Fall/Winter 2019-2020 Backlog Challenge

[Crispy_Oglop]

I'm gonna use my second swap and pull Titanfall 2 out, it was a fun game but I don't think I have the patience to do the Gauntlet trophy and go back into replaying chapters for combat trophies. I've replaced it with Oxenfree instead, which is a pace of game my brain needs now after NieR. Happy Saturday everyone!

1.  Control 
2.  Wolfenstein Youngblood 
3.  Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan 
4.  Yakuza 3 Remaster 
5.  Borderlands 3 
6.  MediEvil 
7.  Tacoma 
8.  The Outer Worlds 
9.  Yakuza 4 Remaster 
10.  Death Stranding 
11.  Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order 
12.  NieR: Automata 
13. Titanfall 2 - 13%
14. Oxenfree

[JayDeLosDioses]

20 hours ago, freddie1989 said:

Any of you guys got Far Cry 5 DLC that could help me knock out the last couple of movies? I had a partner but I think he has ditched me on it.

 I could try to help you, but I haven't played the game for ages. Text me on psn/discord if you still wanna try  

[MidnightDragon]

Update time!

 

Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (PS3)-100%  9/19

Harvest Moon: Mad Dash-100%  12/25

Afrika

Cat Quest II 

Dragon Age: Origins-37=>38%

Dragon Quest Builders 2

Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom

The Outer Worlds 

Reel Fishing: Road Trip Adventure

Shakedown Hawaii

Slime Rancher

Torchlight II

 

Just completed sidequests. Haven't moved more in the story and I probably won't before Monday. Still having fun.

Edited January 12, 2020 by MidnightDragon

[freddie1989]

14 hours ago, JayDeLosDioses said:

 I could try to help you, but I haven't played the game for ages. Text me on psn/discord if you still wanna try  

 

Cheers pal, I'll add you when I am on. 

[ladynadiad]

1. Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 3

2. 英雄伝説 碧の軌跡 Evolution (Legend of Heroes: Ao no Kiseki Evolution)

3. Omega Quintet

4. Asdivine Menace

5. Bonds of the Skies

6. Sephirothic Stories

7. 英雄伝説 零の軌跡 Evolution (Legend of Heroes: Zero no Kiseki Evolution)

8. Murdered: Soul Suspect

9. Monochrome Order

10. Asdivine Kamura

11. Word Wheel by POWGI (NA Vita)

12. SwapQuest

13. Wizards of Brandel

14. Cosmic Star Heroine (NA Vita)

15. London Detective Mysteria

16. Punch Line

17. Code Realize: Wintertide Miracles

18. Seek Hearts (releases ???) (0 out of 34 trophies)

19. Code Realize: Bouquet of Rainbows 

20. Crossovers by POWGI  (NA Vita)

21. Danganronpa 1-2 Reload (78%) (36 out of 45 trophies)

22. Fifty Words by POWGI (NA Vita)

23. Heroes Trials (NA Vita)

24. Devious Dungeon (NA Vita) (65%) (17 out of 24 trophies)

 

780 out of 830 trophies earned so far, 21 out of 24 games completed.

0/5 Swaps used

1/2 drops used

 

Wrapped up Heroes Trials and made some progress in Devious Dungeon and Danganronpa.  Seek Hearts didn't release as expected last week, but likely will next week then. Just working on wrapping up the last couple of games until it releases.

 

Edited January 12, 2020 by ladynadiad

[DizzyDavidson]

 Update:

 

• Bound By Flame [PS3] - 100% 
• Eat Them! [PS3] - 100%
• God of War: Ghost of Sparta [PS3] - 100%
• Heavy Rain [PS4] - 100% 
• Mad Max [PS4] - 37% => 88%
• Actual Sunlight [Vita] - 100%
• Driveclub Bikes [PS4] - 100%
• How to Survive 2 [PS4] - 0%
• Wanted Corp [Vita] - 100%
• Dragonball Xenoverse 2 [PS4] - 100%
• Skylanders Giants [PS3] - 100%
• Grand Kingdom [PS4] - 100% 

 

Mad Max: I underestimated a bit how much I have left in this game to do so still no plat. Tho not that far from it. Story was alright, got a bit dark towards the final two acts. The character fits the game well but Max sometimes just feels like a selfish prick. I get that he's hardened by the world and he's lost everything, I'm just not a huge fan of it, but like I said it fits. It's been quite some time since I've seen the movies, I can't remember to compare. There are a couple of problems with the game too, like framerate drops, most cars handling like shit or while fighting a group of people someone always comes punching you from off screen. With all that being said I would very much like a sequel or something. I really like the world of Mad Max.

