Winter 2022/2023 Backlog Challenge (signups open until December 31)

[KillerUni12]

Update 5:
 
8 of 11 games completed!
 
1. Hitman 2: Silent Assassin (PS3), 100%
2. Hitman: Contracts (PS3), 11% 
3 (Swap 1) Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia (PS4), 100%
4. God of War (PS4), 100%
5. Outlast (PS4), 42%,-> Swap 2: What Remains of Edith Finch, 0% -> 100%. I decided after a few (failed) insane runs that rushing this game to finish the challenge wasn’t worth it - not to mention needing to do a few WB playthroughs. I still plan to 100% it, but I’ll be taking my time. Edith Finch was an interesting game, one of the first I’ve completed without using any trophy guides whatsoever! I enjoyed the story - although it was pretty sad. 
6. Grim Fandango Remastered (PS4), 100%
7. Claire (PS4), 100%
8. Maquette (PS5), 100%
9. Uncharted: Drake's Deception (PS4), 17% -> 100%. Crushing got a lot easier about halfway through the game - I’m not sure if I just got better at it or what. Finished the speed run with 2 minutes to spare and cranked out brutal with the tweaks and Moss-12 - blind-fired through the whole game and had a blast with it lol. I honestly have no idea how ND expects people to beat brutal legit. 
10. Super Stardust HD (PS3), 30% -> 42%
11. Hitman (PS4), 68% -> Swap 3: Astro Bot Rescue Mission, 0% -> 5%. Hitman’ed out. Getting the level 20 mastery trophies has been tough and I’m starting to get tired of the game. Another one I’ll come back to and enjoy as I go instead.

In short, I need to complete the following games by 2/28 to complete this challenge:
Hitman Contracts (11%, 1 PT, and misc trophies remaining)
Super Stardust HD (42%, lots of difficult misc trophies remaining)
Astro Bot Rescue Mission (5%, 1 PT, collectibles, and challenges remaining)
 

[be_minor]

I’m making my way through Dysmantle, breaking down everything I can, one biome at a time. It’s been a slog.. I finally got to the point last night where I started leaving beautiful, lootable buildings behind to progress quests. Highly recommend booking it to the tower transmissions in each zone before tackling the quests, just to keep enemies from respawning ad infinitum. 

1. Broken Age  
2. Bugsnax  
3. Cult of the Lamb  
4. Dysmantle - 17% ➡️ 31% 
5. inFamous: Second Son  
6. Stray  

Swaps (0/3)

[Rias Gremory]

 

 

Update #1

 

1. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. My 900th Platinum Milestone and 100% Completion. Very Rare: 7.40%.
2. My Hero One's Justice 2 70% (Progression at 70% so far).
3. Team Sonic Racing. My 950th Platinum milestone, 8th Ultra Rare AND Trophy 20,000th and 100% Completion. Ultra Rare: 3.73%.
4. SENRAN KAGURA Burst Re:Newal 0% (Haven't started yet).
5. Senran KAGURA PEACH BEACH SPLASH 0% (Haven't started yet).
6. Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart. My Very First PS5 Platinum. This is my 998th Platinum and 100% Completion. Common: 66.10%.
7. Demon Souls Remake PS5 0% (Haven't started yet).
8. Crypt of the Necrodancer 74% (Progression at 74% so far).
9. Hades PS4 EU 0% (Haven't started yet).
10. Bayonetta 0% (Haven't started yet).
11. Spider-man: Miles Morales PS5. This is my 999th Platinum Trophy and 100% Completion. Common: 51.08%.
12. Spider-man Remastered PS5 0% (Haven't started yet).
13. Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade PS5 0% (Haven't started yet).
14. Far Cry 6 PS4 0% (Haven't started yet).
15. Far Cry 6 PS5 0% (Haven't started yet).
16. Judgment PS5 81% (Progression at 81% so far).
17. Lost Judgment PS5 88% (Progression at 88% so far).
18. Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade PS5 0% (Haven't started yet).
19. Final Fantasy Type-0 HD 0% (Haven't started yet ).
20. The Demon Slayer: The Hinokami Chronicles PS5 (Haven't started yet).
21. Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus German Version 0% (Haven't started yet).
22. Persona 5 Royal PS5. My 1000th Platinum Milestone, 100% Completion and Rank #2 Speedrun. Uncommon: 21.26%. 
23. Cyberpunk 2077 PS5 45% (Progression at 45% so far).
24. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion PS5 0% (Haven't started yet).
25. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion PS4 0% (Haven't started yet).
26. New Tales from the Borderlands PS5 0% (Haven't started yet).
27. New Tales from the Borderlands PS4 0% (Haven't started yet).
28. Watch Dogs: Legion PS5 0% (Haven't started yet).
29. Watch Dogs: Legion PS4 0% (Haven't started yet).
30. Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut PS5 0% (Haven't started yet).
31. Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut PS4 0% (Haven't started yet).
32. Watch Dogs PS4 0% (Haven't started yet).
33. Persona 4 Arena Ultimax PS4 0% (Haven't started yet).
34. The Witcher 3: Game of the Year Edition EU PS4 0% (Haven't started yet).
35. Vanquish PS4 0% (Haven't started yet).
36. Batman: Return To Arkham - Arkham Asylum PS4. My 1050th Platinum Milestone and 100% Completion. Rare: 14.74% 
37. Batman: Return To Arkham - Arkham City PS4 0% (Haven't started yet).
38. Batman: Arkham Knight 0% (Haven't started yet).
39. Persona 3 Portable EU PS4. 0% (Haven't started yet).
40. Persona 4 Golden EU PS4 0% (Haven't started yet).

