Board 8 > The Great 2017 Video Game Challenge (Topic 2)

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The first topic purged, but we won't let that stop us!

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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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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15. Beat a puzzle game
Catherine
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32. Beat a game with a non-white lead
Sound of Drop -fall into poison-

37/50
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26. Beat a game with revenge as a central theme
Persona 5

FINALLY! Now I can play other stuff...
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Tag
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15. Beat a Puzzle Game

Inside
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18. Beat a third-person shooter
Alan Wake

38/50
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19. Beat a platformer
Little Nightmares
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3. Beat a game released between 2000-2009

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

My favourite GTA game, and one of my favourite games of all-time. I've messed around with this game a lot over the years, but it's been over a decade since I played it through start to finish, so there was definitely a lot of nostalgia during my playthrough. It still holds up, and the soundtrack is still as great as ever.

I plan on playing through San Andreas in the near future as well. It's also one of my favourites, but I don't think I've ever actually completed it, so it should be an interesting experience.

23/50
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50. Beat three games in a series

Hexcells. I guess this means that I should probably commit to beating Infinite and Plus
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26. Beat a game with revenge as a central theme

Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest
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16. Beat a rhythm game

Miracle Girls Festival

Would work well for the now-removed game not released in your country challenge. Game was fairly entertaining, but judging by the credits there's still a lot more songs to unlock and play. Will platinum this soon and probably move on from there.

15/50
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Bump
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42. Beat a game with a Metascore above 90
Grand Theft Auto V

Took more than half a month and I've played part of this before, but this was my first finish and it was great. It's easily one of the best games of this gen
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37. Beat a game that's been in your backlog for a long time
Injustice 1

44. Beat a game based on licensed stories/characters
Injustice 2

48. Beat a game that starts with the first letter of your username
Madden 12

90% metacritic is going to be tough
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Bump

I'm really slowing down on gaming. Seven of the last nine games I've played have all been super disappointing or outright bad. Only one of the nine has actually been fun. I'm getting so burnt out.
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44. Beat a game based on licensed stories/characters
Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4
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Robazoid posted...

I'm really slowing down on gaming. Seven of the last nine games I've played have all been super disappointing or outright bad. Only one of the nine has actually been fun. I'm getting so burnt out.

I've also slowed down, but only because for the first time in what might be ever, I've actually successfully gone through my entire backlog of owned games that I planned on playing, and don't really have anything to play because I'm waiting for some price drops on games I'm interested.

What I'm now doing is looking through my library of random PS Plus games I've downloaded over the years and seeing if any of them are worth playing.
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35. Beat a game with a lead from a fictional species
Snipperclips

34/50
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46. Beat a game that features historical events or people
Assassins Creed

35/50

probably wont have another for a bit
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42. Beat a game with a Metascore above 90
Journey
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41. Beat a game with a Metascore below 70
Party Hard
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bumpers
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15. Beat a puzzle game

Contraption Maker

(counting getting all the achivements as beating it, since that includes completing most of the official puzzles among other things)

The "spiritual successor" to The Incredible Machine, which actually has the exact same gameplay as The Incredible Machine except for adding some new parts and an online feature, and is even made by the same team as The Incredible Machine. Basically, if you played and enjoyed TIM back in the day, and want to play it again on Steam, this is the game for you.

12/50
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Bumpers
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