Summer 2021 Backlog Challenge

[Heather342]

6 hours ago, JPHolzer said:

Week #2

• Abzû (0%)
• Control (40%)
• Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (9%)
• Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack 25%  -> 40%
• Limbo (23%)

 

Another small update for me; I got through 2 more worlds in Mutant Blobs Attack, and I'm now certain I'll be able to have the 100% by the end of this week. Other than that, I have downloaded Control again and will pick up from where I left off a couple months ago.

 

Great work everyone, it's great reading all the updates!

 

Mutant blobs was a really fun game, and Drinkbox studios really utilised the features of the Vita so well. The Extinction trophy can be a bit tricky, and some of the score requirements for Golden Blob are pretty tight. Tip in case you need it, to get better scores don't roll on the cows to eat them, smash them first, they turn into multiple burgers which you can eat to get bigger scores ?

[Stanners316]

Update #1:

1. PGA Tour 2K21 - 50%

2. The Outer Worlds - 0% ➡️ 44%

3. Resident Evil 3 - 20%

4. Death Mark - 2% ➡️ 5%

5. Lego Movie 2 - 0%

6. The Walking Dead Final Season - 0%

 

It's about time for my first update! I've only managed to play a few days so far this month. I've been tending to lean towards reading in the sun on my days off. I'm also quite a big football (UK) fan so I'm watching a lot of the Euros tournament at the moment. (Got England in the work sweepstakes for the 1st time ever. Eng-er-land!) Nevertheless, I haven't made such a bad start to the challenge. I've also basically stuck to one game which is totally unlike me!

I like that there's different ways to play The Outer Worlds. I guess I love speech checks. Having a high enough persuade, intimidate, lie, science, medical skill lets you unlock different conversation threads and lets you avoid or instigate conflict. Apparently that's the easy way to complete Supernova (hard mode). Load out your skill points cleverly and "blag" your way through. The combat has successfully grown on me. I was worried at the start because it seemed really tricky, with your bullets barely making a dent in the weakest enemies' health bars. The inventory menu could make it a little clearer as to what's what, with a pop up overlay showing the stats of each weapon obscuring the other weapons. There doesn't seem to be a sort function. I did get the hang of tinkering and moding weapons and armour and got a bit more knowledgeable about what guns to use/not to use. The difficulty seems to be a bit up and down though. It started off a bit hard, then levelled out, but now I'm clearing up before the point of no return, all the enemies seem a little too easy, especially to achieve the amount of kills for different miscellaneous trophies. Question to people who have completed it - can I clear up the kill trophies during the DLCs? Stuff like 50 sneak attack kills and 100 plasma damage kills etc? I've got all the missable story trophies already. I just feel like I'm running around grinding now without much to show for it. Story wise, it's a bit of a shame but it hasn't completely gripped me. I like the companion interactions however. I like my space stuff to, so it's a bit of a let down that your view from the ship is a bit limited because it could look fantastic. I'm a big fan of seeing different planets up close in the sky when exploring worlds so I've appreciated that, but it's made me want to play No Man's Sky because I feel like I'd get more of that, plus more variation of "alien stuff". I might put this down now for a bit and move onto Resident Evil 3 to keep it fresh.

Death Mark is going to be great, I just need to give myself more than an hour stint to play it. It highlighted some stick drift I have because it seems to be very sensitive when choosing options, so I bought a new back up controller for it (keeping it in a dust free box). A genuine official PS4 dualshock controller in blue? Nope mate, a P4 gaming controller that rumbles 5 times as long as it should. Where's that ebay seller? Oh, he's gone ?. Not going to dispute it, the price indicated it wasn't official. It'll serve it's purpose anyhow. 

I had my 1st jab last Saturday, great moment. I risked an 8hr bar shift straight after and I was fine. Only had an ache when I proded my one and only tattoo and said "they jabbed me right through the tattoo", then it took me back to school days with a bit of a dead arm.

The updates are great, I've been reading them all each morning. I never really got into Mass Effect so I'm really tempted to at some point because of how much you guys are loving it!

@Crispy_Oglop - great news you're on the vaccination list! That's an awful long time you haven't seen your family for. It must feel great to have a date to look forward to. Having something to look towards makes a big difference I feel. I haven't seen my best mate in a year and a half but he's driving 3 hours west from London next weekend to visit so I'm looking forward to that!

Hope everyone's as well as they can be. Big love to all ?

