What have you ACTUALLY played tracker - Modern Edition (2020)

[+wongojack]

7 hours ago, Eltigro said:

My modern gaming for the week...

 

Wii

Legend of Zelda:  Twilight Princess - 445 min (Just finished up Death Mountain dungeon.  Was a bit frustrated at one point where I'm supposed to be fighting things on my horse.  I remember that being one of the worst parts of the game, though.  I never was that good at it, but finally got through that part.  Pretty sure there's more of that coming up, though.  Need a bigger wallet because I stay pretty close to maxed out on rupees and it's annoying to find a 50 rupee chest and can't hold it.)

Except of course that there is almost nothing useful to buy in that game.

[Skippy B. Coyote]

It was quite a big week for gaming in my household this past week week, mostly on account of two new games I had been really looking forward to (so much so that I pre-ordered them) coming out on the Switch. The first was Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour, which was just absofreakinlutely fantastic and well worth the $5. It's a brilliant port of the original Duke Nukem 3D with the option to play with the original graphics or very nicely updated "True 3D" remastering, brand new levels from the original level designers, new dialog from the original Duke Nukem voice actor, and some excellently implemented new features like motion controls and HD rumble. Basically, if you liked Duke Nukem 3D back in the day and you own a Nintendo Switch today then Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour is a definite must-buy game! 

 

The other new game I was looking forward to that came out this week was... not so good. Blair Witch dropped on the Switch eShop this past Thursday, and being a big fan of horror games I was super excited to check it out. After playing through the game from start to finish in one long 9 hour sitting, and I can safely say that it was not at all worth the $30 price tag. The premise of being stranded alone in the spooky woods with no one but your faithful German Shepherd for company was pretty cool and the dog was the definitely the star of the game, but the gameplay (which largely involves wandering aimlessly through the woods until you find that one place the game wants you to go at any given time) was rather boring and many of the puzzles were just plain obtuse. Combine that with a lackluster story that spends hours harping on the same couple plot points as if you didn't understand them the first dozen times the game alluded to them and an extremely unsatisfying ending, and... well, I can't recommend Blair Witch. If you want a good horror experience on the Switch then go play Alien: Isolation, Outlast, Darkwood, Resident Evil or Resident Evil 4 instead and give Blair Witch a pass.

 

On the more retro side of things, for the first time this past week I finally beat Lethal Enforcers on the Genesis! Lethal Enforcers is by far my favorite light gun game of  the 16-bit era so it was super satisfying to finally complete it, and with that win under my belt I decided to take a crack at Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters while I was at it. There's no doubt that Lethal Enforcers II is an awesome game, but holy heck is it hard compared to the original! Even on the Easy difficulty this game just kicks my butt, and while (after many attempts) I was able to make it to the final boss once I'm not sure it was really meant to be beaten in single player mode. I may have to recruit a friend for help if I ever want to beat this one

 

The only other retro gaming topic of interest this past week is that I made a rather cool discovery regarding the hilariously wonderful FMV light gun game Crime Patrol for the Sega CD. I always thought you needed an ultra rare (and ultra flakey) proprietary American Laser Games light gun for this game unless you wanted to play with the joypad, but it turns out that it's also compatible with the Konami Justifier! The gameplay may not be anywhere near as good as Lethal Enforcers, mostly on account of sketchy hit detection, but the acting in the game is some of the most over-the-top comedy gold I've ever seen in a video game so definitely give it a try if you get the chance. 

 

That's all for this week!

