Woah!! I completed few games… Thimblweed Park, GTA vice City, PvZ, Transformers… That’s it I suppose… And yeah Distraint too…
I am a noobie
Well, that likely cuts things down by at least 50 %. A typical enough recent example is Gemini Rue, in which I missed a shard of glass (read: 2 pixels), which I looked up in a walkthrough. I finished Zak McKracken without a walkthrough, but modern ScummVM saves might well be considered cheating by '80s people.
I don’t have a list like this. The closest is my GOG “completed” tag, which I’ll copy here (but it doesn’t actually include all games I’ve got on GOG which I’ve completed):
- Zak McKracken
- Loom
- Indiana Jonesⓡ and the Fate of Atlantis™
- Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
- Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within (I think I used a walkthrough to figure out what to do in the final action section)
- The Dig (I think I used a walkthrough for something; don’t recall what, not the bone puzzle though)
- Broken Sword
a. Broken Sword: Director’s Cut - Broken Sword 2
a. Broken Sword 2: Remastered - The Longest Journey (I think I used a walkthrough at least twice, but not for the apparently infamous rubber ducky puzzle)
- Railroad Tycoon 3 (and 2, not on GOG)
- Syberia 2 (and 1)
- Prince of Persia (2008)
- Secret of Monkey Island
a. SE - Monkey Island 2
a. SE - Gemini Rue
- Costume Quest
- The Walking Dead (season 1, 2, Michonne, New Frontier)
- Mark of the Ninja
- Primordia
- Wolf Among Us
- Dreamfall Chapters (and Dreamfall: TLJ, that one not on GOG)
- Technobabylon
- Oxenfree
- Layers of Fear
- Shardlight
- Thimbleweed Park (I used the in-game hints once or twice, basically game mechanics issues)
- Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series
- Gorogoa
- FoxTail (in-dev)
- Chuchel
- Unforeseen Incidents
- Unavowed
- Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
- Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30
- The Blackwell games
Then there are cases like Wolfenstein 3D where I finished one or two episodes, but not the whole game.
Let’s also go through my Steam library:
- Tomb Raider (2013)
- DmC: Devil May Cry
- Grand Theft Auto (or the first city, anyway — also I’ve never tried the Steam version)
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (in full)
- Her Story
- Layers of Fear
- Max Payne
- Probably all of the Total War games up to and including Napoleon, except for Medieval 1
- Rise of the Tomb Raider
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider
- Civilization III
- Tomb Raider I
- At least one out of Tomb Raider: Legend or Underworld
Some of the most enjoyable games obviously missing above:
- Dune
- Dune 2000
- Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Tiberian Sun, RA2; also C&C3, RA3
- Discworld Noir (+Discworld 1 & 2)
- Rollercoaster Tycoon
- Age of Empires (+Rise of Rome, II, Age of Kings, Mythology)
- Entomorph: Plague of the Darkfall
- Warlords II Deluxe
Taking a few entries off @dangerouslee’s list:
- Larry 5
- Warcraft 3 + expansion
- Starcraft 1 & 2
- Hitman 2, possibly
- Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3; there are few games I completed more than that one
- The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth I and II
- Call of Duty, CoD 2 was still playable, everything since is borefest galore except in MP; most recent one I tried is Black Ops
- Lego Star Wars
- Pokemon Yellow
Maybe I should start a spreadsheet or something, try to create a little more order and a vague semblance of completion…
PS Oh yeah, and I spent a lot of time on Diablo 2.
Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising. Fantastic game.
That’s what I am currently thinking. Would allow ordering by year and genre, and one could also keep track of all the unfinished games, and just filter them for the purpose of this list. (That’s a task for the evening, though. Housework awaits …)
There are also some places like https://glitchwave.com/ and https://backloggery.com/. I haven’t tried them. but at least theoretically they could offer advantages like game library import and easy game adding, provided they offer something like CSV export.
Edit:
https://www.grouvee.com/
Edit 2: Backloggery does not currently offer export. It says it’s planned.
Edit 3: Glitchwave is not taking new members. That leaves Grouvee and less likely HowLongToBeat as potential spreadsheet alternatives.
Edit 4: Grouvee supports export! But is it any good compared to a spreadsheet… let’s give it a quick try.
