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What games did you complete in 2019?

Wunderbar

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Resident Evil 2 (the original one) - replayed for the first time since i was a kid. Great game, though way too easy.

Resident Evil 2 Remake - more of a reimagining than a faithful remake, still a worthy entry in series. In fact it's so good i'd place it on 4th position in my RE series rating (RE1 remake - RE4 - RE2 - RE2 remake).

Resident Evil 3 Nemesis - it was OK. Way too action packed and linear. I understand that you can't just make a slow, exploration-focused game set in a zombie-infested city which is about to be nuked, but still.

Cold Fear - played it back in 2005 and really liked it, decided to check out whether it holds up or not. Alright RE4 knock-off, pretty atmospheric at times (especially first half on a ship).

Resident Evil Code Veronica - hot garbage and worst classic (with fixed camera angles) RE game. It manages to be even more frustrating than RE Zero!

British DMC (the one with Donte) - decent action game if you can ignore Donte's shitty one-liners and lame story.

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - i liked it a lot shortly after finishing, but now the more I think about it, the less I like it. Zero depth of replay value, just click rhythmically.

Pathologic 2 - probably my pick for GOTY. Peculiar mix of survival horror (scary foreboding atmosphere, resources scarcity), open world survival game (inventory management, crafting, repairing) and RPG (dialogues, sidequests, reputation, C&C). Some backwater steppe town on a Russian/Mongolian border in the late 19th century. Fight an outbreak during a day, shank robbers at night, cut out their hearts and livers, mix them into healing potions.

Dishonored 2 - despite being a new game on a different engine, D2 feels more like an expansion pack to original Dishonored than a new game. A dang good expansion pack.

Return to castle Wolfenstein - best Quake 3 engine game. Still holds up.

Underrail Expedition - base game is a masterpiece, expansion is... eh, could've been better i guess. Still worth picking up just for new PSI school and shotguns.

Ion Maiden - not as good as Duke Nukem 3d or Blood, but still a decent fun. Insane visuals for a Build engine game.

Deus Ex - nuff said, it's classic.

Replayed every japanese Silent Hill game:

Silent Hill - it is remarkable how devs managed to do pretty much everything right on their first try. "Hey, let's quickly make a clone of capcom's highly successful Resident Evil" - makes a game better than RE in almost every way.

Silent Hill 2 - the most well-regarded entry in series is also happens to be a pretty much storyfag game. Great story, zero challenge.

Silent Hill 3 - the most polished and fun to play (if you can say that about a horror) SH game. Best protagonist too.

Silent Hill 4 - "combatfag SH". Limited inventory, item box, resource management, hard enemies, backtracking. Personally my favorite SH game.

Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones - messy, buggy and unfinished. Disappointment of the year.

The Outer Worlds - this game takes silver award in disappointment of the year category. See, it's so lame it failed to win gold.

Fallout New Vegas - replayed for like a fifth time, as a chaotic evil. Legion storyline is severely underdeveloped, but Arizona killer quest made it worth playing. Best Obsidian game.

Baldur's Gate - no bullshit, no political agendas, no overly verbose NPCs drowning you in boring exposition - just a fun pulpy adventure romp. Finished it for the first time after starting and abandoning it many times, liked it a lot (especially TotSC content - Durlag tower, snowy labyrinth and werewolf island). Though i wish it was turn-based instead of this round-based half real-time mess.

Lost in Vivo - indie first-person horror powered by Unity engine. Sounds like shit, but it's actually a great little game. Inventive, unpredictable, doesn't overstay its welcome.

Bloodline - little known Czech survival horror, was never released outside of Czechia, Poland and Russia. Janky and unfinished, but atmospheric. Reminded me of They Hunger mod for half-life.
 

