Octopus Overlords

Gaming in 2009:The good year
Gaming in 2010: Gaming with the baby
Gaming in 2011 during naps and bedtime

Games Finished
Battlefield 3 PC - 1-8-12
Uncharted 3 PS3 3-3-12
Mass Effect 3 PC 4/4/12
Diablo III PC 5/31/12
Borderlands PC 8/26/12


Currently Playing

Battlefield 3 PC
Skyrim PC
Kingdom of Amular PC
Portal 2 PC
The Witcher 2 PC

Games I gave up on, but might play later
Tropico 4 PC

My gaming accomplishments for 2011...13 games finished, which just happens to be the same number as 2010. Interestingly, I haven't finished a game since November 13, but that's purely because the last six weeks of the year saw me totally sucked into Skyrim. I'm excited to see what 2012 brings!

Finished

Mass Effect 3 - May 4
The Elder Scrolls V - Skyrim - July 16 - Completed Main Quest, Dark Brotherhood, Thieves' Guild, College of Winterhold, Eleven Daedric Quests, and reached level 50 over the course of 164 hours
Darksiders II - October 29
Halo 4 - Heroic -November 22


In Progress

Rage
The Witcher
Rocksmith
Bioshock 2

2011 was probably my worst year for finishing games. I spent too much time playing large open-world games and getting either distracted or bored before finishing them. Will try to do better this year.

Finished:
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoninig
Diablo 3
Fairway Solitaire
Gray Matter
Bastion

Currently playing:
Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
Deus Ex 3: Human Revolution
Fallout: New Vegas

Finished and probably won't play again this year (or possibly ever):
Bastion - January
Revenge of the Titans - January
Unity of Command - May
League of Legends (level cap) - June
Diablo III normal/hardcore - July
Binding of Isaac - July (Another playthrough or 3).
Thirty Flights of Loving - September
Fallout: New Vegas- September (112 hrs on only completed play thru after several false starts. 320 Hrs total).
Dead Space 2 - October
Legend of Grimrock - December
Braid - December
The Walking Dead - December


Ongoing:
Mechwarrior Online - since August (The potential is here for a great game... still falls short though).
Crusader Kings 2 - since October

Abandoned:
Endless Space- I like it but will wait for a few patches that improve the AI.
X-Com: Enemy Unknown - I like it but will wait for a few patches before returning to it.

= Really Liked

2011

2012
Let the games begin . . . and end.


GAMES FINISHED
Julia
Deus Ex HR
Thirty Flights of Loving
Of Orcs & Men
Xcom
Faire Solitare
Dishonored

CURRENTLY PLAYING
Skyrim (300 + hours)
Walking Dead

Bioshock 2 (PC) - so close to finishing it in 2011
Deus Ex Human Revolution (PC)
Borderlands (PC)
Mass Effect 1 (PC)
Jericho (PC)
Dark Sector (PC)
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Acadamy (PC)
Syndicate (PC)
Hard Reset + DLC (PC)
Darkness 2 (PC)

Currently playing:

PC/Mac:
Torchlight
Crusader Kings 2

PS3:
MLB The Show 2012 (RTTS)
Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Portal 2 (I really like the Move support that they added ...)
Fallout 3 (I finally picked this up again and will continue with the storyline instead of getting sidetracked by ... everything)

PS Vita:
Little Big Planet
Sound Shapes
Persona 4 Golden (I'm not a big fan of Japanese game design but the raving reviews made me curious. So far it's ... interesting. Let's see how it continues)

On the short list:
Mass Effect (I have 1 & 2 on Steam but haven't played them)
L.A. Noire (played quite a bit but stopped due to traveling. It's not perfect but I like it)
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood


Completed:
Assassin's Creed II (PS3)
Split/Second (PS3)
Kingdom Rush (iPad)
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (PS3)
Journey (PS3)
Red Dead Redemption (PS3) - finished it after taking a 2 year break
Dishonored (PS3) - GOTY for me

[ranking] Finished:
[4] Skyrim [Nord Warrior]
[4] Skyrim [Mage]
[7] Dragon Age II [Male Rogue]
[8] Drakensang: River of Time
[9] Diablo 3 [normal/demon hunter]
[1] Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning
[5] Mass Effect 3
[6] Hard Reset: Exile (extended edition)
[2] Dead Island [Xian]
[3] The Witcher

In play:
The Witcher 2


Uh-oh ... Wishlist from the new game crop:
Torchlight II (bought during steam sale)
Borderlands 2 (bought during steam sale)
XCOM
Dishonored (bought during steam sale)

Games Finished:


Currently Playing:
Skyrim (PC)
Batman: Arkham City (PC)
Assassin's Creed: Revelations (XBOX360)

Games Finished:

Currently Playing:

Royal Envoy 2
Star Wars The Old Republic
Skyrim
Limbo
Puzzle Agent

Now that I am on Steam and actually have a backlog, I feel like I can finally participate.