Hi guys I hope you all doing really well on your backlog games.

 

Description for Crypt of the Necrodancer: Yesterday was exhausting as fuck on Aria's Low %. Painful, brutally extreme and more annoying. I have done all at once on both Aria's normal and Aria's Low %. I have lost my life potion during Zone 1 at Level 1 but somehow I have made it to the end and defeated the Golden Lute boss. That bitch was easy as hell as long as those stupid knights don't get in my way then I'm doing just fine. This is the only beginning journey for me guys and now the gloves are off and I can finally take on the the BIG ELITE FOUR. It's a mock-up name that I came up with. What it means is that I gonna do All Chars Low %, All Chars DLC, Story Mode DLC and Coda. Just those bad boys and it will be all over.

 

Description for New Games: I have added 2 more new games. Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden both on PS4. There are stacks of em which I'll get the remaining ones at a later date but I'll focus on EU and NA versions when the time is right.

 

@MidnightDragon Purple Dragon. Could you sign me up on your Spring 2023 Backlog Challenge please?

Edited February 8, 2023 by Yukiko Amagi

[reaperveteran86]

Update 9

- Spyro 2: Ripto`s Rage 100%

- Japanese Rail Sim: Journey to Kyoto 48% -> 100%

- WILL:  A Wonderful World (EU) 1%

- LEGO The Incredibles 100%

- Anno: Mutationem 100%

- Assassin`s Creed: Brotherhood (PS4) 100%

- Sword and Fairy 6 (EU) 100%

- Sword and Fairy 7: Together Forever (PS4) 100%

- Star Wars: Bounty Hunter 42%

- Star Ocean: First Departure R 1%  ->  Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars 22%

- Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights 21% -> 100%

- Left Alive 5%

Swap 1/3

 

No progress in my list this week due to me grinding and trying to pick up girls in a dungeon for platinum #325 (I can`t tell if it was wrong, but it definitely was time intensive). After that was done, I started Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars on a whim, which I like so much, that I swap it in for Star Ocean: First Departure R.

[MidnightDragon]

@Yukiko Amagi Post a list there and I shall.

[brdpls]

Update #2

• Assassin's Creed Revelations (PS4) - Start: 42%  
• Horizon Zero Dawn (PS4) - Start: 11% 
• What Remains of Edith Finch (PS5) - Start: 9% > 9%
• God of War [2018] (PS4) - Start: 4% 
• Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales (PS4) - Start: 4% >  7% > 39%
• Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition HD (PS4) - Start: 0% 
• Life is Strange 2 (PS4) - Start: 0% 
• Life is Strange: True Colors (PS4) - Start: 0%
• Ratchet & Clank (PS3) - Start: 0% 
• The Order: 1886 (PS4) - Start 0% 

January was rough for me - didn't have as much time go game based on the field I work in and everything. I'm confident that I'll be able to finish Spider-Man and Edith Finch this week though and move on to one of the Life is Strange games I have on my list. I doubt I'll finish by the end of the month, but we'll see how far I get. 

