Kurt_Woloch Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 Here are my times for this past week (October 12th through 18th) on modern systems... Android phone: BadGame... 40 minutes (estimated) in several sessions Browser based: Shapez.io - 349 minutes in 2 sessions THis week I played some more short sessions of BadGame on my Android phone. The main game, though, was Shapez.io which I played as a browser based game though there's also a "full version" you can buy on Steam (which then would be PC instead of Browser based). I actually played this for far too long, having planned only about 30 minutes per sessions... but somehow you always find something you can tweak quickly... so this game is hard to put down. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormSurge Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 Xbox One Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: 941 minutes Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (The Telltale Series): 42 minutes NHL 19: 33 minutes Star Wars Squadrons: 27 minutes iOS Microsoft Solitaire Collection: 66 minutes 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+davidcalgary29 Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 No play time to report this week, although I spent 2 hours cleaning up "stuff" upstairs and rediscovering a hoard of PSP games. I have Pirates! and Death, Jr.? Huh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 Not too many games played around here this past week, but a good bit of time was logged in all of them. I started off the week continuing my arduous grind through the Doom II add-on BTSX Episode 2 on the Switch, and I was getting pretty near the end when I finally just burnt out and realized I wasn't having fun playing it anymore on Thursday. At that point I still felt like playing Doom but had just had enough of the absurd difficulty of the BTSX add-on, so I went back to my old favorite fan made hack JagDoom 32X for (you guessed it) the Sega 32X. This rather awesome hack adds in the missing third episode from the Atari Jaguar version of Doom along with the previously missing BFG 9000 weapon, and I stayed up all night playing it for nearly 8 hours straight until I beat the whole game in one sitting! It was a ton of fun and well worth the time spent playing it, and the next day I was still feeling like playing some more Doom so I got in a few levels of the original 32X version on Nightmare difficulty. As far as the misses' gaming time this past week goes, she was dead set on finishing Wonder Boy in Monster World on the Genesis (which she's been playing off and on for the last couple months) so she played the rest of the way through the game all the way up until the final boss... at which point she hit a total brick wall because the final boss seems absolutely infreakinpossible to beat. After hours of trying she never managed to get the bosses's health bar down more than halfway before dying, and I gave a few attempts at it too but couldn't do any better. It's a real shame that an otherwise awesome game is kinda ruined by a seemingly impossible final boss fight. Apparently the boss fight was actually reasonable in the difficulty department in the Japanese version, but for the US market the developers decided to up the difficulty (no doubt as a "rental buster" tactic) but they went way too far with it and I don't think the vast majority of gamers would ever be able to beat it. I know both my spouse and I are never gonna. Well, that's all the gaming news that's fit to print from around here for this week! Until next time, and as always, best wishes and happy gaming to you and yours Ineligible Doom (Sega 32X) - 113 minutes JagDoom 32X (Sega 32X) - 449 minutes Wonder Boy in Monster World (Sega Genesis) - 235 minutes Nintendo Switch Doom II: BTSX Episode 2 - 740 minutes Total Video Game Play Time This Week 1,537 minutes (25 hours 37 minutes) [740 minutes eligible] Individual System Play Times This Week Nintendo Switch: 740 minutes Sega 32X: 562 minutes Sega Genesis: 235 minutes 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agamon Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 PC Creed: Rise to Glory (34 min) RimWorld (236 min) XB1 NHL 20 (1062 min) Oculus Quest Beat Saber (674 min) NHL 21 came out last week, but I had a copy of last year's version that I got on deep discount but hadn't played yet, so I built an expansion Quebec Nordiques team using the Vegas Knights strategy and they are doing very well at 21-7-1 a third into the season. Picked up RimWorld, a sandbox/survival/team management sim, on as big a discount as I've seen (-15%) to give a try. I have a friend that has logged over 4100 hours in this game (not a typo), so I though I should give it a go. It's pretty cool. One of my settlers is a pyromaniac, meaning some days he'll decide to just start fires around the camp. He's also a cannibal, so he can eat any invaders that show up. But he also has a cute dog and is good a building stuff, so we keep him around. Good times. Creed is a VR game on Steam, more boxing than rhythm compared to FitXR, so it's not rough on my shoulders. The story mode roughly follows the movie. Beat Saber got a major update with a new UI and multiplayer that completely broke mods. Luckily, I could keep playing without updating, as it took almost a week to get the mod working again. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted October 20, 2020 Author Share Posted October 20, 2020 Week 42 Top games 1. NHL 20 (Xbox One) - 1062 min. 2. Call of Duty Modern Warfare (Xbox One) - 941 min. (#2) 3. Tales of Destiny Director's Cut (PS2) - 838 min. (#5) 4. Doom II: BTSX Episode 2 (Switch) - 740 min. (#4) 5. Beat Saber (Oculus Quest) - 674 min. (#1) 6. Shapez.io (Browser based) - 349 min. 7. RimWorld (PC) - 236 min. 8. Star Wars Squadrons (PC) - 97 min. 9. Microsoft Solitaire Collection (iOS) - 66 min. 10. Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (The Telltale Series) (Xbox One) - 42 min. Top systems 1. Xbox One - 2105 min. (#1) 2. PS2 - 838 min. (#6) 3. Switch - 778 min. (#5) 4. Oculus Quest - 674 min. (#2) 5. PC - 367 min. (#4) 6. Browser based - 349 min. 7. iOS - 66 min. (#8) 8. Android Phone - 40 min. (#9) 9. Gamecube - 23 min. 10. DS - 11 min. Total 5251 minutes and 17 different games on 10 different systems. This week apparently it was hockey night, with both NHL 20 and NHL 19 logged on the Xbox One of which the former takes the title, just over two hours ahead of Call of Duty Modern Warfare. This also makes the Xbox One the most played system, well ahead of the PS2, Switch and Oculus Quest next in line. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Pendleton Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 No Tales of Destiny Director's Cut this time. Too busy with work to be able to put some time into it, so I played some stuff that doesn't require huge time commitments instead. Will get back to it probably today since my regular off day is finally off for the first time in a while. I don't want to have a pile of halfway completed RPGs sitting around unfinished and REALLY hope I can finish it before Mary Skelter Finale releases on the 5th. It's just past midnight now, though, so first is sleep. PC Star Wars Squadrons - 603 Switch A magical high school girl - 117 Yes, the capitalization in the Switch's main menu has the whole thing in lower case, just like this. Let's not get into the fact that this conflicts with the capitalization over on Steam or that the icon on the Switch's menu screen says "A magical high-school girl and the mysterious way home" or anything like that. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - 122 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eltigro Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 My "modern" games this week... just one... XBox 360 Fallout 3 - 385 min (Starting up Fallout 3 again. Played through and finished Fallout New Vegas recently and wanted to give this one a go again. I beat it several years back, but there's always something new to find.) 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 Here are my times for this past week (October 19th through 25th)... Android phone: BadGame - 25 min. Browser Based: Online Sudoku - 22 min. (not sure if eligible) This week I didn't continue playing Shapez.io because that took far too long last week. I also only played modern games, no classic ones. I continued playing BadGame on my phone, and by now I've collected all the extras except for a single one which costs about $2 million. While watching a Youtube video about different variants of Sudoku puzzles, I also solved a Sudoku myself on a website offering that. I'm not sure if this is eligible though... but on the other hand, a few years ago I played Nanograms, which is a similar style of game (also released for the TI-99), and I did list that as well. Solving that puzzle took me 22 minutes, after which the video was over as well. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 WiiU LoZ Breath of the Wild 125 I find this game is hard to start playing. Once I get into it, it is fun, but I rarely want to start it up again for some reason. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormSurge Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 Xbox One Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: 1,118 minutes RBI Baseball 20: 28 minutes iOS Microsoft Solitaire Collection: 47 minutes 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 Only a couple games played around here this past week, but I finally finished the BTSX Episode 2 add-on for Doom II! It was hard as all get out and I don't think I'd ever want to play through it again, but I do feel accomplished having finally finished it. I also got in a little Atari 2600 time for the first round of the HSC's end of season gold medal bracket competition. I'm facing ZilchSr in the very first round though, and if I recall he's won the whole shebang the past two years in a row, so I'm not entirely hopeful about my chances but I'll still play my very best! Ineligible City Defence (Atari 2600) - 48 minutes Nintendo Switch Doom II: BTSX Episode 2 - 465 minutes Total Video Game Play Time This Week 513 minutes (8 hours 33 minutes) [465 minutes eligible] Individual System Play Times This Week Nintendo Switch: 465 minutes Atari 2600: 48 