Games Finished
Borderlands - Playthrough 1 with Mordecai
Borderlands - Playthrough 1 with Lilith (2/5 - 25 hours)
Borderlands - Playthrough 1 with Roland (2/25 - 19.5 hours)
Borderlands - Playthrough 1 with Brick (3/15 - 17.75 hours)
Borderlands - Playthrough 2 with Mordecai (3/30 - 53.45 hours between 1 & 2)
Diablo 3 - Normal - Demon Hunter (6/24 - Level 32)
Diablo 3 - Normal - Monk (7/4 - Level 32)
Diablo 3 - Normal - Witch Doctor (7/17 - Lever 32)
Diablo 3 - Normal - Barbarian (8/8 - Level 32)
Diablo 3 - Normal - Wizard (8/17 - Level 32)
Diablo 3 - Nightmare - Demon Hunter (8/26 - 58:15 total time - Level 51)
Diablo 3 - Nightmare - Monk (9/4 - 47:12 total time - Level 51)
Diablo 3 - Nightmare - Witch Doctor (9/15 - 44:12 total time - Lever 51)
Diablo 3 - Nightmare - Barbarian (9/25 - 41:57 total time - Level 51)

...Character.....	.....Level.....	.....Date.....	.....Time.....	.....Str.....	.....Dex.....	.....Int.....	.....Vit.....	.....Arm.....	.....DPS.....	.....Life
Demon Hunter	Normal	6/24	34:16	55	470	105	273	617	481.56	2894
Demon Hunter	Nightmare	8/26	23:59	251	960	78	696	1564	2865.50	18336
Monk	Normal	7/4	25:16	153	488	105	319	1211	485.66	3622
Monk	Nightmare	9/4	21:56	252	765	115	618	2245	1897.30	16308
Witch Doctor	Normal	7/17	22:46	86	165	518	251	607	564.02	2888
Witch Doctor	Nightmare	9/15	21:26	125	253	919	616	1242	2218.93	16256
Barbarian	Normal	8/8	19:53	271	154	147	295	1140	292.29	3114
Barbarian	Nightmare	9/25	22:03	830	284	178	749	3146	2028.00	20503
Wizard	Normal	8/17	19:04	110	148	445	318	663	379.31	3344

Currently Playing
Borderlands - Playthrough 2 with Lilith
X-COM: UFO Defense (Started a game like 6/1/11 and still haven't finished yet - would be my first time ever finishing if I do it)
Bastion
Diablo 3 - Nightmare - Wizard

Games I gave up on, but might play later

Games Finished

Assassin's Creed 2 (360)
Orcs Must Die (PC)
Portal 2 (PC)
Borderlands (x5) (PC)
Medal of Honor (PC)
Battlefield 3 (campaign) (PC)
The Witcher (PC)
Mass Effect 2 (360)
Fallout: New Vegas + all DLC (PC)
Mafia 2 (360)
Deus Ex (original) (PC)
Evil Genius (PC)
Orcs Must Die 2 (PC) (both campaigns, most of the endless missions)
Defense Grid: Awakening campaign (repeat)
Titan Quest (PC) Co-op, Immortal Throne in progress)
Halo 4 (360)
X-COM: Enemy Unknown (PC)

Games with many, many hours invested (but technically have no 'end')

Tribes: Ascend (PC)
World of Warcraft (PC)
Minecraft (360)

Currently Playing

Whatever else my mood dictates.

Games Playing
Deus Ex (360)
LA Noire (360)

Games Finished

The Witcher
Wolfenstein (finally!! It crashed repeatedly when I tried to play it new.)
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher's Bay
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
Hitman: Blood Money
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - The Missing Link
Fallout
Fallout 2