 

I have about 130-140 scavenging locations to clean up. I'm gonna play a bit more tonight but I'm sure no more trophies will come of it. The rest will have to be done next week. After that I'll be down to my last game, How to Survive 2. That game can take up to 100 hrs or more and there aren't many guides out there for it. It might be a tight fit but I'll try to squeeze it into the remaining time. I'll have to go slow at it first. I'm not 100% in the mood for playing it, just hoping it will click with me and suck me right in early on (I did enjoy the first game which is why I got the second).

 

Other Happenings:

I came down with a pretty bad cold this week so that halted my progress in gaming a bit. Thankfully I'm mostly out of it and I picked up some of the slack on the weekend.

Managed to score a bag of Skylanders for $4. It included a bunch of crystals for Trap Team, that will really come in handy when I get to it.

Driveclub is going slow but steady, this game will most likely decide if I want to sign up for next season's challenge. I would like to complete everything in it before the server shutdown (end of March) but if it takes me till the last moment then I'll lose a whole month and I won't be able to fully commit.

Edited January 13, 2020 by DizzyDavidson

[Crispy_Oglop]

Early week update with Platinum number 133 - Oxenfree

 

This was a surprisingly good 2D side-scrolling story adventure and it came with an 80's vibe as well. The characters were all really well developed and believable in the context of the supernatural events going on around them. This one required a few playthroughs but none of them felt like a chore because you would learn a little more about each character depending on the alternate conversation options that you chose.

 

I really like the art style in the pre-rendered backgrounds, it almost felt like really well produced concept art with some clearer elements like paths and objects thrown in. The music was really really great too, with lots of 80's style ambience, even a few tracks that sounded alot like a John Carpenter movie or two.

 

All in all, a great little game!

 

1.  Control 
2.  Wolfenstein Youngblood 
3.  Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan 
4.  Yakuza 3 Remaster 
5.  Borderlands 3 
6.  MediEvil 
7.  Tacoma 
8.  The Outer Worlds 
9.  Yakuza 4 Remaster 
10.  Death Stranding 
11.  Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order 
12.  NieR: Automata 
13.  Oxenfree 
14. Pillars of Eternity
15. Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire
16. Subnautica
17. Moons of Madness
18. Dragonball Z: Kakarot
19. Journey to the Savage Planet

 

EDIT: I added 6 more titles, considering the close of the event is Feb 29th

Edited January 13, 2020 by Crispy_Oglop

[JayDeLosDioses]

Not challenge related:

 

Spoiler

Does someone know this guy? 

He removed his profile, maybe someone knows why by chance.

Not that it matters, I've blocked him - but I'm curious.

 

[Mesopithecus]

14 minutes ago, JayDeLosDioses said:

Not challenge related:

 

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Does someone know this guy? 

He removed his profile, maybe someone knows why by chance.

Not that it matters, I've blocked him - but I'm curious.

 

 

I'm betting they have gone down the recent achievers list and are messaging people to see if someone will gameshare it with him.  I've seen stuff like this before, along with them also asking if you'd platinum the game for them on their account   Sounds like you made the best move with blocking him

[Fire]

Update #9

1. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands ( + 100%) 04/10/19
2. The Walking Dead: The Final Season () 24/11/19
3. Life is Strange: Before the Storm () 08/10/19
4. Chaos on Deponia () 29/10/19
5. Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus () 25/10/19
6. Heavy Rain () 31/10/19
7. Metro Last Light Redux () 17/12/19
8. Root Letter: Last Answer () 01/01/20
9. Nightmares from the Deep 3: Davy Jones () 06/10/19
10. Eventide 2: Sorcerer's Mirror () 26/10/19
11. Eventide 3: Legacy of Legends () 27/10/19
12. Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan () 11/10/19
13. Grim Legends 3: The Dark City () 12/10/19
14. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End () 23/10/19 - 92%
15. Abyss: Wraiths of Eden () 05/01/20
16. WRC 6 () 21/11/19
17. Detroit Became Human - 0%
18. Danganronpa Ultra Despair Girls - 0%
19. Enslaved: Odyssey to the West - 0%
20. Ratchet & Clank 2 - 0%
21. Ratchet & Clank 3: Up Your Arsenal - 0%
22. Crysis HD - 0%

Got 2 games (Root Letter and Abyss) finished a week ago, just forgot to post the update

 

 

[DizzyDavidson]

4 hours ago, JayDeLosDioses said:

Not challenge related:

 

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Does someone know this guy? 

