Gaming By Numbers 2021 (Event Ended - Badges Dispersed)

[Evil_Joker88]

If you're looking for games with very long titles i've got some recommendations for you @Briste Just to help @Jens earn a few more bucks You're welcome

 

3951 - Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the blight below

11116 - Is it wrong to try pick up girls in a dungeon? Infinite combate

9767 - Yu-No. A girl who chants love at the bound of this world

Edited July 6, 2021 by Evil_Joker88

[Spinacheq]

17 hours ago, Tenzai1980 said:

Song of Memories was a really interesting VN.

That is good to hear, it is my next game and my number 9 hoping in the next week or so  

5 hours ago, Sardavanua said:

No clue what to play next. I feel like every game in my list ends with 6 or 7 lol.

well if you play a 6 upside down it counts as a 9 right?  I think you have to film yourself playing on your head the whole time but it might be worth it... lol  

Edited July 5, 2021 by Spinacheq

[Spacey_Dweeb]

I finished up my third game for the event this week. It was Ni No Kuni II. Overall the game was pretty good. There seemed to be like four distinct phases to the platinum. There's working through the story line stuff for about 40 hours; followed by about 20 hours of side quests and collecting things, then another 15 for building up your army and doing skirmishes, then a few hours worth of grinding to be high enough level to finish the Forest Maze which has a boss in it that can range from about level 95-110 depending on your danger level in the maze. Danger level is somewhat out of your control, it raises up 1 level for every 10 minutes or so you spend in the maze. You can sometimes find things to lower it and sometimes you can't. I'm pretty sure it's procedurally generated so you never know exactly how its going to turn out. From there I messed around with some of the DLC, but they aren't very entertaining and the first DLC basically just extends the forest maze to make it longer and the enemies about 20 levels higher, so I think it just means more grinding. From there, I decided another break was in order and messed around with other games, mostly Mass Effect 3, which will be my focus this week. Hopefully next Monday, I'll be writing about finishing my fourth game for the event. 

 

Current Plan:

    

 

    

 

1. Little Hope - 22%
2. A Rose in Twilight - 1%
3. Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order - 100%
4. AC3: Liberation - 1%
5. Immortals Fenyx Rising - 4%
6. Resident Evil 7 (base game) - 93%
7. Alien Isolation: 15%>>>17%
8. Mass Effect 3 - 19%>>>31%
9. Mass Effect 2 - 100%
10. Ni No Kuni 2 (base game) - 83%>>>100%

[ladynadiad]

0 -  Sparkle 2 (PS4) ✔️

1 - Metropolis: Lux Obscura (NA Vita)

2 -  Norman's Great Illusion (NA Vita)

3 -  Pic-A-Pix Color 2 (NA PS4) 

4 - Portal of Evil: Stolen Runes (NA PS4), Nier Automata

5 -  Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny, Goosebumps: The Game, Treasures of Montezuma 4 (94%)

6 -  Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk

7 -  Kotodama, Block-A-Pix Deluxe (NA PS4), Dragon Quest XI

8 -  Shiness The Lightning Kingdom (1%), Corpse Party: Blood Drive

9 -  Zero Escape: The Nonary Games, Flower, Earthlock, The Tower of Beatrice (NA Vita)

 

Finished another game and now have five games done and earned a badge.  Metropolis Lux Obscura was better than Norman's Great Illusion and more worth the time and money, was another 99 cent title and a nice mix of an adventure game and a match 3 puzzle game.  I do wonder how in the hell it was even allowed on PSN because the game does have very graphic sexual content.  Seriously, it has art of bare nipples and an outright sex scene and was only rated M.  Probably only got away with it since the sex scene didn't show any genitals, but other games have had to censor far less revealing content before.

 

And with how badly I'm doing with Treasures of Montezuma 4, I may be needing to find a reasonable length 5 title.  Maybe I'll luck out and The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles will be a useful number (and maybe even a 5!) since that comes out later this month.