Games Finished
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Outland (PSN) - 38% Trophies
Dragon Quest V : Hand of The Heavenly Bride (DS) - 59 hours
Dungeon Siege III : Treasures of The Sun (PC)
Monster Tale (DS) - 14 hours
Fortix (PC) - 8 hours
Cooking Mama 2 : Dinner With Friends (DS)
Warhammer 40K : Kill Team (XBLA) - 200G
Raskulls (XBLA) - 125G
Shank (PC)
LEGO Batman (X360) - 77.4% complete, 810G
X-Men : Destiny (X360) - 695G
Diablo III (PC) - Witch Doctor, Normal - 31 hours, Monk, Normal - 24 hours
Professor Layton & The Diabolical Box (DS) - 27 hours
Jurassic Park : The Game (PSN) - 87% Trophies
Burnout Crash (PSN) - 211/270 stars, 42% Trophies
101-in-1 Megamix (PSP)
Rock Band Unplugged (PSP)
Costume Quest : Grubbins On Ice (PSN) - 100% Trophies
Ghostbusters : Sanctum of Slime (PC)
Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing (PS3) - 24 hours, 76% Trophies
God of War : Chains of Olympus HD (PS3) - 82% Trophies
Warhammer 40K : Space Marine (PS3) - 32% Trophies


Casual Games Finished - 31

Playing
Icewind Dale 2 (PC)
Serious Sam BFE (PC)
Freespace Open and its many mods (PC)

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (Jan 10) Rating: 4/8 (opinion)
Katawa Shoujo (Mar 10, 94% completion) Rating: 6/8 (opinion)
Journey (Mar 17) Rating: 6/8 (opinion)
BioShock Limited Edition (Mar 28, PC, Hard difficulty) Rating: 5/8 (opinion)
Demon's Souls (Mar 30, 93 hours) Rating: 8/8 (opinion)
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (Apr 1, PC) Rating: 6/8 (reflection)
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (Apr 10, DS, completed without hints) Rating: 6/8 (opinion)
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey (Apr 25, PC, 16 hours) Rating: 3/8 (opinion)
BioShock 2 Special Edition (July 5, PC, Medium difficulty, 27.5 hours) Rating: 4/8 (opinion)
Limbo (July 24, PC, completed without hints) Rating: 4/8 (opinion)
Bastion (Aug 8, PC, Normal mode, 10 hours) Rating: 4/8 (opinion)
Atom Zombie Smasher (Nov 14) Rating: 6/8 (opinion)
Retro/Grade (Dec 6, finished Campaign on Pro difficulty, gave up on Challenge at Q4) Rating: 4/8 (opinion)
Papo & Yo (Dec 8, completed without hints) Rating: 5/8 (opinion)
Persona 4 Arena (Dec 11, PS3, 99% story completion) Rating: 4/8 (opinion)
Tales of Monkey Island (Dec 27, PC, 26 hours, completed without hints) Rating: 4/8 (opinion)
Far Cry 3 Deluxe Edition (Dec. 29, PC, 56% completion, Survivor difficulty) Rating: 6/8 (opinion)

Games Finished

Temple of Elemental Evil
Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh-Daon
Mystery Legends: Beauty and the Beast
Shiver: Vanishing Hitchhiker

Games Playing

Morrowind
Skyrim

Games Finished:

xBox 360:

Dragon Age: Origins

PC:

Diablo 3

Other:


Jan '12 Notes:
Dragon Age was a good finish. I'd bought this when it first came out, and played for awhile but got stuck, then picked it up again and finally finished it. It gets tougher and tougher to finish involving RPG's as I get older, but I still gravitate towards them. Bioware still has some of the greatest writing - I was genuinely sad as the various members of my party said their goodbyes when going to fight the final battle(s).

Jun '12 Notes:
I've been playing a bunch of games, but not really finishing any. Re-started Skryim a few times, some King Arthur, the Witcher, Sins of a Solar Empire, Defense Grid, Serious Sam 3 BFE, Starcraft 2, etc, until I finished Diablo on Normal - which at 30 hours, I'll call completed.

Games Finished
Mariokart 7 (January) 8/10
Super Mario Land 3DS (January) 8.5/10
Monster Tale (January) 7.5/10
Skyrim (January) 5/10
Duke Nukem Forever (February) 2/10
Rayman: Origins (February) 8.5/10
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (March) 8/10
DLC Quest (March) Amused/10
Alan Wake (March) 9/10
Journey (April) 8/10
Pushmo (April) 8/10
Legend of Grimrock (April) 8/10
Superbrothers: Sword and Sorcery EP (May) 7.5/10
Red Faction: Armageddon (May) 7/10
Diablo III (June) 7/10
Unstoppable Gorg (June) 6.5/10
Cave Story 3DS (June) 7/10
Stacking (June) 5/10
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (June) 8/10
Quantum Conundrum (June) 8/10
Pilot Wings Resort (June) 5/10
A Boy and His Blob (July) 7/10
Pikmin (July) 7.5/10
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet (July) 4/10
Tiny and Big in Grandpa's Leftovers (July) 6.5/10
Mighty Switch Force (July) 7/10
Saints Row The Third (August) 8/10
The Walking Dead Episode 1 (August) 8/10
Orcs Must Die 2 (August) 7.5/10
The Walking Dead Episode 2 (August) 9/10
Dear Esther (August) 2.5/10
Zelda: The Minish Cap 7.5/10
The Walking Dead Episode 3 (August) 8/10
New Super Mario Bros 2 (September) 7.5/10
Mark of the Ninja (September) 9/10
FTL (September) 8/10
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy (September) 6/10
To the Moon (September) 8/10
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD (October) 8/10
Dishonored (October) 9/10
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (October) 8.5/10
The Walking Dead Episode 4 (October) 7/10
Spec Ops: The Line (October) 6/10
Crysis (October) 7/10
Crysis Warhead (November) 7/10
Deadlight (November) 4/10
Little Inferno (November) 7.5/10
The Darkness II (November) 7/10
New Super Mario Bros. U (November) 9/10
The Walking Dead Episode 5 (November) 8/10
Thomas Was Alone (December) 8/10
Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion (December) 4/10
Splice (December) 7/10
Aliens Infestation (December) 7.5/10
Q.u.b.e (December) 6.5/10
Closure (December) 5/10
Chivalry (All Unlocks) (December) 8.5/10

