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	<h1>Games I've Played</h1>
	<section>
		<h2>Mostly Shooters and Stuff</h2>
		<ul>
			<li>Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer</li>
			<li>Halo: Combat Evolved
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="difficulty max">Legendary solo</span>
				</div>
				<p class="thoughts">I really liked Halo: CE. It was a strong game, and I've had a soft spot for the Halo story - I don't think it's particularly deep or told with finesse, but it's <em>fun</em>!</p>
			</li>
			<li>Halo 2
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="difficulty hard">Heroic co-op</span>
				</div>
				<p class="thoughts">I've been telling myself I'm going to beat Halo 2 on legendary by myself since the day I beat Halo: CE on legendary. I feel the overwhelming urge to be able to say I've beaten the whole trilogy on the hardest difficulty! On the other hand, it's really goddamn hard.</p>
			</li>
			<li>Halo 3
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="difficulty max">Legendary co-op</span>
					<span class="difficulty max">Legendary solo</span>
					<span class="achievement max">All Skulls found</span>
				</div>
			</li>
			<li>Halo 3: ODST
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="difficulty hard">Heroic co-op</span>
				</div>
			</li>
			<li>Halo: Reach
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="difficulty hard">Heroic co-op</span>
				</div>
			</li>
			<li>Gears of War
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="difficulty max">Insane co-op</span>
				</div>
			</li>
			<li>Gears of War 2
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="difficulty hard">Hardcore co-op</span>
				</div>
			</li>
			<li>Gears of War 3
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="difficulty hard">Hardcore co-op</span>
				</div>
			</li>
			<li>Half-Life</li>
			<li>Half-Life: Blue Shift</li>
			<li>Half-Life: Opposing Force</li>
			<li>Half-Life 2 (and Episode 1) (and Episode 2)</li>
			<li>Portal</li>
			<li>Portal 2 (and co-op)</li>
			<li>Army of Two</li>
			<li>Army of Two: 40th Day</li>
			<li>Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="achievement bad">Gave up after like 30 minutes</span>
				</div>
				<p class="thoughts">This game was terrible.</p>
			</li>
			<li>Resistance: Fall of Man
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="difficulty hard">Hard? co-op</span>
				</div>
			</li>
			<li>Resistance 3
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="difficulty hard">Hard co-op</span>
				</div>
				<p class="thoughts">These games weren't very deep, but they had decent shooting and good weapons. Resistance 2 didn't have co-op, so I didn't play it - I just watched my friend do it.</p>
			</li>
			<li>Killzone 3
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="difficulty hard">Veteran? co-op</span>
				</div>
				<p class="thoughts">This game offered alternate color modes for colorblindness, which is awesome. Shame the dialogue and plot was so literally laughable.
				</p>
			</li>
			<li>Resident Evil 5
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="difficulty hard">Veteran? co-op</span>
					<span class="achievement max">Broke one level</span>
				</div>
				<p class="thoughts">My pal and I played this over one break, and we couldn't take it seriously. Once we beat it, we spent our hard-earned points on getting infinite ammo for a few weapons - and decided we'd try to unlock infinite ammo for every weapon. We didn't end up doing that, but we did get so practiced at going through one level - which drops the most money for the time you spend in it by <em>far</em> - that we beat the max difficulty time trial by <em>half</em>. The magnum in that game is ridiculously overpowered.</p>
			</li>
			<li>F.3.A.R.
