Cleggworth

Platinum #288 - Dishonored Death of the Outsider.

Nice bite size chunk of Dishonored to round out the series. I'm a fan of this style of "DLC", flesh it out a wee bit then release it as a stand alone title. Love the series, not enough to subject myself to the Dunwall trials from the first game for the 100% but I'd definitely be there for more if they revive it.

I really enjoyed the heist aspect of this as it felt a little different to the straight up kill this person then kill that person from the 1st two games. Trophy wise its the easiest of the series to plat at there's no clean hands trophy which made shadow significantly easier.

Now I'm done with this I'm back to mopping up old Lego games on the PS3. Lego Batman 3 is first. My least favourite.... 

Platinum #287 - Assassin's Creed Rogue Remastered. I love Black Flag and I only really played this for the naval stuff as I'm not big on the series but I actually quite enjoyed it the rest of it too so I'm tempted to look into a few more. The main story is quite short compared to the others I've played and its mainly a huge collectathon but it was still pretty good, nice to see a story from the other side. It doesn't beat Black Flag though, Shay was alright but no protagonist in the series will ever beat Edward Kenway

Starting Dishonored Death of the Outsider later. Looking forward to it

Platinum #286 - Prey.

Great game, really great game. This is the result if Dishonored, Bioshock and Deus Ex had a baby. Easily the best I've played so far this year. Trophies are a bit shit though as they force you to play a certain way which is disappointing but its parents are all a bit like that. Mooncrash is.... different. I played for about an hour and didn't feel it at all so I dropped it before it spoiled the rest of it 

Started Assassin's Reed Rogue today. Spent the evening upgrading the Morrigan. It's not my favourite series but I loved the pirate aspect of black flag so I'll have fun with this one

Platinum #285 - Lego Marvel Superheroes (PS3)

Played 4 lego games back to back. Feel a little unwell now. I've got 3 on the PS3 to go but they can wait

Platinum #284 - Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn

First and last MMO for me, I don't count Fallout 76. It's okay but the genre isn't for me. It's a huge grind fest which is oddly satisfying when you are churning it out while you watch TV but it's a massive investment in both time and money I don't ever want to do again. I only did it now because my 20 something younger self inexplicably started it and it keeps alive the possibility of getting a complete set of FF Plats.

More importantly for me this game also signals the end of my profile clean up. I don't think I could ever say never, but I no longer have any old games on my profile I intend to go back to. Several reasons really including server closures, delisted DLC, massive grinds but mainly I just can't be bothered anymore 🤣

It took me 5 years with a multitude of breaks but after revisiting 165 games I completed 105 of those to 100% and picked up 3614 total trophies I'd previously abandoned to the scrap heap including 75 Platinums. Took my completion % from around 40% to the 90%+ it is today.

Some of them were still shite and I don't know why I subjected myself to them again, Awesomenauts, Sonic Adventure or anything you needed the move for…. but others like the littlebigplanet series I got a totally new appreciation for. I boosted games which I'd never really done before and met some great people. All in all I played some fantastic games I barely gave a chance to the first time around so I'm really glad I gave them the time they deserved. To think I'd never even finished a single God of War or Ratchet and Clank game before I started 😳

Next up is retiring the PS3 and trying to push myself up to 95%