Somewhat of a weird entry...I can see the design point of view: bite-size missions for on the go, but just didn't seem to gel too well...still was nice to get some more back story on Big Boss, the first Metal Gear, origins of Outer Heaven (stolen from the nut-bag end boss) and how Big Boss starts to go nuts looking for "a calling" and passing on what was given to him. Controls were a bit awkward too...but visuals were very nice for PSP.

Very awesome. Again very cinematic. Very different to the other 2 though. No modern gadgets. No postmodern weirdness. Lots of camouflage and eating animals. Don't think I was playing it right though because I was spotted in pretty much every room no matter what I did to sneak up on people...Very sad ending. Poor Boss was just doing her duty and got fucked over. I can see now why Snake does what he does now that he is the Big Boss. Portable Ops next!

Last of the original series. Sad times. Was getting to enjoy them a lot. Particularly the last few with the modern conveniences of new games and quirky stories. Make more of these, Capcom! On to the remnants of the X series now.

Wow.  What a year.  Didn't think I could beat last years numbers especially after starting a job and being busier, but the passion for gaming seems stronger than ever.  Just hope I can again keep up the pace.  Or accelerate it further!

Game of the year: undoubtedly XCOM: Enemy Unknown.

138 games beaten this year.  PC pulled even further ahead accounting for almost half of all games played this year.  This was thanks to lots of co-op gaming and jimbob's rebuild into a mighty gaming monster.

A good few loose ends tied up this year as well.  Metroid series, Paper Mario, Zeldas, Painkillers, Call of Dutys and lots more.

Backlog completion passed 75% completion this year.  Very nice indeed.  Although this was largely due to heavy culling of games I knew I would never play.  Although this was balanced out by nullifying repeated game entries on multiple systems unless that had actually been played through fully on all.  A few more years of this pace and I might just clear it.  Provided that not too many new ones are added...If only I could take a year off work to just churn it out.

More platforms worked on this year thanks to branching out to clean out systems and the new addition of Vita and iPad.

Completed entries from the list of resolutions made at years beginning:

all Guitar Hero, Band Hero
all mass effects
both batman games
all moderrn warfares
call of duty world at war
call of duty black ops
remaining zelda games (spirit tracks, oracles, skyward sword)
Rock Band
paper mario the thousand year door
i am alive
hard reset
journey
fez
remaining painkillers (overdose, resurrection, redemption, recurring evil)
the war of the worlds
crackdown 2
devil may cry 2
de blob 2
luigis mansion
pikmin 2
bayonetta
homefront
remaining metroids (prime 2 & 3, other m)
lost planet
deadlight
both prototypes

Those that I did not manage to complete and will be passed on to next year:

series:

DJ Hero
elder scrolls 4 & 5
soul reaver series
both infamouses
f.e.a.r. series
remaining gtas (San andreas and Chinatown wars)

stand-alone:

okamiden
l.a. noire
the last story
rage
tom clancys endwar
contact
the world ends with you
lost odyssey
dark souls

Complete list of resolutions for 2013:

series:

DJ Hero

elder scrolls 4 & 5

soul reaver series

both infamouses

f.e.a.r. series

remaining gtas (San andreas and Chinatown wars)

both witchers

space hulk and space crusade

remaining gun games (biohazard gun survivor, point blank, pont blank 3, resident evil survivor, time crisis: crisis zone)

remaining f-zeros (x and gx)

fallout 3 and fallout: new vegas

mario golf (n64, advance tour, toadstool tour)

megaman 9-10, x7-8

outrun 2 and outrun 2006

wipeouts (2048, 2097, 64, fusion, pulse, pure)

metal gear series (solid 3, portable ops, solid 4, peace walker)

stand-alone:

okamiden

l.a. noire

the last story

rage

tom clancys endwar

contact

the world ends with you

lost odyssey

dark souls

burnout dominator

chaos legion

every extend extra extreme

final fantasy ii

viva pinata

spec ops the line

sleeping dogs

Complete list of games completed this year ordered by system popularity: 