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="difficulty hard">Fearless? co-op</span>
				</div>
				<p class="thoughts">As far as I can tell, these people have no idea what the phrase "survival horror" even means.</p>
			</li>
			<li>Team Fortress</li>
			<li>Team Fortress 2</li>
		</ul>
	</section>
	<section>
		<h2>Not Shooters</h2>
		<ul>
			<li>Pokemon: Red
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="achievement normal">Beat the Elite Four</span>
				</div>
			</li>
			<li>Pokemon: Silver</li>
			<li>Pokemon: Diamond
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="achievement normal">Beat the Elite Four</span>
				</div>
			</li>
			<li>Crimson Skies</li>	
			<li>Prince of Persia (1989)</li>
			<li>Prince of Persia: Sands of Time</li>
			<li>Prince of Persia (2008)</li>
			<li>Super Smash Brothers: Melee
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="achievement hard">Every SP challenge</span>
				</div>
			</li>
			<li>Super Smash Brothers: Brawl
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="achievement max">Every achievement</span>
					<span class="achievement bad">except one sticker</span>
				</div>
			</li>
			<li>Mario Kart: Double Dash
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="achievement max">Time Trial Staff Ghosts</span>
					<span class="achievement max">Every Cup on Mirror</span>
				</div>
			</li>
			<li>Mario Kart: Wii
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="achievement max">Gold Medals on Everything</span>
				</div>
			</li>
			<li>Okami
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="achievement normal">All brush techniques</span>
				</div>
			</li>
			<li>Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
				<p class="thoughts">I think this might be my #1 pick for best Zelda game.</p>
			</li>
			<li>Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time</li>
			<li>Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask</li>
			<li>Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker</li>
			<li>Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap</li>
			<li>Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess</li>
			<li>Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="achievement bad">Unfinished</span>
				</div>
			</li>
			<li>Super Mario 64</li>
			<li>Super Mario Sunshine</li>
			<li>Super Mario Galaxy
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="achievement normal">120 Stars</span>
				</div>
			</li>
			<li>New Super Mario Bros 2</li>
			<li>Super Mario 3D World</li>
			<li>Final Fantasy</li>
			<li>Final Fantasy 6
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="achievement bad">Halfway</span>
				</div>
			</li>
			<li>Final Fantasy 7
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="achievement bad">Halfway</span>
				</div>
			</li>
			<li>Final Fantasy 8
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="achievement bad">Halfway</span>
				</div>
				<p class="thoughts">I feel like including Final Fantasy games that I haven't finished is still reasonable because not finishing a Final Fantasy game involves a similar time commitment as finishing many other games.</p>
			</li>
			<li>No More Heroes
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="difficulty normal">Mild</span>
					<span class="achievement normal">All Beam Katanas</span>
				</div>
			</li>
			<li>No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="difficulty normal">Mild</span>
				</div>
			</li>
			<li>Guitar Hero
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="difficulty max">Expert</span>
				</div>
			</li>
			<li>Rock Band
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="difficulty max">Expert Guitar</span>
					<span class="difficulty normal">Medium Drums</span>
				</div>
			</li>
			<li>Super Metroid</li>
			<li>Metroid: Fusion</li>
			<li>Metroid: Zero Mission</li>
			<li>Metroid Prime</li>
			<li>Metroid Prime 3: Corruption</li>
			<li>Silent Hill 2
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="achievement bad">Gave up</span>
					<span class="achievement normal">In Water ending</span>
				</div>
				<p class="thoughts">As of September, 2013, this game is too scary for me. As of November, 2013, Glen and I finished it!</p>
			</li>
			<li>Psychonauts
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="achievement bad">Unfinished</span>
				</div>
				<p class="thoughts">I know Psychonauts is everyone's cult fave, but it just didn't grab me.</p>
			</li>
			<li>Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="achievement max">100% Collection</span>
					<span class="achievement max">100% Mission Completion</span>
				</div>
				<p class="thoughts">I wouldn't recommend it.</p>
			</li>
			<li>SSX: Deadly Descents
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="achievement max">Platinum Completion Trophy</span>
				</div>
				<p class="thoughts">Well, this took me literally over two years to finally pick up the last few trophies, BUT!</p>
			</li>
		</ul>
	</section>
	<section>
		<h2>More Indie</h2>
		<ul>
			<li>Jumper
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="achievement bad">Unfinished</span>
				</div>
			</li>
			<li>Jumper Two
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="achievement bad">Unfinished</span>
				</div>
			</li>
			<li>Jumper Three</li>
			<li>Cave Story</li>
			<li>Gish</li>
			<li>World of Goo</li>
			<li>Osmos</li>
			<li>Jamestown</li>
			<li>Kerbal Space Program
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="achievement normal">Low Kerbin Orbit</span>
					<span class="achievement normal">Round-trip Mun Mission</span>
