Summer 2021 Backlog Challenge

[Dr_Mayus]

Starting off the event with 80.66% completion percentage. Hoping to get to 82%

[MidnightDragon]

7 hours ago, StilRh said:

Hi guys. Here's my list. In some ways more ambitious than last challenge (where I didn't do that well lol), but I think more diversity in genre and fewer time sinks should them more achievable (other than some RNG/difficulty checks in my new list). A few 0%s but aside from Ratchet and Clank, they are all games I've had for some time. Good luck everyone!

 

Aground 28%
Assassins Creed Odyssey 8%
Catharine: Full Body 10%
Cuphead 0%
Desperados 3 0%
Maquette 0%
Muv Luv 26%
Nier Replicant 20%
Pyre 45%
Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart 0%
Rebel Galaxy 30%
Slay the spire 13% 
Sudden Strike 4 7%
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Storm Ground 30%
Worldend Syndrome 0%

For some reason, thought you said you weren't signing up. Guess not. Added.

 

6 hours ago, Cruscah said:

That looks fun, count me in!

1. Assassin's Creed Freedom Cry (PS4) - 0%
2. Battlefield V (PS4) - 0%
3. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3) - 0%
4. Call of Duty: World at War (PS3) - 0%
5. Crossing Souls (PS4) - 9%
6. Days Gone (PS4) - 0%
7. God of War III (PS3) - 4%
8. Haven (PS5) - 0%
9. Hue (PS4) - 0%
10. Human Fall Flat (PS4) - 0%
11. Inside (PS4) - 0%
12. Life is Strange (PS3) - 0%
13. Life is Strange: Before the Storm (PS4) - 0%
14. Little Nightmares (PS4) - 0%
15. Operation: Tango (PS5) - 0%
16. Subnautica (PS5) - 0%
17. The Little Acre (PS4) - 0%
18. Thumper (PS4) - 0%
19. Wreckfest (PS5) - 0%

Swaps (0/2)

Added

[L0sT_NZ_Kazekage]

So got a bit further in Horizon since signing up but its still well with in the percentage limits. 

 

So overall starting with:

 

1. Horizon Zero Dawn (22%)

2. Fallout 4 (26%)

3. Crash Team Racing (22%)

4. Mafia 2: Definitive Edition (0%)

5. God of War 1 (0%)

 

0/2 Swaps

 

Looking forward to clearing these off the backlog. Going to start with platinum in HZD and see if I will want to push on with the NG+ trophies or change it up with one of the other games on my list before coming back to it.

 

Goodluck everyone ?

 

 

Edited June 4, 2021 by L0sT_NZ_Kazekage

[Crispy_Oglop]

1st Update - Here we go! The Summer challenge is here! It's lovely to see some veterans and new additions to the challenge, it's my favourite part of the forums. For this challenge i'm going to mix it up a bit and start adding some screenshots in my updates.

 

Mass Effect

I started Mass Effect and wow, it feels so good to be back in this world. The moment my default male Shepard, Tali and Garrus grouped up again and stood in formation in a lift on the Citadel it was a huge nostalgia hit for me. I can't wait to squeeze every drop of content out of this trilogy. It's hard to explain, but playing this again really gave me a positive mental boost after a crappy year or two. Starting this again felt a bit like reuniting with an old friend - that kind of friend that no matter how long you spend apart, when you meet up again it's like you never spent any time apart and you haven't missed a beat. I'm rambling a bit, but starting this game again caught me off guard in a way and I wasn't expecting the heavy nostalgia it would provoke in me. I'll have more thoughts as I go in terms of how I think it fares as a remaster and whether it holds up by modern gaming standards but for now, I can't wait to carry on with Mass Effect 1.

Spoiler

 

NieR Replicant

In other news, I spent some more time on my garden grind in Nier:Replicant. At the moment i'm not really doing anything with the game bar logging in every day to grow and cultivate multiples of the legendary white flower which go for 5k each at a vendor which is going to be really useful for the 1million gold trophy. I'm at a point now where i'm running a full field of them, one line is exclusive to harvesting the seeds to grow more, while the other two are for planting the surplus seeds to grow more flowers and sell them. It took weeks of logging into the game every day, cross breeding flowers to get the white one to grow. This is the last game I plan on finishing in the challenge, but i'll be logging in every day to continue to sell and grow these flowers. The big chunk of money should hopefully help with other parts of the game too.