Edited June 17, 2021 by Stanners316
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[Darling Baphomet]

Been working on Going Under plus some indie games I got on sale recently that aren't part of the challenge; this last week has been dedicated to the imposter mode added in the Working from Home update, essentially a traditional roguelike experience that combines the three dungeons into a linear experience with a special end boss, and modifiers as you progress in difficulty. Sounds fun; the only problem is that it's balanced for shit. The game actively gives you less skills for these runs, e.g. you no longer get skills at the end of every floor, and on top of that makes mentorships mostly useless. I spent 3-4 days trying to get the first level done, it took me like 40 runs, and when I found out I had to do 6 more (each with cumulative modifiers, like taking damage every time you equip a skill) I just said, "fuck it" and turned assist mode on - but even with it the later modifiers can make some runs just completely nonviable.

 

Honestly, this game is a perfect example of why I usually don't touch DLC trophies; the base game is one of the better roguelikes I've played and very well put together, but Imposter Mode is an absolute mess and a massive downgrade from the base game experience. It's still very much a game I'd recommend to anyone not obligated to 100% it, because the platinum itself is fine.

 

Anyway, I'll probably start Night in the Woods, which I've been meaning to play for quite a while now, after this game is done; should be a nice change of pace.

 

Current Progress - 0 / 12

 

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In Progress

Going Under - 58%

Not Yet Started

Sundered - 0%

Night in the Woods - 0%

Hyper Light Drifter - 0%

Ghost Giant - 0%

Odin Sphere Leifthraiser - 0%

LA Noire - 0%

Void Bastards - 15%

Dishonored: Death of the Outsider - 16%

Jurassic World Evolution - 2%

Stories: The Path of Destinies - 4%

Nier Automata - 27%

[JPHolzer]

12 hours ago, Heather342 said:

 

Mutant blobs was a really fun game, and Drinkbox studios really utilised the features of the Vita so well. The Extinction trophy can be a bit tricky, and some of the score requirements for Golden Blob are pretty tight. Tip in case you need it, to get better scores don't roll on the cows to eat them, smash them first, they turn into multiple burgers which you can eat to get bigger scores ?

 

Thanks for the tip! I actually had done that in a way; I just got through a level with lasers - I used them to kill the cows ?

 

And I completely agree with your statement re: Drinkbox and the features of the Vita; from what I've seen, their games seen to be some of the few from 3rd party studios that really make use of the full capability of the handheld

[Psy-Tychist]

On 14/06/2021 at 11:57 PM, Drizzora said:

Can I still join or am I late for this?

 

Well, I don't see a date that you can't sign up until, but the event started on the 1st of June, so maybe you had to be signed up before then. In any case, one of the OP will let you know. In any case, have a read of the first post for more details

[colinmazzini]

New Update:

1. Assassin's Creed III - 24%

2. Batman: Arkham Origins - 19%

3. Faery: Legends of Avalon - 0%

4. Fallout 3 - 0%

5. Heavy Fire: Afghanistan - 0%

6. Hydrophobia: Prophecy - 0%

7. Infamous - 33%

8. Mass Effect 2 - 0% => 14%

9. Prince of Persia - 0%

10. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - 0%

11. Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands - 0%

12. Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal - 0% => 6%

13. Ratchet: Deadlocked - 0%

14. Ratchet & Clank: Quest for Booty - 0%

15. Sly 2 - 0%

16. Sly 3 - 0%

17. Sly: Thieves in Time (PSVITA) - 0%

18. Tales of Monkey Island - 0%

 

Had a really slow start to this challenge so far, work and family stuff, but I am finally getting going. Started playing Mass Effect 2 and Ratchet and Clank 3. A bit of a transition going back to play my PS3 after playing everything on PS5, but I'm readjusting. Hopefully, through the weekend I will make some good progress and might start Tales of Monkey Island too.

[Crispy_Oglop]

 

8 hours ago, Stanners316 said:

The updates are great, I've been reading them all each morning. I never really got into Mass Effect so I'm really tempted to at some point because of how much you guys are loving it!

@Crispy_Oglop - great news you're on the vaccination list! That's an awful long time you haven't seen your family for. It must feel great to have a date to look forward to. Having something to look towards makes a big difference I feel. I haven't seen my best mate in a year and a half but he's driving 3 hours west from London next weekend to visit so I'm looking forward to that!

Hope everyone's as well as they can be. Big love to all 

Yeah! I can't wait to see them all again. Great that your mate is able to get down to see you too.