[PeachyJacobs]

Update:

 

Resident Evil - 

Golf Club Wasteland - 

Heavenly Bodies - 

The Gardens Between - 

Diablo III: Reaper of Souls - 97%

God of War Ragnarok - 11%

 

Swaps : 3/3

 

Almost there with D3, just the bounty trophy remaining for me which I will finish off tonight. It's official though, I'm not going to finish my list this challenge since Hogwarts Legacy is out tomorrow. I'll have to settle for 5/6 complete and I might roll Ragnarok over to the next challenge.

 

Well done, everyone! Good to see all your progress as always. See you in the next one!

[iXanon]

Update #9

I'm going to try and keep things short and sweet this week, because I'm not feeling particularly well (probable COVID).

 

Heavy Rain (PS3) was played through to the completion last week.. Getting all of the endings for the platinum kinda felt unnecessary in comparison to the game's other trophies, especially when you can't skip cutscenes, dialogue, or the credits - I got quite bored of doing the same things over again, but only slightly different.

 

A bit of progress has been made in both Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (PS4) and Overcooked 2 (PS4), more so the latter. We started on the DLCs, and they've turned out to be quite a bit harder than the main game.. Still, I'm confident that I should be able to get the 100% before this event is done - I could have probably tried gunning for the platinum before making this post, but I didn't feel like it.

 

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (PS4) - 25% > 29% > 33%

BirdCakes (PS4) - NEW > 28% > 65% > 74% > 100%

Driver: San Francisco (PS3) - 32% > 34% > 51% > 67% > 100% 

Heavy Rain (PS3) - 11% > 21% > 65% > 100%

Jak II (PS3) - 18% > 28%

Overcooked 2 (PS4) - NEW > 15% > 44% > 67%

Sephirothic Stories (PS4) - 5% > 100% 

Watch Dogs (PS4) - 29% > 38% > 41% > 87% 

 

Swaps used: 1/3

Duke Nukem Forever (PS3) > Overcooked 2 (PS4)

[Static_Rook]

Update 10 - 2/6/2023
Valkyrie Elysium / 95% 97%

 

It was a bad week for backlog games. Stranger of Paradise and then Diablo 2 ate up all of my time. I did manage to beat the Hilde section of Valkyrie Elysium, but I'm still stuck in chapter 1 of my Valkyrie difficulty run and have zero motivation to go back to it. Maybe this week will be better, but it's not looking good. And then Ishin will be out in like two weeks so, yeah, this will definitely not be the backlog challenge where I finally finish my list. Oh well, there's always the spring challenge!

 

Still hoping to at least finish Onimusha and Signalis...if I can escape Diablo's clutches any time soon.

 

Full game list(2/8 complete, 3/3 swaps used)

Dragon Quest Heroes 1/4/2023
Dysmantle 2%
F1 Manager 2022 7%
Norco 1/8/2023
Onimusha: Warlords 40%
Saints Row IV: Re-elected 12%
Signalis 0%
Valkyrie Elysium 87% 1/28/2023 / 95% 97%

 

Swaps
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II -> Valkyrie Elysium 12/26/2022
Elden Ring                                 -> Norco 1/6/2023
Tribes of Midgard                       -> Signalis 1/6/2023

 

[dark_moon689]

6th Update: Finished Yakuza 4 and will probably be done with Harvest Moon before the month is over if I can manage my time off, the mutation mechanic is interesting along with the different climate areas but the moving the farm gets annoying after a while. I swapped Yakuza like a Dragon since I moving it to the next event because is just not happening this month, and put Abzu in it's place since I had it on my backlog with one lonely trophy since 2018.

 

I don't know if I be able to finish my other two games in time, in Evil Genius I still have almost two whole campaigns to play and I like taking my time with it. Meanwhile Heavenly bodies the controls are getting on my nerves so I haven't bother to try it again.

