Kill Your Completion v3. 0

[Myu]

I like the Lite KYC version but I really need to plat the 10 games I started during the previous event.  

Since a lot of people talked about how burnt-out they were feeling after reaching the middle of the event, wouldn't it be better to do the Lite version in July instead of next month? (5 games / 6 days?)

[xFalionx]

Sorry for the delay, here's my last review for the event... Only 12 days late.  

 

Game #10: Dragon Ball Xenoverse (on PS3)

Final Review

Total playtime: about 4 hours and 30 minutes

Trophies: 3/50 for an E rank

Now this one is a hard title for me to review because I didn't really play it that much and I generally don't really enjoy playing fighting games. That said, the only real fighting stuff I've played were just beating my brothers to pulp in Smash Brothers by button mashing.  I mostly got this because I really love Dragon Ball, the game has RPG elements, and it was on sale for pretty cheap a while ago.

 

Anyways, this is a fighting game with RPG elements and it has a neat story that makes you replay all of the major fights that were happening in Dragon Ball Z because time got messed up and now the enemies are stronger than they should have been at the time, resulting in a really bad time for all of those fighters defending earth if it weren't for you helping them.

 

The game starts with a cut scene of future Trunks summoning Shenlong to in turn summon you, a strong warrior to help out the flow of time. Then you get to fight a few tutorial fights with Goku (Why the hell am I beating perfect Cell with Goku?), which lead to a character creation screen. Of course I had to be the first female super saiyajin, but you could choose between being a saiyajin, namekian, majin, or one of those frieza guys. There are a quite a few customization options, nothing special though. Anyways, after some facial surgery and cloth dying you get to meet future Trunks who fills you in on where the hell he's summoned you to after a short fight to test your power. After going around the hub Trunks explains to you that time's pretty much messed up right now and you're assigned as their personal Doctor, fixing time by reading the Dragon Ball version of Elder Scrolls and going blind fighting all of the villains alongside the heroes who used to beat them in the past. 

 

The first of these missions is Raditz, so we're starting with the saiyajin saga. That one was fairly easy and, after another short explanation by Trunks, he shows you the other kind of missions you can do - Parallel Quests - those usually span multiple areas to free-roam in connected by portals and you usually get more than one objective here. It might be "fight a few small guys", "fight a big guy" or "fight a few big guys" in any combination, and when you're done beating ass you can check the area with your scouter to check for items hidden on the ground.

 

There's a whole bunch of these quests (so many that the trophies count them in % finished instead of X finished, and the story also seems pretty long, at least I'm still dealing with Vegeta multiple missions in. I also got beaten up pretty hard by Nappa in the second mission of the story because I didn't really realize that you could buy and use items already, the game blocked that off when I was exploring the hub and never told me that the shops were open now. With now equipped healing items, I was able to beat Nappa pretty quickly. It may also have been because I did a few more quests to gain a few more levels and get more items.

 

As for the gameplay, it's pretty much just fighting. You can block, evade, and use 3 basic attacks (weak physical, strong physical, and weak ki blast). There are also super attacks which are more powerful and require your ki bar to fill up at least a third to perform them which is done by hitting your enemy with physical attacks. There are tons of those to gain from shops, quests, and also mentors who're important characters of the Dragon Ball universe. My first mentor was Krillin and I'm surprised he didn't teach me how to die.  You can select 3 of those attacks to use in battle, by the way. There's also an evasive skill to choose but I didn't quite get the use of this yet. Besides those there are also ultimate attacks, those can be earned like super attacks but require a full ki bar to use and they're really strong. You can also assign 4 items to use in battle, which range from refills for all of your bars, to things that revive you and other which boost some of your stats for a short period of time.

 

Since the story and the quests are the main source of gameplay and they're pretty similar, I feel like the gameplay might get dull after a while since the game is lacking a deal of variety in that regard. At least there is a great deal of content present to keep you busy.

 

What I really like about this game is the detail. If you're a DB fan this game has some great stuff for you to see. You can have most of the important characters as your mentor, learn many iconic attacks from the anime, and fight the villains you already know and hate/love. The story feels like genuinely fitting, and there are even poses to make. You can perform all of the Ginyu squad poses, the fusion poses, and many more. I feel like there were some actual Dragon Ball fans within the studio which made this game.

