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  1. Posted

    1 hour ago, Sylvanticore said:

    I already picked a handful of games that count towards the backlog event such as: 

    Cat Quest II

    Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin

    Horizon Zero Dawn

    Murdered: Soul Suspect

    Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

     From your list (and games I've played aswell) I´ve enjoyed the most. Cat Quest and Murdered Soul Suspect aren't too long or hard either, just a few tricky collectibles in the second one.

     

    I think Bugsnax is an underrated game. I had a lot of fun playing it. Sure, it's not up there with the best games, but a solid 7/10 for enjoyment imo.

    Sekiro is always worth playing, took me a while to get into the deflecting coming from Dark Souls, but once you get it, the game is a lot of fun. And it's beautiful from start to finish, amazing landscapes. (Same for Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3, but I'm a FromSoftware fanboy)

     

    Can't comment on the other unfished games, haven't played most of them or didn't like them :D 

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  2. Posted · Edited by JayDeLosDioses

    Ladies, gentlemen and everybody else - I've completed Anthem! 

     

    First of all - the good things:

    • Flying around in your javelin is quite cool
    • Guns are okay, they sound nice.

    Now the things that ruined my experience with the game:

    • To start the game I had to open like a billion ports, because otherwise it would just boot me from the server every other minute
    • I had to play the whole story twice, because two objectives in the Sentinel and Freelancer challenges didn't unlock. Wanna take a guess which? Correct, both MANDATORY quests you need to progress the story. 
    • All javelins feel pretty much the same, as long as your not playing on anything higher than hard there's no reason at all to ever switch. 
    • The hub world is boring af, you're on your own, there's no interaction with anyone other than NPCs
    • Having to find gear / weapons before you can even craft the most basic gear without any additional effects is time consuming and pretty much useless. All it does is annoy the player.
    • Waiting for a collectible to spawn. Why would you ever think that making collectibles RNG related would be good? AND WHY DO YOU ADD 300 OF THEM?
    • Anthem has one of the worst wikis for looking up quests, there's like no information when a quests unlocks, all it says it that the previous side quest must be completed, duh. But no mention of required main story progress - and the guide here also isn't the best imo (but most of the guides on PSNP aren't useful if you're looking for a specific trophy honestly)
    • The story is so bad, it's good again. It's like an accident, you know it's wrong to look, but you can't look away. 
    • Spoiler
      • THE FINAL BOSS ALSO DOESN'T DROP ANY LOOT IN A LOOTER SHOOTER - LIKE WTF?

    Overall the game just doesn't make want to ever buy or even play a BioWare game again, I know they've made Dragon Age and Mass Effect, I've never played them and I honestly don't want to try them after that hot pile of garbage I was playing. Possibly the worst first experience I had with a game studio so far. And I'm pretty much buying all Ratalaika games the day they are released - I've seen some questionable indie games :D 

     

    Well anyways, that's 4 / 12 done for the year, and 9 / 50 counting games I can't add to the challenge.

    SteinsGate:0 might be next. I really want to play Final Fantasy 12 but I know that I can't finish it in three weeks, so before it comes out of the backlog pile just to go back in - it just sinks deeper into the void.

    If you want you can check out my backlog list if you're interested in what I want to try and finish this year. I also need inspiration for the six open spots, so feel free to leave a comment in the empty spaces (or about any other game if you have some usefuls hints)

     

    EDIT: Well, that's SteinsGate of the list. Skipped through it, story didn't really connect with me. Can't like them all I guess.

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  3. Posted

    3 hours ago, Ich1994-1994 said:

    It’s best to find a farmroute and then just reload the world and go throught it again and again. The game is absolute hell

    Agreed, but as long as I still need two pieces of Intercepter gear and god knows how much Ranger gear I'm missing I'm happy with getting whatever I can grab on my way through missions, at least I've hit level 30 yesterday so I can use my embers and coins and try my luck in the tomb.

