Fall/Winter 2019-2020 Backlog Challenge

[ZachGM91]

Batman: Arkham Asylum (PS4): 100%

Batman: Arkham City (PS4): 100%

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%➡️ BioShock (PS4): 0%➡️12%

Plants vs Zombies (PS3): 100%

Rayman Origins (PS3): 100%

The Coma: Recut: 100%

Watch Dogs (PS4): 25%➡️100%

 

After finishing the game, I figured out why my opinions on Watch Dogs sounded familiar. It's almost the same opinion I had when I played Assassin's Creed Unity. An uninteresting story that had aspects of a much greater story hidden just underneath. A main character that was one note compared to most of the side characters. A wide open map and most of the side missions from the start. A multiplayer that was much better then the single player. They even had two character related spoilers the same. The two differences between the two was that Watch Dogs ties into the overall Assassin's Creed story more then Unity (for side mission spoiler reasons) and I think I enjoyed the game more then I did Unity. Even though the story was mostly a huge cliche mess, the driving, hacking and firefights made up for most of it's short comings. The last level is probability my favorite part as it has someone using your gadgets against you and it makes a very interesting way to brake the forth way. Fair warning though, if you suffer from epilepsy or can't handle flashing lights very well, this and Act 4, mission 2 have an effect that made me sick, and stuff like that doesn't effect me normally.

Quick review of the DLC: It has a better story then the main game and expands on two of the characters. The side missions are made more for multiplayer, which is still fun, but get old fast since you need to do 60 missions to get three trophies. If I had to give them both a score, I would say a 7/10 for the main game and a 7.5/10 for the DLC.

 

I'm not feeling up to playing an RPG right now. If I still had another month, I would probably still play Okage, but for now, I'm swapping with Bioshock. A few of the trophies may be a little hard (namely the Challenge Room DLC and the Survivor difficulty run), but I'm pretty sure I can get it done.

[MidnightDragon]

Another update!

 

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

Harvest Moon: Mad Dash-100%  12/25

Afrika

Cat Quest II 

Dragon Age: Origins-51=>55%

Dragon Quest Builders 2

Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom

The Outer Worlds 

Reel Fishing: Road Trip Adventure

Shakedown Hawaii

Slime Rancher

Torchlight II

 

All I have left to do is the final battle and a couple more trophies for the platinum. I made a save before doing the Landsmeet just in case the Traveler trophy doesn't pop when it should so I can go back and make sure I didn't miss anything.

[Zach]

On 8/2/2019 at 11:04 PM, Zach said:

GTA San Andreas (PS4)- 0% ---> 100%  date: 13/09/2019

Assassin's Creed Liberation Remastered- 0% ---> 100%  date: 20/09/2019

Control- 0% ---> 100%  date: 25/09/2019

A Way Out- 0% ---> 100%  date: 10/10/2019

Borderlands 3- 0% ---> 100%  date: 11/10/2019

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare- 0% ---> 100%  date: 28/10/2019

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time (PS3)- 0% ---> 100%  date: 06/11/2019

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice- 100%  date: 26/11/2019

Last of Us Remastered- 0% ---> 100%  date: 2/12/2019

Prototype 2 (PS4)- 0% ---> 100%  date: 10/12/2019

Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order- 0% ---> 100%  date: 27/12/2019

Assassin's Creed III Remastered- 0% ---> 100%  date: 21/01/2020

MediEvil- 0% ---> 100%  date: 26/01/2020

Horizon Zero Dawn- 0% ---> 100%  date: 06/02/2020

Murdered: Soul Suspect- 0%

Watch Dogs (PS4)- 0%

Assassin’s Creed Rogue Remastered- 0%

RiME- 0%

The Forest- 0% ---> 22%

I got the Horizon Zero Dawn platinum+100%  

 

I also think 1 or 2 games won't be completed by the end of this event, but I've platinumed 14 games during the course of this event, so I'm happy.

Edited February 9, 2020 by Zach

[MidnightDragon]

Something something 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-55=>60%

Dragon Quest Builders 2

Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom

The Outer Worlds 

Reel Fishing: Road Trip Adventure

Shakedown Hawaii

Slime Rancher

Torchlight II

 

I had hoped to plat it yesterday, but time got away from me Friday, so made my progress yesterday. Today I had hoped to, but there were some complications while going for Blight-Queller. Whoever thought of this was an asshole! Now I should be able to tomorrow assuming something else doesn't snag.

[iXanon]

Update #15:

"I may have one more completion from the list in me before the end" - Well that happened sooner than expected.. I promptly finished Color Guardians after F1 2017, as it continued to throw trophies at me when I picked it up once again. The final boss was initially a bit of a brute, but there were a couple of useful hints posted in the forum here by the PSNP community which really came to fruition after a bit of practice. I've started working on God of War, as I have God of War II listed for another event - we'll see whether or not I manage to finish it within the next few weeks.!

