Skippy B. Coyote Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 This was one horrifying, stressful week for gaming around here... and that's because I picked up Alien: Isolation for the Switch and did a complete playthrough of it over the weekend! Ineligible Jurassic Park (Sega Genesis) - 118 minutes Tomb Raider III (Sony PlayStation) - 183 minutes Nintendo Switch Alien: Isolation - 1,375 minutes Total Video Game Play Time This Week 1,676 minutes (27 hours 56 minutes) [1,375 minutes eligible] Individual System Play Times This Week Nintendo Switch: 1,375 minutes Sony PlayStation: 183 minutes Sega Genesis: 118 minutes It's been a long while since I did a big marathon playthrough of a game, but I downloaded Alien: Isolation on Friday evening then spent almost all day Saturday and Sunday playing through it. I had played it once before a couple years ago when I owned an Xbox One so I still remembered most of where to go and what to do, but it was still just as nerve wracking and anxiety inducing as it was to play the first time around; which for a horror game is a really good thing! To this day Alien: Isolation is still the most genuinely terrifying game I've ever played, and definitely in contention for the title my all time favorite video game in any genre. Outside of my brain frying Alien: Isolation marathon I also took the time to play through Jurassic Park on the Genesis again earlier this week, beating it with the velociraptor this time around, and the misses logged a few more hours in Tomb Raider III on the PlayStation once again. Looking ahead to next week I think I'll probably be playing through the extra content in Alien: Isolation, though I may take a break to play something a little less stressful and decompress for a while lol Some Sega time might do me good. That's all the news that's fit to print for this week, so until next week and as always, best wishes and happy gaming to you and yours! P.S.: Huge thanks to Carlsson for running both of the trackers once again this year! I know I haven't been super active on the forum for quite a while, but I still really enjoy popping in to participate in the trackers every week. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 PS4 Star wars Fallen Order. 8 hours across the week which = 480 minutes. If you know the game, it took me a while to get through my 2nd visit to Zeffo and then return to Kashyyyk. I'm embarrassed to say that I just didn't understand a couple of the puzzles so I did grind away a bit until the solutions presented themselves. I think the stupidest design decision so far was one corridor where you must push a floor grate down in order to progress. I didn't notice that grate for a while so I ran around trying other things. I do like the game a lot, it has a lot of Tomb Raider influence which also had some super obscure levels at times along with shooting and fighting action. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormSurge Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 43 minutes ago, Cafeman said: PS4 Star wars Fallen Order. 8 hours across the week which = 480 minutes. If you know the game, it took me a while to get through my 2nd visit to Zeffo and then return to Kashyyyk. I'm embarrassed to say that I just didn't understand a couple of the puzzles so I did grind away a bit until the solutions presented themselves. I think the stupidest design decision so far was one corridor where you must push a floor grate down in order to progress. I didn't notice that grate for a while so I ran around trying other things. I do like the game a lot, it has a lot of Tomb Raider influence which also had some super obscure levels at times along with shooting and fighting action. The puzzles, as non-intuitive as they are, pale in comparison to the struggle of finding your way back to the ship! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormSurge Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 Xbox One PUBG: 1,164 minutes NBA 2K20: 245 minutes Modern Warfare: 216 minutes iOS Microsoft Solitaire Collection: 286 minutes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 So here are my still missing times for yesterday, Sunday, February 2nd... Browser based: Funny Pizza - 249 min. Yes, that's right, I played the game for another more than 4 hours! But this is going down already... we'll see how many hours will come together this week. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonGrafx-16 Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 Super Mario 3D World (Wii U) 64 mins... was visiting home and played this game with my sister. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted February 4, 2020 Author Share Posted February 4, 2020 Week 05 Top games 1. Alien: Isolation (Switch) - 1375 min. (-) 2. Cities: Skylines (PC) - 1250 min. (-) 3. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (Xbox One) - 1164 min. (#1) 4. Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (Switch) - 1051 min. (-) 5. Torchlight 2 (Switch) - 846 min. (-) 6. Octopath Traveller (Switch) - 587 min. (#2) 7. Overcooked II (Xbox One) - 574 min. (#4) 8. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Xbox One) - 512 min. (#10) 9. Star Wars: Fallen Order (PS4) - 480 min. (#9) 10. Beat Saber (Oculus Quest) - 462 min. (#3) Top systems 1. Switch - 3884 min. (#2) 2. Xbox One - 2836 min. (#1) 3. PC - 1475 min. (#5) 4. PS4 - 570 min. (#6) 5. Oculus Quest - 462 min. (#3) 6. Browser based - 369 min. (-) 7. iOS - 286 min. (#4) 8. Wii U - 64 min. (-) Total 9946 minutes and 22 different games on 8 different systems. Three out of four of the top entries are new to the tracker, with Alien: Isolation just over two hours ahead of Cities: Skylines. On the systems list, the Switch and Xbox One again switch places in a generally strong week with as many as 10 participants and certainly room for even more! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punisher5.0 Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 I started playing The Last of Us for the first time this week. I got a little over 7 hours into it and the game locked up during the auto save and everything got lost After doing some research its a common problem. It amazes me that a game can ship in this state. Even after the patch to fix it. Still an awesome game though and I will get back into it but not for a while. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 Here are my times for this past week (February 3rd through 9th) on modern systems... Browser based: Funny Pizza: 787 min. in 12 sessions I heavily continued to play Funny Pizza, basically doing nearly everything you can do on one day, which unfortunately takes several hours. The tally is still missing the times of today in the afternoon, I'll add those tomorrow as I did for last week. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eltigro Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 All times approximate... PS3 Diablo III - 300 min (I'm not 100% sure of the time, but I know I spent the better part of a day off playing this. I've had the disc for a while, but only recently got a PS3 that would read discs. Anyway, a lot of fun and a lot of demons killed.) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Ps4 Star Wars Fallen Order. 5 hours. Got past Dathomir. Now on ice planet. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormSurge Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Xbox One PUBG: 991 minutes NBA 2K20: 242 minutes Madden 20: 33 minutes iOS Microsoft Solitaire Collection: 223 minutes 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Aside from a tiny bit of dorking with Centipede on the 99/4a, I had some good Switch time in this week. Thanks to @Skippy B. Coyote's subliminal messaging, I picked up Doom II finally. Switch: Doom I (remastered) -- 376 minutes Doom II (remastered) -- 124 minutes Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch -- 1040 minutes I've been playing through the episodes of Classic Doom on the Switch- I've finished the first two and am working on the third. Episodes 2-4 are unfamiliar enough that I'm not sure that I even played them back then, lol. I never 'legit' finished Doom II; I always just used cheat codes to get to the end. ? Trying to play it 'right' this time. Ni No Kuni is a super huge time sink given how grindy it is. You'll know REAL quick if you're not a high enough level for what you're trying to do since the game throws bosses at you pretty much at every step. Still a fantastic game, though- I think I'm about 2/3 of the way through it at a hair over 40 hours. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted February 10, 2020 Author Share Posted February 10, 2020 On 2/9/2020 at 5:51 PM, Punisher5.0 said: The Last of Us - a little over 7 hours Would this be the remastered PS4 version or the original PS3 game? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 XOne Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag 76 Lord of the Rings Adventure Card Game 130 Overcooked II 540 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Here are my missing times for yesterday, Sunday March 10th, 2020... I played Funny Pizza (Browser based) for an additional 147 minutes. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punisher5.0 Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 2 hours ago, carlsson said: Would this be the remastered PS4 version or the original PS3 game? For PS3. I was still hooked on the game and got back into it already. Only 3 hours in and Im close to where I was. Now Im backing up often to seperate saves just in case. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 This was one of those "I have no idea what I want to play" kinda weeks after I finished up the bonus content for Alien: Isolation, so I ended up just playing a few old favorite Game Boy and Genesis games then just started playing DOOM (2016) again. Since the Switch now has two gamed named "Doom" I'm referring to the remake as DOOM (2016) for and the old school one as just Doom for tracker purposes from here on out. Ineligible Mortal Kombat (Sega Genesis) - 33 minutes Ms. Pac-Man: Special Color Edition (Game Boy Color) - 16 minutes Solar Striker (Game Boy) - 35 minutes Tomb Raider III (PlayStation) - 283 minutes Nintendo Switch Alien: Isolation - 95 minutes DOOM (2016) - 465 minutes Final Doom - 85 minutes Total Video Game Play Time This Week 1,012 minutes (16 hours 52 minutes) [645 minutes eligible] Individual System Play Times This Week Nintendo Switch: 645 minutes PlayStation: 283 minutes Game Boy: 35 minutes Sega Genesis: 33 minutes Game Boy Color: 16 minutes 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agamon Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 PC Cities: Skylines (1509 min) Oculus Quest Beat Saber (458 min) Still play Beat Saber daily and getting better, playing expert for a challenge and hard for warm up and cool down. Started a new city in C:S, and while I enjoy the game, it seems to lose its charm when the city hits 25k people, so I'm moving on. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted February 11, 2020 Author Share Posted February 11, 2020 Week 06 Top games 1. Cities: Skylines (PC) - 1509 min. (#2) 2. Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (Switch) - 1040 min. (#4) 3. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (Xbox One) - 991 min. (#3) 4. Funny Pizza (Browser based) - 934 min. 5. Overcooked II (Xbox One) - 540 min. (#7) 6. DOOM (2016 reboot) (Switch) - 465 min. 7. Beat Saber (Oculus Quest) - 458 min. (#10) 8. Last of Us, The (PS3) - 420 min. 9. Doom I (Remastered): SIGIL / Classic (Switch) - 376 min. 10. Diablo III (PS3) - 300 min. 10. Star Wars: Fallen Order (PS4) - 300 min. (#9) Top systems 1. Switch - 2185 min. (#1) 2. Xbox One - 2012 min. (#2) 3. PC - 1509 min. (#3) 4. Browser based - 934 min. (#6) 5. PS3 - 720 min. 6. Oculus Quest - 458 min. (#5) 7. PS4 - 300 min. (#4) 8. iOS - 223 min. (#7) Total 8341 minutes and 19 different games on 8 different systems. I hope I got the various Switch DOOMs listed correctly. Otherwise a varied week where Alien: Isolation drops from #1 to #16 (outside of the top list) but #2-#4 remain in the top. We got a good turnout of participants and systems where the Switch by a margin just under three hours takes the title, and a strong week for browser based gaming. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 Here are my times for this week (February 10th through 16th) on modern systems... Browser based: Adios Amoebas! - 40 min. Funny Pizza - 109 min. in 4 sessions Rail Shuffle - 6 min. This week I finished playing Funny Pizza because I've now seen nearly every game element there is, except one for which I'd have to bake another 100 items. Then I played two Java games by Karl Hornell which you can find on his page Javaonthebrain.com, but you have to add his site to the exception list because his Java applets are detected as being unsafe though they are in fact completely harmless. Rail Shuffle is a variation on the arcade game Loco-Motion and the Intellivision game Happy Trails where you have to re-shuffle train tracks to have the train pick up all the bags. But it's pretty hard in that the board is more sparsely populated with tracks so you have to shift quite some pieces around to get something that makes sense. And in Level 2, you're already dealing with two trains at once! Adios Amoebas is a bit similar to Pengo. You are on a 9x9 playfield, and Amoebas get swapped in which you have to either shoot or crush by moving weights. For shooting you have to regularly pick up ammunition, and in later levels the Amoebas start to fire back at you. I haven't played this in a long time, but it still works, at least on lower Java versions. I think this would actually be a good candidate for a de-make to 8-bit systems and consoles since it looks like it could perfectly work on many of them, at least as long as they are tile-based or have a hi-res bitmap screen. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted February 16, 2020 Author Share Posted February 16, 2020 PC Windows: Mahjong Titans - 81 min. Only a single session while idly watching YT. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonGrafx-16 Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 Space Invaders Frenzy (arcade) 5 mins... played this with some family while we were waiting for a movie... I wasn't really feeling it. $1 (or was it 50 cents?) to play for only a few minutes seems like too much for too little enjoyment. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 My time for the week: GameCube: Defender - 235 min. I've been meaning to start working on more GameCube games, and this was a fine place to start. I'm about halfway through, but only playing on Rookie difficulty at the moment. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 XOne Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag 965 Overcooked II 256 I finished the main story and the present day story on Black Flag. This game is incredible. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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