 

- (PS4) Yakuza 3 Remastered 20% -> 32% -> 38% -> 40% -> Jan 18th

- (PS4) Yakuza Like a Dragon 5% -> 8% -> 12% -> 21% -> (PS4) Abzu 5% 

- (PS4) Harvest Moon: One World 5% -> 27%

- (PS4) Heavenly Bodies 15% ->

- (PS4) Mass Effect 0% -> 39% ->  81% -> 100% Jan 2nd

- (PS4) Evil Genius 24 % -> 41% -> 42% ->

- (PS4) Yakuza 4 Remastered 0% -> 88% -> 100% Feb 2nd

 

Games Completed: 3/7

Swaps: 3/3

[slicknick3822]

On 1/30/2023 at 10:15 AM, slicknick3822 said:

 

1. Ratchet & Clank (25% --> 74%-->87%-->92%-->98%-->100%)

2. Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight (10%-->63%-->100%) 

3. Life Is Strange (0%-->100%) 

4. Yakuza 0 (0%-->15%-->25%-->32%-->34%-->38%-->51%-->65%)

5. inFAMOUS Second Son- -->Psychonauts (0%-->14%)

Swaps: 1/3

 

A long 2 weeks. I finally finished the main story of Yakuza 0 and now it's time to try to get the dreaded 100% completion list. Too bad I still haven't been able to beat Ogita  

 

I've only played Psychonauts once since the last update and the art style was giving me nausea. Nothing against the game's art style this just happens to me with certain games (most notably Bioshock for some reason).

1. Ratchet & Clank (25% --> 74%-->87%-->92%-->98%-->100%)

2. Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight (10%-->63%-->100%) 

3. Life Is Strange (0%-->100%) 

4. Yakuza 0 (0%-->15%-->25%-->32%-->34%-->38%-->51%-->65%-->67%)

5. inFAMOUS Second Son- -->Psychonauts (0%-->14%-->20%)

Swaps: 1/3

 

May have to swap out Y0, not sure if I will be able to complete it by the end of the month at the rate I'm going. I just haven't had a lot of free time and when I do I wanna sleep lol. Still plugging away though and will probably wait til closer to the end of the month to do a last minute swap if needed.

[Taruta13]

Good luck with Psychonauts. I couldn't platinum it again because I got so frustrated with the punching game, but it's a good title.

[be_minor]

Just a quick update to swap out Dysmantle for Saints Row: The Third. The latter is leaving PS+ this month, and I’ve been wanting to try a Saints Row game for a while now. Maybe Dysmantle will make an appearance in the Spring backlog challenge..

 

1. Broken Age  
2. Bugsnax  
3. Cult of the Lamb  
4. Dysmantle - 31% ➡️ SWAP ➡️ Saints Row: The Third - 3% 
5. inFamous: Second Son  
6. Stray  

Swaps (1/3)

[viech54]

Update #26

1. Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana:  0% -> 2% -> 8% -> 51% -> 95% -> 100%
2. Doki Doki Literature Club Plus: 0% -> 100%
3. Crystar: 0% -> 29% -> 50% -> 82% -> 100%
4. Tales of Arise: 0% -> 4% -> 8% -> 14% -> 17% -> 27% -> 52% -> 100%
5. Moons of Madness: 0% -> 48% -> 100%
6. Crystal Defenders: 0% -> 35% -> 80% -> 100%
7. Dissidia Final Fantasy NT Free Edition: 0% -> 21% -> 36% -> 47% -> 57% -> 89% -> 100%
8. Dissidia Final Fantasy NT: 0% -> 28% -> 68%

Swaps used: 0/3

 

Dissidia Final Fantasy NT: Got all online trophies. Go jump off a cliff, Ultimecia! Didn't enjoy playing as that character one bit. The game frequently ignored it when I pressed attack and other characters can deal way more damage in less time and with less commitment to their attacks. It's not my controller, this game has 38 characters and I used every single one of them at least once. Only Ultimecia had this problem. Everyone else attacked just fine whenever I wanted them to. Well, whatever, I'm done with the online stuff now and hopefully never have to use her again.

 

Now I need the story, then the hardest challenge, then the endgame grind, and some misc offline stuff that will come naturally while doing everything else. Let's do the notable trophies thing again.

 

Notable trophies:

 

They're Free! What an Offer!
Claimed treasure three hundred times.

Progress: 100/300

The endgame grind. I got 100 for free for playing the Free Edition first.