Daedalos

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- Underrail Expedition: Good game, with a fairly disappointing abrupt ending to an otherwise great experience
- Fallout New Vegas with mods: No explanation needed, just a great game with more potential than was realized and a shitty graphics engine
- Fallout: Nevada: Great mod for Fallout, a must play for fans
- The Outer Worlds: A disappointing anticipated game from the all-star old school fallout devs at Obsidian. So much potential wasted, a shame
- Disco Elysium: An excellent RPG, and my personal GOTY 2019
- Resident Evil 2 Remake: Excellent remake, I fully enjoyed it
- ATOM: Very good fallout 1/2 clone, that gets abit too much cloney sometimes, but enjoyable, shit combat though and too many obscure russian pop references and culture shit
 

Sigourn

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Resident Evil: 6.5 (Good)

Fun survival horror, but the "survival horror" mechanics such as the over dependence in the safebox, leading to being unable to drop items on the floor to pick up others as well as the need to magically know which key items you need to be carrying ahead of time to minimize boring backtracking, puts a dent on the whole experience. Once you leave the mansion proper the game starts to fall apart.

Resident Evil 2: 7.0 (Very Good)

More fun than its predecessor, with higher quality graphics overall and some quality of life improvements, but there's just no beating the mansion setting.

Koudelka: 5.5 (Mediocre)

Really un-JRPG RPG, with excellent English voice acting, strangely conservative camera placement which relies mostly on long shots to convey the action and mood of the scenes, and absolutely dogshit combat. It's Resident Evil meets JRPG, but without tank controls. Overall the gameplay makes for a mediocre experience, but nothing short of forgettable which is why I recommend everyone to at least play two or three hours of this rather short game.

Haunting Ground: 5.5 (Mediocre)

Much scarier than the Resident Evil games, but not as compelling when it comes to the gameplay. Haunting Ground relies on the player running and hiding all the time, which can get old as there can be plenty of times when the puzzles don't make much sense and rely on arbitrary triggers. More than once I found myself wanting to do something but the game wouldn't let me until KEY PLOT POINT happened. The boob physics are A+, the game itself not genuinely good, but I still recommend it.

Yakuza: 7.0 (Very Good)

I never expected to enjoy a beat'em up this much, probably because Yakuza is packed with a fairly interesting storyline regarding a former Yakuza Dragon who kicks ass left and right. The combat can be repetitive at times, and I feel the game was far too long for its own good: none of the sidequests you can engage in, which are few and far between, come remotely close to the fun that is the main quest itself.

Dragon Quest V: 6.5 (Good)

It's good. But it's not that good to elevate it to the heights a lot of people do. Character development is not seeing your character grow older, but seeing your character grow up, and this is impossible to achieve when your character is an expresionless mute who, for some arbitrary reason, decides to get a wife some day. The monster recruiting mechanic is cute, but by the end of the day you can safely discard most of the useless monsters you have acquired over your 40-hour journey. I'm thinking maybe I was a bit lenient with the score here...

Dragon Quest IV: 4.0 (Bad)

Everything I've said about Dragon Quest V's character development applies here: Dragon Quest IV was "innovative" in that it is divided in chapters, each regarding a future companion to our Hero. Sadly, all these chapters work the same way: we don't see our characters develop, we only see them do the things we make them do. Taloon's a.k.a. Torneko's chapter, where you do more shrew business tactics as opposed to fighting, isn't anymore interesting than picking up flowers in Skyrim and pretending to be an alchemist by selling them to other shops. The encounter rate is insane, and three out of your four party members are controlled by an AI that doesn't quite live up to its name. I've raged quite a bit to this game, which is why I can't recommend it to anyone who doesn't enjoy the mediocrity called Dragon Quest.

I think that's it.

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Reinhardt

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Except Battle Brothers and modded Darkest Dungeon it seems i didn't played any western games this year.

Oh, and Grim Dawn.

Finished

Atelier Lulua
Nelke
Code Vein
Senran Kagura Burst Re:Newal
Record of Agarest War Marriage
Death and ReQuest
Dragon Star Varnir

replayed Yakuza Zero and Kiwami

with rpcs3

Cross Edge
Ar Nosurge
 

MpuMngwana

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Yakuza 0 - started in 2018, finished early 2019
Catherine
Dragon Quest XI - started in 2018, finished early 2019
Fire Emblem (GBA one, first oficially translated)
Risen 2
Yakuza Kiwami
Earthbound
Devil May Cry 5
Blackguards
Mass Effect 3
Valkyria Chronicles
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
Yakuza Kiwami 2
The Council
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
HITMAN
Suikoden
Bloodstained Ritual of the Night
Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
Dawn of War - only original campaign so far
Legends of Amberland
Far Cry 3
Control
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel
F.E.A.R.
Untitled Goose Game
Disco Elysium
Diablo 2
The Outer Worlds
Atelier Ryza
Star Wars Jedi Knight Jedi Academy

Also replayed New Vegas, Planescape Torment, Dark Messiah, Final Fantasy 1 and possibly something else I'm forgetting.
 

