“What the Hell Is That Still Doing There” Backlog Event Ver. 3.0

[kingofbattle8174]

2 hours ago, Psy-Tychist said:

Finally got one done!

 

Word Sudoku by POWGI - Completed 29/12/19, 7 months and 1 week. 87.71% rariity.

 

Looking for my 200th Platinum, trying to make a decision on what I should have as my 200th.

 

If you want a challenge, I see Darkest Dungeon.

[bruin-rocks]

11 hours ago, Psy-Tychist said:

Looking for my 200th Platinum, trying to make a decision on what I should have as my 200th.

I just recently got platinum 200 and I made it Scene It because it was a game my best friend in grade 6 showed me and I’ve loved it ever since. It doesn’t have a nice title or anything, but it’s Ultra Rare, and it holds a lot of meaning to me. I try to make all my platinum milestones have some sort of personal meaning(barring Marvel’s Spider-man platinum “Be Greater” I was just close to 125 and wanted a good platinum name and had none of my favourite games up for contest at that moment in time) and for every single one of them I can remember the platinum popping. The majority of my platinum milestones also happen to be Ultra Rare, I’m a sucker for a game that sticks in my memory and ultra rare games tend to do that for me. 
 
P.S. I like to try to make my milestones backlog games as well so I can chip it off on here, kill two birds with one stone. 

Edited December 31, 2019 by bruin-rocks

[JayDeLosDioses]

I've got the final plat of the decade with The Crew 2 today.

Thanks to my amazing girlfriend who's replacing my right arm currently.

[Fnee2000]

My first backlog game of the new year finished! A lot of back tracking in this Lego game to fulfil the quest aspect of the game. Nowhere near as long as I thought it would be too. Final save put me at just over 20 hours. Not a 10 year game but still an old game removed from my backlog...

 

Lego The Lord of the Rings (PS3) - Completed in 7 years, 1 month

[bruin-rocks]

Currently working on Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice. It’s been over a year since I touched it and I definitely overlooked it. Slow beginning, but I absolutely love the cutscenes, graphics, combat, the world they created, the enemies and bosses are cool(I’m sure the enemies will start to just look the same after a while), the whole atmosphere of the game is amazing, my only gripes are how slow Senua moves and the gameplay when it comes to climbing and puzzle solving, I have loved the puzzles, but maneuvering around while solving them can be a bit of a drag, climbing is slow as well. Senua gets caught on small stuff a lot too, I’m not sure if it’s scripted and she is meant to stumble and stop a lot or if I’m just stupid and keep running into walls, but it’s rather annoying. But it should be done tomorrow hopefully. 

[Gretchen27]

Monthly Summary:

December

 

Games Completed by Participant:

bruin-rocks: 4 games

Fnee2000: 3 games

Gretchen27: 2 games

JayDeLosDioses: 1 game

Psy-Tychist: 1 game

snakebit10: 2 games

 

Total: 

13 games (+5)

 

Oldest Game Completed: Eat Lead [10 years, 5 months] Fnee2000

 

Youngest Game Completed: Word Sudoku by POWGI [7 months, 1 week] Psy-Tychist

 

Rarest Platinum: Scene it? Bright Lights! Big Screen! (1.38%) bruin-rocks

 

Rarest 100%: Firewatch (12.01%) Fnee2000

 

Absolute Rarity: Killing Floor 2 (0.57%) bruin-rocks

 

 

2019 Summary:

Hola, everyone! Hope your New Year is off to a good start. I’ve finally got the year end summary compiled. For those of you who joined in this past year, it’s very similar to the monthly summary, just on an individual scale (& a bit better presented). Overall: 18 active members completed 170 games!

 

That’s almost 50 games more than this time last year. So take a moment & look back over your progress. Did you manage to check off something for every section? If not, try to go for an absolute rarity or non-platinum game this year. & if you did manage to check off every section, see if you can extend your monthly streaks or most productive month. We still haven’t had a member ace the year by crossing off at least one game every month. Maybe this’ll be the year for it….Any who, enjoy looking over the year end highlights for everyone in the spoiler below, & feel free to share your thoughts on how your year went.

