Baker’s Final March

[Copanele]

4 hours ago, Baker said:

Shadow Warrior

 

A little update on this game. Played through the main story on Normal difficulty. Done all the miscellaneous trophies. Which was a lot of fun. The game was really good.

 

So now I’m in Heroic difficulty. I hate this mode because it’s really boring. You’re just spamming the same attacks over and over again. Currently in chapter 7 out of 17. In Heroic there are no checkpoints and you can’t save so you need to beat every level in one go. I left the PS4 in rest mode overnight because I was tired, continued today and then this happened:

 * grandma breaking hip video*

 

I've seen many bullshit mechanics in videogames but DAMN I never saw a super powered Shadow Warrior dying so fast from a measly flight of stairs in my entire life ? what is this, QWOP HD edition?

Kinda sad that these "mechanics" are there, game looks fun otherwise.

[Destructor-8]

5 hours ago, Baker said:

Shadow Warrior

 

A little update on this game. Played through the main story on Normal difficulty. Done all the miscellaneous trophies. Which was a lot of fun. The game was really good.

 

So now I’m in Heroic difficulty. I hate this mode because it’s really boring. You’re just spamming the same attacks over and over again. Currently in chapter 7 out of 17. In Heroic there are no checkpoints and you can’t save so you need to beat every level in one go. I left the PS4 in rest mode overnight because I was tired, continued today and then this happened:

 

This has nothing to do with Heroic by the way. It’s just terrible game design where you can fall to your death from 10cm high. And now I can start the chapter all over again. I’m thinking of taking a break from this game.
 

It’s times like these that wants me to quit trophy hunting. Why am I even doing this when I have no fun with it whatsoever? 

 

That was something I didn't expect to happen whilst watching that. I've heard a bit about this game & apparently it's quite good? Is this something you'd recommend especially if someone knows this stuff happens going in?

Edited September 22, 2021 by Destructor-8

[Baker]

3 minutes ago, Destructor-8 said:

 

That was something I didn't expect to happen whilst watching that. I've heard a bit about this game & apparently it's quite good? Is this something you'd recommend especially if someone knows this stuff happens going in?

The game is definitely good. But on Normal and not on Heroic. As I’ve mentioned I hate that difficulty. If you like FPS games I recommend playing it though. Yeah there is some weird insta death fall damage sometimes when you fall a little bit but that basically never happens.

[Baker]

Alright. It’s been a month. Time to look back at some games I did in the past. I wanted to save this for later as I’m not finished with it yet, but I can’t think of something else at the moment so here we go.

 

Do you ever have a backlog that consists of some hard games and some easy games and then you play the easy games first? And then when they are finished you buy some new easy games to keep postponing playing the harder games? Well, that’s what I did, and still do actually. ?

 

But one day I thought screw this. Let’s go play these games. The date was January 5th 2019.

 

 

Within 6 minutes I unlocked a trophy in these 4 games with the goal of challenging myself and complete 5 sub 1% games within a year. Later I started Trackmania Turbo too, as I didn’t own it at that time yet. I failed completing these games within a year by a long time. ? In fact I’m not even done yet, because I still need to complete:

 

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

 

 

This was the first game I played of these games and it’s my favorite offline FPS game. But all I can say now is: In progress.. ?

 

So let’s continue..

 

And I’m going to keep it short for every game. It’s a snooze fest typing this all on my phone.

 

Trials Fusion

 

 

Enjoyment: 10/10

Difficulty: 9/10

Playtime: 200+ hours

 

This game was notorious for being difficult so I thought it would be a good challenge to add to the list. I didn’t know anything about Trials at the time, but man was this challenging for me.

This is still the hardest game I’ve completed. And this is also the only game where I thought that I might not be good enough to complete it because it was kicking my ass.

 

Luckily there was a professor called Fat Shady that made a lot of Trials video’s on Youtube. So I started looking at what he did, trying to copy every move he made. And it worked. Things that looked impossible for me at first, something like beating Inferno IV, the hardest track in the base game, I eventually beat. 
 

I started to get better, after dozens of hours of practice, and beating Inferno IV became a cakewalk. Still there were a couple of very challenging things to do. Things that even the professor struggled with. But I managed to overcome them in the end.

 

My personal top 3 hardest things in Trials Fusion:

 

1: Pipe Phobia

 

 

I just suck at wheelies in this game. So this was for me the hardest. Quick note. I did all these challenges at the end of the game, where I was already quite decent at it. Still, this took me around 20 hours. But I think this is a very nice run.

 

2: Anger Management 

 

 

O boy. I hate this skill game. You need to make it to the 5th circle of hell. The track itself is quite simple, but you’re on fire. As soon as you don’t have enough speed anymore you will explode. And there is a big gap in the centre where in circle 3 and 4 you barely have enough time to get through it. I got so bored with doing the first 2 circles over and over again I started doing front flips everywhere to keep myself focused. This took me around 15 hours.

 

3: Sleepy Creek

 

 

One of the developer times you need to beat. The track itself is easy, but the time you need to beat is so strict. Very tough! This also took me around 15 hours.

Bonus video: Top Roach

 

 

Considered the hardest challenge in the game by many this was the very last thing I needed for 100%. Luckily I got this pretty fast. It took me around 5 hours to get.

 

While playing Trials Fusion I already completed everything in Wolfenstein II except for Mein Leben and one other trophy that I thought of saving for a milestone. In the end I screwed up the milestone trophy. I also already put quite some time into..

