WiNG

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• Games I own, but never beat

  • Homeworld 2

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    Amazing game, but a crippling bug on Mission 12 froze it upon loading. I didn't feel like starting over the 30 hours of campaign at Mission 1.

  • Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

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    I could not beat the damn boat level on Hard, and refused to lower the difficulty.

  • Tomb Raider Anniversary

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    Kill a T-Rex? No problem. Solve a 40 part puzzle resulting in 30 deaths? Cool. Make me do 1200 backflips in a ridiculous platform test that resets if you miss one step? Screw you, Croft.

  • Guild Wars: Eye of the North

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    Not enough new skills to warrant trudging through another 30 hours of gameplay.

  • Viewtiful Joe

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    Henshin a-go-go-go-get-blisters-from-button-mashing, baby.

  • The Longest Journey 2

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    In TLJ 3, please don't intersperse my puzzle game with survival horror, kthxbai.

  • Resident Evil: Code Veronica

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    Lets put it this way: it was my first RE game, and I didn't realize there wouldn't be huge crates of ammo and typewriter ink lying around everywhere.

  • Test Drive Le Mans

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    After buying this game it occurred to me I didn't actually want to play a real-time 24-hour race.

  • Typing of the Dead

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    Love the game, I just don't have the raw typing skill to beat the last level.

  • Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne

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    I stopped caring after the 9000th character gained godlike abilities.

• The Playlist: games I can't put down

  • Team Fortress 2

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    The outcome was never really in doubt.

  • Endless Ocean

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    I done learned that you can make friends wif a jellyfish by pettin' it!

  • Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved

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    High score only about 450,000.

  • Advance Wars

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    The first one. For the GBA. Old school, bitchez.

  • Half-Life 2: Episode 2

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    Barrel + Gravity Gun Antlion

  • The Secrets of Hold'em (mobile)

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    Damn you, CPU... who the hell pulls a straight flush on the river? A cheating computer, that's who!

• Best Games You've Never Played

  • Guardian Heroes (Sega Saturn)

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    The best damn game ever, Guardian Heroes is a side-scrolling beat'em up for Saturn. By combining minor RPG elements, amazing anime-level graphics, dozens of branching story arcs, and 12 player multiplayer deathmatches, Treasure (that's right, TREASURE) made the best game to ever exist.
    
    I no longer own this game, but have made it my goal to one day play it again.

  • Curse of Monkey Island (PC)

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    The funniest, most aesthetically pleasing, delightfully challenging, and perfectly complete puzzle/adventure game of all time. The music, characters, and jokes will live in your heart forever. I actually feel privileged to have played it and own it.

  • Homeworld (PC)

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    Homeworld is one of the most engrossing, beautiful, well-desgined games of all time. With a truly heartbreaking and epic story, amazing music, and graphics that still look good today, it's amazing it didn't sell better.
    
    Another aspect of HW that made it so revolutionary was that you actually battle in true 3D. Which means, unlike Starcraft, you can attack from above or below, or even from inside (using hyperspace jumps). Mastering thinking/planning in 3D is a key element to this gorgeous RTS.

  • Tornado Mania (Mobile)

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    I bought this game since it was the only cell phone game to get a perfect 10 from IGN at the time. It deserves it, and then some. The premise is a cross between SimCity and Katmari Damacy: Control a tornado by rolling it through cities and destroying stuff. The more you destroy, the bigger the twister. When it's big enough, you can pick up and steal buildings. Finally, build your own utopia out of buildings you stole from other people's cities. Genius! The most amazing part (other than the awesome graphics and great art direction) is that the whole game only controls with one button. Hold it to spin the tornado counter-clockwise, release to spin clockwise. Alternate at JUST the right speed to snake across cities quickly. Seriously, get this game.

  • Sonic Advance 2 (GBA)

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    This is the best 2D Sonic I've ever played.
    
    True; I didn't play Rush or Rush Adventure, but SA2 is fast, fun, and has the best music I've ever heard in a Sonic game, and that's saying a lot.
    
    The only bad thing about SA2 is how hard the game's special stages are.

  • Mars Matrix (Dreamcast)

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    Take the worst level from R-Type or Raiden, and give your ship the ability to become invincible for as long as it wants, with the drawback of not being able to use that ability for twice as long as you used it last time.
    
    Now multiply the number of enemies and hostile projectiles by ten.
    
    Mars Matrix: upping the bar on bullet hell since 1999.

  • Two Crude Dudes (Sega Genesis)

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    Take a pair of the manliest, most musclebound meatheads on Earth. Give them the strength to pick up and throw every object in the game, including tanks, billboards, each other, and nuclear bombs. Pit them against a horde of baddies that include rejects from Mad Max and Santa Claus. You've just made one of the coolest beat'em up games of all time.

  • Alien vs. Predator 2

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    Three races, three playstyles, an awesome storyline, and intense multiplayer. Game over man, game over.