2017 - 12 Month Pile Program

I've posted on the Video Game Deals thread that Sainsbury's is discounting heavily as well at the moment. In particular, Prey is down to £27.99, which suggest that all is not well with that game's sales (and further enables you).

As for Pile control, I'm working on Advanced Pile Theory at the moment. My latest hypothesis is that the size of the pile (X) at any given time (T) isn't what matters; it's the percentage of games (Y) completed from any batch of purchases (Z) that counts. This allows me both the sleep at night, and justify to my girlfriend the number of packages from Amazon that I receive each week (£s)...

detroit20 wrote:

What were you doing instead of gaming, Kergguz?

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Self imposed break to give myself the time to deal with some other stuff. It's good to be back! Apart from the pile growth that is

But as you say, it's probably just a phase and I'll likely settle down into more of a routine soon. I just need something really excellent to hold my attention for a while.

kergguz wrote:
detroit20 wrote:

What were you doing instead of gaming, Kergguz?

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Self imposed break to give myself the time to deal with some other stuff. It's good to be back! Apart from the pile growth that is

But as you say, it's probably just a phase and I'll likely settle down into more of a routine soon. I just need something really excellent to hold my attention for a while.

Welcome back - You still on the Hearthstone?

detroit20 wrote:

I've posted on the Video Game Deals thread that Sainsbury's is discounting heavily as well at the moment. In particular, Prey is down to £27.99, which suggest that all is not well with that game's sales (and further enables you).

I try to avoid the Video Game Deals thread, for my own good!

I've noticed recently that the big 3 UK supermarkets run short flash sales that last a week or so on very recent releases (anything between 2 weeks and a couple months) which am guessing might not be selling shed loads. The majority rocket back up to near full price soon after, some though like Dishonoured 2, just steadily decline further.

Cheers, Prey looks like it's the latest. You're right that is an enabling price... grrr

Bubblefuzz wrote:
kergguz wrote:
detroit20 wrote:

What were you doing instead of gaming, Kergguz?

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Self imposed break to give myself the time to deal with some other stuff. It's good to be back! Apart from the pile growth that is

But as you say, it's probably just a phase and I'll likely settle down into more of a routine soon. I just need something really excellent to hold my attention for a while.

Welcome back - You still on the Hearthstone?

No I haven't played since January I think, so I've missed the latest expansion and the cost to get back to being competitive again is a bit daunting. I'm sure I'll be bitten by the bug eventually.

If you don't play a game which you buy on sale it's money wasted, not money saved. [/fortune cookie]

I suspect Prey is a Bank Holiday deal. According to Eurogamer it sold well in its opening week. Second place in the UK charts if I recall correctly. It'll go cheaper later ... but I could get murdered by a coffee cup now. I'm also tempted by Yokai Watch 2 for £16.95 and Deus Ex PS4 for £6.50 at Games Collection. I haven't yet finished the previous game in either series so I'm being stupid if I buy them. Again.

I want something new and fun, but if I get that it will either sit on the shelf until I finish Chrono Trigger or I'll end up abandoning that game again. Focus, Froggy!

frogbeastegg wrote:

If you don't play a game which you buy on sale it's money wasted, not money saved.

These are the words I was looking for!

detroit20 wrote:

As for Pile control, I'm working on Advanced Pile Theory at the moment. My latest hypothesis is that the size of the pile (X) at any given time (T) isn't what matters; it's the percentage of games (Y) completed from any batch of purchases (Z) that counts. This allows me both the sleep at night, and justify to my girlfriend the number of packages from Amazon that I receive each week (£s)...

I like the way you think!!!!!

Welp, I wound up with a nice gaming laptop, and I blew up my game buying goal for the year. A couple Humble Bundles and the key giveaway thread later, and I've got a significant stack of PC games to play. So... Tralalala, screw you, pile.

Beware the Humble Bundle for it is the pile grower

EDIT: What'd ya get?

I already had but can now play:
- The Banner Saga
- Crusader Kings II
- Dark Messiah of Might & Magic
- Endless Legend
- Europa Universalis III
- Her Story
- Memoria
- Papers, Please
- Recettear
- Shadowrun: Dragonfall
- Torchlight
- Undertale
- StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
- Mass Effect 2
- Might and Magic Heroes VI
- Might and Magic X Legacy

And I've newly acquired:
- Dark Souls
- Alan Wake's American Nightmare
- Velocity 2X
- Dead Space 2
- Stephen's Sausage Roll
- Kentucky Route Zero
- Owlboy
- Steamworld Heist
- Beholder
- Hollow Knight
- Tengami
- WORLD END ECONOMiCA episode.01
- FEZ
- Hexcells Complete

That's some good stuff. Enjoy!

