Plenty of folks I know are doing Dry July – in fact our night editor, the charming and glamorous Elly Hart, is doing Dry July. Me? Well, I don’t drink, so I’m indulging in an activity a number of Kotaku regulars are taking part in – Shameless Gaming Month.
We all have a pile of shame, a number of games we haven’t finished, or even bothered starting. New games come out, we get excited, buy into the hype and watch as the other games we’ve yet to finish get thrown back on the shelf – ignored… abandoned.
Kotaku reader Trjn had a pile of shame, a pretty epic one at that. He decided to do something about it.
July provides us with a month where the supply of new games runs short and the end of financial year sales have ended. That also means that we have a month where we can sit down and make a molehill out of the mountain that is our pile of shame.
There aren’t any particular rules to this endeavour, but the general idea is reasonably simple: play as many games to completion as you can in the month of July.
For the sake of simplicity, completing a game means playing it until you are satisfied that you’re done. That might mean getting a platinum trophy or 1000 gamerscore for it, playing out the single player campaign through to the end credits or simply playing the game up until the point that you want to hurl that disc into the centre of the sun never to be thought of again.
Let us know what games are in your pile of shame and what you’re trying to play as the month progresses. If many people are playing the same game, we can form something not entirely unlike a book club where we can discuss the fun being had by all and sundry.
I fully support this endeavour. I have my own pile of shame which currently includes…
Half-Life 2, Darksiders, Dead Space 2, Metroid Prime 3, inFamous 2, inFamous, LittleBigPlanet 2, Kirby’s Epic Yarn, Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, Fallout: New Vegas, Dragon Age 2…
Oh man. I literally could be here all night.
Point being – let’s get our pile of shame down to a manageable level, and let’s do it together!
Until the end of July, I’ll be dropping in a post of my own personal progress every Tuesday until the end of July, and I’d like to invite you all to participate in the comments section.
Let’s get this thing done!
Are you guys up for taking part? What games do you have in your own pile of shame? Let us know in the comments below.
Shameless Gaming Month [trjn]
My actual pile of shame:
God of War II
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
My digital pile of shame:
X-Com Collection (Steam)
Dead Nation (PSN)
Death Spank: Thongs of Virtue (PSN)
LittleBigPlanet (PSN Welcome Back)
Ratchet & Clank (PSN Welcome Back)
I find that a digital pile of shame is a far bigger concern these days, because it doesn’t sit on the TV unit staring at you each night like a proper PoS does.
Lets make it happen, Kommunity!
Infamous 2, Prince of Persia:TFS, Darksiders, Dead Rising 2, Skate 3, Vanquish, Just Cause 2. **hangs head** I’m so sorry guys.
Thanks for putting this up, Mark.
If anyone is interested, here is a little something about the games I’ll be focusing on to start this month.
But really, the most important thing to take away from all this is that I should not hastily take pictures with an iPhone and post them online.
good work mate.. we are all behind this movement… Sad there was no pineapple in the post but what can you do…
oh god I don’t event want to think about my pile of shame. . .
I’m fairly certain its up to like 25-30 games now. . .
HA! Wow. Great minds! (mis-quoting I know.) Me and some mates started doing this a month back.
I have TWENTY SIX!!! games to finish. But I had 30 only two weeks ago so I’m feeling pretty good about it so far.
I plan on getting that number into single digits before DEUS EX 3 comes out =P
THE LIST:
Dragon Age 2
Homefront
Fallout:NV
Fable 3
Beyond Good & Evil HD
Test Drive Unlimited 2
Dead Space
EA MMA
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1
Kane & Lynch 2
Batman:AA
The Saboteur
Transformers:WFC
Fear2
Alone In The Dark
Assassins Creed 2
Resident Evil 5
Prototype
Kung Fu panda
TES:Oblivion
Bioshock
Lego Indiana Jones
Lego Batman
Toy Soldiers
50 Cent:BotS
yea wtf, right?
Damn, I got started early! Played Batman Arkham Asylum and the Saboteur in June.
The saboteur was a great game, i would have loved a sequel. RIP pandemic.
Pile of shame includes KotOR 2, Outland, Starcraft 2 and Fable 1. Also just picked up a cheap copy of Dragon Age 2, but I only started last night, so that might not count.
You haven’t finished Half Life 2? For serious? Hell, Mark, I’m EXCITED for you! Go play it!
And play it on a console just to make all the PC fanboys twitch 😀
Good point! Also, to avoid delay, install episodes one and two, you will want to keep playing.
i think i’ll just drink instead
Oh dear… just looked at my back catalogue… where to start :s Im gonna try and get through some of the following this month:
Dead Space 2
inFamous 2
Alan Wake
Bioshock 2
the last chapter of Final Fantasy XIII
Metro 2033
Halo ODST
I could keep this going for months… hopefully August is a quiet month for new releases…
Shadows of the Damned, Duke Nukem, Braid, The Darkness, while keeping on top of SFIVarcadeedition
This’ll be fun 😀
My pile of shame (well, what I can remember of it)
Lego Star Wars I
Lego Star Wars II
Lego Batman
Lego Star Wars III
Lego Pirates of the Caribbean
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010)
Need for Speed: High Stakes
Need for Speed: Undercover
Rollercoaster Tycoon 3
Portal 2 (Co-op)
Super Meat Boy
That’s all I can think of right now…
Looking at your list all I could think of was:
“NEED LEGO!”
In no particular order:
Bayonetta
Dante’s Inferno
Shadows of the Damned
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Psychonauts
Half Life 2: Episodes 1 and 2
Team Fortress 2
Portal 2 co-op
Enslaved
Fight Night Champion
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
Costume Quest
Shadow Complex
Splosion Man
Stacking
Brutal Legend
Red Faction Armageddon
Fallout New Vegas
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Donkey Kong Country Returns
Kirby’s Epic Yarn
Alan Wake
WWE All-Stars
Likelihood I’ll get any more than 3 of these completed… 40%. There’s just not enough time in the day once work is done!
