Kill Your Completion v3. 0

[FFHannibal]

27 minutes ago, BillyHorrible said:

 

I recommend you don't play Resident Evil as your first horror game but something you'll actually enjoy.

Billy, we can't all go around changing our list at the last possible moment .

 

I have played Zombi before and that wasn't too bad (does that count as horror?)

[Oobedoob S Benubi]

35 minutes ago, FFHannibal said:

Billy, we can't all go around changing our list at the last possible moment .

 

I have played Zombi before and that wasn't too bad (does that count as horror?)

 

Yeah that counts as another bad game

 

Honestly, best horror game I can think of is Alien Isolation.

[DamagingRob]

11 minutes ago, BillyHorrible said:

Honestly, best horror game I can think of is Alien Isolation.

How can this Zelda lover also love Alien Isolation!? This calls into question my entire state of being.. 

[Oobedoob S Benubi]

2 minutes ago, DamagingRob said:

How can this Zelda lover also love Alien Isolation!? This calls into question my entire state of being.. 

 

Why? Can't I love more than one genre?

[Mendant909]

3 hours ago, DamagingRob said:

 My Vita USB cable seems to have died again.. Waiting for my 2 pack of replacements to show up. If this brand isn't any better, I might just pay through the nose for a Sony one. These offbrand cables just don't seem to last. 

Do you live close to a Dollar Tree? I bought my USB cable there and it's worked pretty well for my handheld devices, including the Vita.

3 hours ago, FFHannibal said:

Any recommendations for someone who doesn't like Horror and whose next game is Resident Evil? I was thinking about immediately following the guide, because if I want to get the plat someday I'd have to do more than 5 playthroughs I think. So I though I'd maybe get on that right away, or should I just boot it up and start playing without care?

If you're a newbie to the game then I'd recommend your first playthrough to be as Jill. She gets a lockpick that removes the need for keys that Chris would need and she could get a shotgun pretty early on so that should help out against tougher enemies. I'd also recommend to avoid killing as many zombies as possible as if you don't burn their bodies afterwards you're going to have a bad time later.

[DamagingRob]

1 minute ago, BillyHorrible said:

Why? Can't I love more than one genre?

Yes. But what if it means I, too, deep down like Zelda? My whole life will have been a lie!

@Mendant909 I have the 1000 model, with its proprietary cable nonsense..

[Oobedoob S Benubi]

Game #5: Kung Fury: Street Rage

First day
Total playtime: about one hour

 

 

Awesome game.

 

 

... 'kay, I guess I should write at least a little bit more. It's a fighting game. You have two buttons: attack left and attack right. That's it. Wait until enemies get close to you, and attack them.

 

There are several different enemies:

Grunt - down in one hit.

Officer - down in two hits, staggers backwards.

Woman in white - down in three hits, teleports to your other side after each hit.

Bottom half of Arcade - down in a bunch of hits (five I think), staggers backwards out of reach.

Red ninja - teleports out of reach after being hit, takes a couple of hits.

 

The difficulty gradually increases, there are no ways to regain lost health, and there is no end until you die. GO!

 

Okay, so there's a story mode thanks to an update but I've tried it a bit and I'm ignoring it now. Endless mode is much more fun.

 

It's well worth the €1,50 which I paid for it, I've paid more for games that entertained me less. The trophy names are fun references to the movie. Have you seen it yet, by the way?

 

I dare you all to at least watch the start. If you haven't laughed at all within the first minute, then it's not for you.

 

[MStalker58]

4 hours ago, FFHannibal said:

Any recommendations for someone who doesn't like Horror and whose next game is Resident Evil? I was thinking about immediately following the guide, because if I want to get the plat someday I'd have to do more than 5 playthroughs I think. So I though I'd maybe get on that right away, or should I just boot it up and start playing without care?

 

Normally I like to do my first playthrough blind, especially in horror games. Knowing what happens next kind of ruins the suspense and can make it kind of boring. However, I might advise making an exception with this game. The puzzles can be convoluted and the game doesn't give you much sense of direction or what you need to be doing next and in what order. With only 3 days to play the game for the event, if you don't use a guide you might end up spending a lot of that time just trying to figure out what the hell you are supposed to be doing.

 

So your first 2 horror games are Zombi and Resident Evil? There are much better games if you are interested in the genre (Dead Space, The Evil Within, Alien Isolation come to mind). I loved Resident Evil back in the day but not sure how well the controls and mechanics hold up today. As for Zombi, yeah I found that game to be rather boring after a while. Good luck with it though.

