Got 100% for the first time in a game! Then got three more perfect games! I’ve also been making a lot of giveaways on Steam Gifts and got to level 4.5. I never used to beat many games until I started on Steam Gifts and BLAEO, maybe 3 a year. Since joining I’ve beat 10 games.
I am currently 2 hours into Rive, 7 hours into Unepic, and 3 hours into Freedom Planet. I will definitely finish Freedom Planet, but I’m not sure about the other two. They were both Steam Gifts wins so I feel like I should complete them, but Rive just isn’t very fun and I’ve pretty much given up on it. It’s really not for me. Unepic has been decent, but there’s still about 10 hours more and I’m not enjoying it as much as I was. I worry that if I take a break from it I’ll never return to it. Should I continue with Unepic? When do you decide to call it quits on a game?
Black Mesa (13.4 hours)
Rating: ★★★★★
I think this might be my favorite Half-Life game. I played it through with the tough achievement Rare Specimen where you have to carry a purple hat throughout the entire game all the way to Xen. This was difficult but fun. I used a guide for the other achievements, which are just little things you snag along the way. This is the first game where I got 100% of the achievements. Black Mesa was my first real Steam Gifts win and I was ecstatic to receive it. Much thanks to the Steam Gifts user who was kind enough to create a giveaway for it for the Playing Appreciated group (open enrollment if you want to join).
Super Rude Bear Resurrection (7 hours)
Rating: ★★★☆☆
I saw this game on an /r/speedrun post about a 7-way deathless Any% race among the top 6 runners vs the developer. I won the game on Steam Gifts from the Giftropolis group. Big thank you to the gifter! The game is hard but beatable by anyone because of the death mechanic: whenever you die, your corpse stays in the world and helps you defeat traps to help you progress. But the speedrunners play on Rainbow mode where they have to restart the entire level if they die. If you play this game, you will appreciate how good these speedrunners are. Their skills are really unbelievable.
Here is the developer’s stream of the speedrun.
Watch live video from AlexRoseGames on www.twitch.tv
And here is a link to second place’s stream.
Evil Defenders (13 hours)
Rating: ★★★☆☆
This was really addictive and a fun tower defense game to pass the time. It might lack some depth though, and some of the difficulty is a need to grind more to progress. I didn’t like that. I would want every level to be beatable and tone down some of the power that progression grants you. Big thanks to the leader of the Tower Defense Giveaways group who gifted me the game.
Full Throttle Remastered (3.5 hours)
Rating: ★★☆☆☆
I played this after playing Myst, and it doesn’t even compare. Sure this one had more cutscenes for storytelling, but that didn’t improve the game or story, just a different way of telling it. I liked the mystery of Myst a lot more. Full Throttle was boring and forgettable. Lots of clicking random things trying to get stuff to work, and a boring cliched story to tie it all together.
Quiting is always a though decision for me. Even putting a game aside, I haven’t finished 100% is sometimes troublesome :]
But let’s see. Since I did quit some, I can tell you the reason for every one of them.
15 Days: It was really a bit stupid. The riddles and everything. But still, I was willing to finish it. Then it just kept crashing at one point and since the company didn’t bother to do a thing… Here we go. That was an easy one. But one of my first to ever be quited really O.O
Fallout 4 - That is such a said story. I won it! I even tried playing it and enjoyed it. Normally I only get gaming sickness with FP games, but this one still was to close. But since I got some anti sickness wristbands, I. Will. Try. It. Again. At some point ;)
Pahelika: Revelations - It’s a bit like 15 Days. Although I must say, I completed this - once. In the second go I tried to not skip a thing and with one puzzle it crashed. Again they didn’t bother to do a thing about it.
Vampire: The Masquerade is probably the one game, that shows, why a game in itself made me stop playing it. Although gaming sickness was a small part as well. I felt uncomfortable playing it. The really mean thing about this is, that I wanted to play it! But I don’t like games, that spook me and this one had such a feeling to it. Combined with the old style and the occasional FP view aka gaming sickness. I finally put it aside. But it was a though decision. Still easier then Fallout 4 I guess ;)
Ok, so this is probably no help to you, since those are no reasons in you case. No gaming sickness, not game crash problem. So I guess it’s just a question about liking or not liking. And if you don’t enjoy it… just put it aside. Maybe you’ll return one day and enjoy it then or you don’t ;)
Happy backlog killing!
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Gaming sickness sounds terrible! Most of my favorite games are first-person. I don’t know what I’d do without them.
I’m not a big fan of jump scare games so I had to stop myself from entering a giveaway for CASE Animatronics (a Five Nights at Freddy’s clone) even though it looked fun. But the gore in games is not as much a problem for me as movies. Something about it being 3D characters doesn’t translate for my mind.
Well… there are a lot of games without FP :D
For me it’s the other way round. Although I don’t really watch horror movies ;)
But if they are detailed or show things, that’s alright. I think I have more of a problem with stories, that work with the mind. If that goes to deep… yeah, well, I think too much, so it’s very likely gonna stick with me for a while :D