The PIGWHIP Challenge 2021 • Gaming • Eurogamer.net

DuckBreaker 5 Jan 2021 22:27:41 290 posts
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The Play What You Get, Get What You Play
aka PWYGGWYP ( or more easily, pigwhip) Challenge 2021 is here!
Behold the following words and woe betide you should you defy this edict of the Duckbreaker!

You have 4 slots for the Pigwhip Challenge:
See how generous to you all I am? Well, many of you (bar 10 gleaming paragons) demonstrated how weak-willed you were in last year's challenge, and as much as I enjoy deleting your names from the list and replacing it with a biting comment, I thought we could all do with a bit of leeway this year.
(Nods sagely to the imaginary applause)

Previous Pigwhippers may start with a clean slate once again. Games bought/started before this challenge began don't need to go on. However, set a good example to yourself and put them on anyway, as you'll then have the impetus to see them through rather than slink away shamefully, starting as you probably mean to go on...hurtling down into the pit of ABJECT FAILURE.

ALL newly purchased games, backlog games, dlc, expansions, season passes etc. count. It doesn't matter whether it's a new game or an old game, gamepass, game compilation, humble bundle or whatever else. IT GOES ON, OR FACE MY WRATH! Oh and beware the beady eye of the Duck, unreported profligacy may well be laid bare before the baying hordes.

As soon as you buy or otherwise obtain the item, it counts. Report it on this thread and I'll thrust it into your awaiting slot. If your slots are already filled,then your are out, like the dirty, promiscuous... gamer you are.

Games you have already beaten/completed don't need to count if you start them up again. They DO count however, if you buy a new version of a previously completed game.

Compilations/Humble bundles and the like count as a single slot filled. That compilation then remains in the slot until all the games you were interested in it are done. All filler games you weren't interested in can slide into the slurry pool of your ever expanding backlog.

A collection of games in a single series go into a single slot in the same way as a compilation would. They remain so until all games are completed. If a game in the collection is one you have no intention of playing (i.e. one you had played to death previously) then that does not need to be done if it is one of three or more games in the collection. If it is a collection of TWO games only, then why the Hell would you have bought the collection?! It has to be completed.

'Free' games that you get as part of a subscription service
I will grudgingly allow to go into backlog.

Games you dig from backlog count after a 2 hour trial period. This allows for game sampling before you commit. Once you cross that 2hr mark, report it here it gets added.

Pre-orders count as a slot filled as soon as you pre-order, in all but exceptional cases. Those cases have to be presented as a plea to the Duckbreaker. The Duckbreaker may be benevolent in cases of limited edition pre-orders that would sell out before release. However, the majority of pre-orders are a foolish way of paying more for a game that probably hasn't been properly finished yet, and may turn out to be shite. Surely that Big Game from last year, now fully patched and complete with all dlc at a fraction of the cost is a far more sensible purchase? You know I am right. Oh, games you have pre-ordered BEFORE the start of this challenge don't need to go on until they arrive.

Chosen your game badly? Perhaps you have been lead astray by some numpty YouTube personality or even other forumites and spent your hard-earned money on Shadowgangs, or another game you realise is a bit shite. You have a chance to have your plea heard to have it removed. Court will be held with me Duckbreaker as your Judge and other pigwhippers as Jury. If you are lucky, your sentence will be to complete a specific challenge to have your failed slot freed.

The Duckbreaker's word is Law. I will give a pretence of democracy by putting difficult or controversial issues to the Pigwhipper citizens. Occasionally I might be benevolent. Mostly I won't.

And so, let it begin!

Edited by DuckBreaker at 23:41:40 03-06-2021

DuckBreaker 5 Jan 2021 22:27:58 290 posts
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We have 28 victims, and this is how the breakdown of slots used looks right now...

4x🦆 👩👨🏻👨🏻👨🏻👨🏻👨🏻👨🏻

3x🦆 👨🏻👨🏻👨🏻👨🏻👨🏻👩🏾👨🏻👨🏻👨🏻👧🏿👨🏻

2x🦆 👩🏾👩🏾👨🏾👨🏻👨🏻👨🏻🧑🏿

1x🦆 👨🏻👨🏻👨🏻

0x🦆

...plus they have finished 202 games between them, so that's nice.

Note: demographic breakdown may not be 100% accurate

It is with a great sense of smugness, and not a little glee, that we must dutifully report on the 11 losers.