Belegarsson

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Resident Evil 2 remake: :4/5: awesome, pretty good level design, traversing the police station is a joy, love Leon and Claire's characterization, lots of interesting visual storytelling, my only criticism is the shallow A/B route mechanic (apparently called "zapping"?). It made me go try the first game. REmake is even better with its thick ambience & atmosphere, and exploration beats feel like DMC1 & 3 that made me feel right at home :5/5: RE0 is okay I guess, wasn't fond of the protagonists, and the buddy system was just there. Those leech dudes are something else though :2/5: Still finding spare time to play RE3 on emulator, but I'm really stoked for the remake.

Devil May Cry 5 is pure fan service, full stop :5/5:, combat went to 11 with Nero's incredibly fun cybernetic arms and a fucking motorbike that breaks in half. King Cerberus replaced Agni & Rudra as my most favorite devil arm of the entire series. Story is chessy and hilarious, I want Griffon to be my spirit animal, and the flashback to Eva telling the brothers to run and find a new life is just :desu:

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is another :5/5:, but that's probably because I immediately started it after mastering Royal Guard in DMC5 so its parry mechanic instantly clicked for me. Love its straightforward progression system over Dark Souls, traversing with grappling hook is pure joy, and that Guardian Ape boss fight is probably still the most WTF moment I got to experience this year.

Yakuza 0 is :5/5: and quite possibly one of the best games I've ever played. This is like, peak melodrama that get you in your heart. Simple writing yet effective, lively city, over the top atmosphere, MUSIC SO GOOD YOU GONNA WANT TO THROW YOUR NEIGHBOR OUT OF THE WINDOW. I started Kiwami not long after but stopped at 10 hours mark because I want all games to come to PC first and digest them in very very very slow pace since I don't want it to end.

Phoenix Wright Trilogy is pure delight. Probably the embodiment of "charming" :5/5:.

Katana Zero is :4/5: solid 2d sidescroller that took inspiration from Hotline Miami. Hyper violent, short burst gameplay loop, a pretty intriguing narrative framework about shadowy control, with a dialogue system that complemented the protagonist's unstable mind (if you skip a line from opposite NPC for example, the dialogue box shatters and he literally tells them to speak quicker). It's one hit one kill mechanic doesn't really have Hotline Miami's nuance probably due to its camera perspective, and the story is another victim of Mankind Divided's "this is actually not the end but we need to end" symptom.

Far Cry New Dawn is :1/5:. As someone who place Far Cry 5 as the second best FC game right after FC2, this one left me disappointed. The open world while still looks pretty as hell is noticably cut down, but the devs didn't bother to put in more exotic, otherworldly traits to make landscapes truly stand out. FC5 villains has good concept but bad execution, FCND villains has neither. Joseph Seed's redemption is bland, so many loose threads from FC5 got resolved in lazy ways, old Hope County people got shafted on hard, the entire thing just reeks lazy response to FC5's controversial ending. Surprisingly non-intrusive RPG lite mechanic. I have always liked Far Cry's freeform loop so it's just more of the same for me, but god damn this is such a missed opportunity.

Gorogoa is a short epiphany that you should focus on its delivery, rather than the logic behind its mechanic. Great thing within its short runtime :4/5:

Disco Elysium :5/5: duh

A Plague Tale: Innocence is another missed opportunity with paperthin narrative and bland gameplay that holds player's hand way too much. Just play Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons :1/5:

Control is a huge disappointment to me as a Remedy fan. Waste of SCP inspired setting, one dimensional combat, pretty safe game all around :2/5:

Blood: Fresh Supply and Ion Fury are :5/5:

Mortal Kombat 11 lmfao the writer of this thing probably wrote it while jacking off to kangaroo porn :0/5:

Wolfenstein Youngblood don't :0/5:

Anthem just fucking don't :0/5:

(don't play shit co-op games with your friends just because they think it's hilarious to play bad games, trust me)

Shovel Knight: King of Cards :3/5: shorter levels, lots of clever secrets, way too easy bossfights. I surprisingly enjoyed the card game. Would rate it slightly below Shovel of Hope, but overall still a pretty damn enjoyable expansion.