     

    Most of the time when thinking about why a decision was made in a meeting during developement I can kinda come up with a reasonable idea why someone would think idea XY would be a nice touch and could play out well in the finished product.

    But then there's RNG collectibles and I can't wrap my head around it, You know the meme with the guy getting thrown out of a window for suggestion something? Those collectibles would be an idea of the other two persons in that meme, while a better idea was thrown out.

     

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  4. Posted

    56 minutes ago, Sylvanticore said:

    I feel your pain, is it the collectables or just the game in general as I completed it in about a week and the collectables drove me mental.

     

    A bit of both honestly. I'm still missing gear and I can't find it. I also can't find a way to buy or craft what I'm missing, so it's just luck?

    Collectibles are the worst kind I've seen in a video game so far. If the internet is right, and it always is :D, other people in a random lobby can steal them from you. If they even spawn in the first place that is.

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  5. Posted

    Completed the RNG portion of Rune Lord.

    It's a common plat, so it looks kinda bad after the UR of King Hayes :D (but there's a cheat to complete all levels in this game, which I used for frustrating ones tbh.)

    Not much too say about it, the x15 combo is RNG and nothing else, bit annoying.

    Anyways, one step closer to maxing out my level on PSN, until they increase the cap again as soon as I get close.

     

    Probably one of the last games submitted for a while as well if I don't find anything to play before the release avalanche that's coming soon.

    Horizon, Elden Ring, GT7, Salt & Sacrifice, Tiny Tinas Wonderland, Dying Light 2 once I'm done with Elden Ring, AC Valhalla DLC

    I'd say something like, who has time to play all of this, but I had 2789 hours of ingame time last year.

     

    And also: Fuck Anthem! 

    If I ever finish it, prepare for a rant! 

     

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  8. Posted

    First game done - 11 to go for the platinum symbol.

     

    Completed in a shockingly quick time of just 5 years and 7 months - I have completed Salt & Sanctuary.

    Well, from start to finish it took me 8 hours with an hour of farming for items included.

     

    I had help with the jumping puzzles from a friend.

    It's only local co-op but with share play (or playing with yourself) the second player acts like a checkpoint.

    Press pause when you're falling somewhere and when you press pause again, magic, you're teleported to the other person.

    Saved me a few deaths from falling.

     

    I might not play the most difficult games out there, and as I said before, physically can't play without hurting my hands thanks to my disability, but it's quite rewarding completing a game you struggled with all these years ago. First of all it shows that i'm getting better overall in my hobby, but most importantly it shows that I keep a steady / improving level for my condition.

    Spoiler

    And for those who don't know, but wanna know:

    I've nearly suffocated during birth and as a result of that was born with a semi paralyzed left arm and a fully paralyzed right arm.

    Thankfully that condition didn't stay, I still have bad reaction times due to some nerves and connections that never developed how they're supposed too.

    When gaming (or doing most stuff actually, but gaming is where you can feel it the most) it feels like input lag, but when you're used to it, you kinda get it pretty quickly in most games to feel as normal as possible.

     

    But yeah, being able to use my hands at all and achieving something with my hands is pretty rewarding and something I'm proud af off.

    Was Apple Slash as rewarding as Demon's Souls? Nope!

    Does it have too? Nope!

    You should be thankful for what you have and what you can achieve, it's not given - I could have been a perfectly healthy child if not for that one minute right at the start.

     

     

     

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  9. Posted

    23 minutes ago, Ich1994-1994 said:

    Yup same here. I don’t want to stop working on my backlog but the challenge kinda makes it stressful. And with don’t starve for example I think I didn’t finish it because I was afraid of not having something to finish next month. But then found something else^^
    Also my pile of unstated games that was ignored for a while now needs to be adressed^^

    It’s easy for the first half of the year to keep a streak going, but after that the games you actually wanna play and get reasonably done in a month get pretty low, at least that was my problem.

    I also didn’t want to use an game that only takes an hour or two, wanted to put some effort into it. 
     