 

Overall, this is a solid gold rating for my part. I don't know if I'd raise that to platinum if I got to see more of the game but that's my opinion of the game for now. I think I won't focus on this right now, but I'll for sure come back to this at a later date and give it the time it deserves. I'll probably try to go for either the plat or just all of the SP trophies.

 

Dragon Ball Xenoverse final score:

 - xFalionx

Next up: Wrap-up

 

 

9 hours ago, Hemiak said:

Completely off topic : am seriously debating running a KYC Lite edition next month. Would feature either 5 games at 6 days each or 6 games 5 days. I know a lot of regular participants will be scrambling to play their most recent peofile additions, so this is more for some of the lurkers who have been hesitant to take the final plunge. Thoughts or suggestions? 

Well, I was going to say I'm uncertain about joining the next KYC because of timing issues, if you make that lite version a reality I'd say I could manage that no matter what happens. Also, I think it would be better just running it alongside the normal KYC, no matter if you choose, 5 games 6 days, 6 games 5 days, or 5 games 3 days.

 

Also @The ToX discussion, it's pretty funny this sprung up because I wanted to get myself one of the Tales of games from the current sale to try out the franchise. Currently on sale are Hearts R, Graces f, Xilia, Symphonia, and Zestiria iirc. From what I read online, Vesperia which didn't get a western PS3 release, would be the best one to try the franchise but I'm not gonna pay 40€ for an import right now, so currently I'm considering Xilia as the one to get. I'd love to hear you people's thoughts on that.  

[ladynadiad]

I'd be up for a lite version in May and could do some of the games I had planned for this event.

 

@xFalionx - I'd recommend Tales of Hearts R.  It's the easiest plat of the franchise, has a solid plotline, great characters, a fun and easy to learn battle system, and it's also the shortest to beat.  The only thing that might put someone off is that it's not dubbed like the rest of the games are, but I feel it's a great intro to all the awesome stuff about the series and it's so easy to learn that it's a good one for a beginner.  It's also what I feel is the overlooked gem of the series because it failed to get popularity due to being a Vita exclusive.

Edited April 11, 2017 by ladynadiad

[Edunstar84]

@xFalionx, I would definitely recommend Hearts R, but I've heard many, many times that Xillia 1 is a good place to start for beginners. The battle system is very easy and understandable, BUT Hearts R's battle system is way more fun. I also enjoyed Graces F, but it may not be everyone's cup of tea. 

 

 

[xFalionx]

@ladynadiad, @Edunstar84,

That's interesting. I personally prefer my RPGs to be long because I haven't got that much money to throw around, so a long game will last me longer in that regard. I guess the main thing I like about RPGs are the story and characters of said story, so that's a plus. Also, since I tend to enjoy media in its original language, no dub is absolutely not a problem for me. The opposite actually, since some games have forced dubs which don't include the original dub via an option in the settings.

[crimsonidol38]

59 minutes ago, xFalionx said:

Also @The ToX discussion, it's pretty funny this sprung up because I wanted to get myself one of the Tales of games from the current sale to try out the franchise. Currently on sale are Hearts R, Graces f, Xilia, Symphonia, and Zestiria iirc. From what I read online, Vesperia which didn't get a western PS3 release, would be the best one to try the franchise but I'm not gonna pay 40€ for an import right now, so currently I'm considering Xilia as the one to get. I'd love to hear you people's thoughts on that.  

 

Already gave a short opinion about some games in your backlog-thread but I would say you can either start with Xillia or Hearts. Both are relative easy when it comes for the trophy requirements and they only require 2 playthroughs to get everything required (like most Tales-games), but still they are rather fast to accomplish. One big exception is far as I know Symphonia which requires at least 4 according to some guides.

Personally I didn't like the cast of Hearts that much and prefered the battle system of Xillia but it may be wiser to choose Hearts as a starting point. Main reason IMO would be the technical department. Most of the Tales-games have a rather mediocre look but Hearts is a remake of a DS-game and has some rather sloppy animations  compared to the other games which look even weirder if you play any of the other more recent games (Graces, Xillia, Zestiria) first.

 

EDIT: Before I forget.

If you play Hearts R, it's best to change the game's language to english as the german translation has a rather huge amount of spelling mistakes and grammar errors which annoyed me during my playthrough.

Edited April 11, 2017 by Crimson Idol

[ladynadiad]

6 minutes ago, xFalionx said:

@ladynadiad, @Edunstar84,

That's interesting. I personally prefer my RPGs to be long because I haven't got that much money to throw around, so a long game will last me longer in that regard. I guess the main thing I like about RPGs are the story and characters of said story, so that's a plus. Also, since I tend to enjoy media in its original language, no dub is absolutely not a problem for me. The opposite actually, since some games have forced dubs which don't include the original dub via an option in the settings.