Games I got and plan to play & complete in 2020: Pathologic 2 (especially since I just upgraded PC), Sunless Skies, Kenshi, Greedfall, Pyre, Hades, Unavowed, Baba is You, Thronebreaker and Pathfinder's DLCs, Cyberpunk 2077 and another playthrough of KOTOR and KOTOR2. This is piece of cake as long as my friends don't ask me to play dumb AAA co-op games again :whiteknight:
 
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Nano

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Pretty sure these are all the games I finished this year:

Shadowrun: Hong Kong
Amazing Learning Games with Rayman
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (replay)
Mass Effect 1 (replay)
Mass Effect 2 (replay)

There might be more though, can't remember atm. I do have a bunch more games that I left unfinished:

GTA IV (replay) - got distracted, probably won't bother picking it up again
Fallout New Vegas (replay) - got distracted, will probably come back to finish playthrough eventually
Pathfinder Kingmaker - Kingdom Management was way too stressful
Disco Elysium - didn't click with me
The Outer Worlds - boring
Tyranny - boring
The Council - boring
 
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Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus (good)
Swords and Sorcery - Underworld (so so)
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (good)
Sekiro (so so)
The Witcher 3 (uninstalled)

I also replayed Dark Souls II, Dark Souls III and Nioh, this one to finally finish this time the Way of the Nioh and the Abyss, which took months.
 

Jack Of Owls

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Though I started many different games in many different genres, I only completed the following games in 2019:

Assassin's Creed Origins (highly enjoyable)
Assassin's Creed Black Flag (ditto)
Assassin's Creed Unity (enjoyable)
Tomb Raider 2013 (enjoyable and better than expected)

And last but not least:

Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition (a modern classic-tier game, imo, but I wish there were more boss fights. It was both the best and the worst that the open world concept has to offer)

Some games, like Pathfinder Kingmaker and Grim Dawn, I probably played the entire main campaign but with the DLC included, it either turned into a 100+ hour slog and I grew exhausted before the end (Pathfinder) or I rage-quit because the save point system was unbearably tedious (Grim Dawn).
 

Abu Antar

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Enjoy the Revolution! Another revolution around the sun that is. Shadorwun: Hong Kong Divinity: Original Sin 2 Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Pathfinder: Wrath I'm very into cock and ball torture I helped put crap in Monomyth
Here's my humble list. I hope to complete one or two more games.