Graxlar_v3: Super Failer
HarryPalmer: Tried valiantly to count to four but, sadly, overachieved!
hedben2013: Had loads of decent games on the go, but needed JUST. ONE. MORE. Chuffing loser.
LegendaryApe: Until next year, my beautiful fellow humans
mangojoe: Taking the Duck's Piss
Murbs: Ruined by a holiday - a cautionary tale for us all
OnlyJoeKing: Tried to wriggle out of it... are you having a laugh?
RyanDS: Bought all the games in early February because CEX were shutting down
Samildanach: Went Shmup INSANE!
Trafford: Sometimes it's better just to shit in your chair than to poo up the room.
wuntyate: I shit my digital pants

And now the roster of potential heroes who are still in the fight:

⊖⊖⊖❓Blackmarsh63 ( 🦆 🦆 _ _ 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 )

🦆 CyberPunk 2077, AC Valhalla
🎯 Immortals Fenyx Rising, Salt And Sanctuary, Miles Morales, Steamworld Dig, Dante's Inferno, Mortal Shell, Dead Space, Ghost Recon - Wildlands, Valheim, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (done but not finished due to ABJECT COWARDICE), Resident Evil 4, Biomutants (HAHAHAHAHAAAAA!), Outriders, Ghost Warrior Contracts 2, Ratchet & Clank A Rift Apart

🏆🏆🏆❓Chug666 ( 🦆 🦆 🦆 _ 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 )

🦆 Hitman, Banner Saga 2 , Star Wars: Battlefront 2
🎯 Demon's Souls, A Short Hike, Mario Odyssey , Zombie Army 4, Mark of the Ninja, Inside

⊖🏆💩❓CowsMakeNoise ( 🦆 🦆 🦆 🦆 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 )

🦆 Ghosts of Mooshima, Darkest Dungeon: Ancestral Cows Edition, Sekiro: ShaCows Die Twice, Rez Infinite
🎯 Resident Evil 3, Picnic Panic DLC for the Messenger, Gears 5, CoW: Modern Warfare (2019), Gears 5: Hivebusters, Shadow of the Cowossus, The Cow Among Us, Yakuza Cowami, Yacowza Zero, Sexy Mootale, P.T., Outlast and Whistlemoower DLC, The Past(ure) of Us 2, The Ruminating Dead: Season 2, Dead Space Moo: Severance, Infamoos: Festival of Blood, Abmoo, Far Cry: Moo Dawn, Tekken 7, Professor Cowton and Phmooix Wright: Ace Attorney, CoW: WW2, Cud of War Ascension (PS3), Hitmoo 2 expansion, Shadmoo of War & DLC

🏆🏆🏆❓crashVoodoo ( 🦆 🦆 🦆 _ 🎯 🎯 🎯 )

🦆 CyberPunk 2077, Hit men 3, Red Dead Redemption
🎯 Edith Finch , Dyson Sphere Program, Factorio

⊖⊖💩❓damagedinc ( 🦆 🦆 🦆 _ 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 )

🦆 God of War, Divinity 2, Slay the Spire
🎯 Civilisation 6 (Switch), Control (PS4), Celeste, Return to the obra dinn

⊖🏆🏆❓dmj ( _ _ 🦆 🦆 🎯 🎯 )

🦆 Final Fantasy IX (PC), The Witcher 3 Expansions
🎯 Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition (PC), Doom 64

🏆🏆💩❓dominalien ( 🦆 🦆 🦆 🦆 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 )

🦆 Dragon Age Inquisition, Judgment, Returnal, Mass Effect Legendary
🎯 AI: The Somnium Files, Portal 2, Thimbleweed Park, Dark Nights with Poe and Munro, Dreamfall Chapters, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Resident Evil Village

🏆🏆🏆❓ghearoid ( 🦆 🦆 _ _ 🎯 🎯 )

🦆 New Pokémon Snap, Phoenix Wright Trilogy
🎯 Doraemon Story of Seasons, Story of Seasons Friends of Mineral Town

⊖🏆💩❓Gl3n ( 🦆 🦆 🦆 🦆 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 )

🦆 Control, Super Mario Galaxy, Sea of Thieves, Red Dead Redemption 2
🎯 LotRO: Siege of Mirkwood, Splatoon 2, Cyberpunk 2077 (The more fool you edition), Pikmin 3

