Just the other day I went on an extreme cleaning spree in my apartment and realized something. I have a shit ton of games. Believe it or not, most of these I have never finished and some of which I have never played (shocking, I know). In this day and age of the indie bundle, digital downloads, and just a plethora of games that come out at the end of each year, shit gets backed up.
As someone who has every console of the current generation, (I've been lucky enough to only pay for one myself which was the Wii, the PS3 was something I won from a contest and the 360 was a gift) my game library has acquired a large number of games. Since this generation is soon coming to its inevitable death, I will doing a little project for myself. This project is called Operation Backlog. My goal is to complete or play a significant amount each of these games till I become sick of them.
For any of the PC titles, which there are a lot of them, I will hopefully be able to record the video and audio of the game and post them. If I can get it to work, I will do some audio commentary alongside if my computer does not implode. I will not live stream console games because I simply do not have a capture card to do so.
Operation Backlog will have a few rules and stipulations.
-Completion is based solely on the single player campaign. This is why Battlefield 3 is on this list.
-Games that take longer than 20 hours to complete will be played until I no longer have interest in them or when the game begins to feel like work
-Games that require more than one play through will only be played once, unless it is a vital gameplay mechanic (i.e. Super Brothers: Sword and Sworcery and Fez).
-DLC, Co-Op Campaigns, and general multiplayer will also be ignored for the time being. I want to try to capture these games in their original context, the exceptions are the Mass Effect Games.
If you have any further suggestions or better modifiers let me know. Below this post I will put my list of games. Mind you, not all of these games are current gen, some are from previous generations, but since I have obtained them via indie bundle or through digital download on current consoles, I consider this current gen due to the context I am playing them in. Eventually, I will be doing this for previous generations, but for now, this will be time consuming enough.
With regards to my X-COM: Enemy Unknown game journal/story, I will be abandoning this project due to the fact that taking vigorous notes while playing got old real quick. I may try this again at another time, but for now this has been pushed aside.
-Smi13y Out
Amnesia
Assasins Creed: Revelations
Banjo Kazooie
Basement Collection
Battlefield 3
Bioshock
Bit.Trip.Runner
Braid
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Cave Story+
Closure
Company of Heroes
Darksiders
Dead Island
Dead Space
Devil May Cry 4
Dust Force
Fallout
Fallout 3
Fez
Grand Theft Auto: IV
Gratuitous Space Battles
Gun
Halo 4
Legend of Grimrock
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Little King's Story
Lone Survivor
Mark of the Ninja
Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect 3
Metro 2033
Offspring Fling
Pokemon Black
Psychonauts
Ratchet and Clank: Collection
Rayman Origins
Red Dead Redemption
Red faction Armageddon
Rochard
Saints Row the III
Shank 2
Shatter
Snapshot
Space Pirates and Zombies
Super Brothers: Swords and Sworcery
Super Meat Boy
Titan Quest
Torchlight
Vessel
Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War
Wizorb
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Monday, February 11, 2013
Your toodlkittens is Evolving.
I think I have hit a milestone in my gaming career this past year. This past year more so than in the past I have done something that I was not a big fan of. I have played more games that have challenged my skills as a gamer and my notions of what a good game is. For the first example in the past year I have actively sought out games that wreck my shit (Demon's Souls) and I have wait for it... raised the difficulty on games. For the second one I have tried games in genres that didn't appeal to me and I have actually fallen in love with games that I wouldn't normally have if I hadn't tried them.
That might not seem like two huge accomplishments nor anything I should be excited about. Definitely not post-worthy but you know what fuck you and your nay-saying. It's a big deal, 'why is it a big deal toodlekittens?' you might ask. Well I have never played videogames to challenge my skills and find improvements within myself and I have always played games in genres I was firmly comfortable with. Sure I have pumped in 600 to 700 hours easily into Skyrim, Fallout 3, and Fallout New Vegas but I always kept the difficulty on Adept (Normal) or Apprentice(Easy) and I always made the same basic character the tank that surprises you from the shadows and then is insanely difficult to kill. However this past year I decided to make a super squishy Illusion Thief Mage that can't take a hit to save his life and a super squishy unarmed assassin in New Vegas. I also decided to bring the difficulties up to Expert(Hard) and do a hardcore run on New Vegas, I have never had more fun playing those games since the very first time I played them. let me tell you going from a God to cowering in the shadows too afraid to move is a big change for me in this games, I usually one shot anything the dares to draw breath but these run throughs have been humbling experiences.
