Ganon got this idea from NS2 from the VC board back in 2010.

Basically we list the games we complete this year, and the one who completes the most "wins".

Basic rules:

1: You can't list games you finished this year, but started in a previous year. You had to have started and finished the game during the same year. The "year" starts on Christmas for those who get games for Christmas. Multiple playthroughs in the same year do not count.
One playthrough per year.

2: If a game is a sandbox type game that technically never finishes, then how you determine if you "completed" it or not this year is based off the main storyline or in some cases, when the credits roll. So you don't have to do all the sidequests.
If a game doesn't technically have an ending, it will be counted on a case by case basis. For games like Rock Band or Guitar Hero, completing the Career Mode will count (only on expert). Games like Animal Crossing cannot be counted as it doesn't have an ending or even an "ending".

3: If it's a game you've already beaten, it still counts if you beat it again, as long as you started and finished it during the same year.

4: In terms of games like the Pokemon series where each generation contains 2 almost identical games, only one of the games counts. So no using HG AND SS.
Likewise, remakes, updates, expansions, re-releases, etc. do not count either.
So no using Pokemon Silver AND Pokemon Soul Silver.
You cannot double count a game. So if you beat Super Mario Bros. twice during a year, it still only counts as one.

Exceptions: Games that add more to the game. So you can count Super Mario 64 and Super Mario 64 DS, Metroid and Metroid Zero Mission, Pokemon Platinum and Pokemon Diamond/Pearl, etc.

5: Concerning types of games, we are talking about full games. Flash games online aren't going to count.
So console, PC, and handheld games are what will be counted basically.

6: If you glitched, hacked, or cheated AT ALL (even if it doesn't affect how you got through the game), that run doesn't count. Taking advantage of the AI is fine though as long as it doesn't involve cheats, hacks, or glitching. So infinite rare candies in Pokemon will make that run not count.
Stuff like the first boss in the original TMNT game where you can stand on the boxes and hit him without getting hurt don't void the run.

7: Concerning difficulty settings, ALL rhythm games have to be completed on the highest difficulty. Any other game (unless another case like rhythm games comes up) it doesn't matter. Possible exceptions may be if the game holds your hand on easier difficulties (we'll debate that) like MM10 does (at least as far as I know).

7: Just claim a post and edit in each time you beat a game. No need to create a new post every time.

8: Since I'm not a mod/admin like Ganon is on Pi I will just make a new thread each year.

9: Anything you start around Christmas time can be transferred to next year, but no counting it for both years.

2011

1. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: Game
2. Monday Night Combat (All achievements, beat all offline challenges is the only real way to measure this as "complete")
3. Castlevania: Harmony of Despair
4. Dragon Age: Origins
5. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
6. Devil May Cry 4
7. Portal 2
8. Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
9. Turtles In Time Reshelled
10. Sonic 4 Episode 1
11. Mass Effect
12. Assassin's Creed II
13. Sonic Unleashed
14. Gears of War 2 (Campaign)
15. Dead Block
16. Catherine
17. Sonic Adventure DX
18. Sonic 3
19. Sonic & Knuckles
20. Bleach Soul Resurreccion
21. Uncharted: Drakes Fortune
22. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
23. Ico
24. Sonic Generations
25. Prinny: Can I really be the Hero

2010:

2011

1. Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth
2. Donkey Kong Country Returns
3. Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
4. Epic Mickey
5. Plants Vs. Zombies
6. Sonic Colors (DS Ver)
7. Phoenix Wright: Justice For All
8. Monster Hunter Tri
9. Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
10.Okamiden
11.Steel Diver
12.Monster Tale
13.Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition (All 35 characters through Arcade Mode)
14.Pilotwings Resort (All Missions. Perfect scores and Free Flight only 92%)
15.Portal
16.Half Life 2
17.Half Life 2: Episode 1
18.Half Life 2: Episode 2
19.Paper Mario
20.Portal 2
21.Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
22.Back to the Future: The Game
23.Super Paper Mario
24.Super Street Fighter IV
25.Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness
26.Shantae: Risky's Revenge
27.The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX
28.Super Mario Bros. Wii
29.Left 4 Dead
30.Pitfall: The Lost Expedition
31.Assassin's Creed II
32.Amnesia: The Dark Descent
33.Left 4 Dead 2
34.Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
35.Kirby's Return to Dreamland
36.The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
37.Wario Land 4
38.Yoshi's Island
39.Sonic Generations
40.Metroid Fusion
41.Wario Ware Inc.
42.Super Mario 3D Land
43.Solatorobo: Red the Hunter

Metroid Prime: Got Bored at Ridly
SpaceChem: RAGEQUIT on final boss. (Fuggin' meteors.)

I completed HL2 already this year? Aw, that means my current play through won't count.