minutes 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted October 26, 2020 Author Share Posted October 26, 2020 On 10/25/2020 at 10:29 PM, Kurt_Woloch said: I also solved a Sudoku myself on a website offering that. I'm not sure if this is eligible though... Sure it is! If you like, post an URL to allow it to be pinpointed further in case there are many different sites offing online Sudoku games. Generally it is a small genre but each implementation has its rightful place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agamon Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 PC AVICII Invector (36 min) XB1 NHL 20 (729 min) Switch Horizon Chase Turbo (69 min) Super Mario Bros. 35 (17 min) Oculus Quest Beat Saber (384 min) More Franchise NHL20, my Nords are in the playoffs, up 2-1 on Tampa Bay in the first round. Finished 1st in the division and 4th in the league. The NHL definitely made expansion teams viable with their new expansion draft rules. Of course, the game AI is not as smart as an NHL GM, but it also doesn't let me get away with much, either. Avicii Invector is a rhythm game to Avicii songs, of course, pretty cool. Turned on the Switch for the first time in a while. Horizon Chase Turbo is a fun arcade racer, and I tried a few rounds of SMB35. Interesting concept. The highest I got in the 5 games I played was 8th, so I need to brush up on my SMB skills. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted October 27, 2020 Author Share Posted October 27, 2020 Week 42 Top games 1. Call of Duty Modern Warfare (Xbox One) - 1118 min. (#2) 2. NHL 20 (Xbox One) - 729 min. (#1) 3. Star Wars Squadrons (PC) - 603 min. (#8) 4. Doom II: BTSX Episode 2 (Switch) - 465 min. (#4) 5. Fallout 3 (Xbox 360) - 385 min. 6. Beat Saber (Oculus Quest) - 384 min. (#5) 7. Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Wii U) - 125 min. 8. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Switch) - 122 min. 9. A magicAl high school girl (Switch) - 117 min. 10. Horizon Chase Turbo (Switch) - 69 min. Top systems 1. Xbox One - 1875 min. (#1) 2. Switch - 790 min. (#3) 3. PC - 639 min. (#5) 4. Xbox 360 - 385 min. 5. Oculus Quest - 384 min. (#4) 6. Wii U - 125 min. 7. iOS - 47 min. (#7) 8. Android Phone - 25 min. (#8) 9. Browser based - 22 min. (#6) Total 4292 minutes and 16 different games on 9 different systems. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has been among the top games for many weeks, and finally takes the title for the first time since September 6. Last week's NHL 20 is in a good second place. Systems wise these two games also make up for the bulk of the Xbox One times. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eltigro Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 Just one Modern Game for me this week again... XBox 360 Fallout 3 - 443 min (Got to the Galaxy News Radio headquarters and med Three Dog. He's told me my next main story mission, but I'm not 100% sure how to get there... more wandering.) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Pendleton Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 Tales of Destiny Director's Cut not only returns, but was completed... kind of. PC Star Wars Squadrons - 170 Switch Super Smah Bros. Ultimate - 81 PS2 Tales of Destiny Director's Cut - 1,235 I mentioned before that I was playing Stan's side and not Lion's side. I finished Stan's side (the main game) about 71 minutes ago. Lion's side is next... after the massive detour into a different game that releases on the 5th. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 On 10/26/2020 at 11:20 PM, carlsson said: Sure it is! If you like, post an URL to allow it to be pinpointed further in case there are many different sites offing online Sudoku games. Generally it is a small genre but each implementation has its rightful place. OK... the site I played on is the folowing one: https://sudoku.com/ Also, here are my times for this past week (October 26th through November 1st) on modern systems... Android phone: BadGame - 10 minutes (estimated) So this week, I basically beat BadGame by having bought all the extras there are to buy and then playing 1-2 more games. But there's nothing earth-shaking in the last extras to buy, it just gets a bit funkier, more and more like fireworks, which also makes the game a bit harder to play since the rectangle you're holding on to gets more likely to be busted by a missile or shrapnel so that you suddenly lose the grip when you didn't plan to. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 PC Plebby Quest: The Crusades 645 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Pendleton Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 I knew I forgot something... PS4 Shin Megami Tensei III NOCTURNE HD REMASTER - 52 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormSurge Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 Xbox One Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: 1,142 minutes Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: 77 minutes RBI Baseball 20: 25 minutes iOS Microsoft Solitaire Collection: 79 minutes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 It was a really eventful week for gaming this past week! I didn't play a whole ton of games, but ended up getting gifted an Xbox One and a really nice premium headset! In the weirdest turn of events, while I was sitting out on the porch smoking a cigarette Sunday afternoon I ran into a neighbor in my apartment building who was moving out and he asked if he could bum a smoke from me. I said sure and gave him one, he sat down with me and started smoking, then asked if I would like an Xbox One in return! I was totally flabbergasted but he was absolutely serious, saying that he had switched to doing all his gaming on PC and didn't have any use for it. I gladly accepted so he went back upstairs, did a factory reset on the system, and brought me down a like-new condition 1 TB Xbox One with the controller, all the cables, and a brand new SteelSeries Arctis 1 headset! I immediately set about creating an account and signing up for Game Pass, a Netflix-like service on the Xbox that lets you download and play hundreds of popular and often brand new games for $15 a month, then downloaded and started playing DOOM Eternal. I had an absolute blast with DOOM Eternal and played it all week until I beat it Saturday morning, then Game Pass downloaded and spent the last couple days of the week playing the utterly terrifying Resident Evil 7 for Halloween. I'm still playing through Resident Evil 7 right now and probably will be for much of the next week, but I'm having a great time playing it so I'm in no rush to finish it. As far as retro gaming goes, my only classic tracker eligible time for this past week was the couple hours I spent playing City Defence on the 2600 for the gold medal bracket tournament of the HSC, but sadly I ended up losing to ZilchSr in the first round so it's off to the paper medal bracket for me next week. He is an absolutely godlike Atari player though, so if there was anyone I wouldn't feel bad about losing to it would be him. That's all the news from around here for this week! Until next week, and as always, best wishes and happy gaming to you and yours. Ineligible City Defence (Atari 2600) - 119 minutes Xbox One DOOM Eternal - 1,310 minutes Resident Evil 7: Biohazard - 289 minutes Total Video Game Play Time This Week 1,718 minutes (28 hours 38 minutes) [1,599 minutes eligible] Individual System Play Times This Week Xbox One: 1,599 minutes Atari 2600: 119 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormSurge Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 That’s awesome Skippy! Game Pass is an amazing service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agamon Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 (edited) PC Portal 2 (133 min) Terraforming Mars (112 min) XB1 Descenders (24 min) NHL 20 (510 min) Oculus Quest Beat Saber (505 min) Still doing my NHL playoffs, beat Tampa 4-3, beat New Jersey 4-1, then the Washington Capitals gave me a scare, but I managed to beat them 4-3, so my expansion team is in the finals against the St. Louis Blues. So I'll see if I can out do the real life Vegas Knights, who lost in their expansion year in the finals to the Capitals. Played Portal 2 co-op with my brother. Played some co-op with a friend in this game on the XBox 360 back in 2011, so I don't remember any of the puzzles and we're having a good time with it. Descenders is try-it-out game from the aforementioned Game Pass, and I wasn't really digging it, which is a great advantage of the service; I can try stuff I'm not sure I'll like, and either find a hidden gem, or not care if it isn't my cup of tea. The Terraforming Mars game went poorly, I had a bad initial set of card draws, misread some cards I drafted, and tried an unorthodox style of not doing much terraforming in a game called Terraforming Mars. I came in last. Edited November 3, 2020 by Agamon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted November 3, 2020 Author Share Posted November 3, 2020 Week 44 Top games 1. DOOM Eternal (Xbox One) - 1310 min. 2. Tales of Destiny Director's Cut (PS2) - 1235 min. 3. Call of Duty Modern Warfare (Xbox One) - 1142 min. (#1) 4. Plebby Quest: The Crusades (PC) - 645 min. 5. NHL 20 (Xbox One) - 510 min. (#2) 6. Beat Saber (Oculus Quest) - 505 min. (#6) 7. Fallout 3 (Xbox 360) - 443 min. (#5) 8. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (Xbox One) - 289 min. 9. Star Wars Squadrons (PC) - 170 min. (#3) 10. Portal 2 (PC) - 133 min. Top systems 1. Xbox One - 3377 min. (#1) 2. PS2 - 1235 min. 3. PC - 1060 min. (#3) 4. Oculus Quest - 505 min. (#5) 5. Xbox 360 - 443 min. (#4) 6. Switch - 81 min. (#2) 7. iOS - 79 min. (#7) 8. PS4 - 52 min. 9. Android Phone - 10 min. (#8) Total 6842 minutes and 18 different games on 9 different systems. After having lived through week 42 twice in a row (my mistake), we're back in the right week again. This one is won by DOOM Eternal, closely followed by Tales of Destiny Director's Cut and Call of Duty Modern Warfare. Systems wise the Xbox One takes the title with 49% of the votes minutes, partly due to the story above how Skippy was gifted a console. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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