Spoiler

 

That's it from me for the first update, really looking forward to reading everyone's updates!

1. Mass Effect 0% > 26%
2. Watch Dogs: Legion - 7%
3. Mass Effect 2 - 0%
4. Cosmic Top Secret - 0%
5. Mass Effect 3 - 0%
6. Mass Effect: Legendary Edition (additional trophy set) - 0%
7. Subnautica: Below Zero - 0%
8. Outriders - 1%
9. Nier:Replicant - 4%

Edited June 2, 2021 by Crispy_Oglop

[willythom88]

Got my first title down.  I've mostly been playing Child of Light but I took care of the shortest finish I had available.  I'll probably update again this weekend if I can get some stuff knocked out before Friday afternoon.

Danger Zone - 28%
The Girl and The Robot - 15%
Metrico - 14%
Another World - 42% - 100%
The Fancy Pants Adventures - 23%
Beyond Good and Evil HD - 4%
Red Goddess - 14%
Gravity Badgers - 23% - 28%
Total Recoil - 9% 
Child of Light  0% - 57%
Asdivine Hearts  0%
140 19%
 

[SyIaris]

Assassin's Creed Syndicate

Hitman 2 - Additional Expansions - 43% -> 100%
Hunted: The Demon's Forge
Okage: Shadow King
The Order: 1886 - 5%

 

First one done! Too bad none of the others will be that quick. 

Hitman 3 should have most of the same levels, this is somewhat "outdated" now. Good game, but the mastery trophies can be an irritating grind if going for 100%. If exophase is accurate (forgot to check before deleting), I spent around 150 hours in all of it - hopefully that's counting pause time!

It's light on the story, but there's still something there. The bulk of the game is figuring out how to manipulate situations to your advantage to take targets out, ranging from good ol' sneaky shooting to murder via overpowered ejector seat. Some of the weirder ones are honestly pretty hilarious, and sneaking around learning the level and finding useful objects can be interesting.

 

Would absolutely recommend for a casual run or to play a level here and there - spent most of the last month chipping at the base game and I'm a little burned out.

[MidnightDragon]

On 6/1/2021 at 5:05 PM, Dr_Mayus said:

Starting off the event with 80.66% completion percentage. Hoping to get to 82%

Good luck!

[SicilianDragon92]

On 01/06/2021 at 2:19 AM, SicilianDragon92 said:

For the first time, I might give this a go, here’s my list:

 

1. Disco Elysium (20%) > (32%)
2. Demon’s Souls (10%)
3. Subnautica (4%)
4. Wasteland 3 (6%)
5. Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate (8%)
6. World of Final Fantasy (17%) > (18%)
7. GTA: San Andreas (28%)
8. Final Fantasy IX (5%)
9. Kingdom Come: Deliverance (5%)
10. Maid of Sker (8%) > (14%)
11. Control (0%)

 

Will be quite pleased if I manage to get through all those.

I’m not sure how often people generally update these so if someone could let me know what the general rule of thumb is I would be grateful, in any case.
 

Small Update:

 

Owing to a full time job as a teacher my first few updates are probably going to be pretty small, but then I should have much more time in the summer!

 

1. Disco Elysium 20% > 32%

 

This has been on my list for a while. It’s a great game, but not ideal from a trophy viewpoint. They are slow to unlock, have fiddly requirements and it will require a great deal of planning to unlock everything. I just finished my first (blind) playthrough having gotten most of the way through it back in April when it was released.

 

6. World of Final Fantasy 17% > 18%

 

Just the one extra bronze here and it got me to remember why I stopped playing it. I think I just hate the battle system. It’s horribly slow and this is from someone who considers FFX to the the best one in the series. It has long been an ambition of mine to get all the Final Fantasy platinums, so I want to persist with it (and this is part of the reason I added it here). This might be a bit of a slog though.

