Praise the Overlords, it's the Pile of Shame
September is be kind to to editors and writers month. In honor of some of our more "famous" writers let's play some of our older to titles so they will have one less game to wax poetic over that "no one played." 
No seriously, if you like what you read drop them a line. I know I never get tired of hearing how awesome I am, and I don't write a d*mn thing.
Since we have a 3-way tie for most players on a game, and Assassin's Creed was last month, I made an executive decision.
Multi-Platform
Mass Effect - oldmanscene24, Higgledy, Quintin_Stone, Kraint
Assassin's Creed - Phishposer, Kraint, tanstaafl, maddoc1979
Overlord - Kraint, 4dSwissCheese
Lego Star Wars - Kraint
Half-Life 2 - MrDeVil909, interstate78, GioClark
Half-Life 2: Episode 1 - Tkyl
Half-Life 2: Episode 2 - Tkyl
Portal - AUs_TBirD
Condemned 2: Bloodshot - stevenmack
Bully - Dysplastic, Rubb Ed
Beyond Good and Evil - Dysplastic, subaltern
Fable - JohnnyMoJo, Rubb Ed
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - AmazingZoidberg
Bioshock - interstate78
Call of Duty 3 - interstate78
Just Cause -Irongut
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - wordsmythe, subaltern
The Darkness - Azure Chicken
Command & Conquer 3 - GioClark
The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind - Taidaan
Prey - Irongut
PC
The Witcher - Kraint, Tkyl, Thirteenth
S.T.A.L.K.E.R - Kraint, Stengah, MaverickDago
Grim Fandango - 4dSwissCheese
Far Cry - tanstaafl
Fallout - Jadawin
Fallout 2 - AmazingZoidberg
Command and Conquer: Red Alert - Switchbreak
Warcraft III - Rallick
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne - Rallick
Deep Space 9: The Fallen - AUs_TBirD
Xbox 360
Eternal Sonata - Kraint
Lost Odyssey - nsmike, Mystic Violet, Sku Boi, pnueman
Forza 2 - Poppinfresh
Beautiful Katamari - maddoc1979
Crackdown - Faceless Joe
PS3
Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction - stevenmack
Folklore - Azure Chicken
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune - Hemi
Playstation 2
Ratchet and Clank - Quintin_Stone, JohnnyMoJo
PSP
Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles - AmazingZoidberg
Playstation
Wii
Nintendo DS
Phoenix Wright: Justice for All - Thirteenth
Final Fantasy III -Jadawin
Game Boy Advance
Fire Emblem - AUs_TBirD
SNES
Breath of Fire - AUs_TBirD
NES
Super Mario Bros. - AUs_TBirD
This month's thread is getting a late start because of hectic work week. Short weeks don't mean one less day of work, it just means 5 days of work gets compacted into 4.
Not sure what I'm going to play this month.
Pick of the Pile will be decided on Monday.
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I'll carry over Mass Effect from last month. I'm not sure how much playing time it will see, though. Mercs 2 is dominating my kids'-school-and-soccer shortened playing time and Force Unleashed is waiting in the wings.
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"I might have gotten away with it if it wasn't for a damningly tenacious clinger." - Crouton on a childhood excrement escapade
Put me down for Mass Effect.
Thanks
... herald of Piggledy 'Destroyer of Worlds'
Pulling in Ratchet & Clank from last month. Adding Mass Effect (PC).
Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
Ding ding ding!
Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
Oi, the shame of it all.
360:
Mass Effect (Only 2-3 hours left. Why can't I finish this thing!?)
Assassin's Creed
Overlord
Eternal Sonata
LEGO Star Wars
PC:
The Witcher
STALKER
Ok, I'm going to be less insanely ambitious this month.
I'll carry over Halflife 2, if I finish that I'll add in the episodes.
kuddles wrote:
MechaSlinky wrote:Now, we do one of these every month. More power to you if you can get through all of that.
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I honor of the thread title, I shall try to keep going on Overlord. Also, I think I'll try Grim Fandango, contingent on it running on my PC.
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I have a feeling that a lot of my free time this month will go towards new stuff that is coming out, but put me down for Far Cry (only two levels left, dammit) and Assassin's Creed.
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BTW, Hemi, you're awesome!
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"I might have gotten away with it if it wasn't for a damningly tenacious clinger." - Crouton on a childhood excrement escapade
Okay, it's been a while since I've committed to finishing something... Put me down for Lost Odyssey.
And by the way, I'm a professional writer... Just not for GWJ. Appreciate me!