					<span class="achievement hard">Minmus Mission</span>
				</div>
			</li>
			<li><a href="http://boson-x.com">Boson X</a>
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="achievement normal">Discovered all the particles</span>
				</div>
			</li>
			<li>Guns of Icarus
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="achievement bad">unfinished</span>
				</div>
			</li>
			<li>Hammerwatch
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="achievement bad">unfinished</span>
				</div>
				<p class="thoughts">Ehhh... Just not very enticing, you know? And kinda too hard.</p>
			</li>
			<li>Monaco</li>
			<li>AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! A Reckless Disregard for Gravity</li>
			<li>AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome</li>
			<li>Monument Valley
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="achievement normal">main campaign</span>
					<span class="achievement normal">Forgotten Shores</span>
				</div>
			</li>
		</ul>
	</section>
	<section>
		<h2>Extremely Indie</h2>
		<p>(This section is kinda by nature going to be extremely incomplete; a lot of these games take like ten minutes to play, and often get forgotten. Talk to me and I'll recommend more, and just check out every game by <a href="http://aliendovecote.com/">porpentine</a>.)</p>
		<ul>
			<li><a href="aliendovecote.com/uploads/twine/empress/empress.html">With Those We Love Alive</a></li>
			<li><a href="http://philome.la/baphomeme/queer-trans-mentally-ill-power-fantasy/play">Queer Trans Mentally Ill Power Fantasy</a></li>
		</ul>
	<section>
		<h2>Extremely Memorable</h2>
		<ul>
			<li>Shadow of the Colossus
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="difficulty max">Hard</span>
					<span class="achievement hard">Time Trials (Normal)</span>
					<span class="achievement max">Climbed the temple</span>
				</div>
				<p class="thoughts">I love this game so much I'm not even going to write about it. I'd say too much.</p>
			</li>
			<li>Ico
				<p class="thoughts">Ico was very pretty, and had some of the same qualities that Shadow of the Colossus had, but it didn't tie together nearly so well.</p>
			</li>
			<li>Mirror's Edge
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="difficulty normal">Easy</span>
					<span class="achievement hard">Test of Faith (Pacifist)</span>
				</div>
				<p class="thoughts">This game has the best platforming I've had the pleasure of experiencing - and I'm a sucker for good platforming.</p>
			</li>
			<li>El Shaddai
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="difficulty normal">Normal</span>
				</div>
				<p class="thoughts">I loved this game from an aesthetic point of view, but I kept waiting for the story to get interesting. I'm still waiting.</p>
			</li>
			<li>Zeno Clash
				<p class="thoughts">The aesthetic really makes this game stand out.</p>
			</li>
			<li>Iji
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="difficulty normal">Normal</span>
					<span class="achievement normal">Somewhat Pacifist</span>
				</div>
				<p class="thoughts">Iji remains one of my favorite games of all time, for its excellent pseudo-morality system - one of the best I've seen.</p>
			</li>
			<li>Valkyrie Chronicles
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="difficulty normal">Normal</span>
					<span class="achievement normal">No deaths</span>
				</div>
				<p class="thoughts">Valkyrie Chronicles had such a cool gameplay and storytelling style that I have to include it.</p>
			</li>
			<li>No More Heroes
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="difficulty normal">Mild</span>
					<span class="achievement normal">All Beam Katanas</span>
				</div>
				<p class="thoughts">It's hard to describe this game. It was fascinating.</p>
			</li>
			<li>Elite Beat Agents
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="difficulty hard">Sweatin'!</span>
					<span class="difficulty max">Hard ROCK!</span>
				</div>
				<p class="thoughts">Probably my favorite rhythm game.</p>
			</li>
			<li>Silent Hill 2
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="achievement bad">Gave up</span>
					<span class="achievement normal">In Water ending</span>
				</div>
				<p class="thoughts">As of September, 2013, this game is too scary for me. As of November, 2013, Glen and I finished it!</p>
			</li>
			<li>OFF
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="achievement normal">Batter ending</span>
					<span class="achievement normal">Judge ending</span>
				</div>
			</li>
			<li>Journey
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="achievement hard">White Cloak</span>
				</div>
				<p class="thoughts">The only game I've played or seen with such an emotionally powerful and compelling anonymous multiplayer experience.</p>
			</li>
			<li>Bastion
				<div class="accolades">
					<span class="achievement normal">Both endings</span>
					<span class="achievement normal">Altruist (all vigils)</span>
					<span class="achievement normal">Mind Voyager (each trip to Who Knows Where)</span>
				</div>
				<p class="thoughts">Oh gosh this game. I loved it so much. Such a masterpiece of storytelling - two days after getting it I finished it, and two days later I finished my second playthrough. When I design games, this is what I try for - with maybe more female characters.</p>
			</li>
			<li><a href="aliendovecote.com/uploads/twine/empress/empress.html">With Those We Love Alive</a></li>
		</ul>
	</section>
	<section>
		<h2>Forgotten and Probably Indie</h2>
		<ul>
			<li>Lugaru HD</li>
			<li>Beat Hazard</li>
		</ul>
	</section>
</article>