As there is no way I could do a dry July, I to shall take part in this Shameless Gaming Month.
At last count I had about 14 games I hadn’t finished.
I have no-one to blame besides myself, as I tend to get distracted eas… oh look a shiny
Mine is awful, simply awful. This list contains games I actually want to complete, there’s others that I can’t be bothered with, plus some stretching back to the PS2 which I haven’t listed…
PS3
Darksiders
Stranglehold
Demon’s Souls (up to 2nd to last boss but he’s a jerk!)
Heavy Rain
Bayonetta
Ratchet & Clank Tools of Destruction
Wii
Super Paper Mario
Okami
Goldeneye
360
Bioshock
Assassins Creed
Kameo
Halo 3
Dragon Age 2
DS
Zelda Spirit Tracks
Yoshi’s Island DS
Chrono Trigger
PC
Mafia II
Far Cry II
PSP
Daxter
Ratchet & Clank Size Matters
and there’s probably some PSN and XBLA games too
Lol @ Kameo. I suppose I should add that to my list too…
Thank god I’m not doing Dry July. How am
I going to get through Goldeneye on the Wii sober?
You haven’t finished Half-Life 2 yet, Serrels? Gah, get onto it!
My pile: Arkham Asylum, Borderlands DLCs, Aliens vs Predator, Fallout 3, Bioshock, and uh, Half-Life 1…
Mine includes:
– inFamous
– Duke Nukem: Forever
– L.A. Noire
– Goldeneye (Wii)
– Epic Mickey
– Dead Nation
– Zelda: Minish Cap
– Pheonix Wright: Justice for All
– Pheonix Wright: Tirals and Tribulations
– Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
– Assassins Creed
– GTA4
– Mad World
– House of the Dead: Overkill
– Conduit
That’s from memory, I’m sure there’s more. There is no way this can be done in a month 🙁
Excellent.
For great justice I shall start with the following:
Demons Souls (PS3)
Red Dead Redemption (360)
Shank (PC)
Good luck everyone!
My current pile of shame:
Darksiders (although it’s just the last tower)
Dirt 3
Operation Flashpoint
Episodes From Liberty City
inFamous
Virtua Tennis 4 (arcade mode)
Burnout Paradise (finished it once before, playing through again cause it’s so good)
Monkey Island 2 remake
Lego Pirates of The Carrabbien (girlfriend loves it)
Dead Nation
Ratchet and Clank
And I also just bought RE2, RE3 and Silent Hill off the US PSN, so I’ll play through them eventually.
P.S. And I can’t forget my daily 1000 Heroz runs, damn that game is addictive
*phew* Good luck to everyone else!
Totally spelt Caribbean wrong *shrugs*
Also left Outland off my list, so many gamessss
My pile of shame is too big to type, and I won’t even be in the country for half the month… and to make it worse I basically haven’t played games at all in June (been socialising too much… gasp). I’ll do my best!
Games I have that I have never played and would like to get through:
Ass Creed Bro
Tales of Monkey Island
Torchlight
Half Life Episode 2
Alien vs Predator (recent one)
Chronicles of Riddick
C&C4
Crysis Warhead
Duke Nukem Forever (waiting for it to be patched)
Lara Croft Guardian of Light
Hydrophobia
Far Cry 2
Metro 2033
Supreme Commander 2
Tales of Monkey Island
With the Steam sale going for the next 10 days, I expect this list to double.
I was just thinking I needed to go back to my pile of shame now that I have platinumed inFamous2… Ive got some good ones in there.
GTA4
Uncharted 2 (I know I know)
Darksiders
3D dot game heroes
Little Big Planet 1 (prob not gonna happen)
Part of my Shameful mountain:
http://flic.kr/p/9YpSEJ
Think I’ll start with Alan Wake and Majin And The Forsaken Kingdom and see how I go.
Thanks to Steam my pile of shame is beyond insane.
360:
L.A. Noire
Red Dead Redemption
Enslaved
PS3:
inFamous 1 & 2
LittleBigPlanet 2
God of War 3
Demon’s Souls
Wii:
Mario Galaxy 2
3DS:
Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Ghost Recon
DS:
Pokemon Soul Silver
Mario 64
PC:
Starcraft 2
Dungeon Seige 3
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
Machinarium
Back to the Future Parts 2-5
Dragon Age 2
The Witcher 2
Fallout: New Vegas
Half-Life 2 Episode 2
…that’s just the first few that come to mind as well.
Being mostly 15-20+ hour games in that list… you’re boned.
Machinarium: so great. Do it first!
But wait! There’s more!
PC:
Alice: Madness Returns
Duke Nukem Forever
Shogun 2
Bioshock 1 & 2
Homefront
Alpha Protocol
Aliens vs. Predator
Dirt 3
Mafia 2
Borderlands
Prince of Persia
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Prototype
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
Magicka
Fable 3
Red Faction: Armageddon
360:
Final Fantasy XIII
…I’m sure there’s more too.
One thing I’m not quite clear on Trjn – was your intention to begin and complete a game entirely within the month, or simply to finish off those games that had been hanging around incomplete for a while? Because the games on this pile are primarily ones with 30-90% completion status, but Bayonetta, Killer 7 and Dragon Age (still in shrink wrap!) are all pristine.
I realise it probably doesn’t matter too much, but I want to make sure I’m embracing the concept completely!
It’s both.
Finish the games you own, whether you abandoned them after playing a while or never took them out of the shrink wrap. Whatever you want to take priority, gets priority.
Fair enough. Well as you know then, I cleared the first game from my pile – LA Noire – at 12:20 this morning. Off to a flying start!
That was an impressive way to start the month. Admittedly slightly sneaky but there isn’t a rule against finishing a game you’re almost done with as soon as the month begins.
Im suffering from premature game completion… I finished LA Noire about 2 nights ago.. just to get warmed up. Im not competing with anyone or anything, just wanted to get back into completing things… Im also planning leave toward the end of the month so this should help.
