TugaSonic

#142 - Grand Theft Auto V (PS4)

After almost 4 years and a half, I finally got the platinum. When I first played it I got bored halfway through the story so I stopped. A year and a half later I returned to the game and finished the story and got 100% completion in the single-player but started getting bored again so I decided to delay the online. Rockstar did a get money for logging in event a few months later and I thought I'll do the online. Logged in and the first thing I saw on the public server was everyone killing everyone, they even tried to kill me even though I had passive mode. I was just nope and never touched the game again.

Finally decided to get the platinum and here we are. Game is fun but either GTA just isn't the same as before or I just don't love GTA games as much (it's probably the latter). As for 100% completion, I only have the heists left but I'll probably give up on it unless I find three players who are committed to finishing them since I don't want to bother trying with randoms.

My next platinum will depend on what I'll finish faster. It'll either be Spider-man which I got on Black Friday and I just started it or it'll be Gran Turismo Sport which all I have left is to reach level 50 (currently level 49 but the EXP needed to level up to 50 is absurd).

#141 - Shadow of the Tomb Raider (+100% Completion)

That's another trilogy finished. The game was fine although the devs really love their climbing since the games are full of sections where you climb with this one being a little too much. The combat feels added on since you barely fight and half of the encounters feels more like tutorials. The fights are also kinda easy with one encounter I had 10 enemies coming at me at once and all I did was dodge roll while shooting at them between dodges and I was able to pass it on my first try and this was on the highest difficulty near the end.

Playing the game on the highest difficulty, Deadly Obsession, was kinda frustrating for the fact you have to restart a huge chunk of the game for dying since there are parts that the checkpoint is almost 1-2 hours apart and with the long cutscenes that are practically unskippable since the loading takes too much time.

The DLC was also fine since they add side quests were you explore a tomb although I initially found it weird that they added 2 or 3 alternate paths with one path being impossible to do and only when I tried the Time Trial did I realize that it has a co-op mode and the impossible alternate paths are for that. Trophy wise I was just happy that there's no Score Medals minus the DLC tombs and even then you only need Bronze so from the trilogy this game is probably the easiest.

All in all, I still prefer the old Tomb Raider games when compared to this trilogy mainly for their focus on puzzle-solving.

#140 - Batman: Arkham Knight (+100% Completion)

This is the way the Batman died. Not with a whimper but with a bang. Easily my favorite of the Arkham Trilogy, I find it a shame that the game got blasted on release due to things like the shit PC port. The whole world of tanks name they gave it I found it exaggerated although I can understand how it got that name since you unlock the Batcar right at the start of the game and since it's new to the series they decided to give a tutorial that took a huge portion of the start. The only gripe I had with driving the car is just the fact the brake button is placed on instead of since I had parts where I wanted to make a turn but I would go Battle Mode instead of drifting like I wanted.

As for the games DLC, it was fine although I wish they expanded some of them especially the ones that show the characters after the ending. The DLC side-mission with Freeze was my favorite.

All in all, it's a great game and if you like Batman and played the previous games I'd recommend you try out this one.

#139 - Batman: Arkham City [PS4] (+100% Completion)

If there was a definition of a perfect sequel I think this game is pretty close to it. Although this is a better game compared to Asylum I still prefer the later although it might be because I have a greater preference for linear games compared to open world.

City's combat is a lot better but could still use some improvements like when trying to counter 2 or more hits. I can't count the number of times I get attacked by 2+ hits at once, try to counter, batman does the animation of countering 2 attacks but it only stops 1 hit and the other still registers and ends my combo.

As for the challenges, they're easier than Asylum mainly the combat ones since the points needed are a lot more acessible, I had combat challenges were at the end of Round 3 I already hit the 3 medal requirements or if I didn't Round 4 would give me enough points to almost double what I needed.

Predator challenges were a lot more frustrating. Might be due to how much gadgets were added and the AI being smarter but a lot of the challenges feel frustrating with some challenges becoming almost impossible to pull off once enemies become terrified.

As for the DLC characters they were fine. Robin was my favourite since his shield made the Predator Challenges a lot more fun to do, Catwoman took some getting used to since she plays different compared to Batman and Nightwing feels like a combination of the two.

Overall it was a great game and I had fun with it, next up I'll see the game that received the moniker of World of Tanks. Is it an exageration? I hope it is but guess I'll find out soon.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-10-04-red-dead-redemption-2-arrives-on-pc-next-month