Board 8 > The Great 2018 Video Game Challenge

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this is the greatest thing ever

like so bad it's bad and horrible and hilarious

44. Beat a game based on licensed stories/characters
Batman: The Telltale Series (Nintendo Switch)

Wow I picked the wrong system to play this on. Overall its was pretty fine for a Telltale game. Better than Game of Thrones, worse than Tales of the Borderlands. Somewhere in that range. All the same good (and bad) stuff you've come to expect from the series.

BUT the Switch version is a broken mess. There is one glitch, unique to the Switch, were if you fail a QTE, occasionally the game will freeze and delete your entire save file. Not your save file in that episode, mind you. But your save file for the entire game. I found this out with five minutes left to go in the final episode, so I got to start the whole game over again. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

(don't play the Switch version, hint hint)

Completed: 3/50
Categories finished: 9, 39, 44
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22. Beat a fighting game

Injustice 2

Pretty solid story with really impressive cinematics. Was loving it until the terrible, terrible endgame.

Instead of building up to Supergirl having to choose between her alliance to her family and her morals (as much of the game implied), it became just a rehash of the last game, where Batman gets literally THREE chapters (while many characters get none or at best half of one) despite being one of the least fun characters to play. It's a story where both of them are so obviously wrong (where Batman's morals are constantly inconsistent, as Robin points out in the first fucking chapter, and where Superman wants to just murder everyone who's ever committed a crime). It doesn't even bother bringing the various skills you've learned between characters in, as the action of everyone else is made out to be unimportant (Superman literally defeats Supergirl offscreen) so that he can come back and be defeated by a couple Batarang tosses.

Christ it's frustrating. I really just wanted so much more from that ending, and it wouldn't have even been hard to pull off given everything else they managed to do, but no, every DC game just has to go all in on fucking Batman and Superman.
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31. Beat a game with a child lead

Finding Teddy (thanks Digi!)
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23. Beat a sports game

Ringside Hero (Kongregate)

- Fairly simple and easy-to-win boxing/management game on Kongregate. Even though it took me about an hour, maybe two, to finish, I had 10x more fun with it than Punch Club. Just trying to fill some of the harder categories while called in to work on my day off.

Anyone got any good browser-based F2P games that are also beatable? =P

EDIT: And I've been planning on this for a bit...

25% Ranking!

TOP-TIER - High-ranking among all games played
1. The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd

EXCELLENT - Wonderful games that left an impression and want for more of their magic
2. Evoland II
3. The Witness
4. Armello

GREAT - There was a lot to enjoy despite some flaws or rough patches
5. Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
6. X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse
7. [PROTOTYPE]

GOOD - A satisfying experience, but not as fulfilling as expected
8. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux
9. Beyond Good & Evil
10. Owlboy

LIST FILLER - Either too repetitive, janky, short, or basic to be called a good game
11. Little Alchemy 2
12. Hot Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore a Fedora
13. Ringside Hero
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Anyone have any opinions on what would constitute "beat" for a mario party?
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It's ultimately up to you, but I'd say it could be as simple as completing one full game. If you choose a lot of turns those can take a few hours, after all, which is a comparable length to a lot of other games. Another idea could be beating each map but that sounds incredibly tedious.
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That's pretty much the same idea I had, with "completing" being unlocking every minigame
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I would've probably gone with completing every map once (which I wouldn't really consider too tedious)

Like originally I counted myself having beaten Overwatch once I got the trophy for winning once on every map
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Kat

shall not miss another round

I would say, for me, completing a game without a story mode consists of unlocking all unlockables and completing each map/minigame at least once.
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EmoCombeeDancin posted...

Anyone have any opinions on what would constitute "beat" for a mario party?

I'm pretty sure that all the N64 and GC Mario Party games have a story mode except maybe 2. If you are talking about a Wii U or 3DS one, I would have no idea.
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38. Beat a game you'd dropped or had a long hold on

Darkest Dungeon

Somehow managed to put over 100 hours into this game without ever actually beating it. Some of that was in early access when it didn't have an ending, but still. Glad to finally beat it. Probably won't be the last time, because I still absolutely love it, and need to try a runthrough with the DLC.

9/50
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34. Beat a game with an animal lead
Sonic Mania

42. Beat a game with a Metascore above 90
Super Mario Odyssey
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32. Beat a game with a non-white lead

Tacoma

I put substantially less than 100 hours into this one! Enjoyed it enough to beat it in one day, though. Definitely an improvement over Gone Home. Thanks Digi!

10/50
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50-52. Beat three games in a series (Second Game)

Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories

Continuing to work through this series. I was initially thinking about getting the platinum for this game as well, but the grind is significantly more boring, and longer, than the first game, so I think I'm just going to move on.
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37. Beat a game that's been in your backlog for a long time


Donkey Kong 64

I've owned this game since release day, and after restarting it so many times for various reason, I finally sat down and completed the game from start to finish. Really just an incredible game, DK64 really is the golden standard for "Difficult but doable" in gaming. Although I loved the hell out of this game, I would be happy to never play beaver bother ever again
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19. Beat a platformer

Super Mario Odyssey

I was skeptical that a Mario game could beat out Galaxy for my favorite but I think this one did it.

9/50
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4. Beat a game released between 2010-2017
The Forest

It was a good survival game but man that ending section was ridiculously drawn out

3/10
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30. Beat a game with a female lead

Pokemon Uranium

This is a fangame, but it was really good -- not just "good for a fangame" but I think it holds up really well next to the official games. When I played Pokemon X a couple years ago, it was super meh, and I thought "maybe I'm getting tired of Pokemon as a series" but I enjoyed Uranium way more.