 

Hearts R is still a reasonably meaty game at about 30 hours to beat.  The thing is that the other games tend to end up with filler by having you backtrack to areas and Hearts R is the only one that doesn't do this, so it ends up a bit shorter, but the other games that are a big longer have some spot where it will feel tedious because the plot forces you to backtrack.  I honestly feel it ends up better by having a somewhat shorter plot and keeping the filler out rather than trying to make it longer in such a lazy manner like some of the other games do.

[xFalionx]

11 minutes ago, ladynadiad said:

Hearts R is still a reasonably meaty game at about 30 hours to beat.  The thing is that the other games tend to end up with filler by having you backtrack to areas and Hearts R is the only one that doesn't do this, so it ends up a bit shorter, but the other games that are a big longer have some spot where it will feel tedious because the plot forces you to backtrack.  I honestly feel it ends up better by having a somewhat shorter plot and keeping the filler out rather than trying to make it longer in such a lazy manner like some of the other games do.

Ah, that's something different then. In that case I'd rather want to have it be 30 hours instead of artificially increasing that. When you were referring to the length before, I thought it was more of a difference between a 20 hour game and an 80 hour game or something like that. 

 

Edit:

Well, by now all of you've managed to make me lean towards Hearts for now. Let's see if someone else wants to vouch for one of the other games though.  

 

24 minutes ago, Crimson Idol said:

EDIT: Before I forget.

If you play Hearts R, it's best to change the game's language to english as the german translation has a rather huge amount of spelling mistakes and grammar errors which annoyed me during my playthrough.

I've got all of my systems set to English by default as I tend to play games dubbed in their original languages (which happens to be English for the most part ), so that shouldn't pose any sort of trouble unless it's caused by the German PSN store, thanks for mentioning that though.  

Edited April 11, 2017 by xFalionx

[crimsonidol38]

9 minutes ago, xFalionx said:

I've got all of my systems set to English by default as I tend to play games dubbed in their original languages (which happens to be English for the most part ),

 

As long as you play Deponia in German (as soon as you can play it on a PS4) everything's fine to me, but luckily that doesn't collide with your defaults so everything should be good.

 

 

[Jaguargenie]

14 hours ago, Hemiak said:

 

Completely off topic : am seriously debating running a KYC Lite edition next month. Would feature either 5 games at 6 days each or 6 games 5 days. I know a lot of regular participants will be scrambling to play their most recent peofile additions, so this is more for some of the lurkers who have been hesitant to take the final plunge. Thoughts or suggestions? 

I think it's a great idea on a lot of fronts. I don't think I would participate in may because of my kyc3 games still hanging over my head, but it's a great idea and could bridge the two events. 

 

It looks like perry, Billy and I probably wouldn't be able to do a new July kyc event. I personally have a wedding out of town and a vacation that month so maybe offer the ability to do a kyc lite in July as well for those who want to participate but wouldn't be able to give the event the full attention?

[Melanogaster1987]

Sorry that I didn't get around to posting this sooner - been a busy last week or so for me, but now it's time to wrap it up...

 

Final summary

 

Game Rankings

 

Overall, I'm quite happy with the selection of games that I chose. Resogun and Dead Space have rapidly become two of my favourite PS3 games, and I'm glad that I didn't let them languish on my hard drive unplayed for any longer. Even though I found Tomb Raider: Legend and Prototype a bit disappointing, they're nowhere near the worst games I've ever played - Prototype may have been my least favourite of the 10, but it was starting to grow on me just a little on the 3rd day that I played, it's just too bad that my time with it ran out. I think I will go back and at least finish the story of all of these games, and maybe one day I'll even get all the platinums; there are some tough trophies, but nothing that looks overwhelmingly difficult.

 

Now for my final rankings list, and I feel that I need a more fine-tuned rating system than the > > > > that we used in the reviews. I'm going to use a scale that goes like this here: > > > > > > ... and so on down to a single . Giving Assassin's Creed II a Gold/Silver rating instead of picking one or the other felt like a bit of a cop-out, but with this more granular scale I'm going to bump it up to a single gold. There's also the problem of what to do about Gravity Rush, as I didn't give it a rating originally, but now that I have 9 other games to compare it to, I'd say that my enjoyment of it ranked somewhere in between AC2 and The Golf Club.

