Your holiday release backlog

[Cybren]

Games I have and really should have played anyway, you lazy asshole, me:

FFXII
Shadow of the Colossus
Gears of War
God of War
God of War 2
Metroid Prime 3
Grand Theft Auto 4
Saints Row

Games I started but never finished:

Super Mario Galaxy
Twilight Princess
No More Heroes
Psychonauts
Fallout 3
Oblivion


Old games i'm currently playing/replaying and want to finish:
the baldurs gate games
planescape torment
vagrant story

GAMES SO FUCKING HARD I CAN'T PLAY THEM FOR MORE THAN TEN MINUTES EACH MONTH:

Contra 4
The Mega Man Zero series

"Hey wait, my brother bought the Sins of a Solar Empire expansion!":

ERROR, NO LONGER INTERESTED IN LIST

[Darkobra]

I have Shin Megami Tensei: Lucifer's Call to complete. 80 hours I put into the game and took a break before the final, final boss. That was 2 years ago. College consumed me.

Never did start Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2. Was too busy looking for the first one.

Never finished Morrowind either. Didn't enjoy it as much as Oblivion but I don't think 5 hours playing it is really a fair chance for an Elder Scrolls game.

I'll start on those next summer.

[Arius]

There's a handful of games I've never completed for varying reasons.

Ninja Gaiden II - Got another game that was more fun.

HL2 EP2 - Last strider battle annoyed me.

Rune Factory: Frontier - Couldn't keep my attention for as long as the game is.

Street Fighter IV - My thumbs are firmly attached to my hands, analog sticks anger me when it comes to precise movements at high speed.

Star Ocean: The Last Hope - Got to the final boss and found out that I cannot defeat him without grinding for a few hours.

So, I can just try pushing through those if I don't want to spend money.

[masamune]

HL2 EP2 - Last strider battle annoyed me.

for real.

[Genghis Ares]

I have a bunch of games I need to finish.

Fable II
Ninja Gaiden 2
Prototype
The Darkness
Hellgate: London
Evil Genius
The Movies
Damnation(I got it for free)
Vampires: Bloodlines
Viva Pinata 2
Kameo
Perfect Dark: Zero
STALKER
16 Original Xbox Games(out of 50 or so)
Lost Odyssey
Mafia
Max Payne 1
KOTOR 1&2
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 1
Sacred 2
Overlord
Devil May Cry 4
No More Heroes

Yeah. I really need to get crackin'.

[Arius]

I have a few more to add.

Lost Odyssey - Got annoyed on the third disc when the little rat guys start stealing rings from you during battles.

Infinite Undiscovery - It's like an MMO, but you're lonely and there's no one to show you around.

Tenchu Z - Go here, kill this guy. Now, do it again. Again. Again. Again. Again. Again. Again. Again. Again.

Eternal Sonata - I kid you not, there was a cutscene that had a flashback to something that happened earlier in that same cutscene... And it played about five minutes of it. Oh my god this game has horrid pacing.

Last Remnant - So much pop-in... So much pop-in...

Silent Hill: Homecoming - You want survival horror with puzzles that require you to think in a place with an atmosphere of desolation? Play Silent Hill 2 instead.

Turok - "Go there, kill everyone without them seeing you." "But there is a wide open area without any cover for me to hide in." "Don't worry, there's dinosaurs there too. So if the enemy doesn't see you, they will."

[Metcarfre]

HL2 EP2 - Last strider battle annoyed me.

for real.

Me too, except it's because I got XBL Gold and have been playing TF2 like a mofo.

[masamune]

well, i've finished it, but i refuse to ever do it again. last time i replayed the series, i just loaded an old save and 'skipped' it.

i'm playing mostly gamecube games at the moment, so:
pikmin
metroid prime
super mario sunshine (but the camera controls are putting this on hiatus)
animal crossing

games i intend to purchase in the coming weeks/months:
guitar hero 5
assassin's creed 2
the ballad of gay tony

[Genghis Ares]

I intend to get Assassin's Creed 2 and Borderlands. My Dad usually gets the Call of Duty games, so MW2, I'll probably borrow from him. Although, he hasn't even beaten WAW yet, so he probably won't get it for a while.

[ecocd]

Ugh. I've been doing okay on my backlog, but there are still a few on my list.

Final Fantasy XII: I dicked around too much on side quests and got bored without advancing the main quest

Okami (Wii): Got this off Goozex a long while back. Got shelved because of the time commitment it requires

Zack & Wiki: Was supposed to play with my gf, but we lost interest rather quickly

House of the Dead 2 (Wii): Expert at HotD3, but the stupid civilians in 2 keep me from enjoying the game

Diablo 2 Hell: Kind of working on this now. Duriel sucks

Dragon Quest IV (DS): Started playing immediately after finishing DQ5 - too much DQ.

These lists would be shorter if we note the games we actually did get all the way through. I think my list for this year consists only of The World Ends With You, Dragon Quest V, and Henry Hatsworth.

