The Ultra Rare Cleanup 2024

[XxIsa-GxX]

 

DmC Devil May Cry (PS3) ( - 5.14% | 💯 - 1.38%)

 

Tier #1

• DmC Devil May Cry (PS3)

I'm honestly glad that I got the chance to get a PS3 in 2023 and attempt this game once again. Regardless of playing either as Dante or Vergil, the game provided a fun combat experience despite being released in 2013 and lacking some major aspects compared to the DmC Devil May Cry Definitive Edition (e.g. enemy-lock). Attaining SSS rank in all missions on Nephilim difficulty wasn't that problematic at all since you have powerful tools like Vergil's Spiral Swords, Rapid Slash, and Rising Star moves and Dante's Perfect Demon Evade (and any other combo after that literally since your damage multiplier will be crazy. Eryx's Stomp; Aquila's Round Trip; Arbiter's Trinity Smash; Rebellion's Stinger -> Trillion Stab, Death Coil, and Overdrive are my favourite ones). Hollow Vergil on Hell and Hell difficulty provided some challenge however dodging his moves and then doing the Killer Bee + Aerial Wave combo was the way to go for him. Other than that, it was a fun game to play and complete for this event. Thanks for writing both the main game and DLC guides for this game @Copanele, those were helpful along the journey.

[Shrooba]

Just popping in for a little mini-update! Nothing major, just swapping a game in!




Adding in Jet Car Stunts, a neat little racing/platformer game on the PS3! Since it's really teetering on the edge of Very Rare status, I figured I'd lock it in just to be sure it'll count when I finish it! One of the trophies is currently at 4.67%.

The reason why I'm putting this game in is because I've been set on having RDR2 as my 100th platinum milestone, but since I'm only at 94 currently and I want to play some other things in-between outside of the event (like Persona 3 Reload, the upcoming Sonic Gens remaster, and RDR1's PS4 port before the sequel), I figured that it'll take me quite a while before I get to it, and I don't want to pressure myself by putting a time limit on it being in my tier. 😅 I know the year has just begun, but I hear from many people that RDR2 is fantastic, so it's one I wanna take my time in and really bask everything in, I hope that's all good! 🫡


1. Trackmania 2020 (PS5) - 1.10% - DONE
2. Grand Theft Auto IV (100%) - 0.49%
3. Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds - 1.79%
4. BlazBlue: Centralfiction - 3.15%
5. Jet Car Stunts (PS3) - 4.37%

Edited February 3 by Shrooba

[Walt the Dog]

Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown: 100%

(https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/13034-virtua-fighter-5-ultimate-showdown/Wdog-999)

 

Only took nearly three weeks after getting my penultimate trophy to get the ten tournament matches, but it's done now. 🤣

 

Overall, the entire 100% is basically just a grind, especially since you can just cheese the Arcade mode run with Eileen's sweep to kick combo. Ended up doing the vast majority of the 100% within a weekend in between sessions of CarX level grinding. The real ballache however, is those damn ten tournament matches, particularly since I couldn't win a match to save my life, meaning I needed three tournaments to get done the ten matches. This was far and away the most aggravating part of the 100% not because it's particularly difficult, but because getting all three tournament times per weekend has been fucking up my weekends for the past month since with me having basically no hope of getting up at 6:30 AM or so to attend the 7 AM tournaments in time, I've had to actively stay up until 7 in the morning every Friday night and for every Friday night before this one, my struggle was met with "couldn't establish a tournament." The 4 PM and 1 AM (Sunday) tournaments were at least less brutal in that respect. If nothing else, the tournament matchmaking itself seems to work fine; the mode just doesn't seem to have nearly as many people as it probably did before and at that, I've basically only ever managed to get Gold cups working, which made things take longer when those only happen once a week at most. All this for a Very Rare trophy, too.

Edited February 3 by Walt the Dog

[Shrooba]

Welp... It looks like Jet Car Stunts is done pretty much 8 hours later! 😂 I'd like to thank @Walt the Dog for ensuring that I didn't do a double-post in this thread as I usually hate doing that! 😂




Jet Car Stunts, as I mentioned earlier, is a racing/platformer game available on the PS3. I'd say Trackmania, despite also having an element of platforming, leans more into the racing aspect, as you've got all the basic fundamentals of racing there: you've got to focus on gears affecting your acceleration, and you need to know how to approach turns to best maximise your exit speed and so and and so forth. However, with--
JET.

