World Class Villains

Xmas has come and gone. The Xmas and post-Xmas sales have come and gone. Time to update the unplayed gaming list.

Dispatched

• Bayonetta (X360): Finished this on Normal difficulty, started again on the next harder difficulty and have shelved the game after running into a roadblock at a particular Alfheim Portal. Might come back to it.
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  You know what would have made Alan Wake better? If someone had written an ending.

  Alan Wake (plus The Signal and The Writer DLC) (X360):  Completed this with 3 achievements outstanding, but 2 of those are “Complete the DLC without dying” and I’m not sure I’m in the mood to try for that. Particularly with the instant death jumping puzzles.

• Batman: Arkham City (X360): Completed and also finished a lot of the extra challenges, but completing the campaigns is beyond my patience levels. Plus I don’t think there is enough in the Robin or Nightwing DLCs to justify their purchase, since that would just provide more challenges and campaigns.

Unwrapped

• Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood: On loan.
• Duke Nukem Forever: Bought on the cheap during the sales. Some things are worth experiencing first hand, even if you know they are bad.
• Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Playing it now. This may be sacrilegious, but I don’t get all the love for this game. It’s pretty and there’s lots of stuff to do but ultimately feels hollow to me. I’ll finish it and then consider how I feel about it.
• LA Noire: Bought on the cheap during the sales.

Unplayed

• Dark Souls
• Dead Space 2
• The Witcher 2
• Deus Ex 3
• Gears of War 3 (for the sake of completeness, really)
• Catherine
• From Dust
• Shadows of the Damned
• Portal 2
• Psychonauts (because I’ve never played it but am intrigued)
• Alice: Madness Returns
• To The Moon
• The Binding of Isaac