Longinus’ profile
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it. – from Monstrous Regiment.
Persona 3 FEBruary Edition
I started February finishing ‘The Quarry’ with my wife and continuing ‘Yakuza: Like a Dragon’ but I had to put it on hold because of the release of ‘Persona 3 Reload’.
For me, the Persona series is one of my many favourites and this release meant I stopped with the rest of the games until I finished it.
Oh, I also won the game ‘Celeste’ on Steamgifts and played it to give a micro review to the person who gave it to me…
I played 'Persona 3 FES' for a whole summer on my old PS2 and ended up in love with this game series. Going back to the first Persona I played, with better graphics (Persona 5 style), more content, etc., is like a dream.
I'm loving the experience despite the problem this game always had: the dungeon crawling is super repetitive. The story is cool, having to plan every encounter to get along with everyone…. And now there are events that I didn't remember the PS2 version having! Also, the combat has improved greatly with a lot of aids so you don't have to remember what element did damage to each type of shadow… Great job, Atlus!
It gets a 9 because the nostalgia factor raises the score, and the truth is that I'm enjoying it a lot.
Like other games of this style, this is a "movie" in which you decide the actions (but not the fate) of the characters. In this case they leave enough freedom to remove QTE and other annoying mechanics, because in the end you always mess up with your decisions.
Otherwise we have the usual: a group of annoying teenagers who get trapped in a deadly camp.
Even so, we found it more enjoyable than previous games of this type… maybe it's because you can eliminate the damn QTE.
Just don't expect that the wise choices you make will be the ones that save the character. That's the magic of terror.
Nothing new under the sun since I started playing. I progressed a bit in the story but I still see the seams in these graphics so… early 21st century SEGA?
"One of the best platform games" they said. Well, that's why I entered the giveaway and that's why I was looking forward to trying it out. What I didn't know was what kind of platforms they were referring to: the ones that make you measure every move of a suicidal character through a web of impossible platforms that make you yell at the screen as if you were possessed by a demon and make you want to throw the gamepad against the wall.
Sorry, midcore gamers are more about FEZ than wanting to waste time trying over and over again to beat a level where you die in a different place each time. I miss the super transcendental background of the story, but I'd rather do that than buy a new screen.
Definitely not my cup of tea.
Starting the year like a dragon
The year has started well: finishing Baldur’s Gate 3 and other games, starting some others that I had pending and… Waiting for Friday to start Persona 3 Reload!
I enjoyed this game from start to finish, getting lost everywhere and trying to solve problems in the craziest ways the game would allow me to do. The journey has been great and I have enjoyed every stop. Of course, I'm not fond of replaying games and for the achievements that meant a complete game with another character at the end I had to use other people's saves… I hope Saint Completist forgives me this fault 😳
The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes
It's funny because we just left him a few minutes before the end. But I don't recommend it at all. We finished it, buried it and will never talk about it again.
ONE PUNCH MAN: A HERO NOBODY KNOWS
I'm a big fan of the One Punch-Man manga and I love that they make games from the saga but… this "fighting" game is a mess. Terrible controls, soporific gameplay and crazy load times just to start a fight.
Just playing it really knocks you down with one punch… (pun intended)
Although I have finished these three, there has been time to start a couple that are in the making:
After "House of Ashes" we were left with a bad taste so we decided to try this game that has absolutely all the dynamics with one caveat: you can remove the damn heartbeats.
Much better experience and with a story of teenagers at a summer camp being besieged by evil forces coming from the woods. What more could you ask for a fright night?
I have mixed feelings: I like the Judgement saga and, given that the gameplay is more JRPG style I was expecting a lot more changes in this game compared to the Yakuza saga.
Let's see, I like the game with that mix of Dragon Quest and Yakuza, but there are parts of the storyline really regrettable and situations that make me feel really uncomfortable. Saving the twisted and retrograde morality of certain situations, the game is fun but it suffers from the same thing that annoyed me in Judgement: the animations of the characters are very corseted. The characters look like dolls pretending to be human beings. I don't know, it's as if for years SEGA didn't want to leave their comfort zone and they've been stuck in old fashioned graphics and animations. Maybe they're trying to give you a nostalgia that I don't really have, or maybe it's just that this wasn't my game. For me it's overrated.
I only downloaded “Dungeons & Dragons Online” and “Killing Floor 2” to get free game items, so I don’t even bother to create a panel for them.
Happy assassination to all!
December’s Gate 2023
If we don’t count the daily visits to Genshin Impact, this month has practically been for Baldur’s Gate 3. Game of the year!
118 hours and I still haven't decided to finish it, there's so much to see and so many ways to solve the problems that I can't stop experimenting (and constantly saving the game because… epic fails)! Love it!