  1. The Witcher: Enhanced Edition (PC) January 2 - 39hrs
  2. Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight (PC) January 6 - 6hrs
  3. Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse - Episode 1 (PSV) January 11 - 6hrs
  4. Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse - Episode 2 (PSV) January 13 - 4hrs
  5. Mother Russia Bleeds (PC) January 13 - 4hrs
  6. Odin Sphere: Leifdrasir (PS4) January 19 - 39hrs
  7. Growlanser: Wayfarer of Time (PSP) January 20 - 55hrs
  8. Braveland (PC) January 21 - 4hrs
  9. Star Ocean 5 (PS4) January 26 - 40hrs
  10. 河洛群俠傳 (Ho Tu Lo Shu : The Books of Dragon) (PC) February 16 - 75hrs
  11. Beneath a Steel Sky (PC) February 17 - 3hrs
  12. 20 Minute Metropolis (PC) March 3 – 0.5hrs
  13. Massive Chalice (PC) March 26 – 18hrs
  14. A Short Hike (PC) April 6 – 1.5hrs
  15. Spoolside (PC) April 6 – 1.5hrs
  16. 2064: Read Only Memories (PC) April 22 – 10hrs
  17. Super Mario Odyssey (NSW) April 28 – 25hrs
  18. Gone Home (PC) May 1 – 1.5hrs
  19. Once Upon A Crime In The West (PC) May 4 – 1.5hrs
  20. Unrest (PC) May 19 - 5hrs
  21. Tacoma (PC) May 19 – 5hrs
  22. Day of the Tentacle Remastered (PC) May 26 – 4.5hrs
  23. Divide by Sheep (PC) June 1 – 6.5hrs
  24. Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich (PC) June 2 – 11hrs
  25. Xanadu Next (PC) June 8 – 15hrs
  26. Aragami (PC) June 9 – 7hrs
  27. Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth (PS4) June 16 - 72hrs
  28. Championship Manager 01/02 (PC) - 150hrs
  29. Final Fantasy VIII (PS3) June 23 – 42hrs
  30. Steins;Gate (PSV) June 23 - 23hrs
  31. Space Pilgrim Episode I: Alpha Centauri (PC) June 28 – 1.5hrs
  32. Space Pilgrim Episode II: Epsilon Indi (PC) June 28 – 1.5hrs
  33. Space Pilgrim Episode III: Delta Pavonis (PC) July 1 – 2.5hrs
  34. Space Pilgrim Episode IV: Sol (PC) July 5 – 2hrs
  35. Citizens of Earth (PC) July 7 – 16hrs
  36. Tale of Wuxia: The Pre-Sequel (PC) July 17 – 65hrs
  37. Pool Panic (PC) July 20 – 6hrs
  38. Mercenaries Saga: The Will of the White Lion (NSW) July 21 – 27.5hrs
  39. Toonstruck (PC) July 21 – 4.5hrs
  40. Bleed 2 (PC) July 22 – 2hrs
  41. Bombshell (PC) July 22 – 9hrs
  42. Obduction (PC) July 25 – 13hrs
  43. The Guild: Gold (PC) July 30 – 12hrs
  44. Anno 1404: Gold Edition (PC) August 1 – 14hrs
  45. Owlboy (PC) August 2 – 9hrs
  46. Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (PC) August 12 – 7hrs
  47. Heroes of Ruin (3DS) August 22 – 10hrs
  48. Dead Age (PC) September 5 – 11hrs
  49. The Journey Down: Chapter One (PC) September 6 – 2hrs
  50. The Journey Down: Chapter Two (PC) September 7 – 3.5hrs
  51. The Witness (PC) September 15 – 22hrs
  52. The Journey Down: Chapter Three (PC) September 30 – 2.5hrs
  53. Almost There: The Platformer (PC) October 20 – 4hrs
  54. Darksiders III (PS4) October 22 – 23hrs
  55. Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma (PS4) October 26 – 20hrs
  56. Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones (PC) November 2 – 16hrs
  57. South Park: Fractured But Whole (PS4) November 25 – 27.5hrs
  58. Shady Knight (PC) November 25 – 2hrs
  59. Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana (PS4) December 22 - 80hrs
 

Baron Dupek

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-XIII
-UnderRail + Expedition as a tin can, a brain dead build whose only problem was ammo shortage
-The Thing. Blood tests are bullshit, once you don't need NPCs they turn into monsters anyway, you do them to make NPCs follow you without giving them guns.
-Devil Inside, p.short and cool game with some camera+control issues but nothing major, gonna play From Dusk Till Dawn some day...
-GTA Vice City Stories [PSP] was amazing and I pity everyone who miss that game
-GTA Liberty City Stories [PSP] some improvement over GTA3 but nothing major
-ToEE - Co8 mod was garbage and people who made it were nuts, like most moders anyway. Just stick to Temple+ and rest spam to gain XP if you don't want to deal with Hommlet quests
-Heretic II, took a sweet, sweet time to finally play it
-Wizardry VI-VII-VIII marathon with importing characters to next game, with old knowledge, maps and automaps (because fuck Dwarven Mines)
-Jeanne D'Arc, best PSP game hands down, animu graphic was doable with some wine or liquir and not particulary difficult compared to other similar games (FF Tactics, Tactics Ogre)
-Bandits Phoenix Rising, good OST and still hard despite patching, one particular mission was known to be difficult but was easy if you used a litle trick (speed up to the finish line asap and ignore the train)
-You Are Empty, I can't believe my eyes but it's true - there is no lighting in the game! Still looks good. Woah.
-God of War games on PS2 and PSP - best one is Ghost of Sparta, not too long and improvement over previous PSP GoW, more secrets and better performance
-The Punisher, nuff said
-Drakan Order of Flame, I hate old games with cliffhangers and this one DO have a sequel that ain't explain shit to what happened then. srsly
- King's Field 4 Ancient City, a nice dung crawler from era before Souls mania overtaken FROM software
- Shadow Tower Abyss, mesmerizing game but p.short and not that challenging beside 1-2 segments
-D.W. Bradley's Wizards&Warriors solo - doable but there are 2 moments when you can stuck because certain quest items are class restricted (flute? from snake temple and pickaxe from Dwarf Mines)
-Might&Magic IX Writ of Fate, butt ugly but at least leveling and character progress is fun, with exception of those annoying moments when you're looking for a trainers in a towns full of clones. Despite being rushed release (late alpha version at best) it have nice dungeon, better than those from M&M VII and VIII
-Crime Cities
-NOLF 1&2 (sequel was ok but it was prone to crashing)
-Dungeon Keeper 2, beside that fugly mission where they give you Horny (not enough free space, money and flood of enemies including those who should not be digging through certain wall) it was smooth sail, unless you forget to patch it since GOG version have that bug where you're blocked from recruiting best units in the last 3 missions
 