My pile of shame –
GTA 4
Beyond Good and Evil HD
Just Cause 2
Fallout 3
LA Noire
Thank goodness Deus Ex is not out till August! 🙂
It’s hilarious because I wrote up a list exactly with this intent the other week! All for it!
Half-Life (incl all 2 Eps)
Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Zelda: Spirit Tracks
Metroid: Other M
Donkey Kong Returns
Mario Galaxy 2
Sonic 4
Left 4 Dead
Mario Sunshine
To Buy and Finish:
Epic Yarn
Bit of Nintendo there
My Epic Yarn was stolen from me before I got to play it, I feel that if I buy another copy I am accepting defeat :'(
I’ve got over 300 games on my Steam account. I don’t think I’ve even finished 20% of them.
Can we make it a Shameless Gaming Year then?
I’m all for this. I’ve actually been telling myself for a while that I need to finish the games I already have before buying more… (Even though I went and bought Just Cause 2/Assassins Creed 2 at the toy sales yesterday. Sigh.)
Here’s my starting off pile:
– Red Dead Redemption
– Infamous
– Donkey Kong Country Returns (I only had like, 3 or 4 levels left but then I stopped for some reason)
– and get ONE Platinum trophy in any game. Just one. Every game I play I’m like ‘yes, this will be the one’. But then it never happens. 😛
Assassins Creed 2 was the easiest (and ONLY) platinum trophy I ever got. Also, Just Cause 2 is a brilliant game, and I’d recommend not involving it in shameless gaming month. Like being with Maggie Q during bed times, it deserves your full, undivided attention.
I really should finish
MVC3,
bulletstorm,
final fantasy XIII,
need for speed,
and brutal legend.
All games i bought in the last 12 months and have not finished
Lucky this fits into my existing plans for July which were to demolish my pile of shame. Sweet!
Off the top of my head, I’ve got:
Alan Wake
Far Cry 2
Medal of Honor
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
MGS4
God of War III
3D Dot Game Heroes
Enslaved
Limbo
Infamous
LittleBigPlanet
Crysis 2
Fallout 3
..I’m pretty sure there’s more. Argh!
Pile of shame:
Fallout: New Vegas
Vanquish
Metro 2033
Tom Clancy’s Hawx 2
Bioshock 2..
Hang on, not as bad as I thought it was 😀
What games? In the pile?
Ahahahaha… haha…. ha….
*Deep breath*
JUST on the PS3:
3D Dot Game Heroes
AC Brotherhood
Agarest
Agarest Zero
Alpha Protocol
Ar Tonelico III
Bayonetta
Bioshock
Bioshock 2
Borderlands
CoD: World at War
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Red Alert 3
Cross Edge
Darksiders
Demon’s Souls
Dragon Age II
Eternal Sonata
Fallout 3
Fallout: New Vegas
Final Fantast XIII
God of War
God of War 2
Half Life 2
Hyperdimension Neptunia
Hunted: The Demon’s Forge
Killzone 2
Last Rebellion
Little Big Planet
Lost Planet
Lost Planet 2
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2
Mass Effect 2
Megaman 9
Megaman 10
Naruto: UNS
Naruto Shippuden: UNS2
NIER
Ninja Gaiden
No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones
Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands
Prototype
Red Dead Redemption
Sacred 2
Silent Hill: Homecoming
Sonic Unleashed
Sonic the Hedgehog
The Chronicles of Riddick
The Saboteur
Trinity Universe
Vanquish
White Knight Chronicles
X-Blades
Yakuza 4
And that’s ONLY the ones I could get looking at my trophy list online and a few from memory. There are many more. Also, no fighting games or racing games are included.
There are also Wii, Steam, NDS, PSP and even some PS2 games. 🙁
I need a Shameless Year.
Possibly a Shameless Decade.
Just remembered –
Alice: Madness Returns
MGS4
Brutal Legend
Dead Nation
Monkey Island 2
Tales of Monkey Island
Back to the Future
L.A. Noire
I feel your pain, brother.
My Pile of Shame
90 odd PS3 games 😛
In detail:
PS3:
3D Dot Game Heroes
Agarest
Agarest Zero
Another Century’s Episode R
Ar Tonelico Qoga
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
Atelier Rorona
Battlefield Bad Company
Battlefield Bad Company 2
Blazblue Calamity Trigger
Borderlands
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Cross Edge
Darksiders
Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice
Demon Souls
Dragon Age Origins
Dynasty Warriors Strike Force
Dynasty Warriors 6
Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires
Dynasty Warriors 7
Dynasty Warriors Gundam
Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2 (JP)
Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3
Eternal Sonata
Final Fantasy XIII
God of War Collection
God of War 3
Initial D Extreme Stage
inFamous
inFamous 2
Killzone 2
Killzone 3
Little Big Planet
Little Big Planet 2
Lost Planet 2
Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom
Mobile Suit Gundam: Target in Sight
Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2
Nier
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2
No More Heroes Paradise
Prince of Persia Trilogy
Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time
Red Dead Redemption
Resistance 2
Sengoku Basara 3
Sly Trilogy
Star Ocean: The Last Hope
Transformers: War for Cybertron
Trinity Universe
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Valkyria Chronicles
White Knight Chronicles
White Knight Chronicles 2
Yakuza 3
Yakuza 4
Xbox360:
Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation
Alan Wake
Bayonetta
Bioshock
Bioshock 2
Blue Dragon
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Devil May Cry 4
Dragon Age: Origins
Dynasty Warriors 5: Empires
Dynasty Warriors 6
Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires
Dynasty Warriors Gundam
Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2
Fable 2 GOTY Edition
Fable 3
Halo 3 ODST
Infinite Undescovery
Lost Odyssey
Lost Planet
Magna Carta 2
Mass Effect
Ninety Nine Nights 2
Oblivion GOTY
Phantasy Star Universe
Project Sylpheed
Samurai Warriors 2
Samurai Warriors 2 Empires
Tales of Vesperia
The Last Remnant
Tom Clancy Ghost Recon Advanced Warfare
Tom Clancy Ghost Recon Advanced Warfare 2 Legacy Edition
Tom Clancy Rainbow Six Vegas
Tom Clancy Rainbow Six Vegas 2