Well, I’ve also been messing around a bit with RetroArch but only because I got the retro nostalgia 😅
Compared to November, when I played a lot of hours, this month has been more relaxed due to personal issues and because I’ve started drawing again.
Zomvember
This month has been more varied than the previous one… After finishing Temtem (and being tortured by its endgame that I finally abandoned) I continued with the wonderful Baldur’s Gate III. It has so many possibilities that I still haven’t finished it!
It was fun to remember old times with this online "Pokémon", but in the engame became tedious to have to plan for every damn battle.
Also, getting every damn achievement is a damn odyssey.
It's over for me.
I haven't finished it yet and they have already released an update to play in Custom mode that allows you to roleplay more by hiding the required roll to succeed dice checks, hiding enemy HP in battle, hiding failed Perception Checks, etc. I love it!
If someone comes home and tells me they’ve never played Left 4 Dead 2 I feel obliged to show them what they’ve been missing all this time. Playing it on LAN brings back so many memories….
A classic to play with friends. I can't get enough of it and especially thanks to the incredible modder community that has created so many amazing maps and campaigns. I really love this game.
And we also have a horror game/movie because my wife loves the genre and we had to do something after Halloween.
The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes
My wife tends to like these games more than I do, because I hate QTE with all my being. In fact, we haven't finished the game yet because I'm so angry that I've lost a couple of characters to this counterproductive mechanic. I really hate it. But since we're near the end and I don't like to leave things unfinished, I figure that sometime in December I'm going to end the game so I never have to play it again.
I only give it a 4 because the story is interesting with that mix of genres, but nothing more.
Ah, recently a ROG Ally came home and I was “forced” to test how well it emulated games so I gave RetroArch a little try. Just to remember very old times… because when I got over the melancholy I installed a few Epic and Steam games.
What can be said? It emulates retro consoles and arcades… What more can you ask for when you feel like remembering old times.
And it doesn't get a 10 just because I had to set up a couple of things, if it had been totally for dummies I'd give it a 10.
Temtober
That’s right. This month the only thing I played was Temtem and I still haven’t reached the end because I’m too busy trying to catch them all!
Almost there, almost there. I'll finish this Pokémon nostalgia exercise in no time… ^___^U
Not this September
This month has been soft because I spent the last half of the month traveling. I tried Temtem and Trek to Yomi, which I got in Steamgifts; I resumed a fighting game of One Piece that I had left halfway through and I played what I could of Baldur’s Gate 3. I’m not complaining, because I enjoyed everything (the games and especially the travel).
I wish I had more time to play it, but I save it for when I know I have a few hours free to play.
What I expected from Pokémon when the Internet era started, a Spanish indie studio had to make it. It's entertaining, but the MMO component doesn't quite fit me and sometimes gives me the impression of being a pay to win.
I've only played the first gym, but as soon as they gave me the surfboard and the world opened up, I completely skipped the story.
The Kurosawa film style is great, the plot of the warrior who descends to Hell and then returns to fight his enemy is quite cliché but it works.
It entertains, which is not little, but too difficult for my taste. So I'm not going to replay it to see the path of revenge and the path of love.
It's not the best fighting game, but it's not bad either. Quite repetitive, especially in the story mode where you do the same path, but with different characters (it's normal, it only covers a small arc of the One Piece story).
August is ending…
I finish August with the two games I had left to finish in July:
I liked it, although as it tries to be a kind of MMO it has too much insubstantial content. Doing 100% means playing online and that's not really my thing, so I'm satisfied with everything I've managed to get out of it.
I loved it. I didn't expect it to be so good and I was surprised by its good gameplay. And what a great idea to add a mode in which you don't have to worry about food or drink, for those of us who are not lovers of survival games.
My brother kindly gifted me Baldur’s Gate 3, another great game. I haven’t had much time to play it this month because it coincided with the Genshin Impact update and a lot of work, but the little I’ve played I’m really enjoying it!
I haven't even gotten past the first chapter yet because I get lost watching it all! I still think it's an epic game. I love that I can't even do a good action because the dice hate me xD
The calm after the storm
During my first few months around here I systematically dedicated myself to a backlog cleaning marathon with all the games I had won on Steamgifts.
After that I decided to take a break and dedicate time to those games I had tried and wanted to finish. But it’s a bad time for pragmatism when a Steam sale comes along and you decide to get Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2…
A joy for Dragon Ball fans, a nightmare for your thumbs if you play with gamepad, and repetitive to death if you want to do 100%…
To make things worse I decided to detox from so much Kamehameha by trying a game I had been putting off for a long time: Subnautica (this time on Epicgames) And now I can’t stop playing until I escape from the damn planet 4546B!
Help! I'm thalassophobic but I can't stop playing! Planet 4546B has me trapped!