He removed his profile, maybe someone knows why by chance.

Not that it matters, I've blocked him - but I'm curious.

 

 

I got the same msg from that same guy. I just respectfully declined. He didn’t reply.

But like mesopithecus said they just prolly want to gameshare.

I figure if it’s not a blank account (no trophies) then it’s not a bot but a real person but there’s no harm in just blocking them anyway.

[SyIaris]

V	Adventures of Mana	0%	➟	4%
3	Beyond Good & Evil	0%	➟	100%	November 23rd
V	Code: Realize - Future Blessings	0%	➟	100%	September 3rd
V	Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc	17%	➟	●●●
3	Dragon Age: Inquisition	10%	➟	100%	December 21st
4	Dragon Quest Builders	0%	➟	100%	January 7th
3	InFamous 2	8%	➟	100%	November 18th
3	Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time	8%	➟	100%	September 8th
4	The Order: 1886	5%	➟	●●●
4	Until Dawn	0%	➟	●●●
4	Batman: The Telltale Series	0%	➟

 

Swapping Danganronpa for Batman, since I need a superhero game anyway. Until Dawn will probably go as well, once I figure out a replacement.

 

Finished Dragon Quest Builders, which was fun but lost a fair bit of appeal by forcing you to restart with each chapter. Not sure I can actually make the big defensive castle I wanted, since enemies don't attack in the sandbox mode...

Do love it basically being Minecraft + RPG + tower defense, though. Much more my taste.

 

Started Adventures of Mana, looks nice but definitely shows its old roots. 16 item inventory might just kill me - the only things that stack come in stacks, and those won't pile up either.

 

Edited January 14, 2020 by SyIaris

[ZachGM91]

Hey guys. I'm here to say that I'm done with Batman: Arkham City...'s main tropihies.

 

Batman: Arkham Asylum (PS4): 100%

Batman: Arkham City (PS4): 75%94%

Brave: 0%

Caveman Warriors: 100%
Chroma Squad: 100%
Darksiders II: Deathinitive Edition: 100%
Degrees of Separation: 100%
Detroit: Become Human: 100%
Fear Effect Sedna: 100%
Iconoclasts: 100%
Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (PS3): 100%

Minecraft: Story Mode (PS4) 100%
Murdered: Soul Suspect (PS4): 100%
Okage: Shadow King: 0%
Outlast 2: 52%

Plants vs Zombies (PS3): 100%

Rayman Origins (PS3): 100%

The Coma: Recut: 100%

 

Honestly it wasn't that hard. Since there wasn't a trophy for doing the game on Hard mode, I think I was able to enjoy myself just a little bit more. Even the combat challenges aren't as brutal as the last game, and have more of a flow to them once you figure it out. The Predator maps, on the other hand, have gone in the opposite direction. Like in the last game, all the maps are taken from the main game, just with conditions that need to be met. Most of the conditions aren't that bad (kick a goon off a balcony, bomb a wall next to a goon, use a certain gadget on a goon, ECT), but some of them really make the challenge harder then they need to be. However, most of the ones I could think of that are really hard to do are the Extreme variants of the map, so I guess you get what you ask for. The only map that I would call completely unfair would be Top of the World, mostly due to the fact that it's the smallest map with very few places to hide and some strict conditions. There is a balcony that I found where you can cheese the stage with Bat-a-rangs, but Catwoman still needs to be stealthy in the stage. It's much worse when you have to do them for the Campaign mode, which is the mix of Combat and Predator challenges with added conditions I bitched about last time.

So far, I've beaten all of Batman's challenges (duh) and got all of Catwoman's Ranked Medals. I just need to get 45 more Campaign Medals for Catwoman, 39 Ranked Medals and 54 more Campaign Medals for Robin, and I need to start Nightwing's challenges. Written out, it doesn't look like much, but this is still going to take a few days. Slow and steady.

Edited January 14, 2020 by ZachGM91

[Crispy_Oglop]

5 hours ago, ZachGM91 said:

Hey guys. I'm here to say that I'm done with Batman: Arkham City...'s main tropihies.

 

So far, I've beaten all of Batman's challenges (duh) and got all of Catwoman's Ranked Medals. I just need to get 45 more Campaign Medals for Catwoman, 39 Ranked Medals and 54 more Campaign Medals for Robin, and I need to start Nightwing's challenges. Written out, it doesn't look like much, but this is still going to take a few days. Slow and steady.