There’s also a ton of DS, 3DS, PSP, PS2, and PC games that I’ve let to play. I also excluded a majority of racing and fighting games
In detail:
PS3:
3D Dot Game Heroes
Agarest
Agarest Zero
Another Century’s Episode R
Ar Tonelico Qoga
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
Atelier Rorona
Battlefield Bad Company
Battlefield Bad Company 2
Blazblue Calamity Trigger
Borderlands
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Cross Edge
Darksiders
Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice
Demon Souls
Dragon Age Origins
Dungeon Siege 3
Dynasty Warriors Strike Force
Dynasty Warriors 6
Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires
Dynasty Warriors 7
Dynasty Warriors Gundam
Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2 (JP)
Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3
Eternal Sonata
Final Fantasy XIII
God of War Collection
God of War 3
Hyperdimensional Neptunia
Initial D Extreme Stage
inFamous
inFamous 2
Killzone 2
Killzone 3
Little Big Planet
Little Big Planet 2
Lost Planet 2
Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom
Mobile Suit Gundam: Target in Sight
Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2
Nier
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2
No More Heroes Paradise
Prince of Persia Trilogy
Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time
Red Dead Redemption
Resistance 2
Sengoku Basara 3
Sly Trilogy
Star Ocean: The Last Hope
Transformers: War for Cybertron
Trinity Universe
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Valkyria Chronicles
White Knight Chronicles
White Knight Chronicles 2
Yakuza 3
Yakuza 4
Xbox360:
Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation
Alan Wake
Bayonetta
Bioshock
Bioshock 2
Blue Dragon
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Devil May Cry 4
Dragon Age: Origins
Dynasty Warriors 5: Empires
Dynasty Warriors 6
Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires
Dynasty Warriors Gundam
Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2
Fable 2 GOTY Edition
Fable 3
Halo 3 ODST
Infinite Undescovery
Lost Odyssey
Lost Planet
Magna Carta 2
Mass Effect
Ninety Nine Nights 2
Oblivion GOTY
Phantasy Star Universe
Project Sylpheed
Samurai Warriors 2
Samurai Warriors 2 Empires
Tales of Vesperia
The Last Remnant
Tom Clancy Ghost Recon Advanced Warfare
Tom Clancy Ghost Recon Advanced Warfare 2 Legacy Edition
Tom Clancy Rainbow Six Vegas
Tom Clancy Rainbow Six Vegas 2
There’s also a ton of DS, 3DS, PSP, PS2, and PC games that I’ve let to play. I also excluded a majority of racing and fighting games
“…Half-Life 2…”
As in the first main sequel? Not the eps?
Dude, your pile of shame includes the best game of *2004*. Get cracking, and post your thoughts – I’m keen to hear what you think!
I’m sorry man, but MGS3 came out in 2004. What’s a Half-Life 2?
*runs*
Somebody set a Headcrab upon this man, for shame! Finish Ep 2 and then get on the bandwagon for Valve to hurry up and release Ep. 3. Still one of the best PC FPS’s ever…
+100000000
Yep, that’s exactly how many minutes have been added to the Ep 3 development time due to someone telling Valve to hurry up for Ep 3.
Mine’s hopeless, there’s at least 50 games in it…
Bioshock
GTA 4
Fallout 3
Pile of shame worthy to be completed:
– Lara Croft: Guardian of Light
– Valkyria Chronicles
– Little Big Planet
– De Blob
– House of the Dead: Overkill
– Donkey Kong Country Returns
– Super Paper Mario
– 3D Dot Game Heroes
– Tales of Eternia
I’m sure there’s more.
…
My pile of shame consists of over 100 games… well over…
Mine includes Darksiders, Duke Nukem Forever, Perfect Dark, Forza 3, Child of Eden and Dance Central.
It did include LA Noire, but I took the cowards way out and gave it to someone else.
For those of us who’ve finished Darksiders… I’m stuck on the level where you use portals to transfer light beams… anyone who how far from completion I am?
It’ll count for your pile if I finish it. 🙂
Result.
Now, if only I could find a school of gymnasts to get to finish Dance Central for me too.
Well I did consider this but unfortunately steam summer camp sale
I can see my pile of shame growing rather than reducing
X360
Dead Rising 2 (Still)
LA Noire
++But considering I haven’t replaced my dead Xbox yet not going to happen++
PC
Gratiutious Space Battles
Fallout New Vegas
++That’s quite a short list… oh wait.++
Half Life 1
++Sadly I’m serious.++
…and a Steam sale, I’m so screwed.
wow, i think it would take me a long time to make a list and it would span decades!
this whole thing points out the real difference between a great game and any other. when you finish a great game, you wish there was more. you are sad that it is over, and it often leaves a noticeable gap in your time. sure you can replay, but with most games there is not so much fresh and new and undiscovered after even one playthrough. just new variations on path to the same or a similar goal. the best examples of great games i loved and completed, some a few times? fallouts (old and new), thief 2, baldurs gate 2, morrowind, every 3d GTA, Red Dead Redemption, and Ico.
in between great games are all the others. the games you buy hoping to fill that obsessive void left by the last great title you completed. even a good game can become work, however, and never quite get finished if it doesn’t drive you onward all the way to completion.
its those games that lay behind me, likely never to be played again. some games barely grab my attention and lose me in the first 3-4 hours and get forgotten. others i get to that 90% complete but frustratingly difficult stage, and its often obvious when the developers are just padding out the end of a game for length.
also, sometimes you really start to see behind the curtain, where all the cogs and gears are… games are often a kind of simulation, so when you start to see the mechanics of the simulation more than what is being portrayed by the simulation it can make me lose interest. grinding levels is a good example of where the mechanics start to override story or immersion.
