Fall/Winter 2021/2022 Backlog Challenge

[freddie1989]

Well I'm gritting it out as far as Sonic Mania goes. Managed to play through a couple more acts last night so I'm 6 down I believe. Possibly do a couple more tonight. Hopefully a full night of gaming with Days Gone and Worms online. 

[GrantVernonHart]

6 hours ago, MidnightDragon said:

Sorry for my lack of attention. Been having a rough past couple days. Hoping to get back on track and actually start my list very soon.  

Yeah same here been busy lately almost didn't update my Progress ?

[Heather342]

Update 4

 

Not a whole lot going on for me gaming wise this week. My hand has been in a lot of pain, turns out Gamer's Thumb is a real condition, although it did crack me up to learn that it's also known as Nintendonitis ?. Only real cure for it is to rest it, and that can take up to 6 weeks. Not ideal, but needs must and all that.

 

So I took a step away from Crash Team Racing, as I think all that d-pad mashing wasn't helping my hand much and instead I switched to Two Point Hospital. Being a simulation game, it was less repetitive action intensive on my thumb, while still making progress on the challenge. I love this game a lot, I spent a lot of time as a kid playing Theme Hospital on the PC, and Two Point Hospital is a great spiritual successor to that game. I played so much of this when it came out last year, but then kinda hit a road block with some of those 90% cure rate objectives. It's a game that requires a lot of hours poured into it, so I'm hoping to make a good dent in it before the end of this challenge. I've only managed 3 trophies this week, finished up the Superbug Initiative and R.E.M.I.X DLCs, and also the Cheesy Gubbins research project ?

 

Will probably keep chipping away slowly at this one while waiting for my hand to heal. I had October specifically planned out to play Alien Isolation so I'm hoping to be good to go by then ?

 

Trophy progress

- Two Point Hospital - 42 -> 45%

[dieselmanchild]

Would I be able to get Celeste and Dead Island: Riptide added to my list please?

[YaManSmevz]

3 hours ago, Heather342 said:

Not a whole lot going on for me gaming wise this week. My hand has been in a lot of pain, turns out Gamer's Thumb is a real condition, although it did crack me up to learn that it's also known as Nintendonitis . Only real cure for it is to rest it, and that can take up to 6 weeks. Not ideal, but needs must and all that.

 

That's wack man, I'm sorry to hear that! Nintendonitis is hilarious though, reminds me of those old Sega ads saying "Genesis does what Nintendon't"?

 

Do you stretch out your hands before playing? When I was a kid, my grandfather talked to me about the potential link between gaming and carpal tunnel (the 80s were a very alarmist time - DRUGS! AIDS! VIDEO GAMES!) and suggested I do stretches every time I play. I'd be lying if I said I did it every time but for the most part it stuck, and I haven't had any problems.

 

Hope you start feelin better, homie?

[Heather342]

3 minutes ago, YaManSmevz said:

 

That's wack man, I'm sorry to hear that! Nintendonitis is hilarious though, reminds me of those old Sega ads saying "Genesis does what Nintendon't"?

 

Do you stretch out your hands before playing? When I was a kid, my grandfather talked to me about the potential link between gaming and carpal tunnel (the 80s were a very alarmist time - DRUGS! AIDS! VIDEO GAMES!) and suggested I do stretches every time I play. I'd be lying if I said I did it every time but for the most part it stuck, and I haven't had any problems.

 

Hope you start feelin better, homie

Unfortunately I did not perform any warm up exercises before my mad gaming sessions, but this is the first time I've had an injury like this. Since the start of the pandemic my gaming time each day has gone way up, there's not been much else to do in the past 18 months ?. It started giving me grief towards the end of the summer backlog challenge, I took about 10 days of more chilled out gaming playing Civ 6 and it did start feeling better, but then last week I went pretty full on in CTR which I think just aggravated it again. Guess I will have to start stretching properly before future gaming sessions. This is a dangerous hobby we have ?