[Oobedoob S Benubi]

12 minutes ago, MStalker58 said:

I loved Resident Evil back in the day but not sure how well the controls and mechanics hold up today. 

 

I can answer that one: not at all.

 

1 hour ago, DamagingRob said:

Yes. But what if it means I, too, deep down like Zelda? My whole life will have been a lie!

@Mendant909 I have the 1000 model, with its proprietary cable nonsense..

 

Or worse, what if you actually like Star Wars? Only one way to find out: go play Zelda and go watch Star Wars!

[Hemiak]

Waiting in line for food at Six Flags so I'm catching up on the forums. I'll be home tonight but not sure how tired I'll be. Definitely going to try to get a start on something at least. 

 

All this hate about Resident Evil. I played it when it first dropped for the ps1 and loved it. Played the heck out of the original trilogy. They were just so different than anything else that it was easy to overlook the tank controls and other problems. I also feel like they've made a lot of updates to the game which hasn't done it any favors. 

 

Maybe I just never noticed but in the original I never had problems with the red head enemies I hear people bitch about. Maybe I just always killed everything so never noticed what happened if you didn't. 

 

I also feel like the trophy list does the game no favors. I'm usually all for challenge runs, but having several different ones that don't stack seems like a bad move for a 10+ year old game. 

 

Like I said I haven't played the remastered versions so can't comment on that, but I hope you enjoy it nevertheless @FFHannibal. 

Edited March 13, 2017 by Hemiak

[MStalker58]

24 minutes ago, Hemiak said:

All this hate about Resident Evil. I played it when it first dropped for the ps1 and loved it. Played the heck out of the original trilogy. They were just so different than anything else that it was easy to overlook the tank controls and other problems. I also feel like they've made a lot of updates to the game which hasn't done it any favors. 

 

Don't get me wrong, I loved the original RE games on PS1 and played the hell out of them. At the time of release, they were among my favorite games. The first time I saw those damn dogs nearly gave me a heart attack. However, for someone without the nostalgia factor and playing RE (or any horror game) for the first time, the controls and combat might feel very dated compared to modern games. 

 

29 minutes ago, BillyHorrible said:

I can answer that one: not at all.

 

Hey, I've played the remaster. It was one of those games that I had to put on hold due to a previous KYC event starting up. Need to go back and finish it but stopping in the middle of a playthrough (not to mention the several runs I have left) has me putting it off. Now that I think about it, I have Resident Evil, Resident Evl 0, and Resident Evil Revelations in my backlog. Think someone went a little crazy during one of those PSN Halloween sales. 

[DamagingRob]

48 minutes ago, BillyHorrible said:

Or worse, what if you actually like Star Wars? Only one way to find out: go play Zelda and go watch Star Wars!

Well, I already know I like Star Wars. 

[Jaguargenie]

6 hours ago, FFHannibal said:

Any recommendations for someone who doesn't like Horror and whose next game is Resident Evil? I was thinking about immediately following the guide, because if I want to get the plat someday I'd have to do more than 5 playthroughs I think. So I though I'd maybe get on that right away, or should I just boot it up and start playing without care?

Dont like horror how? Dont like to be scared or horror games are hard as hell?

 

Either way, try Until Dawn. It's modeled after a 90s slasher film so it's a bit cheesy but so good. I loved it!

[NebbyLunala]

17 minutes ago, Jaguargenie said:

Don't like horror how? Don't like to be scared or horror games are hard as hell?

 

Sorry, had to correct your punctuation. How many people never put apostrophes in their words?

 

Also, for me, I don't like to be scared. I know you were talking to someone else but I really don't like the horror genre and will never play it. I went through one haunted house as a child and never went back. But then, to each his own. To FFHannibal, there are a lot of great horror games out there so you shouldn't be forced to play a game you don't like. If you really want to try to get into Resident Evil without the complex mechanics of the original trilogy, try Resident Evil 7 which came out - my gym trainer played it and loved it, but be warned that playing it on VR is very scary.

[FFHannibal]

29 minutes ago, Jaguargenie said:

Dont like horror how? Dont like to be scared or horror games are hard as hell?

 

Either way, try Until Dawn. It's modeled after a 90s slasher film so it's a bit cheesy but so good. I loved it!

I don't like to be scared, the adrenaline doesn't really do anything but make me feel bad. I have seen a bit of Until Dawn and the 90s slasher feel really makes up for the scary bits. The one part I saw I was laughing more than I was actually scared. It helps that slasher films are kinda predictable, which jumpscares just for the fun of it are really not. That said I did play about 20 minutes of Resident Evil today and it's not too bad so far, I'm just constantly on edge and gaming is usually when I relax, so that's why I probably won't be hitting the 3 hour mark for it in the next two days. In increments of 20-25 minutes it's doable and fun for me.