 

 

 

 

Ineligible

Cosmic Commuter (Atari 2600) - 8 minutes

Crime Patrol (Sega CD) - 14 minutes

Lethal Enforcers (Sega Genesis) - 80 minutes

Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters (Sega Genesis) - 173 minutes

 

Nintendo Switch

Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 570 minutes

Blair Witch - 555 minutes

Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour - 760 minutes

Monopoly - 60 minutes

 

 

Total Video Game Play Time This Week

2,220 minutes (37 hours even!) [1,945 minutes eligible]

 

Individual System Play Times This Week

Nintendo Switch: 1,945 minutes

Sega Genesis: 253 minutes

Sega CD: 14 minutes

Atari 2600: 8 minutes

[Agamon]

PS4

The Last of Us Part II (694 min)

The Last of Us Remastered (801 min)

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception Remastered (48 min)

 

Oculus Quest

Beat Saber (405 min)

BoxVR (52 min)

 

So, I finished TLOU2 on Wednesday. What an amazing experience. I've had a hard time articulating how much I enjoyed this game, but when I wasn't playing it, I was thinking about it. And when I finished it, I continued to think about it. Then I tried playing another Naughty Dog game, Uncharted 3, and I just couldn't get into it, because I was still thinking about TLOU2...so, I decided to replay the first TLOU New Game +, which I kinda wanted to do before playing the new game, but forgot. Finished that and the Left Behind DLC, and now this evening I started a new NG+ run of TLOU2. Hopefully by the end of that, I'll be able to focus on something new....

 

Also, I picked up BoxVR this weekend to supplement my BS VR gaming. And I'm very sore today, lol.  It's a pretty good workout of muscles I don't use a lot.

[carlsson]

Week  26

 

Top games

 

1. Call of Duty Modern Warfare (Xbox One) - 1077 min. (#1)
2. Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Xbox One) - 826 min.
3. Last of Us Remastered, The (PS4) - 801 min.
4. Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour (Switch) - 760 min.
5. Last of Us Part II, The (PS4) - 694 min. (#2)
6. Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) - 570 min. (#7)
7. Blair Witch (Switch) - 555 min.
8. Re-Volt GL (PC) - 492 min.
9. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The (Wii) - 445 min. (#10)
10. Beat Saber (Oculus Quest) - 405 min. (#5)
 

Top systems

 

1. Xbox One - 2226 min. (#1)
2. Switch - 1945 min. (#2)
3. PS4 - 1681 min. (#3)
4. PC - 521 min. (#4)
5. Oculus Quest - 457 min. (#5)
6. Wii - 445 min. (#7)
7. Wii U - 203 min.
8. iOS - 179 min. (#8)

 

Total 7657 minutes and 21 different games on 8 different systems.

 

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare holds 1st place for another week, with Shadow of the Tomb Raider in second place. Systems wise, the top 5 maintain their positions from last week, with Xbox One in top.

 

Some mid-season stats will come later.

 

If you forgot to post, add your times below and I'll include them for next week.

[carlsson]

Here are the mid-season stats for the modern tracker, with some references to the previous year.

 

In the first half of 2020, we've played 227,403 min (30% of all-time) and 235 games (28% of all games) on 19 systems.

 

It can be compared to the first half of 2019, when we played 159,690 min (45%) and 184 games (35%) on 22 systems.

 

PUBG which used to be the dominant #1, is now down to fourth place. Instead we now has a new superior leader for this year in Animal Crossing, though it has slowed down a bit lately.

 

On the systems list, the Oculus Quest is a strong newcomer in 4th place. There also was a case of a "Revolution" handheld system that for most appears to have been an elaborate joke, but I've left it in the tracker just in case it was genuine.

 

