This is my look back at the games I’ve been playing over 2012 which for me has been more about clearing out games from my backlog then it has about playing new games, though I did manage some more recent games in that selection. There were also a few games that I started again but then other things happened so they ended up being returned to the back burner.
*** There's a TLDR version at the end ***
I started 2012 thinking about what the sequel to Borderlands would be like and realised that I hadn’t finished the first game, so I crossed that off my list though I haven’t completed all of the DLC, I did finish the main story.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Augmented Edition was on offer on Steam so I got that, played through both the game and the additional Missing Link DLC that I bought after completing the game, I thought that it was a great gaming experience, would definitely recommend the game.
Around late March I thought I’d go back through my backlog and realised that I had all of the Crysis games to that point and never actually completed any of them so I went through them in seqeuence playing Crysis, Crysis Warhead and then Crysis 2 in quick succession, which was a lot of fun.
I had stopped playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 by this point but I got two of the DLC packs when Steam had the first two collections on at half price, only to realise why it was that I had stopped playing after getting them. The game itself is great, but the people that play it, unfortunately weren’t, and even with promises of anti-cheat measures, it felt that every time I went online to play I was just up against people that were sniping me from the opposite side of the map and were doing so by shooting through several buildings and walls. Or at least that’s how it looked on the playback when I watched those deaths.
Bought the LA Noire Complete Edition but didn’t really get to play the game, I liked the look of it, but was a bit put off by the performance of the game where I was only getting 30fps.
During this time I went back and finished off both the Half Life 2 episodes, I found Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare on Amazon at a really good price, I think it was about £2 to £5 so I bought that and played through the Campaign mode before I started on Batman Arkham Asylum (again!) as Arkham City had come up on a sale and I was planning on playing these in sequence. But that was interrupted when Just Cause 2 hit the summer sales, along with the Alan Wake Bundle, so between July to September all of my gaming time was split between these titles and I completed the main storyline in Just Cause 2 as well as both the Alan Wake games.
Borderlands 2 launched, along with the Season Pass, I got these on pre-order about 2 hours before the game’s official launch, I bought them through Greenmangaming where I got the game and the Season pass for less than the game on its own through Steam, this was my first experience with Greenmangaming, but I returned to them to buy Dishonored on pre-order as well, using another 25% off coupon.
Some exciting things happened for me during these months, first I was able to get a new motherboard and CPU, and I got the Asus Sabretooth Z77 and an i7 3770K, and was given access to my nephew’s two GTX580 GPUs while he tried out my XFX HD6990 in his rig. I stopped playing Borderlands 2 at this point as I wanted to try a game that made better use of the PhysX features on the 580s, so I picked Mirror’s Edge, a game that I had bought in September 2011 and only played as far as the training mission. This was then followed up with LA Noire, which I played through, along with a few sessions in Just Cause 2 to complete a few more towns and Faction missions.
Right now I’m playing a lot of Saints Row: The Third, have yet to complete my first Assassination in Dishonored though I did get through the training level with zero kills but was spotted once. I also added Sonic Generations, Binary Domain, Sleeping Dogs and Ticket to Ride to my back log and I have yet to decide on whether or not I should get Hitman Absolution as I haven’t finished Blood Money and want to do that first.
TLDR:
This year I completed:
Borderlands
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Crysis, Crysis Warhead, Crysis 2
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (SP Campaign)
Half Life 2: Episode One & Two
Alan Wake & Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Just Cause 2
Mirror's Edge
LA Noire
So that rounds off my year in gaming.
How was yours?


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