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What Games Have You Completed? (2021 Edition)
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Retr0gamer wrote: »Super easy Platinum as well considering it's my only platinum trophy and I've absolutely no interest in getting trophies but still got it!
Congrats on your first. May this be the beginning of something beautiful.
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The Phantom Pain wrote: »Congrats on your first. May this be the beginning of something beautiful.
You seem to get a lot of platinum's. You must research a game before you play it as no way do you get platinum's going in blind as a lot of games you need to do specific things or tricks.0 -
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The Phantom Pain wrote: »Congrats on your first. May this be the beginning of something beautiful.
I've no interest at all in achievements but Sony's trophies are an awful system. They're shoehorned into the operating system and there's still issues with them loading. It's just a horrible system to use, whereas you can check achievements instantaneously on XBox. So I've even less interest in Sony's half arsed version
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Retr0gamer wrote: »I've no interest at all in achievements but Sony's trophies are an awful system. They're shoehorned into the operating system and there's still issues with them loading. It's just a horrible system to use, whereas you can check achievements instantaneously on XBox. So I've even less interest in Sony's half arsed version
Fair enough, Sony's trophy system may suck from a technical perspective but X Box achievements is worse as a concept (despite being the first of the two to implement it). It's designed to get completionists and trophy hunters to purchase DLCs since it uses 'gamerscore' as opposed to 'platinums'. Therefore you can never truly 100% the achievements with games that are constantly pumping out DLCs. No thanks.0 -
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Not true. The Xbox version of a platinum is a 1000 score from the game and each additional dlc adds 200 I think. Same thing really. And it was deisgned well before trophy hunters and completionists took things to extremes. To be honest, nobody is forcing them to buy dlc
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The Phantom Pain wrote: »Ok, looks like Retro and you were right. I checked my 360 and COD classic had a max GS of 200 but all the other games had a base of 1000 GS. Still a crappy system though, although I must say looking at how close I am to maxing out a lot of them one might be tempted...
I only respect people with a high gamerscore and don't when they talk about trophies.
It's weird that during the 360 everyone was all about gamerscore and nobody cared about trophies and now with the complete belly flop that was the Xbox One Trophies are all I hear about.
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Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »My Xbox gamerscore is in the 100,000s, do you respect me??? :pac:
I'm proud of you :pac:
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The Phantom Pain wrote: »Seems like you prefer the GS just because it's a relic system rather than because it's genuinely better.
Well I don't care about either but I prefer Gamerscore because it actually works on a technical level.
On XBox if I want to check achievements and check what achievements my friends have and so a comparison is super quick with instantaneous loading and near instantaneous when looking at a friends.
Trophies on the other hand have always been a disaster technically. They take ages to load up if you just want to check. I noticed when I got my platinum they also take forever to update as I went to check if I did actually get a platinum but my trophies were at 60% for a good two minutes before updating.
And then checking a friends trophies? Forget about it unless you can wait until the heat death of the sun before they load.
So even though I don't care about either I'd sometimes check achievements as it's so quick and easy whereas I've to put on the kettle to check trophies while they load so never bother.
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wotzgoingon wrote: »edit: Just thinking PS may have implemented them features eventually but at launch and good while after they couldn't do that.
That's pretty much it. Microsoft got so much right with the 360. They knew the future was in digital downloads and built their OS around it and the achievements were built into the OS.
Playstation 3's OS was a half arsed hodge podge with a store front built from terrible HTML that's unresponsive and that constantly crashes out to the OS if you spend too long in it and the memory leaks get too much (buying up the last few PS3 games lately has been a horrible experience). Trophies were added pretty late in the PS3 and they were badly coded into the OS in a slap dash fashion. The lack of achievements was seen as a massive negative for sony and along with their store just made them seem so far behind MS. That legacy code has persisted and it's not really gotten better, PS4 trophies are just as poorly handled very, although that might have been improved with the PS5. I kind of doubt it.
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Megaman X2|SNES||
Streets of Rage 4|PC||
Sekiro|PC||
Megaman 7|SNES||
Megaman 8|PS1||
Megaman X3|SNES||
Megaman & Bass|SNES||
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim|PS4||
Broken Sword: Director's Cut|PC||
Broken Sword: Director's Cut
I've been playing this on and off the last couple of weeks. I've finished this years ago but never played the director's cut.