 

1. Resogun
2. Dead Space
3. Split/Second
4. Magrunner: Dark Pulse
5. Assassin's Creed II
6. Gravity Rush Remastered
7. The Golf Club
8. Mad Max
9. Tomb Raider: Legend
10. Prototype

 

 

Stats Update

 

Completion rate at start of event: 66.67%
Completion rate at end of event: 59.97%
Change: Down 6.70%

 

Completion rate (including games at 0%) at start of event: 25.44%
Completion rate (including games at 0%) at end of event: 26.32%
Change: Up 0.88%
 
Total trophies earned at start of event: 1,904 (18, 116, 361, 1,409) for 45,645 points
Total trophies earned at end of event: 2,019 (18, 119, 379, 1,503) for 47,865 points
Change: Up 115 (3, 18, 94) for 2,220 points

 

Unearned trophies at start of event: 829
Unearned trophies at end of event: 1,142
Change: Up 313

 

Unearned trophies at at start of event (including games at 0% & DLC trophies): 6,010
Unearned trophies at at end of event (including games at 0% & DLC trophies): 5,900
Change: Down 110

 

Unfortunately, I didn't make a note of my exact average rarity at the start of the event, but I do remember that it was in the high 44s. It finished at 45.84%, up by about 1 percentage point.

 

 

This is the lowest my completion rate has been for a long time - when I first discovered PSNProfiles in 2014, it was about 57%, but I quickly got it up to the high 60s, where it had stayed ever since, sometimes even sneaking up into the low 70s. I thought that I would at least be able to stay above the 60% mark, but I'm not too disappointed that I didn't; it's "Kill your completion", not "Maintain your completion" after all. Also, I was surprised to see just how little my completion rate when including games at 0% had climbed, given that I bought no new games during the month. It really does lay bare just how big a backlog I still have, how hog wild I've gone with PSN sales these last few years, and just how dedicated to gaming those of you with many thousands of trophies are.

 

I set myself 3 targets before we started: Reach 2,000 total trophies (made it!), Get 100 trophies in a month for the first time ever (made it!), and reach PSN level 16 (not quite), but 2 out of 3 isn't bad.

 

Now to begin the task of rebuilding my completion percentage... at least until the next time I take part. Count me as another one who won't be able to make KYC4 due to being busy in July, and I don't think I will want to sign up for a KYC-lite event as soon as May - I would rather concentrate on getting through the games I started here in KYC3. To those of you who will be participating in May and/or July, best wishes, and I will be avidly reading those topics for sure.

 

Finally, thank you so much for running this, Hemiak, and thanks to everyone who has shared their experiences over the last few weeks - this thread has been such an entertaining read and I think that I will now hunt down and read through the KYC1 and KYC2 topics to see what I missed out on. Good luck rebuilding your completion rates (even if only to cut them down again in the not too distant future) everybody!

[Oobedoob S Benubi]

3 hours ago, Melanogaster1987 said:

Now for my final rankings list, and I feel that I need a more fine-tuned rating system than the > > > > that we used in the reviews. I'm going to use a scale that goes like this here: > > > > > > ... and so on down to a single . Giving Assassin's Creed II a Gold/Silver rating instead of picking one or the other felt like a bit of a cop-out, but with this more granular scale I'm going to bump it up to a single gold. There's also the problem of what to do about Gravity Rush, as I didn't give it a rating originally, but now that I have 9 other games to compare it to, I'd say that my enjoyment of it ranked somewhere in between AC2 and The Golf Club.

 

1. Resogun
2. Dead Space
3. Split/Second
4. Magrunner: Dark Pulse
5. Assassin's Creed II
6. Gravity Rush Remastered
7. The Golf Club
8. Mad Max
9. Tomb Raider: Legend
10. Prototype

 

Congrats, you've made a mathematician confused about your rating scale!

 

So, do I have to see this as a basic 25 point scale system or is something else going on?

[Myu]

I need my completion rate back - Update 5

 

 

 

Finally!!! Finally! 

After 58 hours of playtime, Fairy Fencer f is platted! I took me 25 hours of grinding to get those last two trophies and they are not even gold! 

 

[crimsonidol38]

3 minutes ago, Myu said:

I need my completion rate back - Update 5

 

 

Finally!!! Finally! 

