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14. Beat a JRPG
Pokemon Sun

I also decided to merge the Trilby games into one just for fairness sake. I haven't beaten the last one yet but I don't want to do a bunch of edits so I've already merged the Chzo Mythos into one under challenge 10.

9/10
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Pokemon Sun (3DS)

It was certainly fun but this is probably my least favorite Pokemon game. I don't even know why, I was trying to figure it out the entire time I was playing it, but something just felt off. I never played X/Y, I wonder if they're better. I guess I'll try them someday
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Trilby's Notes (PC)

It was spooky, sure, but I had to follow a guide the whole way through. How did people ever play these 'type an exact command or nothing will happen' puzzle games and why did Yahtzee think it was a good idea to bring that back?
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trdl23 posted...

Roba, I am disappoint you managed not to get a LiS moment.

I refuse to accept any blame for you choosing the wrong LiS moment! I limited myself to four like you said and that meant choosing the canonically correct top four
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The overall nightmare in Life is Strange probably wouldn't make my top ten moments from that game alone, but the video you linked also included the hall of memories at the end and that one part of it was amazing. One of my favorite sequences in the game, even! It wouldn't have been possible without the rest of the nightmare as foundation, so... I guess that means it was okay. Still hoping a few other LiS moments make the list ahead of it, though!

Liking the write-ups so far!
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trdl23 posted...

I'm pretty sure the "real world" doesn't have a digital graveyard of all the people who were absorbed into the transistor (you can compare them to the files describing all of them in the function pages). It also doesn't have like 5 Transistors in the background.

I thought the graves were holding the people hooked up to the simulation, like in The Matrix.
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I don't remember that battle being too hard. Maybe I managed to cheese it the first time through, I dunno. It was a neat moment to be sure, though!

trdl23 posted...

the Transistor to stop it draws the people in its vicinity -- both Red and him -- into a kind of purgatory.

...This is what happened? Man, I did not understand Transistor at all I guess. I thought that was them getting kicked out of the simulation and waking up in the real world
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28. Beat a game with the supernatural as a central theme
7 Days a Skeptic

These are way shorter than I remember them being so in the end I might wind up combining them into a single game, but for now I'll use them individually. I'm planning to try for two lists again this year, after all!

9/50
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7 Days a Skeptic (PC)

Big step up from 5DaS, but it was also a lot shorter than I remember it being and I don't think I skipped anything. Ah well
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Arti posted...

That's interesting, it's one of my favorite PS3 games. Why didn't you like it?

I whined about this enough in my 2016 game ranking topic as I was playing it, but what it boiled down to was that it honestly didn't feel like Valkyria Chronicles was truly a strategy RPG. There were a few missions that felt like actual battles, but mostly it was a matter of figuring out a broken method that would trivialize everything. In one mission I ignored the whole level and took the target out with snipers. In another where units randomly spawned in halfway through I just restarted, positioned my guys where I knew enemies would appear, and then won in a single turn once they did. Even the fun missions usually ended with a scout charging forward alone. That isn't strategy, that's a badly designed puzzle game.

EDIT: And I just realized I previously praised Lost Dimension for having a unique solution to a mission's problem when I teleported my dude through a door, but there was exactly one short mission where that was possible and it wasn't an intended solution to the level. In Valkyria Chronicles, I save-scummed like crazy, killed one enemy unit for every action, frequently charged a scout forward and took the base way before I should've realistically been able to reach it... then got a B rank. I don't know why but they clearly balanced this game around the BS tactics.
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45. Beat a game that's been adapted into another medium
Valkyria Chronicles

It has a whole anime franchise based around it, somehow. I didn't like this game much so I don't think I'll look into it, though!

8/50
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Valkyria Chronicles (PC)

Hoo boy, this game was a mess. I'm glad I'm done with it
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No joke, I didn't remember that moment from MGS3. Been too long since I played it, I guess!

I can agree about the first Big Daddy fight, though. Those were always intense, I don't know why I always made a point of aggravating them even when I no longer needed any more ADAM
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Bump
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Parasite Eve (Vita)

These old PS1 games are tough to play for the first time given how most of them have aged, but this was unique enough that I'm glad I did!
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30. Beat a game with a female lead
Parasite Eve

Finished the last two hours of this, too. Now to start another long RPG and not finish anything for two weeks again, I guess

7/50
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5 Days a Stranger (PC)

I played this with my brother back in the day but he was the one controlling it then. This time it was just me, and man I hadn't realized this was such an old-style puzzle/adventure game. It's still a neat concept and story but it was hard to control and most of the puzzles were so obtuse
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10. Beat a game made by a director/composer/artist/etc that you like
5 Days a Stranger

I've kept up with Zero Punctuation for years, I guess that means I like Yahtzee

6/50
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Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan (PC)

It wasn't as good as the first game, but still not the worst way to spend three hours
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15. Beat a puzzle game
Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan

It was a hidden object/puzzle game, so it counts for this challenge!

5/50
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47. Play a game that can't technically be beaten for at least three hours
Move or Die

It's eleven months too early to be thinking about 2018's list but I think we're going to need to raise the time needed to finish this challenge. I just realized I'd finished it today with this fun multiplayer Steam game and I wasn't even trying to do it for the challenge!