[Jens]

0 - Final Fantasy 7 Remake

1 - Salt and Sanctuary

2

3 - Valiant Hearts

4 - Spirit of the North

5 - What Remains of Edith Finch

6 - A Plague Tale: Innocence

7 - Block-a-Pix Deluxe

8 - Ys IX: Monstrum Nox

9 - SaGa Frontier Remastered

 

Once more keeping it short for story purposes. I think this one could be a perfect walking simulator, at least from the perspective of a walking simulator noob. It kept my attention up at all times in contrast to other examples I've played (looking at you, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture), the trophy list was super simple which is welcomed for such a simple game concept (unlike moonwalking into a bush for 30 seconds like in Everybody's Gone to the Rapture), the walking speed was very adequate for the short distances you walked (not like in Everysnail's Gone to the Rapture), I genuinely cared about the story it told (not like the story in Everybody's Bored in the Rapture). It looks great, has a pleasant pace (for a walking simulator ), pretty good. It might even make me give some other ones another chance to be honest. I thought a WS just wouldn't be my thing, but I might be wrong after all. Either that or I'm getting old.

 

Now it's time concluding GbN with our platinum #200, stay tuned!

[Inuty]

27 minutes ago, Jens said:

0 - Final Fantasy 7 Remake

1 - Salt and Sanctuary

2

3 - Valiant Hearts

4 - Spirit of the North

5 - What Remains of Edith Finch

6 - A Plague Tale: Innocence

7 - Block-a-Pix Deluxe

8 - Ys IX: Monstrum Nox

9 - SaGa Frontier Remastered

 

Once more keeping it short for story purposes. I think this one could be a perfect walking simulator, at least from the perspective of a walking simulator noob. It kept my attention up at all times in contrast to other examples I've played (looking at you, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture), the trophy list was super simple which is welcomed for such a simple game concept (unlike moonwalking into a bush for 30 seconds like in Everybody's Gone to the Rapture), the walking speed was very adequate for the short distances you walked (not like in Everysnail's Gone to the Rapture), I genuinely cared about the story it told (not like the story in Everybody's Bored in the Rapture). It looks great, has a pleasant pace (for a walking simulator ), pretty good. It might even make me give some other ones another chance to be honest. I thought a WS just wouldn't be my thing, but I might be wrong after all. Either that or I'm getting old.

I've got the feeling you dont like Everybodys gone to the rapture.

[ThatMuttGuy]

Wow!!! Everyone is making huge progress in the event! I've actually been a bit sidetracked in other games that won't count, but I've been making some progress for my #3 game, Megadimension Neptunia VII. I just have to pick up the slack and finish these last few games!

[Spacey_Dweeb]

40 minutes ago, Jens said:

0 - Final Fantasy 7 Remake

1 - Salt and Sanctuary

2

3 - Valiant Hearts

4 - Spirit of the North

5 - What Remains of Edith Finch

6 - A Plague Tale: Innocence

7 - Block-a-Pix Deluxe

8 - Ys IX: Monstrum Nox

9 - SaGa Frontier Remastered

 

Once more keeping it short for story purposes. I think this one could be a perfect walking simulator, at least from the perspective of a walking simulator noob. It kept my attention up at all times in contrast to other examples I've played (looking at you, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture), the trophy list was super simple which is welcomed for such a simple game concept (unlike moonwalking into a bush for 30 seconds like in Everybody's Gone to the Rapture), the walking speed was very adequate for the short distances you walked (not like in Everysnail's Gone to the Rapture), I genuinely cared about the story it told (not like the story in Everybody's Bored in the Rapture). It looks great, has a pleasant pace (for a walking simulator ), pretty good. It might even make me give some other ones another chance to be honest. I thought a WS just wouldn't be my thing, but I might be wrong after all. Either that or I'm getting old.

 

Now it's time concluding GbN with our platinum #200, stay tuned!

In a surprise twist platinum #200 is Everyone's Gone to the Rapture

 

[gruffiiti]

11 minutes ago, Spacey Dweeb said:

In a surprise twist platinum #200 is Everyone's Gone to the Rapture

 

Everyone's Milestone to the Rapture.

[Jens]

43 minutes ago, Spacey Dweeb said:

In a surprise twist platinum #200 is Everyone's Gone to the Rapture

 

I have to admit, that would be comedy gold! Sadly no stack out there though  Maybe one day I can collect those books in 8K with a PS5 port. And by collecting I mean looking at them and hoping that the game recognizes it.

[gruffiiti]

Spent this past week working on The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope and can now cross it off the list. I did the first playthrough blind with @Spacey Dweeb even though there was no co-op trophy in this one like there was in Man of Medan. The story was mostly interesting but fairly predictable. I could have saved myself a bunch of time cleaning up trophies though if I had planned out my playthroughs better. Not too big a deal as I was still under 25hrs total.