There are too many to mention but off the top of my head I never finished: Assassins Creed, Demon Souls, Oblivion, Dragon Age, the latest Prince of Persia reboot. I never finished Shadow Of the Colossus, but if they bring out a ps3 one that runs well i will do so.
July Goals
1 Platinum Trophy
3 Games Finished (eg: Main Story complete)
Should be doable, whether or not this means I dip into the pile of shame is another thing though! :p
All I have to finish is Final Fantasy XIII
and I haven’t played that since march 10th last year.
God help me.
The more entries i read the more games i remember are on my pile… 🙁
Bayonetta
Just Cause 2
Dragon Age:Origins
Red Faction Guerilla
Bully
Enslaved
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
Darksiders
Fallout 3
Fallout New Vegas
All the crazy endings for BlazBlue
That’s funny, pretty much the whole of June was a shameless gaming month for me. I had a whole pile of Wii games built up that I hadn’t so much as touched, and I’d hardly been playing anything lately, so I just sat down and started to change all that. Worked through the last of de Blob 2, since I got lazy on that and had left it for a while, then dove into Monster Hunter Tri. That took over my life for a while there. Sunk 64 hours into it in the first week alone, managed to hit the credits by 84 hours then decided I should move on to something else. Played through Momohime’s quest in Muramasa on hard, then decided to finally fire up Conduit 2. That went by surprisingly quick, only did a couple of nights of multiplayer before shelving that and cracking open Donkey Kong Country Returns. I started off doing it all completionist-like, running each level to find all the items then going for the gold time trial. But eventually I hit some levels that I just couldn’t get anywhere near the top time and I was wasting heaps trying to do it, so I decided to leave that all for later and just play it the traditional way for now. Still only up to world 3.
Remaining in that particular pile are the two Pikmin games, but I’m not going to play those because I already did that on Cube. Then there’s Epic Mickey and Sonic Colours. Got a few others in there like Zack and Wiki and Endless Ocean that I still haven’t touched 😛 On 360, there’s Bioshock still unfinished, but I don’t think I’ll bother. Put in a couple of hours but it just didn’t grab me at all. Bomberman Act Zero ($5 clearance, how could I resist? :P), Chronicles of Riddick, Viva Pinata 2, MvC3 (only played that a few times with a mate), Orange Box, Bionic Commando and Darksiders.
My DS pile is even more shameful. In fact, up until recently it was quite literally a pile. I used to keep the most recent few game boxes on my bedside table, but eventually I ran out of space on my shelf so they just kept stacking up there. Must’ve been at least a foot and a half tall by the time I cleared some space in the wardrobe and put most of them away. Not going to list them all, but there’s at least 17 unplayed ones in that latest batch, and a half dozen or so unfinished ones. And still a fair few of each in the earlier stages of the pile.
A month ain’t gonna cut it 😛
My pile:
Wipeout HD
Demons Souls (I’m still only on the second part of the first level, I need to start playing this gem again)
Metal Gear Solid
Assassins Creed Brotherhood (trading it in b/c I find the controls to be complete garbage)
Dead Space 2 (trading it in b/c it becomes half-assed and cheap halfway through the game)
Infamous (I was gonna get the second one when I finish this, but I’m already bored to tears and I’m only on the second island)
I guess I should throw in my lot as well, though I dunno how much I’ll ever get through
Portal
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Little Big Planet 2
L.A. Noire
Alice Madness Returns
Amnesia (I got half way but turned it off crying)
White Knight Chronicles
Hunted: The Demon’s Forge
Demon Souls
Disgaia 3
Red Alert 3
Borderlands
Blazblue
Mobile Suit Gundam: Target in Sight
Touhou Project ~ The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
Rule of Rose
Dante’s Inferno
Pokemon White
Order of play:
1. Bully: Scholarship Edition (nearly done, but considering whether I want to 100% it)
2. LA Noire (depending on time of receipt!)
3. Darksiders (1/2 finished)
4. God of War 1 (never played)
5. God of War 2 (never played)
6. God of War 3 (never played)
7. Metal Gear Solid 1 (finished many times on PC, never played on PS1)
8. Metal Gear Solid 2 (finished many times on PC, never played on PS2)
9. Metal Gear Solid 3 (1/2 finished on PS2 once, but lost save game, never played Subsistence version, which I now own)
10. Metal Gear Solid 4 (the only one of the four I’ve never played, but don’t currently have saves for the others)
Others on my pile that won’t make the cut:
1. Star Ocean: Last Hope
2-12. Every Final Fantasy game ever released on any PS system
13. Every game in the Orange Box except for Portal
14. Max Payne 1
15. Max Payne 2
Bloody hell that’s a lot of games. And there’s way more I can’t even remember…
I have no shame.
*removes pants*
I think July for me will be b-grade game month. Right now I’m finishing James Cameron’s Avatar out of sheer stubborness and I think that is the way I’m going to approach all of July.
Maybe I’ll finish Legendary so I have at least more than 10G for it.
Maybe I’ll unwrap National Geographic challange, Truth or Lies, or Force Unleashed 2 (for which I even have all the DLC).
Ultimately I expect my played list to look like I played and enjoyed every piece of crap I could find.
I’m currently playing Portal 2 but also just ordered Enslaved, i was really looking forward to it before it’s release but then i got a bit put off by the luke-warm review so now i’ve bought it on the cheap.
I’m thinking i should just cut my losses and just forget about the games I’m only half-way through. Much like the terabytes of unwatched movies that site idle.
Bring me some good games!