2012 Games In Progress
Skyrim (115 hours!)
Batman: Arkham City
Elemental: Fallen Enchantress
Unstoppable Gorg
Sonic Generations
Dead Rising 2: Off the Record
Minecraft
From Dust
Bastion

2012 Games Finished
Orcs Must Die! Main Campaign (January)
Saint's Row 3 (January)

I'll see if posting in this thread actually actually helps me finish games.

Finished:
Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
- finished all DLC except Point Lookout which didn't grab me
Diablo 3
- Normal, Wizard
- Nightmare, Wizard

Currently playing:
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut
Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor
Diablo 3
- Hell, Wizard

2012 already finished:
Battlefield 3
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3

2012 in progress:
Heroes of Might and Magic 5
Fallout 3
Fallout New Vegas
The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim
Warhammer 40k Soulstorm
Warhammer 40k Dark Crusade
Warhammer 40 k Dawn of War 2 Retribution
Dragon Age
Dragon Age 2
The Witcher Enhanced edition

Games Finished

Alpha Protocol -could be a good game but way too many rough edge.
Warhammer 4k Space Marine -nice game but bit shallow.
Shank 1 -well make 2D game can still be fun.
Just Cause 2 -Great to blow Shxx up.

03-19-2012
**** "Terrorist Takedown: Covert Operations" also known as "Terrorist Takedown: War in Columbia". Published by City Interactive way back around 2007 I think, I finally acquired the full version through GamersGate last year, and completed it just now. It's yet another in City Interactive's long line of budget shooters, of which I guess I am fan, because I buy them all. I give it 4 stars out of 5 for some nice long-range sniper shots, and some very pleasant environments. It had several scripting errors, mostly fixed with a few savegame reloads, but I had a lot of fun with it anyway. Another thing; most City Interactive shooters are only 7 missions long - This one was 11 decent-sized missions.

Actually finished some games this year:

Skyrim
KOTOR 2
Legend of Grimrock
Dishonored

7.0 Dreamfall: The Longest journey
6.0 Dear Esther (wow, that took 1.5 hours)
8.5 Limbo (less than 4 hours)
8.0 Broken Sword 4: The Angel of Death (Secrets of the Ark)
8.5 The Journey Down Chapter One (this shouldn't count because it's episodic but they've only made the one chapter)
9.0 Portal 2 Co-op (only finished the single player in Dec. 2011)
8.0 Penumbra: Overture
8.0 Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle
7.5 Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches - The Premium Edition
8.5 Scratches: Director's Cut
9.0 Waking Mars
8.5 A New Beginning

Pyperkub wrote:Games Finished:

xBox 360:

Dragon Age: Origins

PC:

Diablo 3

Other:


Jan '12 Notes:
Dragon Age was a good finish. I'd bought this when it first came out, and played for awhile but got stuck, then picked it up again and finally finished it. It gets tougher and tougher to finish involving RPG's as I get older, but I still gravitate towards them. Bioware still has some of the greatest writing - I was genuinely sad as the various members of my party said their goodbyes when going to fight the final battle(s).

Jun '12 Notes:
I've been playing a bunch of games, but not really finishing any. Re-started Skryim a few times, some King Arthur, the Witcher, Sins of a Solar Empire, Defense Grid, Serious Sam 3 BFE, Starcraft 2, etc, until I finished Diablo on Normal - which at 30 hours, I'll call completed.

Just a little bump - I don't finish as many games as I buy...

Games color coded to indicate my overall level of enjoyment.

