TheMightyEthan

Lol, I am calm...?

Oh no, I wasn't trying to start a thing either, I was just trying to explain what makes RL different for me.

Yeah, the difference between Rogue Legacy and Souls is that I actually enjoy the moment-to-moment gameplay of RL, so I don't mind having to repeat stuff. Also the randomization really helps because I'm never doing the exact same thing twice, and if I do want to keep retrying a boss I can just lock the castle and warp straight to him, eliminating much tedium.

It's unclickable for me right now too, they probably haven't updated the store or something.

Second boss down. I have such a sense of accomplishment when I beat one of these bosses. *Edit - When I first started playing this game I enjoyed it but figured there was no way I was ever going to beat it, but now I'm thinking it might actually be doable.

Kung Fu Panda I have not seen. Generally speaking Jack Black is a turn off for me in movies, though that's not a hard and fast rule.

Shrek was good, but that's not really a kids movie, and the rest haven't really done it for me. I mean, they're not painful to watch like lots of other non-Disney kids movies, but they're not what I would call "good" either.

Woohoo! First boss down! I also didn't realize how spastic this game was until I watched a video of myself playing it.

Tangled was the movie that made me realize that Pixar is not the only good computer-animated-kids-movie studio.

Rogue Legacy. Holy shit, why did I let this game sit on my backlog for so long? It's awesome even though I'm terrible at it.

Hey, for once I'm not the one to start this thread.

Alright, here comes my mega post. First up, all the games I beat: Only 18, it was a slow year. That's largely because of Destiny, Persona 4 Golden, and Fallout 4. P4G took me 95 hours on my first run, and I actually did a second run too so the real total is more like 150 hours, and then FO4 took 117 hours (and a month and a half) so that's a good chunk of my gaming time right there. I don't even want to know how much time I spent in Destiny this year. Fallout came very close to beating Dragon Age: Inquisition for the longest first-playthrough ever for me, but didn't quite get there. On average I spent 29.3 hours on each game, but the median is only 8.1 hours, so that average is heavily influenced by the few really long games on there. PS4 was my most-played platform by both hours and number of games, with 9 games and 316 hours. Xbox One was second for games, with 6, but third by hours (89). Though I only played one game on Vita it was P4G, which took 95 hours, so that by itself was enough to exceed the total of all my Xbox One games. Unsurprisingly, with only one game that took 95 hours, Vita wins for average hours spent on each game, with PS4 in second and PC in third (my only PC game being Black Flag at 20 hours). I was doing well on my backlog, with a general downward trend, bottoming out at 4 games, but then between you jerks and my family both being so generous, and Fallout 4 taking forever and building up a lot of games, it kind of exploded at the end of the year. On average a game was on my backlog for 4.2 months before being removed (this doesn't count games that are still on there), and my backlog games had an average playtime of 12.7 hours. Going into 2016 I have 19 games on my backlog, which is more than I even finished in 2015. However, one thing I'm happy about is that none of my backlog games are from before December 2014, so at least I don't have anything on there from years and years ago. I do feel bad about games from last year's Secret Santa still being on there though. I think I'm gonna tackle those first. The reason so many were added on 12/30 is because I don't add a game to the backlog if I get it while I'm playing another game until I finish the first game. Then any game I got that I don't immediately start goes on the backlog (so all but 1).

No, I think I normally just post in the overall thread for the year.

@Dean: Wanting to avoid spoilers and still enjoying something you already know the plot of aren't mutually exclusive. The surprise factor of experiencing something unspoiled has value, as does experiencing something when already knowing what's going to happen. The problem is once you know the plot you can't ever un-know it, so you can't ever have that unspoiled experience again (or at all if you get spoiled before the first time). If you're unspoiled the first time though you can always go back as many times as you want and re-experience it with that knowledge. Basically if you're spoiled you lose something that you can never get back, but if you go in unspoiled you don't miss out on anything.

See I really liked Shadow Fall, but I did not really like Killzone 2 or 3 (the encounter design just was not fun) so that might have something to do with it.

Fallout 4. Went with the Railroad.

I think the "old trick" thing was just Coulson fucking with them.

What's that game called again?

I loved SR3, but did not care for SR4. I just found it boring, and it couldn't hold my interest. I think part of that was the superpowers being just a step too far and part was what they did to the style of the world you're in.

I'm still working my way through Fallout 4. My goal is to finish it before 2016.

Somehow I missed these when they were first posted. Typically I'm fine with not worrying about how that kind of thing works, the exception being when they explain how it works. Once they've explained it then I expect it to behave in accordance with the explanation. TCP's explanation is good enough for me though.

My sister got me Pandemic Legacy for Christmas. Of our group (me, my wife, my two sisters and my wife's brother) my wife and I were the only ones who'd ever played Pandemic before, and we'd only played once, so we ran a couple non-Legacy games yesterday afternoon to familiarize ourselves before we start the Legacy campaign. Lost the first one, won the second, but both were insanely close. The first game we would have won on the next player's turn, but at the end of my turn (I was right before the player with the cards to cure the final disease) we got an unlucky draw that caused two outbreaks, the second of which put us over the edge. The second game was equally close, but the other way: at the point that we cured the final disease there were at least 4 different hotspots in the world that would have put us over the edge if any of them had been drawn. All in all a fun evening. Wish I'd taken pictures. One thing I especially liked about it was that even though it's technically a max of 4 players it's really easy to play as teams, since it's a cooperative game and 90% of the "play" isn't actually making your move but discussing with everyone else what you should do. I think we're going to do a couple more practice games next weekend and then start the campaign.