Finishing Games From Yesteryear

What have you been playing? you ask. Oh yes, that is the name of the blog and boy do I have a list for you. Sit back, strap in and prepare for the list of games I should have finished years ago.

I bought The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay years ago on Direct2Drive, but after 6 or 7 hours of play the game crashed and I lost my save. Now, I have a hard time repeating a half hour of gameplay that I lose when I die only to realize I hadn't been responsible in my saves; so when I lose 6 hours of gameplay I am done. I uninstalled the game and cut my losses. I paid $20 for the game and figured that 6 hours was enough enjoyment for my money, even if I didn't finish the game. When I saw the rereleased Assault on Dark Athena on sale for less than a postage stamp I picked it up and finally got around to finishing it. Time enough had passed that I had forgotten enough content to make the game feel new. The dagger in my gaming heart came at the end of the game when I realized that my crashed save was only about 30 minutes from the end of the game.

My friend continues to pull me into his world of Terraria and after 5 hours have passed in a play session for which I had only planned 45 minutes. I blame him and my uncontrollable desire to dig holes all the way to hell or a space there to hang out. I have been playing Terraria since the day it came out and the most exciting part of Terraria is seeing how much Minecraft has changed in its life. The piston update in Minecraft and the constant updates for Terraria make me incredibly excited about what the future has in store for my 2D land of holes to hell.

Far Cry 2 has been sitting in my library for over a year now and I am f

inally getting around to firing it up and shooting my way through the shanties of Africa. Blame it on the stagnating power of console limitations, but Far Cry 2 still looks great and plays like a modern shooter should. I have only sunk a couple of hours into what I am sure will be a 30+ hour experience, but I will say this: If there are zombies, monsters, or genetic experiments at the end of this game, I am going to throw a fit like the world has never seen.

On a side note, my wife has been playing Plants vs Zombies which is coincidental because she is about to give birth to our second child and when she was in the hospital, bringing my son into this world, I must have logged 50 hours of zombie killing plant goodness.