PC (62)

Castle Crashers (PCDL)

Magicka (Steam)

Far Cry 3 (PCDL)

Prototype 2 (PCDL)

Episode 5: No Time Left (PCDL)

Prototype (Steam)

ObsCure The Aftermath (PCDL)

Call of Duty: Black Ops II (PCDL)

Deadlight (PCDL)

Lost Planet Extreme Condition Colonies Edition (Steam)

Need for Speed: Most Wanted (PCDL)

British Intelligence Officers Exam (Brwsr)

Homefront (Steam)

XCOM: Enemy Unknown (PCDL)
Borderlands 2 (Steam)

Obscure (PCDL)

Carrier Command: Gaea Mission (PCDL)

Episode 4: Around Every Corner (PCDL)

Black Mesa (Steam)

Renegade Ops (PCDL)

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X 2 (Steam)

Episode 3: The Long Road Ahead (PCDL)

Thirty Flights of Loving (Steam)

Gravitybone (PCDL)

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (PCDL)

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X (Steam)

LEGO Indiana Jones 2 (PCDL)

Painkiller: Recurring Evil (Steam)

Painkiller Redemption (Steam)

Painkiller Resurrection (Steam)

Episode 2: Starved for Help (PCDL)

Painkiller Overdose (Steam)

Trine 2 (PCDL)

Serious Sam 3: BFE (Steam)

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Republic Heroes (PCDL)

Hard Reset (Steam)

Dead Island (Steam)

Max Payne 3 (PCDL)

Trine (PCDL)

Capsized (Steam)

Dead Rising 2: Off the Record (G4W)

The Cursed Crusade (PCDL)

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light (Steam)

The Walking Dead Episode 1: A New Day (PCDL)

Terminator Salvation (PCDL)

Rayman Origins (PCDL)

Ghostbusters: Sanctum of slime (Steam)

Call of Duty: Black Ops (PCDL)

Call of Duty: World at War (PCDL)

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (PCDL)

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PCDL)

Batman: Arkham City (G4W)

Batman: Arkham Asylum (Steam)

Mass Effect 3 (Origin) (From Ashes, Extended Cut, Leviathan, Omega)

Microsoft Flight (G4W)

And Yet It Moves (Steam)

Shank 2 (PCDL)

Mass Effect 2 (PCDL) (Zaeed - The Price of Revenge and Kasumi - Stolen Memory, Overlord, Firewalker, Arrival, Lair of the Shadow Broker)

Shank (Steam)

Mass Effect (Steam) (Bring Down the Sky)

Jamestown (Steam)

360 (16)

Halo 4 (360)

Bayonetta (360)
Devil May Cry 2 (360)

Lollipop Chainsaw (360)

Crackdown 2 (360)

LEGO Rock Band (360)

The Beatles Rock Band (360)

Rock Band 3 (360)

Green Day: Rock Band (360)

Rock Band 2 (360)

Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare (360)

Halo Wars (360)

Rock Band (360)

Band Hero (360)

Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3 (360)

Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock (360)

PS3 (9)

inFamous (PS3)

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (PS3)

Resident Evil 6 (PS3)

Assassin's Creed III (PS3) (The Benedict Arnold Missions)

de Blob 2 (PS3)

Deadstorm Pirates (PS3)

Razing Storm (PS3)

Time Crisis 4 (PS3)

Resistance 3 (PS3)

XBLA (8)

Virtual On-OT (XBLA)

Shadow Complex (XBLA)

The War of the Worlds (XBLA)

Fez (XBLA)

I am Alive (XBLA)

Toy Soldier: Cold War (XBLA)

Zombie Apocalypse: Never Die Alone (XBLA)

Alan Wake's American Nightmare (XBLA)

Android (6)

N.O.V.A. 2: The Hero Rises Again (Droid)

NOVA (Droid)

Dead Space (Droid)

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X (Droid)

Rainbow Six: Shadow Vanguard (Droid)

Mass Effect: Infiltrator (Droid)

Wii (5)