[YaManSmevz]

8 minutes ago, Heather342 said:

Unfortunately I did not perform any warm up exercises before my mad gaming sessions, but this is the first time I've had an injury like this. Since the start of the pandemic my gaming time each day has gone way up, there's not been much else to do in the past 18 months . It started giving me grief towards the end of the summer backlog challenge, I took about 10 days of more chilled out gaming playing Civ 6 and it did start feeling better, but then last week I went pretty full on in CTR which I think just aggravated it again. Guess I will have to start stretching properly before future gaming sessions. This is a dangerous hobby we have

 

I was never out of work during the pandemic, but my wife was, and while I longed to be at home, watching movies and playing video games all day, she assured me it was pretty miserable after a while. I assumed it was because she wasn't a gamer, but now I know that she probably would've just ended up injured!

 

I hope your hands start feeling better soon! You're an absolute beast and you've got so much more bad ass trophy hunting to do?

 

It is dangerous. We gamers are a crazy breed - half in love with death, gobbling up danger like ordinary men eat peanuts!

[TalesofGaming]

Update 5:

 

1. Tales of Arise - 25% -> 38%

2. Human Fall Flat - 29%

3. Spirit of the North: Enhanced Edition - 100%  9/7/21

4. Dark Souls III - 0%

5. Shining Resonance Refrain - 0%

6. Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist - 9%

 

Almost done with the story for Arise!

[DJ__Beatroot]

Almost done (I hope!) with Oxenfree.  Trying this without a guide, but reading the trophy descriptions seems pretty straight forward.  Doing my silent run right now.

 

Then onto Inside, which is really a mind-blowing game!

 

Not on my list, but jumping into ESO here and there which will be my "never will finish" game. 

Edited September 17, 2021 by DJ__Beatroot

[Heather342]

1 hour ago, DJ__Beatroot said:

Almost done (I hope!) with Oxenfree.  Trying this without a guide, but reading the trophy descriptions seems pretty straight forward.  Doing my silent run right now.

 

Then onto Inside, which is really a mind-blowing game!

 

Not on my list, but jumping into ESO here and there which will be my "never will finish" game. 

ESO is one of those games I'd love to play, but is just far too intimidating. With all the games I have in my backlog and knowing how much time needs to be spent on it. Plus....the Emperor trophy ?

[DJ__Beatroot]

3 hours ago, Heather342 said:

ESO is one of those games I'd love to play, but is just far too intimidating. With all the games I have in my backlog and knowing how much time needs to be spent on it. Plus....the Emperor trophy

It is an excellent game!  I've played ESO on the PC and got pretty far into the game.  The PC version is nice because of the add-ons.  But, playing ESO on the PS5 has been a nice, rewarding experience!  I highly recommend the game to you!

 

Friday Update:

 

Finished Oxenfree.  Was a nice game without too many problems.  Now, onto Inside!  Might add South Park to my list after that.

 

1. Black the Fall

2. Late Shift

3. Erica

4. Inside 0--26%

5. Oxenfree

6. The Bunker

Edited September 17, 2021 by DJ__Beatroot

[KunoGuy]

Quick question. I got a PS5 recently after getting an email offer through the Sony direct store, woohoo! So I was wondering if I can add some PS5 games as I get them (I don't know which ones I'll play yet) or should I list them first before playing them. For example I just finished Hoa on PS5, beautiful art style, but I haven't picked that as part of my list before getting into it. Your thoughts?

[ArtisticGeek]

Update #1

Going to try and keep a consistent update schedule with every Friday Night. So far 4 games not bad hadn’t gotten to my ps3 much but that should be changing after this weekend. Starting with Asura’s Wrath (Weird connection issues with it in certain parts of my house.) 