CAR.
STUNTS--

--uhhh, with Jet Car Stunts on the other hand, I'd say this leans more into the platforming side of things. The big grab with this game is the ability to alter your trajectory mid-air with a rocket booster. I know, I know, insanely awesome. The game is divided into three main sections, being Platforming with standard Point A to B mini gauntlets that'll challenge you to jump through hoops and go through loops with a limit on how many retries you have, Time Trials, and Collector levels. I do gotta say though, the camera may often do everything it can to ensure you fall into the abyss that is the skybox, since everything takes place in the sky in this game! 😅 You could be trying to land on a very specific platform far away from you, but your car would be filling in the spot you're trying to look at to land. I'd say this is more prevalent during the Collector levels though, since those don't revolve around a simple Point A to B or Lap structure like Platforming or Time Trials, but instead have you collect 5 stars in each of it's levels, where you're granted an extra boost duration, allowing you to reach some pretty far distances.
The Time Trials mode is the one I enjoyed the most which I guess isn't a surprise. 😂 I'd say the Time Trials feel less like "levels" and more so like proper tracks you'd see in a typical arcade racer, albeit with a few jumps for you to boost across!

In any case, that's my 2nd game done!

1. Trackmania 2020 (PS5) - 1.10% - DONE
2. Jet Car Stunts (PS3) - 4.37% - DONE
3. Grand Theft Auto IV (100%) - 0.49%
4. Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds - 1.79%
5. BlazBlue: Centralfiction - 3.15%

Edited February 3 by Shrooba

[Walt the Dog]

Virtua Fighter 5 eSports: 100%

(https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/13047-virtua-fighter-esports/Wdog-999)

 

EZPZ autopop(-ish) and at that, one of the trophies is still UR, so free point.

 

 

Edited February 3 by Walt the Dog

[GraniteSnake]

 

Second game down - Magicka 2 (1.33%). Quite a fun game for the most part! You can play with up to three other players but we ended up doing the entire thing as a duo. The difficulty in this game comes down to not knowing/understanding the best spells/magicks for some of the more annoying enemies. An example of this would be the 'Alliance' boss at the end of chapter 7. It took us so many tries and on our successful attempt we were in battle for almost 15 minutes. Fast forward to the time trial against this same boss and we were able to defeat it in around a minute thanks to a YouTube video showing the best magick to use. We also struggled with 'the Festival' challenge too. The main issue being simply because we were both using the same staff and this was actually working against us. A switch up of the staff and we manage to complete the challenge on our first attempt. Overall though this game is a lot of fun and your rewarded with 32 UR's for your efforts so that's a nice bonus.

 

I think I'll either try and do Sonic Mania next and snatch up the bounty, or maybe delve into Team Sonic Racing as it's been a minute since I've played a racing game. Until next time!

[Yuber6969]

Gonna declare this stack of Xeno Crisis.

[Yuber6969]

Finished Them's Fightin' Herds!

 

https://forum.psnprofiles.com/profile/324260-yuber6969/?status=257201&type=status

 

[berto113]

Tier 1 Updated

 

1.  Lego 2K Drive (PS4 - 3.89%) - 100% (glad I got this when I did, plat has already shot up to 4.44% in about a month)

2. Dreams (PS4 - 1.79%) - 100%

3. Rayman Legends (PS4 - 3.96%) - 100%

4. NCAA Football 11 (PS3 - 2.73%) - 98%

5. Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time (PS4 - 3.68%) - 85%

 

Rayman Legends was very easy from a skill standpoint, only beast of a trophy was the grind to get to level 11 of awesomeness.  Took about 3 months of daily/weekly challenges, but I got there.  Fortunately the servers held up.

[ShadyWARcotix]

Few updates:

1. Finished Blur. Great game, still prefer Split/Second more.

2. Finished almost every online Trophy in RDR 2 where I need more than 1 people (Still need the accept 10 free roams +  few free roam missions) but after that I can play and leveling on my own without worrying about random people, but no stress, I enjoy my time with this game.

3. I put Just Cause 2 on my list. Which is one of my last ps3 games I will ever do. Got a motivation from @OBSTINATIO cuz I loved JC 3 and I thought, yeah why not and you are right, Hardcore isn't that bad. Played it for 4 hours now and collected few armor upgrades, liberated few areas to 100% and killing enemies behind cover, rolling here and there and take your time is the good way to go. I will MAYBE start a new playthrough on easy at the end for the "Invincible Warrior" trophy but yeah, that's it and this will took me 30 minutes or something like that. We will see. Till then I'm gonna blow some stuff up.

