Board 8 > The Great 2017 Video Game Challenge (Purge Edition)

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32. Beat a game with a non-white lead

Shadow Man. Michael is pretty good.

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

Animal Crossing: New Leaf. More like 300 hours, but whatever.

50-52. Beat three games in a series

Super Mario Bros 1, 2 and 3.

6. Beat a game in a completely new series

I assume that this means a series that you have never played before (it could be interpreted a different way), so I'm putting Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt here


23. Beat a sports game

MVP 06: NCAA Baseball. I forgot that I started a completely new franchise and won an NCAA title a couple months ago.


26. Beat a game with revenge as a central theme

Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King

I just have three more categories to go, and I will hit 50 and be done for the year!
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45. Beat a game that's been adapted into another medium

Atelier Escha & Logy Plus: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky

There's apparently an anime based on this game. I don't really know anything about it but there you go.

Anyway, still the best game in the series overall.

30/50
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19. Beat a Platformer

Crash Bandicoot: Warped

Trilogy complete and platinum'd
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23. Beat a sports game
Kirby's Dream Course
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30. Beat a game with a female lead

Touhou 15: Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom

39. Finish a game in one day

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

5. Beat a game released in 2017

Aliens Go Home Run
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39. Finish in a game one day

Battlefield 1.
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Beat lego star wars complete
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34. Beat a game with an animal lead

Sonic Mania. Amazing game.

29/50
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33. Beat a game with a robot/artificial lead

NieR: Automata

They're androids, close enough. Only got Ending A so I'll keep going.

31/50
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4. Beat a game released between 2010-2016

The Legend of Zelda: Triforce Heroes

meh

42. Beat a game with a Metascore above 90

Persona 5. One of the best JRPGs I've played but man it sure took a long time to finish.

30/50, almost back on track.
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41. Beat a game with a Metascore below 70

Magikarp Jump

Metascore of 64. It's a mobile game, but I'm counting beating the Master League and reaching the level cap as having beaten it since there apparently aren't going to be any more updates.

16/50
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Bump again

One of these days I really should try and find spots on my list for the games I was saving for my second list, since it doesn't seem like I'll be finishing two after all
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45. Beat a game that's been adapted into another medium

Final Fantasy XV

Meh it was alright gameplay was great, the plot was fine if a bit rushed. I think my only problem is the sense of progression was all over the place. That and I generally don't like Open World games too much

X > VI > VII > XV > IX > VIII > IV > I
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4. Beat a game released between 2010-2016

Rise Of The Tomb Raider

19/50
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14. Beat a JRPG

Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age

The original is one of my favourite games of all time, and while I was skeptical of the job system at first, mostly because I enjoyed the original way it was set-up, it ended up adding another layer to the game, and I had a lot of fun with it.

Other than that, the game is still great. I put around 70 hours into it on the way to getting the platinum trophy, and that was with 4x speed on for 90% of the game.

33/50
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38. Beat a game you'd dropped or had a long hold on

Pokemon Soul Silver. that level curve is a real hindrance in the endgame.

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21. Beat a strategy game
XCOM 2
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3. Beat a game released between 2000-2009
Grand Theft Auto IV

30. Beat a game with a female lead
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy

18/50
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@Dragon66116 how is GTA IV now? I’ve never played it before, and videos make it look like it didn’t age well at all
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This is actually my second time playing it and I think it held up pretty well. It was the first one I played in the series though so I kinda have a soft spot for it. If you played V recently it might seem like a downgrade but otherwise I think it's still enjoyable.
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34. Beat a game with an animal lead

Sonic Mania. Great game! 20/50
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6. Beat a game in a completely new series
Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition
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I've started playing through the Metal Slug collection so I have a bunch of changes to make.

I moved the first 3 Mega Man games from challenge 50-52 and put them into:

1. Beat a game released before 1990

Mega Man

10. Beat a game made by a director/composer/artist/etc that you like

Mega Man 2

19. Beat a platformer

Mega Man 3


Also, I moved the original game I had at 19 to:

4. Beat a game released between 2010-2016

Super Mario 3D Land


Which leaves:

50-52. Beat three games in a series (First game)

Metal Slug


New total should be 35/50
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45. Beat a game that's been adapted into another medium
Tales of Berseria
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50-52. Beat three games in a series (Second game)

Metal Slug 2
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8. Beat a spin-off or a game that rebooted a franchise
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (PS4)
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It's getting harder to fit games into my list. I'm going to need to reevaluate certain placements in order to fit a bunch of upcoming games in.

For now, I made the following move:

27. Beat a game with mystery as a central theme

Hotline Miami


In order to do this:

20. Beat an action game

Metal Slug X

36/50
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4. Beat a game released between 2010-2016

Strike Solitaire

Just some solitaire with a few bowling references, nothing special.

Moved Puzzle by Nikoli V: Sudoku to 15. Beat a puzzle game
Moved Pokemon Picross to 7. Beat a game in a series you've already played some of
Moved Final Fantasy XV to 14. Beat a JRPG
Moved Persona 5 to 32. Beat a game with a non-white lead

it's only September and I'm swapping things around like this. Oh well.

32/50
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29. Beat a game with comedy as a central theme
EarthBound

19. Beat a platformer
Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble
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32. Beat a game with a non-white lead
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
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Well I finally went in and found spots on my first list for games I was saving for my second list that probably won't happen now

Changes:
Advance Wars removed from 21, placed under 3. Beat a game released between 2000-2009
E.V.O.: Search for Eden removed from 34, placed under 38. Beat a game you'd dropped or had a long hold on (I'd never actually beaten this game before so I must've dropped it several times growing up!)
Tales from the Borderlands removed from 29, placed under 44. Beat a game based on licensed stories/characters (Telltale licensed Borderlands, or at least that's my understanding after doing no research)

Additions:
11. Beat a game made by a developer you like
Dark Souls III

17. Beat a first-person shooter
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

19. Beat a platformer
Mega Man X2

20. Beat an action game
Hyperdimension Neptunia U: Action Unleashed

21. Beat a strategy game
Stellaris

28. Beat a game with the supernatural as a central theme
Ys II
(There are demons and whatnot, that counts)

29. Beat a game with comedy as a central theme
Deep Space Waifu
(Comedy and naked anime girls were basically the only two things this game had!)

34. Beat a game with an animal lead
Yooka-Laylee

37. Beat a game that's been in your backlog for a long time
Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void
(Had it since release, only just beat it this year)

42. Beat a game with a Metascore above 90
What Remains of Edith Finch
(The Xbox One version got 92 on metacritic, somehow, so I'll count it)

48/50

All I need to do now is Revenge and two more Atelier games to finish the trilogy, though I'm not sure if I can make that happen. I'm playing a lot less games lately and not wanting to go back to that crummy second Atelier game was part of the reason why, so I dunno. I might stumble across a revenge game by the end of the year, though!
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8. Beat a spin-off or a game that rebooted a franchise
Magikarp Jump (yeahhh)

28. Beat a game with the supernatural as a central theme
Gahkthun of the Golden Lightning
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2. Beat a game released between 1990-1999

Corocon (NES). A fun but strange japanese exclusive platformer for the Nes where you create your own characters. It was fun beat with a couple of friends.


27. Beat a game with mystery as a central theme

999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (DS). Finally got my hands on a copy to see what this cult game was all about, and I loved my first two playthroughs even if I got two bad endings but after that it became boring to reach the good ending since you have to redo rooms, and even if you can skip every text you have already read in a previous playthrough it still could have been done better in a different way. Interesting plot tough.

33. Beat a game with a robot/artificial lead

Mega Man 7. Mega Man is more than a robot!

33/50
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