 

1 - The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope [02%] --> [100%]
2 - Little Nightmares II [00%]
3 - God of War [71%]
4 - Megaquarium [90%]
5 - Peaky Blinders: Mastermind [100%]
6 - Blacksad: Under the Skin [00%]
7 - Moss [00%]
8 - Children of Morta [100%]
9 - Transistor [13%] --> [21%]
0 - Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition [100%]

 

 

[SpaceCoresDad]

A quick on this time! The PS3 game rain is a really neat, short little platformer style game. The main gimmick is that you, your companion, and all the enemies in the game are only visible when out in the rain. It makes for some interesting stealth/light horror gameplay, with an overall very artsy feel to it. I'm not really sure if I entirely get what the message was though. That you need someone to help lift you out of depression/dark times maybe? I don't know, but it was still a good game. Would recommend, especially because it goes pretty cheap. I kind of wish I had the AS version though, because it's a lot easier to say you're playing Lost In the Rain than just... rain. Without even a capital R.

 

0 - Ghost of Tsushima (11090)
1 - Returnal (12751)

2 - rain (2152)

3 - God of War: Ascension (1873)

4 - Wake-up Club (1424)

5 - Aliens: Colonial Marines (1835)

6 -

7 - Sniper Ghost Warrior (867)

8 -

9 - 

Nearing the end, and quite early too. Can't wait to see how that shakes out!

[blu3st4rdust305]

And another one down. This one was a bit unexpected for me. I had already platinumed South Park on the PS4, but I felt the need to have a serious change of pace and tone from the onslaught of platformers and quirky action games that have filled my time. A nice, familiar world with some RPG elements was a welcome change.

 

Now I am halfway thru, pacing about 10 days ahead of schedule to finish the list before the end of August. I continue my campaign to finish this list off with only PS3 games and I feel confident I can finish it up. No More Heroes is on its last legs to cover "4", leaving me with 4 games to plat from 0%. I got this. 

 

 

0 - 1250 - Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy

1 -

2 -

3 - 1823 - Heavy Fire: Shattered Spear

4 - 

5 - 1475 - Lollipop Chainsaw

6 - 1966 - Ratchet: Deadlocked

7 - 2467 - South Park: The Stick of Truth

8 - 

9 - 

[damcrac5]

On 7/2/2021 at 1:54 PM, Im2Fast_4U said:

3: AC Valhalla PS5 (No idea what to replace it with now lol)

 

Seeing as you've completed God of War 1, 2, 3, and 2018, God of War Ascension is a 3 that is a relatively quick and not overly difficult plat.  Then you'd only need Ghosts of Sparta and chains of Olympus to fill out the entire series!  Of which, I personally found all three of these games to be the easiest in the series to plat.

[SupergiantStarr]

0 - LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham (PS4) - 3%

1 - Broken Age - 0%

2 - Destroy All Humans - 0%

3 - Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life - 

4 - Kentucky Route Zero TV Edition - 0%

5 - Dishonored: Definitive Edition - 7%

6 - The Sinking City - 0%

7 - GTA V (PS4) - 

8 - Dark Cloud 2 - 

9 - Transistor - 21%

 

Completed my Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life platinum! Of all the Harvest Moons, this might be my second favorite after Friends of Mineral Town (which is coming to PS4 sometime this year also) but it's really showing its age. After spending hundreds of hours with Stardew Valley, I felt this started VERY slowly. Still, it was a very chill time. There are plenty of missable trophies and there's not a WHOLE lot of information out there, but I managed getting there just fine. Definitely had a great time.

 

Up next is Dishonored Definitive Edition which has been sitting in my profile for several years. I'm starting to get worried that I may not finish in time and might have to make some last minute adjustments. But we'll see!

[Grotz99]

2 hours ago, SupergiantStarr said:

0 - LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham (PS4) - 3%

1 - Broken Age - 0%

2 - Destroy All Humans - 0%

3 - Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life - 

4 - Kentucky Route Zero TV Edition - 0%

5 - Dishonored: Definitive Edition - 7%

6 - The Sinking City - 0%

7 - GTA V (PS4) - 

8 - Dark Cloud 2 - 

9 - Transistor - 21%

 

Completed my Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life platinum! Of all the Harvest Moons, this might be my second favorite after Friends of Mineral Town (which is coming to PS4 sometime this year also) but it's really showing its age. After spending hundreds of hours with Stardew Valley, I felt this started VERY slowly. Still, it was a very chill time. There are plenty of missable trophies and there's not a WHOLE lot of information out there, but I managed getting there just fine. Definitely had a great time.