 

I hear ya with the challenges, it's a bit of a grind in parts. I'm a bit biased as he is my favourite DC character in the Batman family - but the Nightwing challenges were my favourite out of them all. I would love a Nightwing focused game with Arkham gameplay.

 

Are you planning on going for Arkham Knight at some point? That one is a beast to get to 100% and it actually beat me in the end - specifically the community challenge DLC and still something i never managed to do.

[ZachGM91]

51 minutes ago, Crispy_Oglop said:

I hear ya with the challenges, it's a bit of a grind in parts. I'm a bit biased as he is my favourite DC character in the Batman family - but the Nightwing challenges were my favourite out of them all. I would love a Nightwing focused game with Arkham gameplay.

 

Are you planning on going for Arkham Knight at some point? That one is a beast to get to 100% and it actually beat me in the end - specifically the community challenge DLC and still something i never managed to do.

 

Here's hoping that you get your wish with Arkham Insurgency or Court of Owls or whatever they are calling the new game.

 

Yeah, I was planing to do Arkham Knight sometime this year, but definitely not any time soon. I took a look at the trophy list when I fist got the game and saw there was 110 trophies for the game and like 16 DLC with trophies (granted 10 or 11 of them just have one trophy but still), so I'm a little intimidated by it. The Community Challenge Pack pretty much sounds like what I'm already doing with the "Riddler's Revenge" challenges since it has trophies that prevent you from using gadgets, not take any damage, and only using beat downs. I bought the season pass back when it was on sale due to the main game being free on PS+, so whenever I want to start, I can at the very lest do a big chunk of it.

[JayDeLosDioses]

Big props to @freddie1989 for carrying me trough the whole Far Cry 5 Zombie DLC to an unexpected gold trophy 
 

Edited January 15, 2020 by JayDeLosDioses

[StilRh]

Finished River City Girls. I had a bug which required me to restart and do half a playthrough again for some collectables but it didn't take me too long. I'm not usually one for brawlers but humour was on point, excellent music and presentation and a fun and pretty engrossing fighting system. I had a few crashes (which caused me to put in on hold some months ago) and bugs but overall, a great palate cleanser game. I've played some more Criminal Girls, my vita ran out of battery which caused me to focus on River City Girls, else I'd think I'd have gotten the plat by now. It feels so nice to get some gaming time in after some big crunches at work, really excited about getting more of my list done but I doubt I'll complete them all before the end of the challenge (18/41 games completed with 6 weeks to go!), looking at trailers for this year I want to buy off list games but I'll wait for the challenge to be over.

 

Spoiler

2064 Read only memories 0%
A Plague Tale: Innocence 100%
Age of Wonders: Planetfall 20%
AI: The Somnium Files 100%
Amnesia 7%
Another world 100%
Atelier Ryza 100%
Assasin's Creed Freedom Cry 100%
Cat quest 100%
Catherine Full Body 10%
Control 100%
Civilization VI 11%
Dark souls 2: scholar of the first sin 31%
Death Stranding 46%
Greedfall 47%
Legend of Heroes: trails of cold steel 100%
Liar princess and the blind prince 100%
Phoenix Wright: Ace attourney Trilogy 27%
Moss 92%
Raging Loop 100%
Resonance of fate 21%
River City Girls 17% > 100%
Robinson: The Journey 100%
Shantae and the pirates curse 30%
Space hulk deathwing 44%
Star Ocean IAF 16%
Starwars Jedi: fallen order 100%
Superhot 44% 
The man of midan 46%
The Silver Case 100%
Thronebreaker 100%
Utawarerumono: Mask of truth 35%

Criminal girls 47% >59%
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc 100%
Muv Luv 26%
Persona 4 golden 27%
Project diva f 2nd 15%
Reverie 100%
Seran Kagura Bon Appetit! 40%
Skyfish 100%
Tokyo xanadu 20%
 

 

[MidnightDragon]

Update time!

 

Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (PS3)-100%  9/19

Harvest Moon: Mad Dash-100%  12/25

Afrika

Cat Quest II 

Dragon Age: Origins-38=>40%

Dragon Quest Builders 2

Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom

The Outer Worlds 

Reel Fishing: Road Trip Adventure

Shakedown Hawaii

Slime Rancher

Torchlight II

 

Another main quest finished. I think it's fairly safe to say I won't be finishing my list.  Oh, well. In the spring, I'll keep it simple. 