Top 100 games so far in 2020

1. Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) - 27435 min.
2. Call of Duty Modern Warfare (Xbox One) - 18173 min.
3. Beat Saber (Oculus Quest) - 12176 min.
4. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (Xbox One) - 10164 min. (#1)
5. Torchlight 2 (Switch) - 6216 min.
6. Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Xbox One) - 5412 min.
7. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Xbox One) - 5099 min.
8. Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (Switch) - 4946 min.
9. Microsoft Solitaire Collection (iOS) - 4849 min.
10. Forza Horizon 4 (Xbox One) - 4294 min. (#50)
11. Fallout New Vegas (Xbox 360) - 4130 min.
12. Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Switch) - 3921 min.
13. Slay the Spire (PC) - 3676 min.
14. Borderlands 3 (Xbox One) - 3085 min.
15. Cities: Skylines (PC) - 2759 min.
16. Alien: Isolation (Switch) - 2715 min.
17. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX (Switch) - 2625 min.
18. Overcooked II (Xbox One) - 2583 min. (#61)
19. Tabletopia (PC) - 2582 min.
20. Civilization VI (PC) - 2380 min. (#11)
21. Lord of the Rings Adventure Card Game (PC) - 2358 min.
22. Persona 5 (PS4) - 2221 min.
23. Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch) - 2150 min. (#2)
24. Batman: Arkham Knight (Xbox One) - 2109 min.
25. Moonlighter (Switch) - 2068 min.
26. Witcher 3: Definitive Edition (Switch) - 1928 min.
27. Human Resource Machine (PC) - 1915 min.
28. Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon EVERY BUDDY! (Switch) - 1865 min.
29. RBI Baseball 20 (Xbox One) - 1809 min.
30. Black Baseball League (Revolution [Black handheld]) - 1800 min.
31. Microsoft Sudoku (iOS) - 1694 min.
32. Mahjong Titans (PC) - 1675 min.
33. Last of Us Part II, The (PS4) - 1611 min.
34. DOOM (2016 reboot) (Switch) - 1605 min. (#10)
35. Celeste (Xbox One) - 1564 min. (#97)
36. ARK: Survival Evolved (PC) - 1544 min.
37. DOOM (2016 reboot) (Xbox One) - 1541 min.
38. Funny Pizza (Browser based) - 1412 min.
39. Starlink: Battle for Atlas (Switch) - 1405 min.
40. Streets of Rage 4 (Switch) - 1358 min.
41. Darkest Dungeon (PC) - 1353 min.
42. Star Wars: Fallen Order (PS4) - 1350 min.
43. Doom Classic I (Remastered / SIGIL) (Switch) - 1330 min.
44. Blood Bowl 2 (PC) - 1271 min.
45. Old World (PC) - 1248 min.
46. NBA 2K20 (Xbox One) - 1220 min.
47. Octopath Traveller (Switch) - 1192 min. (#5)
48. Bioshock Infinite (Xbox 360) - 1189 min.
49. Outer Worlds, The (Xbox One) - 1161 min.
50. Slay the Spire (Xbox One) - 1133 min.
51. Final Doom (Switch) - 1110 min.
52. Astrobot Rescue Mission (VR) (PS4) - 1086 min.
53. Dragon Age Origins (PS3) - 1078 min.
54. Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Switch) - 1068 min.
55. Torchlight (Xbox 360) - 1061 min.
56. Lord of the Rings Adventure Card Game (Xbox One) - 1049 min.
57. Rare Replay (Xbox One) - 1042 min.
58. Monopoly (Switch) - 985 min.
59. Doom 64 (Switch) - 970 min.
60. Star Wars Battlefront II (Xbox One) - 948 min.
61. Flame in the Flood, The (Xbox One) - 937 min.
62. State of Decay 2 (Xbox One) - 932 min.
63. Detroit: Become Human (PS4) - 900 min.
64. Retro Bowl (iOS) - 890 min.
65. River City Girls (Switch) - 868 min.
66. Doom Classic II (Remastered / No Rest for the Living) (Switch) - 859 min.
67. Sonic Mania Plus (PS4) - 840 min.
68. Lego: Jurassic World (Switch) - 833 min.
69. Last of Us Remastered, The (PS4) - 801 min.
70. Thimbleweed Park (PC) - 781 min.
71. Taiko no Tatsujin (Switch) - 780 min.
72. Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour (Switch) - 760 min.
73. Resident Evil [HD Remaster based on GameCube ver] (Switch) - 700 min.
74. Diablo III (PS3) - 660 min.
75. Talos Principle, The (Xbox One) - 655 min.
76. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The (Wii) - 637 min.
77. Bubble Bobble 4 Friends (Switch) - 629 min.
78. Ninja Baseball Bat Man 2 (Revolution [Black handheld]) - 600 min.
79. New Super Lucky's Tale (Switch) - 590 min.
80. Armor Alley (DOS web remake) (Browser based) - 580 min.
81. Blair Witch (Switch) - 555 min.
82. Halo 3 (Xbox 360) - 543 min.
83. Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series (PC) - 530 min.
84. No Man's Sky (PC) - 500 min.
85. Re-Volt GL (PC) - 492 min.
86. Super Mario 3D World (Wii U) - 486 min.
87. Amnesia: The Dark Descent (Switch) - 465 min.
88. Yoku's Island Express (Xbox One) - 462 min.
89. Shenmue III (PS4) - 460 min.
90. Momodora: Reverie under the Moonlight (Switch) - 451 min.
91. Amneais: A Machine for Pigs (Switch) - 445 min.
92. Super Mario 64 (compiled from N64 sources) (PC) - 435 min.
93. Children of Morta (Xbox One) - 426 min.
94. Doom: Double Impact (Classic expansion) (Switch) - 420 min.
94. Golf With Your Friends (Xbox One) - 420 min.
94. Injustice 2 (PS4) - 420 min.
94. Last of Us, The (PS3) - 420 min.
98. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 (Xbox 360) - 419 min.
99. Gears 5 (Xbox One) - 397 min.
100. Jackbox Party Pack Vol. 6 (PC) - 377 min.