4. And I wanna put Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance again on my list. This will be my last ps3 game and also my milestone.


Tier 1:
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Trackmania
- Blur
- Just Cause 2
- Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Edited February 5 by ShadyWARcotix

[rjkclarke]

Can I throw my hat in the ring officially please.... I keep, you know, forgetting that I haven't officially posted I'd join yet, and I think I'd better had before I actually nail down any completions for the event this year....

 

Maybe this year will be the year I finally finish Star Ocean: The Last Hope International..... just, just ignore that flock of pigs, that flew over when I typed that, it MIGHT happen

[VersusCA]

Tier 3:

 

Disco Elysium PS4 - *Bounty Game* 25/1/24

Birds of Steel - 19/1/24

God of Rock PS5 - 29/1/24

Blood Bowl 3 PS5 - 5/2/24

 

Two more in the bag!

 

God of Rock was an easy completion for the list. Honestly didn't get a whole lot out of it because it was just playing against a second console. But it does feel good to grow my tiny collection of PS5 ultra rares!

 

I had a much better experience with Blood Bowl 3, and in fact it might be one of my favourite plats ever. I enjoyed the gameplay and most of the glitches people seemed upset about at release are gone now. Two consoles made some of the more luck based and tedious things far simpler - I got fastest achiever across both stacks by a huge margin because of how many time saving tricks I took advantage of via boosting (it also helped that the plat was unobtainable for like 6 months after release). There was even a bit of excitement as I came across, then solved, a glitched trophy. All told, a great time and I will probably stack the PS4 version if enough people play it to drag it down to the UR zone, but will definitely go back for Blood Bowl 2 at some point this year.

[CabDK]

Moto Racer 4, my 3rd Tier 1 game done. This game is acturally brilliant, I've always thought it was a very mediocre racing game, but I was very wrong. It's a fast paced super fun game to play. Wipeout on bikes like my friend described it is very suitable.

 

And a big thanks to my boosting group, making this elusive platinum possible.

 

Tier 1

-Lego 2K Drive, rarity 2.71 (100%)

-Dangerous Golf, rarity 1.10 (100%)

-Moto Racer 4, rarity 1.48 (100%)

Edited February 6 by CabDK

[Kishnabe]

On 1/1/2024 at 1:23 AM, Kishnabe said:

Joining again this year:

 

Tier 1 

 

1. Titan Souls (1.99%) 1% 

2. Ziggurat(2.51%) 0% 

3. Weird West (4.91% 0% 

4. Foul Play (4.53%) 12% 

5. Raining Coins (4.05%) 43% 

Swapping Ziggurat for Tennis World Tour 2 (0.56%) 88%

 

 

[Riiszk]

 

Warface (100%) - 0.55%

Fun - 4/10

Difficulty - 8/10 for the 3 player hard spec ops. 4/10 for everything else.

 

Finally got my first game of the year done! Took me a while, though I've been ploughing through a few other UR games at the same time. I also 100% Warface Breakout, but I won't add it to this event as only the NA version is UR which is also the version I happened to autopop. That was such an easy and 'nothing to it' boost anyway, it's not even worth going into detail about the game.

 

Warface is a free FPS game with basic modes like you'd imagine any Call Of Duty might have. It is somewhat dead with only half a dozen modes being available at most times and when you do find a match, it'll always have people who have quite literally 5,000-10,000 hours in the game (I had a habit of checking their profiles) and gear so much better than yours if you refuse to drop money into the game plus a few years of equipment grinding. Oh yes, it's very much a pay-to-win game. Definitely isn't impossible if you don't pay a single dollar, but every few minutes I'd ask how 10 hits didn't kill someone when I die in literally 2 shots. It's very doable, but boy can you feel the pay-to-win in this. As an Aussie, playing every single game at 300+ ping is infuriating as well. The list for the most part is quite basic and straightforward. Win 10 games in different modes, heal X amount of health, revive a bunch, different types of kills, bunch of co-op stuff, etc. That's all the easy part, but once that's done you're looking at two hurdles, one annoying and one hard.