 

Oldest Game Completed: LittleBigPlanet [11 years, 4 days] Kevvik

 

Youngest Game Completed: Devious Dungeon [6 months, 6 hours] snakebit10

 

Rarest Platinum: Star Trek Online (0.35%) REAPER4536

 

Rarest 100%: Road Not Taken (0.53%) bruinrocks

 

Absolute Rarity: Star Trek Online (0.31%) REAPER4536

 

Under your username you’ll find your Year Total, Longest Streak (LS), & Most Productive Month (MPM). Then from top-down is your Oldest, Youngest, Rarest Platinum, Rarest 100%, & Absolute Rarity completed games. If of course you completed the criteria for those sections. Find an error? Don’t mention it (I’m only kidding, do tell me. It’s a bunch for one person to go through without a mistake).

Spoiler

bruin-rocks

54 games

LS: Feb-Oct [9 months]

MPM: April (18 games)

 

God of War 2 [9 years, 5 days]

 

 

Rise of the Tomb Raider [6 months, 2 weeks]

 

 

Scene It? Bright Lights! Big Screen! (1.37%)

 

 

Road Not Taken (0.53%)

 

 

LittleBigPlanet 3 (AR: 0.54%)

 

 

 

damage_6-9

5 games

LS: Jan-Feb [2 months]

MPM: October (2 games)

Driveclub [3 years, 11 months]

 

 

Fill-a-Pix: Phil's Epic Adventure [6 months, 2 weeks]

 

 

Driveclub (5.20%)

 

 

 

Flex_Da_Brent

9 games

LS: Jun-Oct [5 months]

MPM: July (3 games)

 

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within [7 years, 8 months]

 

 

 

 Assassin's creed: Freedom Cry [8 months, 1 week]

 

 

(PS3) The Last of US (4.59%)

 

 

Iconoclasts (1.77%)

 

 

The Last of Us (AR: 0.62%)

 

 

 

Fnee2000

23 games

LS: Jun-Dec [7 months]

MPM: June (7 games)

 

(PS3) Flower [10 years, 7 months]

 

(Vita) Squareboy vs Bullies NA [6 months, 5 days]

 

 

Broken Age (5.86%)

 

 

The Mysteries of Little Riddle (10.48%)

 

 

Assassin's Creed Syndicate (AR: 5.66%)

 

 

 

Gretchen27

13 games

LS: Aug-Dec [5 months]

MPM: February (3 games)

 

(PS3) The Last of Us [5 years, 2 days]

AR: 0.62%

 

 

The Sims 3: Pets [6 months, 3 weeks]

 

 

The Sims 3: Pets (2.63%)

 

 

 

Ilzaki

6 games

LS: Jan-Apr [4 months]

MPM: February (2 games)

 

Gravity Rush [3 years, 9 months]

 

 

Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth Hacker's Memory [1 Year 3 Weeks]

 

 

Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Hacker's Memory (8.93%)

 

 

 

JayDeLosDioses

1 game

MPM: December (1 game)

 

The Crew 2 [8 months, 1 week]

 

 

The Crew 2 (17.98%)

 

 

 

Kevvik

4 games

LS: Sep-Oct [2 months]

 

LittleBigPlanet [11 years, 4 days]

 

 

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed [4 years, 11 months]

 

 

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (1.24%)

 

 

 

kingofbattle8174

2 games

LS: Apr-May [2 months]

 

Word Search by POWGI [8 months, 3 days]

 

 

LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens [7 months, 6 days]

 

 

 LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens (39.68%)

 

 

 

MarkusT1992

9 games

LS: Jul-Sep [3 months]

MPM: February & August (2 games)

 

Grow Home [3 years, 11 months]

 

 