4/50
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27. Beat a game with mystery as a central theme
Lost Dimension

A central gameplay thing was sussing out a traitor, so I think that counts as mystery!

3/50
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Lost Dimension (Vita)

Hmm... I could work my way through all the enemies in the level to get to a switch like the developers intended. Or I could use the dude with teleportation powers to skip through a door, teleport the rest of my team in, and kill the level's target before the enemies have so much as had a turn.

I love it when games have the potential creative strategies like that. This game was great
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Hey Arti, back when I got my Vita I made a topic asking for recommendations and asked if anyone had played Lost Dimension. Someone had and they said it was good. Was that you? You're one of the few people who I know owns a Vita on this board

Anyway, if that was you I just want to say you were right, Lost Dimension is really good so far >_>
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13. Beat a WRPG
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

I beat the main quests and the civil war questline, anyway. I'm going to go ahead and count that as beaten, especially since I've done all the other major questlines in the past and I'm not sure I want to do them all again.

2/50
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (PC)

I beat the main quest and the civil war quest lines, anyway. Those were the only ones I'd never done before, too! In the past I did every other major questline and then I'd run around clearing random caves until I got bored but this time I made it my mission to actually 'beat' the game.
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Super Mario 64 DS (DS)

Very much not 100% complete
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43. Beat another user's favorite game
Super Mario 64 DS

I played the DS version when they said the N64 one but I figure this challenge should be pretty lenient about minor stuff like that

1/50

WalkingWiki posted...

Are we still having ranks, like 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. on the tally sheet?

It felt kind of needless to me. I'll occasionally reorder the tally so that whoever is highest is in first anyway, no need for a 1st next to their name. Still, this would be easy to add in if people want it
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I can't even imagine how you must feel. I'm so sorry to you and your family, Wang
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Also, here's the link to the 2016 spreadsheet for posterity

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17CXJ-tteBEGdH8mRVN9CFJA8QKdqaLatJiMWP5pBAZo/edit#gid=0
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Happy New Year, and welcome!

Credit goes to tazzyboyishere for first starting this in 2016. Basically, there are 50 challenges outlined below that will require you to beat 52 games total. This isn't a competition and there's no prize for winning aside from a sense of accomplishment. This is just a fun thing to participate in while we all work through our video game libraries. It also gives us a place to discuss what we're playing. Feel free to join in!


Rules:
- A game can only be used for one challenge
- Use your own judgment to decide if game fits in a certain category
- Games started in 2016 or earlier are fine as long as they're finished in 2017
- Please add your own games to the spreadsheet linked to below, which anyone can edit
- When using the spreadsheet, please don't mess with checklists/tallies that aren't yours
- There's a tab listing favorite games in the spreadsheet if you need help with challenge 43
- If you have any questions, feel free to ask!


Spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OrLeLlkjZ5hrlf1UYpPe2DkPKbApMQrSLVyKxbFhZvU/edit?usp=sharing


Challenges:

Years (5)
1. Beat a game released before 1990
2. Beat a game released between 1990-1999
3. Beat a game released between 2000-2009
4. Beat a game released between 2010-2016
5. Beat a game released in 2017

Series (4)
6. Beat a game in a completely new series
7. Beat a game in a series you've already played some of
8. Beat a spin-off or a game that rebooted a franchise
9. Beat a remake or enhanced port

Creators (3)
10. Beat a game made by a director/composer/artist/etc that you like
11. Beat a game made by a developer you like
12. Beat a game made by a developer you've never tried

Genres (11)
13. Beat a WRPG
14. Beat a JRPG
15. Beat a puzzle game
16. Beat a rhythm game
17. Beat a first-person shooter
18. Beat a third-person shooter
19. Beat a platformer
20. Beat an action game
21. Beat a strategy game
22. Beat a fighting game
23. Beat a sports game

Themes (6)
24. Beat a game with romance as a central theme
25. Beat a game with horror as a central theme
26. Beat a game with revenge as a central theme
27. Beat a game with mystery as a central theme
28. Beat a game with the supernatural as a central theme
29. Beat a game with comedy as a central theme

Demographics (6)
30. Beat a game with a female lead
31. Beat a game with a child lead
32. Beat a game with a non-white lead
33. Beat a game with a robot/artificial lead
34. Beat a game with an animal lead
35. Beat a game with a lead that's from a fictional species

Time (5)
36. Replay a game from a long time ago
37. Beat a game that's been in your backlog for a long time
38. Beat a game you'd dropped or had a long hold on
39. Finish a game in one day
40. Finish a game that took you at least twenty-five hours to beat

Stats (3)
41. Beat a game with a Metascore below 70
42. Beat a game with a Metascore above 90
43. Beat another user's favorite game

Adaptation (3)
44. Beat a game based on licensed stories/characters
45. Beat a game that's been adapted into another medium
46. Beat a game that features historical events or people

Miscellaneous (4)
47. Play a game that can't technically be beaten for at least three hours
48. Beat a game that starts with the first letter of your username
49. Choose a random page on TVTropes and beat something from the video game section
50-52. Beat three games in a series
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