⊖⊖⊖❓GrandpaUlrira ( 🦆 🦆 🦆 🦆 🎯 🎯 )

🦆 Super Mario 3D, Picross S2, Grindstone, Ass Creed Oranges
🎯 Jedi Fallen Order, Paper Mario: Origami King

⊖💩💩❓HelloNo ( _ 🦆 🦆 _ 🎯 🎯 🎯 )

🦆 War for the Overworld, Stardew Valley
🎯 Fenyx: Rise of the Immortals, Fallout 76, WoW: Shadowlands

🏆💩💩❓JoelStinty ( 🦆 🦆 🦆 _ 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 )

🦆 Dragon Quest 11, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Blossom Tales
🎯 Shantae Half Genie Hero, The Last Campfire, Resident Evil 7, Ass Creed Odyssey, Bad North, Football Manager 21, Crash Bandi. 4 OR Beat all cult members in ACOdy, Guacamalee 2, Monster Hunter Rise, Resident Evil: Village, Dirt 5, Grindstone

🏆🏆🏆❓Jono62 ( _ _ 🦆 _ 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 )

🦆 Pac Man 99
🎯 South Park: Stick of Truth (Switch), South Park: Fractured But Whole, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, Monster Hunter Rise

🏆🏆💩❓monkman76 ( _ _ 🦆 _ 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 )

🦆 Returnal
🎯 Miles Morales, Hitman 3, Super Mario 3D World, Loop Hero, Valheim, The Division 2

🏆⊖🏆❓Nazo ( 🦆 _ 🦆 🦆 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 )

🦆 Final Fantasy IX, Rocksmith 2014, :: Possessed by the Colon Snake ::
🎯 World's End Club (iOS), Beyond a Steel Sky (iOS), Alba: A Wildlife Adventure (iOS), Ace Combat 7, FF7 (Switch), 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim , Moss, Horizon Zero Dawn

🏆💩💩❓Phattso ( 🦆 🦆 _ 🦆 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 )

🦆 Metro Exodus, Far Cry 5 + New Dawn, Star Trek: Bridge Crew (PCVR)
🎯 Gears 5 - Hivebusters DLC, Red Dead Redemption 2, Halo 5, The Division 2, Immortals: Fenyx Rising, The Last of Us 2, The Division 2 - Warlords of New York DLC, Just Cause 4, Bowser’s Fury, Vader Immortal Part 1 (Quest 2), Outriders, Hitman III, The Medium, Among Us, Yakuza Kiwami, Remnant: From the Ashes, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019

⊖⊖⊖❓PrivateFloyd ( 🦆 _ _ 🦆 🎯 🎯 🎯 )

🦆 Little Nightmares, Horizon: Zero Dawn Complete
🎯 Uncharted 4, Ghosts of Tsushima, Control

🏆🏆🏆❓Red_Bool ( 🦆 🦆 _ _ 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 )

🦆 Dragon Quest XI S, Pullblox (3DS)
🎯 Control, Horace, Fez, Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch

🏆💩🏆❓Rodderz ( 🦆 🦆 🦆 _ 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 )

🦆 Control: Ultimate Edition, SOMA, Returnal
🎯 Doom II (Classic Edition), Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Middle Earth: Shadow of War, Subnautica, The Last of Us: Part Two, Greedfall, Battlefield 5, Abzu, CoD: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered, CoD: Black Ops III, Astro's Playroom, Concrete Genie, Spider-Man Miles Morales

⊖⊖⊖❓ryanclayton ( 🦆 🦆 🦆 _ 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 )

🦆 Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Persona 5, Control
🎯 Hitman, Hitman 2, CyberPunk 2077, Yakuza Zero, Dragon Age Inquisition

🏆🏆💩❓Saul_Iscariot ( 🦆 🦆 _ 🦆 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 )

🦆 Ori and the Blind Forest. (Switch), Immortals - Fenyx Rising (PS5), Wreckfest (PS5)
🎯 Bowser's Fury, Paper Mario : Origami King, Astrobot's Playroom, Spider-Man: Miles Morales (PS5), Star Wars : Republic Commando (PS5)

⊖⊖⊖❓Steifybobbins ( _ 🦆 🦆 _ 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 )