 

Sine Mora Ex

 

Enjoyment: 9/10

Difficulty: 8/10

Playtime: 55 hours

 

After playing the Sky Force games, which were my first shmups I played and highly recommend, shmups became a genre I really enjoy. Sine Mora looked like the best choice for me to do, although I also considered Ikaruga. Which I also bought about a year ago but is still in my backlog. ?

 

The game has some simple mechanics. You are on a constant timer. If you kill an enemy you gain time, if you get hit you lose time. The harder the difficulty you play on the more time you lose when you get hit. Now this is a bullet hell game, so not getting hit is not the easiest thing to do. Luckily there is almost no RNG in this game so you just need to learn all enemy spawn points and boss attack patterns.

 

There are two things in this game that are tough to do.

 

The first is A ranking every stage in score attack. The difficulty is set to hard in this mode. You need to have memorised the level to do this. You need to get above 92% kill ratio and can’t take more than a few hits or you won’t get an A rank. This took me a few tries but it was not as bad as the hardest thing to do which is: 

 

Beat a stage on Insane without picking up any power ups. Normally when playing, you pick up power ups. More fire power, etc.. But you can’t. It’s just you and your pea shooter against a horde of enemies and two boss fights. Assuming you’re playing stage 1 like most people going for this trophy will do. You still need to shoot most enemies because you need the time. But every enemy you kill shoots out revenge bullets, making it hard to dodge all the stuff that’s going on on screen. And if you get hit, you won’t have enough time anymore. Except during the boss fights where you can take a couple hits.
 

Awesome game.

 

Next up was..

 

Trackmania Turbo

 

 

Enjoyment: 8/10

Difficulty: 9/10

Playtime: 150+ hours

 

I’m not really into racing games and the last real racing game I played before this was Gran Turismo 2. But I enjoy arcade style racers for sure.

This was tough! I don’t know, but every time I play a game from the past I immediately switch to D Pad controls. Since I played GT 2 with the D Pad, I also played this with the D Pad. Which might made it harder for me than it should have been. At some surfaces, especially dirt and sand, I had such a hard time keeping control of my car. It might have been easier with the analog stick. I took many breaks from this game while playing it. I liked it, but it also frustrated me a lot. It takes a long time for a racing noob like me to get good enough to get a gold medal on a track.

 

Top 3 hardest tracks for me:

 

1: #186

 

 

16 hours straight I’ve spend on this track. With a few small breaks ofcourse. Controlling the car on the sand, and that f*cking palm tree just before the engine off section. It hit that palm tree so many times I could make a 1 hour compilation video of it. ?

 

2: #175

 

 

The multi lap from hell. You need to line up the big jumps very precise and with enough speed or you will crash. And since this is a dirt track I once again had such a hard time controlling my car. I was very happy once I got it. It’s a terrible run and I barely beat the gold medal time but who cares. Around 12 hours for this one.

 

3: #180

 

 

Tough track, but a very fun track nonetheless. Took me around 10 hours but I didn’t really mind with this one.

 

In the end it was a great game but it also frustrated me a lot. 

I still watch Trackmania video’s on Youtube to this day. I really hope they bring the new Trackmania, the one that everyone on PC plays, to consoles one day.

 

And finally..

 

Super Meat Boy

 

 

Enjoyment: 8/10

Difficulty: 8/10

Playtime: 100+ hours

 

Once considered one of the hardest platinums to get. I like platformers but I really don’t play them too much. But ofcourse I needed to see how difficult this game actually was. And it was tough for sure, but not nearly as hard as expected. 
 

We can just skip straight to the no death runs because that’s the only difficult thing about this game. This went way smoother and quicker than I expected it would go (except Impossible Boy). Nothing took me longer than 5-6 hours of practice before I got my Iron Man run (except Impossible Boy).

 

Top 3 hardest Iron Man runs.

 

1: Impossible Boy

This took me way longer than it should. But I choke a lot when I’m about to complete difficult things. I also could have this after 5-6 hours. Instead I had many failed 18-19 runs where I choked with my biggest choke in gaming ever right here:

 

 

Luckily this run came a few runs later.

 

 

This is actually my cleanest no death run in the entire game so I’m a bit proud of this one. In the end it took me somewhere between 15-20 hours before I got it.

 

2: Girl Boy

 

 

An easier version of Impossible Boy but it was harder than I expected it would be. 
 

3: Zombie Boy

 

 

After clearing this one I thought Girl Boy would be easier than this but it wasn’t. These three Iron Man runs stand a mile above all the other runs in terms of difficulty.

I still am baffled by some of the trophy rarities in this game even though it has been on Ps Plus.

After starting these games on January 5th I kind of wished I hadn’t done it. I just don’t like seeing incomplete games on my profile. But it was definitely worth it otherwise these could still be in my backlog. ?

 

Which raises a question. Should I do this again? I currently have 3 sub 1% games in my backlog of which some have been sitting there for years. Namely Strafe, Ikaruga, and Black Ops 4.

 

I might look for some more and do this again as a challenge for 2022. Recommendations are welcome. No fighting games, PS4 only.

Edited September 23, 2021 by Baker

[LosAngelesPride]

Well that's a prestigious throwback, congrats on achieving those milestones my friend ?

 

They are all sitting on my backlog, I need to find the motivation and overcome some sort of blockage to finally start them ? 

[Arcesius]

Nice throwback! I definitely understand where you are coming from though... I also think from time to time about just starting a couple of games at once and then just clean them up, but I actually prefer having one game to play, that way I am not tempted to switch around games all the time ?

