Board 8 > The Great 2017 Video Game Challenge

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Beat Battlefield 1 and A Kings Tale
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17. Beat a first-person shooter

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

A lot of people were disappointed with this game, and I agree that it's not as great as the others, but it's still more Borderlands, and Borderlands is great. I still have a couple side missions as well as the DLC to get through, but I had a fantastic time with this game.

13/50
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23. Beat a sports game

Disc Jam

Also decided to add this in because I feel like I've done everything there is to do in it at this point. I've gotten all the trophies, and without competitive matchmaking (yet), it's come to the point where I'm easily beating 95% of the people I meet online.

I regularly get whooped by B8ers, but until a competitive mode is added, I feel like I've "beaten" this game.

14/50
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12. Beat a game made by a developer you've never tried
Night in the Woods (PS4)
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Beat Super Mega Baseball: Extra Innings.
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9. Beat a remake or enhanced port
Ape Escape On the Loose

21/50
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46. Beat a game that features historical events or people
Jane Austen Mysteries - Peril in Pemberley

I stand by the Nancy Drew series as being an excellent series of point-and-click games. With that said, this game was atrocious. It felt like a shallow imitation of the Nancy Drew series.
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13. Beat a WRPG
Mass Effect 2
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40. Beat a game that took you at least 25 hours to beat
Red Dead Redemption
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One change...

2. Beat a game released between 1990-1999

Super Castlevania IV

This leads to...

39. Finish a game in one day

My Name Is Mayo! Obvious joke game is obvious

Beat a Game Released in 2017

Horizon - Zero Dawn. This one was fun
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34. Beat a game with an animal lead
Night in the Woods

still processing this game; not sure what to think
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12. Beat a game made by a developer you've never tried

Pony Island

Time to start clearing out some Steam backlog! The ~meta~ aspects fell a bit flat due to the story being too over-the-top and edgy to take seriously, but it's enough of a fun and polished game in its own right to make up for it.

10/50
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11. Beat a game made by a developer you like

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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7. Beat a game in a series you've already played some of
Ys Origin

25/50

Man it feels like forever since I beat something!
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Is it ok if I pick a Zelda game for no 48?
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As with every challenge that decision is up to you, but personally I think that's fine. Z isn't the most common letter!
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9. Beat a remake or enhanced port

Tearaway Unfolded (PS4)

Wasn't a huge fan. I thought the Vita version was somewhat overrated and this was actually worse than that despite the extra stuff. Boo.

Finished: 7, 9, 23, 30, 47

5/50
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30. Beat a game with a female lead

Mirror's Edge.

3/50
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39. Finish a game in one day

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Played from Midnight-5am, then 12-740. So took me about 13 hours
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Beat a game in a new series
Twisted Metal

yeah never played one until tonight
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Playing multiple 30+ hour games back to back is not helping my completion of this.

I'm going to pick up the Metal Slug anthology relatively soon to play with my girlfriend, though, so I'll be able to pad my stats a bunch.
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40. Finish a game that took you at least twenty-five hours to beat
Ar nosurge Plus: Ode to an Unborn Star

Counting my watchthrough of Ciel nosurge to prepare for this, it actually took me more than a hundred and twenty-five hours to beat!

26/50
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37. Beat a game that's been in your backlog for a long time
Hitman: The Complete First Season
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8. Beat a spin-off or a game that rebooted a franchise
Street Fighter The Movie The Game

23/50
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Bump
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4. Beat a game released between 2010-2016
Half Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax Ultimate Boy

I'll probably shift my list around a lot after April depending on a few factors but I'll stuck this here for now.

27/50
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Bumpo
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10. Beat a game made by a director/composer/artist/etc that you like
#1829 Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World (3DS)
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31. Beat a game with a child lead
Mega Man Battle Network 2

28/50
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49. Choose a random page on TVTropes and beat something from the video game section

Fire Emblem: Awakening

davidponte posted...

How "random" does the TVtropes page selected need to be? Can I keep clicking random until I find something that might actually be doable?

In any case, I was on the site for unrelated reasons and found myself going through random tropes until I came across "Ojou" and some of the games on the list are ones I have some vague interest in and hopefully will get around to this year, so I'm posting it here to remind myself to play them to satisfy the challenge at some point.

This post from page 3 a couple months ago was in reference to this game! Overall, an extremely great experience, and easily the best 3DS game I've played thus far. Despite the fact that I've significantly enjoyed every SRPG that I've played, I never considered it to be one of may favourite genres of game, but after another excellent one, it's clear that the genre belongs near the top of my list.

