samwise84

Update 63: Last week of July

July has not been good for my backlog, with the steam sale and my birthday in the same month. Fingers crossed August will be better.

21.5 hours
8/10 ⭐
Played on Steam


Half-Life 2

Ghost of a Tale

7/10
21.7 hours
11 of 20 achievements

The art is really nice, gameplay is smooth though I am not a fan of the safe system. Have to hide somewhere to be able to save, and finding stuff is difficult since there are no proper guides and you run around a lot.
The hiding spots are not really rare, the problem is that the rat guards will chase you the second they see you and you cannot hide as long as they see you. means you run frantically around trying to loose them and of course run into more guards. Until you finally know your map well enough to find all the hiding spots and know where to go when you are chased.
Another thing I did not really like were the collectibles, game had too many for my likeing. And there are no good guides for them, especially because some of them changed location several times depending on the version of the game.

And I wasn't the biggest fan of the ending. But I won't spoil that here.




green = PoP thanks to AlvinCanCabbage & emymer 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

12.88% (123/955)
12.25% (117/955)
4.82% (46/955)
67.64% (646/955)
2.41% (23/955)
Overall SG Wins Progress:+0,52% unfinished/never played games :(

32.74% (73/223)
21.97% (49/223)
1.35% (3/223)
42.15% (94/223)
1.79% (4/223)
Here are the games I'm currently working on. Reviews will follow once I'm done with the games:
I've won 2 games this week and was gifted 1 by fEEdErEr, thank you very much . And I've beaten 2 games and 1 DLC, so that makes a +1 for the week and a total of +8 for July. Hope August will be better.

SG wins:

Gifts:



Games I want to play within the next few weeks:

BLAEO Monthly:
  • Back to the Future: Ep 2 - Get Tannen!

    0 hours playtime

    no achievements

  • Back to the Future: Ep 3 - Citizen Brown

    0 hours playtime

    no achievements

  • Back to the Future: Ep 4 - Double Visions

    0 hours playtime

    no achievements

  • Back to the Future: Ep 5 - OUTATIME

    0 hours playtime

    no achievements



PoP: thanks to AlvinCanCabbage & emymer for challenging me


PAGYWOSG:

Just for fun:
Arbiter Libera

Did you include the review for Rise of Tomb Raider or was something goofed up with the code?

samwise84

Dammit I did. And it was a rather long one. argh

I really liked it. Was a lot of fun, though I was not the greatest fan of the backtracking that was required to get some of the achievements. It’s more action filled than the originals. If you liked the precious one you will like this one too.