Edit 5: hm, I don’t know… on the plus side you can search for a game and click add, on the downside the interface is… I don’t know, touch idiocy or something?
The export has JSON in it. Looks like this:
id,name,shelves,platforms,rating,review,dates,statuses,genres,franchises,developers,publishers,release_date,url,giantbomb_id
51040,Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun,"{""Played"": {""url"": ""https://www.grouvee.com/user/Frenzie/shelves/501425-played/"", ""date_added"": ""2019-01-19T11:19:51Z""}}",{},5,,[],[],"{""Strategy"": {""url"": ""https://www.grouvee.com/games/?genre=strategy""}, ""Real-Time Strategy"": {""url"": ""https://www.grouvee.com/games/?genre=real-time-strategy""}}",{},"{""Mimimi Productions"": {""url"": ""https://www.grouvee.com/games/?developer=mimimi-productions""}}","{""Daedalic Entertainment"": {""url"": ""https://www.grouvee.com/games/?publisher=daedalic-entertainment""}}",2016-12-06,https://www.grouvee.com/games/51040-shadow-tactics-blades-of-the-shogun/,53650
As I was looking for some inspiration on which headers to put in my spreadsheet, I came across Completionator. It seems to tick all the right boxes:
- The interface isn’t a total disaster
- GOG/Steam import, although GOG import isn’t working out for me atm.
- Sane Excel export, but I’m not sure why filters aren’t enabled on the headers by default. AutoFilter is just one click away of course.
http://www.completionator.com/
It looks like even if you don’t want want to use this website, at the very least it’s still a good way to kickstart a decent spreadsheet with your GOG and Steam collection.
A screenshot of the Excel export filtered on my Tomb Raider games:
A quick test with some older titles shows that grouvee knows them, while completionator doesn’t (e.g. Shadowlands, Phantasie III).
Given that it should be fairly trivial to turn JSON into CSV, I might stick to the former. Thanks for your investigation though!
JSON is simple enough to work with (at least as some kind of starting point) but I really didn’t care for that site’s interface. It’s all the horrors of touch.
I can confirm your findings with a quick search for the first random well-known old game I searched for though, odd.
Jetfighter on Grouvee
Jetfighter on Completionator
It just occurred to me that I didn’t check if a site like Mobygames does collection stuff. [Edit: it does, but I don’t see an obvious export. There is some kind of API but that just looks like it’s about game metadata.]
Does it count if I watched someone else finish it on youtube
That’s probably “cheating” as per the OP. For your personal administration, just call it “finished the story” or something.
Haha it definitely doesn’t count, I will change the rules to reflect that
Dang, my list is gonna take a serious hit with this new rule change
I’m sorry Paul
No guarantee for completeness, but here you go (roughly sorted by year of release):
1. Defender of the Crown
2. The Great Giana Sisters
3. Pirates!
4. F/A-18 Interceptor
5. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure
6. Stunt Car Racer
7. The Duel: Test Drive II
8. SimCity
9. Oil Imperium
10. Populous
11. Loom
12. The Secret of Monkey Island
13. Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge
14. Railroad Tycoon
15. Wing Commander
16. Monkey Island 2: LeChucks Revenge
17. The Adventures of Robin Hood
18. Formula One Grand Prix
19. Lotus Turbo Challenge 2
20. Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods
21. Civilization
22. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
23. The Legend of Kyrandia Book One - Fables and Fiends
24. Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon
25. Lotus: The Ultimate Challenge
26. Shadowlands
27. Ultima VII: The Black Gate
28. Ultima VII: Forge of Virtue
29. Dune II
30. Sam & Max Hit the Road
31. Day of the Tentacle
32. Simon The Sorcerer
33. The Legend of Kyrandia Book Two: Hand of Fate
34. Ambermoon
35. Ultima VII Part 2: Serpent Isle
36. Ultima VII Part 2: The Silver Seed
37. Sim City 2000
38. Frontier: Elite II
39. The Settlers
40. NASCAR Racing
41. Realms of Arkania: Star Trail
42. Ultima VIII: Pagan
43. The Dig
44. Discworld
45. Star Trek: The Next Generation – A Final Unity
46. Grand Prix 2
47. IndyCar Racing II
48. Command & Conquer
49. Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness
50. NASCAR Racing 2
51. Realms of Arkania: Shadows over Riva
52. Diablo
53. Civilization II
54. The Settlers II
55. The Curse of Monkey Island
56. Grim Fandango
57. Grand Prix Legends
58. The Longest Journey
