tso184

2017 summary and Witcher trilogy update

In a previous post I said I would make a 2017 summary, and here it is.

50 games finished, of which 29 were SG games (compared to 84/68 2016)
821 hours spent in finished games (compared to 1268 for 2016)

I didn’t play as much during 2017 as 2016, but real life events made gaming time drop a lot, I even took a break from playing games between February and April. Things are much better now, but still less gaming time than 2016, but that’s just life :)

Here are all 50 finished games finished in 2017:

  • Bastion

    10 hours playtime

    13 of 24 achievements

  • The Technomancer

    30 hours playtime

    33 of 40 achievements

  • Dishonored

    23 hours playtime

    43 of 80 achievements

  • Grand Theft Auto V

    65 hours playtime

    31 of 77 achievements

  • Monkey Island 2: Special Edition

    6 hours playtime

    11 of 12 achievements

  • Grim Legends: The Forsaken Bride

    9 hours playtime

    21 of 24 achievements

  • Sonic Generations

    7 hours playtime

    30 of 49 achievements

  • Borderlands 2

    124 hours playtime

    69 of 69 achievements

  • Dishonored 2

    23 hours playtime

    39 of 50 achievements

  • Anomaly 2

    11 hours playtime

    29 of 65 achievements

  • Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas

    15 hours playtime

    63 of 63 achievements

  • ABZÛ

    3 hours playtime

    12 of 12 achievements

  • Mark of the Ninja

    18 hours playtime

    38 of 38 achievements

  • Revenge of the Titans

    14 hours playtime

    73 of 77 achievements

  • The Legend of Korra™

    11 hours playtime

    30 of 30 achievements

  • INSIDE

    5 hours playtime

    14 of 14 achievements

  • Dying Light

    40 hours playtime

    46 of 68 achievements

  • Toby: The Secret Mine

    2 hours playtime

    5 of 5 achievements

  • Savant - Ascent

    3 hours playtime

    11 of 14 achievements

  • Call of Duty: Ghosts

    11 hours playtime

    40 of 40 achievements

  • Magicka 2

    16 hours playtime

    36 of 47 achievements

  • Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition

    17 hours playtime

    52 of 57 achievements

  • The Room

    2 hours playtime

    5 of 5 achievements

  • Red Faction: Guerrilla Steam Edition

    20 hours playtime

    34 of 60 achievements

  • Batman - The Telltale Series

    8 hours playtime

    30 of 30 achievements

  • Quantum Break

    16 hours playtime

    42 of 42 achievements

  • Wolfenstein: The New Order

    17 hours playtime

    41 of 50 achievements

  • Castle of Illusion

    4 hours playtime

    10 of 12 achievements

  • Machinarium

    6 hours playtime

    12 of 12 achievements

  • Westerado: Double Barreled

    5 hours playtime

    38 of 79 achievements

  • Space Engineers

    10 hours playtime

    13 of 18 achievements

  • Shadowrun: Dragonfall

    28 hours playtime

    39 of 39 achievements

  • Armello

    12 hours playtime

    25 of 50 achievements

  • Prison Architect

    14 hours playtime

    13 of 18 achievements

  • Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition

    17 hours playtime

    31 of 59 achievements

  • Hollow Knight

    17 hours playtime

    23 of 57 achievements

  • Mother Russia Bleeds

    6 hours playtime

    24 of 33 achievements

  • Project Highrise

    10 hours playtime

    73 of 88 achievements

  • Merchants of Kaidan

    14 hours playtime

    22 of 22 achievements

  • Metro 2033

    13 hours playtime

    37 of 48 achievements

  • Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

    10 hours playtime

    14 of 14 achievements

  • Tomb Raider

    19 hours playtime

    33 of 50 achievements

  • TRANSFORMERS: Devastation

    13 hours playtime

    13 of 30 achievements

  • The Witcher: Enhanced Edition

    27 hours playtime

    no achievements

  • The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition

    31 hours playtime

    47 of 52 achievements

  • DEFCON

    2 hours playtime

    0 of 22 achievements

  • Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter

    11 hours playtime

    25 of 25 achievements

  • Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY Edition

    19 hours playtime

    32 of 47 achievements

  • Rise of the Tomb Raider

    25 hours playtime

    55 of 143 achievements

  • Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

    4 hours playtime

    5 of 10 achievements

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I have been playing the Witcher trilogy back to back, and since November, I’ve been playing The Witcher III. It’s such a good game, without a doubt one of the very best games I have ever played, and playing it is such a good way to spend time. And time is needed! So far I’ve spent 115 hours in it, and I’ve just reached the end-game phase of the main game. Then I have both of the expansions to play through, which will add another 30-50 hours or so, I probably won’t be done with this game until next month. While playing it I’m also finding it hard to play other games as I usually do (I usually have 2-4 games I switch between until finishing one of them, and often starting a new game to add to the rotation), when I have some spare time for gaming, I instantly fire up The Witcher III, no need to mix it up with something else :D

No finished games so far in 2018 due to that, which might look bad for the “stats”, but I’m really enjoying finally playing this game, and I will let it take the time it needs to finish it. After I’m done, I have several games I look forward to playing a lot as well. I’ll be back with future updates :)

I’ll end this post with a few screenshots from my Witcher III playthrough - more available here.




JaffaCaffa

Looks like quite the lineup there, a lot of good games. Glad to hear things improved with irl stuff, hope you have just as good or better of a gaming year in 2018. :)

I’m curious, did you like The Legend of Korra game? I’ve heard a bunch of mixed things so I removed it from my WL a while back.

tso184

Well, I try to only add good games to my library ;)

Legend of Korra was pretty good, but not in any way an amazing game:
https://www.backlog-assassins.net/comments/nlqm7g8

It’s removed from the Steam store now I think, so too late to get it - but I wouldn’t say you missed anything.

JaffaCaffa

Ah cool sorry, thanks for sharing the post. :) I’d forgotten that it was suddenly removed.

tso184

Nothing to be sorry about, you’re welcome :)

EvilBlackSheep

Glad to read you’ve been doing better and your backlog fight is pretty impressive! Also, amazing screenshots you’re sharing there! It makes me finally wanna play TW3. Any mods you’re using to get such amazing colors?

tso184

Yeah, I think I might see the end of my backlog some day in a couple of years! :)

Thanks a lot! I use Nvidias Ansel screenshot tool, and since it freezes the game, I also use ReShade 3.0, which I tweak for each individual screenshot while the game is frozen. It’s hard to find one setting that works for the game all the time, so I just add whatever works for that particular screenshot.