Board 8 > The Great 2017 Video Game Challenge

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9. Beat a remake or enhanced port

Grim Fandango Remastered
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4. Beat a game released between 2010-2016
#1805 No Man's Sky (PS4)

Thank heavens thats 9
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40. Finish a game that took you at least twenty-five hours to beat

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice

1/50
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33. Beat a game with a robot/artificial lead
Lifeline: Whiteout

It's currently the free app of the week on the App Store, and it's a pretty good little survival choose-your-outcome game -- I definitely suggest it
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40. Finish a game that took you at least twenty-five hours to beat

Pokémon Moon

Stalled out on this for a while due to being busy with other games and being rather underleveled for the final island, but I finally finished it! I might get Sun at some point later this year, too.

3/50
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2. Beat a game released between 1990-1999
Mega Man 6
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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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Bump
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I'm going to tag this topic because maybe it'll help me work through my ridiculously massive backlog...
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36. Replay a game from a long time ago

Super Mario World

I didn't expect this to be the first game I beat in 2017, but I remembered that I picked it up on the 3DS eshop back in the summer and never got around to playing it.

Its probably been nearly 10 years since I actually went through a full playthrough of the game, so I was pretty surprised that I managed to remember everything that was necessary to get all 96 exits.

2/50
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Bump
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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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25. Beat a game with horror as a central theme

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

3/52

- Much shorter than expected, and a lot less scary than my first few attempts years ago.
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47. Play a game that can't technically be beaten for at least three hours

Final Fantasy Record Keeper

2/50
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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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47. Play a game that can't technically be beaten for at least three hours

Love Live! School idol festival

I am totally counting this. I might've played 3 hours just from today alone.

1/50

Hopefully, that won't be it.
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47. Play a game that can't technically be beaten for at least three hours

Town of Salem

Essentially mafia with way more roles and more fun strategies. Easily one of my favorite casual games.
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21. Beat a strategy game

Project X Zone 2

Improves on pretty much all the flaws that the original game had, and while the plot is still a typical JRPG it's still nice to see all the characters interact with each other.

5/50
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4. Beat a game released between 2010-2016

Super Mario 3D World

2/50
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43. Beat another user's favorite game

Life is Strange, though I might end up moving this one around
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47. Play a game that can't technically be beaten for at least three hours
Jackbox Party Pack 3
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19. Beat a platformer
Mad Dex
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39. Finish a game in one day
The House of the Dead III (PS4 through PSNow)
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26. Beat a game with revenge as a central theme
Dishonored 2
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I'll start filling this out when I get a chance, I'm on pace to have a decent year.
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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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40. Finish a game that took you at least twenty-five hours to beat

Dragon Quest Heroes: The World's Tree Woe and the Blight Below
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Does watching a friend play through a game count? Cause I literally watched every minute of it <_<

Oh I did do like 1 mission when he made me play...
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If watching people play games counter, then I would have definitely broken 50 last year

So I doubt it
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25. Beat a game with horror as a central theme
Until Dawn (PS4)
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34. Beat a game with an animal lead

Donkey Kong Country

3/50
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38. Beat a game you'd dropped or had a long hold on

Super Meat Boy

took me long enough. 3/50
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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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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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I should probably finish Fallout 4 either tonight or Thursday night
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3. Beat a game released between 2000-2009
#1806 Maximo: Ghosts to Glory (PS2)

10
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13. Beat a WRPG
Fallout 4

As said in another topic, this game was awesome
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WalkingWiki posted...

If watching people play games counter, then I would have definitely broken 50 last year

So I doubt it

Darn... :/
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Well, it's ultimately up to you, but we'd also find ourselves on a slippery slope where people are counting YouTube lets-plays that they've watched. I'd personally count a game where I traded back and forth with someone, but not one I never played at all
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47. Play a game that can't technically be beaten for at least three hours
Overwatch

Once again, the main reason I probably won't get to a lot of games.
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Mobilezoid posted...

I'd personally count a game where I traded back and forth with someone, but not one I never played at all

I was wondering that too. I played Pony Island with a friend, going back and forth, but he ended up playing about three-fourths of it so I wasn't sure if it counted.
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12. Beat a game made by a developer you've never tried
Air Race Speed


11 done
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I think I'll go ahead and count joint playthroughs as long as I played a decent amount of the game (and not just like five minutes).

39. Finish a game in one day
Pony Island
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16. Beat a rhythm game
Thumper (PS4)
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47. Play a game that can't technically be beaten for at least three hours

Heroes Of The Storm
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Bumpo
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6. Beat a game in a completely new series

Sly Cooper and the Thevius Racoonus
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38. Beat a game you'd dropped or had a long hold on

Wario Land 3

I've had a very long hold on this game. It was probably my favourite non-Pokemon game on the GBC growing up, and I put countless hours into but at the age of seven or eight it was always too tough for me and I probably restarted and played the same dozen or so level twenty times.

I was excited when it came out on the 3DS eshop and picked it up sometime in the summer, quickly getting to a point I never got to as a kid, but as I kept playing I realized that maybe I didn't like the game as much as I thought I did. A lot of the enemies and puzzles were annoying, and the game doesn't do the greatest job of letting you know what is actually necessary to do, so I dropped it again.

I picked it up this week in an effort to finally beat it, and after clearing a bunch of levels and not knowing whether I was actually making any progress, I consulted a guide and figured out that I already had everything necessary to beat the game, so I did that. I don't think I'll ever go back to clear 100% of the levels, but I am glad that I finally managed to beat the game after so many years.

3/50
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46. Beat a game that features historical events or people
Battlefield 1
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3. Beat a game released between 2000-2009
The House of the Dead 4 (PS4 through PSNow)
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