 

Top systems in 2020

1. Switch - 77460 min. (#1)
2. Xbox One - 70535 min. (#2)
3. PC - 29523 min. (#3)
4. Oculus Quest - 12477 min.
5. PS4 - 11022 min. (#6)
6. Xbox 360 - 8257 min. (#8)
7. iOS - 7433 min.
8. Revolution [Black handheld] - 2700 min.
9. PS3 - 2549 min. (#19)
10. Browser based - 2109 min. (#16)
11. Wii - 1200 min. (#11)
12. Wii U - 1135 min.
13. Gamecube - 376 min. (#9)
14. Android Phone - 251 min. (#21)
15. PS2 - 190 min. (#4)
16. DS - 75 min. (#10)
17. Arcade - 65 min. (#17)
18. Dedicated Handheld - 26 min. (#15)
19. GBA - 20 min. (#7)

 

Edited June 30, 2020 by carlsson

[+wongojack]

PC

Re-Volt GL 685

 

PS4

Moss 189

Resident Evil VII 59

 

WiiU

Zelda Breath of the Wild 346

 

X360

Jetpack Refueled 16

 

XOne

Oxenfree 47

Rocket League 406

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 407

 

 

I spent a lot of time this week driving little cars in video games.  I spent time early in the week playing Re-Volt GL and then decided it was finally time to try Rocket League.  I don't really enjoy games that are focused mostly on multiplayer, so I doubt I'll put much more time into Rocket League, but I've got some tasks left to complete and some races still to win in Re-Volt.  Besides driving little cars around, I actually had quite a bit of other variety:  

 

Moss was excellent but short 

RE VII started out fun  

BotW is as impressive as everyone says

 

I finished Oxenfree and Shadow of the TR.  I wrote a little blurb about Oxenfree in the Modern Games Beaten thread.  Not a great experience for me, but there were some positives in there.  Shadow of the TR on the other hand was very satisfying.  I think I understand some of the criticism that game gets, but it had the best story of any of the three recent TR editions, and they really upped the effort on the challenge tombs and crypts which was very welcome.