 

1. Wet- 100% 

2. Battle Princess Arcadia - 0%
3. Witch and the Hundred Knight - 0%

4. Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland - 0%

5. Asura’s Wrath - 0%
6. El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron - 0%

7: Killer is Dead - 0%

8. Raji an Ancient Epic - 100%

9. Spirit of the North - 100%

10. The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince - 0%

11. Wildfire - 0% 
12. Pantsu Hunter back in the 90’s - 0%

13. Mafia definitive edition - 100%

14: Our world is ended - 0% 

15: Worldend Syndrome - 0%

 

[GrantVernonHart]

7 hours ago, KunoGuy said:

Quick question. I got a PS5 recently after getting an email offer through the Sony direct store, woohoo! So I was wondering if I can add some PS5 games as I get them (I don't know which ones I'll play yet) or should I list them first before playing them. For example I just finished Hoa on PS5, beautiful art style, but I haven't picked that as part of my list before getting into it. Your thoughts?

You can add any list of games start from 0% to 33%, 50% Max 2 games. 

I don't think you can add finished games before attend to participated in this event except the games hasnt start yet or backlog

 

You can ask @MidnightDragon for details

Edited September 18, 2021 by GrantVernonHart

[MidnightDragon]

1 hour ago, KunoGuy said:

Quick question. I got a PS5 recently after getting an email offer through the Sony direct store, woohoo! So I was wondering if I can add some PS5 games as I get them (I don't know which ones I'll play yet) or should I list them first before playing them. For example I just finished Hoa on PS5, beautiful art style, but I haven't picked that as part of my list before getting into it. Your thoughts?

Yea, go right ahead.

[Flex_Da_Brent]

Hey everyone! If it's still possible I would love to enter this event, been a part of some of these in the past and they're always great fun, if I'm still allowed to these will be the 5 games I'm going to start out with:

 

PS3

? God of War: 10% 

? Dead Space 2: 11%

 

PS4

? Human Fall Flat: 10%

? Crypt of the Necrodancer: 30%

? Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice: 39%

 

I'm fully aware of the challenge I'm puting myself into here, especially trying to complete Necrodancer, let alone within the given timeframe. However, I suppose there is no harm in trying and these are definitely games I'm looking forward to play atm. Good luck everyone with your list! I'll be enjoying catching up on all the updates so far.

[damcrac5]

Update 3:

 

No completions but I made substantial progress on inFamous Second Son.  I only need to finish my evil playthrough and should be able to get the plat.  Hopefully finish it off in the next couple of days!  I have also been doing a little Sly Cooper Thievius Racoonus during short play windows during the work day, so I expect that one to finish eventually.

 

Biggest news for me personally and my backlog is that Tripwire has announced a patch for Maneater that is supposed to address the bugged trophy unlocks next week.  If it is true, I might jump back into that one before working on Ratchet & Clank 2.  It's been great to read up on everyone's progress.  People have been completing a lot of great games!

 

Focused Progress:

inFamous Second Son 0 ----> 73%

 

Completions: (1/26)

MLB 14 The Show (Vita)

 

Swaps: (0/5)

 

Spoiler

1. Maneater (PS5) - 4%
2. MLB 14 The Show (VITA) - 32% (Not sync'd but am at 7/22 Trophies)
3. Horizon: Zero Dawn
4. Ratchet and Clank 2: Going Commando (PS3)
5. Uncharted Drake's Fortune: Remastered
6. Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal (PS3)
7. Madden 22 (PS4)
8. Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered (PS5)
9. Madden 11 (PS3)
10. Ratchet & Clank: Deadlocked (PS3)
11. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Remastered
12. Spyro
13. Spyro 2
14. Spyro 3
15. Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception Remastered
16. Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time (PS3)
17. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
18. Ratchet & Clank: All-4-One (PS3)
19. The Wolf Among Us (PS3)
20. Game of Thrones (PS4)
21. Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault (PS3)
22. Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus
23. Sly Cooper and the Thievius Racoonus (Vita)
24. Sly Cooper 2: Band of Thieves (Vita)
25. Sly Cooper 3: Honor Among Thieves (Vita)
26. Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time (Vita)

 

[KunoGuy]

@damcrac5 I saw you finished MLB The Show 14 on Vita. I didn't realize you can still plat it, but I see it had no online trophies. I'll have to see if I can find a copy. I always like finding vita games I haven't played/would like to play.

