I Finished These 28 Video Games In 2011

For the sixth year in a row, I have tallied the number of video games I played in the last year. For the sixth year in a row, it’s an absurd amount. But this year, my numbers have plunged. I played some 161 games but finished a mere 28 of them, down from 52 in 2010.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); Did I start hating games or something? No. I just played slightly fewer games and many more games that just can’t be finished. A Few Things to Keep in Mind My year-end totals count the games I’ve played for fun or, simply, at home. As a games journalist, I am sent dozens of video games, some of which I play, some of which I don’t. I have the luxury, though, of playing many games without first having to decide if they’re worth paying for. I exclude from these year-end lists games that I only play at video game industry events. I exclude all those game that I only touch at E3 or at, say, a PlayStation showcase in New York. I do include, however, unfinished games that I play at home as part of my judging duties for the Independent Games Festival. I include downloadable games that can be played on their own but omit downloadable expansions that require the base game. I list games I either started or finished in the calendar year. I don’t count demos. The list reflects my personal taste and my professional curiosity. This year, I wanted to understand Facebook gaming better. This year, I still wasn’t very interested in playing sports games or fighting games. I do not include playing times for the games in the list. Some of them I’ve only played for an hour; others I’ve played for dozens. I bold the ones in which I’ve reached narrative completion or some sort of credit-rolling finale. As I’ve been compiling these lists year after year, it’s become harder and harder to say I’ve finished games, not just because I’ve devoted less time to gaming (I’m not sure that I have) but because pg123 it seems that fewer games are being made that can be “finished.” On with the list! My 2011 Games Played/Finished List (Games I started listed below. Finished games are bolded) 3DS (25 games played; 0 finished) 3D Classics: Excitebike Aliens Infestation AR Games Face Raiders Freakyforms Frogger 3D Kirby Mass Attack The Legend of Zelds: Ocarina of Time 3D Madden NF Football Mario Kart 7 Mario’s Picross (Game Boy) Pilotwings Resort Pokemon Rumble Blast Pushmo Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D Ridge Racer 3D The Sims 3 Samurai Warriors: Chronicles Skylanders Steel Diver Super Mario 3D Land (Note: I finished the main quest but I don’t consider that game completion for this title; those who have played will understand why.) Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition Tetris Axis Thor: God of Thunder Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition DS (3 games played; 1 finished) Ghost Trick Okamiden Professor Layton and the Last Specter Facebook (6 games played; 0 finished) Adventure World Dragon Age Legends Empires & Allies Lucky Space Mafia Wars 2 PixelJunk Monsters Online iOS (34 games played; 1 finished) 1-Bit Ninja Air Pengun Amazing Breaker Anomaly HD Aquaria Async Corp Batman: Arkham City Lockdown Bubble Ball Collision Effect Connectrode Continuity 2 Dead Space Dream Skate Dungeon Raid Entanglement Forget.Me.Not Freddie Wong’s Flower Warfare Grimm Infinity Blade II Jetpack Joyride Knight Defense Lilith’s Pet (unreleased) Scribblenauts Remix SpaceChem SpellTower Stem Stumper Super Crossfire HD Super Quickhook Superman Sword & Sworcery Terrorist Zombies Unpleasant Horse Wind-Up Knight Zombie Minesweeper PC (16 games played; 0 finished) Note: Most of the games I played on PC, as in years past, were incomplete games I tried as a judge for the Independent Games Festival. Some of these games are assigned by the IGF; others I sought out on my own A Closed World (unreleased) Antichamber (unreleased) Dear Esther (unreleased) Emoticon vs. Rainbow (unreleased) Forgotten Kodama (unreleased) Ibb and Obb (unreleased) Instance 1000 Kali 9 (unreleased) The Last Word (unreleased) Link (unreleased) Molecat Twist (unreleased) Moto (Unreleased) Rope (unreleased) So Many Me (unreleased) Space Loop (unreleased) Unmechanical (unreleased) PSP (0 games played; 0 finished) None PS3 (22 games played; 8 finished) Assassin’s Creed: Revelations Battlefield 3 Dark Souls Dead Space 2 Deus Ex: Human Revolution Driver: San Francisco Infamous 2 Infamous: Festival of Blood Killzone 3 L.A. Noire Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 LittleBigPlanet 2 Motorstorm Apocalypse PixelJunk Shooter 2 PixelJunk: Sidescroller Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One Rocketbirds: Harboiled Chicken Rayman Origins Saints Row: The Third Shadows of the Damned Skylanders Uncharted 3 Wii (5 games played; 3 finished) Fortune Street Kirby’s Dreamland 3 (Virtual Console) Kirby’s Return to Dreamland The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Lost in Shadow Xbox 360 (50 games played; 15 finished) Ace h25 com เข้าสู่ระบบ Combat: Assault Horizon Alice Madness Returns Asteroids do Concern Me A World of Keflings Bastion Brink Bulletstorm Burnout Crash Captain America: Super Soldier Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (Note: This is the only 2010 game I finished in 2011.) Child of Eden Crysis 2 de Blob 2 Dead Rising 2: Case Zero Duke Nukem Forever El Shaddai Fight Night Champion (Note: I finished the story mode.) Flotilla Forza 4 From Dust Gears of War 3 Homefront Honor in Vengeance II Hunted: Demon’s Forge Hypership: Out of Control Ilomilo Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet Kinect: Disneyland Adventures Lego Pirates of the Caribbean Lego Star Wars III Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom Miner Dig Deep Missile Escape Modern Warfare 3 (Note: I didn’t prestige. I finished the campaign.) Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess Mortal Kombat NBA 2K11 Outland Platformance: Temple Death Portal 2 (Note: This is the closest I got to 100%-ing a game in 2011, finishing its solo and multiplayer campaigns.) Rage Red Faction: Armageddon Renegade Ops Rock of Ages Section 8: Prejudice Spider-Man: Edge of Time Splatterhouse Skyrim Toy Soldiers: Cold War Trenched (aka Iron Brigade) The final 2011 tally is: 161 games played; 28 finished (NOTE: I originally counted 27 games finished, because โค้ดเครดิตฟรีสมาชิกใหม่ล่าสุด I accidentally didn’t include Sword & Sworcery among my conquered games.) That compares to: 2010… 195 played; 52 finished 2009… 165 played; 48 finished 2008… 135 played; 37 finished 2007… 118 played; 35 finished 2006…102 games played; 21 finished https://kotaku.com/i-finished-these-52-video-games-in-2010-30842497 (Sorry, PSP. It was fun.)