I see you're already on batch 2, awesome! I'll try to at least finish a few games I started a while ago this weekend, and then I'll finally move on to my won games (already have a few installed, but barely got any playtime in so far :( )
Okay, let's do this! I'll do it in batches of 5, because most of mine seem to have achievements - and I haven't won nearly as many you ;)
Also, changing my rules to enter 2 GAs per finished game after that game is finished (I have Super Meat Boy in my first batch, come on!). And to balance things out, I'll create 1 GA per batch started + 1 GA per batch finished (crappy bundle leftovers, but it's something ^^)
Edit: The platformers are a lot harder without a gamepad, so I'm postponing them until I get one (I may still work on them in between the rest, but it'll take a lot longer with just keyboard controls). I also decided to postpone any games that require a previous part, instead of "disqualifying" them because of that. I added a table for all postponed games from earlier batches, just to keep track of what I haven't played yet :)
Batch 2
| Game | Achievements | Dependence | Add to Queue? | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Symphony | Yes | None | Yes | 74% (story is done) |
| Schein | Yes | None | Yes | 24% |
| Bad Rats: the Rats' Revenge | Yes | None | Yes | 100% |
| TeraBlaster | No | None | No | - |
| Bardbarian | Yes | None | Yes | 86% (story is done) |
Postponed
| Game | Achievements | Reason | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stonerid | Yes | No Gamepad | 8% |
| Super Meat Boy | Yes | No Gamepad | 0% |
| Broken Sword 2 | No | Part 1 missing | 0% |
Finished Games:
- The Samaritan Paradox - That ending XD
- The Detail (Episode1) - Missing achievements are from episode 2
- Bardbarian - All story achievements unlocked, might even get the last 2 later
- Bad Rats - It was everything I thought it would be, and
worsemore - Symphony - My favorite quote from the game: "Aargh..."
GAs entered: 10/10
Entries before starting: 5,558 (5,376 + 182 from Holiday entries)
HOLIDAY EXCEPTION: I can enter as many games as I want starting today (December 19th) until January 1st.
crappy GAs for everyone:
none right now ^^
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Not so awesome that I'm currently locked out of my account because my phone was stolen and now I don't have a Steam Guard code anymore. :P This will definitely slow me down.
But nice to see you joining here! I can help you with that. xD
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Oh no! But can't you change it via e-mail? The phone codes didn't work for a while for me (kept saying it was the wrong code, although it was still active on my phone), and I'm sure there was an option to change it in case of a lost phone etc.
Just finished To the Moon (didn't win it here, but still, yay!), so I'll get into the table making in a few minutes - I guess I'll just edit my first post to include it :)
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Nope, the only way to change it would be through a recovery code, which I don't know where the hell I wrote. :P
Yay, nice! Can I include you to the OP as well, in a finished games list?
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Crap, well, good luck with that then :)
And of course you can include me, I'll add GAs to it as well, so it's better if people find & enter them ;) I made my table now, and amended the rules a bit for me ^^
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Thanks :)
Added you to the OP. Thanks a lot for contributing! ^^
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thank you for making me start - the hardest part was deciding which game to pick first, but I guess unless I feel like I really really need to play something immediately, I can use this method now :)
Also added my total number of giveaways entered at this point, in case people want to check up on me (and yell at me for cheating XD)
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Yeah, I went in order exactly so I wouldn't have to worry about picking games. :)
Oh that's nice, I'll add that to mine as well. xD
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btw, I just noticed: it should be "Check out her table" for me as well ;)
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Oops! My mistake. Fixed. :) I always thought you were a guy. :S
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Don't worry about it, I guess it's safe to assume everyone's a guy online until they say otherwise (and even then - who knows ^^)
added some more GAs, I wonder how the entries shape up now that this thread is getting older...
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I guess. ^^ Added them to the OP. Hopefully you'll still get some entries...
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That is the reason I don't use it :s Good luck finding a solution; you are an expert finding them so it won't take too much :)
6686 entries here
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But it makes your account so much safer. You just need to keep your recovery code in a safe place that you remember (which was my dumb mistake). :P
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Someone guess your recovery code = you are screw. What is the difference with a password?