 

 

[StormSurge]

Xbox One

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: 994 minutes

RBI Baseball 20: 119 minutes

 

iOS

Microsoft Solitaire Collection: 93 minutes

[Eltigro]

Modern Times

 

Wii

Twilight Princess - 862 min (Played quite a bit more this week.  Got to the point where I can change into the wolf whenever and warp, so wandered more picking up random heart pieces and Poe souls and such.)

 

DS (times approximate)

AlphaBounce - 60 min (This is a breakout style game, which is great for the DS because you control it with the stylus.  You can get different upgrades such as a way to shoot blocks and things.  Some of the blocks shoot back at you, increasing the difficulty on some screens to a sometimes frustrating degree.  Some blocks will release powerups that come down... some are beneficial and some are not.  Don't know if you can still download it or anything, but it's pretty good as far as breakout style games go.)

Mario Kart DS - 20 min (Tried for a little bit to work on the 150cc class races, but I'm so out of practice I never got above 4th place.)

Plants vs Zombies - 120 (Remember this one?  I played for a bit on an old game save, but then deleted it and started a new one.  I don't know that I have the patience to go all the way and beat it like I did on the XBox 360 back in the day, but it's definitely a fun game for a couple hours.)

[Skippy B. Coyote]

It's been an awful long time since the Atari 2600 was the top system in my household for a week, but we played kind of a ton of a Atari this week! The Atari 2600 High Score Club has really got me feeling enthused about playing Atari again lately, so on top of the HSC games for this round I also went back and revisited a bunch of my old favorites. I played a fair bit of Commando Raid, Millipede and Missile Command TB, Ms. Pac-Man, Pitfall II, and Road Runner; and the spousal unit joined in as well and logged a good chunk of time in some of her Atari favorites with Adventure, Dig Dug, Frogger, and Missile Command. The Atari 2600 really was a remarkable system for it's time, and it's still just as fun to play today.

 

 

Ineligible

Adventure (Atari 2600) - 38 minutes

Checkers (Atari 2600, Activision) - 95 minutes

Commando Raid (Atari 2600) - 24 minutes

Dig Dug (Atari 2600) - 22 minutes

Frogger (Atari 2600) - 33 minutes

Frogs and Flies (Atari 2600) - 96 minutes

Kool-Aid Man (Atari 2600) - 80 minutes

Lethal Enforcers (Sega Genesis) - 107 minutes

Millipede Trak-Ball (Atari 2600) - 20 minutes

Missile Command (Atari 2600) - 51 minutes

Missile Command Trak-Ball (Atari 2600) - 68 minutes

Mortal Kombat (Sega Genesis) - 30 minutes

Ms. Pac-Man (Atari 2600) - 40 minutes

Picnic (Atari 2600) - 49 minutes

Pitfall II: Lost Caverns (Atari 2600) - 23 minutes

Road Runner (Atari 2600) - 47 minutes

 

Nintendo Switch

Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 435 minutes

Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour - 240 minutes

 

 

Total Video Game Play Time This Week

1,498 minutes (24 hours 58 minutes) [686 minutes eligible]

 

Individual System Play Times This Week

Atari 2600: 686 minutes

Nintendo Switch: 675 minutes

Sega Genesis: 137 minutes

[Agamon]

PS4

The Last of Us Part II (1047 min)

 

PC

Terraforming Mars (214 min)

 

Oculus Quest

Beat Saber (284 min)

BoxVR (150 min)

 

About halfway on my NG+ game of TLOU2, and I'm playing on a higher difficulty, which means more dying, and I'm taking my time to take in the scenery and try to find all the notes, safes, cards and other collectibles, they did a good job giving the collectibles some narrative value. And I thought playing again that the story wouldn't have the same punch, but the lack of surprise is replaced by expectant dread, which I think is worse, lol. And regardless, the gameplay is still super-tense.

 

Played Terraforming Mars with friends on Sunday, which was fun, but we didn't quite get to finish as we ran out of time; one player was unfamiliar with the board game and all of were new to the video game version interface. Next game should go more quickly.