 

7 hours ago, Darling Baphomet said:

Anyway, I'll probably start Night in the Woods, which I've been meaning to play for quite a while now, after this game is done; should be a nice change of pace.

 

Current Progress - 0 / 12

 

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In Progress

Going Under - 58%

Not Yet Started

Sundered - 0%

Night in the Woods - 0%

Hyper Light Drifter - 0%

Ghost Giant - 0%

Odin Sphere Leifthraiser - 0%

LA Noire - 0%

Void Bastards - 15%

Dishonored: Death of the Outsider - 16%

Jurassic World Evolution - 2%

Stories: The Path of Destinies - 4%

Nier Automata - 27%

Looking forward to seeing what you think of it! I've been thinking about picking it up myself. It's one of those games that seems to get recommended to me alot but I never get around to playing it.

[ExHaseo]

Finished up ME3, bringing my journey through the ME series to a close once again. ME3 is easily my favorite in the series. I'm still a little sad we didn't get the multiplayer, but it's probably for the best. I'd be spending all my time playing that if it had been included haha. 

I tried playing Fatal Bullet, but I do not remember what to do, or where I'm at, or anything about that game. I'll probably end up swapping it out, because I don't want to have to replay it from scratch to figure out how the game works again. For now, I've moved on to Ys VIII though. It's pretty good so far. Kind of getting sick of the Ys Seven battle system at this point though. I've never been the biggest fan of it, because I generally don't like being forced to use characters I don't like. It's still overall fun though.

 

Shenmue - 0%

Mass Effect Legendary 2 - 100%

Mass Effect Legendary 3 - 100%

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

Ys VIII - 5% -> 7%

Persona 5 Strikers - 11%

South Park: The Fracture But Whole - 20%

Senran Kagura Estival Versus - 25%

A Hat in Time - 100%

Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet - 29% -> 31%

Dragon Ball Z Kakarot - 38%

[Cruscah]

I would like to make my first swap:

• Days Gone (PS4) - 0% → Grand Theft Auto V (PS3) - 4%

With the recent news of servers shutting down, I think it's finally time to stop being lazy about this one.

I would also like to add one more game to my list, this one will be my 50th platinum:

• A Hat in Time (PS4) - 0%

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Weekly Update #01

Weekly Update #02

[Phantochi]

Update #3

 

Just like last week, i made a bit of progress in every game. Finished my first playthrought of FF Remake 7 and jumped right into Hard mode, i played in Normal at first and not gonna lie, the game is not easy, so i'm expecting some boss fights and flying enemies to give me a headache. Practice a few levels in RE Revelations 2 and managed to beat the first one in speed run mode, didn't had the same luck with invisible enemies mode tho, but i'm getting there. For Anthem, i'm almost done with Javelins and Weapons challenges, i'll be done with those in the next week and all i'll have left is the collectibles. Also, made some progress through both GTA San Andreas and Vice City main missions.

 

That's about it for me, glad to see everyone is making some progress as well, i love reading everyone's progress review, so keep it up guys.

 

- Anthem (58%) >>>>>> 61%

- Final Fantasy VII Remake (44%) >>>>>> 55%

- One Piece Unlimited World Red Deluxe Edition (34%)

- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (22%) >>>>>> 25%

- Extinction (38%) >>>>>> 40%

- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (21%)

- Resident Evil Revelations 2 (17%) >>>>>> 24%

- Darksiders Warmastered Edition (21%) >>>>>> 22%

[StilRh]

Hi guys, that lovely time again. Managed to finish Pyre, pretty nice game but nowhere just didn't hold me like Bastion or Transistor. I played some Desperados and Warhammer (servers seem to be dying already?) and just this morning started Ratchet and Clank. This week I will finish Ratchet and Clank, chip away at some of the longer games and I might try for the first ending in Nier or making significant progress in Rebel Galaxy (a game I love to start but seem to put down and forget about over and over). Have a great week.

 

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Aground 28%
Assassins Creed Odyssey 8%
Catharine: Full Body 10%
Cuphead 5%
Desperados 3 14% > 32%
Maquette 100%
Muv Luv 26%
Nier Replicant 20%
Pyre 87% > 100%
Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart 0% > 22%
Rebel Galaxy 30%
Slay the spire 19%
Sudden Strike 4 7%
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Storm Ground 47% > 55%
Worldend Syndrome 100%

 

[DFuzed]

Update #2 for June 19th:

 

Assassin's Creed Valhalla (PS5) - 52% +8% *

Maneater - 0%

Lego Star Wars (PS3) - 59%

Phil-a-Pix (Vita) - 100% +15% 

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 - 32% +22%

 

Swaps 0/2

 

Current plans: 

  - Play Assassin's Creed Valhalla, finally got to where I was prior to restarting and a little beyond. Now to continue the areas I didn't clear previously. 