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You're gonna 100% Super Meat Boy? Wow good luck. :P
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I wish XD it's just the main story for now ^^
But I'll probably have to send SMB and Stonerid to the back of the queue, because I don't have a gamepad right now and they're even harder with just keyboard controls. I needed like 20 minutes for the first level in Stonerid on easy - I don't think it's supposed to take that long ^^
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I don't have Stonerid, so I can't comment on that. But main story on SMB should be hard enough, judging from the levels I have played. :D Or maybe I just suck at the game, each level takes me so long... Good choice to postpone them first.
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Ooh you got Schein on your batch now. I hope you'll enjoy it. xD
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I hope so too ^^ I'll start with Bardbarian though, since it's already installed (meant to play it when I got it, bu then... life stuff happened...)
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Good luck, I'm cleaning my backlog but at a slow pace. Also, how will you finish Voxelized? It's a game with no objetives, and also I don't recommend adding games with online components like L4D2, or at least with L4D2 you could mark as a finish completing all the official campaigns. It shouldn't take you much and it will be fun.
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Thanks, and good luck to you too. I'm not adding Voxelized to the queue since it doesn't have achievements. Thanks for the tips on L4D2, I'll get a better look at it once I start playing. :)
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Great idea!
Congrats on finishing the first 2 so fast!
The second batch though, doesn't L4D2 need a while?
Good luck with the rest of the games!
By the way, what about each game's experience, won't speedrunning games ruin it?
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Actually, I had already finished Schein a while ago, so I only really finished Greyfox (it's a short game, so that's why I finished it so fast). I'm not speedrunning the games, I don't have any deadline for finishing this. :P I really don't know if L4D2 will be long.
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Oh, I thought you finished both of those today, and with your new plan for entering giveaways, I thought you'd be trying to finish games as fast as possible to enter new giveaways :v
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Nope, I'm trying to prevent myself from entering them. :P I currently have 5 giveaways in my entered list (none of them were entered after this thread, so I can still enter 4 more).
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Good luck on clearing that backlog. I started working on mine as well, but life always get in the way. Ah well I'll get through it... one day:)
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Now I feel inspired (guilted?) into playing my back log too. See you guys in a few hours. I'ma play some hidden object games!
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Feel free to post your finished games here so I can add them to the OP. :P You can also join the marathon by making your own table. xD
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Maybe I'll make a table after Thanksgiving. I get the feeling I won't play too much this week. I did just finish Lilly Looking Through (no achievements) and 9 Clues: The Secret of Serpent Creek (15/19 achievements. May go back for the 100% later) Both were games I got here through trades. I will definitely bookmark this thread as incentive to keep playing XD
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Great, maybe I'll wait for your table then. :) Going for 100% is not really necessary. Just finishing the main story is enough. I just like perfecting some of my games. :P
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Wait, are you finishing the main story or going for 100%?
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I'm so confused. I was certain I had replied to this comment... Let's do it again. xD
I'm mainly going for the main story. If I see that I'm capable of going for 100%, I will, but not for every game. :P
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Ok, so ... I really like this idea. I'll join ... kinda. I may cheat a little.
I have come too far in the train of madness to give up. I'm stuck there at the moment, but if I make it to the end and find the best wishlisted AAA GA of all time, I won't pass on it :P (Well I could of course try to "earn" GAs fast enough? ...)reached the end ... no more cheating- If I really can't stand a game, I'll quit/skip it. (Come on, I've won Bat Rats :P ... and who knows what else.)
- I'll start my batches with the newest won games -- because I'm playing some (2?) of those at the moment and I want to finish them first.
Batch 3
| Game | Achievements | Dependence | Add to Queue? | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legends of Atlantis: Exodus | Yes | No | Yes | 83% |
| Fort Defense | Yes | No | Yes | 69% |
| Stranded In Time | No | No | No | - |
| Tiny Bridge: Ratventure | Yes | No | Yes | 9% |
| Frozen Synapse Prime | Yes | No | Yes | 0% |
| Timberman | Yes | No | No | |
| Epic Quest of the 4 Crystals | Yes | No | Yes | 0% |
| Terrorhedron | Yes | No | Yes | 2% |
| No Time To Explain Remastered | Yes | No | Yes | 0% |
| Incitement 3 | Yes | Yes | Maybe? | 0% |
Entry count before starting: 11435
Giveaways entered: 14/14
Didn't really start counting again after Christmas ... right now I'm only entering small group/whitelist GAs and puzzle prizes anyway, and it feels stupid not entering those.