 

'The hard' part is beating any spec op mission on hard difficulty. You can do this with 4 players, though there was only 3 of us which proved to make things worse. We chose some dark mission where cyborg/monster things would run at your group while you escorted a truck. If you all died before getting to a checkpoint or if the truck died, you'd lose. So basically cod zombies if it had an escort mission. We didn't know what to expect, but holy hell were we not prepared. We got overrun every. single. time. I watched videos and they would have such an easy time. That's when we found out that in the earlier years there was hard, but also another difficulty called insane which is BRUTAL. For whatever reason, hard got removed and insane is now called hard which made more sense seeing as we struggled so much with this as a 3. I looked up insane runs on youtube and only one single video had 3 players, but they all had heavily modded and upgraded all the best guns and wore the best armour. I thought we had no chance with our basic bitch bootcamp loadout, but after persisting for about 6 or 7 hours, we beat it. Had to get real tactical learning every spawn location for all enemies in a whole 30min run and each of us having our own sides and set up to cover the truck and to not be leaving an opening for the cyborgs to overrun us. Definitely didn't think this game would get to that sort of level.

 

'The annoying' part was definitely coming top 3 in battle royale 10 times. Needing 16 players minimum was bad enough, but needing 16 that were all over the required level of 25 made it so we couldn't use alts or new players wanting to join. Only people who were basically already near the plat. As you can imagine, getting 16 on at one time took hours and hours of waiting in lobbies. Then when the lobby finally started, we'd get the sweatiest randoms who no-life the game join and never leave because even they're shocked a battle royale game is going. 

 

But at the end of the 100% for this, I don't regret doing it. The pay-to-win ordeal is just something I never want to deal with again. It's just one of those games designed to make you stay for a long time. The longer you play, the better your loadout gets, therefore, the easier it is to be good. Not my thing really.

 

 

Tier 1:

• Warface 0.55% ✅

[Redblaziken8]

Could I join please?

 

Tier 1:

 

1) Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty PS3 (4.85% UR) > 100% 

2) Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time PS5 0%

3) Far Cry 2 37%

4) Grand Theft Auto IV 95%

5) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 PS3 55%

 

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty 4.85% UR 

 

Already beat my first game with Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty! Had a lot of fun with this one and I'd been procrastinating the 511 VR missions for the longest time but I finally went back last month and got them done. Some of the MGS1 Snake missions were no joke, like doing hold ups with the M4 but I really had fun with them, and even though there's a lot of them I had a great time. After I was done with that I beat the Snake Tales which were mostly great and pretty unique, was cool to play as Snake a bit more. To finish things off I did the Extreme dog tag run at the weekend to end the platinum with. A lot of the bosses were challenging like Vamp because I didn't cheese him, and doing the Harrier fight no damage was so satisfying. Rewatching the story again was nice, and I feel like I can now tuck in to MGS3 which I've been wanting to play since I finished the story of MGS2 back in July last year so I'm super hyped for that.

Edited February 6 by Redblaziken8

[Mastrospaccasoul]

I platinumed titan souls,totally random,can i join the competition?

Also eldest souls is eligible platinum?

Edited February 6 by Mastrospaccasoul

[DeepEyes7]

11 minutes ago, Mastrospaccasoul said:

I platinumed titan souls,totally random,can i join the competition?

Also eldest souls is eligible platinum?

 

I think you should had joined before platting the games, there was a grace period on January (I think) but don't know if it's still up... @Copanele

[Copanele]

14 minutes ago, Mastrospaccasoul said:

I platinumed titan souls,totally random,can i join the competition?

Also eldest souls is eligible platinum?

Yep, all good, since you platinumed the moment you signed up (or rather in a super short time frame)  

Sadly I can't take Eldest Souls into consideration, there was a grace period but only in January. So only Titan Souls counts.

2 minutes ago, DeepEyes7 said:

 

I think you should had joined before platting the games, there was a grace period on January (I think) but don't know if it's still up... @Copanele

Hah you were faster than me 😂

Edited February 6 by Copanele

[Mastrospaccasoul]

5 minutes ago, DeepEyes7 said:

 

I think you should had joined before platting the games, there was a grace period on January (I think) but don't know if it's still up... @Copanele

Ah ok,i read the post  in the home now 

3 minutes ago, Copanele said:

Yep, all good, since you platinumed the moment you signed up (or rather in a super short time frame)  

Sadly I can't take Eldest Souls into consideration, there was a grace period but only in January. So only Titan Souls counts.