 

10. Maid of Sker 8% > 14%

 

Slow, first-person stealth/horror games are a personal favourite of mine so while this is clearly a game made on a budget I thought it looked interesting enough to pick up. Have not been disappointed so far. If you can look past the ropey visuals and some quite abysmal screen tearing (which is not something I ever notice or care about TBH, it’s that bad!) then so far the atmosphere seems well crafted. Just a shame there are so many different collectables to keep track of as it has meant my plan for this one is to collect them on the first playthrough in safe mode which does ruin the tension a bit. It’ll mean an extra playthrough overall but it will be worth it if I don’t have to worry about collectables while also doing the no damage/no saving run and the hard mode run. Looking forward to the no damage/no saves run especially, hoping it will be as tense fun as the similar achievement was on Alien Isolation. Just got to get the damned collectables out of the way first.

[Savage_Sarabi]

Got my first one done. 

 

1. Cat Quest 2 (17%) -> 

2. A Plague Tale Innocence (7%)

3. Life is Strange (0%)

4. Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney (5%)

5. Assassin's Creed 2 Remastered (8%)

6. Sherlock Holmes Crimes and Punishments (0%)

7. Unravel (0%)

8. Life is Strange Before the Storm (0%)

9. Lego Jurassic World (1%)

10. Far Cry 3 (0%)

[Heather342]

7 hours ago, SicilianDragon92 said:

 

6. World of Final Fantasy 17% > 18%

 

Just the one extra bronze here and it got me to remember why I stopped playing it. I think I just hate the battle system. It’s horribly slow and this is from someone who considers FFX to the the best one in the series. It has long been an ambition of mine to get all the Final Fantasy platinums, so I want to persist with it (and this is part of the reason I added it here). This might be a bit of a slog though.

I've been playing this game for Vita on and off for the past 12 months, and down to the final grind stages now. Not sure if it's the same on console, but on Vita if you press the R shoulder button during battle you can speed it up. Definitely helpful, especially when grinding exp to complete those mirage boards ?

 

As for challenge update frequency, it's really up to you how often you want to post. I took part in the Spring challenge, and aimed for an update at the end of each week. Hope that helps ?

[Bubblegum_Crash]

Hello everyone!

 

   A bit late but here's my list for the Summer 2021 challenge.

 

1. rain   (PS3)

2. 3D Dot Game Heroes   (PS3)

3. Splatterhouse   (PS3)

 

4. Borderlands GOTY Edition 

5. Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age

6. Maneater

7. Rime

8. Secret of Mana

9. Strange Brigade

10. Transistor

 

[Dr_Mayus]

Always feels satisfying finally earning a new trophy on a game you started years ago.

[Phantochi]

First update here, i managed to do some progress on Anthem, i started at 33%, 50% now, i wanted to play it more, but Yakuza 0 is taking control of my life.

 

Anthem 21 of 47 Trophies 4th June 2021

 

This game is not that bad, but it's not great either. The best thing about Anthem is without a doubt, the exploration, you can fly like Iron Man around the world called Bastion, finding ruins, wildlife, rivers, waterfalls, etc, and the flying feels great, the flight controls are responsive, the movements are organic and it is extremely pleasant to fly around this world. That until the lag kicks in, and since it's a dead game that requires a constant internet connection, you can expect a lot of that. 

 

If you don't enjoy flying around, discovering random stuff, you won't like this game, because when you reach the end-game, that's nothing else to do besides explore.

 

Anyway, i have only a few side missions left that are tied to trophies, then all i'll have left is the grind, i already started working on the Gear and Weapons challenges, and to be honest, i don't know from where the 70h on the guide comes from, i'm already clocked in 20h, there's no way the grind will take me 50+ hours, at least that's what i hope so lol.

 

As soon as i finish this game, i'll share my final thoughts with you guys. Cheers.

Edited June 5, 2021 by Neptuos

[Kishnabe]

On 5/1/2021 at 1:34 PM, Kishnabe said:

Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner HD Edition 44%

 

Control 0%

Chess Knights Viking Lands 24%

Fez 23%   Dokuro 32%   Jump Force 1%   Will possibly change it before the day of the event.

 

Added Jump Force.

 

 

[MidnightDragon]

16 hours ago, Bubblegum_Crash said:

Hello everyone!

 

   A bit late but here's my list for the Summer 2021 challenge.