59. Ultima IX: Ascension
60. Planescape: Torment
61. Civilization: Call to Power
62. Escape from Monkey Island
63. Grand Prix 3
64. Civilization III
65. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
66. Adonthell: Waste's Edge
67. Another Code: Two Memories
68. Civilization IV
69. Secret Files: Tunguska
70. Test Drive Unlimited
71. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
72. Nostradamus: The Last Prophecy
73. Jack Keane
74. Hotel Dusk: Room 215
75. Time Hollow
76. Drakensang: The Dark Eye
77. Tales of Monkey Island
78. The Book of Unwritten Tales
79. A New Beginning
80. Last Window: The Secret of Cape West
81. Drakensang: The River of Time
82. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
83. Dear Esther
84. Deponia
85. Chaos on Deponia
86. Chains of Satinav
87. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Dragonborn
88. Sorcery! Parts 1
89. Goodbye Deponia
90. Memoria
91. Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse
92. Jack Keane 2 - The Fire Within
93. The Inner World
94. The Night of the Rabbit
95. 80 Days
96. Broken Age
97. Blackguards
98. Divinity: Original Sin
99. Civilization: Beyond Earth
100. The Book of Unwritten Tales 2
101. Technobabylon
102. Blackguards 2
103. Pillars of Eternity
104. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
105. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone
106. Caravan
107. The Lion's Song
108. Firewatch
109. Deponia Doomsday
110. Order of The Thorne: The King's Challenge
111. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine
112. No Man's Sky
113. Thimbleweed Park
114. The Inner World: The Last Wind Monk
115. Rime
116. AER: Memories of Old
117. Gorogoa
118. Torment: Tides of Numenera
119. Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales
120. Unforeseen Incidents
121. Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption
122. Forgotton Anne
In the end, I decided to just roll my own list, and google the release date. For now, I’ve mostly recorded the games that meet the criteria.
This will take a while… this will take forever!!!
Yes, I finished Impossible Mission too (albeit on the nintendo DS)
As I have already started compiling a spreadsheet with all games I still need to play/complete, I can extend my completed tab with all the games I still remember completing. I think the rule spending over 10 hours playing but not reaching the end (if there ever even was one to start with… Pacman, anyone?) might cause the game list to be significantly longer… so I might mark these games as “wasted a precious part of my childhood on…” instead.
Super impressive list with loads of diversity, I love the year of release sorting! I may copy you on that one!
That’s ok though, I am totally up for big long lists that include games like pacman… etc (I suppose it’s just up to you how many games you want to include though)
The rules are more guidelines than anything, if you want to justify different games being part of the list for different reasons, we should be open to that!
I’m not an 80’s person, so I don’t consider save “scummVMing” as cheating!
Great list as well mate! It’s great fun seeing what others have played.
Finishing Zak without using a joystick to drive the cursor around and without banging your head against a wall because you got a DISK LOAD ERROR is also considered cheating.
Actually, not having to enter the Exit Visa codes for international flights in Zak, is really cheating- as that was the copy protection.
Good to see you’ve got your priorities right!
It’s interesting, too. The oldest game I finished is from '86. My list (finished or not) has games from every year up to 2018, with the notable exception of 2003 and 2004. I must have been busy otherwise during that time, or it was a particular bad time for PC gaming (at least if you had my taste ).
Edit: having the data in a spreadsheet also allows some fun analysis. Here’s the number of games by year released and genre (though I guess by year completed would be even more meaningful. Also, I was quite liberal with the genre, trying to keep the different categories to a minimum)
I think it´ll be hard to find games that are much older than that because the concept of “finishing” a game wasn´t really established very early on.
That’s true. Though by the 10 hour rule, you’d be allowed to include those games in the list. So I guess I could add at least the 3 games we had on the Atari 2600 . But as you said, playing 10 hours of Space Invaders or Spider Kong does not feel the same as completing a post-1985 game .