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[Fire Blazer]

Unlike the Suggest a Game thread that practically no one uses, this one is just for short games, talking like less than 3 hours here, with some sort of "beatable" 1-player.

As for why I'm asking, some of you may know I have a goal to beat 100 games by the end of this year. Well, I'm getting kinda desperate since I still have like, 27 to go, and there's only like, 9 days left. 3 games a day is great and all but I'm not close enough in my games to beat that many, so I think I'm going to cheat since I'm probably never going to get a chance like this to beat 100 games in a year for the rest of my life--free time aside, I don't think there are 100 games I'm going to want to beat, and a lot of the games I beat this year are short, older games that I will probably never replay and that I only recently played as part of an endeavor to venture into more retro gaming since I honestly hadn't done a ton of it.

Unfortunately there's way too many games I already beat but as for systems:

SNES, GBA, and NDS are great.

Remember, less than 3 hours.

NES and Flash are also viable. Steam, PSN (PS3, Vita, PSP) and eShop (Wii U or 3DS) games are also viable but please let them be extremely cheap since I'm broke and limit them in number. Call these a very last resort: I'd prefer to save my cash. Trust me I give Nintendo way too much money and I even throw money at their VC games even though I prefer to play them on an emulator where I can speed up the game and cheat and abuse savestates lol

Thanks for any suggestions you can throw at me, I appreciate it!

[kirant]

Throwing my suggestions for:
- No One Has to Die (Flash, free). Really good storytelling and I've always loved this since it shares quite a bit in common with Virtue's Last Reward. Game length: ~30 minutes.
- One Chance (Flash, free). Probably my favourite flash game at the moment for its amazing storytelling and choices despite really low graphics. Game length: ~20 minutes, ~40 if you want to see multiple endings.
- Rebelstar: Tactical Command (GBA, probably ~10 dollars). Ever play the X-COM series? Ever want one with a bit more RPG element? This game is pretty much it. Great tactics game. Game length: Probably 4-10 hours
- The Last Door (Flash, free, but can get early access to newer chapters for any size donation). Another quality story game. Game length: ~45-60 minutes/chapter.
- Organ Trail (PC, ~5 dollars). I love The Oregon Trail, so that plus zombies is too much fun. Game length: ~2 hours if you know what you're doing.
- FTL (PC, 5 dollars if you catch it 50% off...like now). Rouge-like in space is all I need to say. Game length: ~1 hour if you can beat it the first time. Good like with that though.

[YakYak]

Dammit, you took those first two right out of my mouth!

KongregateFlash:

Mastermind: World Conquerer: A game in which you blow up the world.

L.I.F.E: Like "No One Has to Die" and "One Chance", this could just as easily be defined as "Interactive art" as a "game", so I'll save you a description and let you form your own opinions.

Loneliness: A game that says volumes about us as humans without a word of text.

Mission in Space: The Lost Colony: *Looks up Rebelstar* Speaking of X-Com-likes, here's one that manages to capture the spirit of X-Com, along with the atmosphere of Aliens. Probably runs past 3 hours, though.

Free Download:

Luna Game, 2, 3, 4, 0, and End: Platforming with a... twist.

The Stanley Parable: a Half-Life 2 mod. Will auto-download the required engine on PC, needs HL2 to work on Macs.

Steam:

Thomas was alone: A unique look at platformers and storytelling.

Outlast: A stealth horror game in the same general thread as Amnesia. Not sure if horror is your thing, but if it is, then here you go.

[Fire Blazer]

Sorry but please no PC games outside of Flash or Steam, haha. I have Steam and Flash games are easy enough but I don't want to get into Kongregate or Origin or independent downloads.

Anyhow, thanks for the suggestions so far, and a few extra props to kirant for the game completion time's. If you have more, by all means. Also, if it edges on like 5 hours, go ahead, I'd like to think I'm a slightly quicker gamer than the average person so I may be able to beat it quickly enough, haha (or maybe not, but hey, if I fail and don't beat 100 games in time, at least I tried and can go out with a bang... and get some awesome experiences out of it!).

[YakYak]

QUOTE (Blazer @ Dec 22 2013, 05:12 AM)

Sorry but please no PC games outside of Flash or Steam, haha. I have Steam and Flash games are easy enough but I don't want to get into Kongregate or Origin or independent downloads.

...Kongregate is flash...

Here, let me fix that category for you.

[kirant]

...Oh!

Forgot about Deep Sleep and Deeper Sleep (Both free flash games). Very much an environment horror and much better than most movies and games at it. Probably a 2 hour game each.

EDIT - Also, the Pretentious Game series. Very good, but depressing and melancholic.

[Fire Blazer]

oh, are they now? but I was under the impression I had to have make an account and either pay money or get credits or something (Gamestop's always offering me stupid deals on Kongregate points or w/e), I pretty much want something really easy to access xD

Pretentious game series, huh? I dunno how much depressing stuff I can take but I can try them out bit-by-bit XD

[YakYak]

There's some sort of money tie-in store credit... thing... but I've never run into it. It's just as acessible as any other flash site.

[Fire Blazer]

If you say so... *skeptical*

[Snow]

It might not be your thing, but Flower for the PS3 was fun (for me at least). Also I strongly support the Stanley Parable.

[Fire Blazer]

I just realized last night that I can perhaps accomplish my "beat 100 games in a year thing" without necessarily beating it at the start and beginning of a proper year; kinda like "beating a game in one day" meaning "beating a game in 24 hours", if that makes sense. So instead of counting from January 1st, 2013 to December 31st, 2013 I'll perhaps do like, January 28th, 2013 to January 27th, 2013 (reason being from 1/1/13 to 1/27/13 I beat 7 games, so I'm essentially trading up those 7 games towards counting and will have to beat much more to make it be worth it).

Not quite as promising or interesting or what have you, but the prospect of me beating over 3 games a day is even less promising in terms of it's practicality, so I'll do what I can instead. Thanks for the suggestions thus far, I still intend to use them XD

[bblues]

Journey (PS3) is about 2-3 hours, I think.

[Fire Blazer]

Holy crap that's short for what I heard was a great game lol

the price tag tho

[bblues]

£10 isn't too bad.

It might go on offer though, right time of year for it.

[Holy Kensai]

Dead Pixels is pretty short.

Or just jump onto pretty much any flash site and look up their puzzle games. You can likely beat 3 an hour.

Monkey Go Happy Series, they are about 5 minutes long each.

http://www.pencilkid...eys-flash-game/
http://www.pencilkid...y-5-flash-game/
http://www.pencilkid...y-4-flash-game/
http://www.pencilkid...y-3-flash-game/
http://www.pencilkid...y-2-flash-game/
http://www.pencilkid...ppy-flash-game/
http://www.pencilkid...tle-flash-game/
http://www.pencilkid...y-6-flash-game/
http://www.pencilkid...mas-flash-game/
http://www.pencilkid...s-3-flash-game/
http://www.pencilkid...s-2-flash-game/

11 games there that you can easily beat in an hour or two.

[Fire Blazer]

If it's that short I don't even know if I can include it without feeling awful haha, I think maybe a lower limit on at least 30 minutes, preferably an hour lololol

It'd definitely make the 100 games by January 1st deal possible though... that being said I kinda gave up on it since it was just a bit too much for me haha

[Holy Kensai]

Not like you to give up.

[Seraphinox]

Just play a bunch of Visual Novels.

You can fast forward through the text, click yes to everything, get a random ending.

Game complete.