I agree with Shoptroll, that's some quality gaming ahead of you, no doubt about it!

...and here I was umming and ahhing over Bloodborne/Dishonoured 2

You've got good on top of good stuff there by the looks. Was tempted by that Owlboy bundle myself as all of the games included were playable on Mac OS... which is pretty rare.

Velocity 2x probably my favourite Vita game. Hexcells is awesome and SW Heist'll be on my GOTY list come January for sure.

Edit. Would love a gaming laptop/pc... Jealous!

Well as well as caving at the supermarket, also had a moment of weakness with the new psn sale... All in all...

Bloodborne.
Infamous Second Son + First Light.
Borderlands: Handsome Collection.
Dishonored Definitive Edition.

Was at a point where I'd very nearly finished Borderlands 2 on PS3 and wasn't too far into Dishonored on the old system before dropping whilst trading up for a PS4... So the latter two there involve unfinished business and figured try and at least have another crack at the first game again before picking up Dishonored 2.

No regrets though, that's a lot of game for what all in all came to a £35 spending spree.

Dishonored is the one that's sticking at the moment and enjoying much more now than I remember when played on the old PS3.

May is done, more or less
Good month for me both playing some new'ish games, and clearing out a few old short games from the pile I have been meaning to get to.

Nier: Automata
Oxenfree
Her Story
Inside
Stellaris
The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind
TES: Oblivion - the modding process - sigh, shouldn't have started on that - it is probably wishful thinking placing it as something I have completed.

No real progress on the Pile save for permanently removing Child of Light on the PS3, which turned out to be a terrible buggy mess. I'm sure the makings for a good narrative little RPG lie somewhere beneath the harrowing plight of excreta that somehow got released as finished, but I no longer have the patience to fight with the game every single step of the way.

Oh crap. It's May 29th. I'm in trouble.

Shadout wrote:

...clearing out a few old short games ...
Morrowind
Oblivion

Wait, what?

Elder scrolls Online Morrowind, not old Morrowind
And Oblivion is only modding it, merely started playing it today. Dont want to think about how many hours I spent modding though, only to see it crash ever 2 minute, and then start all over. It has surely become easier to mod the newer Bethesda games since.

Good Lord, my pile is huge now. Huger, I guess.

In June, I'd like to wrap up Dishonored 2 and clean up some shorter indie games in my collection: Hollow Knight, Kentucky Route Zero, and Her Story.

My summer depression is setting in, so I'm going to have to be really careful with what I play. Things like Nier Automata and Papers, Please are likely shelved until fall. Maybe I'll dive into some Nintendo games.

Shadout wrote:

Elder scrolls Online Morrowind, not old Morrowind
And Oblivion is only modding it, merely started playing it today. Dont want to think about how many hours I spent modding though, only to see it crash ever 2 minute, and then start all over. It has surely become easier to mod the newer Bethesda games since.

That's good because it seems like you nearly gave Eleima (and me) a heart attack from shock when you first said that.

My gaming pile is slowly shrinking, partially because I am finishing games and partially because I haven't really been in the mood to buy anything lately. I'm going on 5 months without a gaming purchase. The new Burnout Crash-like game comes out tomorrow and unless the reviews are completely awful, I will end my purchase drought. I won't finish anything else before the end of May so here is my update:

Finished in May:
World of Final Fantasy (PS4)
Trine 3 (PS4)
Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (PS3) - playthrough with son

Started:
Rise of the Tomb Raider (PS4)
Muramasa Rebirth (Vita)

Dropped:
None

Added:
Danger Zone (PS4) - let's be honest, I'm going to buy this tomorrow

Final Fantasy XII HD and possibly the God Wars: Future Past games are on my radar for later in the year but not much else yet.

May Progress~

Added:
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD (Wii U)
Pikmin 3 (Wii U)
Nier (X360)
Alan Wake + all of the DLC (Steam)
Goat Simulator (Steam)
Persona 5 (PS4)

Beat:
(still nothing)

Made Progress In:
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Wii U)

Another month of little to no progress but that's mostly due to having a lot going on. The peak of that being my mom was institutionalized in a mental hospital for the next little while. So yeah I'm not surprised. I'm hoping to dig in to one of the jrpgs that I got recently in June but I'm not sure what one to start first. They are -

Final Fantasy X (PS4)
Nier (X360)
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth (PS4)
Persona 5 (PS4)

Any thoughts?

brokenclavicle wrote:

No real progress on the Pile save for permanently removing Child of Light on the PS3, which turned out to be a terrible buggy mess. I'm sure the makings for a good narrative little RPG lie somewhere beneath the harrowing plight of excreta that somehow got released as finished, but I no longer have the patience to fight with the game every single step of the way.

