ahmedelebiary

10 years ago, I joined this website as a member.. 10 years of great memories, lots of trophies, many friendships that I made, and tons of helpful and entertaining content ❤️ really love this community. 🥳 

State of Play ! Excited to see more of Stray and maybe TLoU Remake ? 🤔 Let's see. 

The Dark Pictures Anthology:

 215 Man of Medan 

216 Little Hope 

217 House of Ashes 

Fun 8/10 (replaying the game and chapters for the plat can be tedious) 

Difficulty 3/10 ( really simple, just take a minimum of 2 playthroughs each and a few chapter replays )

*there's a single co-op trophy in MoM that can be really annoying due to the potato servers . 

A great franchise by Supermassive Games who are best known for (Until Dawn) and the upcoming (The Quarry), these games follow the same pattern .. a new game with different stories, characters and settings where your choices matter and decide who lives and who dies - similar to Telltale - but much better with lots of blood, gore and gruesome deaths, as well as a thrilling story with well done jump scares and horror elements.

They did really great with the atmospheres and the story ( especially LH), as for characters: Motion Capture is on spot! Loved the graphics and facial expressions and voice acting. Really well done ... Can't wait for their next entry (The Devil in me ) 😍 also super stoked for (The Quarry 🥰)

My favorite characters across all games are Salim and Jason from HoA .. the bromance is real ❤️ they also introduce a famous Hollywood celebrity for each game: which is uber cool:

-Shawn Ashmore ( MoM )

-Will Poulter (LH) 

-Ashley Tisdale (HoA) 

✅ Fun fact: Salim and Dar from HoA are Iraqis, however their voice actors spoke an Egyptian dialect.. it's inaccurate of course but they did a good job so I actually enjoyed listening to them as an Egyptian 🇪🇬

#214 Call of Duty Black Ops 3

Fun 7/10
Diff 6/10
Grind 9/10
Time 90hrs

The third entry of our beloved franchise, but unfortunately it wasn't half as good as BO1 and 2 . The story and the twist were great but other than that nothing memorable.

Imo, the difficulty of this plat is overrated and I'll mention why.

Campaign:
can be easily exploited or just played with friends in coop, makes (veteran no deaths and realistic a breeze) .. same goes to the Training Simulator trophy and accolade (the ridiculous chair exploit lol just sit on your partner 😏)

Multiplayer:
Due to the shitty region issues with older CoDs, I couldn't connect to any lobbies except for if a friend invited me to one , had to boost those using the private lobby xp exploit

Zombies:
Nothing too hard like Bo1&2 , everything can be done in 4-5 hours if you have solid partners (like I did) and someone who knows exactly what to do .

The accolades weren't too bad , only a couple of them can be annoying but there are good video guides on YT for each chapter.
The worst thing about this plat imo was the weapons camo grind.. took me +22k kills to get everything done... So boring

"Listen only to the sound of my voice. Let your mind relax. Let your thoughts drift. Let the bad memories fade. Let peace be upon you. Surrender yourself to your dreams. Let them wash over you like the gentle waves of the bluest ocean. Let them envelop you. Comfort you.

Imagine somewhere calm. Imagine somewhere safe. Imagine yourself in a frozen forest. You're standing in a clearing. Trees around you so tall, they touch the sky. Pure white snowflakes fall all around. You can feel them melt on your skin. You are not cold. It cannot overcome the warmth of your beating heart. Can you hear it? You only have to listen.

Can you hear it slowing? You're slowing it. You are in control. Calm. At peace."

#213 Until Dawn

Fun 9/10 

Difficulty 2/10

Really enjoyed this one, totally met my high expectations with the atmosphere, the graphics, the story and the characters. I enjoyed going for the different endings and choices and the collectibles weren't bad at all, fun platinum overall .

I love those types of story-driven games. Supermassive games did amazing with this one and I'm sure The Quarry will be even better. Planning to do the Dark Picture Anthology games as well. 

#212 Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice (EU stack)

Fun 8/10 (last lorestone bugged so an extra playthrough, makes it 4 in total )

Diff 2/10

Got nothing new to say about this masterpiece, so here is the epic poem by the Shadow (read it in his voice ❤️)

In this waking nightmare
Where all dreams come true
Your searched for control
A way to pull through

When you were in love

 you left him in tears
To smother your furies

 and banish your fears,

But in darkness they came
Through stormy black seas

They raided these shores

Do you still hear his screams?

Now that you're home...
He's so far away

They've taken his soul
To these gods you cannot pray

They can break you, but not your promise,
Even his death won't keep you apart

Through this darkness you will find him,
In your sword still beats a heart

You fought for love
And spoilt by your darkness within

You fought for your dream,
Now there is no way to win

In the head of his corpse
Lies the seat to his soul

So you must carry his vessel
To bring him back home

They can break you, but not your promise,
Even his death won't keep you apart

Through this darkness you will find him
In your sword still beats a heart

#211 Infamous Second Son

Fun 6/10

Diff 3/10 

Time +20 hrs

I know I waited a long time for this but finally got around to it . Still got First Light to do at some point

It was okay game I guess .. good game but definitely not a good Infamous. I preferred the PS3 ones (Infamous 1&2) waaaay more, Cole McGrath is a better protagonist by miles and the story was actually much better. 

Yes the gameplay was cool with all the new superpowers, but I only mainly used the Video and Smoke (early on) .. concrete was useless as you get it very late in the game and Neon was .. meh. Gotta admit the graphics were brilliant tho.

The story and characters mostly didn't make any sense (especially the evil karma ) and I couldn't care less about them tbf , the plus side was the decent voice actors (Troy Baker , Laura Bailey, and Travis Willingham) , despite the majority of the dialogue being .. edgy and albeit cringy idk

Overall I don't think it's a bad game, it's just not a good Infamous.. newcomers to the series will definitely enjoy more than I did, I just found it rather (overrated? ) 

#208 The Walking Dead: Final Season (EU) 

(2nd stack) ❤️

Fun 10/10

Diff 2/10 

#209 Life is Strange Remastered (3rd stack) ❤️ 

Fun 10/10

Diff 1/10

#210 Life is Strange Before the Storm ❤️ Remastered (2nd stack) 

Fun 10/10

Diff 1/10 

Always feels great replaying some of your favorite games ❤️ had a few minor technical issues with LiS remasters but thankfully nothing too bad.. however the game crashed on me twice during ep3 of BTS

#207 Uncharted 4: A Thief's End

Fun 10/10

Diff 3/10 

Late to the party, but better late than never, right ? Uncharted is without a doubt one of my favorite video games franchise and Drake is one of my favorite characters, had so many great memories playing the trilogy back on PS3 

Older Drake returns to treasure hunting with the good ol' Sully and Elena (now his wife) , this game is a graphical masterpiece in every bit, I loved standing there enjoying the beautiful scenes and landscapes and taking those stunning screenshots ❤️ this as well as the characters design and the mo-cap never disappoints as always! Hats off to Sony, Naughty Dog, and Neil Druckmann

The gameplay is still fun and exciting as ever.., the exploration and the environment were well made, I loved the rope swinging feature so much! the colors are just bloody brilliant! I loved the story and the characters, the voice acting and the soundtracks they were all great 😍 fantastic work as always by Troy Baker and Nolan North. The introduction of Sam's character was surprising, but welcomed and nice to see 👍 well presented and done

What a way to end Nathan Drake's story! That ending had me emotional and gave me real goosebumps 😭