The pokemon designs are kind of a mixed bag. I think they're overall better than Sun/Moon though >_>
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The Pokemon that's just a fish with a sword on its head is pretty funny. Katuna, or whatever.
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6. Beat a game in a completely new series

Downwell

When this first came out I didn't play much of it because it seemed too hard, and like something I'd never beat. Finally decided to put some effort into it, and am happy to be wrong. Way too good a game to be only $3.

11/50
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Bump
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34. Beat a game with an animal lead

Yooka-Laylee

Not as good as I hoped, but it seems like Playtonic is listening to feedback, so hopefully the sequel will be a lot better
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BetrayedTangy posted...

34. Beat a game with an animal lead

Yooka-Laylee

Not as good as I hoped, but it seems like Playtonic is listening to feedback, so hopefully the sequel will be a lot better

I feel like it got the "big stuff" right but everything else slightly wrong.

I really like how open the environments were, and I thought the diversity in the gameplay was great.

I have issues with just about everything else. It's also one of those games that thinks its funny but isn't, which makes it much more annoying than it should be.
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penis?

27. Beat a game with mystery as a central theme

The Sexy Brutale

12/50
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Suprak the Stud posted...

BetrayedTangy posted...

34. Beat a game with an animal lead

Yooka-Laylee

Not as good as I hoped, but it seems like Playtonic is listening to feedback, so hopefully the sequel will be a lot better

I feel like it got the "big stuff" right but everything else slightly wrong.

I really like how open the environments were, and I thought the diversity in the gameplay was great.

I have issues with just about everything else. It's also one of those games that thinks its funny but isn't, which makes it much more annoying than it should be.

I agree. There was a good amount of things l liked, but everytime I was having fun a minor problem would get in the way and ruin it for me.

On the subject of humor I at least found Dr. Quack fucking hilarious.
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15. Beat a puzzle game
The Sexy Brutale
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5. Beat a game released in 2018
Fe

32. Beat a game with a non-white lead
Dandara
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12. Beat a game made by a developer you've never tried

Rime - PS4

I'm kinda done with walking simulators, which is essentially what Rime is, although there was a puzzle or two that stalled me pretty good. Even though the "Beautiful indie game thats meaningful" trope has been done to death, this game never really made me feel bored while I was playing it. Even though the puzzles are just silly busy work, the game has an interesting enough variety, and it never lingers on one type of puzzle too long.

12/52
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19. Beat a platformer

Demon's Crest

13/50
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23. Beat a sports game


1080 Snowboarding

Red's topic about beating something that seemed impossible as a kid inspired me to go back to this game that I could never manage to even beat one level of. Luckily we live in age of speedrunning, so I just watched some videos of the best tricks, looked up the techniques, and the game was beat in less than an hour! Now that I'm good at it, I have to say the game is a lot better than I remember!
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40. Finish a game that took you at least twenty-five hours to beat
Pokemon Crystal

9/50
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9. Beat a remake or enhanced port

Batman Return to Arkham: Arkham City
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5. Beat a game released in 2018

Into the Breach

I think I like it as much as I did FTL, which means I will be beating it many, many more times.

14/50
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39. Finish a game in one day

Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers. Moved I Wanna Be The Cat to platformer and You Have To Win The Game to game I dropped.

6/50
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You dropped You Have to Win the Game?
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First time through I got to the end but didn't have the password to beat it, took a break that ended up being years
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I don't actually remember the specifics of the game. It was several years back when I went through it, but I do recall it being less than an hour long, which was why I was confused when you said you dropped it.
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18. Beat a third-person shooter
Gears of War: Judgment
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KCF0107 posted...

18. Beat a third-person shooter
Gears of War: Judgment

Howd you like this? It was kinda bad compared to the other 3 games last time I played it
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It's been like five years since I played any others, but I'll liked it perfectly fine. Not all segments were winners, but I was overall perfectly satisfied.
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48. Beat a game that starts with the first letter of your username

Her Story. Great story!

7/50
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Geez, it's been two weeks since I beat a game. It's not that I'm not at it, I'm just not... very good at beating games.

Current games over last two weeks:
- Dead Maze (Kongregate)
- Final Fantasy X
- Final Fantasy X-2
- Invisible Inc.
- 100% Orange Juice
- Stardew Valley
- Dynasty Warriors 8 Xtreme Legends
- Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2
- Dragon Quest Heroes
- GeneForge
- Danganronpa 2

And probably a few others I'm forgetting at this moment. I hope to complete most of them, but I'm very bad at sticking to one thing, lol.
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38. Beat a game you'd dropped or had a long hold on

Azure Dreams -GBC

This was always such a daunting and huge game to me as a kid, and it's still remarkably huge! I'm surprised how well this GBC port holds up to a modern lens when its PSX version is almost completely dated and unplayable and its poorly made sequel wasn't playable out of the gate. If anyone is looking for a GBC game to play on their phone, you'd be hard pressed to find a better one than this. I'm surprised that with the thousands of indie roguelikes on the market no one has really emulated this game's awesome style and simplicity.
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she's in st catherines this weekend

44. Beat a game based on licensed stories/characters

Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness

Based on the anime and sharing most of the same characters, this visual novel explores a number of incidents with a few new characters and runs parallel to the main story in the anime. Even though I haven't watched any of the anime myself, I still enjoyed my time with this VN. A nice surprise from PS+.

10/50
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50-52. Beat three games in a series (Third Game)

Kingdom Hearts 2

Main game completed. Now begins the process of grinding through all the extra stuff to finish off the platinum. I'm definitely going to need a break before starting Birth By Sleep after playing 1, Chain of Memories, and 2 back to back to back.

10/50
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14. Beat a JRPG

Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology

Got close to the end, but never actually finished the original. Was definitely worth revisiting.

15/50
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