 

8 minutes ago, NebbyLunala said:

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Also, for me, I don't like to be scared. I know you were talking to someone else but I really don't like the horror genre and will never play it. I went through one haunted house as a child and never went back. But then, to each his own. To FFHannibal, there are a lot of great horror games out there so you shouldn't be forced to play a game you don't like. If you really want to try to get into Resident Evil without the complex mechanics of the original trilogy, try Resident Evil 7 which came out - my gym trainer played it and loved it, but be warned that playing it on VR is very scary.

I saw someone play it in VR and nope, not for me that game (not even regular). I can handle the Resident Evil remaster because the graphics are (so) outdated they can't be mistaken for realistic, but RE7 absolutely is. I'll play it in VR when I want to die of a heart attack

[Psy-Tychist]

7 hours ago, FFHannibal said:

Any recommendations for someone who doesn't like Horror and whose next game is Resident Evil? I was thinking about immediately following the guide, because if I want to get the plat someday I'd have to do more than 5 playthroughs I think. So I though I'd maybe get on that right away, or should I just boot it up and start playing without care?

 

I'd recommend trying at least starting it and seeing what you think. I'm playing it too so we can share.

@BillyHorrible despises the Resident Evil remake (see KYC 2)

[Fitzquaid]

Game #5: Dear Esther: Landmark Edition

Day 1

 

I went into this more or less blind, but I knew the developers went on to make Everybody's Gone to the Rapture and that I'd often heard this mentioned in the same breath as Amnesia, so I was expecting a walking sim (trying to reclaim the pejorative here...) that would be atmospheric and either spooky or sad.  Verdict: 

Spoiler

Can the answer be "kind of both"?

 

I'll save most of my thoughts for Day 3, since it isn't exactly a massive game - I finished my first playthrough this evening in an hour and change, so I don't think @Pickle2907 is going to struggle with 100%ing for the Spring challenge.  I'm sure I missed things along the way, though, plus there's a director's commentary option and for extra credit I'm planning to listen to a podcast episode about the game. 

 

Trophies so far: 6/10 (70%)

 

Edited March 13, 2017 by Fitzquaid

[Pickle_Riiiick_X]

@BillyHorrible Kung Fury sounds a bit like One Punch Hero on Steam...hope so...that game was uber fun and I've got Kung Fury in my backlog.

[voodoo_eyes]

Game #5 - Driveclub

 

Day #1

Total Time Played: over 1h

Trophies earned: 7/128 .... lol, yeah get shafted

 

 

Alright, before I start I'll just say that I have the PS Plus Edition, which has about 90% of the content locked away and have 0 intention to buy the full thing.

 

What is it.

 

Driveclub is a racing sim. It offers a bunch of game modes including Tour and Events and Challenges (probably a few more that I can't remember. Tour has you complete some objectives to earn stars and thus unlocking more races. Since so far Tour is pretty much the only thing I played, I'll just talk about that one for now. So far there were regular races, time trials and drifting. During the races you also get face-off events, that show scores from folks from your friend list for sticking to ideal trajectory or reaching a certain speed at a specific section of the track. Shame that I keep getting reward with cars I can't use unless I buy the full game .

[MarkusT1992]

8 hours ago, Kevvik said:

Agreed. I can't stand the "collect all chests" trophies. Lost Odyssey, a 360 RPG, had this achievement and it's the only one I didn't get. Some of the chests were very well hidden and additionally some areas would be blocked off from returning so that if you missed one you could never get the trophy without a full replay.

It's actually not that bad. At least you can see all the chest on the map. I hat it when there's no option to show the collectibles in games. I'm speaking of Unity by the way.

[Alpsmile05]

Game 5, Day 1: Wolfenstein: The New Order

 

 

Time played: about 2 hours

 

So it's a FPS, a genre that doesn't suit me very well. I always try to avoid FPS because I just don't really like them, however I picked this one (and The Old Blood) up in a sale hoping it would be nostalgic to me (when I was a little kid I played the very first wolfenstein game). 

 

Although it's a FPS I kinda like it. The story seems interesting and who doesn't want to shoot nazis? I feared it to be to difficult but I launched the game on the easiest mode and so far it's allright. I do fear the über playthrough though. 

 

The story is offcourse linked to World War 2 but with a different angle. In this game the nazis won the war and dominate the world. But offcourse you don't like that so you try to change that. 

