Going, Going, Gone! - Pile of Shame August 2015

Ok guys dipping back into this. Please put me down for Dragon Age:Inquisition (multi). Last game I finished was DA:2 and I want to add this to the done column!

Well Strider 2 is down I didn't know it was that short that game should've never been in my pile. Was it originally and arcade game or something?

I finished The Swapper and started on Transistor. I ended up using a FAQ for about three of the puzzles in The Swapper after spending hours on them. That games gets tough.

I'm loving Transistor so far but having some regrets about timing. If you think about, it, all the games i chose (Swapper, Papo & Yo, Transistor) are pretty puzzle-y. I thought Transistor would be more action-oriented, but all the Turn() stuff and configuring your attacks is kind of intellectual, not to mention following the story and figuring out the world. Generally this isn't a bad thing, but I'm having a really tough month at work, and might end up turning to something a little dumber. I'd like to come to Transistor from a place where I can truly appreciate it. There is no doubt that, like Bastion, they knocked it our of the park as far as art design, and I can imagine myself enjoying experimenting with all the different attack combinations.

Whoops it's almost 10 days in and I haven't pledged my games. Same as last time:

Crusader Kings 2
Guild Wars 2
Pillars of Eternity

Stretch Goal: Dragon Age Inquisition

Re: Crusader Kings - I form empire of Scandinavia and I'm going to cross it off the list. No time to run a full game to 1453.

Not sure if you're shortening your goal or saying you've already beaten Crusader Kings 2.

Hemidal wrote:

Not sure if you're shortening your goal or saying you've already beaten Crusader Kings 2.

I'm saying I'm shortening my goal. I've played several different families and am trying to accomplish one "epic" goal before declaring victory. I know that purists would say that I can't claim the game is done until I survive till the Renaissance but I've got to move on. Too much other good stuff to play.

Works for me.

Well Hotline Miami 2 is down that game got hard it took a lot of patience to get through.

Among the Sleep is down. I won't say I regret playing it, but horror games are most definitely not for me.

I'm still playing Ratchet and Clank - A crack in time (PS 3). On our summer trip to the Bretagne I thought I'd return to Persona 4 but I couldn't get invested enough, so that stays on the pile.
Instead I finally finished Lost Winds (multi). I started to play it back on the Wii but finished it on the mobile. Has anyone played the sequel? Is it worth a look?

Finshed up Tearaway on the PS Vita and OH MY GAWD HOW AMAZING IS THIS GAME?

Now, granted, the gameplay is not the most complicated or demanding, but it is wonderfully unique and creative. I just love well-realized worlds that are completely different than anything I've seen before, and their construction of the world in papercraft consistently blew my mind. Go buy it if you haven't already.

The only parts I found to be annoying were the sections that forced you to use the back touchpad of the device. I know that those features are useless unless games highlight them, but I think we can all agree at this point that the back touchscreen was an interesting idea that failed miserably. Stop forcing it on me.

If someone knows of a game that uses the back touchscreen in a meaningful and non-annoying way, I would love to know about it.

Please put me down for:

Deception IV: Blood Ties (various)
Lego Batman 3 (various)
Patapon (PSP)
Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask (3DS)

I'm gonna drop retro city rampage I'm not enjoying it all that much. Add the first sly game in its place please.

Finished the story mode of Lego Batman 3 tonight. Another great Lego game, and I'll probably hang around to unlock all of its juicy tidbits, but for pile purposes, it's DONE.

OK, circling back here: I managed to finish both Jazzpunk and Her Story last month.

Going to keep it bite-sized but keep the momentum -- I'm aiming to start & finish The Fall this month.

I will drop Azure Striker Gunvolt. I don't think I like it enough to actually finish it ever.

I finally finished the Reverse/Rebirth mode in Kingdom Hearts Re Chain of Memories (multi), continuing the Kingdom Hearts binge with Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (DS). This will probably be my last KH game for a while, there's only so much crazysauce posing as story my poor brain can take.

Well, I had typed out a 3 paragraph review for Onimusha 2: Samurai´s Destiny, which I beat last night, but thanks to the captcha system being impatient, it´s all lost.