[carlsson]

Week  27

 

Top games

 

1. Last of Us Part II, The (PS4) - 1047 min. (#5)
2. Call of Duty Modern Warfare (Xbox One) - 994 min. (#1)
3. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The (Wii) - 862 min. (#9)
4. Re-Volt GL (PC) - 685 min. (#8)
5. Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) - 435 min. (#6)
6. Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Xbox One) - 407 min. (#2)
7. Rocket League (Xbox One) - 406 min.
8. Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Wii U) - 346 min.
9. Beat Saber (Oculus Quest) - 284 min. (#10)
10. Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour (Switch) - 240 min. (#4)
 

Top systems

 

1. Xbox One - 1973 min. (#1)
2. PS4 - 1295 min. (#3)
3. PC - 899 min. (#4)
4. Wii - 862 min. (#6)
5. Switch - 675 min. (#2)
6. Oculus Quest - 434 min. (#5)
7. Wii U - 346 min. (#7)
8. DS - 200 min.
9. iOS - 93 min. (#8)
10. Xbox 360 - 16 min.

 

Total 6793 minutes and 21 different games on 10 different systems.

 

The Last of Us Part II becomes #1 this week by a margin of a mere 53 minutes over Call of Duty Modern Warfare. It also brings the PS4 into second place on the systems list, though the Xbox One has 11 hours margin for first place.

 

This week the modern tracker also exceeds 750,000 minutes since the beginning. Perhaps it won't quite make 1 million by the end of the year but it will certainly be very close. Of course with a few more participants, everything is possible.

[StormSurge]

Thanks again @carlsson!

[moycon]

Been crazy busy fixing up my house after a huge tree fell on it, then selling said house and moving to our cabin in the North GA mountains. Internet here sucks (5mbs) so I can no longer game online, and I've been setting up, fixing up our property here so I haven't been gaming much the entire year this in spite of the fact I'm no longer working.  All that said I have manage to play some games from time to time. Mainly Borderland 3 (The new DLC they just released) and a game I bought off my Amazon wish list a few weeks back called Pillars of Eternity.  I think it was a Kickstarter project that eventually got released at retail. Its pretty cool if you're a fan of old school RPGs. I'm hoping one day to not be so bust so I can really dive into my "to play" pile which is beyond HUGE.

[Skippy B. Coyote]

There was a little less time logged in my household this week than last week, but the overall theme was about the same: A couple Switch games and a nice assortment of Atari 2600 titles. This week I finally finished Duke Nukem 3D on the Switch, though I may play through it again in the not too distant future since I know I missed a bunch of secret levels, then spent the rest of the week playing Atari. Every game on the 2600 that I played in this week the misses joined in on and played too, and it was a lot of fun all around with a bunch of new household high score records set in Missile Command, River Raid, and Space Rocks to boot. All in all, a solid week for gaming!

 

 

Ineligible (All Atari 2600)

Adventure - 30 minutes

Breakout - 41 minutes

Dungeon - 54 minutes

Missile Command - 16 minutes

Missile Command Trak-Ball - 27 minutes

New Pac-Man (8k Version) - 41 minutes

River Raid - 213 minutes

Space Rocks - 40 minutes

 

Nintendo Switch

Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 400 minutes

Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour - 265 minutes

 

 

Total Video Game Play Time This Week

1,127 minutes (18 hours 47 minutes) [665 minutes eligible]

 

Individual System Play Times This Week

Nintendo Switch: 665 minutes

Atari 2600: 462 minutes

[StormSurge]

Xbox One

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: 1,440 minutes

Lego Jurassic World: 33 minutes

 

iOS

Microsoft Solitaire Collection: 89 minutes

 

I logged a few more hours in CoD this week. I'm firmly entrenched in the camo grind. Kind of like achievement hunting, but without the sweet sound of an achievement unlocking.

