2011 – Video Game Retrospective
2011 saw a bunch of pretty major video game releases across many platforms, and, looking back, I had a good amount of time to dabble in a lot of them, but I still don’t feel like I played enough games in 2011.
About a year ago, I outlined the games I was currently playing, and the games I haven’t started yet. Here’s a similar update followed with an update of games that I played through in 2011:
In Progress:
- Super Mario RPG (Wii Virtual Console)
- New Super Mario Bros. (Wii)
- Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo DS)
- Super Mario All-Stars (Wii)
- Super Mario Kart (Wii)
- Punch-out! (Wii)
- Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (Nintendo DS)
- Batman: Arkham City (Xbox360) – Main game finished, now completing side quests
The backlog:
- Assassin’s Creed: Revelations (Xbox360)
- Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii)
- Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Nintendo DS)
- Suikoden Tierkreis (Nintendo DS)
- Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (Nintendo DS)
- Metroid Prime: Trilogy (Wii)
- Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii)
- Suikoden 3 (PS2)
Completed in 2011:
- Gears of War 3 (Xbox360) – but still playing Hardcore coop with Dom
- Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (Xbox360)
- Bulletstorm (Xbox360)
- Mortal Kombat (Xbox360)
- Portal 2 (Xbox360) – but I’d love to go back and complete the coop sometime…
- Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (Xbox360)
There’s one pretty glaring trend: all of the games completed this year were for Xbox360. I pretty much didn’t touch my Nintendo DS, and only started playing Wii again in November, once I realized I might get the new Legend of Zelda game for Christmas.
I’ve actually been spending a lot of time reading books. Most recently, I read a book called “All Your Base Are Belong to Us,” which was a compilation of stories outlining the history of video games. It was a pretty fun book and helped me fill in a few gaps in knowledge of the history.
Anyway, I hope to get through the backlog a bit more in 2012, but I’m sure new games are going to come out and start sucking up my time. I’d love to hear your thoughts on any games that I may have missed in 2011. (I don’t own PS3, so please no PS3 recommendations)
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