    Which I think I did, completing 4 FromSoftware games 

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  10. Posted

    7 hours ago, MattbluePT said:

    Just to note @Gretchen27 while I still consider myself going for the yearly backlog challenge - I've realised that all of this focus isn't all that healthy. Even when I work down my backlog what then, its a very addictive process. I'm going to cut my gaming time right down, so if by chance I don't post here during February consider me inactive.

     

    7 hours ago, MattbluePT said:

    I think I also need to think a bit like that, because I have so many games on hold to play and feel like I have always games I need to play to do some challenges, and sometimes I don't have the fun gaming I used to. I believe I have to do a "more relaxed" gaming this year, prioritizing playing what I want and not so much my backlog and my completion rate.


    Seems to be a bit of trend going on here since that was pretty much the reason I’ve decided to not do it another year. Not intentionally at least. 
    I still enjoy participating in this, and I want to clean up as much as possible, but I won’t stop myself doing games I’m in the mood for anymore, because I need a game for next month. 

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  12. Posted

    I did manage to get the 100% for Godfall yesterday and if not for GRID, this game would have been the most boring 100% EVER.

    The only really enjoyable endgame content Godfall has is the tower of trials. Dreamstones I rushed for the upgrade materials and lightbringer...

     

    Let me tell you about lightbringer

    • you take damage whenever you're not close to a beacon - hurray
    • after completing the objective by closing a dark tear you have to escort someone back to the start of the level - yeah
    • for the best reward you have to close a tear and escort back another two times - fun intensifies 
    • to end the mission you have to win a gauntlet of three rounds, two of which are normal enemies, but in the last round bosses spawn depending on how many tears you've closed, so for maximum reward that's three bosses against you - woopwoop

    Whoever thought that taking some of the most annoying stuff in gaming and put it into one mission was a fun idea ... NO IT WASN'T

    We've played this in coop and no joke, one of my friends fell asleep while escorting.

    I'm glad this is over.

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  13. Posted · Edited by JayDeLosDioses

    END OF YEAR SUMMARY

    (skip if you do'nt care, hehe)

     

    Hellow everybody, 

    since I don't think I will complete any game this month that is viable for this (currently playing Skyrim, Iron Harvest and Dark Souls 3 again (just for fun) I thought that I'll do a summary. Maybe I'll complete Godfall, I'll just edit the numbers if so.

     

    First of all, big thanks to @Gretchen27 for hosting all of this and keeping the OP up to date as good as possible. Can't really imagine how time consuming it is to get all the spoilers, pictures and everything. And it probably gets worse over time. So as I said, thanks for keeping us organized :D if you ever need a hand let me know :)

    Second shoutout goes to @roxas1233 the reason I've got my Bloodborne and Sekiro plats this year. Thanks for getting me motivated to get those two games completed alongside you. Bloodborne I might have done, but Sekiro - never ever.

    And final shoutout, surprise surprise, @Fnee2000 for helping me with as many coop / multiplayer related trophys as he can. Online trophies suck much less if you know you already know you have someone to do them with before starting a game. We've come a long way from our first Borderlands 3 run together :D.

     

    But let's get to the games:

    Completed games / DLC: 33 (34 on my personal to-do, but one wasn't "old" enough)

    Longest completion time: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim [6 years, 9 months]

    Shortest completion time: Yu-Gi-Oh! Legace of the Duelist: Link Evolution [6 months, 1 day] and Zombie Army 4: Dead War [6 months, 1 day] 

    Most proud of: Sid Meisers Civiliazation VI [1 year, 4 months] to this day I'm still the first achiever for 100%, not only on PSNP, if I'm not mistaken, worldwide. At least the rarity jumped to 0.1% when my final trophy unlocked.

    Least proud of: GRID [10 months, 1 week] I've rubberbanded over 150h for this trophy. I don't like autopop and afk trophies, and this one took the cake. After getting everything done the game had to offer, all season pass content, all base game content, I was still over 85% away from Around the Globe. That's just a major misjudgement of content to trophy ratio.