PC
Company of Heroes Anthology
Assassin Creed
Painkiller Resurrection
Metro 2033
CNC Kane’s Wrath
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat
Bioshock 2
NFS Hot Pursuit 2010
Red Faction 1+2
Fallout 3 GOTY
Call of Juarez Bound in Blood
Dead Space 1+2
Crysis + Warhead
Alone in the Dark 2010
Chronicles of Riddick Escape from Butcher Bay
Assault on Dark Athena
Batman: Arkham Asylum
+ a plethora of GoG Games
Wii
Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands
Okami
Disaster Day of Crisis
Dead Space Extraction
Super Mario Galaxy
Goldeneye
NBA Jam
Cursed Mountain
Muramasa: The Demon Blade
PS3 (though may not count as i have not yet bought a PS3)
Resident Evil 5
Tomb Raider Trilogy
God of War Collection
God of War 3
The Darkness
Dante’s Inferno
Star ocean the last hope
Uncharted 1+2
Infamous
Heavenly Sword
Darksiders
Demon Soul’s
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Hyperdimension Neptunia
Bayonetta
Why would you have so Many PS3 games without the console?
Go out and buy one. The Uncharted games alone are worth it
I bought the limited edition of Metal Gear Solid 4 in late 2008. I didn’t own a PS3 until about six weeks ago. It happens 🙂
While I’m all in favour of Shameless Gaming Month, this “Dry July” thing just sounds painful.
The chafing will be extremely uncomfortable.
Got quite a few on mine but I usually stick with just PC gaming.
Crysis 2 single player is something I have started on. The GTA expansion packs. Fable3 for PC, would love to play it though with someone though didn’t get must of the multi in the Xbox version. I’m also sure there is an indie game I’ll pickup in the steam sales to.
I recently started playing Darksiders for this same reason. Its awesome, and currently very cheap – everyone should give it a go.
Other games I own that are on my list of shame include:
Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare
Crysis 2 (got like 90% through and then stopped)
Bioshock
Bioshock 2
Uncharted 1
Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time
inFamous
bawble/Crabjiffy’s + mine!
http://twitpic.com/5jbh3k
4 more to be added later through this month…
Pile of Shame (It used to be so much bigger):
XBOX-
Dead Space 2 – Un-opened!
Vanquish
Lara Croft: Guardian of Light
Dante’s Inferno
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock
BattleField Bad Company
Alien vs Predator
Lost Odyssey
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
Resident Evil 5 (Played 1-2 Hours)
Fallout 3 (Played 4-5 Hours)
Prince of Persia
Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts
Shaun White Snowboarding
PS3-
L.A. Noire
Dead Nation
Wipeout HD
Infamous
God Of War 3
Little Big Planet
…I’ll get to them someday…
I have 56 uncompleted games on my PC desktop alone (I like a full desktop).
I probably have at least half that again in console and handheld games.
http://i55.tinypic.com/idr5g1.jpg
Basically about half of that.
I should really stop buying games.
3DS
-Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
-Chronicles: Samurai Warriors
-Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX (eShop)
Xbox 360
-Bulletstorm (Only 2 chapters to go!)
-Fable 3
PS3
-Ratchet and Clank: Crack in Time (I was about 90% done towards my Platinum Trophy when I had to reformat the HD without the option of backing up, I would really like to get it, but since i’d be starting from scratch it could end up taking the whole month…)
-Sly Raccoon 1, 2 & 3 (about 50% through each of them)
PC
-Fallout: New Vegas
-Steam Summer Sale
Hard Mode
-Unlock/Complete all Golden Temples in DK Country Returns
-Amnesia
My list isn’t too bad but it might require some work…
– L. A. Noire
– Metro 2033
– The Witcher 2
– Eufloria
– Machinarium
– Super Meat Boy
– Worms Reloaded
– Trenched
– REZ HD
– Assassin’s Creed 2
– Alone in the Dark
*sigh*
The problem with liking most games from most genres on most platforms means that they come out faster than it’s humanly possible to play.
My pile of shame goes back to the early 90’s and seems to gain a good 50+ titles per year on PC… and that’s only because my first console was the Wii (of which that has probably contributed about 70 so far)
Shame list from the top of my head
PS3
-L.A. Noire
-Dead Space 2
-Dead Space Extraction
-Sly Trilogy
-Hunted The Demon Forge
-Portal 2
-Mortal Kombat
-Atelier Rorona The Alchemist of Arland
-Hyperneptunia Dimension
-Ar Tonelico Qoga
-Bioshock 2
-infamous 1 & 2
-Resonance of Fate
-Duke Nukem
-Demon Souls
-Blazblue: CT
-Agarest Generations of War
PSN
-Blade Kitten
-echochrome 2
-Beyond Good & Evil HD
-Alien Breed: Impact
-Might & Magic: Clashes of Heroes
3DS
-Zeld: OoT (unless I make a start on it this weekend)
Wii
-Super Mario Galaxy 2
Problem is, I’m thinking about getting a 360 so my list could literally blow up 2x if I don’t get crunching on it. -__-
My pile of shame is generally kept pretty small. I recently finished off my longest standing shame-game, The Last Remnant (which sat there taunting me for almost 3 years).
Now that’s gone, I have no shame pile at the moment, but I suspect Earth Defence Force will keep me busy for most of July. 😀
Oh boy, were to start…
PC:
Quake 1,2,3
Half-Life
Red Faction
Lords Of Everquest
Portal
PS2:
Ratchet & Clank 2
Gran Turismo 4
MOH:Frontline
Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec
Spyro: A Hero’s Tail
Canis Canem Edit
The Getaway
Crash Twinsanity
The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night
The Getaway: Black Monday
Jak 3
Black
GTA: San Andreas
PS3:
Portal 2
Ratchet & Clank: Tools Of Destruction
Ratchet & Clank: Quest For Booty
Burnout: Paradise
Dead Nation
The Sly Collection
NFS: Hot Pursuit
Modnation Racers
LittleBigPlanet
LittleBigPlanet 2
Gran Turismo 5
Wipeout HD Fury
NFS: Shift
COD: Black Ops
Street Fighter IV
Dead Rising 2
PSP:
Dead Head Fred
Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters
Pursuit Force
Daxter
Mercury
Burnout Legends
GTA: Liberty City Stories
LittleBigPlanet
Wipeout Pulse
Sega Master System: (Yes, even this!)