 

1. rain   (PS3)

2. 3D Dot Game Heroes   (PS3)

3. Splatterhouse   (PS3)

 

4. Borderlands GOTY Edition 

5. Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age

6. Maneater

7. Rime

8. Secret of Mana

9. Strange Brigade

10. Transistor

 

Added

 

Also, I'm doing the PS3 version of Monster World IV. There is a PS4 version with the platinum if you buy the physical release of Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World, but don't have it yet. 

Edited June 5, 2021 by MidnightDragon

[Heather342]

Update 1

 

A bit of a slow start for me, this week has been a weird one and I've not had as much gaming time as I would have liked. But I did manage to boot up The Witcher and make a start. Not too far into it yet, but according to my husband the first trophy I popped was actually a difficult one (killing 2 contracts without using special items or abilities). Guess it helped that I always do my first run of a game on easy mode lol! 

 

Trophy progress - 0 -> 5%

 

I'm away on holiday next week, so probably won't have much more progress to post. But hopefully after that things will move along much quicker ?

Edited June 5, 2021 by Heather342

[ExHaseo]

Finished up my first game. A Hat in Time. I would have gotten it done sooner, but apparently trophies don't pop unless you're online, and the most recent patch reset parts of the worlds. So I did a bunch of stuff while the patch downloaded, then had to go back and redo most of it because I'm an idiot and didn't notice trophies weren't popping because I was watching stuff while playing. It was annoying. Probably going to work on ME2 again next. I put it and ME3 on hold so I'd be able to finish them for the event.

 

Shenmue - 0%

Mass Effect Legendary 2 - 22%

Mass Effect Legendary 3 - 0%

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven - 0%

Ys VIII - 5%

Persona 5 Strikers - 11%

South Park: The Fracture But Whole - 20%

Senran Kagura Estival Versus - 22%

A Hat in Time - 100%

Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet - 29%

Dragon Ball Z Kakarot - 38%

[Chris1-1sirhC]

Update:

 

The Order 1886 

Start - 0%

Current - 0%

 

Broken Sword 5

Start - 0%

Current - 0%

 

Hitman 2

Start - 21%

Current - 27%

 

Hitman 2 Additional Expansion

Start - 2%

Current - 5%

 

Final Fantasy 7 Remake

Start - 18%

Current - 18%

 

Two Point Hospital

Start - 45%

Current - 45%

[DFuzed]

Update #1 for June 5th:

 

Assassin's Creed Valhalla (PS5) - 42% +11% *

Maneater - 0%

Lego Star Wars (PS3) - 59%

Phil-a-Pix (Vita) - 59% +54%

Final Fantasy VII Remake (PS5) - 0%

Spiderman (PS5) - 0%

Spiderman Miles Morales (PS5) - 0%

Ladders by Powgi (PS4) - 0%

Ladders by Powgi (PS5) - 0%

Epic Word Search Collection 2 - 0%

 

Swaps 0/2

 

Current plans: 

  - Play Assassin's Creed Valhalla, work on the storyline and other stuff, lots to do at the moment. 

   - Use Fill-A-Pix as my backup games for trophies. 

   - Switch to Epic Word Search 2 if I plat Fill-A-Pix this week. 

 

* Not counting DLC in on this. Major bug with one of the zealots made me restart from scratch my playthrough. I did get some of the trophies that didn't require collecting everything before restarting but the bug really cut my plans for this week out. 

[Zatzuken]

Bugsnax (100%) 

Nier Replicant (0%)

Mass Effect 1 Legendary (0%)

Persona 4 Dancing (100%)

Maneater (0%)

 

Finished Bugsnax last night, and finished Persona 4 dancing a few days ago, although i fear i relegated that as i got really into it and beat it before the start date, no matter i still have 5 Dancing to do

[Crispy_Oglop]

Update 2 - I got completely absorbed by one of my favourite games of all time and got the platinum in Mass Effect, which brings me to a total of 181 now. This pandemic has done wonders for my profile.

Overall the remaster has been pretty smooth with a few minor issues like some weird sound balancing and the occasional texture load in delay, but overall it's definitely a far more improved experience. I thought they did a great job with making the planetary exploration look pretty with some new lighting, texture and weather effects. There were some really nice moments on some planets where the light caught certain parts of the terrain and it was almost like a postcard.