🦆 Undermine, Mass Effect: Cash in on my Nostalgia Edition
🎯 Ministry of Broadcast, Octopath Traveller, Super Mario 3D World, Bowser's Fury, Lonely Mountains Downhill, Zelda BotW: DLC1+2, littlewood, Fez, Huntdown, A Plague Tale

⊖⊖⊖❓TommyUnderwear ( 🦆 🦆 🦆 🦆 🎯 🎯 🎯 )

🦆 Little Nightmares, The Medium, Ori and the Will of the Wisps
, Returnal
🎯 What remains of Edith Finch, Gears 5: Hivebusters, Little Nightmares

⊖⊖⊖❓Tomo ( 🦆 🦆 🦆 🦆 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 )

🦆 Horizon Zero Dawn, Cyberpunk, Blasphemous, VILLage
🎯 Half Life Alyx , Disco Elysium, Little Nightmares, Pathologic 2

⊖⊖⊖❓tyke71 ( 🦆 _ 🦆 🦆 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 )

🦆 Ass Creed Syndicate, Football Manager 20/21, Elite Dangerous: Odyssey
🎯 CyberPunk 2077, Ass Creed Valhalla, Ghost Recon Wildlands, Ghost Recon Wildlands Narco Road, Civ 6 frontier pass, AC Valhalla: Wise of the Dwuids

🏆🏆🏆❓Vortex808 ( _ 🦆 _ _ 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 )

🦆 Borderlands 3 Season pass dlc
🎯 CyberPunk 2077, Control, The Division 2, Tetris (Series X?), Outriders, Prey, Call of the Sea, Donut County, The Division 2 warlords of NY dlc

⊖⊖⊖❓Wayne ( 🦆 🦆 🦆 🦆 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 )

🦆 Phasmophobia, Resident Evil, Until Dawn: Rush Of Blood, Returnal
🎯 >Observer_, Gears 5: Hivebusters , Borderlands 3, Little Nightmares, Resident Evil 4, Donut Country, Lego The Incredibles, Ass Creed Valhalla, Bowser's Fury, Gears 5, The Medium, Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, Astro’s Playroom, It Takes Two, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Maquette, Resident Evil 0, Ratchet & Clank (2016), Anthem

⊖💩💩❓Zomoniac ( 🦆 🦆 🦆 _ 🎯 🎯 )

🦆 Ratchet & Clank A Rift Apart, Game of Thrones, Ass Creed Valhalla: Wrath of the Druids
🎯 Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, Assassin's Creed Valhalla

Edited by DuckBreaker at 22:10:53 18-06-2021

DuckBreaker 5 Jan 2021 22:28:04 290 posts
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Reserved

DuckBreaker 5 Jan 2021 22:28:32 290 posts
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Reserved

fontgeeksogood 5 Jan 2021 22:33:14 12,913 posts
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Reversed

DuckBreaker 5 Jan 2021 22:36:54 290 posts
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fontgeeksogood wrote:
Reversed

Welcome to the Pigwhip challenge. Your name is down bwhahaaaa!

Lukus 5 Jan 2021 22:37:14 24,462 posts
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Circumcised

Nazo 5 Jan 2021 22:41:17 1,838 posts
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Well, might as well carry over from last year. Plus the 2 from Apple Arcade I've been messing with. So:

FF7 (Switch)
World's End Club (iOS)
Beyond a Steel Sky (iOS)

Jono62 5 Jan 2021 22:42:40 27,008 posts
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I have a game I'm playing already:

South Park: Stick of Truth (Switch).

Phattso 5 Jan 2021 22:44:38 27,237 posts
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I’m in it to win it this year. Red Dead Redemption 2 and Gears 5 Hivebusters presently in play.

fontgeeksogood 5 Jan 2021 22:46:18 12,913 posts
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I've completed my Sex Arse

Phattso 5 Jan 2021 22:49:07 27,237 posts
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I trialled it for just under two hours, but decided not to carry on.

Deleted user 5 January 2021 22:50:42

Lukus wrote:
Circumcised

Could you use a circumcised foreskin as an alternative in making pork scratchings? Asking for a friend.

Armoured_Bear 5 Jan 2021 22:52:09 30,575 posts
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I don't quite understand the point.

DuckBreaker 5 Jan 2021 23:08:42 290 posts
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Armoured_Bear wrote:
I don't quite understand the point.

The point? It's about picking good games and seeing them through to the end, rather than dropping them into the uncompleted pile of shame. It's also about not filling your backlog with a shit tonne of games you may never play.