Now I have established that I hate RTS games and although that is still very much true there is a game that I like to call and Action RTS out there called Resonance of Fate that I did play before but didn't get back into again until recently that has made me question my hatred for the RST genre. Not many people would play it and consider it to be an RTS but you manage your bullets, the movements your characters make with stamina, the actions they make, whether take cover or attack an enemy, then you go into real time see your actions play out and make small adjustments on the fly that sounds like an RTS to me. There is also one other genre you might not know I have disdain for and that's the Side-Scroller you know your Classic Marios, Mega-Mans, and Metriods it isn't that I hate them, I don't. I just have never found myself playing any of those games and saying man I should beat this, it's more like okay I am going to sit here and beat a level and ooh look Skyrim. However this past year I played a Side-Scroller that has me wondering what I have been missing out all these years, that games, ladies and gentlemen is Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. I have beat that games three times in single sittings, that's right I sat down and powered through one game on multiple occasions in a single play through. It is one of my top ten favorite games of all time and that's a pretty discerning list to find a simple game like that is a surprise, well to me at least.
Maybe this doesn't sound all of that impressive to you but it's my goddamn accomplishment and I am happy with it so fuck you.
Press B to cancel,
toodlekittens
That might not seem like two huge accomplishments nor anything I should be excited about. Definitely not post-worthy but you know what fuck you and your nay-saying. It's a big deal, 'why is it a big deal toodlekittens?' you might ask. Well I have never played videogames to challenge my skills and find improvements within myself and I have always played games in genres I was firmly comfortable with. Sure I have pumped in 600 to 700 hours easily into Skyrim, Fallout 3, and Fallout New Vegas but I always kept the difficulty on Adept (Normal) or Apprentice(Easy) and I always made the same basic character the tank that surprises you from the shadows and then is insanely difficult to kill. However this past year I decided to make a super squishy Illusion Thief Mage that can't take a hit to save his life and a super squishy unarmed assassin in New Vegas. I also decided to bring the difficulties up to Expert(Hard) and do a hardcore run on New Vegas, I have never had more fun playing those games since the very first time I played them. let me tell you going from a God to cowering in the shadows too afraid to move is a big change for me in this games, I usually one shot anything the dares to draw breath but these run throughs have been humbling experiences.
Now I have established that I hate RTS games and although that is still very much true there is a game that I like to call and Action RTS out there called Resonance of Fate that I did play before but didn't get back into again until recently that has made me question my hatred for the RST genre. Not many people would play it and consider it to be an RTS but you manage your bullets, the movements your characters make with stamina, the actions they make, whether take cover or attack an enemy, then you go into real time see your actions play out and make small adjustments on the fly that sounds like an RTS to me. There is also one other genre you might not know I have disdain for and that's the Side-Scroller you know your Classic Marios, Mega-Mans, and Metriods it isn't that I hate them, I don't. I just have never found myself playing any of those games and saying man I should beat this, it's more like okay I am going to sit here and beat a level and ooh look Skyrim. However this past year I played a Side-Scroller that has me wondering what I have been missing out all these years, that games, ladies and gentlemen is Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. I have beat that games three times in single sittings, that's right I sat down and powered through one game on multiple occasions in a single play through. It is one of my top ten favorite games of all time and that's a pretty discerning list to find a simple game like that is a surprise, well to me at least.
Maybe this doesn't sound all of that impressive to you but it's my goddamn accomplishment and I am happy with it so fuck you.
Press B to cancel,
toodlekittens
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