 

Also, dude.. I always find it insane that you type up everything on your phone... I can barely post a two-line response without going crazy ?

 

 

10 hours ago, Baker said:

1: Pipe Phobia

 

I just suck at wheelies in this game. So this was for me the hardest. Quick note. I did all these challenges at the end of the game, where I was already quite decent at it. Still, this took me around 20 hours. But I think this is a very nice run.

 

Holy shit.. I knew it took you a while, but 20 hours? ?? Still, what a fantastic game.. 

 

 

10 hours ago, Baker said:

Sine Mora Ex

 

 

So... If I remember correctly, you were also writing in the forums about not being able to get 100% in score mode or something? Despite having beaten all bosses? Maybe you know what I mean... 

 

I will start this game soon, so is there anything I need to know so that I don't run into the same problems?

 

 

10 hours ago, Baker said:

1: #186

 

16 hours straight I’ve spend on this track. With a few small breaks ofcourse. Controlling the car on the sand, and that f*cking palm tree just before the engine off section. It hit that palm tree so many times I could make a 1 hour compilation video of it.

 

Ah, the palm ruined so many runs... In general the Flora in wherever Trackmania plays is probalby made of the hardest material known to mankind ? Honestly I would love for a new game to come out, but the last games have only released for PC unfortunately (they are only Stadium anyways... I would enjoy a new Trackmania game with all environments). 

 

 

10 hours ago, Baker said:

Which raises a question. Should I do this again? I currently have 3 sub 1% games in my backlog of which some have been sitting there for years. Namely Strafe, Ikaruga, and Black Ops 4.

 

I might look for some more and do this again as a challenge for 2022. Recommendations are welcome. No fighting games, PS4 only.

 

Wasn't Strafe super, super buggy? ?

 

Not sub-1%, but of course The End is Nigh or Splasher would be great platforming challenges, and I hear A Pixel Story or Super Rude Bear Resurrection (both in my backlog) as well, though I have no experience yet with the two.

 

Looking forward to other responses that I can add to my backlog as well ? 

[Destructor-8]

On 22/09/2021 at 7:14 PM, Baker said:

The game is definitely good. But on Normal and not on Heroic. As I’ve mentioned I hate that difficulty. If you like FPS games I recommend playing it though. Yeah there is some weird insta death fall damage sometimes when you fall a little bit but that basically never happens.

 

Yeah I haven't played many for quite awhile, but the game itself does look good so I might try it eventually.

 

13 hours ago, Baker said:

Do you ever have a backlog that consists of some hard games and some easy games and then you play the easy games first? And then when they are finished you buy some new easy games to keep postponing playing the harder games? Well, that’s what I did, and still do actually.

 

Top 3 hardest Iron Man runs.

 

1: Impossible Boy

This took me way longer than it should. But I choke a lot when I’m about to complete difficult things. I also could have this after 5-6 hours. Instead I had many failed 18-19 runs where I choked with my biggest choke in gaming ever right here

 

That was a good read & even though I've started quite a few games in recent times, I haven't started the different types that you have. It's great you are getting through those all too. I watched that SMB video & I was thinking of what's coming, so when it happened it must have been incredibly annoying going through that. Nice you got SMB done anyway though.

 

2 hours ago, Arcesius said:

Ah, the palm ruined so many runs... In general the Flora in wherever Trackmania plays is probalby made of the hardest material known to mankind  Honestly I would love for a new game to come out, but the last games have only released for PC unfortunately (they are only Stadium anyways... I would enjoy a new Trackmania game with all environments). 

 

Not sub-1%, but of course The End is Nigh or Splasher would be great platforming challenges, and I hear A Pixel Story or Super Rude Bear Resurrection (both in my backlog) as well, though I have no experience yet with the two.

 

Looking forward to other responses that I can add to my backlog as well  

 

That first bit is pretty funny as I can definitely relate to that lol. I also was gonna say about what a good platformer recommendation would be as I remember wondering about SMB awhile ago, however I think SMB would be too much of a game going into. I see you've mentioned this first game here & wonder if that's worth doing, or maybe there's other decent ones to try out since I don't think I've played a platformer so far.

[ShadyWARcotix]

On 22.9.2021 at 2:46 PM, Baker said:

Shadow Warrior

 

A little update on this game. Played through the main story on Normal difficulty. Done all the miscellaneous trophies. Which was a lot of fun. The game was really good.

 

So now I’m in Heroic difficulty. I hate this mode because it’s really boring. You’re just spamming the same attacks over and over again. Currently in chapter 7 out of 17. In Heroic there are no checkpoints and you can’t save so you need to beat every level in one go. I left the PS4 in rest mode overnight because I was tired, continued today and then this happened:

 

 

This has nothing to do with Heroic by the way. It’s just terrible game design where you can fall to your death from 10cm high. And now I can start the chapter all over again. I’m thinking of taking a break from this game.
 

It’s times like these that wants me to quit trophy hunting. Why am I even doing this when I have no fun with it whatsoever? 

 

This happened to 3 or 4 times aftet that I didn't rushed that much through the levels which was annoying.. one time I fell through the floor and died lol.. it's really an annoying glitch man i understand your anger. 

[Baker]

11 hours ago, LosAngelesPride said:

Well that's a prestigious throwback, congrats on achieving those milestones my friend ?

 

They are all sitting on my backlog, I need to find the motivation and overcome some sort of blockage to finally start them ? 

My advice is to just go for it! They’re all great games.

