For the eighth consecutive year, I’ve counted the number of games I finished in the last 12 months. The number has gone up, even as I played fewer games. I’ve been keeping countsince 2006, the year I didn’t just finish Suikoden V and Star Fox Command but also the likes of Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3, Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2 Episode One. That was one high-quality year of gaming!(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); My full list runs below, but, as always, I need to explain how this list works: I only list games I played on my own, outside of any shows like E3 where I may have tried a new game on a demo kiosk. All of the games you listed are games I either bought or was provided access to. I played most of them at home or during my commute.
I don’t play old games very often, but even if I do on rare occasion return to an old game, I only list games that I either started or finally finished in a given year. People justifiably get hung up on what I mean when I write that I “finished” a game. I basically mean that I got to the credits or storyline conclusion of a game. Not every game allows for that, of course. I don’t think you can “finish” SimCity. Other games have so much content that I can access after I’ve reached the end credits that “finishing” the likes of a Papers, Please or Assassin’s Creed IV has still left me with at least a dozen more hours to play in each game.
Among the games that I did not finish are games I played for probably less than an hour (Gran Turismo 6, for example) and those I have played for more than 50 (Fire Emblem Awakening). There are numerous 2013 game, from Gunpoint to Luigi’s Mansion to Puppeteer, that I intend to finish in 2014.
This was the first year since I started doing this that I did not have a Wii game to list. (It’ll come back in a way if I ever get around to trying Xenoblade: Chronicles and The Last
betdog Story), Facebook gaming is essentially dead to me. The biggest surprise to me is that my iOS gaming petered off. I don’t think it is a coincidence that, in the same period of time, my 3DS gaming picked up. Finally, a couple of embarrassing 2013 oversights: I never got around to even starting Metal Gear Rising and Mario & Luigi Dream Team, the latter of which is part of one of my favorite series ever. As much as I loved playing Skulls of the Shogun at PAX after PAX, I’ve yet to play it on my own. It’s waiting for me on my iPad. I also really, really need to play DOTA 2 and/or League of Legends. I feel badly out of the loop.
UPDATE: Somehow I forgot to include The Last of Us when I initially published this. I’ve added it and corrected my math. On with the list! My 2013 Games Played/Finished List (Games I started listed
below. Finished games are bolded. Games not from 2013 are noted as such) 3DS (22 games played; 4 finished) Animal Crossing: New Leaf Bugs Vs. Tanks! Dillon’s Rolling Western: The Last Ranger Fire Emblem Awakening Flower Town Harmoknight Kokuga The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds -FINISHED Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon Mario & Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move Mario Party Island Tour Mii Force – FINISHED Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (also played on Wii U) Monster Manor Picross E1 Picross E2 Picross E3 Pokemon X Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask (2012) – FINISHED Sonic Lost World – FINISHED Warrior’s Way DS (1 game played; 1 finished) Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box – FINISHED Facebook (1 games played; 0 finished) Half the Sky Movement: The Game iOS (15 games played; 3 finished) Candy Crush Saga Colossatron: Massive World Threat Device 6 Dots Duet Hundreds Knightmare Tower (also played on Ouya) – FINISHED Plants Vs Zombies 2 Ridiculous Fishing – A Tale of Redemption Robot Unicorn Attack 2 The Room Two – FINISHED Star Wars: Tiny Death Star Temple Run 2 The Walking Dead Season One (2012) – FINISHED The Walking Dead: Assault Mac (1 game played; 0 finished) Leap Day (browser game; I played it on a Mac) Ouya (10 games played; 0 finished) The Amazing Frog Deep Dungeons of Doom Dub Wars
The Little Crane That Could Monocle Man Mrs. Dad No Brakes Valet Shadowgun Towerfall Vector PC (15 games played;6 finished) Antichamber – FINISHED (um, with heavy use of walkthroughs) BioShock Infinite – FINISHED Cart Life Go Home, Dinosaurs Gone Home – FINISHED Gunpoint Kentucky Route Zero Monaco Papers Please – FINISHED Prison Architect SimCity Splinter Cell: Blacklist – FINISHED State of Decay The Stanley Parable Tomb Raider – FINISHED PS3 (13 games played; 8 finished) Assassin’s
y1 games Creed IV – FINISHED Disney Infinity DmC – FINISHED God of War: Ascension – FINISHED Gran Turismo 6 Infamous Festival of Blood (2011) – FINISHED The Last of Us –
y1 com FINISHED Ni No Kuni Papo & Yo (2012) – FINISHED Puppeteer Rain Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus – FINISHED Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time (also played on Vita) – FINISHED
PS4 (6 games played; 1 finished) Doki Doki Universe (also played on PS3, Vita) Killzone: Shadow Fall Knack – FINISHED Lego Marvel Super-Heroes Need for Speed Rivals Resogun Vita (11 games played; 1 finished) 10×8 Assassin’s Creed Liberation (2012) Batman: Arkham Origins: Blackgate – FINISHED Earth Defense Force 2017 Guacamelee Jack and Daxter Collection Jet Set Radio Kickbeat Killzone Mercernary Rymdkapsel Tearaway Wii U (11 games played;4 finished) Game & Wario The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD Lego City Undercover – FINISHED NES Remix Pikmin 3 – FINISHED Pokemon Rumble U Rayman Legends – FINISHED Sonic Lost World – FINISHED Super Mario 3D Land Wii Party U The Wonderful 101 Xbox 360 (5 games played; 2 finished) Ascend: Hand of Kul Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons – FINISHED Dead Space 3 Gears of War: Judgment Grand Theft Auto V – FINISHED Xbox One (6 games played; 1 finished) Dead Rising 3 Forza Motorsport 5 LocoCycle Powerstar Golf Ryse Son of Rome – FINISHED Zoo Tycoon The final 2013 tally is: 117 games played; 31 finished That compares to: 2012…139 played; 23 finished 2011…161 played; 28 finished 2010… 195 played; 52 finished 2009… 165 played; 48 finished 2008… 135 played; 37 finished 2007… 118 played; 35 finished 2006…102 games played; 21 finished
https://kotaku.com/i-finished-these-23-video-games-in-2012-5973173 I hope you got a chance to play a lot of great games in 2013, too. Finish many? To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him on Twitter @stephentotilo.