I Finished These 52 Video Games In 2010

I finished more than 50 video games in 2010. I did not plan to. But here’s the list. As I’ve done for each of the past four years, I’ve assembled the list of games I started playing for fun during the preceding year — some 195 of them — and then bolded the ones I finished.(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"); }); The Necessary Preamble My tallies went up since 2009, though I had expected them to fall. I’ve been busier with work and home life. I may not have kids, but I am married. I figured all that would translate into fewer games played. Nope. As always, the list of games I started playing is imprecise. I try to only include games I’ve played for fun, which means I exclude games I only played at press events (finished ones like Gran Turismo 5 and unfinished ones like The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword). I do include any game I played at home, though some of them, to be clear, I only played because I had to for work (Fighters Uncaged, I’m talking about you!). I include games I’ve played for only an hour (or as long as it takes to get one’s fill of Extreme Baby Maker) and games I’ve played for weeks. The main point of the list is to look at what I’ve finished, since that list is more definite. These “finished” games are games in which I reached some sort of narrative end or final level in a linear sequence. I did not 100% complete these games. And, with games rummy 365 like Photo Dojo where completion is a debatable status, I erred on the side of considering the game not finished. Two things to note: 1) As a games reporter, I get most of the games I play mailed to me, which makes trying this many games economically easy. 2) I wind up playing the most games on platforms that have good download systems and lots of free games and free demos — iPad, iPhone and Xbox 360. My 2010 Games Played/Finished List (Games I started listed below. Finished games are bolded) DS (played 15, completed 5) 1. Dragon Quest IX 2. Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light 3. Flametail DS (One of the many gems on DSiWare in 2010.) 4. Glow Artisan 5. Link ‘N Launch 6. Mario Vs. Donkey Kong: Miniland Mayhem 7. Photo Dojo 8. Picross 3D 9. Pokemon Soul Silver 10. Snapdots 11. Sonic Colors 12. Starship Defense 13. Super Scribblenauts 14. Trajecticle 15. X-Scape iPad (played 23, completed 1) 1. Angry Business Man 2. Ash 3. Babylonian Twins 4. Chaos Rings 5. Chu Chu Rocket 6. Defense of The Oasis 7. Galaxy on Fire 2 Lite 8. Godfinger All-Stars 9. The Incident 10. Labyrinth 2 11. Mirror’s Edge 12. Rage HD 13. Reckless Racing HD 14. Infinity Blade 15. The Iron Horse 16. Osmos HD 17. Plunderland 18. Quickhook 19. Sword and Poker Lite 20. UFO on Tape 21. Warpgate 22. We Rule 23. Words with Friends HD iPhone (played 26, completed 1) 1. Angry Birds Lite 2. Assassin’s Creed II: Discovery 3. Colorbind 4. Colorblind (This is the only game I bought this year because of a typo.) 5. Cut The Rope 6. Denki Blocks 7. DoodleJump 8. Drop7 (You can’t finish this game! But I play it obsessively.) 9. Dropship 10. eBoy FixPix 11. Edge 12. Espgaluda II 13. Eternal Legacy 14. Flight Control 15. Galcon Labs rummy 51 16. Game Dev Story 17. Hoggy 18. Karmastar 19. Kometen 20. Monster Dash 21. Shibuya 22. Space Miner 23. Star Wars Arcade Falcon Gunner 24. Tilt To Live 25. Topple 2 26. WordFu+ PC (played 20, completed 0) NOTE: Many of these were games I played as a judge for the Independent Games Festival’s 2010 awards. I’ve excluded the dozen or so games I played for the 2011 awards, as that judging is ongoing. 