samwise84

Update 52: May 1st to May 10th

Well May did not start as well, as April ended. I am lagging behind on my games, since The Evil Within took me forever.

Half-Life 2

The Evil Within

6/10
30.7 hours
27 of 71 achievements

Not sure how I should feel about this game. It was a pure gorefest. I mean it starts with you dropping into a pool of blood in the first 5 minutes of the game. And it will get more gory the longer it goes on.
I would not really class it as horror, more like a disturbed version of realtiy. Tough you get chased around by "zombies" with chainsaws a time or two ;)
Story wise I am still not really sure what it is about. It is all rather convoluted. Basically you are a detectivve that was called into a horrible murder scene in a mental hospital. All of the previously send cops have been killed and you are there to investigate why. Turns out a mentally unstable person is using an experimental machine that connects peoples minds and you are pulled into it and are trying to get out and trying to keep that mental patient in. The scenes are totally fractured and weird. Sometimes you are traversing the city, then a village, then the hospital again.

Gameplay wise I found some of the level bosses rather hard. Not because they were hard to beat, more because it was hard to find out how to beat them. Once you knew how to beat them it was pretty easy.2 Though the final endboss was a joke difficulty wise. It was harder to get to him then beat him.

Half-Life 2

Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

5/10
2.8 hours
no achievements

It's an okay HOG, gotten rather old. Resolution is not the best on HD screens, which makes some of the hidden object scenes quite hard. Puzzles are nice enough though. Different from the ones you usually see today.

Can't really say much about the story since I never really read the book.



green = PoP thanks to Aldowuj & Laura for challenging me
red = Monthly in a Month
blue = PAGYWOSG
grey = BLAEO monthly theme
orange = completions/for fun games

Overall Backlog Progress: -0,12% unfinished/never played games :)

11.69% (106/907)
10.92% (99/907)
5.62% (51/907)
69.35% (629/907)
2.43% (22/907)
Overall SG Wins Progress: -0,17% unfinished/never played games :)

32.12% (62/193)
21.76% (42/193)
1.55% (3/193)
42.49% (82/193)
2.07% (4/193)
Here are the games I'm currently working on. Reviews will follow once I'm done with the games:
I've won 3 games in the last week and got 1 extra from one of the wins. And I've beaten/completed 2 games, so that makes a +2 for the last week and a total of +2 for May.

SG wins:
Games I want to play within the next few weeks:

Monthly in a Month: won't take part this month

PA: none

PoP: thanks to laura & Aldowuj for challenging me

BLAEO monthly:

PAGYWOSG:none more planned for now

Just for fun:
Cece09

oh you won a few games well done