Too bad. lol

Portal
Portal 2
Sonic Colors

To be completed:
Pokemon Soul Silver
Rayman 3D

I honestly don't keep a list of it. :s

We've been adding to our own each time we beat a game. lol

1. Professor Layton and the Curious Village
2. Sonic Colors (Wii) (At least 20 times, but oh well. :b)
3. Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box
4. Professor Layton and the Unwound Future
5. Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode 1
6. Infamous
7. LittleBigPlanet 2
8. Infamous 2
9. Donkey Kong Country Returns
10. Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
11. Pokemon Black
12. Sonic 3 & Knuckles

1. Donkey Kong Country Returns
2. Okamiden
3. Pokemon Black
4. Sonic the Hedgehog (the sucky 2006 game on the 360/PS3, which I regret ever touching)
5. Star Fox 64 3D
6. NieR
7. Final Fantasy XIII
8. Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy
9. Portal
10. Portal 2 (not counting co-op)
11. Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles
12. Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1
13. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
14. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D
15. Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition
16. BlazBlue: Continuum Shift
17. Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
18. Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
19. Star Fox 64
20. New Super Mario Bros. Wii
21. Kirby's Epic Yarn
22. Kirby 64: The Crystal Shard
23. Super Mario All-Stars (the Wii one released for the anniversary)
24. Braid

Okay, here's my pathetic list.

1) Pokemon White
2) Sonic Generations

You seem to have DKCR on there twice,T_L. Don't think the same game can be counted more than once per year. At least I'm not allowed to do it. Other than that, nice library!

ChaosDX1 wrote:

You seem to have DKCR on there twice,T_L. Don't think the same game can be counted more than once per year. At least I'm not allowed to do it. Other than that, nice library!

This is what happens when I don't pay attention when I post. So I fixed that. Also, now the numbering's all screwed up, but I'm too lazy to fix that so BLEGH.

Uh...

Donkey Kong Country Returns
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Plants vs Zombies
Timesplitters 2

Don't laugh at me. ;-;

Cajun Canine wrote:

Don't laugh at me. ;-;

We know you love your movies too much to win this. lol

I'm not going to win either. Chaos has a good lead.

1: Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
2: Castlevania II: Simon's Quest
3: Catherine
4: Dead Space
5: Dead Space 2
6: ilomilo
7: L.A. Noire
8: LIMBO
9: Luigi's Mansion
10: Mario Strikers Charged (Road to the Striker Cup)
11: Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
12: Mirror's Edge
13: Sonic Adventure
14: Super Castlevania IV
15: Super Smash Bros. Brawl: Subspace Emissary
16: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
17: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
18: The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom

For the heck of it, I'll list those I remember. I'm sure there are more that I forgot:

1.Mega Man 3
2.Crystalis
3.Super Mario Bros 3
4.Kirby's Adventure
5.Final Fantasy
6. Aladin (On Snes)
7.Soul Blazer
8.Super Castlevania IV
9.Dino City
10.Bust-A-Move 2: Arcade Edition
11.Phoenix Wright: Justice For All
12.Phoenix Wright: Trials & Tribulations
13.Metroid
14.Disgaea 3
15.Super Monkey Ball 3D
16. Marvel vs Capcom 3
17. Dead or Alive Dimensions
18.Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D
19.Super Mario Land 2
20.Adventure of Lolo 2
21.Mario Party 3
22.Kirby Dream Land
23.Kirby Tilt n Tumble
24.Mario Kart Super Circuit
25.Mario Kart Wii (again o,o)
26.Lufia Curse of the Sinistrals
27.Dragon Quest VI
28.Castlevania Rondo of Blood
29.Games on the Ultimate Genesis Collection as well as the platinum trophy :U
30.3D Dot Game Heroes
31.Super Mario Bros
32.Braid
33.Deus Ex Human Revolution
34.Shatter
35.VVVVV
36.Trine
37.Leaft 4 Dead 2
38.Magic The Gathering: Duel of the Planewalkers 2012
39.Portal
40.Toki Tori
41. Post Apocaleptic Mayhem
42. Odin Sphere

I haven't been playing as much, I'M WAY too busy with the baby. x:

I'm on my way to finish:

Super Mario Land 3
Magicka
and maybe more I forgot

JohnnyboySP wrote:

Cajun Canine wrote:

Don't laugh at me. ;-;

We know you love your movies too much to win this. lol

I'm not going to win either. Chaos has a good lead.

I have no life outside of studying and video games. It's an unfair advantage to this lil' game

I have MORE time for games than you do right now and I'm still not winning. But that is because I have to get trophies and achievements. >_>

JohnnyboySP wrote:

I have MORE time for games than you do right now and I'm still not winning. But that is because I have to get trophies and achievements. >_>

I'm also in the middle of playing games that cannot be counted toward my total because they either have no official 'end' or were already completed this year.

I'm guessing I can't count the Minecraft version of Amnesia.

One more to my list, I just finished Odin Sphere... Finally.

Ryu wrote:

One more to my list, I just finished Odin Sphere... Finally.

Would you recommend that I finish it sometime?

Added Uncharted and Bleach: Soul Resurreccion.

JohnnyboySP wrote:

Ryu wrote:

One more to my list, I just finished Odin Sphere... Finally.

Would you recommend that I finish it sometime?

Yes, the story's worth it. The final is pretty epic.