[goat]

Fallout 3- mothership zeta and part of broken steel
FF 5,6 and 10
Super Metroid
The Path
Sacred (that one's not entirely my fault, I had to restart due to a bug)
LoZ- minish cap
Seiken Densetsu 3 (despite restarting)

I'm probably forgetting a few. Don't even get me started on games that I haven't started but would like to play.

[Hakaryu]

Diablo 2 LoD
American Mcgee's Alice
Lufia 1,2
Breath of fire 1-5
FF 1,2,3,4,5,8,12
Fallout 3
Assassin's Creed
Terranigma
Shin Megami Tensei 2, persona 1-4. Devil Survivor. Digital Devil, Devil summoner 1-2

[gcninja]

hmmm ive been meaning to buy
Fallout 3
halo odst

still waiting on
CODMW2
assassins creed 2
DJ hero


thats all right now, will update later

[Arius]

Terranigma

You are not allowed on the internet until you finish that game.
Do it now, it is one of the best games to ever come out.

[ThrashJazzAssassin]

I really need to finish some RPGs. I'm sure I'm not alone in having a habit of almost finishing them and then stopping, because I need to level up a bit more for the final battle and I get bored once the story's run out.

I think I've only actually finished Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, FFVII, Illusion Of Gaia, Terranigma and one or two less memorable SNES ones. FFV and FFVI are still waiting for me to do the last section from when I played them about seven years ago, but I'm just going to start FFVI again from the beginning, because it's awesome and I really need to play it again. I only played Anachronox for a few hours before I got Fallout, and I took a break from Fallout just before the end because I suddenly decided that I really wanted to play Thief: Deadly Shadows.

[Darkobra]

Well I got some new games.

Wet.

Sonic the Hedgehog, the new one. Not unleashed. No way was I getting that.

Conan the Barbarian. I wanted to say that I got a PS3 game for £5. And a DINOSAUR WITH A SWORD ON THE BACK! Instant sex.


I should probably play these games some day.

[goat]

Terranigma

You are not allowed on the internet until you finish that game.
Do it now, it is one of the best games to ever come out.

Oh... oh crap. Well, I guess I know how I'm spending my weekend.

[Evisr]

Games I need to finish:

Wolfenstin
NFS: Drift
Fallout 3
Metroid Prime Collectors Edition
Killzone 2
Wipeout HD
Splode man
Dead Rising
Shadow Complex
Crackdown
Ghostbusters: Video Game
Aion (this really doesn't count cause its an MMO)
Crysis and Crysis Warhead

Games I am picking up sooner or later:
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Halo 3:ODST
COD 4: MW2
Uncharted 2
Ninja Gaiden 2 Sigma
DJ Hero

[Cybren]

Bumping: I finished oblivion! Tried finishing No More heroes but hte job grinding dissuaded me. Going to work on vagrant story next

[notomtolose]

What's a holiday?

To be played:
Fallout 2 (after the first one)
Star Control II (can wait)
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (after I finish CV:X)
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts (after Tooie)
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (just finished the first on Wii, not ready for more yet)

To be finished:
Banjo-Tooie (on XBLA, I've played it on N64 previously)
Fallout (hooray for gog.com)
Fallout 3 (don't own, will soon buy GOTY edition)
Final Fantasy XII (never cared for Ivalice, even though the gameplay's pretty good)
Final Fantasy X-2 (so weird... that is all)
Shadow of the Colossus (elephant in the room, so to speak... I fail hard here)
LittleBigPlanet (I don't like being punished for playing alone)
Resident Evil: Code Veronica X (started for the mystery LRR game project that never materialized)

Will be purchased instead:
Dragon Age: Origins (Nov 3)
Assassin's Creed II (Nov 17)
Perfect Dark (XBLA, coming 'this winter')

And possibly also:
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (at least, I hope I have time... seems unlikely anytime soon)

I'm actually kind of proud, I thought this list would be longer.

[masamune]

Perfect Dark (XBLA, coming 'this winter')

ooh, i didn't know about that. thanks.

[Whitmore]

I have a bunch of games I need to finish.
The Darkness
Vampires: Bloodlines
Max Payne 1
KOTOR 1&2
Yeah. I really need to get crackin'.

YES YOU DO!

These first please.

(Bloodlines first even though the ending is a slight disappointment)

[Metcarfre]

Perfect Dark (XBLA, coming 'this winter')

Please, oh please let them release Goldeneye for XBLA.

[Matt]

Perfect Dark (XBLA, coming 'this winter')

Please, oh please let them release Goldeneye for XBLA.

That's never happening. Rare's already out and said it in as many words.

Juggling the licensing between Rare, Nintento, Activision, and Microsoft is a nighmare not worth embarking on.

-m

edit: I'd participate in this thread, but my baclog is SO large, it would terrify you all and bury this thread.

[Brinson]

considering matt most likely has games still in the shrink wrap... that's probably a good thing.