kinda like saying you beat the new football game

Well I've posted in here every other time I've finished a career in one.

[Pokemongenius]

Just finished Links Awakening in 23 minutes wahoo!

[Drageuth]

I wondered how you "beat" a racing game. That's kinda like saying you beat the new football game

I would assume football and hockey games are similar in that you could say you "beat" them when you finish a full season + win the Superbowl/Stanley Cup on Professional mode (stay with one player for their career, or whatever the equivalent in a football game would be).

Just finished Links Awakening in 23 minutes wahoo!

I'm curious about this, since the best time I've seen for a tool-assisted speed run of Link's Awakening is 1hr05m., and that's using glitches to skip portions of the game.

[Elmdor Rizer]

I would assume football and hockey games are similar in that you could say you "beat" them when you finish a full season + win the Superbowl/Stanley Cup on Professional mode (stay with one player for their career, or whatever the equivalent in a football game would be).



I'm curious about this, since the best time I've seen for a tool-assisted speed run of Link's Awakening is 1hr05m., and that's using glitches to skip portions of the game.

I beat the last boss in FIFA 11 once.

It was Howard Webb.

[Drageuth]

Galaga Legion DX - 100%

Fun little game. Gets kind of repetitive after a while, but it's great as a way to kill 30mins.

[Stark]

Kingdom of Amalur. In the end it was a case of go here kill that, go here collect something rinse and repeat. I've still got to platinum it but I don't know if I'm going to do it right away, it seems like the sort of game that would get annoying if you tried to do every single quest. One of the most annoying things about this game is going to the great cities. You get the intro to the place everytime you enter the main area, even if you go in a shop and out of it, which you needed to do for some quests. Very irritating part of the game

[Verb]

Bioshock Infinite - overall have to say it was overhyped IMO