Maybe you have the self-discipline to not buy games quicker than you can play, or drop them too easily; well good for you. This is the thread for tracking your completions while simultaneously giving the impetus to cherish better games more.

Or, it is a fun place to watch others crash and burn as their new year gaming resolutions fail miserably. Yes. That one.

Samildanach 5 Jan 2021 23:31:52 612 posts
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Okay, let's go with:

1. Deus Ex Mankind Divided dlc. Main game is done, but since I bought the full version it is in till the Season Pass stuff is done too.

2. Dark Souls Remastered. Well I was starting the second playthrough of Bloodborne, but this one seemed to take over. Maybe its the easier bosses after enduring the pain of Ludwig, Orphan and that damn First Vicar. Aiming for one full playthrough.

That's all for now while I mull over which shmup to have on when I can't be arsed with the above.

RyanDS 6 Jan 2021 00:38:52 14,009 posts
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Okay...

Ps5 - Yakuza Kiwami

Switch - Robotic notes Elite

iPad - anyone got a good point and click to suggest as monkey island is gone?

Saul_Iscariot 6 Jan 2021 05:49:57 4,348 posts
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At the moment, despite failing miserably last year, I try to only play one title at a time until I have completed it. As such my list is currently:

1. Ori and the Blind Forest. (Switch)
2.
3.
4.

I have pre ordered Lego Star Wars - The Skywalker Saga, but did so last year. It can take a slot if required.

monkman76 6 Jan 2021 06:15:24 18,744 posts
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I'd like to sign up please Mr Duck, hope it's not too late. I'm going to be gentle to myself though and not put anything I've already started on my list. Cheers.

ryanclayton 6 Jan 2021 06:52:19 121 posts
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1.final fantasy 7 remake
2.cyberpunk 2020
3.
4.

Red_Bool 6 Jan 2021 07:15:07 2,270 posts
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I'm in again! Here's my current list:

1. Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
2. Control
3. Horace
4.

Dougs 6 Jan 2021 07:49:29 99,664 posts
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@Phattso apologies for the hijack, but have pinged you on Discord!

ghearoid 6 Jan 2021 08:34:25 3,750 posts
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New year, new list:

1. Doraemon Story of Seasons

That's it. Stay strong, muchachos.

tyke71 6 Jan 2021 08:44:05 117 posts
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Current list is.
1. Cyberpunk 2077
2. Assasins creed Valhalla
3.
4.

JoelStinty 6 Jan 2021 08:49:06 9,472 posts
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1.) Assassins Creed Oydessy
2.)
3.)
4.)

hedben2013 6 Jan 2021 08:53:50 2,102 posts
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I may have done myself a dirty here, because I was enjoying AssCreed Syndicate so much I bought AssCreed Origins in the holday sale. So it's

1. AssCreed Syndicate
2. AssCreed Origins

Serious danger of Ubisoft map icon fatigue

Murbs 6 Jan 2021 08:59:19 25,119 posts
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Feeling confident! Then again, I did last year. And the year before that. And probably the one before that too.

1) Immortals: Fenyx Rising (Switch) - currently playing
2)
3)
4)

Planning on putting together a shortlist of games from my backlog that I plan to complete *before* I buy any further games. I’ll add this to the bottom of this post.

PS4:
God of War
Judgment

Switch:
Return of the Obra Dinn
Paradise Killer
Spiritfarer
Kentucky Route Zero

Edited by Murbs at 08:53:47 07-01-2021

hedben2013 6 Jan 2021 09:25:26 2,102 posts
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Murbs wrote:
Planning on putting together a shortlist of games from my backlog that I plan to complete *before* I buy any further games. I’ll add this to the bottom of this post.

Haha this is a good idea, but if I do it I may never buy a game again!

Off the top of my head, the Pile Of Shame list is:

- Dear Esther
- The Outer Wilds
- Soma
- Obra Dinn

Jono62 6 Jan 2021 09:36:50 27,008 posts
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@hedben2013 Dear Esther is worth a couple of hours of your time.

LegendaryApe 6 Jan 2021 09:38:05 2,459 posts
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First time trying this, hopefully I shall be successful! I've not bought any of these games this year but I'll put them down anyway. I don't plan on buying any for a long time anyway

1) Ghost of Tsushima
2) Gears 4 (via Gamepass)
3) Miles Morales
4)