Alex Kidd in Miracle World
Enduro Racer
The Ninja(It’d be easier to saw off my own hand than to complete this game!)
Ghost House
…These may not all be finished until I’m possibly in my 60’s. 🙁
My pile of shame is a loathsome brute, with painful titles like Ninja Gaiden and Mirror’s Edge making me a fun room mate in a paper-thin walled house.
PS3:
Mass Effect 2
Castlevania : Lords of Shadow
Assassin’s Creed : Brotherhood
Star Ocean : Last Hope
Mortal Kombat
SSF4 : Arcade Edition
Uncharted 1 & 2
Resident Evil 5
inFamous 1 & 2
Little Big Planet 1 & 2
iPhone:
Final Fantasy 3
Infinity Blade
Zenonia
Chaos Ring
Osmos
Metroid Prime 3, Super Mario Galaxy 2, StarCraft 2 campaign, Ocarina of Time, No More Heroes 1 and 2, Mass Effect 2, and I just got Portal 2 today…
Well, that list isn’t nearly as impressive as some of the others on here.
I literally have no pile of shame. i simply cant start a new game until im done with an old one. Its sometimes torturous
That’s incredibly impressive discipline. Much respect.
I have an enormous pile of shame – well over eighty, and about a third of them are still in the shrink wrap – but that’s not the worst of it.
The problem is that once your shameful collection grows to a certain size, it can actually be hard to pick one to focus on. So last weekend I found myself re-playing Uncharted 2. Which I’ve finished before. Twice. I felt very guilty. 🙁
I do that too. I replay games a lot while other games just sit there waiting to be played
Me too. A big part of my to-play portion of my Pile of Shame are games I’ve already played and beat on other consoles/PC.
I even tried prioritising a small portion of my pile at one point about a year ago, sorting according to how much I wanted to finish, how much I’d already played, and how old the game was (the plan was to try and retire my old PS2):
http://i.imgur.com/9ze32.jpg
That project died after the top two games though. 🙁
Wow, some of these lists you people have are insane. I really need to show my wife this list because she tells me I have too many games that I haven’t played.
Off the top of my head:
Just Cause 2
Bioshock 2
Eternal Sonata
Mini Ninjas ( My wife bought this but it’s still part of the pile)
Dead Rising 2
Super Mario Galaxy
A Boy and his Blob ( My Wii just gathers dust)
There is definitely more, will just have to take a look
lets see …
Alice Madness Returns
Alpha Protocol
Halo
Halo II
Portal 2 Co-op
Duke Nukem Forever
Amnesia: The dark descent
Resident Evil 5
Vanquish
Devil May Cry 2
Medal of Honour: Allied Assault, Pacific Assault and Airborne
Battle Los Angeles
… I think that’s all of them
this is my list, have started most completed none
God of War 3 PS3
Red Dead Redemption PS3
Call of Duty: Black Ops PS3
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 PS3
Assassins Creed 2 PS3
Assassins Creed: Brotherhood PS3
Enslaved: Odessy to the West PS3
Borderlands: GOTY Edition PS3
Littlebigplanet PS3
Grand Theft Auto IV PS3
Gran Turismo 5 PS3
Brutal Legend PS3
Killzone 2 PS3
Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3
Burnout Paradise PS3
Heavenly Sword PS3
GRID PS3
Far Cry 2 PS3
Eyepet PS3
Devil May Cry 4 PS3
Turok PS3
Lost Planet 2 PS3
Mirrors Edge PS3
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction PS3
Resistance 2 PS3
Valkyria Chronicles PS3
Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection PS3
Prince of Persia PS3
Quantum of Solace PS3
God of War Collection PS3
Shadow of the Colussus PS2
God of War 2 PS2
Mass Effect 2 PS3
La Noire PS3
Star Craft 2
New Super Mario Bros Wii
Super Mario Galaxy Wii
Metroid Prime: Corruption Wii
Wii Fit Wii
Wii Sports Resort Wii
Deblob Wii
Ufitness Wii
Gran Turismo PSP
Locoroco 2 PSP
Hot Shots Golf PSP
Avatar PSP
… you HAVEN’T finished Half-Life 2?
Fix this. NOW!
Shame list from the top of my head
PS3
-L.A. Noire
-Dead Space 2
-Dead Space Extraction
-Sly Trilogy
-Hunted The Demon Forge
-Portal 2
-Mortal Kombat
-Atelier Rorona The Alchemist of Arland
-Hyperneptunia Dimension
-Ar Tonelico Qoga
-Bioshock 2
-infamous 1 & 2
-Resonance of Fate
-Duke Nukem
-Demon Souls
-Blazblue: CT
-Agarest Generations of War
PSN
-Blade Kitten
-echochrome 2
-Beyond Good & Evil HD
-Alien Breed: Impact
-Might & Magic: Clashes of Heroes
3DS
-Zeld: OoT (unless I make a start on it this weekend)
Wii
-Super Mario Galaxy 2
Problem is, I’m thinking about getting a 360 so my list could literally blow up 2x if I don’t get crunching on it.
Shame list from the top of my head
PS3
-L.A. Noire
-Dead Space 2
-Dead Space Extraction
-Sly Trilogy
-Hunted The Demon Forge
-Portal 2
-Mortal Kombat
-Atelier Rorona The Alchemist of Arland
-Hyperneptunia Dimension
-Ar Tonelico Qoga
-Bioshock 2
-infamous 1 & 2
-Resonance of Fate
-Duke Nukem
-Demon Souls
-Blazblue: CT
-Agarest Generations of War
PSN
-Blade Kitten
-echochrome 2
-Beyond Good & Evil HD
-Alien Breed: Impact
-Might & Magic: Clashes of Heroes
3DS
-Zeld: OoT (unless I make a start on it this weekend)
Wii
-Super Mario Galaxy 2
This has finally given me the motivation to make up a database of all the games I own, and then if I’ve played them, and completed them.