 

Up next is Dishonored Definitive Edition which has been sitting in my profile for several years. I'm starting to get worried that I may not finish in time and might have to make some last minute adjustments. But we'll see!

If anything I recommend you play Transistor, it's a great game and not too long.

[gruffiiti]

6 minutes ago, Grotz99 said:

If anything I recommend you play Transistor, it's a great game and not too long.

I'll agree with this. Its the current game I am working through and its been good fun once I figured out how to mess around with the functions.

[Han_the_Dragon]

It's been a while since I completed my last game for the event, even if I'm doing nothing and at home all the time, my gaming progress isn't being that great... But then, since I'm home because I was so exhausted, I think it's understandable... On top of that my gaming isn't being focused at all..

 

Now then, I finished Degrees of Separation EU as a shortcut for #3, and I have to say that it was quite enjoyable (I was playing with a guide, but was quite nice all the same). Snow Moto Racing Freedom is being a bigger headache than I expected, and the same can be said for Mahjong Royal  Towers... Mahjong with touch controls on vita was quite a nice experience, but on PS4 is a headache to move fast.. Didn't felt like going back to Tsushima since I was scathered and wanted to do the fast games first, but I may change on that idea..

 

I'm also trying to finish up some PS3 online trophies (in games that don't count for the event, because I already got #5 and the other 2 are impossible platinums), so, there's also that... I at least finished NFS The Run online, so 1 out, but at least 2 more to go.. I will be doing Lollipop Chainsaw in the mix along some GTA5 with a friend (will only do easy stuff, not aiming for all online trophies)..

 

4/10

0 - Ghost of Tsushima [11090] 37%

1 - Our World Is Ended EU [8891] / Bloodborne [3431] / Assassin's Creed Rogue PS3 [3101]

2 - Mahjong Royal Towers PS4/EU [6852] 14%

3 - Degrees of Separation EU [8703] 

4 - Flatout 4 [5934] / Driver San Francisco [1024] / State of Mind [7914] / Tales of Berseria [5184]

5 - Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair [2855] 

6 - Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords [4376] 

7 - Monster Energy Supercross [7227] 

8 - Snow Moto Racing Freedom [6018] 16% 

9 - Song of Memories [8609] / 428: Shibuya Scramble [8209] / Caligula Effect [6109] / Persona 5 Strikers [12399]

 

Not sure on what direction I will go next.. I will try to continue the already started easy 100%/Platinum, but not sure for how long..

 

 

Edited July 8, 2021 by Han_the_Dragon

[Cassylvania]

OK. Now I'm just trolling.

 

0 - Kingdom: Two Crowns (8540)

1 - Crossing Souls (7171)

2 -

3 - Lair of the Clockwork God (11603)

4 -

5 - Phantom Doctrine (8025)

6 - Banner of the Maid (11256)

7 -

8 - Monster Sanctuary (11858)

9 -

 

Arguably the best game on the list. I'd have to think about that. It's always a treat to see a game that pays homage to -- and makes fun of -- games that I grew up with. If you're looking for a decent game that has less than 70 owners, there ya go.

Edited July 8, 2021 by Cassylvania

[damcrac5]

Update 3:

 

0 -  

6 -  

 

With the completion of God of War 3 on PS3, I have now beat every game in the God of War Saga.  Question becomes do I stack GoW 3 Remastered as my #4?  It will be that or Until Dawn.  Leaning towards the remaster as I plan on getting GoW 1/2 for Vita to plat every available version.

Seeing both Madden 20 and 21 having easier plats made me jump on them.  Inside a month of EA play, which I purchased to get a discount on Mass Effect, I managed to knock them both out.  (20 because I'm a Chiefs fan, and 21 on PS4 because it fulfilled my #6!  I had some troubles with trophies not unlocking on Madden 21 which had me worried being a 100% profile, but reinstalling the game seemed to fix it and now I'm down to my last 3 numbers.

 

Updated Completions

0 - God of War III (PS3)

1 - Mass Effect (PS3) // (PS4)

2 - inFamous: Festival of Blood (PS3)

3 - God of War Ascension (PS3)

4 -

5 -

6 - Madden NFL 21 (PS4)

7 - Undertale (Vita)

8 - 

9 - Mass Effect 2 LE (PS4)

 

Work in Progress:

8 - Mass Effect 3 LE (PS4)

 

Options

4 - God of War 3 Remastered (PS4)  OR Until Dawn (PS4)

5 - Severed (Vita) OR Spyro (PS4)

 

Let me know which way you'd recommend.  I've got another week or so on ME3, but then I'll push to the finish!  GL/HF!