   - Use Epic Word Search 2 as my backup game for daily trophies. 

 

* Not counting DLC in on this. 

 

** Keeping Intergrade as an option but going to swap this for a Lego game, likely Batman 2 for the Vita although looking at options.

Edited June 21, 2021 by DFuzed

[MidnightDragon]

Made some progress in Afrika tonight finally, but no new trophies. 

[Heather342]

Update 3

 

I spent this week playing more of Little Hope and completed another 2 playthroughs, one where you have to choose all the 'Head' decisions and one where you have to choose all 'Heart' decisions. Some other misc trophies popped along the way with these 2 plays, so the rest should just be chapter select clean up. I also booted up AC Black Flag last night, and had a little go of the Aveline DLC. Managed to get one new trophy for killing a guard ringing a bell.

 

Trophy progress

Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope - 29 -> 50%

Assassin's Creed Black Flag - 13 -> 14%

 

I will be taking a slight gaming detour in the coming weeks. I have been planning to have the plat for Persona 5 as my milestone trophy #3000 (I'm currently on 2981), so I will be starting my new game+ on that pretty soon. Just need to complete the persona compendium and beat the twins. Once that is out of the way I will be back on the challenge and straight back to The Witcher for my 50th platinum.

 

Keep up all the great work everyone ?

[Dav9834]

On 5/19/2021 at 2:20 PM, Dav9834 said:

@MidnightDragon

Ok got my list(whether I'm able to platinum them all, time will tell) 

But it would be nice to platinum so many I've been putting off

 

-Resident Evil 3 Remake 0%

-Clannad 10%

-Man of Medan 25%

-Steins Gate Elite 0%

-Astros Playroom 12.5%

-FF7:Remake(PS5) (If they don't auto pop) 0%

Almost done with Steins Gate Elite!

 

@MidnightDragon

I don't think I can do another VN right now, need to pace myself, lot of stuff going on in my life, and Clannad is LONG(but great) 

 

Also FF7 Remake ps5 autopopped. So that's out, it was just an added 6th anyway. And I'm hiding it because It screwed up my fricken milestones, and I didn't earn it, it was just download my ps4 save and then pop pop pop. I was hoping it wouldn't. 

 

I want to swap Clannad out for Resident Evil 0

Can I still do that? 

[karaman1025]

First Update

 

1) Until Dawn ( 3 of 19 trophies earned %7) --> (19 of 19 trophies earned %100)  

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) 

 

Until Dawn was a good game I enjoyed it but I had to do one extra half playthrough because I made a mistake in the very last part of the game and because the save mechanism is not good it took me longer to earn the plat.

 

1 down 4 more to go!

 

[Dr_Mayus]

I will post final update tonight but not a huge week ☹ i made good progress on Dokura and Master Reboot i got back to the spot that caused me to quit last time.

[s68sc]

i will like to join but i can only start on july because i got a lot of work and studying to do

[Dr_Mayus]

End of the week update

 

Harvest Moon Save the Homeland 15% 5/21

 

Master Reboot 17% 5/21

 

Shenmue 16% 6/29

 

Chaotic Shadow Warrior

 

Uncharted Lost Legacy 11% 8/50

 

Dokura 45% 20/31

 

Finished world 11 in Dokura. I restarted Master Reboot and earned the driving trophy (which is one people complain about). I am also at 81.07% so not too much increase but getting there

[jukejointjesibel]

Update 2: 

 

Gravity Rush Remastered (6%)
Saints Row IV Re-Elected (9) --->  100%
Lego City Undercover (21%) --->  100%
The Wolf Among Us (1%)
Assassin's Creed Syndicate (5%)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider (38%)
Ratchet and Clank (27%)

Edited June 20, 2021 by SaintSinistra666

[L0sT_NZ_Kazekage]

Update #3

 

First platinum of the challenge and what a great game to start with! For years I was unsure if I would play this but so glad I did. The combat is so unique and refreshing, really looking forward to Forbidden West now!