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karoliner

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Odin Sphere Leifthrasir
The bunnies are so cute.

Yakuza Kiwami
A big improvement over the PS2 original but still feels a bit outdated at times.

Fate/EXTELLA LINK
Best waifu simulator of 2019

Yakuza Kiwami 2
It's good enough.

Devil May Cry 5
The return of the king. A true :5/5: game.

Valkyria Chronicles 4
It's literally the same thing as Valkyria 1.

Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind
It's literally the same thing as King of Dragon Pass.

Super Robot Wars V
To be honest you need to be a massive weeabo to enjoy this game.

Disco Elysium
Best visual novel i have ever read.
 

Reality

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Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim
Majesty 2
Pool of Radiance
Curse of the Azure Bonds
Gateway to the Savage Frontier
Buck Rogers Countdown to Doomsday
Wizardry 1
Wizardry 6
Wizardry 8
Company of Heroes 1
Mount and Blade : Warband
Star Control 1
Star Control 2
Star Control 3
Star Control: Origins
Monaco : What's Yours is Mine
Stephen's Sausage Roll
Overcooked
Overcooked 2
Grandia 1
Grandia 2
SSX 3 Tricky
THPS American Wasteland
THPS 4
Silent Storm
Puyo Puyo Tetris
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Super Meat boy
Roller Coaster Tycoon 1
Caesar 3
HoMM 2
Ace Combat 7

There's more but this gives me an idea - Overcooked 2 was probably my favorite of the things I played for the first time in 2019 and I bought the first game second as "to me" a level expansion, a lot of stuff was replays, most of which went well.
 

Puukko

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I've written of all of these in length but a little post mortem summary never hurt anyone.

Shin Megami Tensei

(and spinoffs)

Digital Devil Saga 1+2: Excellent atmosphere and world, rollercoaster ride of a story, banging soundtrack. These hold of a special place in my heart for introducing me to the series. I can only hope they get difficulty mods one day.

Nocturne: The most well-rounded experience in the series. Really unique and campy atmosphere and soundtrack and the first in the series I will likely replay on a higher difficulty. Navigating the world map is a pain though.

Persona 5: Cancerous fanbase and the game drags on but the gameplay and difficulty on Hard were spot on and I liked how the confidants tied into combat. Good soundtrack though not one that I found myself returning to - I'm still recovering from how long this game took me.

IV: Once again, banging soundtrack and atmosphere. Questionable design decisions and a difficulty curve that goes flaccid after a promising start. Serious pacing issues on the neutral route.

IV: Apocalypse: An improvement over IV, gameplay and difficulty have been refined, world map is vastly improved and dungeons are a slight improvement outside the final migraine inducing hell trek of YHVH's realm. May be my second favorite after DDS1/2.

Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army: Experimental and janky action spinoff, good soundtrack and lovely intrerpretation of Japan of the 20s/30s. Fun boss fights and the story goes absolutely off the rails, even by the series' standards. A tad too short to enable the systems to fully mature.

Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon: A worthy sequel, the gameplay is improved in fluidity but I disliked how MP was implemented in this. Much longer and with actual side quests that unfortunately were too much of a hassle to unlock for me to bother. Overall these two are definitely worth experiencing but only after you've got half a dozen games under your belt already and want something different.

Strange Journey Redux: Excellent blobber with interesting setting and story and plenty of difficulty that can be finetuned to personal tastes. Maybe my favorite final boss in the series in Shekinah.