Metroid: Other M (Wii)

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Wii)

The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword (Wii)

BIT.TRIP Beat (WW)

Resident Evil The Darkside Chronicles (Wii)

Vita (5)

Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (PSVita)

Metal Gear (PSVita)

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (PSVita)

Resistance: Burning Skies (PSVita)

Uncharted: Golden Abyss (PSVita)

NES (4)

Mega Man 6 (NES)

Mega Man 5 (NES)

Mega Man 4 (NES)

Mega Man 2 (NES)

Gamecube (4)

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (GCN)

Pikmin 2 (GCN)

Luigi's Mansion (GCN)

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (GCN)

Game Boy (3)

Alleyway (GB)

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages (GBC)

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (GBC)

SNES (3)

Mega Man 7 (SNES)

Super Bomberman 2 (SNES)

Cannon Fodder (SNES)

Atari ST (3)

Robocop (AtrST)

Chase HQ (AtrST)

Back to the Future Part 2 (AtrST)

PSN (2)

flower (PSN)

Journey (PSN)

DS (2)

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (NDS)

Aliens: Infestation (NDS)

3DS (2)

Ocarina of Time 3D (3DS)

Pilotwings Resort (3DS)

N64 (2)

Killer Instinct Gold (N64)

Pilotwings 64 (N64)

Virtual Console (1)

Yoshi's Story (VC)

Playstation (1)

Mega Man 8 (PS)

iPad (1)

Mirror's Edge (iPad)

First beaten game of the new year! Was hoping to get this one beat in 2012 but sadly it did not happen. Nevertheless, a classic return to form for the original Mega Man series. Highly enjoyable and rock hard. Hope they keep making these for a long time to come, but for the moment, there is only 1 game left in this series...sad....

Longest and most boring of them all yet...hopefully the throwback ones are better

First ios game. Felt dirty...but quite a nice port of the original. Captured the flow nicely. Good visuals and awesome tunes. Slightly frustrating in points due to controls, but this is to be expected with any touch game really.

The series only SNES entry ticked off now. Only PSX entry up next. This one was an odd variety of difficulty...levels themselves were kind of tricky, but all robot masters were very easy. Wily bosses were tricky and Wily himself was a bastard. Strange variety...

Last of the NES Mega Mans down. But not the last classic one. This one was pretty hard...but the Mega Man/Rush combo modes were very cool. On to the singular SNES entry!

Another one down. Half way through the original series. Reviewers were right it seems...quality did start to decline a bit after #4

Very good sequel. Both these games are crying out for HD remakes. Despite their age, still have an awesome story and did a lot with the limited technology of the time. This one established many of the conventions of the Metal Gear series. Awesome stuff. Still very playable to this day. Still hard too...bring on more Metal Gear

Still surprisingly playable even to this day. Good to see how it all begun. Game development-wise. Not chronological story line-wise. That will come soon.... These early games need modern HD remakes

Wow. What a head fuck. Can't tell if this game is genuinely very hard, hard to control or if I just suck and am too used to modernisms. Apart from all that, fantastic stuff. Thought provoking and awesome and did not want to put it down. On with the other ones!

Quite significantly longer than the first one. And plagued by the same control difficulties in that you would do a 180 quite regularly for no reason. Other than that, another fun Android shooter and total Halo rip off

Moving through the original series. Every bit as hard as I recall...

Classic Castle Crashing action. Much easier with 4 people. And insane

Starting through the original Mega Man series

Meh...decent enough but just seemed very small-scale, tame and boring after playing the similar but more more grandiose Prototype games. Dunno if I'll do inFamous 2

Interesting adventure. Of sorts... Fucking difficult though. Funny too. BLEIGH!

Infinitely better than the second game. Worried me at the start because it felt very similar only in a jungle...but thankfully, it differentiated itself very well. Loads and loads to do. Plenty of variety in the missions, good story and skillset. Not to mention awesome eye candy. Bravo Ubisoft. You finally got Far Cry right. Feels good being a jungle warrior