[Beyondthegrave07]

On 7/6/2021 at 8:08 AM, Jens said:

Once more keeping it short for story purposes. I think this one could be a perfect walking simulator, at least from the perspective of a walking simulator noob. It kept my attention up at all times in contrast to other examples I've played (looking at you, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture), the trophy list was super simple which is welcomed for such a simple game concept (unlike moonwalking into a bush for 30 seconds like in Everybody's Gone to the Rapture), the walking speed was very adequate for the short distances you walked (not like in Everysnail's Gone to the Rapture), I genuinely cared about the story it told (not like the story in Everybody's Bored in the Rapture). It looks great, has a pleasant pace (for a walking simulator ), pretty good. It might even make me give some other ones another chance to be honest. I thought a WS just wouldn't be my thing, but I might be wrong after all. Either that or I'm getting old.

 

Now it's time concluding GbN with our platinum #200, stay tuned!

I feel like I learned more about Everybody's Gone to the Rapture than Edith Finch from this. ?

 

But in all seriousness, I've stayed away from Walking sims since I platted  Rapture so I get what you're saying here. That was honestly the first time I felt like I platted the game only because it was easy and free on PS+. Still recovering.

Edited July 9, 2021 by Beyondthegrave07
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[Jens]

8 hours ago, Beyondthegrave07 said:

I feel like I learned more about Everybody's Gone to the Rapture than Edith Finch from this. ?

 

But in all seriousness, I've stayed away from Walking sims since I platted  Rapture so I get what you're saying here. That was honestly the first time I felt like I platted the game only because it was easy and free on PS+. Still recovering.

I kind of wish I would've played Rapture without it having any trophies at all or simply not going for them. Those were by far the biggest problem I had with the game and that's what caused the story having absolutely no chance of reaching me. The list was so bad, I wanted the game to end before I got halfway through my first playthrough. And missing the story in a walking simulator is a gigantic oof But my friend I frequently talk about games with (one with a very sensible opinion on pretty much everything) loved the story of the game, so I'm willing to admit that I might have done my part of making this a miserable experience too

 

How's Ikenfell treating you so far by the way? That one will be next on my list, probably tomorrow even.

[Beyondthegrave07]

46 minutes ago, Jens said:

How's Ikenfell treating you so far by the way? That one will be next on my list, probably tomorrow even.

I'm 10 hours into it. The music and story are really good so it's keeping me entertained. The combat is pretty simplistic and was hoping for more tbh though. It's like a simpler version of South Park: TFBH with a grid/turn-based strategy. It's fun, but gets repetitive after a while. I think if they added more variety rather than press X at a certain time to boost your power, it could've really transform the game and made it a lot less repetitive.

 

Still, pretty impressive for an indie dev. You can definitely see the passion they put into the game.

[Grotz99]

Was able to knock out Mass Effect pretty quick as the nostalgia of playing that game when it first came out on PC hit me hard. I remember the first one being a bit more rough around the edges and didn't see that this time with the Legendary edition. Still had a lot of monotonous quests (not quite collect 5 pelts level, but still) that required you to visit every planet. Combat was still very fun, but I chose to use the sniper rifle mainly and that sound started to get on my wife's nerves ?. Started up the Mass Effect 2 and went engineer this time, was between that or Vanguard so that might be my class in the 3rd one.

 

Also, finished up Stick it to the Man, a silly side scrolling platformer(?)/puzzle game. It's been sitting on my account for 7 years incomplete.

 

I'm not sure if I'll get to Vampyr and complete it by the end of this as work is getting busy and have a 2 week vacation on the horizon, but I'm going to try. Just couldn't find any other 0 games from what I have.

 

0 - Vampyr (7640)

1 - Mass Effect (12901) 

2 - Concrete Genie (9762) 

3 - Hidden Agenda (6833) PGA Tour 2K21 (11233) 

4 - Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls (6194) 

5 - The Banner Saga (4205) 

6 - Day of the Tentacle Remastered (4456) 

7 - Stick it to the Man (2587) ?

8 - Mass Effect 3 (12908)

9 - Mass Effect 2 (12909)

[MissShake]

Slowly but surely making progress!

 

0 -

1 -

2 -

3 -

4 -

5 - Kingdom Hearts III [8675]

6 -

7 -

8 - Mass Effect 3 [12908]

9 - Mass Effect 2 [12909]