Verecocha wrote:
ANOTHER EDITION OF 52 GAMES ONE YEAR CHALLENGE!!
Let’s go again!’
Welcome to the 2023 thread for badgers that fancy trying to play 52 games in a year to whatever they decide is some form of completion. Tell us how you're doing and what you are going to play next - either claim a post and update on your progress or keep posting your completions and then do a final count post at the end of the year! Even if you're not gonna make it to 52 and you’ve made efforts before and got nowhere near, it's a good way to record all your completions/failures/hates and give others your impressions or maybe get some info from them on said game!!
So simple usual stuff!!
How do I take part?
Claim a post! Write down the game and your thoughts about each one in this format for your post:
1: NAME - DURATION PLAYED
# INSERT INFO AND COMMENTS HERE
How do I know when I've completed a game?
Up to you, it could be completing the game or playing 10hrs+ if it no ending or a multiplayer game. Replays count as long as all the games are completed in 2022.
Do I have to record time?
No. But you can if you like!! If so you could potentially see how long you’ve spent on games this year and then wonder how you got away with it!
Do I have to review or comment on the games I complete?
No but it'd be nice to give a few words or maybe a quick score. Full blown reviews or mini-reviews aren't necessary and will just make it an incredibly big post,though they will be anyway.
Do episodic games count as a single game or X amount of games?
That's up to you. It's alright to count something like Life is Strange as one or five games. Your choice.
Can I finish a game I started in 1992 and count that?
Yes.
What should I do once I've completed the challenge?
Shoot me a PM! If it takes off and people keep me updated I'm more than happy to FINALLY sort out a prize system?
Is there a deadline?
End of the current year!!!!
People who have completed the challenge will be posted here, please send me a PM once you’re done or if I’ve missed you as it’s hard reading through them all as they end up being recorded everywhere!!
Winners and in what year:
Cinty in 2022 (66)
JonB in 2017 (54), 2021 (64), 2022 (59)
Moot in 2017 (75), 2018 (78), 2019 (86), 2020 (135), 2021 (153), 2022 (201)
Muzzy in 2017 (59), 2018 (52)
Retro in 2020 (61)
Stoph in 2017 (53), 2018 (72)
Wario in 2018 (52), 2020 (60), 2021 (54), 2022 (53)
Others results in past Years:
Andy: 2018 (12)
Birdorf: 2018 (7)
b0r1s: 2020 (17), 2021 (13)
Cinty: 2022 (66)
Dante: 2017 (15), 2018 (17)
digi: 2017 (40), 2018 (13), 2019 (17), 2021 (6)
Frosty: 2019 (26)
Gremill: 2017 (21), 2018 (20)
Hylian Elf: 2017 (25), 2018 (14), 2019 (12), 2020 (19), 2021 (10), 2022 (7)
JonB: 2017 (54), 2018 (30), 2019 (41), 2020 (36), 2021 (64), 2022 (59)
MattyJ: 2017 (11)
Mistercrayon: 2017 (12)
Monkey: 2017 (4), 2018 (7), 2019 (51), 2020 (28), 2021 (19), 2022 (10)
Muzzy: 2017 (59), 2018 (52), 2019 (15), 2020 (37), 2021 (21), 2022 (9)
Moot: 2017 (75), 2018 (78), 2019 (86), 2020 (135), 2021 (153), 2022 (201)
Nina: 2018 (13), 2019 (12), 2020 (eight), 2021 (6)
Questor: 2020 (11)
Reg: 2021 (21), 2022 (13)
Retro: 2020 (61), 2021 (35), 2022 (36)
Stoph: 2017 (53), 2018 (72)
Syph: 2017 (28)
Verecocha: 2017 (38), 2018 (22), 2019 (29), 2020 (44), 2021 (37), 2022 (31)
Wario: 2018 (52), 2019 (47), 2020 (60), 2021 (54), 2022 (53)
Webbins: 2017 (27), 2018 (41), 2019 (17), 2020 (11), 2021 (2)
Wonderbanana: 2018 (13)
GOOD LUCK!!
Had something a little bigger than everything on earth get in the way before… BUT I’M MORE DETERMINED THAN EVER!!!
Really though, just a good place to record your games, see what you enjoyed and remember why. Big help in looking at your end of the year Faves.
Moot_Geeza wrote:Blazing Chrome - Xbox One
Unabashed Contra homage that highlights precisely why I like these modern retro titles - the best ones are occasionally better than the games they're imitating. Modern concessions like checkpointing after major areas and replenishing lives after using a non-finite continue push this into the fair zone, while proving to be just as dastardly as its inspiration screen by screen. Compare this to Probotector on Megadrive and there really is no contest, 'classic' or not - Konami's effort may have marginally more memorable set-pieces, but difficulty-wise it was always a nigh-on unplayable hot mess. For me, this pips SNES Contra III too (which I've only played through with save states); everything it does feels just about right. It certainly doesn't have crappy top down sections dragging the average down. There's not much in it, so it would be interesting to hear opinions to the contra-ry - I'm not a huge Contra head, so my opinions are moot. You know what to expect if you've seen the trailers, but it's still impressive how well they've pulled it off. Level design is consistently very good, bosses are mostly decent and the challenge (for normal mode) is pitched at tricky rather than evil. With only 6 stages it's short, so £16.99 is a bit off in terms of value imo, but it's an excellent game nonetheless. If Volgarr the Viking is the ultimate version of Rastan and Monster Boy in the Cursed Kingdom is ultimate form Wonderboy, which they bloody well are, then the same can be said of this when compared to Contra for me. Grab a co-op partner and get those patterns learned. [8]
kneecap wrote:My fault, someone I know and find annoying loves it,
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