 

 

Cleaned up list:

Assassin's Creed II (PS4) : 0% => 18% => 30% => 38% => 60% => 100%

Color Guardians (PS4) : 30% => 48% => 100%

Final Fantasy VII (PS4) : 10%

God of War (PS3) : 5% => 10%

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (PS4) : 31% => 46% => 50%

Heavy Rain (PS3) : 11%

I Am Alive (PS3) : 9%

Killzone (PS3) : 32% => 40% => 65%

LEGO Jurassic World (PS4) : 16% => 34% => 61% => 64% => 100%

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (PS3) : 15% => 21%

Saints Row: The Third (PS3) : 3% => 9%

Spyro the Dragon (PS4) : 25% => 38% => 100%

Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition (PS4) : 26%

Wolfenstein: The New Order (PS4) : 7%

 

Swaps used: 2/7

Drops used: 2/2

[Crispy_Oglop]

Heading towards the final stretch now everyone! Then for a few of us we'll be diving straight into the Spring challenge  

 

I made some more progress in Pillars of Eternity 2 over the weekend which felt good. The game was ported to PS4 by a company called Versus Evil and they did an awful job of it in my opinion. So many full crashes, lock-ups, framerate issues and visual bugs. The long loading times are back too which for me is pretty unforgivable considering how the game is pretty simple from a performance point of view and shouldn't require 1 - 3 mins to load into an area. Other than that I'm loving the story, music, setting and characters just as much as the previous game. I think i'll probably be done with it before Versus Evil pull their finger out and patch it, but i'd definitely recommend it once it has a bit more versioning under it's belt.

 

Good luck to everyone getting as much completion out of their lists as possible before the event ends, I believe in you!

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.  Subnautica 
16. Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire - 25%
17. Dragonball Z: Kakarot - 0%
18. Journey to the Savage Planet - 21%

 

Edited February 10, 2020 by Crispy_Oglop

[freddie1989]

2 hours ago, Crispy_Oglop said:

Good luck to everyone getting as much completion out of their lists as possible before the event ends, I believe in you!

 

 

Same to you, I think my list will likely stay where it is.

 

Me and @neospoon are going to finish off Watch Dogs 2 at some stage now the season pass is cheap. I am planning on making progress with MK X when me and @Copanele are both free to do it. Then Zombi is absolute dross so that will be moved along really slowly! The others I think I have pushed to the spring one.

 

Bunch of great guys doing these challenges and offering to lend a hand, what this forum is all about!

[Fanatixa1]

Another platinum for me. Got the platinum in the Sims 4. Last stretch didn’t take me too long, with help of families in the gallery I could get most of the trophies. There’s some good guides out there now to get the platinum fast. 
 

I’ll continue my playthrough on the Outer Worlds now and Life is Strange now. 
 

To finish

• Concrete Genie - 95% (53/56)  platinum date 17-12-2019
• The Sims 4 - 31% —> 100% (51/51)  platinum date 10-02-2020
• Life is strange 2 - 9% (4/47) —> 24% (12/47)
• Outer Worlds - 4% (2/49) —> 67% (31/49

Finished games

• The Messenger - 100% (43/43)  100% date 25-11-2019
• Control - 100% (47/47)   platinum date 11-09-2019
• A plague tale: Innocence - 100% (36/36)   platinum date 16-09-2019
• Shenmue II - 100% (28/28)  platinum date 21-09-2019
• Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight - 100% (42/42)  platinum date 25-09-2019
• Donut County - 100% (21/21)  platinum date 04-11-2019
• Spyro the dragon - 100% (37/37)  Platinum date 05-12-2019
• Spyro 2: Ripto’s rage! - 0% (0/30) —> 100% (30/30)  platinum date 11-01-2020
• Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon - 0% (0/41) —> 100% (41/41)  platinum date 17-01-2020
• Untitled Goose game 0% (0/25) —> 100% (25/25)  platinum date 18-01-2020
• Celeste - 18% (8/31) —> 100% (31/31)  platinum date 21-01-2020

 

Game switches used: 5/7

Drops used: 2/2

Edited February 11, 2020 by Fanatixa1

[Together_Comic]

Small Update 

 

Im going to swap J Star Victory Vs+ --> Mega Man 11 with the intention of moving J Star to the next backlog challenge, I just can find zero motivation to start the game. Plan to start up mega man as soon as I finish N++, it seems to have given me the platformer bug.