    Enjoyed the most: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice [2 years, 4months] had to think about this one for a while, but Sekiro takes the cake over F1 2020. Once I got into the game and got the timing for deflections right the game was a lot of fun. The grind for experience points in the end wasn't to bad either, a few hours maybe, but with a good playlist / movie, that's not to bad. F1 2020 lost out because of it's online part and the enjoyment killer that are salty drivers who take you out.

    Enjoyed the least: Letter Quest Remastered [4 years, 2 months] this one takes the cake over GRID and Yu-Gi-Oh for the sole reason that both games only have a boring grind, while the main content is quite fun. Letter Quest was just boring and with English not being my native language, I had to look up many many words to deal enough damage in the levels.

    Hardest game: Demon's Souls [6 months, 1 week] never played the original version, I've discovered the Sekisoulsborne series when DS2 was released. The amount of things you can mess up with tendencies is crazy. Checked the guide a lot. Also NG+ with even less health because the character is pure black isn't fun either. Many missable boss related trophies aswell.

    Easiest game: Eekeemoo: Splinters of Dark Shard [1 year, 2 months] nothing hard in this game, don't know why I stopped for over a year.

     

    Overall I'm quite happy with 2021 gaming wise. As mentioned above, I've managed to finish 34 games out of 50. 

    Didn't quite reach my completion % goal of 90% and I totally missed the mark with unearned trophies, that pretty much stayed as it was (not counting Skyrim and Iron Harvest into that since I've recently started them)

    The games that I'll carry over into 2022 are:

    PS3: DS2 and AC2

    PS4: AC Valhalla (milestone stack, don't know which one yet), Anthem, Ark, Dungeons 2, Dying Light (DLCs), FF12, GreedFall, Gris, Heavy Rain, Lego Movie 2, Minecraft Dungeons (DLCs), Rune Lord, Steins Gate:0, Trackmania Turbo, 

    I'll think about which 34 other games are going to fill the empty slots now. Elden Ring, Forbidden West and GT7 are set if they don't get delayed (again), but there are still 146 uncompleted games on my profile, more than enough to create a enjoyable To-Do list imo.

     

    To end this wall of text I'd like to thank each and every one who's participating and sharing. I've said it before, it's nice to read about games from other perspectives, get some recommendations for games you've never heard about, get some tips & tricks for others. My friends slowly start to enjoy getting platinums themselves, but it's still something different in a forum full of like-minded people.

     

    Keep the backlog small :D but more importantly stay health everyone.

    Jay(DeLosDioses)

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  14. Posted

    Final game for the year done.

     

    Finished Two Parsecs From Earth today. This game is hard for me for all the wrong reasons...

    I mean it's a common platinum and a Ratalaika game (which I honestly enjoy quite a lot and I really like that the company gives smaller/indie devs a chance to get their game to other platforms than Steam), but, and that's a capital BUT. I can't play games with different jumps depending on your inputs.

    I can't tap a button quickly with my disabilty, it's impossible - and this game has a different jump depending how long you hold the X button, and of course quick taps are needed.

     

    But that is what trophy hunting is about isn't it? 

    Overcoming a challenge.

     

    IIRC that should be a game for every month of the year completed, but I don't think I will do the yearly streak again next year.

    Not because I hadn't had a lot of fun while doing it, but because I've stopped some games because of it.

    Last month for example, when I had my DLC mood I had a few more DLCs I could've done, but then I thought: "do them next month, don't "waste" your completions".

    Of course, that's totally wrong and no completion is wasted on my way to 90% and beyond, I still stopped doing DLC and now I'm not in the mood anymore.

     

    I will still try to get a platinum symbol in the OP for every year, but I'm not getting myself distracted anymore, doesn't matter if a month as all the games needed for that or multiple. 

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  18. Posted

    DLC month continues :D

     

    This time it's Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor.

    I've never played the Bright Lord DLC, and I've struggled with the Hunt of the Mistress trophy before leaving the game again.