1. AaaaaaaAAaaaaaAAAaaAAAAAAAAAA!! – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity 2. Bejeweled 3 3. Civilization V 4. Closure 5. Cogs 6. Doom (Here’s a good place to point out that any game, from any year, that I first played in 2010, goes on this list. So, yes, 2010 was the first year during which I played Doom.) 7. Faultline 8. Farmville 9. Heroes of Newerth 10. Killjet 11. Nidhogg 12. Miegakure 13. Monaco (Technically played this unreleased Independent Games Festival on my Xbox 360 via special code.) 14. Owlboy 15. Rocketbirds Revolution 16. A Slow Year 17. Starguard 18. Trauma 19. Vessel 20. Zuma Blitz PSP (played 3, completed 2) 1. Alien Zombie Death (My only PSP Mini of the year.) 2. Invizimals 3. God of War: Ghost of Sparta PS3 (played 24, completed 10) 1. 3D Dot Game Heroes 2. Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood 3. Beat Sketcher 4. Dante’s Inferno 5. Dead Nation 6. DeathSpank 7. Def Jam Rapstar 8. Echochrome II 9. The Fight Lights Out 10. God of War III 11. Heavy Rain 12. Joe Danger 13. Kung Fu Rider 14. Lost Planet 2 15. MAG 16. Mega Man 10 17. ModNation Racers 18. Racquet Sports 19. Resonance of Fate 20. The Shoot 21. Start The Party 22. TerRover 23. Top Gun 24. Yakuza 3 Xbox 360 (played 62, completed 21) 1. Afterburner Climax 2. Alan Wake 3. Army of Two: The 40th Day 4. Baby Maker Extreme (Yes, this is a real Xbox Live Indie game.) 5. Bayonetta 6. BioShock 2 7. Breath of Death VII 8. Call of Duty Black Ops 9. Castlevania HD 10. Castleviania: Lords of Shadow 11. CheneyStar 12. Chime 13. Costume Quest 14. Crackdown 2 15. Crisis in the Gulf (The only game I played last year based on the spill in the Gulf of Mexico.) 16. Dance Central 17. Dark Void 18. Darksiders 19. Death By Cube 20. DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue 21. Decimation X 22. Dorito’s Crash Course 23. Enslaved: Odyssey to the West 24. Explosionade 25. Fable III 26. Fighters Uncaged 27. Gyromancer 28. Halo: Reach 29. Harm’s Way 30. Hypership Out of Control 31. Kinect Adventures 32. Kinect Joy Ride 33. Kinect Sports 34. Kinectimals 35. Lego Harry Potter 36. Limbo 37. Mass Effect 2 38. Medal of Honor 39. Monday Night Combat 40. Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 41. Nier 42. Pac-Man Championship Edition DX 43. Platformance: Castle Pain 44. PowerGig Rise of the Six String 45. Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands 46. Radiangames Crossfire (I bow to Radiangames’ amazing 2010 output; I didn’t even get to all of their promising Xbox Live Indie releases last year.) 47. Radiangames Inferno 48. Radiangames JoyJoy 49. Red Dead Redemption 50. Shoot 1Up 51. Singularity 52. Snoopy Flying Ace 53. So Many Girls So Little Time 54. Sonic Free Riders 55. Soulcaster 56. Splinter Cell Conviction 57. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II 58. Super Meat Boy (I will never finish this game. Too tough!) 59. Toy Soldiers 60. Transformers: War for Cybertron 61. Vanquish 62. YourShape Fitness Evolved Wii (played 22, completed 12) 1. Art Style Light Trax 2. Art Style Rotohoex 3. Art Style Rotozoa 4. Bit.Trip Runner 5. Donkey Kong Country Returns 6. Endless Ocean: Blue World 7. Epic Mickey 8. Flingsmash 9. Fluidity (Only game in 2010 where I reached the final level but couldn’t beat it.) 10. GoldenEye 007 11. Kirby’s Epic Yarn 12. Lord of the Rings Aragorn’s Quest 13. Max and the Magic Marker 14. Metroid Other M 15. No More Heroes 2 16. Red Steel 2 17. Silent Hill Shattered Origins (Only 2009 game I finished in 2010.) 18. Sin & Punishment Star Successor (Game whose completion in 2010 made me cheer the loudest, and jump up and down in my living room.) 19. Sonic Colors 20. rummy best Super Mario Galaxy 2 21. Thruspace 22. Trauma Team The final 2010 tally is: 195 games played; 52 finished That compares to: 2009… 165 played; 48 finished 2008… 135 played; 37 finished 2007… 118 played; 35 finished 2006…102 games played; 21 finished https://kotaku.com/man-finished-48-games-in-2009-and-that-man-was-me-5439522 (Sorry, sports and racing games. I didn’t play many of you for fun.)