I had no trouble on the PS4... must be platform-specific problems. Sorry to hear it.

Forlorn Hope wrote:

Another month of little to no progress but that's mostly due to having a lot going on. The peak of that being my mom was institutionalized in a mental hospital for the next little while. So yeah I'm not surprised. I'm hoping to dig in to one of the jrpgs that I got recently in June but I'm not sure what one to start first. They are -

Final Fantasy X (PS4)
Nier (X360)
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth (PS4)
Persona 5 (PS4)

Sorry to hear.

Nier is getting long in the tooth so it might be a "now or never" situation. But maybe you want something cheerier?

I knocked a whole lot of individual items off my pile, though none of them were very long on their own.

May Update
Added

  • Prey
  • Shadow Warrior
  • Shadow Warrior 2

Finished

  • Dishonored - Knife of Dunwall - Low Chaos (replay)
  • Abzu (PS+)
  • Dishonored - Brigmore Witches - Low Chaos (replay)
  • Dishonored - Knife of Dunwall - High Chaos (replay)
  • Dishonored - Brigmore Witches - High Chaos (replay)
  • Batman: Arkham Knight - Harley Quinn Story Pack
  • Batman: Arkham Knight - Red Hood Story Pack
  • Batman: Arkham Knight - Batgirl: A Matter of Family
  • Batman: Arkham Knight - Catwoman's Revenge
  • Batman: Arkham Knight - GCPD Lockdown
  • Batman: Arkham Knight - A Flip of a Coin
  • Shadow Warrior

Made progress

  • Batman: Arkham Knight (replay)
  • Prey
  • Fallout 4
  • Shadow Warrior 2

I completed Child of Light on PS3 without any problems. Not sure if there's any difference between EU and US versions. Perhaps the download corrupted? It was a nice little game, but the rhyming was the same; too often rather forced, from best writing divorced.

I'm in the final hours of Chrono Trigger (I think) so I'm trying hard to get it done before the end of tomorrow. Funny how much the Ocean Palace differed from what I expected based on my attempt in 2009. I remembered it as a huge labyrinth with troublesome enemies and a very nasty boss near the end. This time I flew through in maybe 20 minutes and didn't have any trouble.

frogbeastegg wrote:

It was a nice little game, but the rhyming was the same; too often rather forced, from best writing divorced.

I can't love this enough.

beeporama wrote:
Forlorn Hope wrote:

Another month of little to no progress but that's mostly due to having a lot going on. The peak of that being my mom was institutionalized in a mental hospital for the next little while. So yeah I'm not surprised. I'm hoping to dig in to one of the jrpgs that I got recently in June but I'm not sure what one to start first. They are -

Final Fantasy X (PS4)
Nier (X360)
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth (PS4)
Persona 5 (PS4)

Sorry to hear.

Nier is getting long in the tooth so it might be a "now or never" situation. But maybe you want something cheerier?

Yeah, on second thought, I might want to go with something more upbeat or mindless.. I don't know. I'll see how I feel when I have more time to game in the coming days. That's a good point about Nier too. A few of my friends have highly recommended it but it probably hasn't aged the best either.

May update!

Pile In:
Alan Wake (PC)
Alan Wake's American Nightmare (PC)

Pile Out:
Nothing

Still picking away at Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. I'm really hoping I can put it away in June since I've only got one more dungeon remaining and then the final area. Unless there's some late game twist I'm not expecting (I've managed to stay spoiler-free on what plot there seems to be). Will probably pick away at some smaller stuff afterwards since July is looking like Pyre and Splatoon 2 and I'm looking forward to seeing how the reviews shake out for Ever Oasis next month and Hey! Pikmin in July.

And I'm sure E3 is going to cause some major shakeups in my purchase plans so there's that too.

I beat the game of moving back in with my parents. It's the good ending because it was my choice, I'm not ashamed of it, and I'm also telecommuting so that's pretty sweet. It has certainly improved my mental health.

However, my time to game has been... varied. I recently played a sh*t ton of Nier: Automata over the weekend, but some weeks I don't really game much at all. Which has led to...

Games Beaten:
Nier Automata Ending A (and G).

...yup.

Still playing through it, doing route B right now and also making some progress in Fire Emblem: Echoes, but overall I'm feeling like I need a bit of a cleanser. The problem is I'm not sure what I want out of a cleanser. My mind says "shooter" but when I look at The Order 1886 or Saint's Row IV I kinda don't wanna. So I end up just playing more Nier: Automata, having fun because Route B switches gameplay up a bit, but now I'm also chasing a bunch of side quests and feeling like I should be playing something else.

So feeling a bit undecided.