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Put me down for Half-Life 2: Episode 1 & 2 on the PC
Jadawin wrote:
QFT. Hemi does rock pretty hard.
Alright Fallout 2, it's just you and me.
I hate you soo much Phil Collins!
Duoae wrote:
Pharacon wrote:
PSN = AmazingZoidberg
I'm gonna try and catch up on the series before Red Alert 3 comes out - put me down for Red Alert 1
I'm like a flashing lightning and a rolling thunder, I'm like a stepping razor
hmm...lots of new stuff coming out in the next few weeks so I'll just go for a one from my shame pile this week.
Lets try Condemned 2. Been meaning to have another stab at that.
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Oh and I need to finish Ratchet and Clank : Tools of Destruction. (pretty close to the end of that one i think) so add that one too please.
Kraint, you're biting off WAAY more than you can chew. If you get through all that, you should write a book on speed-gaming.
All you mass-effect finishers are late to the "late to the party" party. Mass-effect pile of shame is SOO June.
I'll pop in a conservative month also after I rocked the pile hard in August.
Put me down for Bully and Beyond Good & Evil.
Morrolan wrote:
XBLA / Steam: Dysplastic
Wrong, June's shame was Bioshock.
Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
Awesome, I always wanted my own pile of shame intern/fact checkers...
Leaning toward Beyond Good and Evil, but nothing is really jumping out at me this month.
Not a word about Hal-Life: Source
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Maybe you just need to track down a copy of the original, non-Source version. Having not played HL:Source, I don't know how they compare.
Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
I'll try to gauge the interest here. If I were to attempt some of the Guild Wars campaigns, who will want to tag along?
I will continue Phoenix Wright: Justice for All this month.
"Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is kind of stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability." - Bill Bailey
Well, I've been caught in a dilemma for a few days now. I went ahead and finished Super Mario Galaxy. And by finished, I mean I got enough stars to see the ending. Now, I thought I'd go ahead and try to get the rest of them like I did with Super Mario 64. But... holy hell... The later stages are ridiculous. Harder than hardcore.
So I can't decide whether or not I should shelf the game for good or satisfy the "completionist" in me. I tried to power through the game a few times but I encountered this one stage... I swear I wasted 25+ lives trying to complete it. It's the smallest planet in the whole game and should only take about two minutes to complete. I can't do it. Whoever designed that planet... I want to know where he/she lives.
I'll make a decision about SMG soon. Put me down for Lost Odyssey. I have to finish LO already especially with the wave of new 360 games on the horizon.
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I did the same thing with SMG. I decided to shelve it. It was a very fun game to that point, but I was getting frustrated at parts of it. So, I moved on to the next shiny thing.
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"I might have gotten away with it if it wasn't for a damningly tenacious clinger." - Crouton on a childhood excrement escapade
From one lapsed completionist to another, it ain't worth it. If their is a % symbol anywhere in the game stats, I will invariably be drawn to completing it but the fun of the game is almost always gone long before I can reach the mythical 100%. I'm just now learning to let go. I still have some billboards to smash in burnout paradise, but I only fire up the game when I feel like driving, not because I feel I have to finish it any more than I already have.
OK that was my long drawn out way of giving both myself and you some encouragement. Good luck with Lost Odyssey.
I hate you soo much Phil Collins!
Duoae wrote:
Pharacon wrote:
PSN = AmazingZoidberg
I've got that one on Steam too, but it looks like Le 'Ass
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Yay, I was getting worried that I had no Pile of Shame thread to motivate me this month! Which just goes to show just how awesome Hemidal really is, as others have noted. Sir, we salute you!
For this month, I'm going to try to finish Warcraft III and the Frozen Throne expansion - mostly in preparation of WotLK, so I'm caught up on the backstory. I'm still amazed at Blizzard's creation of a huge world that is so rich in stories, both small and big, and still so cohesive. It's one of my favourite things about World of Warcraft.
If you can't be a good example, at least be a horrible warning.
I've got the first two (?), the original and Factions. I'd jump on for some play, but I doubt I'd go through the entire thing.
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I hope to post this month's project soon. I'm thinking Prince of Persia's NGC reboot.
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I have the first two and the fourth (Night Fall?). I'd be up for playing a little bit. The entire thing might be pushing it though.
Jadawin wrote:
Oy. Carry over Ratchet & Clank from last month for me. And throw me down for Fable. While you're at it, pencil in Fable II for the June 2010 Pile o' Shame.
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