 

3 hours ago, Arcesius said:

Nice throwback! I definitely understand where you are coming from though... I also think from time to time about just starting a couple of games at once and then just clean them up, but I actually prefer having one game to play, that way I am not tempted to switch around games all the time ?

 

Also, dude.. I always find it insane that you type up everything on your phone... I can barely post a two-line response without going crazy ?

 

So... If I remember correctly, you were also writing in the forums about not being able to get 100% in score mode or something? Despite having beaten all bosses? Maybe you know what I mean... 

 

I will start this game soon, so is there anything I need to know so that I don't run into the same problems?

 

Wasn't Strafe super, super buggy? ?

 

Not sub-1%, but of course The End is Nigh or Splasher would be great platforming challenges, and I hear A Pixel Story or Super Rude Bear Resurrection (both in my backlog) as well, though I have no experience yet with the two.

 

Looking forward to other responses that I can add to my backlog as well ? 

I still don’t understand how to break up a a single quote into multiple quotes but maybe that’s a phone thing. 

About typing everything on my phone. Yeah it’s annoying as hell. Especially because there are so many basic things missing. Centre text, spoiler tags, etc.. etc.. 
 

For Sine Mora you need to beat every boss with primary fire only. It’s one of the requirements of a promotion. Every boss should give around 15% increase. Some had some problems with it, me too, for not registering every boss. When that happens it’s probably Domus, and you need to destroy most of his parts. You can’t run into problems, but you might need to replay some chapters. 

Strafe is super buggy. But just look at the platinum trophy image and name. ?

 

And you know I won’t play Splasher or The End is Nigh. ? The other two games also don’t seem like something for me. The only other sub 1% game I know I’m interested in is Dariusburst. But apparently it’s more of a big grind with just one difficult trophy to do.

 

52 minutes ago, Destructor-8 said:

 

That was a good read & even though I've started quite a few games in recent times, I haven't started the different types that you have. It's great you are getting through those all too. I watched that SMB video & I was thinking of what's coming, so when it happened it must have been incredibly annoying going through that. Nice you got SMB done anyway though.

 

Yeah the funny thing about the SMB choke is that it was at the end of a 5 hour session. The longer I played SMB in a row, the easier it went for me. And when I choked I wanted to quit for the day but instead went into a f*ck it mode. I played very casually and if you compare the video’s you can maybe see I’m much more relaxed when I got Impossible Boy. Even though I got nervous at 7-20x.

 

13 minutes ago, ShadyWARcotix said:

 

This happened to 3 or 4 times aftet that I didn't rushed that much through the levels which was annoying.. one time I fell through the floor and died lol.. it's really an annoying glitch man i understand your anger. 

I’ve read somewhere you can’t dash near a staircase as it will lead to certain death. So I’m taking it slow, just walking everywhere and only dash in the big fights. 

Edited September 24, 2021 by Baker

[ShadyWARcotix]

41 minutes ago, Baker said:

I’ve read somewhere you can’t dash near a staircase as it will lead to certain death. So I’m taking it slow, just walking everywhere and only dash in the big fights. 

 

Yeah exactly. Avoid dashing around stairs but sometimes when I was almost done with a level I still took it slow hahaha btw good luck man you will make it. Don't stress yourself

Edited September 24, 2021 by ShadyWARcotix

[Wild-Arms-R]

4 hours ago, Arcesius said:

Nice throwback! I definitely understand where you are coming from though... I also think from time to time about just starting a couple of games at once and then just clean them up, but I actually prefer having one game to play, that way I am not tempted to switch around games all the time 

 

Also, dude.. I always find it insane that you type up everything on your phone... I can barely post a two-line response without going crazy 

 

 

 

Holy shit.. I knew it took you a while, but 20 hours?  Still, what a fantastic game.. 

 

 

 

So... If I remember correctly, you were also writing in the forums about not being able to get 100% in score mode or something? Despite having beaten all bosses? Maybe you know what I mean... 

 

I will start this game soon, so is there anything I need to know so that I don't run into the same problems?

 

 

 

Ah, the palm ruined so many runs... In general the Flora in wherever Trackmania plays is probalby made of the hardest material known to mankind  Honestly I would love for a new game to come out, but the last games have only released for PC unfortunately (they are only Stadium anyways... I would enjoy a new Trackmania game with all environments). 

 

 

 

Wasn't Strafe super, super buggy? 

 

Not sub-1%, but of course The End is Nigh or Splasher would be great platforming challenges, and I hear A Pixel Story or Super Rude Bear Resurrection (both in my backlog) as well, though I have no experience yet with the two.

 

Looking forward to other responses that I can add to my backlog as well  

Idk if I’m allowed to post this but for Sine Mora the thing baker is referring to is the challenge for destroying every boss with only your primary weapon(arcade mode)

Naturally you should unlock it on your primary weapon only run but what the game fails to explain is you actually need to destroy most of a bosses parts(not just the main target to proceed to the next phrase)

The parts that you gotta destroy are usually things that act as turrets, or are part of the bosses gimmick.

So destroying them can sometimes make the boss fight easier, basically takes away attacks or actions from the boss.

 

If you want to make this challenge easy to track just make sure every time you finish a boss fight, open the menu mid stage and look and see what the % is for the primary only boss fight challenge is at,

if it rises you met the requirement for that boss, if not then now you know witch one you missed at least.

You gotta clear the game 7times anyway.