 

As for trophies post platinum, I will do the Frozen wilds DLC and then probably move on for a bit before coming back to do NG+/Ultra Hard, but we will see.

 

1. Horizon Zero Dawn (37%) -> (71%) 

2. Fallout 4 (26%)

3. Crash Team Racing (22%)

4. Mafia 2: Definitive Edition (0%)

5. God of War 1 (0%)

Edited June 21, 2021 by L0sT_NZ_Kazekage

[MidnightDragon]

13 hours ago, s68sc said:

i will like to join but i can only start on july because i got a lot of work and studying to do

Go ahead and post your list.

[Heather342]

So over the weekend I decided to try the Freedom Cry DLC for AC Black Flag, didn't check to see if the DLC was actually installed and accidentally started the stand alone Freedom Cry game ? 

Being the completionist that I am, I'll have to finish this now. So adding bonus 6th game to my summer challenge, may as well knock this one out as I'll be playing Black Flag anyway

 

Assassin's Creed Freedom Cry - 0 -> 5%

 

Edited June 21, 2021 by Heather342

[Tenzai1980]

Not much progress for me since the last post.

Startet Nights of Azure 2 and making progress little by little.

 

1. Murdered: Soul Suspect

2. Song of Memories (0%)

3. Nights of Azure 2 (0% --> 20%)

4. Chronus Arc (28%)

5. Virtue´s Last Reward (4%)

Swap: 0/2

[Crispy_Oglop]

Update 5 - 

 

I made some decent progress in Mass Effect 2 which i'm having a blast with right now. As soon as the game begins and it opens on this shot, the nostalgia came flooding back to me.

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Again, similar to Mass Effect, they have done a great job with making everything look visually improved in the sequel. There were definitely some lovely vistas and landscapes which make the photo mode a really great addition. One planet had a hazard warning where your shields would burn out the longer you stayed in the sun and the lighting was really beautiful.

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Oh and on the topic of the Photo Mode, one thing that it can really let you do is break through the game environment slightly and see things that we probably weren't meant to see close up. There are certain parts of the Normandy SR-2 where you can break through the wall and outside of the level itself which is fascinating. Also pretty much most of the crowds in clubs and bars that are situated up high and in the far unreachable background are actually just 2-D low res cut-outs. Which I guess for it's time makes sense, from the distance they look fine and do a good job of making the environment look full of people living their lives while being a minimal performance drain on the original PS3.

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In terms of progress though, I've pretty much got everyone loyal and recruited, apart from one of my favourite ME series characters, but more on him in my next update. I'm also being as thorough as I possibly can be with all of the side content. I want to see and do everything before I move into tackling the Insanity difficulty in NG+ mode and playing this game with most, if not all of the DLC and content included really made me realise just how huge this game is as a result. As far as Paramour II for the additional trophy set is concerned - Jack was always my romance option in ME2 & ME3 back in the day, but this time i'm going to go with Tali who seems to be a fan favourite, I wonder if they did anything in this remaster for us to actually see her face this time around. I guess we'll see!

 

Outside of that, in real life, I'm getting better at cooking on the BBQ and enjoying the sun while it lasts. Today i'm learning how to cook vegetable and meat skewers, which will either go well or set the garden on fire. Usually in Ireland, 1 day of sun = 3 days of rain, so i'm definitely making the most of that in the evenings. I also have my 1st vaccine appointment set for this Wednesday, so i'm rushing to get as much done at work today and tomorrow, just in case I get knocked on my ass by side effects. I'm going to stock up on vitamins, healthy food and meds in preparation.

 

Anyway, that's me for now! I think I'll have the ME2 platinum in the bag this week. I'm not sure how long Insanity will take me, I remember back on the PS3 there were some super tricky parts.

 

Thanks for the updates, I've really enjoyed reading them It's always nice to read about the experiences people have had with their games. I've definitely discovered some stuff I might never have known about and marked a few games for future challenges as a result.

 

Catch you later!

1.  Mass Effect 
2. Watch Dogs: Legion - 54% > 91% [Blocked]
3. Mass Effect 2 - 0% > 65%
4. Cosmic Top Secret - 0%
5. Mass Effect 3 - 0%
6. Mass Effect: Legendary Edition (additional trophy set) - 19% > 38%
7. Subnautica: Below Zero - 0%
8. Outriders - 1%
9. Nier:Replicant - 4% > 7%

Edited June 21, 2021 by Crispy_Oglop