Well, that was depressing.

That’s no bad thing, of course. It should be depressing. It’s a zombie apocalypse. The fact that it very nearly made me cry at one point probably means it’s a success.

An interesting kind of game. Not sure how many more of these types I would play, but I can’t say I disliked it. I’m glad it was short and episodic, though. This genre has strong potential to overstay its welcome. 6 months ago

This is my current MMO. I recently hit cap on my first character, and lower level characters are proving to be extremely similar experiences, so here it is.

Like any MMO, this game is flawed. The levelling process is streamlined, but that unfortunately doesn’t make it interesting. The dungeons are in no way worth the effort, but they are ambitious. WvWvW is great when it’s going as it should, but it so rarely is, and it’s just way too big. The only parts of the game I think are flawless are the crafting and structured PvP.

I’m biased, though. SPvP is what I’ve been wishing for forever: an MMORPG version of TF2. Excellent.

In the end, I’m still playing it. That makes it a success, right? I think so. 7 months ago

I can’t remember how many characters I have at level cap, but it’s several, so I think I’ll count this one as “played”.

My impressions of this game were… complex. It’s hard to sum up an MMO, particularly one like this one. Basically: the best way to play this is as though it’s a single-player game. I guess that makes the game a failure, but those single-player experiences were genuinely (if intermittently) fun, so I don’t have too much vitriol directed at this game.

I’ll probably keep playing every now and then when it’s free to play. 7 months ago

I’m marking this as done because the final level keeps crashing and it’s not my fault.

I was surprised at how RTS-like this little indie puzzle game thing was. I was also surprised that this was not (until recently, anyway) a touch game. It really felt like it was developed as one.

I guess I liked it. The art style appealed to me, as did the deceptively simple but deep gameplay. My main issue was that it was too easy. I would love to play this in multiplayer. 9 months ago

When I started this list, I can categorically state that I did not expect it to include an erotic dating sim about disabled girls created by 4chan’s /b/. Even while typing that, I’m kind of in denial. And even when I did pick it up, I never expected to actually add it to the list; it was advertised as a “visual novel”, so right until the end I was still not thinking about it as a game. Only when I finished did I realise that choices I made had influenced the outcome, and that the impression I was left with made it worthy of note.

Hey, guys: this game is good. Really, really good. Like, life-changing good.

I don’t mean that I’ll never be the same because it was so emotional or whatever. It’s not that kind of game, at least not for me. But it did make me a better person, because damn it, for the first time in my life, I was actually able to truly see past a disability, even if it was fictional.

To spend hours with a character and forget that she has no arms is a pretty life-altering experience.

The game has plenty of flaws. It’s barely a game, for starters; most of your time is literally spent reading text over which you have had no influence, and the rest of it is spent reading text over which your influence is relatively minimal (most of the time, it comes down to a 50/50 choice, the differences between which can seem practically nonexistent). I’m not sure that the fact that I got a “good” ending on my first play through had anything to do with skill, or if it was just luck. Once I got past a certain point in the game, it seemed like all the other characters (except one) simply vanished.

Still, I’d thoroughly recommend it. To everyone. If the “erotic” bit scares you off, there’s a menu option to disable it, but I can vouch that the sex scenes I saw were both tasteful and important.

Bravo, /b/. You have completely surprised and amazed me. 13 months ago

Unlike my other lists, this will be built and changed over time. Games will only be marked as played when they are finished.

1. Knights of the Old Republic
2. Bioshock
3. Assassin’s Creed 2
4. Heavy Rain
5. Mother 3
6. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
7. Half-Life
8. Half-Life 2
9. Baldur’s Gate
10. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
11. Day of the Tentacle
12. Deus Ex: Human Revolution
13. Final Fantasy VII
14. Final Fantasy (the other good one… IV? V? VI?)
15. Grand Theft Auto IV
16. Myst
17. Prototype
18. Borderlands
19. Plants vs. Zombies
20. Fallout 3
21. Mirror’s Edge
22. Overlord
23. Overlord 2
24. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
25. The Witcher
26. The Witcher 2
27. Bastion
28. Batman: Arkham Asylum
29. Batman: Arkham City
30. Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines
31. Baldur’s Gate 2
32. Planescape: Torment
33. Psychonauts
34. Bully
35. Chrono Cross
36. Earthbound
37. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
38. Star Wars: The Old Republic
39. Fahrenheit
40. Jade Empire
41. The Longest Journey
42. Neverwinter Nights
43. Prey
44. Ico
45. Shadow of the Colossus
46. Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4
47. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
48. Scribblenauts
49. Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
50. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
51. Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
52. Marvel vs. Capcom 3
53. We Love Katamari
54. The World Ends With You
55. World of Goo
56. Red Dead Redemption
57. Journey
58. Dear Esther
59. To The Moon
60. Gravity Bone
61. Zeno Clash
62. Limbo
63. The Company of Myself
64. Medal of Honor (2010)
65. Metro 2033
66. Gemini Rue
67. World in Flames
68. Digital: A Love Story
69. Super Meat Boy
70. Legend of Grimrock
71. Dark Souls
72. Machinarium
73. Kingdoms of Amalur
74. Torchlight
75. The Baconing
76. Katawa Shoujo
78. War of the Roses
79. Alan Wake
80. Game of Thrones
81. Eufloria
82. Guild Wars 2
83. The Walking Dead
84. Realistic Summer Sports
85. Spec Ops: The Line
86. OpenTTD14 months ago

I am notoriously terrible at finishing games. I want to change that.

I’ve dabbled in so many games during my life. It’s a bad habit when they cost so damned much to buy. And you know what? This can only be the most fun habit ever to break. 14 months ago