 

Ok hope this help(unless there’s still beef here, witch in that case, well idk, doesn't really matter tbh)

Edited September 24, 2021 by Wild-Arms-R

[Baker]

11 minutes ago, ShadyWARcotix said:

 

Yeah exactly. Avoid dashing around stairs but sometimes when I was almost done with a level I still took it slow hahaha btw good luck man you will make it. Don't stress yourself

I will make it but it can take quite a while. I’m having a hard time motivating myself to keep playing this game as I hate it right now.

 

I only play maybe 1/3 or 1/2 a chapter a day before I’m too bored to continue. I’m now 1/3 into chapter 10, one of the more boring chapters imo. I also had my first combat related death at the end of chapter 8, where you fight a couple of teleporters and a shaman. I did that all wrong by focusing on the teleporters first and the shaman summoned a couple more and before I knew it I had 6-7 teleporters to deal with. ? Second time I just killed the shaman asap which made the fight easy. The only chapter I’m really dreading is 13, as it’s so long. 

Edited September 24, 2021 by Baker

[Arcesius]

58 minutes ago, Baker said:

I still don’t understand how to break up a a single quote into multiple quotes but maybe that’s a phone thing. 

 

Hmm I just press "Enter" within the quote block on an empty line. You might need to create an empty line first though. Works on the phone as well  

 

 

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And you know I won’t play Splasher or The End is Nigh.  The other two games also don’t seem like something for me. The only other sub 1% game I know I’m interested in is Dariusburst. But apparently it’s more of a big grind with just one difficult trophy to do.

 

Fiiiine ?

 

 

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For Sine Mora you need to beat every boss with primary fire only. It’s one of the requirements of a promotion. Every boss should give around 15% increase. Some had some problems with it, me too, for not registering every boss.

 

10 minutes ago, Wild-Arms-R said:

Idk if I’m allowed to post this but for Sine Mora the thing baker is referring to is the challenge for destroying every boss with only your primary weapon.

Naturally you should unlock it on your primary weapon only run but what the game fails to explain is you actually need to destroy most of a bosses parts(not just the main target to proceed to the next phrase)

The parts that you gotta destroy are usually things that act as turrets, or are part of the bosses gimmick.

So destroying them can sometimes make the boss fight easier, basically takes away attacks or actions from the boss.

 

If you want to make this challenge easy to track just make sure every time you finish a boss fight, open the menu mid stage and look and see what the % is for the primary only boss fight challenge is at, if it rises you met the requirement for that boss, if not then now you know witch one you missed at least.

 

Alright so what I should do is kill a boss (primary weapon only) and check if the tracker increased by 15%, right? It could still increase but just by less than15% if I didn't destroy all needed parts, or will it not increase at all if that's the case?

 

 

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Ok hope this help(unless there’s still beef here, witch in that case, well idk, doesn't really matter tbh)

 

Hey man, I am not resentful, plus I didn't feel attacked personally anyways. There's no beef here, at least not from my side  Thanks for the clarification!

Edited September 24, 2021 by Arcesius

[Baker]

1 minute ago, Arcesius said:

 

Alright so what I should do is kill a boss (primary weapon only) and check if the tracker increased by 15%, right? It could still increase but just by less than15% if I didn't destroy all needed parts, or will it not increase at all if that's the case?

It will increase with 15% or nothing. I tracked it myself too until I got to the three last bosses and beat them with primary fire only and the increase was only 30%. In my case it was either Steropes, Domus or Ophan. Steropes and Domus are bosses that have extra parts you can destroy but it’s not necessary to beat them. And with every post I’ve read about this it’s always Domus that screwed them so I assumed it was also Domus for me. But it could have been Steropes too.

[Wild-Arms-R]

7 minutes ago, Baker said:

It will increase with 15% or nothing. I tracked it myself too until I got to the three last bosses and beat them with primary fire only and the increase was only 30%. In my case it was either Steropes, Domus or Ophan. Steropes and Domus are bosses that have extra parts you can destroy but it’s not necessary to beat them. And with every post I’ve read about this it’s always Domus that screwed them so I assumed it was also Domus for me. But it could have been Steropes too.

Yep what he said, those 3 are most likely the ones you quickly shit on and never even put a dent in their extra parts.

 

I would like to add Papa Carlo(the one with the wracking ball) is another boss that you could quickly dispatch too without earning the said requirement tho.

Edited September 24, 2021 by Wild-Arms-R

[KindaSabbath]

 

1 hour ago, Baker said:

I still don’t understand how to break up a a single quote into multiple quotes but maybe that’s a phone thing. 

 

Not sure if this helps but I only have access to this site on mobile too, and I do this:

 

It can be a bit finicky - but if you select the text you want to quote, a little pop up should appear. If it doesn't pop up straight away - I just scroll up and down a bit until it does.

 

Being a mobile only user, my write up for Trials Fusion damn near broke my hand ?

 

Anyways - Awesome throwback/update dude! 

I love watching other's gameplay so nice touch adding in the vids!

 

Trials Fusion:

Well you know I love this game! Your replays were super helpful to me throughout - if we ignore all the flips on Anger Management ? 

 

Very nice pipe-phobia run! It's the only challenge I don't have a capture for as I recorded it on my PS5 and then replayed the track to get a platinum medal and go after @det_gittes time. When I opened the clip up to trim it - it just had the cover image of the game and no gameplay, I was annoyed because my replay was now my platinum run so I couldn't access my pipe-phobia run.

 

I had the opposite to you where I got lucky with pipe-phobia and knocked it out very fast. Top Roach took alot more practice and was definitely the hardest challenge in the whole game for me, second to Sleepy Creek. But that was fun as fuck. 