Skipped / postponed games
- Contagion: Singleplayer mode seems to be useless ... and I'm not in the mood for random multiplayer right now.
- Blackwell Convergence: Part 1 missing
- Prompt: I'd need to install an JRE to play that game? ... yeah sorry not gonna happen.
- Hektor: I don't get that game. Is it supposed to be scary? Is there any sense to those puzzles or are they just random? ... 83 Minutes into the game I was really, really hoping it would soon be over, but ... I don't even have any idea if there's another 10 hours or it'll just end behind the next door. I quit.
- Revolution Ace: I might return to this later ... but this game feels reeeeally repetitive, and I don't think I'm good at it either. 3 hours was enough for now.
- Timberman: This game is stupidly simple and it's fun! ... but there's no story to finish.
Finished games
- Melissa K. and the Heart of Gold (some of the achievements are broken, I got 4 or 5 more in the game but not on Steam ... well, doesn't matter)
- Driftmoon
- Time Mysteries 2: The Ancient Spectres
- Time Mysteries 3: The Final Enigma
- MISSING: An Interactive Thriller - Episode One
- Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic
- The Evil Within
- Grim Legends: The Forsaken Bride
- The Raven - Legacy of a Master Thief
- Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
- Nightmares from the Deep 3: Davy Jones
- Inbetween Land
- Frederic: Evil Strikes Back
- Grim Fandango Remastered
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YES! :D
I still haven't even checked out the train of madness :(
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Yay! Another one. Welcome aboard. xD Adding you to the OP.
Wow, that really looks like it will take a while. Good luck! We can do this. :P
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Yep ... but Evil Within is really killing me ... that game is really good, but I can't stand the tension for more than an hour. Well it got better after the first 6 or so chapters ... either that or I'm just numb.
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How are you going to complete Endless Space? There's no end to that game, especially when you play multiplayer.
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Really? Does it take too long to get all the achievements?
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I only got 28/93 achievements and I already played 114 hours. But I don't purposely try to complete achievements since I play it for fun. Can't wait for Endless Space 2 spacebar changes video mode in this website
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Wow, my first game run is always for fun too, so I might need to make an exception for it and just play for a certain amount of time. The space bar thing is really cool! xD
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Hi again. Soooo..... I don't know how to make a chart (Yay! I did it!) After pondering for a bit (you know, instead of playing :P ) I decided to do theme weeks.
I'm not bothering with the "added to queue" column since it's just a hand full of games each week I'm challenging myself to complete. (And again, this first "batch" might be a two week challenge since I won't have much time this week but I figured it's best to get started now.)
I already have some gibs planned so I'll be sure to post the link to them here too once they get started. Maybe I'll make separate ones for this thread in the future too.
21/12 – 4/1: It can't be that bad.... can it?
Mainly cheap impulse buys with negative or very negative reviews. Though I do still maintain that it wouldn't be in my library if I didn't have at least some interest in it, even if only morbid curiosity.
| Game | Achievements | Dependence | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yes (currently broken so no way to "complete." Game barely playable as is.) | No | 0% | |
| Escape Machines | No | No | 33% |
| Sinister City | Yes | No | 0% |
| *Fairy Tale About Father Frost | No | No | ??% |
| Ku Shroud of the Morrigan | Yes | No | 0% |
| Truffle Saga | No | No | 0% |
| Despair | No | No | 0% |
| Detour | Yes | No | 0% |
| N.P.P.D. Rush | No | No | 0% |
| Overcast: Walden and the Werewolf | No | No | 0% |
| Retention | No | No | 0% |
| Robotex | No | No | 0% |
| Slaughtering Grounds | No | No | 0% |
| Uncrowded | No | No | 0% (Same dev as The district so probably broken too but we'll see) |
*I have started with this game but it's super crash-tacular. I will try my best to use workarounds to get to the end but no guarantees.