 

So far I've gotten 5 trophies on the way (out off 51) but I don't really care about them right now. I just want to see where the story goes.

 

Well that's it for the first update on Wolfenstein: The New Order, I'm gonna shoot me some more nazis now  

[xFalionx]

Well, it's kind of ironic that I get more time to play whenever I choose to play short games instead of long games. Anyways, I've finished game #5 and my completion has increased by 0.31% since the start of the event thanks to this. I still have some applications to write, so I guess Batman will have to wait a bit tomorrow.

Fun fact: my 1337 trophy milestone is now the trophy Detective from this game.  

 

Game #5: Severed (on PSVita)

Final Review

Total playtime: about 11 hours

Trophies: 25/25 for an S rank

 

 

This game is one hell of a gem. Honestly, if you have PS+, a Vita and even remote interest in dungeon crawlers download this game and play it. 

 

This game is a dungeon crawler with RPG elements and secrets locked behind a metroidvania like progression. What makes this title special is the battle system, which is basically fruit ninja on steroids and crack at the same time. You attack enemies by swiping across the screen. You'll have to aim for their weak points and block their attacks using precise swipes, as they will usually try to block their weak spot in some way. Since you'll usually be fighting between 1 and 4 enemies on different sides of the room, there is a lot of micromanagement required to block all enemies' attacks as well as hitting those which aren't currently defending themselves. To progress your skill trees in this game, you need to sever body parts off your enemies. To do this you need to fill up you focus gauge in battle by hitting an enemy multiple times without getting hit or blocked by your enemy before killing them. If you kill an enemy after filling up your focus gauge, you'll enter sever mode, which has you cut off parts of your enemy using precise swipes in a very short time, so it requires a bit of practice and/or a few skill points into the skill that increases your sever time limit.

 

Overall this battle system has proven to be tremendous fun and very different to your usual console game experience. The game is pretty difficult at times but the auto saves are really generous, so even when you die, it doesn't really get frustrating. Towards the end, when you've unlocked most of your skills and raised your health a bit, the game will feel easier for the most part with a few exceptions here and there. Like @Crimson Idol said, some people will think that this game should have been a bit harder but I personally feel that the difficulty is fitting perfectly for a fun gaming experience.

 

The dungeons remind me a bit of the 2D Zelda games because you've got medium sized dungeons with blocked ways which you need to open by solving a riddle or finding a key. The game also has a metroidvania like secret system, locking items like heart pieces which are used to increase your maximum health if you find enough of them, behind blocked ways which can be opened using items acquired later in the game. This way you can choose to backtrack whenever you feel like it to increase your health or unlock a few more of your upgrades since those upgrade materials can also be found in secret rooms. Some of these secrets are also just locked behind riddles ranging from finding a hidden button to complicated walk pattern puzzles. The game design really shines in these as all of the riddles seem fair, even the difficult ones. The dungeons ore also generally well designed, showing you glimpses of where you should be headed without making you feel like an idiot, or making you wander around helplessly around the place. 

 

Since you move around the world in first person, instantly moving from room to room without needing to walk through the rooms, the game feels fast paced and it doesn't feel bad to backtrack since you'll already have the fights taken care of, so you can just go from room to room really quickly. Besides going from room to room, you can also spin to the left or right to search each room further, as there may be mechanisms for opening doors, or pots which are breakable and have stuff that's useful for upgrades in them.

 

The abilities you gain throughout your playthrough are plentiful and varied. They also all affect combat in some way or another and none of them are underused, so they all feel important to have by the time you get them. I won't list the abilities you get as I fell that would take away from the experience, so I'll leave it at that.

 

As for the story, you play a young woman named Sasha who finds herself in the ruins of her house. You wander through what has once been your residence until you come across a mirror. You look into the mirror and -slash- there goes your arm and you find yourself in a strange, warped world. In front of you is now a weird looking creature. The creature tells you that you can leave this world if you manage to bring your missing family - mother, father, and brother - back to the mirror. Turns out they've all landed in different locations in this dangerous world and you'll have to search for them.

 

This game somehow manages to give me Saya no Uta vibes, which is great as that VN was an atmospheric masterpiece. All of the enemies have creative designs, the atmosphere is creepy yet beautiful.Everything in this warped world seems to fit really well, from the items used to heal you, or to increase your health, over the general environmental details, up to your own equipment and the abilities you gain. Another thing I love about the game is that the ending, just like what I loved about Saya no Uta's ending, does some things you really don't usually see in video game endings. I won't get into more detail than that because anything more would ruin the experience.