Hah you were faster than me 😂

Ok is not a problem for eldest souls, i can do other stuff in most wanted thread, ty 

Edited February 6 by Mastrospaccasoul

[Exstruh]

15 hours ago, Riiszk said:

 

Warface (100%) - 0.55%

Fun - 4/10

Difficulty - 8/10 for the 3 player hard spec ops. 4/10 for everything else.

 

Finally got my first game of the year done! Took me a while, though I've been ploughing through a few other UR games at the same time. I also 100% Warface Breakout, but I won't add it to this event as only the NA version is UR which is also the version I happened to autopop. That was such an easy and 'nothing to it' boost anyway, it's not even worth going into detail about the game.

 

Warface is a free FPS game with basic modes like you'd imagine any Call Of Duty might have. It is somewhat dead with only half a dozen modes being available at most times and when you do find a match, it'll always have people who have quite literally 5,000-10,000 hours in the game (I had a habit of checking their profiles) and gear so much better than yours if you refuse to drop money into the game plus a few years of equipment grinding. Oh yes, it's very much a pay-to-win game. Definitely isn't impossible if you don't pay a single dollar, but every few minutes I'd ask how 10 hits didn't kill someone when I die in literally 2 shots. It's very doable, but boy can you feel the pay-to-win in this. As an Aussie, playing every single game at 300+ ping is infuriating as well. The list for the most part is quite basic and straightforward. Win 10 games in different modes, heal X amount of health, revive a bunch, different types of kills, bunch of co-op stuff, etc. That's all the easy part, but once that's done you're looking at two hurdles, one annoying and one hard.

 

'The hard' part is beating any spec op mission on hard difficulty. You can do this with 4 players, though there was only 3 of us which proved to make things worse. We chose some dark mission where cyborg/monster things would run at your group while you escorted a truck. If you all died before getting to a checkpoint or if the truck died, you'd lose. So basically cod zombies if it had an escort mission. We didn't know what to expect, but holy hell were we not prepared. We got overrun every. single. time. I watched videos and they would have such an easy time. That's when we found out that in the earlier years there was hard, but also another difficulty called insane which is BRUTAL. For whatever reason, hard got removed and insane is now called hard which made more sense seeing as we struggled so much with this as a 3. I looked up insane runs on youtube and only one single video had 3 players, but they all had heavily modded and upgraded all the best guns and wore the best armour. I thought we had no chance with our basic bitch bootcamp loadout, but after persisting for about 6 or 7 hours, we beat it. Had to get real tactical learning every spawn location for all enemies in a whole 30min run and each of us having our own sides and set up to cover the truck and to not be leaving an opening for the cyborgs to overrun us. Definitely didn't think this game would get to that sort of level.

 

'The annoying' part was definitely coming top 3 in battle royale 10 times. Needing 16 players minimum was bad enough, but needing 16 that were all over the required level of 25 made it so we couldn't use alts or new players wanting to join. Only people who were basically already near the plat. As you can imagine, getting 16 on at one time took hours and hours of waiting in lobbies. Then when the lobby finally started, we'd get the sweatiest randoms who no-life the game join and never leave because even they're shocked a battle royale game is going. 

 

But at the end of the 100% for this, I don't regret doing it. The pay-to-win ordeal is just something I never want to deal with again. It's just one of those games designed to make you stay for a long time. The longer you play, the better your loadout gets, therefore, the easier it is to be good. Not my thing really.

 

 

Tier 1:

• Warface 0.55% ✅

Good stuff on this completion buddy! 

 

I won't lie I don't actually think there is much of a P2W factor in the online on this and more so the fact that you were on 300 ping haha. When I did this game not super long ago I held a 2.5 k/d all the way to level 30 for the trophy even through the "pro" lobbies where the lifers lived, but I'm also from NA so I probably wasn't lagging! That and being very accurate with headshots can ensure the online modes and the hard mission (can usually) be done without too much trouble. That being said the hard mission with 3 is very impressive so GGs to that👍

[tony_snake_24]

I completed my first entry in Tier 1: Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War (PS5)

 

 

 

 

I did this a while ago, but only now made some time to properly finish writing about it. This is without a doubt one of the best, if not the best modern CoD game. All 4 modes were great. 