Spoiler

And I also thought they did a really good job with some of the interior atmosphere too. I really liked the parts of the game where you boarded other ships and you could see space through large skylights in the ship ceiling and windows.

Spoiler

 

Outside of that it's just been really great to reconnect with the first game in the franchise and all of the memorable moments - like meeting Sovereign and Vigil for the first time, having to make that near impossible choice on Virmire are all real stand out examples. There were also a few moments I completely forgot about, like just how backstabbing and corporate the Noverians were.

 

There was also one personally iconic moment that I remember having back on the PS3, but this time I was able to take an actual screenshot. I remember standing looking up at earth like this back in 2007 and it acted as a really defining moment for me, telling me that this game was something special. It really put things in perspective for me and added to that sense of discovery they wanted so badly to have in the game.

Spoiler

 

Anyway, I'll stop gushing now. I'm really looking forward to moving onto ME2, but I want to savour this trilogy a bit, so next i'm going to switch it up to Watch Dogs Legion before I join Cerberus and start assembling my crew for a mega suicide mission.

 

Hope everyone is doing well, keep the updates coming!

1.  Mass Effect 
2. Watch Dogs: Legion - 7%
3. Mass Effect 2 - 0%
4. Cosmic Top Secret - 0%
5. Mass Effect 3 - 0%
6. Mass Effect: Legendary Edition (additional trophy set) - 0% > 19%
7. Subnautica: Below Zero - 0%
8. Outriders - 1%
9. Nier:Replicant - 4%

Edited June 8, 2021 by Crispy_Oglop

[karaman1025]

Am I late to the party? @MidnightDragon can you add me please, I would love to participate in this challenge!

 

Here is my list:

1) Until Dawn ( 3 of 19 trophies earned %7)

2) Metro 2033 Redux ( 4 of 50 trophies earned %7)

3) Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution ( 7 of 25 trophies earned %26)

4) Horizon Chase Turbo ( 4 of 38 trophies earned %5)

5) Little Nightmares ( 5 of 22 trophies earned %10) 

 

I want to start with these 5 games If i can complete them I still have lot more to add. 

I am starting with a completion percentage of %63.82. We will see where this challenge takes us. Good luck to everyone 

[Dr_Mayus]

So not too much to update this week as i spent the week platting Oceanhorn as I had started that right before June.

 

I did play some Dokuro and went from 5 to 12 earned trophies in the game, so I am happy with that. I am done the first 6 worlds which is about 1/3 done the game.

 

My completion percentage is up to 80.89% as well.

[Tenzai1980]

One down, four more to go.

 

Finished Murdered: Soul Suspect this weekend.

Liked the game a lot because the story was very interessting for me. The collectables were a pain but manageable.

[da_eMTy]

Update 1:

Finished my first Ultra Rare game of the list: Hawken was really fun and not as hard as I thought. It is free to play and there are still players online. Also you can play versus bots and for that. It is a nice game. I startet the second UR game of the list: Secret Ponchos. And this one is dead...there are no players online, so I have to boost it. But played it some hours with a friend. and it is not so bad

My plan for the second week is to complete Secret Ponchos and The Pedestrian and maybe to start with Mekorama. Id like to play this puzzle game for some time.

 

Color Code:

 

Red = Game not started

Orange = Game is in progress

Blue = a new Game was added

 

Incomplete Games (9/10):

Number | title (trophies at last update | last update % current trophies | current %) - date of completion

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1. Armikrog (0/18 = 0%)
2. Assassin´s Creed Valhalla (5/60 = 6%)
3. Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (5/39 = 7%)
4. Life is Strange 2 (0/47 = 0%)
5. Mekorama (0/17 = 0%)
6. Road Fury (0/21 = 0%)
7. Secret Ponchos (0/13 = 0% ➡️ 10/13 = 55%)
8. The Pedestrian (0/10 = 0% ➡️ 5/10 = 30%)
9. Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (10/50 = 17%)

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Swaps used: 0/2

Swapped games: 

 

 

Color Code:

Black = Finished in another Update

Green = Completed in this Update

 

Games completed (1/10):

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1. Hawken (13/13 = 100%) ✔️

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Trophies earned (28/268) +28

 

Keep on updating guys. Its a pleasure to read all the progress updates! ??