The Jan 2013 MONDAY FINISH thread

[JasonPratt]

For the late-2012 version of this thread, which was also the original thread (the first entry of which also explains my personal project in finishing five games before buying one), see here.

Rather than continually extend a single thread all the time, I decided to make new ones every first Monday of a month. :)

Note! -- it isn't at all necessary to be following my self-disciplinary protocols to participate in the thread. You can just talk about games you finished during the past week, especially over the weekend, as a complement to the Friday threads every week. Be as brief or as verbose as you like.


This week I came very close to finishing the DoW2: Chaos Rising main campaign; I'm at (what the game is telling me is) the final battle against the ultimate bad guy of the campaign, although clearly there is a secondary UBG in the wings whom the Blood Raven Space Marines need to go kick the ass of, who seems likely to be far more difficult and dangerous (in his-or-her own way) than this campaign's UBG, despite being at best only a minion.

(I'm trying to avoid spoilers for anyone who hasn't played it yet.)

My guess is that the storyline won't follow the Ravens any further along that line for CR, and instead this will be reserved for the Space Marine campaign in the DoW: Retribution expansion. If so, I'll be curious whether the other faction campaigns tie in with that story somehow. But I don't own Retribution yet, and I'm not sure when I'll get around to it.


I'm reasonably sure I would have finished the campaign Saturday, except Friday night I had to buy a new TV (having donated mine to a cousin for her last semester in college), and it took me a while to "dial in" things. (It's a 47" LG [Life's Good??] model with 3D. It also has a 2D-to-3D conversion engine, so practically everything can be watched in crappy post-production quick 3D.  ;) 8) DoW2 looks FREAKY in 2D-to-3D, btw. Lord of the Rings, on the other hand, is shockingly impressive as a quick crappy post-conversion.) I'm not entirely sure I'll keep the TV yet--I may go back to my previous Vizio brand, which ran great for me for the year or two I had it before giving it away.

Note to anyone considering getting LG models: mine featured one and only one way to port sound out of the set, by optical cable. This is rather a problem, because my old and perfectly serviceable speaker set doesn't receive optical digital audio, and the LG sound bar which came bundled with this TV (and which doesn't have pass-through for the signal), while quite respectably serviceable, lacks the punch and oomph of my old speaker set. (This is probably the main reason why I'm debating taking the new set back to Sam's Club and ordering an equivalent Vizio model. LG is fine, and generally deserves its plaudits from Amazon reviewers, but I want my better audio. Without having to spend yet more money buying a new speaker system.  :P )



Anyway, I won't really be able to add DoW2:CR to my finished list until (probably) tonight, at which time having finished five games I'll be pondering what to buy next. Or rather, I'll be pondering how to rationalize the two games I bought on a flash Steam sale yesterday.  ;D More on that later.

So, what did anyone else manage to finish this week(-end)?

[bayonetbrant]

My wife finished some secrets of the Amazon puzzle something or other that she downloaded for her iPad on Saturday.  By Sunday night she finished the whole thing.  She was totally engrossed in it for 2 straight days.

[Slick Wilhelm]

I can see that it's going to be some time before I'll be able to say that I've actually finished a game(I'm working on Icewind Dale right now), so the only thing I finished this weekend was a couple of glasses of strong Belgian Ale(Kwak and Tripel Karmeliet).  ;)

[Gusington]

I am a hair away from winning the M2TW Britannia campaign as the Welsh. Have already knocked the English out of the game but now to meet campaign rules I have to turn on my Irish allies.

Also dangerously close to finishing the main quest of Skyrim and Dawnguard. Just in time to mod Dark Souls and ready myself for punishment. Dig it!

[PanzersEast]

I did manage to capture my first Shard in Eador: Genesis.



PE

[Anguille]

i finished the dlc to Starpoint Gemini...Timebreach.

[JasonPratt]

I can see that it's going to be some time before I'll be able to say that I've actually finished a game(I'm working on Icewind Dale right now), so the only thing I finished this weekend was a couple of glasses of strong Belgian Ale(Kwak and Tripel Karmeliet).  ;)

Your Borat avatar's pose seems to go well with that post. :)

I got into the habit of sipping a bottle a day of various gourmet root beers (around $4/bottle after shipping) all summer long last year--I should set up an order when I see turn based strategy coming back into my game-queue...


Brant,

I am not too proud to admit that Faery Solitaire will be one of the games I finish at some time in the future.  ;D

(Along with the Sherlock Holmes series of games produced by those Frogpond people or whoever they are, which might be closer to what your wife was playing.)

[bayonetbrant]

the one my wife finished off was the iAppStore freebie at Starbucks either this week or last week.  She DL'ed it on Friday late, started playing it on Saturday, and didn't stop 'til her eyeballs were about to melt on Sunday and seemed genuinely surprised when the "The End" screen appeared.

[Bison]

Well I've beaten every boss in Diablo 3 on Inferno difficulty.  Met a pretty cool dude who really hooked me up with some sweet gear.

[mikeck]

I finished getting my arse kicked by Caesar in the Caesar v Pompey scenario of Alea Jacta Est

[TheCommandTent]

I finished the fifth and final episode for The Walking Dead game, until they make season 2. :)

[TheCommandTent]

My wife finished some secrets of the Amazon puzzle something or other that she downloaded for her iPad on Saturday.  By Sunday night she finished the whole thing.  She was totally engrossed in it for 2 straight days.

That sounds like my wife.  Her parents and I all went in together and got her a tablet for Christmas and she is totally engrossed in the free games.

[Kushan]

I only finished a couple of side quests on Skyrim and a few bottles of beer (Budweiser). Spent most of yesterday messing around with the Skyrim construction kit and making a mod compatibility patch.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I finished unlocking all the weapons for the vanguard class in Chivalry.

I finally finished my Civ V marathon game as the Celts.  I was able to win a space race victory, but only because the Byzantines decided to ignore me and get into an all-out war with the Incas.

I started another Civ V game with the goal of winning a diplomatic victory as it was the only type I hadn't completed yet.  Started a marathon game with random continents on Prince level as the Siamese.  I lucked out an got a decent sized continent to myself (plus 3 city states).  Resource poor but lots of food.  I didn't even meet another Civ until 1526.  I was pretty far behind in tech and fairly small so everyone pretty much ignored me in favour of bashing each other's brains in on a massive continent.   I think it's theonly game I've played where I never fought another civ at all.  I just made trade agreements, bought off city states, built culture and gold and bought my way to diplomatic victory in 2037.

[Nefaro]

I finished unlocking all the weapons for the vanguard class in Chivalry.

Doesn't doing so also allow you to choose a custom helm for that class?