 

Sine Mora:

Woah - This game looks dope! I'll be keeping an eye out for this one.

 

Super Meat Boy:

Nice work man! The chokes are always a good indication that it's coming. I usually kick on hard after a choke and ride that momentum. Nice videos man. I've gotta do SMB at some point, looks like a good game that will kick my ass!

 

Wolfenstein II:

I love the wolf games. I think it would be too long to capture a successful run on the console? - I'd definitely watch your successful run when you undoubtedly bang it out. Looking forward to congratulating you when you finish this one up!

 

Trackmania Turbo:

That's a scary looking game ? - seems similar in the gameplay loop to Trials: rinse and repeat until you nail it. That is a big appeal but man, you had to put in some serious practice, mad respect bro. Tidy captures, yet again!

 

In regards to other games... well you've completed most of the ones I'm interested in so I doubt I could recommend anything decent. It's not sub 1% but I highly recommend Vanquish. Gameplay is amazing, it's like Titanfall 2 on steroids and it also offers a decent challenge. However, there's only one part of the game that offers that challenge - the rest is super easy. But I suppose that's makes it a nice balance since as you enjoy a mixture of chill and difficulty. I'm not sure if you've already looked into Vanquish and it's not your thing, so apologies if it's a shit suggestion. A bit like Titanfall 2 though, TC6 is slightly hyped up and not quite as bad as what you'd think (different league to the Gauntlet though) by reading through the forums. Still a very fun game.

 

 

[Baker]

@KindaSabbath Thanks for the tip about multi quoting but highlighting a wall of text on phones is so annoying. Don’t think I’ll be using it. ?

 

I don’t know if you own it already but I think Trackmania Turbo is just the game for you.

 

And for Vanquish. I actually bought a used PS3 copy a long time ago for €5 but I never got around to playing it. And then my PS3 died.

 

Now I sometimes put it in my wishlist and when it goes on sale I added it to my basket a couple of times but I never pulled the trigger. I will probably play it some day.

[Shrooba]

On 22/09/2021 at 10:16 PM, Baker said:

Shadow Warrior

 

A little update on this game. Played through the main story on Normal difficulty. Done all the miscellaneous trophies. Which was a lot of fun. The game was really good.

 

So now I’m in Heroic difficulty. I hate this mode because it’s really boring. You’re just spamming the same attacks over and over again. Currently in chapter 7 out of 17. In Heroic there are no checkpoints and you can’t save so you need to beat every level in one go. I left the PS4 in rest mode overnight because I was tired, continued today and then this happened:

Admittedly, this was my instinctual first thought to that clip ?


 

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But one day I thought screw this. Let’s go play these games. The date was January 5th 2019.

Really awesome games here! Super Meat Boy is a classic platformer and a brilliant plat to have, and Wolfenstein II is another game with a great challenge in it's Mein Leben run, similar to Dead Space 2's hardcore run. Starting them all in one go and earning a trophy on each is a great motivator to starting them, seeing as they're on your profile for good.

Super Meat Boy especially is something I can tell you've put a ton of dedication on, 100+ hours is a long time for sure! I can only imagine your heart rate near the finale! ?

On the subject of platformers, as for future challenging games to tackle, it isn't a sub 1% (sits around 2.2% I think), but if you have PS Now, then Sonic Unleashed is a great challenge. I reckon it's the hardest Sonic game in the series, and there's a ton to conquer! You've got time trials and ring trials (finish stage with X rings) for every main stage in the game that you have to do without dying and getting hit a certain amount of times. Each trial comprises of three levels where the requirements get stricter and stricter, but they're all a ton of fun. The gameplay alternates between speedy daytime stages and the brawling nighttime stages akin to God of War, and the music is pretty killer too!

Edited September 25, 2021 by Shrooba

[Baker]

 #304

 

 

Shadow Warrior

 

Enjoyment: 7/10

Difficulty: 6/10

Playtime: 50 hours

 

Lo Wang, the man with the Wang, sets of on a journey to collect a katana sword. And then suddenly there are a lot of demons..

 

I really haven’t followed the story to be honest so I can’t say much about it. There is a lot of humor and one liners in this game. But who plays FPS games for the story anyway? So onto the gameplay.

 

This can be split up in two parts.

 

Let’s start with my first playthrough on Normal difficulty. Hell yes! I really enjoyed this. It’s fast paced, and very fluid. You have your katana sword that can do numerous attacks and a couple of guns. A revolver, machinegun, crossbow, flamethrower and a rocket launcher. You can upgrade the guns to add more damage and give secondary attacks. You also have access to demon hearts, that kill all smaller demons that are in a close vicinity, and a demon head. But only if you unlock the required skill in the skill tree and cut of a head of a Warlord. This was a blast and would rate it a 9/10 in enjoyment. But then you have to do..

 

A second playthrough on Heroic difficulty. And as I’ve mentioned this already in a few posts I hated this. There is basically only one way to play this mode and that’s using Divider of Heavens, a katana strike that heals you if unlocked the required skill which should be the first skill you unlock in this mode, and using charged crossbow shots. Later on in the game you could use the rocket launcher too, but it’s dangerous to do as you can easily kill yourself. So that’s all you’ll be doing. Dash, dash, Divider of Heavens, dash, dash, charged crossbow shot to the head. Rinse and repeat. THE ENTIRE GAME! And since every demon is a damage sponge these fights go on for way too long.

