samwise84

Update 121: July 2023

My birthday came and went and my backlog is crying bitter tears again. So many new games, he’s getting really fat.

Half-Life 2

Murder by Numbers

8/10
24.3 hours
4 of 4 achievements

Really enjoyed this one. Had the right amount of puzzles and VN parts for me. And I absolutely adore the little robot.

Half-Life 2

911: First Responders

6/10
9.2 hours
no achievements

Took a while to get this to run properly. It's the same game as Emergency 4. Gameplay could be better. Controls were not really good and I often had to click several times to send the firefighters to their places or it was hard to let them extinguish the right thing, because they just randomly extinguished something or went huge ways instead of extinguishing.

Half-Life 2

Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series

8/10
12.6 hours
30 of 30 achievements

Really good entry in the Telltale series. With some surprising twists. Batman had to work very hard on his conscience. Alfred or Batman? Would you give up the mask?

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The Last of Us™ Part I

9.5/10
33.7 hours
no achievements

Played the DLC. It's about what happened to Ellie just before the base game and how she got bitten and what happened after Joel got shot. I loved it because it gives you an even better impression of what happened and how it all happened.

Half-Life 2

Marble Duel

6/10
14.7 hours
18 of 19 achievements

I still think the difficulty ramps up too much in this game, but I finally got through it and banned it from my backlog

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aMAZE Lunar

6.5/10
1.4 hours
100 of 100 achievements

A cute little maze game where you have to pick up part of a dragon to unlock the end for each maze. I wouldn't recommend playing it in one sitting since then it can get quiet tedious for your writst.

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Eternal Threads

7.5/10
16.2 hours
10 of 10 achievements

I really enjoyed this game and fiddeling around with the different decisions and to see how they affect the outcome. Not really a fan of the ending though.

Half-Life 2

Monkey Island 2: Special Edition

6.5/10
5.0 hours
9 of 12 achievements

Not really my type of game any longer. Guess I got to old to enjoy it properly.

Half-Life 2

Fix My Hand Doc

3.5/10
0.2 hours
no achievements

Barely a game tbh. you got one set of hands with the same problems. Some of the remedies do not work properly or I am too dumb to figure them out. No tutorial given. You can only switch the portraits behind the hand. Could have been an okay game. Like this it is barely enjoyable.

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F.E.A.R.

7/10
10.3 hours
no achievements

Took me ages to figure out how to make it run since it would immediately crash upon opening.
Other than that and a few crashes while playing (mostly while tabbing out) the game actually ran smoothly and wasn't too bad for such an old game. Kinda looking forward to playing the rest. Though I found the nightmare scenes a bit confusing for the most part.



Overall Backlog Progress:-0,01% change to last times unfinished/never played games (60,85% unfinished games)

19.99% (293/1466)
17.60% (258/1466)
3.41% (50/1466)
57.44% (842/1466)
1.57% (23/1466)




Overall SG Wins Progress:+0,02% change to last times unfinished/never played games (42,93% unfinished games)

31.03% (180/580)
25.52% (148/580)
1.72% (10/580)
41.21% (239/580)
0.52% (3/580)
Here are the games I'm currently working on. Reviews will follow once I'm done with the games:
I've won 9 games and got 12 gifted (and a ton of DLC's thank you mouse) and I've beaten 9 games, so that makes a total of +12 for the month of June. My backlog is in a fit. I'm at +24 for this year now *hides quickly from my backlog*. Thank you Ninglor, Zelrune, moony, greatmastermario, cece, PV and Nosenses for the gifts and mouse for all the Cloring Pixel DLC's

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

PoP: thanks to PoeticKatana & Metalhead8489 for challenging me

Zelrune

Congratulations on all of your assassinations! Now that you’re back you gotta take you backlog out for more walks! You did finish a lot this month though, so maybe it’s fine? Lemme know if you wanna try and meet up in Tem Tem! I’m still early in the game.

samwise84

Thanks. I also did beat a DLC for each Cloring Pixels and Pixel Puzzle Ultimate and the Texas DLC for American Truck Simulator XD

Not sure if I got the time for TemTem this month, but I wouldn’t mind to play it together at one point

Arbiter Libera

Glad to see Batman: The Enemy Within was Telltale’s last game despite the company going out with a whimper. I have a feeling it’s overlooked.

samwise84

It’s pretty good. And I am not even a batman fan