Reed Rothchild | 9,533 Editorials Team · Posted November 9, 2021 Author Share Posted November 9, 2021 So, over like the last 10 months I've been working on 2 of my remaining 3 games: Castlevania III and Sonic 3. I've made it to the second form of the final boss of Sonic 3 twice, lose, and then feel too demoralized, and give up. At this point I think I'm gonna call it. I saw the whole game, I saw all of the content, I just couldn't quite seal the deal. I don't like the game enough to put up with that anymore. And then with Castlevania III, I finally made it to the last stage in October, but I again can't quite seal the deal. I can make it to the third form of Dracula (occasionally), and I can slowly memorize the pattern, but I'm looking at potentially hundreds of attempts. Or I study videos. And I just don't like that thought. I saw the whole game, I saw all of the content. I don't want to throw in the towel, but I am prepared to punt to the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peg | 371 Posted November 9, 2021 Share Posted November 9, 2021 Dude just run through it in an emulator and practice the final boss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorEncore | 3,691 Posted November 9, 2021 Share Posted November 9, 2021 I've fallen off the wagon and stalled out for the last couple months. Hopefully I can knock out Horizon and Dead Space before Halo Infinite drops, because that is going to consume my life for a while. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fox | 1,667 Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 5/19 64th Street Spoiler 6/5 Corpse Killer Spoiler 6/11 Scott Pilgrim Spoiler 7/18 Disco Elysium Spoiler 7/21 RE Villiage Spoiler 8/1 Final Fantasy 7 Remake Yufi DLC 8/13 Rocket Robot on Wheels Spoiler 8/15 Darius Burst Spoiler 8/16 Dark Alliance Spoiler 8/27 Ghost of Tsushima DLC Spoiler 8/28 Aliens Arcade Spoiler 9/10 No More Heroes 3 Spoiler 9/13 Moonwalker Spoiler 9/18 Warioware Get It Together Spoiler 9/19 Aliens Fireteam Elite Spoiler 9/28 Diablo 2 Spoiler 9/30 Mother 3 Spoiler 10/10 Steel Assault Spoiler 11/7 House of Ashes 11/8 Metroid Dread Spoiler 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaMan52 | 2,445 Posted November 17, 2021 Share Posted November 17, 2021 (edited) Beat the Dreamcast version of Sonic Adventure: Edited November 17, 2021 by MegaMan52 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorEncore | 3,691 Posted November 17, 2021 Share Posted November 17, 2021 Welp, that surprise Halo Infinite multiplayer drop may have been the nail in the coffin for my backlog. See y'all in 2022. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mega Tank | 961 Posted November 17, 2021 Share Posted November 17, 2021 1 hour ago, DoctorEncore said: Welp, that surprise Halo Infinite multiplayer drop may have been the nail in the coffin for my backlog. See y'all in 2022. I don't believe campaign is up, but multiplayer is. I'd be down to play some. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorEncore | 3,691 Posted November 17, 2021 Share Posted November 17, 2021 10 hours ago, Mega Tank said: I don't believe campaign is up, but multiplayer is. I'd be down to play some. Hit me up. GT: RenegadeSaint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foochie776 | 1,052 Posted November 17, 2021 Share Posted November 17, 2021 I fell off playing games and just buying for a couple months but did complete a couple! Super Mario Galaxy. I always wanted to play this but the motion controls really didn’t sit well with me. I would often get kind of nauseous from it so I shelved it for years. I played on the new remaster version and wow. It was so good, I see where the hype is and it’s deserving. I’m hoping the remaster the second one now so I can play that too. Skyward Sword, I tried this on the Wii and HATED the motion controls. Just trash, so the same as the Mario remaster.. I opted to play the HD remaster and man that game was SO good. The story was great, the challenge was very fair. The sky/surface mechanic grew on me with time and I think that Skyloft may be my favorite temple of any game. Excellent all around. I have 4 more console Zelda’s to play now. Majora’s Mask, Link to the Past, Windwaker and Zelda II. My next game will either be Vice City or Conkers. I’m passively playing Pikmin right now but I am no where near completing it. It’s more of a passive play while the other game I’m playing is frustrating 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brickman | 3,986 Posted November 21, 2021 Share Posted November 21, 2021 On 11/5/2021 at 6:10 AM, Shmup said: My goals for these last two months: finish off ToCS (almost done now, 3 hours tops left I think). Castlevania 3, I’m just past death. I’d also be happy if I could knock off Persona Strikers but I think that is going to be a challenge because I’ve only just beaten the first dungeon. If I can take down the first two I’d be happy and if I took down all three I’d be satisfied with my backlog challenge. I put way too many RPGs on this years list. I’m now curating my list for next year…which has SMT V haha. So 3 hours was actually 10 hours but Trails of Cold Steel is done! What an amazing game. If you’re a JRPG fan move this game up to the top just below Persona & SMT of course it had a fantastic story, great soundtrack, fun combat and didn’t follow the standard JRPG tropes. The story always had me so engaged and that ending! I’m determined to finish Persona Strikers & Castlevania 3 by the end of the year. I’ve now put in just under 221hours into the games I’ve beaten and just over 21hours in a game I won’t finish (xenoblade chronicles 2). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estil | 1,265 Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 On 11/17/2021 at 12:43 PM, Foochie776 said: Super Mario Galaxy. I always wanted to play this but the motion controls really didn’t sit well with me. I would often get kind of nauseous from it so I shelved it for years. I played on the new remaster version and wow. It was so good, I see where the hype is and it’s deserving. I’m hoping the remaster the second one now so I can play that too. Skyward Sword, I tried this on the Wii and HATED the motion controls. Just trash, so the same as the Mario remaster.. I opted to play the HD remaster and man that game was SO good. The story was great, the challenge was very fair. The sky/surface mechanic grew on me with time and I think that Skyloft may be my favorite temple of any game. Excellent all around. I have 4 more console Zelda’s to play now. Majora’s Mask, Link to the Past, Windwaker and Zelda II. Is there anyway at all to set up the Homebrew Wii that you can play Wii games with standard controls? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foochie776 | 1,052 Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 50 minutes ago, Estil said: Is there anyway at all to set up the Homebrew Wii that you can play Wii games with standard controls? I’m honestly not sure at all. Im not familiar with Wii hardware at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brickman | 3,986 Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 Robocco Wars done. It was a pretty meh game. Was insanely easy then a weird difficulty spike at the end. The good- interesting level backgrounds and the soundtrack was catchy with lots of great tunes. The bad- insanely easy for 8 out of 10 levels then all of a sudden some difficult parts, some sections were completely empty, the SHMUP levels were absolutely boring and the platforming levels had very little imagination. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fox | 1,667 Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 (edited) 11/23 Gunstar Heroes (co-op with Jeevan) Spoiler Edited November 23, 2021 by fox 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Bogomil | 815 Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 I finally beat Jurassic Park and I'm not feeling really any better about life. It's not a bad game but it's very sluggish and the movement in the buildings was definitely worse than I remember. The game also gets very repetitive, almost to the point of confusion as you're really just walking around with the same weapons collecting key cards killing the same enemies in similar looking environments. I was initially pretty excited to replay this, but ended up being way more tedious than I had envisioned. I also played the bulk of it on an emulator but beat it on console once I figured out where everything was/where to go. Now just Mega Man 11 under an hour... gonna be tough to get this done whether I want to or not with only the month left. I'll see what I can do and I also have a new Switch controller which should hopefully help with the input demands of this game. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,533 Editorials Team · Posted December 3, 2021 Author Share Posted December 3, 2021 Just a heads up, I will be creating the 2022 thread some time in the next week. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abelardo | 154 Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 Heading straight to failure, getting a Switch this year changed priorities and actually finished some games there, but recently picked up The Witcher 3 so that's pretty much game over for my goals this year, I might be able to finish Bravely Default and maybe try to finish Mega Man 5, I lost interest in Xenogears on the 2nd disc but might pick it up just to get it done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhleo | 2,185 Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 I’ve officially given up on completing any of the RPGs I listed. Too many good ones and I don’t have a portable gaming emulator to start. Still, everything that ISNT an RPG or long game in general on my list is complete 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaMan52 | 2,445 Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 Beat Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,533 Editorials Team · Posted December 6, 2021 Author Share Posted December 6, 2021 And it is done. Planescape Torment - a game I first started nearly 20 years ago - is finally finished. That's it for my 2021 backlog. I'm conceding on Sonic 3 and Castlevania III. That gives me a couple weeks to focus on other things, like the SNES rankings >< 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiztor | 851 Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 in an effort to not get overwhelmed, i create small challenges for myself. i try not to think of them too early, or it starts eating into my existing plans. For example, my goal for 2020 was to play through the Metroid and Kid Icarus series. i accomplished that (and so much more!) due to COVID and having a summer off work. Right now, my plan for 2022 is to beat the first 8 Mega Man games, along with X and MM&Bass. i started/finished MM1 last night and got a jump start on 2 already. This obviously will not take all year, but 1 project at a time! thus, my plans don't really fit into the big backlog challenge thread. but i wanted to contribute in some small way anyway. congrats all, on what you've accomplished this year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkchylde28 | 1,546 Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 Posted an update to my original page, second in a week and a half for Wasteland! With luck, I'll be able to keep my kids occupied and away from me enough to finish my computer games, then grind fairly quickly through the two Zeldas. I've played enough SNES Zelda to have gone into the second world and know that can be done fairly quickly, so I imagine (perhaps foolishly, but I guess I'll find out) that the rest can probably done fairly reasonably as well. Zelda II is basically just waiting for me to have a dedicated late night to spend finishing it off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorEncore | 3,691 Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 I'm hoping against hope I can still finish Dead Space. It seems unlikely, but if Halo Infinite is as short as some reviews suggest, it's possible. I plan to abandon a lot of this list and make 2022 more JRPG-focused (Final Fantasy 10-15, here we come). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,779 Administrator · Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 Just now, DoctorEncore said: I'm hoping against hope I can still finish Dead Space. It seems unlikely, but if Halo Infinite is as short as some reviews suggest, it's possible. I plan to abandon a lot of this list and make 2022 more JRPG-focused (Final Fantasy 10-15, here we come). Good luck with 11 and 14 huehuehue 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brickman | 3,986 Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 2 minutes ago, Gloves said: Good luck with 11 and 14 huehuehue He mustn't know what those games are...we'll let him discover it on his own 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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