 

This game amazing. I did not experience a single flaw and the length feels just right, so I'll give this game a 10/10 rating. 

My selection of games keeps surprising me, or I'm just bad at rating games, I guess. Who knows? 

 

Severed final score:

- xFalionx

Next up: Dirt 3 (PS3)

 

My next game is gonna be interesting. The last realistic racing game I played was Gran Turismo Aspec 2 on PS2, so I don't really know what to expect.

Edited March 14, 2017 by xFalionx

[MarkusT1992]

Game #5: Enter the Gungeon

 

 

This game is a rogue-like game. As such you have randomly generated gungeons (yes, that's right, not dungeons) where you find different guns and items. Your goal is to complete the gungeon and reach it's end. I don't know how many chambers there are, I only managed to come to the second boss in my first run.

When you die you have to start over as in every rogue-like game. This is not my first rogue-like, I played The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth on PC for 442 hours. But this one is harder in my opinion.

As you expect from the name this game is all about guns. The enemies are bullets, your health are red bullets you fight with many different kind of guns and so on.

You can choose from four different character, each with his own starting equipement. The characters are: The Pilot, the Convict, the Marine and the Hunter. So far I only played as the Marine which was ok. After looking at the other characters' starting gear I think the Pilot could be the easiest to start with.

 

When you start the game you have to complet a tutorial before you can enter the actuall Gungeon. The tutorial is just your basic moves and a boss fight against your tutor.

After completing it you may enter the Guneon. The Gungeon consists of many different rooms filled with enemies. To progress you have to kill all enemies in a room. You do this by shooting them with while aiming with the right stick. With you can perform a dogd roll which is essential for your survival as some rooms are bullet hell. You can also find active items with various effects you can use with . There's also something called "Blanks" which you can use to destroy all bullets on screen by pressing and at the same time.

A Gungeon also has other rooms than enemiy filled ones. There are shops you can buy items at and I found some kind of cell I couldn't open. In some rooms are statues which grant you some bonus and in some are chest containing a gun or other item. That're all the special rooms I found so far.

 

Did I mention that this game is hard? As every rogue-like this game is not easy. Seeing as I was bad at Binding of Isaac first and got better with time it should be the same with this game.

 

Trophies: 1/52

Completion: 1%

Time played: About 45 minutes

 

Did I already mention that I started Disc Jam? This game is great. It's the same type as Rocket League for me. both game I never would have bought but love them afer playing them. The online is a bit of a mess at the moment thought. I wait for like 10 minutes for a double match. when they can fix this it would be great.

[DamagingRob]

Day 1

 

Heheh, just barely hanging onto that 87% average. Liking the game so far. It's a Double Fine game, so you can expect the same kind of zaniness found in other Tim Schafer games(Broken Age, Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, etc.). This one is a platformer, though. And you get different psychic abilities to use on enemies/progress. 

 

You start with none, and slowly unlock them as you go. I have a psychic gun, which requires ammo to use. This is dropped from enemies you kill, or from breaking different things in the environment. Pyrokinesis, which is essentially a flamethrower. Telekinesis, which allows you to lift and throw objects at enemies. And my newest is Levitation, which allows you to conjure up a ball to roll on and jump with. And when in the air, you can float. That's all so far, but there look to be quite a few more coming. 

 

You have a health bar, shown my a number of brains. When this runs out, you lose a life. Lose all your lives, and you'll have to start the level over(I assume). You can get health from slain enemies or destructible objects, as well. 

 

There's an overworld, which is a children's summer camp. The premise there is, it's a government training base for Psychonauts under the guise of a summer camp. And actual levels take place in the minds of individuals at the camp. Like I said, zany. 

 

But it's a fun game, with toooons of collectibles. This will probably be the biggest pain for completionists, as there are so many per level(anywhere from 60-200 of the figments). And they can be kinda hard to see, and some of them move around..

 

Time played: 3 and a half hours. 

Trophy progress: 6/38 for 10%

[Oobedoob S Benubi]

2 minutes ago, DamagingRob said:

Heheh, just barely hanging onto that 87% average. 

 

Perhaps this is part of the reason I'm failing the event. I'm already at 51%, for me getting a bunch of 60%-70% games is an improvement while for you it would still be killing.

 

Have fun with Psychonauts. I thought it was dated but enjoyable, only haven't finished it yet because I decided I wanted to get through Witcher III.

 

P.S. number of brains is layer of immersion in the other person's brain, run out and you get pulled out of the brain/level.