Randal's Monday [6 months, 3 weeks]

 

 

Alienation (6.79%)

 

 

King's Quest (2.24%)

 

 

Rocket League (AR: 0.55%)

 

 

 

MattbluePT

2 games

LS: Oct-Nov [2 months]

 

(PS3) The Walking Dead [6 years, 6 months]

(AR: 16.34%)

 

 

(PS4) Assassin's Creed Revelations [6 months, 1 week]

 

 

Assassin's Creed Revelations (27.21%)

 

 

 

Myu

5 games

LS: Jan-Mar [3 months]

MPM: February (2 games)

 

Sound Shapes [3 years, 4 months]

(AR: 21.44%)

 

 

Chaos; Child [7 months, 3 weeks]

 

 

Grand Kingdom (1.32%)

 

 

 

 

PermaFox

1 game

MPM: July (1 game)

 

Albedo: Eyes From Outer Space [7 months, 3 weeks]

 

 

Albedo: Eyes From Outer Space (82.69%)

 

 

 

Psy-Tychist

12 games

LS: Aug-Oct [3 months]

MPM: February & March (3 games)

 

Apotheon [3 years, 2 months]

 

 

(Vita) Inksplosion [6 months, 2 weeks]

 

 

Apotheon (6.19%)

 

 

Skylar & Plux: Adventure on Clover Island (34.57%)

 

 

(PS3) Minecraft: Story Mode (AR: 10.11%)

 

 

 

REAPER4536

5 games

LS: Jun-Aug [3 months]

MPM: April (2 games)

 

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception [7 years, 2 weeks]

 

 

Saints Row: Gat out of Hell [1 year, 3 months]

 

 

Star Trek Online (0.35%)

 

 

Star Trek Online (AR: 0.31%)

 

 

 

snakebit10

8 games

LS: Jun-Jul, Sep-Oct [2 months]

MPM: December (2 games)

 

Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time [8 years, 10 months]

 

 

 Devious Dungeon [6 months, 6 hours]

 

 

Killing Floor 2 (8.62%)

 

 

Abzu (14.30%)

 

 

Killing Floor 2 (AR: 0.60%)

 

 

 

Uchiha_Snake__

1 game

MPM: February (1 game)

 

Assassin’s Creed III DLC [10 months, 1 week]

 (AR: 1.14%)

 

 

 

xEl_Cidx

10 games

LS: Mar-Apr & Aug-Sep [2 months]

MPM: January (3 games)

 

(PS3) LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes [5 years, 9 months]

 

 

(PS4) Batman [6 months, 2 weeks]

 

 

Killzone 2 (2.19%)

 

 

(PS3) GTA V (AR: 0.52%)

 

 

Edited January 7, 2020 by Gretchen27

[bruin-rocks]

@Fnee2000 You came into this event and you are just a steam roller, I tried really hard in 2019 to clear my backlog and completed over 50 games, so I want a friendly competition, I challenge you to complete at least one game every single month for 2020, anyone else is welcome to join but I think it would be a fun challenge for the new year. 

[Fnee2000]

@bruin-rocks Just one game? Challenge accepted! ? My goal for 2020 is to clear at least 25 games from my backlog to bring my games played v. games completed to under 200. Also, to get my unearned trophies down to under 7000.

[Psy-Tychist]

@Fnee2000 @bruin-rocks

Let me in on the action, I want to complete 50 games from my backlog also and get my unearned trophies below 6000.

 

Considering I earned 1836 trophies last year, it should be achievable

[bruin-rocks]

@Psy-Tychist @Fnee2000 

For 2020 I want to try to get a completion rating of 65%, and my unearned trophies below 9000 and and at least 300 completed games, I’m hoping to clear another 50 backlog games this year at least, but every now and then I get a stale month, so I may need some motivation here and there! With over 600 games played its hard for me to get that completion rating up, but it’s great for backlog completion, I have a lot of games with shut down servers or games I just don’t own or have access to, finding disc versions for PS3 can get pricey. There’s also so many new games I want to play. 