 

You also need to beat every chapter in one go, as you can’t save and there aren’t any checkpoints which sounds daunting. Especially as some of these chapters take well over an hour, and having a difficult fight at the end. That made it quite tense to play through. Luckily I beat most chapters first try and only died in combat in chapter 8, 16 and 17. Chapter 16 is by far the hardest one.

 

I died around 10 times on Heroic and half of that were one hit environmental deaths like falling from the stairs. ? The hardest thing to do in the game is a fight in chapter 16, but luckily there are a few skips in this game. You can skip straight to this fight, saving a lot of time and fights. You can also skip chapter 12 entirely, which was a blessing, because that was the level I hated the most.

 

I saved a clip of my fight in chapter 16. It has almost all demon enemies in the game in one fight, except some flying demons which are easy to beat. The fight consists of 4 waves and unfortunately this fight took me a little over 30 minutes, and with my recording set at 30 minutes max. I cut it down to just wave 4. The first 3 waves aren’t much of an issue anyway.
 

Let’s look at the enemies:

 

Berserker: These are for me the most annoying demons in the game. It’s the big guy that charges at you and does massive amounts of damage. You can only hit him in the back.

 

Shaman: The guy with the green staff. It keeps summoning demons onto the battlefield. Takes a lot of hits to kill but I made this one always my first priority when encountering him.

 

Warlord: The other big guy. It can enrage every demon around him. Enraged demons are much faster and do more damage. These guys are easy to kill and dodge there attacks.

 

Teleporters: These demons are considered the toughest enemies but I disagree. They can do massive damage, especially when enraged, but you can just hit them with Divider of Heavens to get health back. When you time it right, you know exactly when they are going to teleport in front of you.

 

Shielded, Green, and Normal demons: EZPZ stuff. But very useful to have around to keep your health up.

 

In wave 4 you fight 2 Shamans, 2 Warlords, 1 Berserker, Teleporters and many Shielded, Green and Normal demons. 

 

Here is the clip:

 

 

As you can see I went down twice. Once because I killed myself with the rocket launcher. ? But I always kept a demon heart for when I get into Soul Drain (last stand), another skill that’s crucial in this mode. It has a one minute cool down timer so you can’t get down in quick succession. In the end this hardest fight in the game took me 4 attempts. I can’t give this game a higher difficulty than a 6. For me Tony Hawk for example was harder.

 

Now let’s talk about the controls real quick as this was also very annoying sometimes. You dash with R1. You have some combo’s you need to keep using that require R2. Divider of Heavens is up, up, R2. Since you need to keep dashing all the time, I was playing with my middle finger on R2 and index finger on R1. It’s not the most comfortable way of holding your controller.

 

You can also always heal yourself with the combo right, right, L2. But many times I just could not get this to work. You can also see it in the video when I’m on low health. I want to heal myself but instead I just do some slices with the katana. Very annoying!

 

To sum up: Loved Normal mode. Heroic mode can go fuck a Wang.

 

Onto Shadow Warrior 2. Which isn’t as good as I’ve heard but let’s play it anyway.

Edited September 28, 2021 by Baker

[Baker]

 #305

 

 

Shadow Warrior 2

 

Enjoyment: 9/10

Difficulty: -

Playtime: 45 hours

 

’Did anybody call for a Wang?’

 

Lo Wang is back! And so are the ‘terrible’ jokes and oneliners in this game. Once again I skipped the story so onto gameplay.

 

Having heard this game wasn’t good by two individuals that I won’t name again I started this game with low expectations. But I immediately liked this game.

 

Instead going from level to level, you now have a central town as your base from where you can undertake missions. Story missions, side missions and bounties. Making this game very different. It’s a looter shooter and has more RPG elements to it. Enemies and chests drop cores which you can inject into your weapons giving them different benefits. Think of more damage, more critical damage, critical chance, etc.. If you ever played the game Alienation, it’s almost exactly the same. I love that kind of stuff!

 

This game improved a lot of things compared to Shadow Warrior. 

Infinite dashing and running:

 

In Shadow Warrior you had a stamina bar that would drain if you run or dash. In Shadow Warrior 2 they left it out. You can dash and run infinitely making this game much faster. 
 

No fall damage: 

 

Remember the video of me falling to my death from the stairs in Shadow Warrior? Well, that’s gone too. You could jump from a mountain and nicely land on your feet. Great improvement.

 

Loot system:

 

It’s not for everyone but I like it!

 

Weapons:

 

Over 70 different weapons compared to the 5 in Shadow Warrior. I tried out most of them to see what they were like. But I played the entire game with just the Katana. It’s so overpowered.

 

Improved and expanded skill system:

 

You now have access to a lot more, and a better variety of skills. You get skill points for completing missions, side missions, bounties, and leveling up. You have so many skills to choose from that you cannot get them all.

When I finished my first playthrough on Normal I wanted to do another playthrough on Easy just to collect the skill points from the mission rewards and really build an OP character. Unfortunately in consecutive runs you don’t get skill points anymore, but Orbs of Masamune. You can use these Orbs to power up your weapons even more. The only way to get skill points in NG+ is by leveling up.

 

No more Heroic mode:

 

Thanks for that! You still need to beat the game on Insane difficulty. But you can do this in NG+ that carries over everything. And because there are very few story missions and can run past every enemy encounter until you have mandatory fights, I did a speedrun of this mode under 1.5 hours. That’s less than it took me to beat chapter 13 on Heroic in Shadow Warrior. ?

 

Two annoying trophies in this game. 
 