[StilRh]

Hi guys. Lovely to see all the updates. Welcome to those who are new to the challenge.

Update time: This week I've been really busy at work and my health hasn't been fantastic so there were a few days I didn't even pick up the controller. I enjoyed my play time though  This week, depending on my energy levels I'd like to finish The Messenger and then chip away at Deathloop or Tales of Arise. @Flex_Da_Brent Good luck with Necrodancer, my respect for attempting that!

Spoiler

Age of Wonders: Planetfall 44% > 52%

Catharine: Full body 10%

Cities: Skylines 9%

Cyberpunk 19%

Deathloop 0% > 21%

Hades 21%

Judgement 20%

King’s Bounty 2 8%

Labyrinth Coven of Refrain 24%

Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 2 10%

Moonlighter 13%

Nier Replicant 31%

Tales of Arise 10% > 14%

The Messenger 29% > 52%

The Witness 91%

 

Dangnronpa V3 Killing Harmony 30%

MuvLuv Alternate 0%

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove 13%

Spy Chameleon 17%

Tokyo Xandu 21%

 

[DFuzed]

Update #3 for September 18th:

 

Diablo II Remastered - 0%

Doki Doki Literature Club - 91%

Epic Word Search Collection 2 (Vita) - 0%

Life is Strange 3 (PS4) - 0%

Life is Strange 3 (PS5)- 0%

Life is Strange Remastered - 0%

Life is Strange: BtS Remastered - 0%  

 Procession to Calvary

Lego Batman 2 (Vita) - 47%

Link-a-Pix (PS4) - 35% +20%

Link-a-Pix (Vita) - 5% +3%

Spiderman (PS4) - 35% +9%

Lego Star Wars (PS3) - 80% +1%

Persona 5 Royal - 0%

Trials of Mana - 0%

Borderlands - 0%

Borderlands the Prequel - 0%

The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles - 97% +41%

 

These are without the DLC included in them. 

 

Swaps: 0/5

 

Current plans:

   - Work on Spiderman on the PS4, still lots of work to do in it. 

   - Switch to Diablo II Remastered once it's out

   - Work on Lego Star Wars on the side 

   - Play Link-a-Pix (PS4 and Vita) as my backup games if I get too busy to play any of the above. 

   - Return to DDLC when they fix the one CG

   - Plat The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles on a milestone.

Edited September 21, 2021 by DFuzed

[L0sT_NZ_Kazekage]

Finally made some actual progress for the challenge finishing my first game, A Plauges Tale. What an amazing game so happy it was free with PS+ or I never would have tried it. The atmosphere pulled me in like few games have managed it recent times. Really excited for Requim now!

 

Made a tiny bit more progress in Valhalla aswell. 40 hours in but the trophy percentage would make it seem otherwise ?.

 

On a final note, I'm adding Kena to my list as I have it preordered and will probably play that next week.

 

1. Assassins Creed: Valhalla (12%) --> (17%)

2. Darksouls Remastered (5%)

3. God of War: Ghost of Sparta (0%)

4. A Plauge Tale: Innocence (0%) --> (100%) 

5. Until Dawn (11%) 

6. Kena: Bridge of Spirits (0%)

 

Games Complete: (1/6)

Swaps: (0/5)

Edited September 19, 2021 by L0sT_NZ_Kazekage

[MidnightDragon]

18 hours ago, Flex_Da_Brent said:

Hey everyone! If it's still possible I would love to enter this event, been a part of some of these in the past and they're always great fun, if I'm still allowed to these will be the 5 games I'm going to start out with:

 

PS3

 God of War: 10% 

 Dead Space 2: 11%

 

PS4

 Human Fall Flat: 10%

 Crypt of the Necrodancer: 30%

 Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice: 39%

 

I'm fully aware of the challenge I'm puting myself into here, especially trying to complete Necrodancer, let alone within the given timeframe. However, I suppose there is no harm in trying and these are definitely games I'm looking forward to play atm. Good luck everyone with your list! I'll be enjoying catching up on all the updates so far.

