Games I Completed - 2024

[@ryanstevens283]

love 8 eyes title music

[@SixIronAries]

you used to sub my old youtube a long time ago. glad to see you're still at it.

[@GiovannaGrana_43]

I got the platinum of Astro Bot yesterday! What an experience❤

[@djdaver]

Really enjoyed the video, thanks for sharing! And nice to see Bust a Groove show up in the list 😄

[@sewart]

Thanks!

[@SMSBJM1981]

Hi Greg. Thanks for this. I enjoy your style. Calm, well written and presented.

[@sewart]

Thanks!

[@infernonine]

Awesome video Greg. a lot of awesome games you went through. I bought neva when you spoke about it on the podcast it’s great. I love the Alan wake games. I pretty much played the 360 version every year then I played the remake. I play that now. And when Alan Wake two came out, I played through that and love it. And I loved the DLC. Love the Atari 50 the Jeff Minter collection and the Tetris forever. I love that Batman game when I was a kid playing on the NES. Thanks again for another great video.

[@sewart]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@thebiblemachine]

Great video!

[@sewart]

Thanks!

[@SieffrePlays]

Oh man, that Tomb Raider 1 cutscene. I like how she looks back and up toward the dude... when she's on the laptop, so he's not in the same room.

[@sewart]

Seal it, Larson!

[@LindaTheGAMERGal]

GG. Some awesome RPGs you went through. I am going to play Final Fantasy 2 this year.

[@sewart]

Thanks! I really need to get back into FF3.

[@caseyrice768]

Heyo, you mention twitch a bit but I don't see any links to your streaming? Would love to join in!

[@sewart]

Sorry about that. I don't share that link nearly as much as I should. I'm at twitch.tv/sewart, usually 3 times a week.

[@BladeBlur]

I'd love you to make this a yearly tradition because this was great to watch. Reminded me a lot of MLiG's "Games we Played" videos. Maybe also have a personal pledge list of a few games for the next year. Heck you inspired me to do it. Maybe I can finally play a Ridge Racer game lol

[@sewart]

The MLiG Games We Played videos were the inspiration for this. Glad you liked it! I'm definitely doing it yearly.

[@Jaspertine]

I agree that Eric took it a little too far, and was a jerk about it, but I don't quite agree with counting infinite continues as a negative, particularly for a game that's quite short and clearly designed with replayability in mind. One of the best things about modern games is the wide range of difficulty options, and I know you agree with me on that, so if unlimited continues makes the game too easy, don't use them. Limit yourself to only a few continues, or go for a 1CC, or challenge yourself to beat the game using less continues than you did last time.

[@sewart]

Honestly if I had to do the review over I don't know if I would have counted the continues as a huge negative (and honestly I really didn't, I gave the game a 7 in the review). Intelligent people can disagree on the whole issue of unlimited continues. But Eric was hyper-focused on this stuff at the time. We weren't his only targets. When I went looking for the editorial where he called us out, it took some time because he went on similar rants in a lot of issues around that era.

[@BladeBlur]

@@sewart When I finally played Strider 2 this year for the first time I was actually relived with the unlimited continues because a lot of retro games feel overly harsh due to the "rental" philosophy. Maybe they could've went the Ikaruga route and have you unlock unlimited continues if you played enough or beat it on the first time with limited continues.

[@MattKhardankov]

Greeeeeg I'm dying for Gen-16... one of my favourite shooters is next too! I know your viewership is criminally small, but I'm sure we loyal fans will push it as much as possible 😘 I know Gain Ground deserved the attention, but don't feel like every game needs a 45-minute episode...! Don't get me wrong, your research and writing are second to none, but obviously you'll never get to the end of the licenced game library with that level of detail...

[@sewart]

Thanks. I really appreciate the kind words. And you're probably right, I don't need to take as much time on each game. But I have to say that I just get excited when I feel like there's a good story attached to a game, so I want to make sure I can tell it to the best of my ability. Plus there are so many people now doing chrongaming videos who just do quick reviews of each title and move on, I kind of want to try and offer something a bit more. I'm really appreciative of the patience everyone show for new episodes. I'm actually in the editing process of the next episode, which is actually about Joe Montana Football. In fact, if you want to follow me at www.patreon.com/gregsewart you'll see weekly updates on all the projects I'm working on and a rough ETA on when you can expect them to hit! (And support the show if you feel like it)

[@MattKhardankov]

@sewart yep absolutely will do - its definitely a project worthy of support. I totally understand - and don't get me wrong, it's fascinating hearing about everything you've dug up. There's just quite a few games to cover and I'm sure editing the Gain Ground video, as well as many of the games covered since you switched/evolved into the longer, single-game episode format, would've been a mountain of work - and as I'm guessing the channel isn't exactly printing money (it fucking should be, but) I'm guessing that'd be hard to keep up. Yeah, there are a lot of people doing chronological retro game series, but you and Jeremy Parish's *-Works series are IMNSHO the only two worth following. Don't feel like you have to compete with any of the wannabes; you're a quality games journalist doing quality work, and aside from the aforementioned Mr Parish, nobody else comes close.

[@johanbothun9953]

The original version of Final Fantasy II is the only game I would play but which I’ve had to write off completely. The PlayStation version is absolutely fine, the Pixel Remaster is good, but I cannot do the original. I’ve tried so many times, the latest making it to the Dreadnought, but as soon as I got ambushed by magic users, I was out (every single spell animation, for every single character, from every single monster, every single time…and then you get the fun of healing all of that crap, one by one, with the clunky menu.) Everything in the original is just too much of a slog to deal with. The NES versions of I & III are perfectly great but II was a huge miscalculation that the remakes really did improve on.