Short Month, Shorten the Pile
2012 is off to a great start. Some of us had a pretty impressive January. February is a short month, but that's not an excuse to at least knocking one more game off the pile.
If you're interested, m0nk3yboy, has the 12 month pile plan thread over here.
A quick reminder, in order to be considered "Pile of Shame" the game needs to be at least three months old. Otherwise, it's just a new game you haven't gotten to playing yet.
Also, if you are curious about some of the previous threads, Pick's of the Pile, etc... Please go here and check out the Google doc I setup.
Let's get on to the games!
Multi-Platform
Alpha Protocol - mcdonis
American McGee's Alice - philucifer
Assassin's Creed II - Yoreel
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood - Kraint
Bastion - Rykin, Coldstream
Bioshock - brokenclavicle
Bioshock 2 - Kraint, Stele
Borderlands - Demyx
Catherine - ClockworkHouse
Crysis 2 - Rykin
Darksiders - Michael Zenke, MadGav
Dead Space 2 - AndrewA
Defense Grid: The Awakening - karmajay
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - m0nk3yboy, Coldstream
Dragon Age: Ultimate Edition - walkera
Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard - m0nk3yboy, SallyNasty
Final Fantasy XIII - Higgledy, trueheart78
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City - walkera
Half-Life 2 - filthyspringbok
Half-Life 2: episode 2 - gregrampage
ilomilo- Rykin
LA Noire - mcdonis
Mass Effect 2 - honeycut1
Medal of Honor - philucifer
Metroid Fusion - ClockworkHouse
My Horse and Me 2 - honeycut1
Penny Arcade Adventures Episode 2 - Yoreel
Orcs Must Die! - Apollo0507
Prototype - mrtomaytohead
Psychonauts - Poppinfresh
Puzzle Agent 2 - Slyght
Red Faction: Guerrilla - Hemi
Renegade Ops - gregrampage
Saint's Row 2 - gregrampage
Sam & Max 202: Moai Better Blues - Garden Ninja
Sam & Max 203: Night of the Raving Dead - Garden Ninja
Sam & Max 204: Chariots of the Dogs - Garden Ninja
Tales of Monkey Island: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal - gregrampage
Toy Soldiers - Apollo0507
Trenched DLC - honeycut1
WRC 2 - m0nk3yboy
PC
The Adventures of Shuggy - philucifer
Amnesia: The Dark Descent - AUs_TBirD
Atom Zombie Smasher - Garden Ninja
Battle Realms - AUs_TBirD
The Binding of Isaac - Demyx
Deus Ex - shoptroll
The Witcher - Luggage
Xbox 360
Alan Wake - Hemi
Deadly Premonition - beeporama
Too Human - nel e nel
PS3
Demon's Souls - Dysplastic
Disgaea 4 - Stele
PS2
The Mark of Kri - AUs_TBirD
Wii
Disaster : Day of Crisis - stevenmack
Donkey Kong Country - AndrewA
Kirby's Epic Yarn - ClockworkHouse
Xenoblade Chronicles - stevenmack
DS
Dragon Quest IV - Maximus
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective - Maximus, Slyght
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey - gregrampage
LobsterMobster wrote:
When they do it, it's cheap. When I do it, it's tactical.
I'm going to keep plugging away at Red Faction: Guerrilla. I'll probably throw another game on there as well. I just need to figure out what I feel like playing.
LobsterMobster wrote:
Put me down for Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii) (that's old enough right?) and Deus Ex (PC). One of those two should go down this month. Preferably both.
Backloggery/Steam/PSN/Live/Game Center: shoptroll | 3DS: 3866-8034-6553 | Battle.net: shoptroll#1101
Please put me down for American McGee's Alice, which came free with Alice: Madness Returns. I hope to add more later in the month, but that's what I'm going after first.
"Uh, we have vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry."
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City followed by Dragon Age: Ultimate Edition. So, progress on clearing the pile is about to stall out for a few months, but at least updates on this thread will be easy.
Tagging for now. Will edit this when I pick a game.
EDIT: Bioshock 2 (PC) I suppose. Before it hits a year old. Sheesh, that's probably the oldest thing on the pile.
Steam: Nyx Stele PSN: Nyx_Stele XBL: Nyx Stele
The Witcher Enhanced Edition (PC) will be my first game of February. Not loading too much on my plate since I wanna be free on March 6th for ME3.
GWJ Battle.Net user list (NOW WITH DIABLO 3!) | @Steam | @Backloggery
I am going to complete Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard (if it kills me) this month on 360. I will add more, but I want to see what aftertaste I need to rinse out first upon completion.
Damn, all I've accomplished so far in ME2 is download reduce priced DLC.
Oscar wrote:
Backloggery: m0nk3yboy : XBL m0nk3yboy
Deadly Premonition.
MilkmanDanimal wrote:
I'm going to start with Dead Space 2 (PS3).