 

Each weapon in the game has challenges associated with them. Meet the requirements of each each challenge & you'll unlock a new camouflage for the weapon. There are ten different categories for each weapon (with 10 different camos in each category), ranging from total kills with that weapon to kills shortly after reloading and everything in between. The categories are not all available right away. First you have to reach the maximum level for each weapon by basically using it.

 

Once every camo is unlocked for the weapon, the gold camo is unlocked. Unlock gold camos for every weapon in a class (pistols, launchers, submachine guns, etc.), you'll unlock a platinum camo for that class. Unlock gold for every weapon in the game, the Damascus camo is unlocked. That's my goal.

 

Like achievement hunting, this gives me something different to focus on besides playing the game, which admittedly can get old fast, especially on nights when I'm not playing well. This is making the game much more interesting for me. Plus one of my buddies I play with is doing the same thing, so we compare progress all the time.

 

I've unlocked platinum for SMGs, LMGs & shotguns and am currently working on ARs (76.65% complete) and dabbling with pistols & launchers. I'm dreading the upcoming marksmen & sniper rifle ones, as that is NOT a strength of mine (I'm not even sure I have a strength in this game). I'm REALLY dreading the melee weapons (knife & riot shield), although I think I may end up enjoying using those.

 

You guys probably didn't want to read that, but I wanted to give a little insight into my current gaming goals. I'll spare you the tracking spreadsheets. ?

[Eltigro]

More Twilight Princess...

 

Wii

Legend of Zelda:  Twilight Princess - 881 min (Finished this one up this week.  Second (?) time I've beaten it.  Still no 100%.  Missing a few heart pieces somewhere and didn't do the Cave of Trials or whatever.  Also didn't get all the Poe Souls to turn in to some guy.  There's 60 of them and I think I got to around 56.  Anyway, still a fun game I think.  Only hard part was the horseback combat, which I remember having trouble with back in the day, too.)

[+wongojack]

PC 

Re-Volt GL 272 

 

PS4 

Resident Evil VII 115 

 

WiiU 

Zelda Breath of the Wild 128 

 

X360 

Jetpack Refuelled 90 

 

XOne 

Moving Out 32

[Agamon]

PS4

The Last of Us Part II (799 min)

 

PC

Terraforming Mars (251 min)

 

XB1

Soul Calibur VI (27 min)

 

Oculus Quest

Beat Saber (383 min)

BoxVR (65 min)

 

A lot like last week.  TLOU2 NG+ game is nearing the end. I'll probably go back to chapters where I missed a few collectibles to get the platinum trophy since I'm pretty close when it's over. And even though I've done two complete playthroughs, I'm looking forward to it. The gameplay is just so satisfying and intense.

 

Won the game of Terraforming Mars that I played with a couple of friends on Friday. Was going to play SC6 with my brother, my that got sidelined, so the few minutes I played to learn the controls and mess around with the character creator is all I have this week.

[carlsson]

Week  28

 

Top games

 

1. Call of Duty Modern Warfare (Xbox One) - 1440 min. (#2)
2. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The (Wii) - 881 min. (#3)
3. Last of Us Part II, The (PS4) - 799 min. (#1)
4. Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) - 400 min. (#5)
5. Beat Saber (Oculus Quest) - 383 min. (#9)
6. Re-Volt GL (PC) - 272 min. (#4)
7. Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour (Switch) - 265 min. (#10)
8. Terraforming Mars (PC) - 251 min.
9. Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Wii U) - 128 min. (#8)
10. Resident Evil VII (PS4) - 115 min.
 

Top systems

 

1. Xbox One - 1532 min. (#1)
2. PS4 - 914 min. (#2)
3. Wii - 881 min. (#4)
4. Switch - 665 min. (#5)
5. PC - 523 min. (#3)
6. Oculus Quest - 448 min. (#6)
7. Wii U - 128 min. (#7)
8. Xbox 360 - 90 min. (#10)
9. iOS - 89 min. (#9)

 

Total 5270 minutes and 16 different games on 9 different systems.

