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Title: Your year in gaming (2017)
Hamish 23 Jan 2018
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So seeing the GOTY Awards on here made me want to compile a list of all the games I actually did play through myself in 2017.

For the purposes of my list I excluded any games where I did not play through the entire single player campaign, or where I started or finished them in another calendar year. Some games I also played more than once, but they are listed in the order I first played them starting last year.

1. F.E.A.R. Platinum Collection (WINE)
2. F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin (WINE)
3. BloodCM (Source Port)
4. Hard West Collector's Pack (Native)
5. The Original Strife: Veteran Edition (Native)
6. Blood II: The Blood Group (WINE)
7. Cryptic Passage (DOSBox)
8. SiN Gold (WINE)
9. Hotline Miami (Native)
10. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (Native)
11. Ziggurat (Native)
12. FTL: Faster Than Light (Native)
13. Red Faction (WINE)
14. Chaser (WINE)
15. Doom 3: The Lost Mission (Source Port)
16. Doom 3 (Source Port)
17. Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil (Source Port)
18. Wanton Destruction (DOSBox)
18. Halo: Combat Evolved (Xbox)
19. Max Payne (Xbox)
20. Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (WINE)
21. Brütal Legend (Native)
22. Quake 4 (Native)

For clarity I started the year by finishing the bonus campaign of Shadowrun: Hong Kong Extended Edition (Native), and ended it by trying to win every campaign included in Age of Empires II: Gold Edition (WINE). I also got quite far into Torchlight II (Native) until sheer boredom felled me.

Feel free to post your own list, and of course you are not bound by my rules. :)
GustyGhost 24 Jan 2018
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Absolutely haram
Hamish 24 Jan 2018
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Quoting: GustyGhostAbsolutely haram
Yeah, I know, but the system was only $30 CDN from a thrift store. ;)

The only people who got any money from it was Value Village.
FredO 24 Jan 2018
Well, you got me interested to see what I actually completed in 2017. I felt like I ended the year with a ton of "work in progress" games on my list, but it turns out I did complete a bit after all. I only played Linux Native games this year, and got hooked for months on Total War: Warhammer:

1. Total War:Attila: Himyar Campaign
2. The Whispered World Special Edition
3. Fire
4. Grim Fandango Remastered
5. Hitman GO: Definitive Edition
6. Full Throttle Remasterd
7. The Journey Down Chapters 1,2,3
8. SteamWorld Dig 2
9. Total War: Warhammer: Dwarfs Campaign
10. Total War: Warhammer: Greenskins Campaign
11. Total War: Warhammer: Empire Campaign
12. Total War: Warhammer: Beastmen Campaigns
13. Total War: Warhammer: Norsca Campaign
14. Hitman
15. Dreamfall Chapters
16. Layers of Fear
damarrin 24 Jan 2018
I'd post my list (16 games), but not a single one of these was played on Linux. :-( These days, I only buy Linux games to show my support, not to play them. I mostly play on portable devices (PSVita/3DS) and some on the big TV (PS3/4). I don't sit down at the computer to play any more at all.

I was looking at Iconoclasts on the main page earlier today and wanted to get it... but to actually play it, I'd need to get it on Vita again. Bah.
tuubi 24 Jan 2018
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Quoting: damarrinI don't sit down at the computer to play any more at all.
Neither do I, and I play all my games on Linux. ;)
damarrin 24 Jan 2018
Quoting: tuubi
Quoting: damarrinI don't sit down at the computer to play any more at all.
Neither do I, and I play all my games on Linux. ;)
Heh, you are obviously right. Unfortunately for me, I don't have the space to connect a gaming computer to the TV. And don't talk to me about Steam Link, it's far too much hassle and way too unreliable for me to seriously consider using it.
jens 24 Jan 2018
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Deus Ex MD System Rift (DLC) & A Criminal Past (DLC)
Civilization VI
Dirt Rally
Hitman
Micro Machines
Thimbleweed Park
F1 2017
Hitman Patient Zero (DLC)

Time was limited, I guess the only games where I spend more than 20 hours are Hitman and Thimbleweed Park. I've bought some more for my backlog though like Observer, Everspace and Arma3. F1 session is about to start, time to practice Melbourne Circuit :)
tonR 24 Jan 2018
All games I play are native as I do not have Windows (work laptop doesn't count).

Paid games I play(ed) in 2017 not sequentially:

1. Hidden Folks (Only game release 2017 I play)
2. Euro Truck Simulator 2
3. Little Racers STREET
4. CS:1.6/CS:GO ("Old cyber cafe buddies in school year" reunion)
5. Motorsport Manager
6. Stardew Valley
7. Constructor-Simulator 2015 (My Nephew favorite game to smash my keyboard)
8. All Saints Row series "re-play" (obviously except SR1)
9. All Teddy Floppy Ear series (niblings favourite games)

Open Source games I play(ed) in 2017 not sequentially:

1. TORCS ([Link](http://torcs.sourceforge.net/))
2. Simutrans
3. KNaval Battle
4. Mastermind
5. Quadrapassel (If I really bored, [Link](https://github.com/GNOME/quadrapassel))
6. Kolf
crt0mega 25 Jan 2018
I didn't have much time last year and I suspect it won't be much better in 2018 :'( So the only games I've played through finished in 2017 were:

  • Aliens: Colonial Marines

  • Baldur's Gate SoD

  • Dead Effect

  • Deus Ex: Human Revolution

  • Deus Ex: The Fall

  • Dishonored

  • Divinity: Original Sin

  • Shadowrun Returns

  • Sword Coast Legends


Perhaps I missed some smaller game from GOG or Humble, IDK.
Guppy 25 Jan 2018
  • Minecraft (Bedrock Edition, Played alternatingly on Linux and Android)
  • Hitman? - that was this year right?