Super Mario 3D Land and FF XIII-2 are also on my plate, but both are too new.
Twitter
PS3 - EvolvedTurnip
3DS - 4854-6554-5149
Short month? We haven't had a February this long in years! Thanks, Obama.
NOTE: Not a doodle bug.
Steam-XBox-PSN: Lobstermancer
I'm going to carry over/re-declare Orcs Must Die! for February. Also put me down to finish Toy Soliders. I don't want to declare too much for February, since it is a short month and my FemShep ME1/ME2 playthrough will be taking a lot of my time.
Steam:apollo0507 | Xbox Live: Apollo0507| Backloggery
I started Darksiders on 360 last night, FINALLY!
I will attempt to finish it before the end of the month. Huzzah for goals!
XBLA, Origin, Steam: whoisdialogue
Battletag: Hackworth#1591
Twitter: Zonk
Put me down for Bastion (XBLA) again. I will actually probably finish it up later today and then I will have to decide what to tackle next.
Xbox Live: Rykin Poe
On the heels of beating LA Noire last month, I feel pretty happy about resuming my pile reduction.
This month, I'm going to put Demons Souls (PS3) to bed. Maybe I'll get to Dark Souls in a year
Steam: Dysplastic
If I could ever put down Defence Grid and Bejeweled 3 I might actually make some progress.
This month I am going bold and saying I will complete
Alpha Protocol
LA Noire
Bold because I have no progress in either game...
After taking down Dead Space 2, ARES, Dragon Age 2, and Puzzle Agent 2 in January, I'm going to keep my streak going.
For Feb, I want to run through Assassin's Creed II andPenny Arcade II.
Xbox Live Gamertag - Yoreel
Steam id - [GWJ] Yoreel
Put me down for Prototype (PS3) and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. I may declare something else later, since in actuality, I beat Prototype's story mode and watched to credits (begin to) roll last night. I'm still going to spend some time with Prototype, though and finish off all of the events and such.
Steam: mrtomaytohead
Wii Console code: 7415 7854 7235 1798
Backloggery
In honor of Too Human on my pile, this month I will refer to the OP as 'Heimdal'.
Oh, and put me down for Too Human (360) as well.
Commander Kirrahe wrote:
Blasto wrote:
Borderlands for me.
Backloggery
Zelda will be eligible next month. It came out Nov 18th.
LobsterMobster wrote:
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (DS) for me, I only have a few chapters left so I should finish it soon.
Wouldn't that make it eligible before the end of February? Either way, looks like I'll be clearing it before the eligibility like I did with Mass Attack.
Backloggery/Steam/PSN/Live/Game Center: shoptroll | 3DS: 3866-8034-6553 | Battle.net: shoptroll#1101
I'm going to chip away at Saints Row 2 and SMT - Strange Journey. I don't expect to finish either during the month though.
Steam
Tanglebones wrote:
Put me down for Catherine and Metroid Fusion, please.
My Latest: I Accidentally the Whole Game Mechanic, Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3
I'm working on Defense Grid:The Awakening on PC. Really fun game but I am stuck on the "Waste Disposal" map.
I asked my wife the same thing last night. She replied with "stop being a moron and wash the damned dishes" -- Paleocon asking his wife about zombies
I'll take Bioshock 2 and another month of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. The first should be easy to get done, but AC:B is probably a stretch goal.
TheArtOfScience wrote:
Jonman wrote:
Right. November, December, January (that's 3) and now it's February. Either way, I'm gonna play it even if it doesn't go on the list.
Steam: mrtomaytohead
Wii Console code: 7415 7854 7235 1798
Backloggery
I suppose there's three ways to interpret the rule:
1) "Games must have been released on or before the first day of the month three months ago"
2) "Games must have been released on or before the last day of the month three months ago"
3) "Games can't be added to the thread until they're at least three months old"
Interpretation #1 and #2 are effectively the same thing, it's setting an absolute cutoff date for this month. It's just a matter if it's 11/1 or 11/30.
Interpretation #3, while it seems the most straightforward, actually might be the silliest way to track things, because you'd have people that have to wait until a certain day in the month to post to the thread, and to keep true to the rule there's probably have to be more management/policing on hem's end that submissions qualify.
Puzzle Agent 2 for me. All the games I'm playing this month are on the newer side, but I think I can find time for a 3-hour long game, for the sake of knocking something off the list
Please put me down for Sam & Max 202: Moai Better Blues and Atom Zombie Smasher.
For AZS, since it is designed to be played multiple times through, I will probably count it as beaten after a second runthrough of the campaign, maybe with some mods. I'm about half way through my first campaign now.
I might get to other games this month, but I'm mostly playing Saints Row The Third, which doesn't count yet.
Backloggery
Dude. The Persona kids take a gun to their head for every single attack. TES characters take an arrow to their knee and complain about it for the rest of their lives. - Minarchist