    BUT, I've honestly feel like I've never played a game better than the Test of the Wild this time. Everything just worked... in the end I had 9 minutes spare.

    In the second try that is, my first try failed with a time of 40:25 (the time limit is 40:00).

    I didn't use the backup strat mentioned in the guide, but I did quit out to reset the Graug baits quite a lot. With less than 2 minutes time for every captain and Warchief, killing them with combat finishers isn't really an option.

    Thankfully most of the Warchiefs have bodyguards, that's an important time saver. If you can't kill most of them during Riots the challenge is impossible I believe.

     

    17 hours ago, poetic_justice_ said:

    Dang, wow. Thanks for posting this, Jay. I was looking forward to getting a PS5 before playing this, as Ubisoft burned almost all its bridges with me for how they handled Division 2. 

    Valhalla is still worth playing, it's a good RPG. And maybe I just had bad luck with how many people in the challenges killed themselves. You'll need patience for the mastery stuff, that's for sure.

     

    Not quite sure if I will do another game this month, or if I'm already checking out for November. Time will tell I guess.

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  19. Posted

    Completion numero dos for this month.

    Assassins Creed Valhalla is back at 100%.

     

    I think it's kinda funny, that they call the DLC "Mastery mode" and it's probably the most buggy thing I can remember Ubisoft releasing.

    Also, a lot of the challenges aren't "How good can you use our pre-made build in situation XY", instead they are "How many enemies can burn themselves"

    Then I had to reset a few of my skills, because if you don't you can't complete optional stuff that was released MONTHS after the game

     

    Really looking forward to another year of DLC for this pile of garbage.

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  20. Posted · Edited by JayDeLosDioses

    Sorry for the double post, but there's too much I want to say about Dark Souls 2 for an edit.

     

    Dark Souls 2 was the first FromSoftware game I've ever played, I remember that one of my best friends said he found this awesome game, I should try it out. So I did - as a mage - while skipping the tutorial area.

    I had no idea how to lock the camera, I've free aimed my way to the Last Giant and lost a ton of times, so I've quit saying "Skyrim is way better than this shit."

    Oh boy, I never was so wrong again.

     

    I came back a few months later, this time playing coop with my friend, and not as a mage.

    Played the tutorial, read the message "Press R3 to lock onto an enemy" and my mind was blown. The whole game changed.

    We've played through the whole game, finished the story while more or less ignoring all NPC quests... we had a thing going that whenever we meet a new NPC, a coin flip would decide about Dead or Alive.

    I've  started a few platinum runs on the good old PS3 after that, but never finished a whole run, always stopped during cleanup.

     

    Time went on, the PS4 remake was released and we played that one as well, this time completing the side quests, but then stopped during the third DLC, it's the one you can't play coop. Not a problem for me, I'd say that I've managed to become quite good in Dark Souls. I've learned to parry, played PvP, finished the story a few more times with different builds, but I've never went ahead and got all the different schools of magic done.

     

    There's this problem with Dark Souls 2 ... it's always so ... I don't know how to put into words, it's so nearly good. I know it had a troubled development and they've changed directors during that. There's so many little things that happenend in both the original release and the remake that just aren't on the typical level you'd expect.

    • Areas that don't fit together, Earthern Peak and Iron Keep is the perfect example for that. Going up a mill, just to unlock an elevator that goes even higher up to a castle that's not supposed to be in the sky.
    • Bad boss design, there's 41 bosses (32 without DLC) in the game, and from the top of my head, there's three that I enjoy fighing. Sir Alonne, Fume Knight, Burnt Ivory King - all of which are DLC bosses. Most of the bosses are generic big knights in armor or "animal" like bosses.
    • Agility - there's this stat that's only used in DS2, the higher your agility stat is, the more i-frames you get when rolling, can drink your Estus faster, block faster... it's crap. It's faster to use Lifegems than drink Estus in the early game. 
    • There's a bug in the Scholar of the First Sin edition that halves the durability of everything. Because they've changed the game from 30FPS to 60FPS, every time you're weapon connects with something it counts as two hits, not for damage, that's calculated correctly, but it basicly cuts the durability of any weapon in half. 