After 58 hours of playtime, Fairy Fencer f is platted! I took me 25 hours of grinding to get those last two trophies and they are not even gold! 

 

Congrats. IIRC it took me about the same time.

[Melanogaster1987]

7 hours ago, BillyHorrible said:

 

Congrats, you've made a mathematician confused about your rating scale!

 

So, do I have to see this as a basic 25 point scale system or is something else going on?

 

Sorry for confusing you - maybe writing posts at 3 a.m. isn't such a good idea!

 

It's a 25 point scale where the rank of the trophy icons matters more than the number of them (for example, 1 gold is a better rating than 5 silvers). Maybe I should have posted the full scale; it goes like this, from best to worst:

 

 >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  > 

 

Here are the ratings of my 10 games, put into words:

 

1. Resogun Mid Platinum
2. Dead Space Mid to Low Platinum
3. Split/Second Mid to High Gold
4. Magrunner: Dark Pulse Low Gold
5. Assassin's Creed II Low Gold
6. Gravity Rush Remastered High Silver
7. The Golf Club Mid to High Silver
8. Mad Max Mid Silver
9. Tomb Raider: Legend Low Silver
10. Prototype Mid to High Bronze

Edited April 12, 2017 by Melanogaster1987

[PerryToxteth]

3 hours ago, Myu said:

I need my completion rate back - Update 5

 

 

 

Finally!!! Finally! 

After 58 hours of playtime, Fairy Fencer f is platted! I took me 25 hours of grinding to get those last two trophies and they are not even gold! 

 

 

Congrats! In many games, there always seems to be one elusive bronze trophy that you have to grind on ad nauseum before earning the coveted platinum. 

1 hour ago, Melanogaster1987 said:

 

Sorry for confusing you - maybe writing posts at 3 a.m. isn't such a good idea!

 

It's a 25 point scale where the rank of the trophy icons matters more than the number of them (for example, 1 gold is a better rating than 5 silvers). Maybe I should have posted the full scale; it goes like this, from best to worst:

 

 >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  > :hidden:

 

Here are the ratings of my 10 games, put into words:

 

1. Resogun Mid Platinum
2. Dead Space Mid to Low Platinum
3. Split/Second Mid to High Gold
4. Magrunner: Dark Pulse Low Gold
5. Assassin's Creed II Low Gold
6. Gravity Rush Remastered High Silver
7. The Golf Club Mid to High Silver
8. Mad Max Mid Silver
9. Tomb Raider: Legend Low Silver
10. Prototype Mid to High Bronze

 

I liked your scale. I'm finishing up Life is Strange this week. On your scale, it's coming in as a :platinum::platinum:

 

Edited April 12, 2017 by PerryToxteth

[Hemiak]

It's Way Back Wednesday!!!! (yes it's a thing, shut up) 

 

 

Ive been playing Greg Hastings Paintball 2, which I started in the first KYC. I'm now going to do a mini review and update. Hours -12-15ish???(this is just a guess really) 

 

In GHP2 you take control of a paintball team and have to make your way up the ranks. There are three loose categories of events. Speedball is played on smaller fields, generally with inflatable terrain. Woodsball is played in larger outdoor arenas usually with trees. Recball is kind of a mixed bag. It's a bit of everything depending on the location of the event. 

 

The entire game us made up of real players, locations, and equipment. Between levels there is a screen that shows a picture of someone important in the history of paintball and how they contributed to the sport. 

 

You can draft any player from any team you've impressed, as long as you can afford their rates. You have to pay a one time fee for each person you trade for, and you get a big portion of your fee back when you trade a current player away. Players have a series of 18 perks they can have, and guys (and girls) with multiple perks also seem to play smarter and better all around. 

 

There is supposed to be a balance between gear quality and weight, but so far I've just equipped stuff with the best possible stats and ignored weight completely, and that seems to be working fine. 

 

There are 45 (I think) events in total across the three divisions. They start out stupid easy and get progressively harder as you go. For the Plat you need to finish every single event on hard difficulty, which definitely has some tough spots. One annoying thing is that the game likes to give you uneven teams on hard mode. I had a 7 v 10 point capture (zone control) match with only one zone.... The zone flag was about 30% closer to the enemy base than mine. That means my smaller team had to cover almost twice the distance to reach the objective, and every time one of us died it took forever to get back, while the opposing team had seemingly limitless reinforcements.