[ladynadiad]

1. Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 3

2. 英雄伝説 碧の軌跡 Evolution (Legend of Heroes: Ao no Kiseki Evolution)

3. Omega Quintet

4. Asdivine Menace

5. Bonds of the Skies

6. Sephirothic Stories

7. 英雄伝説 零の軌跡 Evolution (Legend of Heroes: Zero no Kiseki Evolution)

8. Murdered: Soul Suspect

9. Monochrome Order

10. Asdivine Kamura

11. Word Wheel by POWGI (NA Vita)

12. SwapQuest

13. Wizards of Brandel

14. Cosmic Star Heroine (NA Vita)

15. London Detective Mysteria

16. Punch Line

17. Code Realize: Wintertide Miracles

18. Seek Hearts (6%) (4 out of 34 trophies)

19. Code Realize: Bouquet of Rainbows 

20. Crossovers by POWGI  (NA Vita)

21. Danganronpa 1-2 Reload (78%) (38 out of 45 trophies)

22. Fifty Words by POWGI (NA Vita)

23. Heroes Trials (NA Vita)

24. Devious Dungeon (NA Vita)

25. Muv-Luv (1%) (1 out of 16 trophies)

 

794 out of 846 trophies earned so far, 22 out of 25 games completed.

0/5 Swaps used

1/2 drops used

 

Finished up Devious Dungeon and made a bit more progress in Danganronpa.  Seek Hearts did finally release so I started that and also started Muv-Luv as well.

[Edunstar84]

2 hours ago, MidnightDragon said:

*snip

Are you having fun with Dragon Age: Origins?

[Fnee2000]

2 hours ago, MidnightDragon said:

Oh, well. In the spring, I'll keep it simple. 

Heh, I said the same thing after the Summer event... ?

 

I think for spring I am going to call it my Spring Cleaning list. No super long games, just nice short jaunts that I know I will be able to complete.

[MidnightDragon]

1 hour ago, Edunstar84 said:

Are you having fun with Dragon Age: Origins?

Yes! Very much so.

 

1 hour ago, Fnee2000 said:

Heh, I said the same thing after the Summer event...

 

I think for spring I am going to call it my Spring Cleaning list. No super long games, just nice short jaunts that I know I will be able to complete.

Whatever works.  

[freddie1989]

11 hours ago, JayDeLosDioses said:

Big props to @freddie1989 for carrying me trough the whole Far Cry 5 Zombie DLC to an unexpected gold trophy 
 

 

HAHA I didn't carry you, you held your own pal. Appreciate you offering to help me, it was a blast!!

[Crispy_Oglop]

A tiny, ever so small, mini and microscopic bit of progress from me tracking in with a whole 4% of progress in Pillars of Eternity. This basically translates to - I made some tasty potions and a few scrolls, and started to invest in building out my keep.

 

This game isn't a super realised AAA standard game but it's had a weird effect on me in that i'm filling gaps in the game world with my own little stories and bits of dialogue as I play. It gives you just enough of a cue with NPC dialogue and visual storytelling. I play alot of tabletop roleplay (D&D, Cyberpunk, Tales from the Loop etc) so it's really feeding into that part of me too.

 

It's also really doing a good job of unlocking some old memories from when i was in my 20's and played Baldur's Gate for the first time. It's like a bridge between my older, more tired self and my teenage self, dredging up some serious nostalgia moments. I'm in a contemplative mood right now so i'll stop before i start getting carried away.

 

I will probably have some whiskey while playing this over the weekend and i'll keep myself away from posting contemplation flavoured status updates here too to spare you all  

1.  Control 
2.  Wolfenstein Youngblood 
3.  Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan 
4.  Yakuza 3 Remaster 
5.  Borderlands 3 
6.  MediEvil 
7.  Tacoma 
8.  The Outer Worlds 
9.  Yakuza 4 Remaster 
10.  Death Stranding 
11.  Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order 
12.  NieR: Automata 
13.  Oxenfree 
14. Pillars of Eternity 4%
15. Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire - 0%
16. Subnautica - 0%
17. Moons of Madness - 0%
18. Dragonball Z: Kakarot - 0%
19. Journey to the Savage Planet - 0%

Edited January 15, 2020 by Crispy_Oglop

[freddie1989]

@Crispy_Oglop an additional 6 games I see, just couldn't bear the journey to end ?