What have you ACTUALLY played tracker - Modern Edition (2018)

[adamchevy]

Wii U: Hyrule Warriors 40 min. I love playing this 2 player with my son.

 

Wii U: Yoshis Wooly world 30 min. Also, great 2 player.

 

Wii U: New Super Luigi U 30 min. My 5 year old hates this game. She almost broke a wiimote.

 

Wii U: Wind Waker HD 30 min. Still a great game.

[carlsson]

Week 31

 

Top games

1. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (Xbox One) - 858 min.

2. Super Mega Baseball 2 (Xbox One) - 487 min.

3. Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island (PC) - 162 min.

4. Forza Horizon 2 (Xbox One) - 83 min.

5. Hyrule Warriors (Wii U) - 40 min.

6. New Super Luigi U (Wii U) - 30 min.

7. Wind Waker HD (Wii U) - 30 min.

8. Yoshi's Wooly World (Wii U) - 30 min.

9. StreetPass Mii Plaza (3DS) - 9 min.

 

Top systems

1. Xbox One - 1428 min.

2. PC - 162 min.

3. Wii U - 130 min.

4. 3DS - 9 min.

 

Total 1729 minutes and 9 different games on 4 different systems.

[StormSurge]

Thanks Carlsson!

[Kurt_Woloch]

Here are my times for this past week (August 6th through 12th)...

 

sorry, again I didn't play any games this week. Summer's still there, and I've been going swimming with my father nearly every day. The mornings were taken up with organizing the inheritance of my mother's estate, so there was no time left for gaming. In fact I plan to continue this trend over the next weeks. I've been off work for this week and the two before it, but from next week on I've got to work again, and summer's still there, and I still haven't completed the inheritance. Moreover, I actually had other plans for this summer holiday which didn't play out at all due to the extended swimming sessions... I planned to sort my papers and to backup my data, and also to release the next version of my CD+G authoring tool ClearSwipe which is in fact ready for beta testing but still needs an overhaul of the manual before I can send it to beta testers. In fact, these points have already been planned for my Easter holiday, but that has been completely gobbled up by the death of my mother and organizing her funeral and death mass. So I guess I'll have to squeeze these project into normal work weeks now...

[+wongojack]

XONE

Batman The Telltale Series 550

Batman The Enemy Within 277

[karokoenig]

PC:

Machinarium: 115 min

Roter Baron III – Herrscher der Lüfte: 10 min

 

Roter Baron is an arcade World War I flight "sim" I picked up for € 0.50 in a thrift shop. Glad I didn't pay more. The DVD case and cover screamed shovelware, and rightfully so. If I want to play a good, well-playable WW I arcade flight sim, I'd go back to Wings on the Amiga any day.

 

Machinarium, on the other hand, is a very good game. A flash-based point & click adventure with very beautiful hand-drawn artwork and a super cute main character (a little robot on a robot planet). Careful when playing on Windows. You got to have the Flash Player settings right, or the game won't keep saved games when you shut down/restart the computer. There's a ton of forum posts about that problem and how to solve it. That flaw hit me early enough so that it wasn't too much work to get back where I left it. I definetly intend to finish this one. Highly recommended.

[Skippy B. Coyote]

I'm still on a NES kick and the misses spent all week playing Ecco the Dolphin on the Genesis, so all there is to contribute to the modern tracker this week is sadly...

 

 

Nintendo 3DS

StreetPass Mii Plaza - 7 minutes

 

 

 

I am hoping to pick up a few Wii games soon though in an effort to finish rebuilding my previous Wii collection (I've only got 9 games left to reacquire) including Dead Space: Extraction, Okami, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl. If I can get any of those next week I'll definitely have some substantial modern gaming time to contribute.

[StormSurge]

Xbox One

PUBG: 1,344 minutes

Super Mega Baseball 2: 342 minutes

No Man's Sky: 143 minutes

Madden 19: 90 minutes

Solitaire: 12 minutes

Five out of the seven nights for this week featured a minimum of three hour PUBG sessions. The game has been running smoother & one of my regular crew had some extra time this week.

I completed a few more achievements in Super Mega Baseball 2 but still have some more work to do.

On Saturday, I took advantage of a good trade-in offer at GameStop to upgrade to the Xbox One X. I received a free game (No Man's Sky) & the day before, my aforementioned buddy did the same thing. His free game was Madden & he didn't want it, so he sold it to me for $20. (I played a little Solitaire while moving my games off the old machine.)