 

Guardian of Divine Will
Defeated all the summons and Shinryu on Hard difficulty.

The hardest challenge, will do that as soon as it's unlocked to get it out of the way. This will determine if I can  get the plat or not, the rest is just mindless grinding while watching videos or doing something else.

Edited February 7, 2023 by viech54

[YaManSmevz]

Update #9

2/7/23

 

What the fuck is up PSNP, errbody make some nooooiiiiiiise bwah buh buh bwaaaaahhhhhhhh

 

....ahem. I apologize, not sure exactly where that came from. Actually no, fuck it, we're lettin it ride!

 

So not a bad week at all - I'd hoped for juuust a bit more output, but y'know, life n shit. All dialed in with Dead Space, it's finally clicked like I knew it would and I'm having so much fun with it. Man I love those jump scares, and there's some fantastic gross out moments - like when you kill an enemy and their sticky, dismembered body gets caught in between your feet while you're walking?? Eeeeeeewwwwww hahaha I love it?

 

Altered Beast saw its conclusion, and it was about as serendipitous as could be - literally left this forum and saw that someone had just started a boosting group for the online trophy.

 

 

Finished the Pigsy DLC for Enslaved, so now it's time to get into the base game. In a weird way, it's nice to see the kind of jiggle mechanics we get with Dead or Alive and such on a portly protagonist like Pigsy. I grew to like the DLC, and now that it's done I'm excited for the main story!

 

Lastly, Dynasty Warriors 7 continues to be the junk food of my challenge diet. It's silly and repetitive but it's always been a reliable source of mindless joy!

 

The goal is to have Dead Space wrapped up and some significant progress made with Enslaved and Warriors. Then I can worry about XCOM...

 

Blabbing for a little too long again, sorry bout that! Huge props to the peeps cruising to an early completion, y'all are putting in that work! Hopefully I'll be that much more caught up next week... as always, thanks for reading and thanks for posting??

 

1. Grand Theft Auto IV ️
2. XCOM: Enemy Within (3%)
3. Dead Space (10-->44%)
4. God of War ️
5. God of War II ️
6. Dynasty Warriors 7 (11-->24%)
7. Red Dead Redemption ️
8. Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (20-->25%)

9. Medal of Honor ️

10. Altered Beast (95-->100%)

[Hurricane_Tanya]

Update 7, and there’s not much progress tbh.

 

 

- Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star - 100%
- Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge - 100% 
- Never Alone - 100%
- Spider-Man: Miles Morales - 100% 
- Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space PS3 - 100% 
- Titanfall 2 - 39% >> 73%
- The Swapper - 100%
- Doki-Doki Universe - 100% 

- Hitman - 18% >> 34%

1/3 Swaps

 

i finished the story, and most of the miscellaneous trophies, of Titanfall 2. I loved it, I loved BT, I wish there was more story, I hate how clumsy and slow the gauntlet makes me feel.

 

im going back through chapter select and slowly getting the missing helmets, and doing each one in master difficulty. Tbh I was ready to give up on getting this game finished. I am very much the opposite of an fps player, I have avoided most of them, the fallout games are as close as I get to them and I’m not sure they count considering how slow they are and that they have V.A.Ts mode. However, after finishing the story, I am more determined to get it as my next platinum.

 

Hitman is also going slow, but I love hitman so much. I love replaying the levels and finding all the different ways to take out my targets. The main reason it’s going slow is because I’m playing one level and mastering it, and then doing it all over again in Hitman 2 while it’s fresh in my mind. I’m 2 levels off mastering Sapienza in both games and I’m hoping to get a good start in Marrakesh later today. I’m hoping to have the game finished this week, or at least very close to being finished

 

 

[RaxxisOmega]

On 2/3/2023 at 11:22 AM, RaxxisOmega said:

Week 9 - Lost in the Void

My partner and I decided to try this newfangled "Exercise" people keep harping on about and I have to say, Not a fan.

After each session my body tells me "Dude, you died back in 1884, stop trying to make me do things!!"

as a result, I am passing out before I can get any progress done on my games. 

God of War - Vita - 10% -> 12%

Although I enjoy the fact I have Kratos on the Vita, dear Gods of Olympus the screen is so damn dark in any lighting other that low ambient.