Broken Sword is a great point and click adventure even if it doesn't really live up to the heights of the best of Lucas Arts. However it's pretty much the next best thing outside of the Wadjet Eye games. Puzzles are great if not too obtuse and the dialogue is frequently amusing.
It's strange playing this now. What at the time felt like a high budget game feels a bit cheap. The director's cut makes it even more apparent. The Director's cut adds some new puzzles (which are kind of annoying), irons out some issues with the original including the pain in the arse goat puzzle and adds new sections with Nico. The Nico sections are fun but ultimately adds nothing to the story. It also makes the main game seem cheaper as there is a big jump in art asset quality and in particular sound quality in these sections.
Still worth a play and I'll give the sequel a go but want to finally beat Monkey Island 2 so will play that first. I also really should play more of the Wadjet Eye games.
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Megaman X2|SNES||
Streets of Rage 4|PC||
Sekiro|PC||
Megaman 7|SNES||
Megaman 8|PS1||
Megaman X3|SNES||
Megaman & Bass|SNES||
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim|PS4||
Broken Sword: Director's Cut|PC||
Command & Conquer: Red Alert|PC||
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
One of those I almost finished back in the day. It's much easier than the first game but also the levels aren't as well designed, there's less sneaky ways to beat levels and most levels have enough resources that tank rushing is always a viable tactic. The naval units are fun. Found the Soviet campaign the toughest but also the least interesting as their combat focuses so much on heavy tanks.
Might go back to the expansion backs but really need to beat what I'm currently playing so I can move on to Yakuza 7. I' playing too much at the same time!
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Megaman X2|SNES||
Streets of Rage 4|PC||
Sekiro|PC||
Megaman 7|SNES||
Megaman 8|PS1||
Megaman X3|SNES||
Megaman & Bass|SNES||
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim|PS4||
Broken Sword: Director's Cut|PC||
Command & Conquer: Red Alert|PC||
Mischief Makers|N64||
Mischief Makers
Beaten with all yellow gems and an overall A ranking.
Another Treasure game that flies in the face of conventions. It's a platform game with a very weird control scheme that focuses on dashing as well as grabbing, shaking and throwing things. Also strange is that it's a 2D sprite based game on the N64.
This doesn't sound like much but all 52 levels explore these controls in insane ways. One level will have you riding a raft over magma throwing enemies off it so it doesn't sink. Another will have you rescuing kids in a fairground. Another will have you riding a missile to the excite. It's constantly weird and constantly surprising.
It's a pretty easy game but it really comes into its own when you go for the hidden yellow gems on each level and go for an overall A rank on levels to get the secret ending.
Some great boss battles as well but then it's a Treasure game so that's a given.
Had an absolute blast with this game and it's up there as one of the very best N64 games.
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Tomb Raider Definitive Edition.
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood Remastered (The Ezio Collection).
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
Astro’s Playroom. Completed and platinumed.
Right from the top, this is an absolute recommend for ALL gamers of varying tastes but especially long time Playstation fans. Essentially a 3D platformer tech demo, Astro’s Playroom takes you down memory lane (
) of Sony’s Playstation through the years with cute little cameos that I won’t spoil, but I was like that Captain America meme every few minutes, “I understood that reference!”
The graphics are stunning with each level being distinctive both visually and in mechanical ideas. The way you can interact with pretty much anything and receive some sort of physical and emotional response, including from the other Astro Bot NPCs, will peak your curiosity and have you doing all sorts of mischievous stuff. The music is also perfect for the tone; perky and catchy, I laughed when I suddenly realised what the lyrics were saying!
There are 4 maps and within each one are 4 levels (16 levels in total). When you beat them all you unlock 8 speedrun levels which riff on some of the levels already completed. I don’t even like speedruns but I just had to have one more excuse to extend my playtime with this game. Plus there’s a DLC trophy for getting a total speedrun of 7 minutes or under too and I even did that! It helps that it’s mostly win or die: when you fall you fall to your death which automatically forces you to restart the speedrun from the beginning rather than checkpointing where you left off and continuing the timer in a fail state. Plus all the 8 speedrun levels are relatively short; the average gamer can complete them in about 50 seconds each.