I should be adding some games from my backlog that I've been waiting to play on the X (Skyrim, Assassin's Creed Origins, Doom).

[+wongojack]

PC:

Machinarium: 115 min

Roter Baron III – Herrscher der Lüfte: 10 min

 

Roter Baron is an arcade World War I flight "sim" I picked up for € 0.50 in a thrift shop. Glad I didn't pay more. The DVD case and cover screamed shovelware, and rightfully so. If I want to play a good, well-playable WW I arcade flight sim, I'd go back to Wings on the Amiga any day.

 

Machinarium, on the other hand, is a very good game. A flash-based point & click adventure with very beautiful hand-drawn artwork and a super cute main character (a little robot on a robot planet). Careful when playing on Windows. You got to have the Flash Player settings right, or the game won't keep saved games when you shut down/restart the computer. There's a ton of forum posts about that problem and how to solve it. That flaw hit me early enough so that it wasn't too much work to get back where I left it. I definetly intend to finish this one. Highly recommended.

 

I've played Machinarium and was very impressed with it. It seems you and I like the same Point and Click games, so I think you will continue to like it.

 

Here's the short review I wrote of it on Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197997769131/recommended/40700/

[karokoenig]

I've played Machinarium and was very impressed with it. It seems you and I like the same Point and Click games, so I think you will continue to like it.

 

It's not flawless. What threw me off in the beginning is that you have to actually walk next to a hotspot to even see it's there. But once you get that peculiarity, it's really okay. It's such a beautiful game, and so damn likeable. I'm more than ready to excuse such small flaws.

[Eltigro]

Only one modern game for me this week...

 

PSP

Sega Rally Revo - 60 min (I gotta say, Sega Rally 2 for the Dreamcast is better. I don't particularly like the analog stick on either system, though. But it feels a bit better on the Dreamcast or at least I seem to have a better feel for how far I'm pushing it than I do with the PSP's nub. Anyway, I race several times on the single race mode, first track, with Impreza, middle tire choice, and automatic transmission. I was getting consistent 3rd and 4th place finishes (out of 6 cars) but then got a 2nd and on the next race got 1st. That was when I quit.... while I was ahead. It's probably another game that really rewards practice, but I haven't done it. The visuals are pretty good. The car sounds a little less than impressive, though. Also seem to get into wrecks with other cars way too easily, but that could be a side effect of the inexperience with using the analog nub as I referenced earlier. As far as PSP racing games go, though, I think I like Wipeout Pure better.)

Edited August 13, 2018 by Eltigro

[carlsson]

Week 32

 

Top games

1. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (Xbox One) - 1344 min.

2. Batman: The Telltale Series (Xbox One) - 550 min.

3. Super Mega Baseball 2 (Xbox One) - 342 min.

4. Batman: The Enemy Within (Xbox One) - 277 min.

5. No Man's Sky (Xbox One) - 143 min.

6. Machinarium (PC) - 115 min.

7. Madden 19 (Xbox One) - 90 min.

8. Sega Rally Revo (PSP) - 60 min.

9. Solitaire (Xbox One) - 12 min.

10. Roter Baron III: Herrscher der Lufte (PC) - 10 min.

 

Top systems

1. Xbox One - 2758 min.

2. PC - 125 min.

3. PSP - 60 min.

4. 3DS - 7 min.

 

Total 2950 minutes and 11 different games on 4 different systems.

 

Seven out of ten games on the top list are new entries in the tracker. The #1 game obviously isn't new to the tracker.

[Kurt_Woloch]

Here are my times for this past week (August 13th through 19th) on modern games...

 

sorry, I didn't play any modern games this week. I still go swimming with my father very often, and we have another heatwave right now which will probably last until Thursday or Friday, so still very little time for gaming here.

[+wongojack]

XOne

Batman The Enemy Within 271

[Skippy B. Coyote]

It was another one of those "I have no idea what to play" kind of weeks, so I spent most of the week bouncing between games, but I did settle on a game eventually.