 

Campaign: Incredible. A worthy sequel to Black Ops 1, one of the best games and campaigns in the entire series. The spies, conspiracies, secret government missions, intelligence agencies... they got the tone down really well. The star of the show is the new character, Russell Adler. He was a sublime addition to the cast of characters, as well as Park. And Lazar too, but he's more secondary. Sims is alright. I don't think I can say a whole lot without getting into spoilers, but the team (CIA) is pursuing an unknown threat, a man called Perseus. Adler is leading the operation, and you are key for its success. 

 

It was pretty cool seeing older characters again with new HD models. There was some controversy about Woods' voice actor not returning, but I played the spanish dub so not a problem for me, and I have to say, it was an amazing dub 😮. The soundtrack, cutscenes and overall presentation and plot were really good too. And the dialogue and relationships between the characters.

 

I wish the campaign was longer, I wanted more. However, even if it may feel a little short, this game has dialogue options and decisions that actually affect the story, meaning that you can easily replay it a few times. I know I replayed 2 missions a bunch of times to see all outcomes and dialogue. I started playing on normal, enjoying it and getting whatever trophies I could without looking at the guide much. Then, I replayed it on veteran getting some missable trophies and doing a few things differently, and I still have some things I want to see when I get to the ps4 version. So 3 playthroughs, plus repeating a couple missions is plausible to see everything. 

 

Multiplayer: Aside from one trophy that requires a lot of people to start a dead mode, I had a lot of fun with this one. Reminded me of my days playing good CoDs on ps3.

 

Zombies: I don't seem to like zombie trophies a lot... I get nervous and you can die so easily and have to start all over again... But this one was quite easy and mostly fun in terms of getting the trophies! And just playing it. I was lucky and had a friend lead the Easter Egg run on both ps5 and ps4 while I followed orders. Then did the rest of the trophies on my own!

It looked like there was a huge upgrade crystals grind to be done in outbreak mode to be able to get the DLC trophies, but honestly, it wasn't that much. I even overgrinded lol, but I had fun. I completed Outbreak world level 7 alone so that's pretty good   Then easily completed the same map 7 times for the DLC gold chalices.

 

Dead Ops: This was super fun, and a bit tiring towards the end if you don't take breaks, but I am so glad you can now do advanced start solo (Advanced start is a checkpoint. Each area has 5 rounds. Should you die, you spawn at that area's first round, but lose what you had accumulated on the way there so it's harder). Before it was patched, reaching and beating the final boss was incredibly hard from what I have read, as there was no advanced start, so if you died, you had to start from scratch.

 

The only negatives about this game I experienced were the awful modern CoD menus, the 257GB it takes (almost half a PS5...), a bug on the last mission where the grenade launcher wasn't hitting anything after reloading a checkpoint or dying, so I had to restart the mission and watch the intro cutscene over and over until I got a specific trophy... And a very annoying one, where despite my character being male, the game referred to me as female? Wtf...  The whole character customization doesn't work with the plot either. I'm sorry, no black non-binary woman ever passed as a russian KGB officer in the main headquarters of the KGB during the Cold War in 1981.

 

I only need to do campaign and dead ops for the ps4 version, and wanted to post both at the same time, but since I really should focus on Hunt Showdown already, I'll have to postpone it. I'm also almost done with Armored Core Verdict Day, sitting at 91%, and missing only 1 single-player trophy. But I don't know if I'll do it in the near future or after I finish Hunt. Moreover, an opportunity arised for boosting the 8 people trophies on Hood: Outlaws and Legends and I got it to 65% in just 5 hours, so I'll be finishing that up soon as well. Really happy it turned out that way, as I wanted to do that game this year, and it is very dead... 

 

So for now, my tier 1 looks like this, but I have many plans for this year so hopefully I can finish 4 tiers or more (without even going out of my way for URs... just clearing online trophies and uncompleted games).

 

Tier 1

 

- Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War (PS5) (100%) (3.22%, 1.99%)

- Armored Core Verdict Day (91%) (1.49%)

- Hunt: Showdown (0%) (3.24%)

- Hood: Outlaws and Legends (PS5) (65%) (2.41%)

- Hood: Outlaws and Legends (PS4) (0%) (2.42%)

Edited February 7 by tony_snake_24

[Kishnabe]

On 1/1/2024 at 1:23 AM, Kishnabe said:

Joining again this year:

 

Tier 1 

 

1. Titan Souls (1.99%) 1% 

2. Tennis World Tour 2 (0.56%) 88%

3. Weird West (4.91% 0% 

4. Rollerdrome (4.56%) 0% 

5. Raining Coins (4.05%) 43% 

Swapped Foul Play for Rollerdrome.