 

Call of Duty Modern Warfare returns to #1 place with a somewhat close battle for positions #2 - #3. COD also secures the Xbox One as the #1 system, again with a close battle for positions #2 - #3 (does anyone see a pattern here?). Overall this was the second lowest turnout in number of minutes this year, perhaps it is due to vacation time?

[+davidcalgary29]

Vita:

 

TxK, 45 min

 

and okay, I'm going to add in the kids' times, since they're playing the Vita more than I am these days:

 

Minecraft, 332 min

[StormSurge]

Xbox One

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: 1,803 minutes

Lego Jurassic World: 27 minutes

 

iOS

Microsoft Solitaire Collection: 100 minutes

 

The Damascus grind continues in MW. There was double weapon XP over the weekend, so my buddy tried to take advantage of that, so we played a few more hours than normal.

 

[+wongojack]

PS4 

Resident Evil VII 124 

 

WiiU 

Super Mario 3d World 47 

 

X360 

Jetpac Refuelled 29 

Portal 53 

Team Fortress II 3 

 

XOne 

Jackbox Party Pack 3 60 

Minecraft 267 

Minecraft: Xbox One Edition 232 

Minecraft Dungeons 485 

Pac Man CE II 51 

Totally Reliable Delivery Service 114

 

I discovered something VERY strange this weekend which is that my physical copy of Minecraft for Xbox One (called the Xbox One edition) is not the same as the more recent digital edition.  There are a lot of differences and apparently cross-play between the two is not supported.  That's weird.  In this day and age why isn't there some patch that simply updates my version to the latest?  I do have access to the most recent version through GamePass, so I can play the other one too (with my niece and nephew), but I was just floored when I found out they were different games.  The funny thing is that I just haven't played Minecraft very much, so I actually found the older version a bit more friendly for a sophomore.  It had extensive tutorials and in-game messages about the items and blocks.

[Skippy B. Coyote]

A pretty typical week for gaming around here this past week without a whole lot to report on. I just continued my usual routine in Animal Crossing, played a bit of Atari 2600 for the High Score Club, then—not being sure exactly what to play—decided to do a run through of Doom 3 on the Switch since it's one of those games I try to play once a year every year. For the spousal unit's gaming time she just played a little River Raid with me then put a bit more time into Wonder Boy in Monster World on the Genesis, which I think she's just about to the end of at this point. 

 

That's all for this week! Thank you as always to Carlsson for continuing to run the trackers, your weekly time and effort keeping this little corner of the community running is always appreciated!

 

 

Ineligible

Death Trap (Atari 2600) - 241 minutes

River Raid (Atari 2600) - 51 minutes

Wonder Boy in Monster World (Sega Genesis) - 80 minutes

 

Nintendo Switch

Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 535 minutes

Doom 3 - 295 minutes

 

 

Total Video Game Play Time This Week

1,202 minutes (20 hours 2 minutes) [830 minutes eligible]

 

Individual System Play Times This Week

Nintendo Switch: 830 minutes

Atari 2600: 292 minutes

Sega Genesis: 80 minutes

[Agamon]

PS4

The Last of Us Part II (204 min)

 

XB1

Human Fall Flat (65 min)

SOULCALIBUR VI (43 min)

Two Point Hospital (2041 min)

 

Oculus Quest

Beat Saber (407 min)

BoxVR (69 min)

 

Decided to not finish the collectibles after finishing my NG+ run on TLOU2, I missed a lot more than I thought. Will play again sometime.

 

Two Point Hospital took over my life this week.  Love my sim games and this is a worthy spiritual successor to Theme Hospital. Also played some Soulcalibur with my brother, as well as another level of HFF.

 

[StormSurge]

Two Point Hospital sounds very interesting. I see it’s on Game Pass, so I will check that out.