#6 Progress note - June
Whoah, this month! I’ve been able to play at least 1h daily, with regular 2-3h on Tuesday and Friday. Only the last week gave me hard time at work, I’ve had to finish and do some clean up on my flood plains extent maps, which I’ve been doing last 3-4 months I think. For my backlogg - it was a hard time. At first, I’ve won 6 HOG’s (thx again to the group train creators :D), after this - my regular magazine with 4 games, bundle on some site (bundlestars?) with LEGO games (+3), and now - summer sale (+2, DOOM [2016] and Carmageddon: Max Damage). Damn. But - to the point:
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Mortal Kombat X
7 hours playtime
18 of 73 achievements
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Syberia
8 hours playtime
no achievements
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Dark Arcana: The Carnival
4 hours playtime
19 of 19 achievements
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Sea Legends: Phantasmal Light Collector's Edition
4 hours playtime
no achievements
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Pahelika: Revelations HD
2 hours playtime
9 of 18 achievements
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Namariel Legends: Iron Lord Premium Edition
5 hours playtime
no achievements
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Nightmares from the Deep 2: The Siren's Call
3 hours playtime
23 of 29 achievements
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Nightmares from the Deep 3: Davy Jones
4 hours playtime
26 of 32 achievements
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Grim Fandango Remastered
6 hours playtime
47 of 47 achievements
Mortal Kombat X as every fighting game - I’ve finished the story mode, played some of arcade fights - and dropped. My brothers have own PS4 fighting games, so we are playing at their places. My son is too young for this. I may want to explore some of the Krypt, but after some thinking - I rather play Legend of Grimrock 2 :D
Syberia 2nd playthrough, after all those years - I remembered almost all of the game. It’s still beautiful (background, people are ugly :P ), have nice music, and it’s enjoyable. Been aiming to play the second game next, but then the HOG GA ended, and I started playing them.
Grim Fandango 5h on steam - but I’ve finished it on android few days ago, and decided to breeze through the steam version, with guide to all achievements. This game is the best of those assassinated this month :D. Humor, story, Glottis – they will drag you to the end.
HOG are almost always the same. The cheesy acting, easy puzzles and UI. Just quick summary of each:
Dark Arcana: The Carnival darkest of those, fun to play, only one that I’ve bothered to do 100%
Sea Legends: Phantasmal Light Collector’s Edition hint system –“There’s nothing to do here”, but nothing too bad.
Pahelika: Revelations HD don’t play it, even if you gained it for free – it’s the worse of them, total waste of time.
Namariel Legends: Iron Lord Premium Edition isn’t bad, I’ve rather enjoyed it – but game is broken. On the first section of the game I’ve had to restart, because I couldn’t click important item. On second playthrough I didn’t had any problems, until the second to last screen – when I’ve encountered the same problem. Basically – game forced me to restart just 2 minutes from the end. But I didn’t do this, screw it.
Nightmares from the Deep 2: The Siren’s Call and Nightmares from the Deep 3: Davy Jones those were good, have nothing to say more.
So – that was an adventure month. Now I’ll play DOOM and Carmageddon till finish, probably won’t participate in monthly theme – btw, all this time reporting thingy required with comparison to HLTB in just pure fun challenge?
Pahelika: Revelations HD don’t play it, even if you gained it for free – it’s the worse of them, total waste of time.
Won game on SG, Playing Appreciated group GA, so i had to play it and it was ok for the HOG theme.
Story was nothing special, gameplay little buggy, some puzzles i had to do several times since it didn’t accept them etc. So i can only agree on not playing part :D
I’m not a pro in HOG category, but still played around 10 of them. Basing on my experience, it was the worst of them, and I wouldn’t recommend it and consider it a waste of time :D
Couldn’t agree more :)
What do you mean, “all this” …? You just check the game you wanna play on HLTB, tell me about it, and that’s it, you can go play and never come back and report anything again (I’d prefer if you’d let me know whe you’ve finished the game, but it’s not like I’ll erase you from the list if you don’t).
Edit: But of course that’s only necessary if you want to sign up for the challenge. You can play any game you want, and participate silently/just for yourself if you feel like it.
I understand the idea and got nothing against it, I’m just a little surpised, that there is starting requirement to get into the challenge :)
I’ve entered every theme in the past 6 months, and will participate in this one too. But declaring a game at the beginning of month against reporting completion at the end - I think the latter is better. I get it, this way is easier to gather the numbers, but for me - it spoils the fun just a little bit :)
Not sure what the difference is, except for the fact that you know beforehand whether your game will count or not. But I should maybe also add that I added this rule a) to add some motivation for lurkers + undecided users by showing them how many people were taking part + with what games, b) based on other challenges (as opposed to casual themes), like the Play or Play events in other groups, or “… is play your SG wins month” on steamgifts, where you also sort of declare what you’ll be playing before you play it, c) because I forgot that I could check total playtime for the month on this site as opposed to Steam, where it only shows the past 14 days ^^
And for me personally it’s easier to stick with something if I’ve told others I plan to stick with it, it’s sort of an added check. You can still just play something and tell us later (I’ve already removed the request for telling me how much time you’ve spent in the game and waiting for my approval).
Also, absolutely nothing happens when you don’t reach whatever goal you’ve set yourself at the beginning. Like I mentioned in the theme post already, this theme isn’t actually about finishing 50+ hour games (as some people already submitted), it’s about really focusing on one big game instead of blazing through as many short ones as possible, as the previous themes seemed to do - I find that that’s easier with a stated goal beforehand (I have several started games that would count, I’d probably skip between them if I hadn’t decided on one first)
Sorry this turned into such a long reply, but these are some of my thought behind it :)