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So, I’m just trying catch up some of the games I’ve bought but never had time to play. And I’m making it “public” so that I’d get something done and possibly contribute to this site a bit too. I have a long list and I’m quite sure I won’t finish it but one must aim high . If I get half of this done I’ll be happy. Will post updates when I have something to report - eventually. No replays - no time for that.

Possible changes with yet unreleased titles or future playthroughs, otherwise I’m trying to stick to the list - but not alphabetically. Three non adventures mentioned but I wont be really blabbing so much about them so I decided the adventure section in forum works well. And all of those three games have a rich lore and very distinct atmosphere so to me they are very very very long adventures really .

Added games in reddish brown.

Community playthroughs:
A Vampyre Story - July 2nd - 3.5/5
Obsidian - September 21st - 4/5
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - November 16th - 4.5/5

To finish up:
Testament of Sherlock Holmes - July 7th - 4/5
L.A. Noire
The Witcher - EE (the only non-adventure besides MMOs)

Episodes:
Cognition ep.4 - September 22nd - 4/5
Heavy Rain DLC The Taxidermist
Hector ep.3
Journey Down chapter 1
The Walking Dead - July 18th - 4.5/5

To start:
Beyond: Two Souls - October 16th - 4.5/5
The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav
Drawn - The Painted Tower - July 8th - 3.5/5
Edna & Harvey - The Breakout - December 8th - 4.5/6
Escape from Thunder Island
Gone Home - October 27th - 4.5/5
Hope Springs Eternal (Carol Reed #2)
J.U.L.I.A.
Lucius
Machinarium
Portal
Primordia
To the Moon - July 12th - 5/5

MMOs: (which obviously can’t be “finished”)
The Secret World
The World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria

Any comments or opinions are welcome .

Yeah I just heard about Larry but I think I let it wait and grab it from some sale later.

Thank you Sefir for recommendations, I probably will pick one of those - or Primordia, been itching to try it too. Currently I have Drawn, Dark Eye and Primordia installed (in addition to the unfinished and episode ones).

I made this list up as versatile as possible putting the emphasis on the games that are must to play (plenty of games that are considered classics) or I’ve been planning to play for ages with a couple of newer titles I “almost” started.

I would have some JRPGs for PS3 but I think I’ll skip them now, if I have time to finish The Witcher with all these great adventure titles I’ll actually be pretty surprised.

I recently finished The Dark Eye and found it quite enjoyable (although I agree with many that the voice acting wasn’t all that). One thing I did notice which I don’t think has been mentioned here is that a certain Jack Allin was editor for English localisation.

lewuz - 26 June 2013 12:57 PM

20 titles? My TO DO list contains over 140 adventures. Than again - I don’t aim to finish all those this summer.

Pfft. You think this is all? I’m pretty sure I have around 300 titles to finish, I don’t even bother to track them all. I have a to-play text file with a little over 100 adventures, not counting sequels. And that’s not even the whole list of adventures I own. There’s of course also replay list and to-buy list. And all the non-adventures…

Yeah, but so many of them are “the first games I should play” . But I have Portal 2 also waiting, I will definitely play at least the first one during this summer.

Out of your list Millenia may I politely suggest thst you don’t start J.U.L.I.A.

Not because it’s not a good game - I thoroughly enjoyed it even with a couple of faults within it - but because J.U.L.I.A. Enhanced looks like it’s going to be considerably better. If you pledged to the Indiegogo fundraiser you may already know this as Jan has just sent out his monthly update with a couple of screenshots and the difference is staggering. On top of that game play has been enhanced (the first planet you visit has ten areas for exploration instead of the original’s three). Downside is that, because of how much more he’s putting into the game, he doesn’t now expect it to be released this year.

I would upload the 2 screenshots but they appear in the Indiegogo’s backers area and I’m not sure how appropriate it would be to do so.

Thanks for the information. Have they said if this enhanced edition will be automatically available for anyone who bought the game earlier? Meaning the new edition will replace the old rather than be a separate item?

If I skip it for now, at least it’s not the only scifi title on my list.

As far as I’m aware you’ll have to pay again as I, and no doubt many others, have done in pledging for the enhanced version. I think there’d be something slightly awry in the Indiegogo supporters paying for others to get the new game free

I’ll take a risk and post one of the screenshots here (Admins: please remove if inappropriate):

Edited to add that you’ll need to click on it to see the full image (and again at Imgur).

In a way it could also be an experience to play the old one first and then compare it to the enhanced version. I was completely unaware of this indiegogo project. I actually intentionally stay away from these crowdfunding sites for a longer periods of time. There are always so many interesting projects and I have so little money… Also, I don’t think I’ll be purchasing the enhanced version full price anyway, so my wait might be quite long. (Though I have that 300 other games to play meanwhile.)