I knew my kids played more than me this past year but that list is almost shamefull, making it worse I've put maybe 5 hours into hitman and about half the time I spendt playing playing Minecraft was working on smoothing out dependencies and buildprocedures for the mcpelauncher-linux / server... but hey I can now automatically make .deb files for all the 2-3 people that wants that xD
razing32 25 Jan 2018
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Now that I think about it , I forgot most of what I played in 2017. :(

Deus Ex : Mankind Divided
Pillars of Eternity
West of Loathing
Hearts of Iron 4
Dungeons 2
Warhammer 40k Dawn of War 3
Hamish 25 Jan 2018
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Quoting: GuppyI knew my kids played more than me this past year but that list is almost shamefull
I wonder what the average age of someone posting on GOL is. Everyone seems awfully mature. ;)
g000h 25 Jan 2018
My list for 2017 goes like this:

1. 7 Days To Die
2. RUST
3. Dungeon Warfare
4. Dungeon Rushers (very grindy, don't recommend)
5. Crypt of the Necrodancer
6. Sky Force: Anniversary
7. Sky Force: Reloaded
8. FTL
9. Tomb Raider
10. Rezrog
11. HITMAN
12. Serious Sam Fusion (1, 2, 3 BFE)
13. This War of Mine
14. Planet Nomads
15. Iron Snout (free on Steam)
16. Metro 2033 Redux
17. Diamo XL
18. Ziggurat
19. Xonotic (free game)
20. Valley
21. Everspace
...

The time goes from about 300 hours in 7D2D to about 17 hours in Tomb Raider... and then diminishes from there.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if I spend more time looking for game bargains than playing (doh).
Today I hit 1300 titles on Steam (763 Linux ones = 58.6%)

One more thing to mention... Even though I've got loads of Windows games (many acquired through bundles) I don't think I've booted up to Windows in 12 months to play any of them. (The previous year I did play some DOOM and Watch Dogs 2 on Windows.)
robvv 26 Jan 2018
Quoting: Hamish
Quoting: GuppyI knew my kids played more than me this past year but that list is almost shamefull
I wonder what the average age of someone posting on GOL is. Everyone seems awfully mature. ;)
Ahem... 44 here :-)

I started on the ZX81 and then BBC Micro!
Salamander 5 Feb 2018
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It was a good year of gaming. I tried so many games like:
XCOM 2 -- with Shen's Last Gift
Lure of the Temptress -- with walkthrough
The Blackwell Legacy (PC)
Blackwell Unbound (PC)
Blackwell Convergence (PC)
The Blackwell Epiphany
But if to speak about games in real life then the best was the "Aztecs" [adventure escape room](https://thequestfactory.com/escape-rooms/aztecs/) last summer in LA . We spent about an hour to get out of the room. I didn't mention that it was a horror and really scary one. It was my 1st experience and it was a blast. It's much better than PC games 'cause the emotions are real.
damarrin 5 Feb 2018
I remember getting Lure of the Temptress back when it was released and I was able to get absolutely nowhere. I think I got to the end... using a walkthrough every step of the way.
Hamish 1 Jan 2019
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A smaller list for me in 2018, but then I started on several large CRPGs last spring:

1. Age of Empires II: Gold Edition (WINE)
2. Star Wars: Republic Commando (WINE)
3. FTL: Advanced Edition (Native)
4. Prey (Native)
5. Torchlight II (Native
6. Ion Maiden Preview Campaign (Native)
7. Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition (Native)
8. Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear (Native)
9. Shogo: Mobile Armour Division (WINE)
10. Unreal Gold (WINE)
11. BioShock (WINE)
12. Trine: Enchanted Edition (Native)
13. Trine 2: Complete Story (Native)
14. Soldier of Fortune: Platinum Edition (WINE)

Currently Playing: Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition (Native) and Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix - Gold Edition (WINE)
Hamish 2 Jan 2019
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The UT99 Linux binary just gives a Segmentation fault on modern versions of MESA:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108933

It was far easier for me to just get the GOG.com installer for Unreal Gold working through WINE I am sorry to say.
14 3 Jan 2019
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The Witcher 3 was most obviously the crown of the year, or perhaps every game I've ever played. I played it on PS4 and have no regrets. The rest of the list was played on Linux.

From least recent to most recent:

1. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition PS4
2. A Bird Story
3. Spec Ops: The Line
4. SUPERHOT
5. Shadwen
6. AntVentor
7. We Were Here

I'm currently working on Shadowrun: Dragonfall and will either play Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest or Horizon: Zero Dawn after that.
walther von stolzing 3 Jan 2019
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Deus Ex Mankind Divided was the highlight of the year for me -- though I have to confess, that after a couple of hours with the OpenGL native port, I installed it on my windoze partition and contined from there. I'm sorry that I did this, though the difference in performance was like night & day. (By the way, the dx12 implementation in that game is totally broken; and I'm curious how dx11+dxvk would stack up against the native port.)

... also, Fallout 1, on wine. Really glad that I finally came around to playing this.

Other than that I believe I've wasted most of my time on gnome minesweeper, and NES Tetris (fceux).
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