Final Thoughts

Final Thoughts is what I call the write-up I post for each game I complete as part of my backlog playthrough group, Rogue’s Adventures.

My Final Thoughts are written like a very personal, subjective review, and typically less about nuts and bolts game mechanics and more about the experiences I had while playing. Since I divide my schedule into Seasons like a TV show, I write a Recap at the end of each Season dictating various stats and ranking the games I played, which I’ve also included below.

The first Final Thoughts was written after I started Rogue’s Adventures and completed my first game in November 2012, however I didn’t begin posting them to my blog until April of 2013. By Mid-Summer 2013 I was caught up and since then all my Final Thoughts are posted to my blog within a few days of finishing the latest game in my scheduled backlog.

Bolded titles were featured on GI’s weekly Blog Herding and/or the Game Informer Newsletter.

Season One

Nov 2012 – May 2013

1. Psychonauts
2. Stacking
3. Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars
4. Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror
5. Broken Sword III: The Sleeping Dragon
6. Resonance
7. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
8. The Whispered World
9. Beneath a Steel Sky
10. The Longest Journey
11. Dreamfall: The Longest Journey

Season One Recap

 

Season Two

May 2013 – Dec 2013

12. Half-Life 2
13. BioShock 2
14. The Bard’s Tale
15. Fallout
16. Shadowrun Returns
17. XCOM: Enemy Unknown
18. Fallout: New Vegas (+DLC)

Season Two Recap

 

Season Three

Jan 2014 – June 2014

19. Just Cause 2
20. The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav
21. Deponia
22. The Next BIG Thing
23. Primordia
24. Antichamber
25. Saints Row: The Third
26. Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn

Season Three Recap

 

Season Four

July 2014 – December 2014

27. Portal
28. Beyond Good and Evil
29. Trine 2
30. Fez
31. Dishonored (+DLC)
32. Dust: An Elysian Tail
33. The Swapper
34. The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings
35. The Banner Saga
36. Saints Row IV

Season Four Recap

Season Five

January 2015 – June 2015

37. Portal 2
38. Cthulhu Saves the World
39. Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
40. Risk of Rain
41. Shadowrun: Dragonfall (Director’s Cut)
42. Retro City Rampage
43. Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
44. South Park: The Stick of Truth
45. Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag

Season Five Recap

 

Season Six

July 2015 – December 2015

46. Ori and the Blind Forest
47. Unepic
48. Child of Light
49. This War of Mine
50. Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse
51. Gunpoint
52. Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine
53. Hand of Fate
54. Tales from the Borderlands

Season Six Recap

 

Season Seven

January 2016 – August 2016

55. Carmageddon: Reincarnation
56. Hard West
57. Shadowrun: Hong Kong
58. Grim Dawn

Season Seven Recap