This game threw a lot at you, but for the most part, I managed to figure things out on my own. I played on casual because I didn't have any interest in resetting every time I lost a unit, although I made every effort not to play stupid and take advantage of it. I managed to get most of the children, so by the end my team was so overpowered that I didn't really have to worry about units dying.

I honestly think my Kjelle could solo every map in the game, she was incredibly overpowered.

15/50
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16. Beat a rhythm game
Sound Shapes

It isn't a rhythm game in the traditional sense, but the environment and its hazards/creatures move to the beat.
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1. Beat a game released before 1990
Mega Man

This one was a bit of a challenge. I remember playing the second one on my granddad's NES a few years back and having never played the other titles I decided to buy the Legacy Collection and boy, is Mega Man really fun even if it is difficult. I admire the level of difficulty the games bring to the table.
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19. Beat a platformer
Sonic The Hedgehog

This one was such a breeze to get through. Sonic is such a short game. Albeit it has been in my library for the longest time and I never got around to playing it until today.
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having a full time job makes this a bit harder, especially when I'm playing a RPG

40. Finish a game that took you at least twenty-five hours to beat

Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance HD

11/50
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40. Finish a game that took you at least twenty-five hours to beat

No Man's Sky

Fun game. I see where all the complaints come from, and the game did kinda overstay its welcome (it would be better as, say, a 10-hour game). But I enjoyed roaming around and searching for dinosaurs and seeing all the different kinds of planets. I'm easily amused, I guess.
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28. Beat a game with the supernatural as a central theme

Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition
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26. Beat a game with revenge as a central theme
Banjo-Tooie

12/50
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28. Beat a game with the supernatural as a central theme
Snake Pass

25/50

also moved MGS3 to 43. Beat another user's favorite game
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49. Choose a random page on TVTropes and beat something from the video game section
Final Fantasy I

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OurLichesAreDifferent

That was the random trope I got, luckily it had a lot of viable options!

29/50
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Bump
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22. Beat a fighting game
Mortal Kombat X
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10. Beat a game made by a director/composer/artist/etc that you like

Poochy and Yoshi's Woolly World ^_^
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47. Play a game that can't technically be beaten for at least three hours
Stardew Valley

Like 40 hours, to be exact

I chose the point where I started getting tired of the game to be the point where I stop
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oh man what is this topic again

15. Beat a puzzle game

Hitman GO

Good mobile port and gets challenging the farther you get. I'm still missing 15 objectives for the platinum, so I'll probably pick those up soon.

13/50
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Just a heads up, I'm going on a trip for two weeks starting tomorrow. I won't be cut off from the internet so theoretically I'll still be around to bump this if it needs it (I even plan to beat a few games during the trip) but it isn't outside the realm of possibility that I may forget. So if someone else could keep an eye on the topic these next two weeks, I'd appreciate it! After all, last year when I went on a trip, the topic purged
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36. Replay a game from a long time ago
God of War

39. Finish a game in one day
Refunct

In fact, Refunct didn't even take me 30 minutes.
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Robazoid posted...

Just a heads up, I'm going on a trip for two weeks starting tomorrow. I won't be cut off from the internet so theoretically I'll still be around to bump this if it needs it (I even plan to beat a few games during the trip) but it isn't outside the realm of possibility that I may forget. So if someone else could keep an eye on the topic these next two weeks, I'd appreciate it! After all, last year when I went on a trip, the topic purged

If I see the topic go longer than 24 hours without a post, I'll make sure to bump it!
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21. Beat a strategy game

XCOM 2

This game was stressful, but a lot of fun. I'm generally bad at XCOM, and for some reason was never able to beat the final level in the first game. I also lost my first run of this 5 hours in because I wasn't really paying attention to which research and building was optimal, and my whole team ended up being too wounded or dead to do anything.

The second run went very well, and up until the final fight, without many hitches. I managed to get out of that final room with only one death, surprisingly, but it could have gone a lot worse. It essentially came down to me needing to hit a 37% shot to get the final enemy back into range of my remaining soldiers, and with one of them mind-controlled, it was do or die. It was at that point that the RNG gods looked down on me, because not only did I hit that shot, but I instantly killed it, thanks to my weapon upgrade that granted a 5% chance of execution.

I'm kind of relieved to be done. I also played on the second difficulty so none of this is really noteworthy.

16/50
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