Ineligible
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (NES) - 69 minutes

Clock Tower (PlayStation) - 185 minutes
Hogan's Alley (NES) - 49 minutes
Super Mario Bros. (NES) - 95 minutes
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (NES) - 89 minutes

Nintendo 3DS
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon - 195 minutes

Nintendo Wii
Link's Crossbow Training - 111 minutes
Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition - 854 minutes


Total Video Game Play Time This Week
1,647 minutes (27 hours 27 minutes) [1,160 minutes eligible]

Individual System Play Times This Week
Nintendo Wii: 965 minutes
NES: 302 minutes
Nintendo 3DS: 195 minutes
PlayStation: 185 minutes

 

 

 

I started off the week putting a little more time into the small assortment of NES games I own, first starting (and quickly losing interest in) a new game in Zelda II after completing my first play through last week. After that I started a new game in Castlevania III but got stuck and frustrated trying to take Alucard's path this time around, so I ended up putting that game back on the shelf and just played Hogan's Alley for a while. On Wednesday night I was feeling particularly cruddy medically speaking so the misses offered to play a game with me for a while to help brighten my spirits, so we ended up doing a 2-player game of Super Mario Bros. for an hour and a half or so. We made it to World 7 without warps before running out of lives, but at that point I really needed to lay down and get some rest so we elected not to continue when our lives ran out.

Next up I did my third play through of the exceedingly awesome Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon on the 3DS, and for a little more modern gaming I also played and beat Link's Crossbow Training on the Wii with a platinum ranking on every level for the first time; which felt pretty darn satisfying to accomplish. Playing Link's Crossbow Training got me in the mood to dive into some more Wii games, so after bouncing around between games all week I finally settled on playing through Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition on Professional difficulty. In spite of having beat Resident Evil 4 at least half a dozen times in the past I had never played this game on Professional before, and holy cow has it ever been giving me challenge. It's definitely a difficulty setting suited only to those who have played through the game enough times to know it inside and out, and even then it's still going to be really tough.

At this point I'm about 3/4 of the way through Resident Evil 4 and I'm still having a great time with it, so unless I hit some major difficulty roadblock I think I'll be finishing the game next week. For the misses' gaming time this past week the only game she played, aside from the hour and a half of Super Mario Bros. that we played together, was Clock Tower on the PlayStation. Clock Tower was one of the handful of games that she got for her birthday a few weeks ago and she's been having a lot of fun with it thus far. It's a fairly short game (she's already 2/3 of the way through after 3 hours of play) but she has had nothing but good things to say about it's unique point-and-click adventure + survival horror genre mashup gameplay. I'm pretty sure she'll finish Clock Tower next week, and possibly play it some more after that since the game's branching paths and different character selection options should give it a great deal of replay value.

Anyway, I think that about covers everything for this week! Until next week, and as always, best wishes and happy gaming to you and yours.

Edited August 20, 2018 by Jin

[Eltigro]

Just a couple modern games for me this week...

 

XBox

Sega GT 2002 - 96 min (Reminds me a good bit of Sega GT for the Dreamcast... I can't imagine why. Anyway, the graphics seem a little muddy... enough to make me start looking up alternative cables for my Xbox. Component maybe? Anyway, the track is hard to see sometimes. It also seems to have carried over some of the negative handling aspects from Sega GT. I tend to kinda fish tail some when trying to adjust steering, but I did get better at it... something that never happened with Sega GT. There are a surprising amount of cars to choose from and unlock, but still not as many as something like Gran Turismo, I think, although I didn't count.)

 

Wii

Mario Kart Wii - 24 min (This one was starting to annoy me when I got called away. This does tend to happen when I play racing games that feature weapons. Seriously, can the AI shoot at anyone other than me? And why do I get hit with everything when I'm in first on the last lap? I know it's supposed to be challenging, but this combined with rubber banding makes things frustrating, not fun.)

[StormSurge]

Xbox One

PUBG: 925 minutes

Star Wars Battlefront II: 528 minutes

Madden '19: 190 minutes

No Man's Sky: 82 minutes

One of my PUBG mates had to travel for business this week, so we took a couple of nights off. But we did manage a victory last night (first one in about two months!).

I picked up Star Wars Battlefront II on sale ($9.99) this week. I enjoyed the first one but the whole loot box fiasco in advance of this release had me passing until I could find a good deal. This was good enough. I mainly wanted to play the single player campaign anyways & it was okay. I finished that and cleaned up all the achievements related to the story. I may jump into the multiplayer at some point to check it out & earn a few of the simple achievements. No way I'm grinding this one though.