COMPLETED

 Blacksmith of the Sand Kingdom - PS5

 Day of the Tentacle - Vita

 Criminal Girls: Invite Only - Vita

Death End re;Quest - PS4 

 Brotherhood United - Vita 

That was.. underwhelmingly quick with no incentive to go back and 3 star levels. Oh well, one more in the Vita Vault.

I'm not going to put anymore on the list for this Challenge, I feel like I did remarkably well all things considered.

Big shoutout to @MidnightDragon for creating an event that's fun and causes my ADHD Monkey brain to focus on finishing games.

Now to determine what will be picked up for the Spring Challenge. 

Till next time my Guys, Gals and Non-Binary Pals; Happy Hunting!

Week 10 - AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

 

Whoever said exercise will give you more energy is a gods damned liar and I will see them in court.

Very Minimal progress on my last game as I try to stay awake.

 

God of War - Vita - 10% -> 12% -> 17%

Some days, I wish my Secret Lab chair wasn't so comfy and easy to fall asleep in. 

 

COMPLETED

 Blacksmith of the Sand Kingdom - PS5

 Day of the Tentacle - Vita

 Criminal Girls: Invite Only - Vita

Death End re;Quest - PS4 

 Brotherhood United - Vita 

 

Till next time my Guys, Gals and Non-Binary Pals; Happy Hunting!

[StilRh]

Hey lovelies. Still off work but from the sounds of things the investigation is starting to wrap up. My manager tells me she just wants me back, so I am hoping this bodes well for me. The past week I've been busy with DIY projects around the home and garden but I've sunk in a good bit of gaming time.

I've started Spelunky 2 (not as part of this challenge, in response to a challenge from a gaming friend who wanted to a game to kick my ass) which has been excellent if difficult. I got ahead in Potion Permit chilling with a few audiobooks to ease the grind. I've started Hogwarts Legacy which I will be adding to my challenge (swapping another game out), Hogwarts is lovely to play.

This week I aim to platinum something, be it Hogwarts, Dead Space, Potion Permit, Void Terrarium++ or even MuvLuv Alternate. I love gaming at the moment but struggling to focus on completing things. Hopefully this will pass. Have a good week everyone.

 

Atelier Sophie 2: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Dream 28%

Dead Space 73%

Deathloop 27%

Hades 75%

Inscryption 10%

Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III 10% > SWAP > Hogwarts Legacy 0% > 17%

Muv-Luv: Alternative 20%

Pixeljunk Nom Nom Galaxy 87%

Potion Permit 47% > 61%

Resident Evil 5 36%

Returnal 16%

Slay the spire  39%

Spiritfarer 100%

Steamworld Dig 2 66%

Tactics Ogre: Reborn 10%

The Callisto Protocol 99% > 94% (damn DLC lowering completion! Platinum achieved)

Void terrarium++ 55%

Platinum/100% 2/17

Swaps 2/3

[KazaneHime]

Winter list:

1. Ys VIII (PS5) - 100% - Dec. 13th
2. Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World - 51% 100% - Jan. 6th
3. Cult of the Lamb - 100% Dec. 19th
4. Chicory: A Colorful Tale - 74% 100% Jan. 22nd
5. Toem - 100% Dec. 15th
6. Hitman 2 - 20%

(5/6 completed)
(0/3 swaps)

 

Finished my list back at the end of January. Since then have had a lot of real-life stuff to deal with. I got the platinum for Goat Simulator 3 when on vacation; the chaos was too fun not to drag my friend into it. Been doing some KeyWe, Stranger of Paradise DLC, Sniper Elite 4, Hitman 3 (finally got my glitched plat to pop!), Unpacking on ps4 plat, and now some work to move Hitman 2 to 100%.

I've beaten my original goal, so now I think I'll add in Hitman 2 while it is still under 33%. I doubt I'll get to 100% during this event, but it will be good to track my progress.