Persona 2 Innocent Sin PSP/Eternal Punishment PSX: What I wish Persona could have been... First game is very easy, second one was more difficult but still easy by the series' standards. An adult cast and lack of a high school setting were great aspects so obviously they did not stick. Obscure mechanics galore.

Other RPGs:

Valkyria Chronicles IV: Great sequel to the first game, depicting a more bleak/grey aspect of the war and overall a more fleshed out game (not to imply the first game's relative leanness was necessarily bad). Good difficulty.

Final Fantasy XII: The difficulty mod made this a very enjoyable ride that never felt like a slog. Some pacing issues with the story.

Code Vein: The only game from 2019 that I played and finished, I was looking for something Soulslike and this hit the spot. Don't tell anyone vampire chicks are my weakness.

KOTOR 2: What's not to like about building a harem of dark jedi babes? Not much to say that hasn't been said before, very glad I finally finished this despite some jank and bugs halting my progression.

Xenoblade Chronicles: Hallmark of a party-driven JRPG, set back by hardware limitations. Excellent OST and well-realized story with good twists. Good difficulty to boot, manages to make cooldown-based MMO style combat engaging.

Xenoblade Chronicles X: Excellent world and exploration with... unique soundtrack. Unfortunately, the main story and characters are a bit lacking. Still a worthy spinoff style sequel.

90% completed as of writing:

Shadow Hearts Covenant: Very solid PS2 JRPG with unique systems for each character and a surprisingly interesting story. The low difficulty does become a drag as the game goes on, unfortunately.



I didn't leave too many games unifinished - I set a trend this year where whenever I hit a slump where I wasn't sure what to play, I'd try 2-3 games and see which one stuck, then return to the rest later. I reached part C of Nier Automata, played about half of Amid Evil, a good dozen hours of Soul Hackers and some odds and ends of other SMT titles. I'll hopefully finish all of them sooner or later.

Overall I completed a record number of games even considering their length. Some 600-700 hours of JRPGs over the year with no end in sight.
 
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The year in which I played quite a number of mediocre open world games and less games than I wanted to complete because Kingdom Come Deliverance took 3 months to complete.

Avadon 2
Avadon 3
Old Man's Journey
State of Decay 2
For the King
The Outer Worlds
Crackdown 3
Moonlighter
Bloodstained
The Adventures of Bertram Fiddle 1/2
Age of Wonders 3
The Bureau Xcom Declassified
Cat Quest
Tsioque
Fester Mudd episode 1 (no further episodes were made kek)
Kingdom Come Deliverance
Paradigm
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Kathy Rain
Tormentum
Borderlands 2
Yakuza Kiwami 2
Yakuza Kiwami
Battle Brothers DLC run
Grim Dawn
Detective Di
Asscreed Unity (twere free)
Session Seven
Towards the Pantheon
Mafia 3
Watchdogs 2
Civ IV colonization (wooo boy does it become micro management hell towards the end of a game)
Civ IV Warlords (boy was civ 4 lackluster before Beyond the Sword).
Played Soysmac Beyond Earth as well kek, pretty bland.
Dead State Reanimated

Almost finished with Recore and ATOM RPG. Out of all that I really only enjoyed Bloodstained, Dead State Reanimated, Avadon 2, Yakuza Kiwami 1, Kathy Rain, and Paradigm a lot.
 
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Underrrail
Tyranny
Shadowrun Returns
Shadowrun Dragonfall
Shadowrun Hong Kong
Disco Elysium
Into the Breach
Civ 5
 

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Fate/EXTELLA LINK
Have it on steam but keep forgetting about it. Maybe i will play it now for Good Wife and Wise Mother. She's avoiding me in FGO.
I have time to play one game before Atelier Dusk Trilogy.
 

Butter

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Fallout 2
VtMB
Icewind Dale
Call of Juarez Gunslinger
Metro 2033
Opus Magnum
Arcanum
Fallout
Sleeping Dogs
Mount & Blade Warband
Dungeon Rats
Roller Coaster Tycoon
Morrowind
Legends of Amberland
Vigilantes
Baldur's Gate
Metro Last Light
Costume Quest
Detention
Tomb Raider (2013)
Chrono Trigger
Disco Elysium
Titan Outpost
Fallout New Vegas
 

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