Your Games Completed of 2020

January
Untitled Goose Game

It's February already.

FUCK.

I think you mean HONK.

AwesomeGamesDoneQuick ruined the absolute fuck out of that honk shit for me

I think you mean HONK.

HONK.

Guys, please try to keep the thread on topic.
Oh fuck it….
HONK!

BRB, changing thread title to "Your HONKs HONKed of HONKHONK"

HONK sake.

Completed A Plague Tale: Innocence. I'll stick some thoughts in the separate thread.

Dishonored 2

Tales From The Borderlands

There was an element of obligation/'get it off the backlog' to this, and it's another I bounced off a few times, but I actually really enjoyed it. It's genuinely funny, for a start, and as the only Borderlands game I haven't played (and probably never will play) is The Pre-Sequel, it is a universe I'm quite familiar with anyway.

With all that said, and much like when I was watching Marit play one of the Lego games the other day, I am reminded why I don't really miss the Telltale games, and barring one more attempt to play The Wolf Among Us (as I actually really like what I've read of Fables), I don't see myself going back for any of the others I've missed.

The 'gunfight' was amazing

The 'gunfight' was amazing

That, the launch (and it's immediate aftermath) and big chunks of the finale were the highlights for me, though there's a lot of good stuff in there amongst the shonk and the QTEs.

Just got ending A on Nier: Automata, I normally bounce off of Platinum Games' work but this has been exceptional, even if it's taken me months to get this first ending.

Dishonored 2
Tales From The Borderlands

Star Wars: Fallen Order

It's good!

They (Respawn, of Titanfall fame) have basically tried to smash together Soulsborne combat and level design, with Uncharted/Tomb Raider-style platforming, and it largely works, even though sometimes you're acutely aware of how it's all hanging together (suggesting it's not doing it quite as well as something like Bloodborne). The combat doesn't nail the feel and "tells" as well as its inspirations either, though seeing as it's doing a (considerably) better than passable job of aping some of the better games in existence, it still ends up being pretty good in it's own right.

Tekken 7 - I misjudged this a bit initially, it's actually a very fun beat-em-up whose only major problem is extremely long loading times on Xbox. I've always liked Tekken, of all the fighting game series I think it's the one that best manages to contain loads of depth for dedicated players but also still be pretty good fun as a button-masher for casuals. So I've button-mashed my way through the story mode, which to be fair isn't great: it's a couple of hours of CGI cut-scenes bookended by the occasional battle, which for some reason forces you to play as tedious gammon Heihachi Mishima 75% of the time. But it sprays achievements around like nobody's business, feels like it's actually designed for a controller rather than an arcade stick, and a quick foray into Ranked turned out to be a pretty good time.

I need to play Tekken 7 a bit more, I picked it up very cheap before it was announced for Game Pass but only spent a couple of hours on it, as Xiayou of course

Dishonored 2
Tales From The Borderlands
Star Wars: Fallen Order

Gris

I'll echo the sentiments already expressed in the thread I think; this is very pretty, and rather short, which is good, as it's also not very interesting otherwise.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt!!

Actually made it to the end of this epic game. And after 100-odd hours I somehow managed to get the worst possible ending, which is a real kick in the teeth as it's genuinely depressing. Ah well! Onwards with the expansions.

Oh dear..! I managed to luck out on my run and get the best ending; I honestly couldn't tell you why, though. A lot of the choices seem kind of esoteric and not obviously connected.

Heart and Stone is like the best sidequest in the game (and knowing this game that says a LOT) and Blood and Wine is practically a game in itself. I hope it lets you end on a more pleasent note, I think the ending I got in B&W was fucking perfect and couldn't have wrapped things up more neatly.

“Completed” Rune Factory 4 Special - in that the credits have rolled at least. Apparently though there are three major story arcs, of which I’ve only done the first one, so there’s a lot more to do. This really is a great game, it’s Harvest Moon with an actual purpose to it, and easily one of my favourite games on the Switch.

Charly and I completed LEGO Marvel Avengers it's the only game I have the platinum trophy for.

Saw a tweet the other day which said something like "You are not working from home. You are confined at home during a global crisis during which you are trying to work." It's an important distinction, I think. After all, how many of us have adequate space at home to have two adults working with interrupting or distracting each other even if they aren't trying to care for and entertain children.

It's an unusual situation. Productivity is not going to be what it was.

My productivity was never what it was, to be fair.

Dishonored 2
Tales From The Borderlands
Star Wars: Fallen Order
Gris

Borderlands 3

Standard Borderlands, really - bright and silly and mindlessly entertaining, while mechanically still way behind other FPS (despite the QoL improvements). Despite still being funny at times, the writing actually feels worse than before too, and that’s without mentioning how jarring it must be to play the campaign with Amara - everyone goes on about Sirens all the time, so you must be stood there throughout going ‘uh, hi?’. The pacing also remains all over the place, as does the levelling system - suddenly going back to getting drops three levels behind your character in a game like this is just godawful.