Edited February 9, 2023 by KazaneHime

[Redblaziken8]

Update #10

 

1) GTA IV: 48% -> 52% -> 55%

2) Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 1: 0% -> 100% 

3) God of War Ragnarök: 0% -> 5% -> 8% -> 11% -> 65% -> 100%

4) Erica: 15% ->

5) Crash Bandicoot: Warped 25% -> 42% -> 69%

6) Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order PS5: 3%  Stray 0% -> 100%

7) Elden Ring: 12% Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes 32% -> 70%

8) Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City: 0 -> 27% -> 53% -> 91%

9) Resident Evil 4: 26% -> 68% -> 100%

10) Valiant Hearts: The Great War: 0%

11) Journey: 9% -> 100%

12) Saints Row: The Third PS3: 20% -> 22% -> 25% -> 100%

13) Titanfall 2 PS4: 4%

 

7/13 games completed

2/3 swaps

 

Pretty good gaming progress this week, finished 108 races in GTA IV online so I have the back of Auf Wiedersehen Petrovic done, and picked up the trophies 'Top The Midnight Club' and 'Join The Midnight Club' done in the process. Need to get back to this to get the rest of the game modes done, and start the level grind to get the online done. 

 

Started to make a dent in Crash 3 which I've been enjoying it a lot. I do quite like the gimmicky levels but some of them just aren't platforming at all. Like the fighter plane levels are fun, but seem a bit randomly placed in the game really. One level that gave me a bit of a challenge however was High Time. Having to shoot the clock when you see the carpet in front of you in a specific spot to shave a lot of time off with not a lot of room for mistakes? Yeah that one took me quite a while, managed to get a couple of relics in the next few levels first time after that though. I'm looking forward to getting some more of Crash 3 done maybe today and sometime next week as well. 

 

Most of my progress this week has been on RE:ORC with @rjkclarke, we're just at the point of having to get the S+ ranks in all 7 campaign missions, I've done 4 and he's done 3, so we're making some good progress. The S+ ranks aren't too bad we've found, and we're a great duo together so I know we'll both be able to get this done before the challenge is over, and then we can actually play a good co-op game together, and a good co-op game with your other half is always a fun time.

 

So next week coming up I'm going to be making some more progress on the above games, and also getting Star Wars The Clone Wars Republic Heroes 100%ed this weekend, which I'm super looking forward to finishing with RJ. I don't believe I'll be able to get all of my games done for the challenge, but I think I can get most of them done, or near completed anyway, and I'm having fun so that's the main thing that matters anyway. GTA IV is the killer I think, but I'm really looking forward to playing that main campaign again in the speedrun. 

 

See you in the next update, and GG everyone on the progress made so far in the challenge!

Edited February 9, 2023 by Redblaziken8

[GraniteSnake]

It's been just over a month since my last update. I've decided to use two swaps as you can see below. My current plan is to whittle my profile down to 10 unfinished games with obtainable trophies before I start up anything new! It's been going pretty well so far.

 

I've completed Unepic and made some solid progress in Dead Space 3. Me and @neospoon knocked out all of the co-op related stuff in the game so at least that's over and done with! Dreading three more playthrough's of this game if I'm being honest. It's a very bloated campaign, and four runs of it just doesn't sound fun at all.

 

On a more positive note, I'm finding Ys to be an incredible experience, haven't been this engrossed in a game in a long long time! Soundtrack is amazing and so too is the world-building. Hoping the 100% map completion trophy won't cause me too much grief.

 

That's all for now, I'll try and get a couple more updates in before the end of this challenge!

 

• Battlefield 1943 (PS3) - 0% *SWAP* - Ys: Memories of Celceta - 24%
• God of War II (Vita) - 100% 
• Pyre (PS4) - 0% *SWAP* - Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate - 1%
• Call of Duty: Vanguard (PS5) - 100% 
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Blacklist - 100% 
• Dead Space 2 - 100% 
• Unepic - 100% 
• Dead Space 3 - 13% -> 62%

[viech54]

Update #27

1. Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana:  0% -> 2% -> 8% -> 51% -> 95% -> 100%
2. Doki Doki Literature Club Plus: 0% -> 100%
3. Crystar: 0% -> 29% -> 50% -> 82% -> 100%
4. Tales of Arise: 0% -> 4% -> 8% -> 14% -> 17% -> 27% -> 52% -> 100%
5. Moons of Madness: 0% -> 48% -> 100%
6. Crystal Defenders: 0% -> 35% -> 80% -> 100%
7. Dissidia Final Fantasy NT Free Edition: 0% -> 21% -> 36% -> 47% -> 57% -> 89% -> 100%
8. Dissidia Final Fantasy NT: 0% -> 28% -> 68% -> 81%