[snakebit10]

I would like to improve on what I did last year. If I can manage a game a month I will be happy. I have so many unplayed games. 

[xcutioner_0]

I'm in if you'll have me!

Frankly, my backlog is horrendous and there's some games i really want to focus on getting done this year as a start for my "backlog rehab".

Namely I'm determined to 100% Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim since i played a lot of it on my PS3 before it died, i bought the remastered edition back in May last year and i haven't touched it for almost 2 months.

Bioshock 2, Final Fantasy XV, Metro Exodus, Horizon Zero Dawn and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided are also on my list to finish.

 

[bruin-rocks]

HellBlade: Senua’s Sacrifice is complete. First trophy February 17th 2018 final trophy January 7th 2020. My first backlog game of the month, year and decade. Completion time 1 year 10 months. Rarity 33.71%. Fantastic game. Read my thoughts on it above if you’d like. I don’t want to say more in case of spoilers. 
As per @Gretchen27’s suggestion I am returning to Sherlock Holmes Crimes and Punishment. Hopefully will finish it this week. Then before the end of the month I want to finish Life is Strange. It will end up just clocking in at 6 months. 

Edited January 8, 2020 by bruin-rocks

[Fnee2000]

9 hours ago, bruin-rocks said:

With over 600 games played its hard for me to get that completion rating up, but it’s great for backlog completion, I have a lot of games with shut down servers or games I just don’t own or have access to, finding disc versions for PS3 can get pricey.

A problem I have as well. I have 700 games played and a slew of older games on my backlog with shutdown servers, making the platinum unobtainable. Warhawk being a glaring eyesore that I will never be able to even shrink. I have calculated I earn about .045% completion increase per new game completed right now. Which is why I want to clean some old backlog, as that will give a better improvement to completion %. Which I set a goal for that this year to hit 80%.

[Flex_Da_Brent]

Hello everyone, just wanted to let you all know that I'm still active on this event but I haven't really managed to complete anything from my backlog during the past months due to my exams. I have been trying to slip in some game time in between my study sessions but I usually don't get much further than approximately 1 hour every other day. 

 

I'm a slow gamer in general so it's going to take me a while to complete anything at this rate, especially considering that I have decided that I want Horizon Zero Dawn to be my 50th platinum overall. Usually not the biggest fan of open world games since they tend to feel empty and boring quite easily for me but Horizon has really surpassed my expectations so far. The variety in enemies and environment really does the trick I guess. it's just worth exploring every nook and cranny since you'll never know what you might stumble into next, something I often miss in other open worlds. On top of that, the world is just extremely beautiful to look at, I've lost count of times where I just stood on top of a rock staring over the valley below me, admiring the view.

 

I don't think I have Horizon on my list for this event yet, but I would like to add it (first trophy earned back in March). Last exam is due on 31st of january so I'm afraid getting the platinum will be something for february. @bruin-rocks I would love to participate in that challenge, but it seems I'm already going to fail the first month ^^

 

 

Edited January 10, 2020 by Flex_Da_Brent

[Fnee2000]

Feeling motivated I finished up another game from my backlog with South Park : The Stick of Truth on PS3. I forgot how horribly optimized the PS3 version was. Had a lot of frame fate issues when I changed screens and the game saved. It could also be a problem with the digital version I played with. Still a funny game and a fun game to boot. I enjoyed the simplistic approach to combat. Now on to what’s next...

 

South Park : The Stick of Truth (PS3) - Completed in 5 years, 10 months

[bruin-rocks]

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments completed, first trophy February 14th 2017, completion time 2 years, 10 months. Rarity 22.75%. It was fun enough, but not fun enough to do again. I liked the second, fourth, fifth and sixth missions, but I got really tired on Mission 6 and had to take a break last night. So I ended up finishing up the rest of the mission today and I loved the ending. The gameplay was glitchy at times, Sherlock wouldn’t run when I wanted him to, silly stuff, but overall it was an alright game. Recommended if you like detective type stuff. Otherwise probably steer clear. It isn’t easy enough or good enough to warrant someone playing if they aren’t interested In the genre. 