 

I played through half the Woodsball, 3 of the Recball, and all of the speedball events on easy to build up money, gear, and my team before jumping into hard mode. I've just been focusing on Woodsball so far and I have one more event to finish that division. It probably would have been easier to bounce around a little but it doesn't track (that I've found) which difficulty you've finished a level on. I'll probably move to Recball next as speedball is supposed to be the most difficult on hard. Plus, you get way more money the first time you clear an event so moving to Recball will let me continue to gear up as I play.

 

My team is pretty solid atm, though I might add one more legendary player if I start having issues later. Unlike a lot of FPS games your teammates are very helpful. On easy I was always the highest scorer by far. On hard I'm in the top three usually, and I've actually won a match being the 8th highest scorer on my team once.

 

There are your standard paintball markers (guns), with interchangeable hoppers(clips), barrels, and cartridges. There are also pistols, pump-guns, paint grenades, and a rocket launcher you can buy.

 

There doesn't seem to be a standard death match mode, but there is:

 

- Elimination - with and without re-insertion/respawn

 

-2 versions of capture the flag:

  - one flag in the middle, take it to the opponent base. This can be won by wiping out the entire enemy team. 

  - flags on each end, grab enemy flag and return it to your base.

 

assault - one team attacks 1-4 points the 2nd team has to protect. Assault team has to finish all points or they lose.

 

- sniper - each team has 2-4 targets the other team is trying to shoot

 

- point capture - zones basically, you take 1-4 objectives and get a point every second for each zone you control. You play until one team can't make up the difference even with full control. 

 

-X-ball - ugh, this is a modified timed single capture the flag. You get a point for every capture or if you wipe out the team. There's a 5 minute time limit and it pauses every time a point is scored, making these matches seem to take forever. My method is to get a 3+ point lead, wipe out all but one enemy, grab the flag, and spend the rest of the time hiding from my opponent. Would probably be fun to play IRL, but when you're trying to finish events as quickly as possible it's annoying. 

 

All. In all this is a decently fun game with a bit of challenge. Occasionally your entire team will play like trash and enemies will face shot you from across the arena, but usually it's not that bad. 

7/10 fun

6/10 difficulty 

[Myu]

55 minutes ago, PerryToxteth said:

 

Congrats! In many games, there always seems to be one elusive bronze trophy that you have to grind on ad nauseum before earning the coveted platinum. 

 

THIS. EXACTLY. 

 

And thank you!  

[voodoo_eyes]

I went back to playing Wanted: Weapons of Fate. Wrapped up the 3 remaining Acts and nothing changed from my original assessment. It's not good game. I'll probably try to push through the story on killer difficulty and clean up the few random trophies that are still missing for the plat. Since the Acts are fairly short, it's easy enough to pick up and play after work. Not sure why, but I kind of expected more of this game.I'll be dedicating my weekends to Destroy All Humans, which is vastly superior and more fun than Wanted was.

[xFalionx]

Well, as promised before, here's my wrap-up.

 

First of all, this was a really fun event and I'm happy that @BillyHorrible badgered me into joining it, otherwise I might have sat this one out.  I think I've seen this event back in its first iteration but didn't have enough unplayed games to join back then, especially since I only got PS+ fairly recently, so I just had a mix of games I actually wanted to play and already started to try them out, and crappy games that came with my Vita's memory card. Same thing goes for the second one, even though I already passed it off as something that probably won't interest me because of my playstyle back then.

 

Thanks to this event I managed to find an exceptional amount of gems in my library of games which I initially and unknowingly threw on the pile of maybe one day I'll play this games. It really made me look at PS+ in another way, as I was previously only in for the games I already knew I'd like whenever I saw one. Now I'm even more interested in the games I've never heard of before which are usually deemed crappy by the general crowd. 

 

So yeah, thanks @Hemiak for hosting this. I'll try my best to get into the next one as well, even though I'm not 100% sure I'll have the time. I've already gotten myself a few interesting games which I might leave for that occasion, like Final Fantasy 13 and Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I think I'll throw in another bunch of games I don't know anything about that time since that strategy turned out to work really well this time around. 

 

Stats: (They're a bit screwed since I finished the SP of AC: Brotherhood and started on AC: Revelations since the end of the event)

Total trophies earned: 1227 -> 1460

Platinum trophies earned: 23 -> 27

Games played: 59 (67 counting the games for this event) -> 73

Games finished: 27 -> 33

Completion: 66.30% -> 64.36% (-1.94%)

Unearned trophies: 643 -> 863

 

I also noticed that my trophies per day went up from somewhere around 1.4 to 1.57 per day. Also, adding revelations to the list pretty much brought my completion back to almost the same as it was at the end of the event, so that one's actually pretty accurate.