Yep, you're good. Added.

[Crispy_Oglop]

Update 4 -

 

Finally I managed to beat the Puyo Puyo challenge in Judgment. If you do a search for it online you'll be treated to a fair few people complaining about it. It's a real kick in the teeth in terms of progression in that it virtually halts it for 4-10 hours. I managed to complete both Club SEGA venue challenge lists too now which i'm so relieved is out of the way. I also finished off the baseball challenges. I haven't done much more in terms of trophy progress, but I managed to get those out of the way. I've taken a huge chunk out of the mini-game related challenges needed for the platinum now. I just have a few more gambling related things to take care of as well as the Paradise VR weird virtual boardgame...thing!, Drone Racing and some casino stuff. But I think the real pain was Puyo Puyo, everything else seems pretty doable.

 

I also made a start on Tales of Arise which i'm loving so far! It's my first tales series game so i'm not sure how it compares to the other franchise entries. I'm really enjoying the story, combat and the voice acting is pretty great as well so i'm definitely keen to carry on and open this up some more.

 

Also, thanks for your kind words @freddie1989, @YaManSmevz, @Stanners316 - it means alot! I'll be okay, just need to keep on keeping on! 

 

The nights are getting longer now and we're all coming to the end of the second monster year in a row of monster years so make sure to take care of yourselves, be kind to yourselves and look after yourselves. And remember - you really do matter!

 

 

Spoiler

1. Deathloop 0%
2. Lost in Random 0%
3. Hades - 0%
4. Judgment - 17% > 21%
5. Lost Judgment - 0%
6. Psychonauts - 0%
7. Pyschonauts 2 - 0%
8. Monster Harvest - 0%
9. Kena Bridge of Spirits - 0%
10. Tales of Arise - 0% > 4%
11. Far Cry 6 - 0%
12. Guardians of the Galaxy - 0%
13. Fatal Frame: Maiden of Blackwater - 0%
14. The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope - 20%
15. Carrion - 0%

 

[TheLordJusticar]

Update 2. 

 

Spent my game time this month playing Crash Banidcoot. It was definitely a challenge, Stormy Ascent deserves its reputation but with patience, practice and no small amount of swearing I was able to nail down the path. 

 

Crash Bandicoot & DLC  

 

Next up I’m going for FF7 remake. 

Games Completed 1/6

Swaps Used 0/5

Edited September 19, 2021 by TheLordJusticar
Added

[RoastedPeanut]

Update #2

 

Well that's Mary Skelter: Nightmares done. What a game. I really, really enjoyed it. It's a real shame the second game is only in Japanese, but I'm also pumped to now pickup Mary Skelter Finale when it releases in the west later this month. Anyway, moving on to the next game on my list. I thought I'd be back home by now, but unfortunantly that's not the case. My PS3/PS4 are back home so for now it's Vita only. I guess I'll fire up Dragon Quest Builders and go from there!

 

1. Mary Skelter: Nightmares (Vita) - 20% --> 100% (34/34) 

2. Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus (Vita) - 0% (0/49)

3. One More Dungeon (Vita) - 1% (1/16)

4. Dragon Quest Builders (Vita) - 3% (2/20)

5. SteamWorld Heist (Vita) - 0% (0/47)

6. Alice: Madness Returns (PS3) - 46% (31/51)

7. Duke Nukem Forever (PS3) - 31% (24/63)

8. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (PS3) - 0% (0/46)

9. Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (PS3) - 10% (7/34)

10. Dead Space (PS3) - 16% (11/49)

11. Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection (PS4) - 28% (14/32)

12. Hollow Knight (PS4) - 0% (0/35)

13. Sonic Colors: Ultimate (PS4) - 0% (0/47)

14. Horizon Zero Dawn (PS4) - 0% (0/79)

15. Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy (PS4) - 1% (1/49)

 

Total Trophies: 125/651

Swaps Used: 0/5