I enjoyed it as a whole though, partially because my VH of choice (Zane) got going a lot quicker than Zer0 did in BL2, and partially because he’s really, genuinely funny. The man has a lot of middle names, and the kind of joyful, reckless abandon that made him the most endearing, (in)appropriate Vault Hunter yet, at least for my money.

I’ll have a little break now before going back for the DLC, I think, and I still haven’t ruled out starting a second character, though I’m still hoping they’ll push the starting level on a new VH a bit more (you can make a new Level 13 to start at the DLC now, but how well that works in practice I don’t know).

Nier Automata (one ending)
Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward and post patch content
Lego Marvel Avengers

Shadow of the Colossus Remastered

Absolutely adored this, well until I had to jump from one hand to the other on the final Colossi.

Yakuza 3

Definitely not the best Yakuza game, and even with the remaster it's showing its age, but still huge amounts of fun and worth playing for the main story alone which is unexpectedly great. Glad I played it, but also looking forward to moving onwards to more advanced games in the series.

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. Better than I remember overall. Although it had some serious 15-year-old videogame jank I had forgotten.

Now to see if the second is as good as I remember!

I still think I like Uncharted 1 the best out of those initial 3 games, jankiness and jet skis notwithstanding. It’s just the most enjoyable to play, for me, without the endless set pieces of 2 (seriously, fuck that tank) or the grenade spam of 3.

Lost Legacy is the only really good Uncharted game, though.

Lost Legacy is definitely the best of the bunch.

I hadn't even registered that Lost Legacy exists. I still haven't played Uncharted 4.

4 is good, too, but Lost Legacy is much shorter and has pretty much zero fat on it. Plus the main characters are great, and Chloe has a personal link to the macguffin in a way that Nate never did.

It's been absolutely forever since I put anything here, mainly because typing long-form on my phone sucks and I almost never get my laptop out. But since I'm convinced I must have finished something between January and now, I guess I should catch up…

JANUARY
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom

FEBRUARY
Granblue Fantasy Versus - Completed the story mode fully through once and got 99% of the trophies. Only one remaining requires you to complete the story mode again on the hardest difficulty and given the massive step up the challenge takes right from the off, I don't think I'll be bothering with it. It's good! Not great, gets quite repetitive. Gorgeous to look at though, great as a fighting game, so definitely worth a look if you're in the market for a 1-on-1 beat-'em-up.

MARCH
Nothing? Really? I dunno. But I can't remember anything and all I recall playing was Animal Crossing and Binding of Isaac.

APRIL
Monument Valley 2 - It was free on the Google Play Store for a bit, so I grabbed it and finished it in a few hours. I don't get the love for the series. I mean, it's lovely to look at but the gameplay is so obvious and linear (there's no challenge, you just move a few things around until it's right). Plus the story is soooo pretentious. But hey, indie fans gonna indie I guess.
DOOM (2016) - Went back to this after only dipping in the first time around, with the plan to not get all the trophies because it looked beyond me. It wasn't! Genuinely loved this from start to finish, bar a couple of dips (the Hell Guards can take a hike), and going back to get the Platinum wasn't anywhere near the chore I thought it'd be, bar the tutorials for the SnapMap stuff. Not surprised by the twist at all, Doom guy is such a gullible idiot. Holding off on moving into Eternal, because I'm overdone on FPS for now and don't fancy paying stupid money for it… I got the first one for £7, I can wait until the same happens here.
Accounting+ - Silly, short VR thing written by the Rick & Morty guy. That said, I hate R&M but this made me laugh quite a bit. It goes quite creepy towards the end once I accidentally found the secret path (shades of Alan Partridge's biggest fan), but thankfully I didn't need to play through that section to get the Platinum. Glad I did it, all done, deleted it. Tempted by Trover Saves The Universe if I see it cheap at some point.
ASTRO BOT Rescue Mission - What a game. Honestly, if you've got PSVR, this is the one to not pass up on. Constantly bringing a smile to my face and almost has Nintendo levels of creativity for the way it uses the tech for platforming. Even the bits I didn't like, I loved because the bits that got me were VR-induced:

Spoiler - click to showThe ghost level isn't scary, but being there is different to playing it on a TV; the Indiana Jones trap level with the massive saw blades coming at your face and spike-covered ceiling coming down was a bit mad; being swallowed by a whale and then the boss fight against the shark that tries to eat you were equally argh

Would definitely recommend it, it's ace. Need to go back to do the challenges for the Platinum, but that's it.