 

Games ranked by enjoyment:

1.  From Dust
   This might not have gotten a platinum rank because of its length and some minor bugs that I managed to notice but this god-puzzle-game thingie managed to entertain me the most out of the bunch and it's the only one that I'd like to go on longer than it actually is. If you've got this one on PS+ and you like these kinds of games definitely check it out, the trophies are fairly easy and it's well worth your time.  Finished this one during the event.
2.  Severed
   Another PS+ title that looked really interesting. It's a dungeon crawler with a more sophisticated version of a fruit ninja battle system which really works well and shines on the Vita. The story isn't too long and I could see myself playing through the game again some day. It's got a very unique artstyle and the story feels fitting. If you've even got a slight interest in dungeon crawlers and/or artistic games, and you have PS+ and a Vita, definitely give this one a go. Another one I finished during the event.
3.  Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath
   This unique bounty hunting game really surprised me by turning into an experience similar to Half Life 2, by changing up the gameplay and putting a higher focus on the before neglected story of the game and the main character somewhere around the middle of the game. This game has its own unique world with unique inhabitants and their own terms for these things. It's pretty atmospheric thanks to that. This one was apparently also on PS+ ages ago but I bought it myself, I'd say it's definitely worth checking out if you got it for free. This is yet another game I finished during the event.
4.  Batman: Arkham Asylum 
   10/10 this got me into Batman -IGN. This game surprised me a lot since it came with my PS3 and I ignored it because I wasn't all that keen on meeting the Batman, by now I've watched both Batman Begins and The Dark Knight thanks to playing this game. It's a story based stealth game with some action combat as well as a pretty much open world and lots of riddles hidden throughout it. For a change, I didn't finish this one yet. Still need to continue the story and it's likely gonna be next game I'll finish out of my list.
5.  Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
   This one was just how a PoP game should be, platforming feels great and fighting does as well. This game probably has the most epic final boss fight I've ever seen, you literally jump from rock to rock, elevated by a giant sandstorm. The only bad thing I could say about this is that it felt a little too linear for my tastes, but all in all this is a truly great game. Another one I finished during the event.
6.  Dragon Ball Xenoverse
   Great fighting game with RPG elements. This one has tons of content but also a really grindy plat. Since there's not all that much variety I feel like this might get stale after a while. I'd definitely recommend this to any Dragon Ball fans who like fighting games, or to a lesser extent RPGs, as there's lots of content for them to enjoy. I'm leaving this one for later, since I didn't play that much of it and it seems to take quite a while to finish.
7.  Dirt 3
   At the start I confused this with some other car game apparently because I remembered seeing a video about some open world car game ages ago and somehow I've saved that labeled as Dirt 3 in my brain. Anyways, despite not being an open world racer, this game was really fun to play. The better you get at it, the more fun it gets and it offer a large variety in game modes so the gameplay never gets stale. Unless you try for the gold medal on the Gymkhana events that is, those are really hard nuts to crack. Another game I'm not done with yet but I might get back to this somewhere in between the others.
8.  TorqueL
   A really fun platformer that has very weird controls. Everything feels responsive but you might get cramps from holding your Vita/controller in weird ways with multiple fingers on the face buttons. For what it is, this is a great game and it's nice to pick up and play for 30 minutes every now and again. This is another title that I finished during the event.
9.  Lumo
   I love the concept of this game, the execution still needs some help though. Didn't help that I chose to play the crappy Vita port with unobtainable trophies, slowdowns and occasional crashes. I actually like the isometric platforming genre but when you can't tell where you're jumping to because of mediocre UX design, this really takes the fun out of it, especially when there's a trophy for a run with a limited amount of deaths. I might go back to this every now and then but I don't think I'll manage the plat with the depth problems this game has.
10.  The Lord of the Rings: War in the North
    The gameplay is fun but at the end of each level I'm usually pretty bored instead of excited. The RPG elements are fine, neither bad nor exceptional. The glitches dread me to go back to this game. I kinda wish I'd given it a bronze rating but it was the start of the event and I feel like I was a bit too nice to the game. It does get a bit better at a certain point in the game though, and I'll at least try to get most of the SP trophies done unless I encounter one of the glitches, in that case this game would go back to collecting dust on my sheves again.