    It's saying a lot, that I've finished DS3, DS1, Demon's Souls, Sekiro and Bloodborne before the very first game I've played in this genre.

    Anyways, it was a longer text than I thought it would be.

    One more month to go for this year!

     

     

     

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  21. Posted

    I've took a break from my Dark Souls 2 NG++ run for the final spells and managed to get another game done for this month. 

     

    Platinumed GTA San Andreas (the ps4 port) earlier today.

    Had some moments that made me tilt quite a bit during the game, but it's still one of the best games imo, I'm looking forward to playing the trilogy again when the remastered versions are released.

    But back to SA:

    What's really tilting for some missions are the controls - you can only shoot in front of you while riding a bike, so in a car chase you have to drive alongside - look to any side with R2 or L2, and then shoot either with O or L1. There's also no checkpoints, so if you tried to kill someone for a few minutes, then failed - it's "fun".

    I also struggled with the Taxi fares, and they made me rage quit the game a long long time ago. But manged them okay this time.

     

    I'll get Dark Souls 2 done next month, it's not much left to do. The stupid Lava boss and running to the castle to buy the remaining stuff.

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  23. Posted

    So, I was working to get Dark Souls 2 done for this month, but I spotted an opportunity!

    I think you all will agree that I had to take it.

     

    It's Spooky-month - I've finished Zombie Army 4 - AND it's platinum 666! 

    I just had to take it.

     

    Sadly no 100% for the moment though, I don't have a coop partner for the Nightmare difficulty and the THIRD season pass for the game is 35€.

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  24. Posted

    17 hours ago, Psy-Tychist said:

    A goal I have left for the year is to try and get under 8000 trophies unearned overall trophies and under 6500 unearned without DLC.

     

    I've set my goal for this year to get my unearned trophies down to 3250 (only ~500 off from what I've started) but it's more a fight to keep them below 4000 at this point.

    I've got my completion percentage up by nearly 3% though, there's just this one  pattern that repeats itself:

     

    *waiting for friend XY to come online to start playing*

    Me: "Let's browse the store real quick, maybe there's something interesting you've missed"

    *opens PSN Store*

    M: "Oh look! A new sale."

    *browsing the sale*

    M: "80% off? That's not getting much cheaper. *adds to card* Oh, and I've played the first part of this series *adds to card* This looks fun too! *adds to card* You've always wanted to give this game a try, and since it's on sale *adds to card*

     

     

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  25. Posted

    Hellow everybody :D

    I just want to drop in and say that I love the end of any month, when all the completions are being talked about and seeing what's played. It's amazing and I will steal a few of the games you have been playing and add them to my 2022 To-Do list

     

    I can already tell that Diablo 2 is going to end up here sooner or later for me.

    I like the game, and I get why they haven't changed much according to the people who played the original game.

    But, and that's a rather big BUT ... I can't play the game long in one sitting. The inventory management is fine, I like it, but overall a few QoL changes would have been nice. Like waypoints for quests, pausing the game in the menu, SAVING your fucking charakter when the game crashes. I lost my act 1 progress completly because it crashed while moving on and the game only saves if you Save & Exit via the menu. 

    It kills my enjoyment that I have to exit the game every now and then just to make sure my progress is saved, it reminds me of Mad Max, checking if the camp was counted correctly or not. 

     

    You should end on a positive though:

    Nexomon is the best game that Ratalaika Games has ported onto console so far.

    If any of you played Nexomon Exctinction you should definetly get this game too. It's a bit harder than the second game IMO, but totally worth the 5€ I've payed for it. (It's 9€ in the store, but I always count it as half when I get a free version on any other platform with my purchase) Got the plat on Monday and the PS5 stack is going to be a milestone down the line, not sure yet if plat #750 or #800.

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