Dishonored 2
Tales From The Borderlands
Star Wars: Fallen Order
Gris
Borderlands 3

The Last of Us: Remastered

Still very, very good. I’m still not totally comfortable with the ending, though I am moreso than I used to be, and I did get through Left Behind this time too, and that was also great, bar what I considered to be a weird pacing misstep towards the end.

JANUARY
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom

FEBRUARY
Granblue Fantasy Versus

MARCH
Nothing!

APRIL
Monument Valley 2
DOOM (2016)
Accounting+
ASTRO BOT Rescue Mission

MAY
Streets of Rage 4 - Lovely, retro stuff. Some quirks that hang over from old-school gameplay that annoy (mainly being hit by enemies off-screen) but otherwise great. Finished once as Blaze, now to do it with the other characters to unlock more stuff…

Cherry is a lot of fun. I think she’s the only one of the main 4 with a proper run.

Haven't got to her yet, finished it as SoR1 Axel last night - that was strange, he's all pixels. Racing it on Easy now after doing it properly first time through, so should get all the other characters cleaned up soon enough.

Not having a dash is… a little annoying. But hey, it's not a big deal.

Only gripe was the difficulty spike two-thirds through. Stage 9 can get to fuck.

Stage 9? I couldn't get past the Barman in Stage 5 on Normal. I think it's much more difficult than the originals.

I used to be able to finish the originals, so they must have been pretty easy.

Completed Super Mario 3D World and The Gardens Between.

Stage 9? I couldn't get past the Barman in Stage 5 on Normal. I think it's much more difficult than the originals.

Barbon is annoying, especially given how quickly he moves on his special and how slow the defensive moves are. Honey and Sugar being there don't help. Not impossible though.

Old Man's Journey

I'm going to be honest here, I didn't get this. At all.

It's a slow, plodding point-and-click where you manoeuvre a doddering old man through a series of sketchily-drawn backdrops. You do this by pulling and pushing at the various hills in his path so he can slowly pass through. Occasionally you can click on something you pass to get a little animation. And, um, that's it. It's a puzzle game with no puzzles, a point-and-click with nothing worth clicking on, a walking simulator with nowhere to go. It's about an hour long, the old man moves at the speed of molasses and it's all drawn in the style of one of those creepy eastern European animations they used to show on BBC1 at teatime when you were waiting for Neighbours to come on.

It is, however, absolutely the easiest way I've found to rack up 1000 gamerpoints… ever. I mean this is a game that gave me 150 points for walking three screens to the right and clicking on a turtle. Maybe that's the whole point.

Old Man's Journey

I'm going to be honest here, I didn't get this. At all.

Snap. Another example of the indie crowd gushing over something that's actually quite shit, just because it's quirky. Oh well.

It is, however, absolutely the easiest way I've found to rack up 1000 gamerpoints… ever. I mean this is a game that gave me 150 points for walking three screens to the right and clicking on a turtle. Maybe that's the whole point.

Well, someone never played Avatar: The Last Airbender on Xbox 360 then.

I watched about ten seconds of a trailer for that game and dismissed it as pointless rubbish. Thank you for spending an hour of your life to prove me right.

Dishonored 2
Tales From The Borderlands
Star Wars: Fallen Order
Gris
Borderlands 3
The Last of Us: Remastered

Devil May Cry V

As per usual with DMC, I’m left thinking that they could do a little more in some areas, and that I’m not really very good at them, but that I thoroughly enjoy them all the same.

(Except DMC2, of course. That was crap.)

May
Final Fantasy VII Remake
…so, uh… how bout that ending..?

Already technically finished, but finally got the platinum on Untitled Goose Game, are I combined E to let me play a level other than the pub.

There's an in-game reward for getting the platinum, and it's great.

Don't say that, I was resisting double dipping for PS4. :)

I don't know if it's PS4-specific, to be fair - it may just be for doing everything on all the lists, but that also gets you the platinum.

It's aSpoiler - click to showcrown, which you can drag around, but if a human catches you with it, they put it on your head and you get to run about screwing with people as KING GOOSE.

JANUARY
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom

FEBRUARY
Granblue Fantasy Versus

MARCH
Nothing!

APRIL
Monument Valley 2
DOOM (2016)
Accounting+
ASTRO BOT Rescue Mission

MAY
Streets of Rage 4
Maneater - Yeah, that was fine. Got a little repetitive towards the end since all the missions ended up being the same (kill X number of this fish, eat people, fight big fish). The Ubi Icon style was fine, I guess, but not having a minimap on screen seemed like a dumb design choice. Framerate was godawaful in places. And once I became an unstoppable bone shark of death (electric and poison options available), I was pretty much invincible since dodging did damage to anything nearby. But it was fine, a reasonable way to spend a weekend, though I wish I'd waited for a discount (it seems like a decent enough £20 game, no more). Platinum'd, will never touch again.