15/12 - 21/12: Dreams and Nightmares
| Game | Achievements | Dependence | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Dreamatorium of Dr. Magnus 2 | 13/15 (87%) | No | Complete |
| Dream Tale | No | No | 75% |
| The Dream Machine (1 - 5) | No | No | 60% |
| Dreamscapes: The Sandman | (in game) 14/14 100% | No | Complete |
| Dreaming Sarah | 22/22 (100%) | No | Complete |
| *Nightmares from the Deep | Yes | Maybe? | 0% |
*I'd like to play through 1, 2, and 3 but I don't have 1. So I'll play the other games first and if I haven't won or bought 1 by then and I still have time, I'll just play 2 and 3.
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Bump for chart updated. Also, I have a key for Rats - Time is running out (apparently un-giftable. - There goes my clever GA tie in T_T) If anyone reading this had it on their wishlist before today (24/11/2015) contact me.
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Oooh, you don't have Stanley Parable. And here I was going to make a joke with your name in it. =:C
On the note of games: it's really hard to 100% Postal 1, cause that frigging Boondock Saints achievement. Ragequited several times. >< Poker Night 1 was fun until the last 2 achievements (win with 4 of a Kind /Street Flush), after 30h of gameplay I gave up and ran a script that played for a week overnight. Pixel Puzzle: Japan is one hell of abomination, the further you get - the more frustrating it gets. But it's rather short, so it's good for -1 from backlog.
On the other hand, Thomas was alone is fun, heartwarming and short, finished it in 1 go. Culling of the cows was also relatively easy and short. Binding of Isaac is time consuming, but I managed to beat it to 100% two times^^ Took 125h to beat it. Magicka is great game, but it's rather hard to finish it solo.
Edit: And, yeah, Postal 1 and Postal 2, despite being 2 games in 1 series, don't have much in common. It's like 2 different games. ILAIR, they don't even share a story.
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Oh ffs ... I won something ...
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Great news: Steam support has solved my problem and I have access to my account again. So back to working on that backlog! :P
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Not exactly doing a backlog marathon but I've been playing a few of my single player games since they don't get played as often.
I finished Dishonored twice-ish (for all achievements and differences in story).
I also am playing through Legend of Kay Anniversary and I think I've gotten through it decently :)
I'll probably finish it before doing a bit more multiplayer and then go back and finish some single player ^.^
Good luck everyone!
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Dishonored is a great game. I'm playing it for a third time to get the darker ending. I was a very good person the first two times and always kept a low chaos. xD
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You have to go high chaos, it's so much more fun :D
Stealth was good but after a while it got boring haha, though I still did it :)
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I actually did have fun with the game. That one's finished now. :P
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Does your playtime on Steam include idling or is it just from playing the game? It's up next for me :S
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It includes idling. My real playtime was of about 6 hours, but that was because I played it in hard mode and afterwards I played it again multiple times to get all the achievements. If you go on easy mode, it's quite fast to beat it 'cause you can see the plan. There are 44 levels.
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thanks for the info :) I played the first few levels last week, and the plan wasn't always there, and at least once the suggested/"ideal" solution didn't even work (I solved it in a weird way and then checked out their suggestion, so I didn't have any trouble, but it's still strange). I'll (hopefully) finish it over the weekend :)
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Are you playing on easy mode? 'Cause the plan should be there, unless you unchecked the option to show the plan? That's weird about the plan suggested not working.
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yeah, it was on easy, in one level it just didn't show, but it was back in the next level. Probably just a bug, but a bit disorienting for a beginner ^^
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I'm now convinced that Bad Rats is trolling me - yesterday I figured out that I didn't see the plan sometimes because it can be toggled on/off with the little icon in the top left corner, which I sometimes accidentally triggered when I set up the rats. I played till level 30 yesterday then saved. Today I wanted to continue, and about 2 more levels in, the plan was gone again and there was no option to turn it back on (no icon in the top left corner, no option on the help note). So I thought okay, it's supposed to get harder now, I'm supposed to do it on my own. After a while I got stuck, checked out a youtube video with the missing levels, and they all still have the plan! I'll try again, but I'm not sure I'll get 100% :/
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yay congrats :) I'm close to finally completing my first ... can't be far to the end boss in Evil Within, but I won't find out until tomorrow :/
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Runners
Update: The marathon has been continued here.
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