Short version: flawed, but fun, and some of the graphics still look good today.

Please add Onimusha 3: Demon Siege (PS2) for me.

Work got better, the game became more intriguing, and I finished Transistor not just once but did a New Game+ as well!

I'm also going to drop Yoshi's Island. It's not bad, but I'm not in the mood for it at all.

I saw the credits roll on Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (PS3/Multi). Now I don't know whether I should hop into Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker or go with something entirely different. Maybe Super Mario World. It'd be better to mix it up but I'm excited to see more of the MGS story and characters. I'll have to think about it

beeporama wrote:

Work got better, the game became more intriguing, and I finished Transistor not just once but did a New Game+ as well!

I presume you liked it then. Woot.

I did, Eleima! I expected to like it, I just wasn't sure it was the right time for me to play it, with other things in my life. But, you know... if Supergiant Games just gave me a farting simulator every couple years, I think I'd keep going back, as long as it had Korb's soundtrack and Cunningham musing nostalgically about farting in the grand, dying society whose ruins I was wandering through.

In other news, I went back to Papo & Yo, and found that it hadn't saved, like, my last fifteen minutes of play. And that nothing seemed less pleasant than re-doing it. And then I realized I was playing more out of a sense of obligation than out of any enjoyment. So, as much as I admire the game, I'm calling Papo & Yo.

My partner is going to be out of town for a long weekend coming up, so I'm going to take a little break, then use that weekend to crack open something epic, either start on a new RPG for next month or indulge in re-playing something from the Square-Enix PSN sale. All these short games got me ready for it!

Banner Saga is done. Ugh.

FREAKIN FREAKIN FREAKIN DONE with Borderlands 2. It was fun but man it just gets repetitive. Call me lame, but it got boring. I was like "Oh great, fight a million bandits/robots to get to where I need to go." But it was still good. I enjoyed it. I just feel like it dragged (but it was better than the 1st one).
I went to download Dark Souls to play it...and I realized I didn't have it. What I have is DEMON'S SOULS hahaha. So, if you could erase Dark Souls from my list and put Demon's Souls instead, that'd be great. Not sure if I'll get to Sunset Overdrive, but I'll try. I heard Demon's Souls is pretty hard...

Okay, Witcher 3 is vanquished and so far I'm resisting a New Game + so I feel safe declaring some small items for the rest of the month.
Dishonored: Knife of Dunwall and The Brigmore Witches are going down. (multi)

holehearted wrote:

FREAKIN FREAKIN FREAKIN DONE with Borderlands 2. It was fun but man it just gets repetitive. Call me lame, but it got boring. I was like "Oh great, fight a million bandits/robots to get to where I need to go." But it was still good. I enjoyed it. I just feel like it dragged (but it was better than the 1st one).

I've spread out Borderlands 2 across two years and counting. Not yet beaten it, but get incrementally closer every time I take it up and play for a few hours, sometimes even having a few sessions in a row, until I feel I no longer want to blow stuff up. Seeing as I bought all the DLC, I have plenty of Borderlands to last me a couple more years.

Put me down for Super Mario World (Wii U VC/Multi). I think I'll try to try to continue my one MGS game a month trend and start MGS: PW in September (finished MGS1 in June, MGS2 in July, & MGS3 in August).

brokenclavicle wrote:

I've spread out Borderlands 2 across two years and counting. Not yet beaten it, but get incrementally closer every time I take it up and play for a few hours, sometimes even having a few sessions in a row, until I feel I no longer want to blow stuff up. Seeing as I bought all the DLC, I have plenty of Borderlands to last me a couple more years.

Haha, yeah. Perhaps I should've done it that way. Taken my time. I just got so tired of blowing away and mowing over everyone I would set it down and not play anything else. But I had Gunzerker class. There are other classes which I might try later on. Might be more interesting.

Finished up Lego Batman 3. I loved that they got away from the open world format from Lego Marvel, incorporating the various worlds of the various Lanterns. I did find it weak, however, that rather than encouraging you to use different characters, they just gave the major characters a massive variety of abilities and forced you to constantly switch between them. Yuck. Other than that, typical Lego awesomeness.