Monster Tale (DS)
Journey (PS3)
Diablo 3 (PC)
Spec Ops: The Line
Saints Row the Third (PC)
Orcs Must Die 2 (PC)
FTL
Dishonored
XCom
Little Inferno
Iron Brigade
Black Mesa
Dark Souls (PC) (Awful port, great game)
The Walking Dead

Other Games I've played enough to consider "beaten"

Tribes: Ascend (PC)
Star Wars Old Republic (PC)
MechWarrior Online Beta
Guild Wars 2
Borderlands 2
Torchlight 2
Chivalry

Games left unfinished in 2012 that at one point were in progress

Jet Set Radio
Train Simulator 2012
Sleeping Dogs
Unity of Command
Legend of Grimrock
Mark of the Ninja
Towns
Fallout New Vegas
Far Cry 3
Lone Survivor
Thomas Was Alone
The Witcher 2


EDIT: List finished for 2012

After being distracted by MMOs, Diablo 3, and two rounds of Warlock: Master of the Arcane, I finally finished another game.

I wrapped up Batman: Arkham Asylum. I mainly wanted to play through it before I started Arkham City. I really, really enjoyed it. Not too arcade-ish. A decent amount of stealth. Lots of fun gadgets and upgrades, and shiny things to collect. Not to mention all the comic book material referenced. Good stuff.

Will probably take a break and play a different game before B:AC, but at least it's one off my backlog.

EDIT: Skyrim is done now too. Main quest, and a bunch of side lines.

Duplicate post.

We need more people rating the games once they’ve finished.

I enjoyed looking through Chris and Hipolito’s opinions. Chris is about on par with me but I’ve learned that Hipolito is my polar opposite on most games!

Lordnine wrote:We need more people rating the games once they’ve finished. :)

I enjoyed looking through Chris and Hipolito’s opinions. Chris is about on par with me but I’ve learned that Hipolito is my polar opposite on most games!

Thanks for posting your ratings, too! My opinions do tend to be more negative than average, sometimes extremely so. I may be the Jeff V of games. I think it's because my very first games (Wasteland and Starflight) set the bar way too high and spoiled me ever since.

When 2012 is done, I intend to do an analysis of this thread, looking for trends and interesting statistics. Hope you like pie, 'cause I'll be serving up charts of it!

Hipolito wrote:
Thanks for posting your ratings, too! My opinions do tend to be more negative than average, sometimes extremely so. I may be the Jeff V of games. I think it's because my very first games (Wasteland and Starflight) set the bar way too high and spoiled me ever since.

When 2012 is done, I intend to do an analysis of this thread, looking for trends and interesting statistics. Hope you like pie, 'cause I'll be serving up charts of it!

I play games to be entertained and I rarely buy games that I don’t think I will enjoy so generally my ratings scale high, or at least they do on my personal scale.

1-4 are games that are pretty bad and or do something that angers me enough that I can’t forgive their faults.

For me a 5 is a game that is either completely average or just doesn’t do anything for me. There may not be anything technically wrong with the game but it’s not for me.

6-8 is a game that is worth solid look as long as it’s in a genre you enjoy.

Giving a 9-10 on the other hand is a game that I would recommend to pretty much anyone.

Lordnine wrote: I play games to be entertained and I rarely buy games that I don’t think I will enjoy so generally my ratings scale high, or at least they do on my personal scale.

I was about to knee-jerkily respond "Hey, I play games to be entertained, too!" But truthfully, I do make some risky purchases of games that sound interesting but aren't guaranteed to win me over. This leads to a lot of disappointment, but also some worthwhile experiences.

On my OO-certified cephalo-scale, 0 to 3 means Hated It, 4-5 is Whatevs, 6-7 is Grab that Sucka, 8 is Sucka Grabbed Me! My ratings are purely subjective and don't necessarily reflect whether others would enjoy the game or even the game's objective qualities. If a meteor had crashed into my home while I was playing Demon's Souls, I'd have given that game a zero. OK maybe a 2.

A meterior crashing into my house might actually have improved my enjoyment of the "souls" games.

I can rate my finished games. They will probaby all be pretty good ratings from me though, since I don't finish games I don't like.

I took a stab at it. But I'm unlikely to finish a game that I wouldn't give a passing grade to.

Finished my 2012 list here, recommend y'all do the same before you forget what happened in this last year.

Hmm... a bit late to the party. Let's see what I can remember finishing (all for the 360 or PS3):

XCOM
Mass Effect 3
Dragon's Dogma
Borderlands 2
Batman: Arkham City


There are likely a few more, but I can't remember them off the top of my head.