The first is finding 50 very well hidden collectibles. In story missions the level layout is set so there you can find about half of the collectibles easily by following a guide.
 

The other half you need to find in the side missions or in free roam. And this is where this trophy became a pain. These levels are build in blocks, and every time you load into these levels they are build differently. Even so that the collectible you’re looking for could be in a block that has not loaded in. And these levels are huge, so you’re running around looking for that point of reference until after 30 minutes you realize that block hasn’t loaded in. Very annoying!

 

The second is grinding to 10.000 Orbs of Masamune. Quickest way to do this is go into NG++ on the highest difficulty you can manage. In my case I played Insane + 4. Then complete the first two story missions and make a back up save before turning in the mission. Which got me 82 Orbs.

 

Turn in mission —> Collect Orbs —> Quit game —> Load back up save —> Launch game —> One minute loading time ?? —> Turn in mission.

 

Rinse and repeat. Over 100 times.

 

Overall a great game. Bring on Shadow Warrior 3! Which by the looks of the trailers goes into a different direction again. Reminds me of Darksiders, where for every game they did something completely different. That didn’t end up to well..

Edited October 3, 2021 by Baker

[DrBloodmoney]

Nice write up mate!

 

Am I reading these wrong, or would you recommend skipping the first Shadow Warrior, and just skipping to the second one then?

 

Sounds like you had a better time with the sequel?

 

[Baker]

1 minute ago, DrBloodmoney said:

Nice write up mate!

 

Am I reading these wrong, or would you recommend skipping the first Shadow Warrior, and just skipping to the second one then?

 

Sounds like you had a better time with the sequel?

 

I would recommend playing them both.

Shadow Warrior is also a good game. I just hated Heroic difficulty.

 

Shadow Warrior 2 is just very different. But in a way I really enjoyed.

 

Shadow Warrior = Wolfenstein

Shadow Warrior 2 = Borderlands

 

Not an exact comparison but this could give you an idea about how different these games are.

[DrBloodmoney]

2 minutes ago, Baker said:

Shadow Warrior = Wolfenstein

Shadow Warrior 2 = Borderlands

 

Hmm interesting....

 

for me:

Shadow Warrior = Wolfenstein ?

Shadow Warrior 2 = Borderlands ?

 

I was pretty cold on the first Borderlands (and didn't play any sequels)- but I do love some Wolfenstein, so maybe the first one is more my speed!

 

Cheers!

Edited October 3, 2021 by DrBloodmoney

[ShadyWARcotix]

27 minutes ago, DrBloodmoney said:

Nice write up mate!

 

Am I reading these wrong, or would you recommend skipping the first Shadow Warrior, and just skipping to the second one then?

 

Sounds like you had a better time with the sequel?

 

The second game is more enjoyable but the first one had a better story and a linear level design but that's it. When it comes to the level design, trophies and gameplay aspects itself the second one is definitely better. One trophy which was a little bit annoying is the "find 50 secrets" because some of them are in rng generated free roam levels. Other than that the "Borderland" loot system (like Baker said) is better, you have more skills, you have more weapons and the gore effects are better too.

 

Edit: But of course if you are ready for a challenge I recommend the first one but don't get scared of the platinum difficulty. I would say SW 1 is a 7 maybe a 7.5 but not higher. You just need a lot of patience, the crossbow and one specific sword kill to heal yourself. There is one game breaking glitch sadly which can ruin your run. When you dash from the highest point of some stairs for example you will die from fall damage which can ruin your entire run. @DrBloodmoney

Edited October 3, 2021 by ShadyWARcotix

[Baker]

Update!

 

I haven’t really been going for trophies at all in the past month and all I can say is: I liked it.

 

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4

 

What I’ve been doing? Zombies! A thought came in my head, that it would be nice to go to master prestige again, collect all calling cards, etc.. Just like I used to do in MW2 and BO2. Instead of MP this time I went for zombies and today I finally grabbed all calling cards in zombies. Apart from Dark Ops.

 

 

As you can see I haven’t made it to master prestige yet. But I’m close, and with a lot of zombie trophies still to do I think I’ll get there without needing to grind kills.
 

I also thought of doing all diamond camo’s for all guns but after the statistics below I am only about half way on that. Soooo, let’s not do that.

 

 

So that’s 220.000 kills and around 150 hours I’ve spend on zombies so far.

Time to leave zombies behind for a while and start focusing on getting all Blackout characters. I have been playing Blackout a little bit and I have 50% of the characters unlocked. Ofcourse the easier ones.

 

It’s the first Battle Royale game I ever played and I kind of like it. I did not expect that as I like very fast paced combat and that’s not something you can find in Blackout. Makes going for the characters not as tedious as anticipated.

 

Bulletstorm

 

I’ve been waiting for 6 months for this game to go on sale again and this game was.. disappointing. It’s not a bad game but it’s probably the worst FPS game I’ve played. I finished the campaign and the online coop stuff and only got Echo Mode left. Which is a point scoring mode where you replay short sections of the campaign. I could knock out those trophies in an afternoon but I can’t even be bothered with it at the moment.

 

I’m enjoying just playing and not going after trophies so much I did something I basically never do. I bought a game today on release date. Not hard to guess which game that is..

 

Call of Duty: Vanguard

 

I already saw my friends playing it online. Time for some good old MP fun. New calling cards and new prestiges to unlock. I’ll be busy for while.

I’ll keep this trophy hunting break active..

 

For now..

 

 

Edited November 5, 2021 by Baker