For the seventh straight year, I’m publishing a list of all the games I started playing in the past year and all the ones I finished. My totals have dropped yet again. I started 139 games, finished 23 of them. When I started keeping track of this, back in 2006, the idea of finishing games was more relevant to me. I always liked playing games. I love trying new ones. But the concept of finishing them—which I’ve always indicated means simply reaching the game’s storyline conclusion and/or the end of its standard levels—was something I cared more about. I have long preferred single-player games, and I’ve favored narrative or progression-based games over those that can be played more as a test of skill. I’ve preferred gaming’s books over its sports, as it were. I grew up on Nintendo and favored Metroid and Zelda over Mario Kart or Street Fighter II. It mattered to me to reach the ends of games, because I wanted to see what developers put there. I wanted to see games through.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); These days, I care more about playing the best, and so finishing games has decreased in importance. Plus, life’s too short, right? *** What follows is a list of all the games I started on various platforms this year. Some of the games that I started I only played for an hour. Others, like Far Cry 3 or The Walking Dead, I’m many, many hours into playing. I bolded the games I finished. As always, I’ve excluded games I only played out at trade shows (i.e. the games I played while on the job). I play most of my games at home in my spare time or during commutes. The numbers below confirm a number of notions I’ve had in my head about my habits this year: I’ve dabbled more with Facebook games, enjoyed the easy access to new games on iOS and diminished my playtime with the Xbox 360. I’ve also shifted to playing lots of the h25 com เข้าสู่ระบบ blockbuster games on PC instead of console. I could use a few more games to play on Wii U! And PS3 is still a platform where I like finishing games. Enough set-up… on with the โค้ดเครดิตฟรีสมาชิกใหม่ล่าสุด list! My 2012 Games Played/Finished List (Games I started listed below. Finished games are bolded) 3DS (20 games played; 4 finished) Aero Porter Crashmo Crosswords Plus Dillon’s Rolling Western Fluidity: Spin Cycle Fractured Soul Ketzal’s Corridors Kid Icarus: Uprising Liberation Maiden Mario Tennis Open New Super Mario Bros. 2 Mario & Sonic at the London Olympic Games Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask Professor Layton and the Unwound Future (DS) Resident Evil: Revelations Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword Spirit Camera VVVVVV Yoshi (Virtual Console) Facebook (10 games played; 0 finished) Bubble Safari Chefville CityVille Farmville 2 (one of two games in this section that I played for several hours) The Friend Game JetSet Secrets Outernauts Ruby Blast SimCity Social (this is the other one) Zuma Blitz iOS (34 games played; 2 finished) Amazing Alex Angy Birds Space Angry Birds Star Wars Y1 Games Anomaly Korea Bad Hotel Beat Sneak Bandit Beeing Coco Loco Count to a Billion Crow The Dark Knight Rises Demon’s Score Dynamite Jack Fieldrunners 2 Fire and Dice Flight Control Rocket Gasketball A Gay Dragon Hax Attacks Kingdom Rush HD Letterpress McPixel PuzzleJuice Spellwood Super Hexagon The Room Run Roo Run Tiny Tower Triple Town The Walking Dead Waking Mars Where’s My Water? Words With Friends Zombie Wonderland 2 Mac (1 games played; 0 finished) Diablo III PC (14 games played; 1 finished) Borderlands 2 Botanicula Crusader Kings II Dishonored Far Cry 3 FTL Hotline Miami Jamestown Orcs Must Die 2 Perfect Distance Sleeping Dogs STAVKA-OKH Torchlight II X-COM: Enemy Unknown (Six hours of it and the world was destroyed; I don’t think that counts as finishing it.) PS3 (16 games played; 7 finished) Assassin’s Creed III Closure Dragon’s Dogma Dyad Journey Lego Batman 2 LittleBigPlanet Karting Need for Speed: Most Wanted Papo & Yo Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault Resident Evil 6 Resistance 3 Sorcery Syndicate Tokyo Jungle The Unfinished Swan Vita (15 games played; 1 finished) Fuel Tiracas Lumines: Electronic Symphony Rayman: Origins Rebel Resistance: Burning Skies Retro City Rampage Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time (preview copy of this 2013 game) Sound Shapes Super Crate Box Super Stardust Delta Touch My Katamari Uncharted: Golden Abyss Velocity Wipeout: 2048 Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward Wii (1 played; 0 finished) Rhythm Heaven Fever Wii U (9 played; 2 finished) Chasing Aurora Little Inferno Madden NFL 13 Mighty Switch Force HD Nano Assault Neo New Super Mario Bros. U Nintendo Land Trine 2 Zombi U Xbox 360 (19 played; 6 finished) Asura’s Wrath Call of Duty: Black Ops II Fable: The Journey Fez Gears of War 3 Halo 4 Hybrid I Am Alive Kinect: Star Wars Lego Lord of the Rings London 2012 Mark of the Ninja Mass Effect 3 Max Payne 3 Spelunky The Splatters SSX Trials Evolution Warp The final 2012 tally is: 139 games played; 23 finished That compares to: 2011…161 played; 28 finished 2010… 195 played; 52 finished 2009… 165 played; 48 finished 2008… 135 played; 37 finished 2007… 118 played; 35 finished 2006…102 games played; 21 finished https://kotaku.com/i-finished-these-28-video-games-in-2011-5873496 So… what did I miss this past year?