High five if you have named the cyclops 'Seaquest' and also if you plan to name your spacecraft 'Rocinante' or 'Serenity'.
So my July report is pretty poor and…. I’m back to having won games that I haven’t even tried yet! I’m the worst.
Done!
When I arrived on this site in May this year, I realized that I had played virtually none of the games I had won on Steamgifts! You know, the ‘I’ll play it later, I just bought this AAA’ syndrome.
So I decided to fix it and I can say that I succeeded! Of course, I had some disappointment because at the beginning I entered giveaways of games I wouldn’t have bought, so some of them I had to give up. And now that I’ve tried them all, it’s time to finish the ones I really liked!
And without further ado, the marathon list of games that I have played since May until now.
Completed
May 2023
June 2023
July 2023
Beaten
May 2023
June 2023
Beaten/Completed on other platforms
May 2023
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Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box
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Darksiders Warmastered Edition
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ENSLAVED™: Odyssey to the West™ Premium Edition
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LEGO® Batman™ 2: DC Super Heroes
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Runaway: A Road Adventure
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The Longest Journey
My cup of tea, I’ll probably continue it after this madness
May 2023
June 2023
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Ara Fell: Enhanced Edition
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Blackguards
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Darksiders Genesis
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Darksiders III
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Hob
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Hollow Knight
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Kitaria Fables
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ONE PIECE BURNING BLOOD
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Papo & Yo
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Raji: An Ancient Epic
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The Adventure Pals
July 2023
Unfinished… yet
May 2023
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8-Bit Adventures 1: The Forgotten Journey Remastered Edition
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After The End: The Harvest
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Always Sometimes Monsters
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Angels of Fasaria: Version 2.0
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Anna's Quest
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Another Perspective
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Demonicon
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Fortix
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Gray Matter
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Overlord
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Overlord: Raising Hell
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Project Night
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Replay - VHS is not dead
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Stargazer
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Steel & Steam: Episode 1
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Story Of the Survivor
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Suits: A Business RPG
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Tales Across Time
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Terra Incognita Chapter One: The Descendant
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Tesla Effect
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The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles
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The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
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The Land of Dasthir
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The Night of the Rabbit
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The Stanley Parable
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Two Brothers
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Venetica
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Yesterday
June 2023
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A New Beginning - Final Cut
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Asdivine Hearts
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Citizens of Earth
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City of Chains
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Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller
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Eternal Edge
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Final Quest II
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Fort Triumph
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John Wick Hex
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Space Pilgrim Episode III: Delta Pavonis
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Space Pilgrim Episode IV: Sol
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Speed Brawl
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Stairs
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State of Mind
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Styx: Shards of Darkness
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The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav
July 2023
Please don’t force me to play it again
May 2023
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1914: Prelude to Chaos
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Alien Rage - Unlimited
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Alter Ego
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BAPTISM
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Beer Bar
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Contagion
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Data Hacker: Corruption
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Eaten Alive
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Final Quest
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Game Tycoon 2
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Il Sole e la Luna
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Japanese Romaji Adventure
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Lust Epidemic
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No Time To Explain Remastered
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Paul's World
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Please close the doors
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Postmortem: one must die (Extended Cut)
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Realm of Perpetual Guilds
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Runaway: A Twist of Fate
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Rust
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Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper
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Sir, You Are Being Hunted
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STAR WARS™: X-Wing Special Edition
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Story of the Survivor : Prisoner
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Unforgiving Trials: The Darkest Crusade
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Unforgiving Trials: The Space Crusade
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Warriors of Vilvatikta
June 2023
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Absolver
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Blazing Beaks
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Blue Fire
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Chronicles of a Dark Lord: Episode II War of The Abyss
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Edge of Twilight – Return To Glory
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Elements: Soul of Fire
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Freedom Cry
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Garry's Mod
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Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
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Guts and Glory
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Jerry McPartlin - Rebel with a Cause
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Last Dream: World Unknown
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Meower's Quest: Jasper's Tale
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Rogue Port - Red Nightmare
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Tears Revolude
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The Doorbreaker
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Zxill: A Legend of Time
Broken or I couldn’t even turn it on
May 2023
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Dragonview
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Dreamscape
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Heavy Metal Machines
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Shadow Warrior (Classic)
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The Architect
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The Ship
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The Ship Single Player
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TRIP Steam Edition
June 2023
Photo Finish
There have been many games and many of them I have probably hated due to saturation (too many RPGMaker games) and many of those that remain unfinished will probably remain that way ad eternum, but it has helped me to discover some that I really want to finish, so this madness has not been in vain.
1832 | games |
69% | never played |
10% | unfinished |
8% | beaten |
4% | completed |
8% | won't play |