Swaps used: 0/3

 

Dissidia Final Fantasy NT: Cleared the main story and got the Guardian of the Divine Will trophy. This was easier than expected. I had some problems at first, Y'shotola really isn't the best character for this, so I switched to Emperor. With him, I got most of the bosses on first try. So, yeah, glad that's out of the way. Kinda. Maybe. Well, I'm definitely glad because this was the one roadblock on my way to the plat that I wasn't sure how hard it would be to overcome, but now the rest is just me mindlessly banging my head against the wall that is They're Free! What an Offer until it breaks and I get the plat. Literally. It's just grinding and I don't even need to pay attention to anything as the most efficient way ensures I pretty much always win by default regardless of what the enemies do. Sounds fun, right? Right. No, not so much, sadly. Oh, well, I need a lot of background noise in the form of YouTube videos, audio books, or music in general while doing that.

 

The next update will be the final one for this game. I still need to claim treasure 176 times and I can claim another treasure every 9 battles on average. So, doing the math, I need 176 x 9 = 1584 battles. Not counting load times, one battle can take anywhere from 20 seconds to 2 minutes. That's 3 battles a minute at best, which would be 528 minutes or a bit less than 9 hours. At worst, it is 3168 minutes or more than 53 hours. And that's just the time spent fighting enemies. Guess I'll be here for a while.

 

Notable trophies:

 

They're Free! What an Offer!
Claimed treasure three hundred times.

Progress: 124/300

 

That's it for me, hope you're doing well with your games.

Edited February 9, 2023 by viech54

[freddie1989]

Update time! 

 

Made some progress on DC Super VIllains, finished the main story on that just got the Justice League one to knock out. Then on to collectibles etc. Have to say really enjoyed it for my first Lego experience so may check out some others.

 

Spiderman is really good. Combat is free flowing and varied. More thoughts on the story when I have played through. Never get excited about the endless collectible elements these games always have but shouldn't be too bad!

 

Happy hunting all!

 

Infinite Warfare 36%

Spiderman 1% - 8%

Lego DC Super Villains 8% - 27%

Prey 0%

Ghost Recon Breakpoint 100%

[Vulpine9Tails]

Update:

 

1. New Tales From the Borderlands - ☑️

2. God of War Ragnarok - ☑️

3. TLOU Part 1 - ☑️

4. A Plague Tale Requiem - ☑️

5. Gris - 0% -> ☑️

6. Goat Simulator 3 - ☑️

7. Final Fantasy VII Remake - 49% -> *swap* Digimon Survive - 0% -> ☑️

8. Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga - 11%

9. Biomutant - ☑️

10. Sonic Frontiers - 27% -> *swap* Spongebob Battle for Bikini Bottom - 0% -> ☑️

 

Pretty sure I used up a swap already and I said I would leave Lego Star Wars on my list. I decided to swap the other two. Makes it look like I actually made some progress. I haven't really been in a Lego Star Wars mood since starting a bunch of PS4 games but maybe I'll do a push and then my Spring list can be whatever. 

Edited February 10, 2023 by Vulpine9Tails

[Rejim]

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Update 3.0

 

 

Finally got the plat to Aerea, what a hussle of a grind it was...

Somehow I still haven't finished Gow (using the ps3 so can't stream it, but it is coming).

 

I'll be honest, I won't be able to finish up the list. Didn't expect many things (both personal and from psn with lots of games leaving the service or being shutdown), as well as trying to get rid of the ps3 backlog (getting them the highest % possible to the unobtainables as well as some plats (but with higher than the allowed % to be here).

Still, this event was a good wake up call and already doing some good progress to the entire backlog ?

 

 100% - JAK II

 100% - LIFE IS STRANGE

 100% - AEREA

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 44% - LOST SEA

 37% - GOD OF WAR: ASCENSION

 27% - GUARDS

 24% - DUNGEONS 2

 21% - TINY TINA'S ASSAULT ON DRAGON KEEP

 20% - ARAGAMI

 15% - DEAD DUNGEON

 07% - FEAR EFFECT SEDNA

Edited February 10, 2023 by Rejim