[Psy-Tychist]

@Fnee2000 I'm just curious about a couple of games on your list which I think are worthwhile (easy to finish):

• Bioshock (PS3) - Great game and can be done in one playthrough if you wanted to do manual saves on the hardest difficulty. I see you got to Steinman, what made you stop?
• RE5 (PS3) - I see you've finished the campaign once, not too much to get most of the other trophies out the way. If you need a hand, I have a complete savefile and fully upgraded kit to get through Professional difficulty and to save money for upgrading.
• Dead Space - One of the best sci-fi horrors on Playstation, 2 playthroughs but the campaign can be finished in about 12-15 hours.
• Limbo (PS3) - Really short platformer in which you can get 11 trophies by collectibles and finishing the game without much difficulty. It has one really annoying trophy which I have yet to get, but most of them can be got in about 2 hours.
• Batman: Arkham City (PS3) - Do you not enjoy the Rocksteady games, or was it just started on accident? It's a great Batman game that you can sink a good 25 hours into if you want something a bit different.
• Dantes Inferno - Plays like the old God of War games yet quite a lot easier to finish. Will take about 15 hours to finish with a guide for the collectibles and a second started playthrough for finishing upgrading.
• Far Cry Blood Dragon - Great short spoof on 80's action with so much neon and dragons it will be a complete head trip. Can be finished in about 6-8 hours.
• Dead Nation (PS4) - Fun yet challenging twin-stick shooter. The hardest part is the wave mode and trophies related to it. Can help out with going through the game on Grim to prepare for a Morbid playthrough.

I know that seems like a lot, but I'm curious.

[bruin-rocks]

15 minutes ago, Psy-Tychist said:

@Fnee2000 I'm just curious about a couple of games on your list which I think are worthwhile (easy to finish):

• Bioshock (PS3) - Great game and can be done in one playthrough if you wanted to do manual saves on the hardest difficulty. I see you got to Steinman, what made you stop?
• RE5 (PS3) - I see you've finished the campaign once, not too much to get most of the other trophies out the way. If you need a hand, I have a complete savefile and fully upgraded kit to get through Professional difficulty and to save money for upgrading.
• Dead Space - One of the best sci-fi horrors on Playstation, 2 playthroughs but the campaign can be finished in about 12-15 hours.
• Limbo (PS3) - Really short platformer in which you can get 11 trophies by collectibles and finishing the game without much difficulty. It has one really annoying trophy which I have yet to get, but most of them can be got in about 2 hours.
• Batman: Arkham City (PS3) - Do you not enjoy the Rocksteady games, or was it just started on accident? It's a great Batman game that you can sink a good 25 hours into if you want something a bit different.
• Dantes Inferno - Plays like the old God of War games yet quite a lot easier to finish. Will take about 15 hours to finish with a guide for the collectibles and a second started playthrough for finishing upgrading.
• Far Cry Blood Dragon - Great short spoof on 80's action with so much neon and dragons it will be a complete head trip. Can be finished in about 6-8 hours.
• Dead Nation (PS4) - Fun yet challenging twin-stick shooter. The hardest part is the wave mode and trophies related to it. Can help out with going through the game on Grim to prepare for a Morbid playthrough.

I know that seems like a lot, but I'm curious.

All of these are on my backlog too, except Far Cry Blood Dragon, and Limbo is on Vita instead of PS3. I actually have Dante’s Inferno loaded into my PS3 at the moment. I also have BioShock downloaded and ready to go but my save was deleted. Same goes for Dead Space. Very unfortunate, but when I was younger I didn’t really understand the whole idea of saving things to the cloud or saving onto a USB stick. 