I also played a few games of Madden with my season with the Dolphins. No Man's Sky isn't really grabbing me yet, but I'm not ready to give up either. I'll keep at it.

Happy gaming!

[cimerians]

PC

Dragon Age 2 - 360 min.

Gems of War - 10 min.

The Bards Tale Remastered - 20 min

 

BTW, In case anyone didn't know they remastered the Bard's Tale games from the 80s

Edited August 21, 2018 by cimerians

[+wongojack]

BTW, In case anyone didn't know they remastered the Bard's Tale games from the 80s

 

I saw that, but I haven't purchased them yet. To what extent are they "remastered?" Are we talking basics to get it to play on modern PCs or did they add voice overs and map screens?

[carlsson]

Week 33

 

Top games

1. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (Xbox One) - 925 min.

2. Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition (Wii) - 854 min.

3. Star Wars Battlefront II (Xbox One) - 528 min.

4. Dragon Age 2 (PC) - 360 min.

5. Batman: The Enemy Within (Xbox One) - 271 min.

6. Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon (3DS) - 195 min.

7. Madden 19 (Xbox One) - 190 min.

8. Link's Crossbow Training (Wii) - 111 min.

9. Sega GT 2002 (Xbox) - 96 min.

10. No Man's Sky (Xbox One) - 82 min.

 

Top systems

1. Xbox One - 1996 min.

2. Wii - 989 min.

3. PC - 390 min.

4. 3DS - 195 min.

5. Xbox - 96 min.

 

Total 3666 minutes and 13 different games on 5 different systems.

 

At the top, we're having a battle for the most played game of the week. On the systems list the Xbox One is fairly unchallenged. Another 7 new games entered the tracker this week, now up to 248 in total.

Edited August 21, 2018 by carlsson

[cimerians]

 

I saw that, but I haven't purchased them yet. To what extent are they "remastered?" Are we talking basics to get it to play on modern PCs or did they add voice overs and map screens?

 

Yeah they completely redid the game added auto-mapping, saving anywhere... If you remember you had to walk all the way back to the Guild to save the game. They said they're going to add an option this Christmas to play the game with the original settings, that is no Auto map, no saving except at the guild etc. The Bard's Tale 2 and The Bard's Tale 3 will be coming out in the future, for now only the first game is available if you buy the trilogy.

 

Half-way down is some info:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/the-bards-tale-iv/posts/2188974

[karokoenig]

PC:

Machinarium: 20 min

 

Well, I thought I had the saving problem fixed by changing the flash player settings as described in an online tutorial. Tough luck: I lost my progress again. This is really making a huge dent into my motivation, but I'm still willing to finish this game. So I went back to the internets and found out that I could copy the savestates into another directory before switching off the computer. Then, when I want to resume the game, I need to copy the whole directory back into the appropriate folder... Fingers crossed that this works.

[Kurt_Woloch]

Here are my times for this past week (August 20th through 26th) on modern systems:

 

Browser Based:

20 Euros - 40 minutes

 

I played a few rounds of 20 Euros this week (which is a variant of 2048), but didn't manage to finish the game. The 40 minutes is a rough estimate.

[Eltigro]

Not a lot of time for me this weekend...

 

PSP

Castlevania The Dracula X Chronicles - 5 min (Was playing this outside while grilling some burgers. Bad idea. The screen on the PSP is pretty reflective and really hard to see sometimes. I got hit by so many bats and things that I couldn't even see, I just gave up.)

 

Darius Burst - 15 min (This one was easier to see for some reason. Brighter backgrounds I guess. I'm not too great at Darius, but did okay for having no practice I guess... okay... probably not... I got to the third level A-B-D, but used a couple or three continues to get there. lol)

 

Star Wars The Force Unleashed - 68 min (If you read the thrift finds thread in the Classic Gaming forum, then you know I would have been playing Jikandia. Anyway, I'm not sad I actually got this. It's an okay game so far, but I got to some Jedi guy and I have no idea how to defeat him. I died about four times then went and did something else for a while.)

[StormSurge]

Xbox One

PUBG: 1,246 minutes

Madden '19: 303 minutes

Not much to say here. Six out of the seven evenings featured a minimum of 3+ hours of PUBG.

I played some Madden while waiting for my buddies to sign on.

Pretty uneventful week!