Afterthoughts

Well, that was quite an event. The people are great and I've probably written more text during this month than during a whole year back in school.  I did mess up at some parts though, already finishing 5 of my games within the time limit, playing one for a few hours longer than I was supposed to, and posting some reviews a few weeks late (I blame the new editor). I'll try to be better in that regard next time around. 

[Oobedoob S Benubi]

23 hours ago, Melanogaster1987 said:

snip because with your many icons, mine don't seem to work

 

I understood the full scale, I'm just not sure whether it's a pure 25 point scale or if it's more like the original scale but with five subdivisions per ranking (the difference being that a 25 point scale is purely that, but the last one first ranks what kind of trophy it deserves and then how many of that trophy).

 

I may agree that my original five trophy scale might be a bit too restrictive as we've had a couple of people go halfway in between grades already. Perhaps we could optimise it a bit more though... How about having rankings go in three trophies, like this:

 

This has many more possibilities than the five trophy scale, and I feel like it would be easier to use than the 25 scale.

 

For the record, these are my scores from this event in the old scale and how I would rate them in this scale:

#1: TorqueL (on PS4).

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#2: Four Sided Fantasy (on PS4).

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#3: Kitten Squad (on PS4).

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#4: Stories: The Path Of Destinies (on PS4).

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#5: Kung Fury: Street Rage (on PS4).

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#6: Tearaway Unfolded (on PS4).

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#7: INVI؟IBLE, INC (on PS4).

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#8: Ultratron (on PS4).

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#9: This War Of Mine: The Little Ones (on PS4).

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#10: Õkami HD (on PS3).

score withheld until I can give it an honest chance

 

Edited April 13, 2017 by BillyHorrible
also, editing screws up icons that are next to each other.

[DamagingRob]

7 hours ago, voodoo_eyes said:

I went back to playing Wanted: Weapons of Fate. Wrapped up the 3 remaining Acts and nothing changed from my original assessment. It's not good game. I'll probably try to push through the story on killer difficulty and clean up the few random trophies that are still missing for the plat. Since the Acts are fairly short, it's easy enough to pick up and play after work. Not sure why, but I kind of expected more of this game.I'll be dedicating my weekends to Destroy All Humans, which is vastly superior and more fun than Wanted was.

Enjoyed Wanted, myself. The curving bullets mechanic was pretty neat. And for a movie tie-in game(which are almost always shit), I felt this was pretty decent.

 

Wrapped up Shadow of Mordor. Both DLCs felt pretty similar to the main game, and I enjoyed them. One has you playing as Talion, and the other as Celebrimbor.

 

The one with Talion has you teaming up with the dwarf, Torvin, once again. And hunting various creatures/controlling them in missions. Fun stuff. Dumb final trophy, though.. 

 

The one with Calebrimbor introduces a new mechanic, where branding enemies charges the One Ring. Once charged, you can activate it and spam special attacks over and over. Nice finale at the end. And the last trophy for this one isn't nearly as annoying. 

 

Both trophies I refer to, are for completing these tests in a certain amount of time. You have to take care of all War Chiefs and Captains, and in a certain way for required bonuses. Only problem with the first one is, they give you 20 minutes less than the second, making the time constraint very tough. Only trophy keeping me from 100%, for the time being.

Edited April 13, 2017 by DamagingRob

[voodoo_eyes]

10 minutes ago, DamagingRob said:

Enjoyed Wanted, myself. The curving bullets mechanic was pretty neat. And for a movie tie-in game(which are almost always shit), I felt this was pretty decent.

 

I liked the movie a lot more than I did the game.

 

The game feels too simplistic overall. Essentially you stay in cover and pick out the enemies. The runners with knives are just a nuisance and bring nothing to the game, and the turret sections are terrible  Even though the curving bullets is an interesting mechanic, it often is awful to aim with. It happened way too often that suddenly it would aim towards the ceiling or somewhere else it shouldn't. The one cool thing was the sliding over obstacles (not original though), and in this game you still end up eating bullets while doing it, which kind of sucks.

[DamagingRob]

I loved the movie. But yeah, I don't remember a lot about the game. Just that it was fun, was my fastest Plat for a time, and that I used some glitch to bypass most of the Killer play through. 

[Oobedoob S Benubi]

Is it bad that I started three of my new games yesterday and they did more to my percentage than this event? That's bad, isn't it?