It ain't easy

I stopped by my local GameStop to check the PS3 section for games with a local multiplayer or co-op mode. Seems modern gaming has gone so far online that most games don't have this option. Just about everything I picked up was labeled "Local: 1 player. Network: 2 - 478³ players".

Games like Skyrim are obviously out of the question (I do play it now and then and I'm at level 63 or so) and I'm not too keen on split screen warfare after playing Black Ops but after our weekend of Dungeon Siege 3, I was still feeling excited. I wanted to cast more spells, whack around with a sword and destroy everything that moves, all the while chasing after every little bit of loot I could lay my greasy fingers on. No such luck though so I figured I'll order Mario Party 8 or 9 instead. That ought to give at least a few good laughs due to massive screw-ups. And I'm not going back to World of Warcraft. I'm done with that black hole of infinite grinding. Though I could maybe try playing casually... NO. Never again.

I'll be playing it before the year is over, I'm sure.

What's this then?

Hi there. Some time around the summer of 2011, me and my friend were spending a hangover afternoon at his place. Now I'm sure most people are aware of the fact that a hangover is a state of mind during which a person produces both the dumbest and the most mindblowingly brilliant ideas. Ok so we didn't get any brilliant ideas but started playing Super Mario Bros. instead. We ended up playing through Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World and Super Mario Lost Levels. No Mario 2 though, as we refuse to accept the second installment of SMB on the N(intendo)E(ntertainment)S(ystem) as a real Mario.

 

No. Onions and Birdo the gay egg shooter? Just NO.

Check out the history of it by The Gaming Historian here.

Right, so we finished a bunch of good SMB games and realized that it wasn't such a bad way to spend weekends. Now, some six months later we've done it with actual planning instead of randomly picking up a game and finishing it. The list of games has expanded like Donkey Kong's banana hoard and I'll list the ones I remember as well as include a difficulty rating for finishing them. Some games have extra objectives like time attack levels and mirror modes which I'm not going to rate as our goal was to finish the games (although we did attempt the occasional 100% completion).

Feel free to skip the list as there's not really much of a point to it other than to remind myself of what we've completed and to visualize the length of the list. More on the co-op aspect of our gaming weekends after this.

1. Super Mario Bros. (NES) 7/10
2. Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES) 6/10
3. Super Mario World (SNES) 6/10
4. Super Mario Lost Levels (NES) 8/10
5. Mega Man (NES) 8/10 - I'll be honest, I don't remember the difficulty of the Mega Man series very well.
6. Mega Man 2 (NES) 7/10
7. Mega Man 3 (NES) 7/10
8. Mega Man 4 (NES) 8/10
9. Donkey Kong Country (SNES) 7/10
10. Donkey Kong Country 2 (SNES) 8/10
11. Donkey Kong Country 3 (SNES) 7/10
12. Donkey Kong Returns (Wii) 8/10 - 100% complete (200% possible?).
13. Ufouria: The Saga (NES) 7/8 - Check it out, it's brilliant.
14. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES) 9/10
15. Dungeon Siege 3 (X360)