 

~ TC

 

Game	Trophies	Percentage
Final Fantasy IX	52/52	100%
Mass Effect 3	69/69	100%
Crash Bandicoot 2	25/25	100%
God of War: Ascension	36/36	100%
Return of the Obra Dinn	17/17	100%
Final Fantasy XV	98/98	100%
Titanfall 2	51/51	100%
Mega Man 11	0/51	0%

Swaps 3/7

Drops 1/2

[Liioni]

Graveyard Keeper 100%  -> Graveyard Keeper 86% (They released a new DLC)

My Time at Portia 59% -> 100%

Darkest Dungeon 14%

God of War 32%

Borderlands 3 10%

The Witness 22% -> 31%

 

Finished My Time at Portia, I'm really impressed with how they kept bringing new story even after the game finished. I had fun with it and I feel a tiny bit of withdrawal now, I've been hopping in and out of games the whole evening. Haha. 

 

I did manage to complete one more area in The Witness, I've got a bad cold and it's making a puzzle game the wrong thing to focus on. Haha. My mind is not working as it should! I'm hopeful I'll at least have time to finish this game before the event ends

[MidnightDragon]

Update

 

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

Harvest Moon: Mad Dash-100%  12/25

Afrika

Cat Quest II 

Dragon Age: Origins-60=>76%  2/10

Dragon Quest Builders 2

Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom

The Outer Worlds 

Reel Fishing: Road Trip Adventure

Shakedown Hawaii

Slime Rancher

Torchlight II

 

Earned the Dragon Age: Origins platinum today. I definitely enjoyed it and felt a bit sad it was over. Well, on to the DLC soon.  

Edited February 11, 2020 by MidnightDragon

[MidnightDragon]

Have another update already.

 

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

Harvest Moon: Mad Dash-100%  12/25

Afrika

Cat Quest II 

Dragon Age: Origins-76=>80%  2/10

Dragon Quest Builders 2

Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom

The Outer Worlds 

Reel Fishing: Road Trip Adventure

Shakedown Hawaii

Slime Rancher

Torchlight II

 

Completed the Darkspawn Chronicles DLC. It feels like there's a small difficulty spike. There are two annoying trophies, but only one is really a pain in the butt.I know the hardest is yet to come, though. Taking a break for a few days before I start Awakening.

[AJ_Radio]

@MidnightDragon Are you ever going back to Hotline Miami, or did you decide to give up on that one indefinitely?

 

I wish you had the PS3 version of Assassins Creed Revelations and PS4 version of Black Flag. Would of done some boosting together, since you were so nice to help me with Assassins Creed 3.

[MidnightDragon]

1 minute ago, Spaz said:

@MidnightDragon Are you ever going back to Hotline Miami, or did you decide to give up on that one indefinitely?

 

I wish you had the PS3 version of Assassins Creed Revelations and PS4 version of Black Flag. Would of done some boosting together, since you were so nice to help me with Assassins Creed 3.

I dunno. Maybe one day.

 

And you never found anyone to help you there?

[AJ_Radio]

@MidnightDragon I got a boosting session with 10 people already. I need a few extra people in case some don't show up.

[ZachGM91]

21 hours ago, Spaz said:

@MidnightDragon I got a boosting session with 10 people already. I need a few extra people in case some don't show up.

 

If you still need an extra boosting partner, I'll be willing to start Brotherhood or Revelations. 

[JayDeLosDioses]

I’ve completed Borderlands TPS today by getting my Claptrap to 25 and using all of his random skills.

I’ve ditched Fnee to get my Lawbringer to 50, since I wasn’t as smart as he was to use a Claptrap (which needs the highest level for his action skill trophy anyways) to get to level 50.

And now I’m mad. Not a single warning … until it was too late *cough* prick *cough*

But honestly, I can’t thank him enough for running the game with me, even after his motivation took a big hit from the locations trophy glitching or something.

At least we know that it’s probably a location on the Helios station and we’re coming up to that in TVHM soon.

 

I’ve put some useless stats and a recap of my event in the spoiler, feel free to check it out

But other than that, that’s all from me for this one.

Good luck and a lot of fun to everyone who’s still completing games and a big THANKS for everyone who helped me with my games.

 

Spoiler

Some stats (the rarity percentages are off a bit since I only came up with the idea at the end of january):

I’ve submitted 19 games with a total of 910 trophies, or 9,12% of my current trophy count.I’ve unlocked 100% of the trophies, with an average of 47,89 trophies unlocked per game.

My rarest platinum was Borderlands TPS with a rarity of 4,22%, but the rarest 100% goes to Civ 6 with 1,01%.