[Psy-Tychist]

@bruin-rocks I have some other ones which should be quick to knock out from your list:

• Journey (PS3) - 3 easy to do trophies, one should pop up when you reload the game almost immediately. Max of a half an hour to finish the trophies.
• Machinarium - Even if you start again, using a text guide will take you under 2 hours to do the whole game.
• Alice: Madness Returns - Great gothic fantasy game. A bit long overall with the chapters and the collectibles aren't that bad when cleaning them up.
• Tales of Monkey Island - Quite fun little episode and if you have all 5 episodes, it will take you no longer than 8 hours to complete with a text walkthrough. Depends if you want to do it blind.
• Wolf Among Us (Vita) - One of the truly good worlds constructed by Telltale, the story will take about 8 hours to go through and a little backtracking for collectibles.
• Valiant Hearts - Any reason this one hasn't been finished? Looks like you stopped about 3/4 through the story. Will take about 4 hours to do from the start to the end.
• Xeodrifter - Simple enough 8-bit game which can be a little confusing when playing to start with. A guide for the collectibles, even after finishing the game will not take very long. Maybe 3 hours to complete it all. And a beneficial glitch to get the speedrun trophy easily.
• South Park: SoT (PS3) - As Fnee2000 has just finished it, it is South Park through and through and a really fun RPG style game. Worth finishing and just enjoying. Remember to find all the Chinpokimon.

[Fnee2000]

@Psy-Tychist it is a valid question and I do have a reason. The previous console generation, I was more of an achievement hunter on Xbox 360. I had a PS3 and would play the exclusives and some digital games that were not on Xbox. I would also play some games that I really loved, with the hope of earning the trophies for them. That is why most of the games you listed remained partially played and unfinished. They were games I loved on Xbox that I wanted to try to earn the trophies for on PS3, but got side tracked with other things. That is why a lot of my unfinished games on my list are from PS3. I was just not focused on that system at the time. I do have plans to play them again and I still own all of them. Far Cry Blood Dragon is actually on my short list to clear up in the next few months.

 

So, to answer your question, I do love the games you listed (save for maybe Dead Nation, not a huge fan of twin stick shooters. Even though I have played a lot, a lot remain unfinished). I just had high hopes to play through them again, but never followed through. The unfortunate thing is, a lot of them are older games, so the cloud saves were not available yet. So, I have to start them all over again. Since my original PS3 is sitting in storage back in the US. I won't be back there until later this year.

Edited January 12, 2020 by Fnee2000

[damage_6-9]

It's not a plat, but it is something cleared from my Himalayan backlog....

 

Arcade Archives: Double Dragon II The Revenge 

First trophy- 24th March 2017

Last trophy- 13th January 2020

 

2 years, 9 months

Edited January 13, 2020 by damage_6-9
added dates

[Fnee2000]

1 hour ago, damage_6-9 said:

 

It's not a plat, but it is something cleared from my Himalayan backlog....

 

Hey, any movement of the backlog is a beautiful thing! Keep on rolling ?

 

Also, those are some pretty lofty goals you have there for 2020. Even loftier than what I set for myself...

[damage_6-9]

5 hours ago, Fnee2000 said:

Hey, any movement of the backlog is a beautiful thing! Keep on rolling

 

Also, those are some pretty lofty goals you have there for 2020. Even loftier than what I set for myself...

 

Thanks mate, thought I had been easy on myself.... set most of my targets lower than what I achieved last year.. (which was my best ever). Mainly set the percentage high to encourage myself to try and concentrate  on my backlog ( have over 300 E ranked games, lol).

 

 My current crazy goal is to try and get plat 500, trophy 17,000 & PSN level 86 in one hit. ?

Edited January 13, 2020 by damage_6-9
typo

[damage_6-9]

Arcade Archives: Cosmo Police Galivan 

First trophy: 23rd October 2016

Last trophy: 13th January 2020

3 years, 2 months