Missing last four months purchases (as I didn’t have photos on my phone at work), I’m up to 315 games across consoles. I’ve probably finish 100 of them. I’ve got a large stack to play.
Shame list from the top of my head
PS3
L.A. Noire
Dead Space 2
Dead Space Extraction
Sly Trilogy
Hunted The Demon Forge
Portal 2
Mortal Kombat
Atelier Rorona The Alchemist of Arland
Hyperneptunia Dimension
Ar Tonelico Qoga
Bioshock 2
infamous 1 & 2
Resonance of Fate
Duke Nukem
Demon Souls
Blazblue: CT
Agarest Generations of War
PSN
Blade Kitten
echochrome 2
Beyond Good & Evil HD
Alien Breed: Impact
Might & Magic: Clashes of Heroes
3DS
Zeld: OoT (unless I make a start on it this weekend)
Problem is, I’m thinking about getting a 360 so my list could literally blow up 2x if I don’t get crunching on it. -__-
Shame list from the top of my head
L.A. Noire
Dead Space 2
Dead Space Extraction
Sly Trilogy
Hunted The Demon Forge
Portal 2
Mortal Kombat
Atelier Rorona The Alchemist of Arland
Hyperneptunia Dimension
Ar Tonelico Qoga
Bioshock 2
infamous 1 & 2
Resonance of Fate
Duke Nukem
Demon Souls
Blazblue: CT
Agarest Generations of War
My List
*NONE
I buy a new game and play it til its finished, then I might get a new game.
Don’t understand how anyone can even have a list.
You are not human. You must be some kind of robot.
Maybe not a robot, just poor or a child?
As I when you’ve either that 1 game ever 6 months does get played a lot.
*boggle*
Hmmm I’m late to this generation so the pile of shame is a bit out of control
Here we go… (where I’m up to in brackets)
360:
Mirrors Edge (only 2 chapters left)
Borderlands (Lvl 19)
GTAIV (unlocked Alderney finally)
Just Cause 2
Assassin’s Creed 2 (Just finished Sequence 4)
Crackdown 2 (1/3 done)
Mass Effect 2 (“Horizon”)
Portal 2 (Ch 8)
Half Life 2 (“Highway 17”)
BFBC2 Single Player (There’s a single player?)
Transformers War for Cyberton (“To the Core”)
Splinter Cell Conviction (3 more chapters)
Banjo Kazooie N+B (“Jiggoseum”)
PS2:
GTA San Andreas (up to LV missions)
GTA Vice City (stuck on some RC Helicopter mission)
GTA Vice City Stories (I forget)
GTA Liberty City Stories (Still on the first island)
MGS2 (Stuck with no ammo!)
Gamecube
Super Mario Sunshine (Final Level – I keep getting killed on that disintegrating boat)
Metroid Prime (Second boss – its demoralising to have to start back at the beginning of a level every time you get beaten)
@Mark Serrels
No I just buy games I generally like, not just go out and buy every game that comes out. When I get that new game I just play that til I have completed the main story line and maybe some over things in the game that’s about it.
I have never had more than 1 game going at time
Games I have started playing this year
Just Cause 2
Dead Space 2
BulletStorm
Games I still am playing
Halo Reach
Just Cause 2 (only brought it 3 weeks ago and finished the main story)
Don’t see how finishing 3 games in a total of 7 months is hard at all.
I look at people’s list and see alot of games I wouldn’t even touch as they do not even interest me one bit.
GEEZ, some of these lists are super impressive! And shameful! I definitely have my pile, which I’m embarrassed to admit. But I probably will anyway. Actually, considering how massive some of these lists are, what is the ratio of games you DO complete? I’m curious, but I’m also not one to talk because I have some sort of neuroses that even if I enjoy a game, I will get to the end and never finish it. I don’t even know what is wrong with me. Although, if it is a Bioware RPG, I will have completed it multiple times. I dunno, okay? Shut up.
(Crap, checking Steam for games was the worst idea ever. There goes $20.)
Let’s see:
Beyond Good and Evil
Bioshock 1 and 2
Deathspank
Fallout 1 and 2
Haunted House
Lego Batman
Machinarium
Magicka
Overlord 1 and 2
Psychonauts
Various episodes of quite a few Telltale games
All of the various Jedi Knight games
The Penny Arcade games
Torchlight
Trine
The Witcher
Syberia 1 and 2
A few small indie adventure games I’ve collected here and there.
Whew, could be worse.
Oh snap. This is going to be long.
Baten Kaitos
Eternal darkness
Luigi’s mansion
Pokemon XD
Warioware, inc.
XIII
Beyond good and evil
Clock tower 3
Deus Ex
Disgaea
Farenheit
Glass rose
God of war
Haunting grounds
Ico
Jade cocoon 2
Killer 7
KHII
Tomb raider anniversary
Max payne
Max payne 2
Persona 3 FES
Persona 4
Psychonauts
Rayman 3
Scooby Doo and the spooky swamp
Shadow of the colosuss
Shinobido
SH origins
Trapt
Viewtiful joe
And this is just the Gamecube and PS2 ones. I have more for Nes, Snes, N64, wii, xbox, playstation and pc ;_; My shame pile is terrible. TT_TT
@sarujin13
No aint poor or a kid, I just stick to one game til i have finished it.
Unlike alot of people who seem to have more money then sence.
I’ve been trying to get through my pile of Shame anyway, but I think I need this month too.
My top ten in my pile of shame that I just need to finish before I can justify further game purchases:
Assassin’s Creed
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Bioshock
Borderlands
Dragon Age II
Hitman: Codename 47
Magicka
Portal
Monkey Island 5
The Witcher
Although I just bought ME1 (and also own ME2) and Black vs White 2…this is never going to end
Rofl I just hit 200+ 360 titles, over 450 on steam and about 40 on ps3… Pile of shame… Yep!
http://store.steampowered.com/
Dry July? Blasphemy!