Games Finished 2012 - a statistical analysis

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Games Finished 2012 - a statistical analysis

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To have fun with numbers and research, and to help myself learn Excel, I took the data we put into the Games Finished 2012 thread and saw what interesting statistics I could get from it.

Number of active participants in the thread: 25
Number of different game titles completed: 162
Number of completions reported: 221
(Multiple completions of a single game by a single person were counted as only one completion.)

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Game Completions by Platform
(For platform-exclusive games or when you indicated the platform)
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Game Titles by Genre
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Game Titles by Release Year
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Oldest games: Fallout and Fallout 2

Sequels vs. Nonsequels
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Game Titles by Metacritic Rating
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Highest-rated games: Bioshock and Uncharted 2 (96)
Lowest-rated game: Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime (43)

Game Titles by Developers' Countries
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Noted 2012 Releases We Didn't Report Completing
(I tried to edit this list down to "finishable" games that OOers would be interested in.)
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Anomaly: Warzone Earth
Assassin's Creed III: Liberation
Asura's Wrath
Avernum: Escape From the Pit
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition
Battle of the Bulge
Binary Domain
Black Mesa
Borderlands 2
Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land
Call of Duty: Black Ops II
Carrier Command: Gaea Mission
Combat Mission: Fortress Italy
Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition
Decisive Campaigns: Case Blue
Double Dragon Neon
Dragon's Dogma
Drox Operative
Dust: An Elysian Tail
Dustforce
Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two
Fez
Final Fantasy XIII-2
Forza Horizon
Game of Thrones
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
Gratuitous Tank Battles
Gravity Rush
Growlanser: Wayfarer of Time
Gungnir
Hitman: Absolution
Hotline Miami
I Am Alive
Intrusion 2
Jagged Alliance: Back in Action
Karateka
Kid Icarus: Uprising
King Arthur II: The Role-playing Wargame
Krater
Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes
Lego The Lord of the Rings: The Video Game
Lollipop Chainsaw
Lunar Flight
Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013
Max Payne 3
Medal of Honor: Warfighter
Miasmata
Michael Jackson: The Experience
Miner Wars 2081
Naughty Bear: Panic in Paradise
Naval War: Arctic Circle
NBA Baller Beats
Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Ninja Gaiden 3
Oil Rush
Paper Mario: Sticker Star
Penny Arcade Adventures - Episode 3
Persona 4: Golden
Pokémon Black 2
Pokémon White 2
Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask
Prototype 2
Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault
Rebuild
Resident Evil 6
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
Resistance: Burning Skies
Retro City Rampage
Rhythm Heaven Fever
Risen 2: Dark Waters
Rock Band Blitz
Run Roo Run
Salvation Prophecy
Scourge of War: Chancellorsville
Scribblenauts Unlimited
Shank 2
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2
Silent Hill: Book of Memories
Silent Hill: Downpour
Sine Mora
Skylanders: Giants
Sleeping Dogs
Sniper Elite V2
SOL: Exodus
Sorcery
Sound Shapes
Spelunky
Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir
SSX
Starhawk
Steel Armor: Blaze of War
Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor
Super Hexagon
Super Stardust Delta
Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack
Tales of Graces ƒ
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Fool and His Money
The House of the Dead 4
The Last Story
The Testament of Sherlock Holmes
The Train Giant: A-Train 9
The Unfinished Swan
The Wreckless
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13
Tokyo Jungle
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD
Torchlight II
Touch My Katamari
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
Trials Evolution
Twisted Metal
Uncharted: Golden Abyss
Unity of Command: Red Turn
Vessel
Warriors Orochi 3
Way of the Samurai 4
Wipeout 2048
Worms Revolution
Xenoblade Chronicles
Yakuza: Dead Souls
Ys Origin
Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward
ZombiU
Conclusion

2012 was a year. Games were played in it.
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That was pretty interesting. Thanks!
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Awesome, if I had known statistics would be run on my list I would have made it easier to use!
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ChrisGrenard wrote:Awesome, if I had known statistics would be run on my list I would have made it easier to use!
Apparently I even forgot to make one last year o_O
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Mmmmm... pie charts.
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Really cool, and it has inspired me to be more diligent about updating this year's list.
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Thanks for putting this together - really interesting!

One thing that surprises me is the Playstation/Xbox 360 ratio, I always thought that there are way more Xbox users than PS3 users ...
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ChuckB wrote:Thanks for putting this together - really interesting!

One thing that surprises me is the Playstation/Xbox 360 ratio, I always thought that there are way more Xbox users than PS3 users ...
Maybe the xbox users are all like me and switched to steam as their primary gaming platform. I'd have to look at the actual games to come up with a real explanation.
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Cool Stats! But I need a reminder to update my list before the end of the year. I had another five or six that didn't get on. :cry:
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coopasonic wrote:
ChuckB wrote:Thanks for putting this together - really interesting!

One thing that surprises me is the Playstation/Xbox 360 ratio, I always thought that there are way more Xbox users than PS3 users ...
Maybe the xbox users are all like me and switched to steam as their primary gaming platform. I'd have to look at the actual games to come up with a real explanation.
That could be part of it. Another reason is that PlayStation may have had more exclusives. Of the games we completed, the XBox 360 had only 2 exclusives while the PlayStation 3 had 5.
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That's interesting indeed. More and more people plays games now ;)
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The most interesting part to me....
Hipolito wrote:
Game Completions by Platform
(For platform-exclusive games or when you indicated the platform)
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Why is it every year we hear the PC gaming market is dying, yet the most finished games wind up being on the PC??
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