This is a game where the platinum feels deeply embedded into the experience as it provides the incentive for you to get all the puzzle pieces and artefacts as well as perform unique level-specific actions which extend your playtime with an otherwise 2 hour game to about 5 to 7 hours. In a cute twist, the "artefacts" consist of the different Playstation consoles and accessories throughout the years and when you acquire them they get stored in the Playstation Labo (a sort of homebase for the Astro Bot) where you can marvel at them at your leisure.
I have to admit that I almost cried when I took the time to explore the Labo. As well as enabling me to appreciate how far the Playstation has come it brought back so many good memories. I got into gaming very young via my dad but the Atari was his console and the SNES was more my older sister’s who, in fairness, let me play whenever I wanted. The Playstation 1 was the first console that was truly mine and I got it late into the generation for Christmas after begging my dad for ages. Seeing the memory stick and remembering how my dad accidentally erased my entire playthrough of Heart of Darkness because he forgot to slot it in when he was playing (and I was on the final level too!) made me laugh. Remembering how the Disney Tarzan game was the very first game I ever saw to completion (because I was obsessed with the movie) made me want to go back to the family home and dig it up again (if Covid wasn’t an issue). I'm sure this game will trigger a lot of warm, fuzzy feelings for others as it did for me.
As previously mentioned, this is mainly a tech showcase for the haptic feedback of the new Dualsense controller which makes it probably the only true Playstation 5 game. I’m usually not fussed about this sort of stuff but even I enjoyed the patting sensation of rain drops and trudging in the mud, or even blowing into the mic to make a fan move or tilting the controller left or right to guide the direction of the Astro Bot whenever he was in his special suit; it felt so fresh and exciting. One of the speedruns requires you to roll a ball down a super tight expressway using the touch pad and I was surprised at the sharp turns I was making while going at full speed. It shows just how polished the controls and the Dualsense is. I think this might be my favourite controller ever.
TL;DR: If you manage to acquire a PS5 make sure Astro’s Playroom is the first game you play. It’s a beautiful tribute to a legendary console series and a wonderful first impression for the PS5. Makes me really hopeful for this generation.0 -
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Megaman X2|SNES||
Streets of Rage 4|PC||
Sekiro|PC||
Megaman 7|SNES||
Megaman 8|PS1||
Megaman X3|SNES||
Megaman & Bass|SNES||
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim|PS4||
Broken Sword: Director's Cut|PC||
Command & Conquer: Red Alert|PC||
Mischief Makers|N64||
Wolfenstein 2: New Colossus (DLC)|PC||
Wolfenstein 2: New Colossus (DLC: Freedom Chronicles)
Forgot I bought the season pass for this game. Played the main game back in the day and while I really enjoyed it it was kind of missing something.
The DLC is basically more of the same. You have 3 characters that play differently from each other, one is balls to the wall blasting, another is focused on stealth and the other is more like BJ. It's all presented in a faux grindhouse aesthetic which I enjoyed.
My main issue is that it seems a bit cheap with a lot of recycled assets and not a lot new to the game. The main gameplay is satisfying but I was expecting a little bit more from my money rather than what felt like more challenge rooms. Still the Wolfenstein 2 gameplay is still extremely satisfying with good stealth and guns that feel incredible. The way the guns tear apart Nazi's, kkk members and the scenery is so satisfying.
Overall, I don't think the DLC is worth bothering with.
One thing that got to me was back when I played it in 2017 the juxaposition of the nazis in america and the far right seemed over the top and silly in a tongue in cheek way. Playing it now it's scary how such an over the top piece of satire seemed to cut so close to the bone.
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It got a lot of exposure on the steam release, great reviews and ended up on a lot of 2020 game of the year lists.
Just the wind has been taken out of its sails which is a pity. Really hope it's a success for these guys and selling from their own site nets them the profits they missed out on from the initial sales rush.
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