[Extant]

Second game for Tier 1 is done!

 

Tier 1

 

 The Evil Within -  4.00% / 💯 1.54%

 Lone Survivor -  4.57%

 

 

[dieselmanchild]

Tier  1

1. Slender: The Arrival - (2.19% 💯)
2.  Battlefield 3 - (2.74%/0.89%)
3. Vessel - (2.67%)
4.  Call of Duty: Black Ops 1 - (3.70%/0.43%)

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 #375 - Call of Duty: Black Ops

 

 

I’ve never been a massive Call of Duty fan, although I’ve been familiar enough with the series and have enjoyed platinuming quite a few of them over the years, mostly of the many Modern Warfare iterations. I had my first real zombies experience with WW2

during the UR cleanup 2022 and had a total blast back then, so I knew whatever CoD game I decided to do next would have to have more zombies.
 
After cleaning up BF3 recently, I was in the mood for another FPS and Black Ops seemed like an obvious choice. It’s UR, a doorway to a brand new CoD series for me, is frequently mentioned as having one of the best and most beloved zombies modes in the whole franchise, and allows me to knock another PS3 game with multiplayer off my backlog for good.

While reflecting on the game after finishing, it’s definitely easy to see why so many CoD fans regard BO1 as one of the best games in the franchise. I tackled the campaign stuff first and was blown away by how great the story actually was. CoD campaigns are always fun, but tend to be cliche and highly forgettable after you finish. Not since World at War or maybe MW2 have I actually enjoyed a campaign story so much. Black Ops excels in this department.

The story takes place in the 1960s Cold War era. Coincidentally, the premise is a little similar to BF3 which I played prior to this. Your character Alex Mason wakes up confused, strapped to a chair as he undergoes an aggressive interrogation, and all the missions you get to play are flashbacks to various operations and important events being recalled by Mason at the behest of his mysterious interrogators. These operations take place all over the globe, so there is quite a variety of different environments and characters introduced throughout the campaign. A lot of significant real life events are woven into the story as well, ie. The Bay of Pigs invasion, the Tet offensive in Vietnam, and the way it all pieces together towards the end as you discover the identity of your captors and the keys held in your memory is really great. It’s definitely a campaign I’ll remember for a long time to come.

The Zombies mode is an absolute blast as well. It was a bit of a rough adjustment at first and early on I struggled quite a bit. It was hard to get used to the brutal 2-hit down system and the weird feel of the hitboxes and PS3 jank in general, especially while trying to learn the layout of the maps and steps for the trophies, and to begin I found it a lot harder to survive than my previous zombies experience in WW2.
 
But the trade-off is that BO1 zombies is wonderfully simple compared to many of the modern games. Once I found my bearings I realized there aren’t nearly as many elite or special type zombies, and the Easter Eggs are not anywhere near as complicated as the ones I did in WW2. The trophies were pretty straightforward too, with half of them being miscellaneous rng based stuff centred around special weapons from the mystery box, and the other half for completing EEs on the maps. There were some really cool maps too, with Moon easily being one of the most unique zombies maps I’ve seen. That one was very fun but also pretty tough with some of the gimmicks like Area 51, zero gravity zombies and lack of oxygen, and the rng elements of the excavators. Moon definitely had the toughest trophies out of all the DLCs.

 
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In other news…

It’s a damn shame about the state of Black Ops 2 as I would have loved to check out that one next. I really enjoyed earning all the trophies for this one and getting some more experience with zombies, so I think I’ll definitely have to tackle another CoD game for the UR cleanup this year. As of now, I’m thinking my next one will probably be Black Ops Cold War or BO3. Tony’s post above definitely got me leaning into that Cold War though. 😁

I also just bought a PS5 a couple weeks ago, so I’ve been taking a bit of a detour to check out some PS5 games. I’m going to get back to finishing OlliOlli World next though, and then figure out what else I’d like to play. I’m really itching to check out Outlast soon as it looks short, fun, and would make a good submission for this event. I’m probably going to check out Rollerdrome too as it’s been on my wishlist for a long time and I just noticed the PS4 stack is actually UR so that’s a great bonus.

Anyways I’m finished blabbering on now, thanks for reading if you made it this far & congrats to everyone for all your recent achievements. Everybody is making great progress this year!! 🙂

 

Edited February 7 by dieselmanchild