Thursday, January 19, 2012

DuncanR2N's Awesome Gaming Memories for 2011

When I started to work on my 2011 GOTY post, I started to realize that I don't really like boiling down my gameplay into a single set of games and then pronouncing that one game is definitively better than another. 

So I decided to go a different route and I came up with my top 10 favorite moments in gaming for 2011.   This could be a single event in a single game or an overarching feeling from a set of games.   Basically, there are no rules which gives me a bit more freedom to talk about the highlights of 2011, which I shall dub, the DAGMs (Duncan's Awesome Gaming Memories)

Saturday, January 14, 2012

The Invasion of the Black Phantom

So today while playing Demon's Souls, I had my first PvP experience and let me tell you it was quite exhilirating.  I'm not a writer, and have never claimed to be, but here is the tale of my fight against the invading Black Phantom.

And yes, I am a nerd.

Sunday, January 1, 2012

2011: The final tally

2011 is done!

Time for the Final Tally:

Here's the overall count of games owned. Note that this is games not discs or carts or whatever, so a compilation that is on a single disc but has 4 different games will count as 4.

Status 2011 2012 Net Change
1254 1515 261
48 62 14
191 250 59
6 92 86
Total 1499 1919 420

The numbers above are kinda skewed, I made some decisions on the Backloggery to null duplicate titles as well as going through an audit that added quite a few missing games so while the total growth is 420, I really didn't go out and buy that many games.

Late in the year, the Backloggery added the ability to further breakdown the titles by adding the Unplayed () designation to your games.   So that 1515 consists of 1278 and 237 .

In total I beat/completed 59 games, 9 more than my goal for this year.

Here's the breakdown of the 59 titles by platform:

Platform Total
GCN 2
GB 1
NDS 1
iPhone 7
PCDL 1
PS1 4
PS2 5
PS3 20
PSN 3
PSP 3
SNES 1
Wii 1
X360 8
XBOX 2
Total 59

And here's the full list of everything I played and beat/completed this year:

Status Game Platform Date
Pikmin GCN Jan 11
Super Mario Sunshine GCN Jan 18
World of Goo PCDL Feb 04
Resistance: Retribution PSP Feb 06
TRON: Evolution PS3 Feb 11
I Love Katamari iPhone Feb 15
Jak II PS2 Feb 21
Braid PS3 Mar 10
Final Fantasy XII PS2 Mar 15
Comet Crash PSN Mar 23
Tanzen iPhone Apr 15
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona PSP May 01
Hills and Rivers Remain iPhone May 01
Sly 2: Band of Thieves PS2 May 12
Mass Effect 2: Firewalker Pack X360 May 13
Mass Effect 2: Kasumi - Stolen Memory X360 May 20
Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker X360 May 27
Mass Effect 2 X360 May 28
L.A. Noire: The Consul's Car PS3 Jun 04
Crystal Defenders iPhone Jun 10
Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed PS Jun 12
L.A. Noire: The Naked City PS3 Jun 14
L.A. Noire PS3 Jun 18
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone PS Jun 24
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets PS Jun 30
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Xbox Jul 03
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Xbox Jul 07
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix PS3 Jul 12
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince PS3 Jul 15
Army of Darkness Defense iPhone Jul 16
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 PS3 Jul 17
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 PS3 Jul 19
Plants vs. Zombies iPhone Jul 27
Final Fantasy XIII PS3 Aug 02
Dragon Age Origins: Leliana's Song PS3 Aug 09
Metroid II: Return of Samus GB Aug 19
Dragon Age Origins: Return to Ostagar PS3 Aug 21
Dragon Age Origins: Warden's Keep PS3 Aug 24
Dragon Age Origins: The Stone Prisone PS3 Aug 28
Dragon Age Origins PS3 Sep 13
Resistance 3 PS3 Sep 16
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves PS2 Sep 26
God of War: Ghost of Sparta PSP Sep 26
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations NDS Oct 05
Gears of War 3 X360 Oct 11
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past SNES Oct 17
Batman: Arkham City PS3 Oct 23
inFamous 2 PS3 Oct 30
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception PS3 Nov 06
Jak 3 PS2 Nov 09
Portal 2 PS3 Nov 13
Assassin's Creed: Revelations PS3 Nov 25
Pac-Man World PS Dec 04
Mirror's Edge iPhone Dec 30

As for my goals this year, I think I did okay.
  1. Beat or Complete 50 games.  I beat 59, so yeah, mark this one done.
  2. For every 3 games I acquire, I must beat 1 game.  I tried to make this one a bit more reasonable but well, I failed.   I collect too much.
  3. Finish a Zelda game.  Yes, I finally have played and beat a Zelda game.  I played The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, and it was really good!
  4. Clean up PC titles.  I'm gonna call this one done.  I went through the backloggery recently and cleaned up all the PC games so I'll call it good.
  5. Beat all my SNES titles.  Yeah, not even close.  I beat 1, and picked up 2 so net, I'm in the hole.
And that's about it! Over the next few days I'll be posting up my goals for 2012 as well as my yearly GOTY update.

Until next time...