The game I’ve played the longest is, surprise, Witcher 3 GOTY. It was in my 2019 Wrapped on the number 2 spot with 149h played. Borderlands TPS was the game that’s  on my backlog for the longest time (4 years and 6 months - Until Dawn was another 4 year game)

 

“Fall/Winter 2019-2020 Backlog Challenge” or “A story of two tales”.

Everytime I had a “good” month for this challenge something weird happened outside my gaming bubble.

I’ve finished 5 games in september and even more importantly for me, I’ve met a new friend. Fnee is someone I’d never be friends with if not for gaming and this community in particular. He left school when I was born and is currently living a 20h flight away from me ffs.

But I’ve also been to the funeral of my fiancé this month, it wasn’t even my first one, I’ve already lost my best friend and my uncle before that. But it was by far the hardest.

The next two months I’ve played Witcher 3, but just for the sake of playing mostly if I’m quite honest with you. I should have been a married man by then… but I’ve got a new girlfriend at the end of november.

Onto the next month, another good one this time. Cleared out a bunch of games, but again… I’ve shared with all of you that I’ve lost feeling in my arm around that time. And my granny.

January was my strongest month for the challenge and nothing bad happened, my arm is back to normal again and I’ve got a new pet.

And this month I’ve completed the challenge I’ve set for myself. But I’ve split up with my girl, even tho I said she’s a keeper. We had a major dispute about my decision to spend the day I’ve proposed to my former fiancé at her grave instead of going home straight after work as I usually do. I know that I said a wrong and hurtful thing that day (I’ve said that if everything would be going as planned she wouldn’t even be here right now), and I apologized for it. But I still don’t think what I did was wrong.

 

[Fnee2000]

8 hours ago, JayDeLosDioses said:

Not a single warning … until it was too late *cough* prick *cough*

You should have used Claptrap, like I did ??

[JayDeLosDioses]

[Litha]

37 minutes ago, JayDeLosDioses said:

 

[MidnightDragon]

I've started working on the Awakening expansion for Dragon Age. Hopefully I have fun with it.  

[GraniteSnake]

Hey everyone! Are any of you from the USA and would be willing to help me out? I need to get my hands on the Pirates of the Caribbean DLC from LittleBigPlanet, problem is it's only available in the US in codes from either Best Buy or GameStop as it's been delisted. It's $6, and I could either refund you extra through PayPal or buy you a $10 PSN voucher card for your troubles.

 

Links: https://www.gamestop.com/browse?nav=16k-3-littlebigplanet,28zu0

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/littlebigplanet-pirates-of-the-caribbean-level-kit-playstation-3-digital/1415306.p?skuId=1415306

 

Also if those from the US could give me a few examples of states that don't charge digital tax that would be great, LBP costs $20 in the PS Store so if I could avoid paying an additional charge on it that would be perfect. And if any of you know good sites to buy PSN voucher cards I'm all ears too! The things we do for trophies...

[DizzyDavidson]

37 minutes ago, GraniteSnake said:

Hey everyone! Are any of you from the USA and would be willing to help me out? I need to get my hands on the Pirates of the Caribbean DLC from LittleBigPlanet, problem is it's only available in the US in codes from either Best Buy or GameStop as it's been delisted. It's $6, and I could either refund you extra through PayPal or buy you a $10 PSN voucher card for your troubles.

 

Links: https://www.gamestop.com/browse?nav=16k-3-littlebigplanet,28zu0

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/littlebigplanet-pirates-of-the-caribbean-level-kit-playstation-3-digital/1415306.p?skuId=1415306

 

Also if those from the US could give me a few examples of states that don't charge digital tax that would be great, LBP costs $20 in the PS Store so if I could avoid paying an additional charge on it that would be perfect. And if any of you know good sites to buy PSN voucher cards I'm all ears too! The things we do for trophies...

 

Sent you the code in PM. I don't want anything in return. Let me know if it doesn't work.

GS link didn't work.

Unfortunately Idk which states don't charge tax on digital purchases, maybe someone else can help with that.

[AuroraHistoire]

2 hours ago, GraniteSnake said:

Also if those from the US could give me a few examples of states that don't charge digital tax that would be great, LBP costs $20 in the PS Store so if I could avoid paying an additional charge on it that would be perfect.

I know Montana won't tax you. 

[Fnee2000]

5 hours ago, GraniteSnake said:

Also if those from the US could give me a few examples of states that don't charge digital tax that would be great, LBP costs $20 in the PS Store so if I could avoid paying an additional charge on it that would be perfect. And if any of you know good sites to buy PSN voucher cards I'm all ears too! The things we do for trophies...

Oregon doesn’t charge tax on digital goods as far as I know...

 

Also, I use https://www.g2a.com/ to buy EU and HK digital cards. They also have US cards. All are instant availability and I have never had an issue with that site.