What Games Have You Completed? (2020 Edition)

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The Order 1886.
More of a cinematic game but I thought it was good. Some shooting galleries were annoying but the game didn't outstay its welcome. In fact I wouldn't mind a sequel though I know it's unlikely to happen. Few questions I'm interested enough to want to see answered.

I really liked the world it set up and would like to see a sequel too although I doubt it will get it since people complained that it was too short with hardly any gameplay.

Life is Strange season 2. | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)
The Outer Worlds. | Borderlands 3.
Far Cry: New Dawn. | Borderlands 3, Moxxi's Heist of the Handsome Jackpot (DLC)
Goat Simulator. | Borderlands 3, Bounty of Blood (DLC)
A Plague Tale: Innocence. | Borderlands 3, Love, Guns, and Tentacles (DLC)
Until Dawn. | Borderlands 3, Psycho Krieg and the Fantastic Fustercluck (DLC)
Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag. | Dishonoured (Definitive Edition)
Assassin’s Creed 4: Freedom Cry (DLC). | Untitled Goose Game.
Control. | Mafia (remake)
One Night Stand. | Assassin’s Creed: Rogue (Remastered)
The Division 2.
Batman.
Star Wars, Jedi: Fallen Order.
Assassin's Creed II (Ezio Collection).
Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom.
Batman: The Enemy Within.
Battlefield V.
MediEvil PS4 remake.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm.
Fallout 76.
Mafia III.
Star Wars Battlefront II.
Mafia II Remastered.
The Last of Us Part II.
Call of Duty: World War II.
Erica.
Watch Dogs.
Watch Dogs: Bad Blood (DLC)
The Wolf Among Us.
Borderlands, The Pre Sequel.
Borderlands, The Pre Sequel: Claptastic Voyage (DLC).
Borderlands, The Pre Sequel: The Holodome Onslaught (DLC).


Farming Simulator. Completed and platinumed. This is my game of the year so far which is not bad for game I picked up on PS+. :eek: It’s really addictive – there was one day where I sat and played for 24 hours straight without sleep or food lol No, it technically doesn’t have an end credits but the trophy list – which even the developers include in the main menu - acts as completion so, yeah.

I guess I like it because you’re truly rewarded for your efforts and there is a sense of pride watching your humble little piece of land evolve into a bustling farm with animal pens, silos and workers all over the place. I’m not someone who obsesses over technology /hardware either but even I got giddy whenever I upgraded from acquiring the bare minimum vehicles to the best tractors, harvesters and seeders in the in-game shop because I was only able to purchase those things as a result of my hard work. On that note, it exposes how efficient you are at money management e.g. when to rent and when to buy, what jobs to take on that will be worth your time. I am proud to say most days I made a profit over loss.

Technically, I’m surprised the game runs so well with all the moving parts. The fact that you can go into the menu and the game is still running seamlessly in the background without any hiccups is amazing. The accessibility options are plentiful and really help tailor your experience. For the hardcore farmer you can turn on stuff like weeds and plant withering for that extra immersive experience.

I mostly enjoyed taking care of, breeding and selling animals because it required you to take all the knowledge you've learned at that point (cultivating, seeding, harvesting, turning grass into hay etc) and apply that to taking care of your animals under pressure. By "pressure", I mean because when you don't take care of your animals they don't produce and therefore you're losing money, so in this game time is literally money.

I appreciated the attention to detail when it came to animal behaviour too. For instance, the more the animals breed the more they consume and the more often you’ll need to maintain them. If animals make mess with food you can put it back in the feeding trough and the food meter actually goes up. Just little details like that again add to the immersion.

I also dug the soundtrack. It’s not normally my type of music but because a lot of the artists are unfamiliar the music almost feels like its part of the world, as if you could only hear this selection for this particular game.

Perhaps the only negative is that the game is very inside baseball and literally tells you nothing lol. When you go on to YouTube for tutorials the uploader acts as if everyone watching is a veteran just looking for a few extra money making tips. It’s hilarious because in the comment section you’ll find exasperated PS+ owners pleading for anyone to tell them what even half of the stuff the uploader said in passing means. Made me feel like I was not taking crazy pills. There is a dedicated tutorial section in the menus which is a must if you want to know where to start, but even then it only teaches you the basics; the rest you have to figure out on your own. So yeah, it’s hard to get into at first as it has a steep learning curve but once you’re in you’re in.

Overall, thoroughly enjoyable. My respect for farmers really went up playing this. It must be a tough job that would take tremendous willpower and determination. If you like games where grinding is the game but the grind is actually fun then you'll like Farming Simulator.


Minecraft. Completed and platinumed. I never played OG Minecraft but decided to give supposedly the most successful game of all time a go on the PS4. Technically, defeating the Ender Dragon is “completion” in the vanilla game which is why I've included it. This will be short and somewhat controversial: the game is fine when played with friends but overrated by today’s standards and boring solo. No Man’s Sky does it better. Also, if you didn’t purchase Minecraft before a certain date tough titties because you’re locked out of all DLC multiplayer trophies now. How Sony allows this sort of developer stupidity to continue is beyond me.

[Xbox]

Watch Dogs 2

Absolutely brilliant game. I played it before on PC and it's still a brilliant game and I hope legion will be as good.

I loved collecting the money piles and research points by going down vents.

[Xbox]

Watch Dogs 2 (DLC) Human Conditions

More of the same Watch Dogs so yes it was a good DLC.

[Xbox]

Watch Dogs 2 (DLC) No Compromise

Good DLC more of the same Watch dog stuff so yea pretty good.

[Xbox]

Batman Arkham Knight

It was alright of a game I suppose. I must of had it on too hard a difficulty as there was some tricky fights and then fights in vehicle was hard too I suppose. But got through it in the end.

Life is Strange season 2. | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)
The Outer Worlds. | Borderlands 3.
Far Cry: New Dawn. | Borderlands 3, Moxxi's Heist of the Handsome Jackpot (DLC)
Goat Simulator. | Borderlands 3, Bounty of Blood (DLC)
A Plague Tale: Innocence. | Borderlands 3, Love, Guns, and Tentacles (DLC)
Until Dawn. | Borderlands 3, Psycho Krieg and the Fantastic Fustercluck (DLC)
Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag. | Dishonoured (Definitive Edition)
Assassin’s Creed 4: Freedom Cry (DLC). | Untitled Goose Game.
Control. | Mafia (remake)
One Night Stand. | Assassin’s Creed: Rogue (Remastered)
The Division 2. | Farming Simulator
Batman. | Minecraft
Star Wars, Jedi: Fallen Order. | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (remastered)
Assassin's Creed II (Ezio Collection).
Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom.
Batman: The Enemy Within.
Battlefield V.
MediEvil PS4 remake.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm.
Fallout 76.
Mafia III.
Star Wars Battlefront II.
Mafia II Remastered.
The Last of Us Part II.
Call of Duty: World War II.
Erica.
Watch Dogs.
Watch Dogs: Bad Blood (DLC)
The Wolf Among Us.
Borderlands, The Pre Sequel.
Borderlands, The Pre Sequel: Claptastic Voyage (DLC).
Borderlands, The Pre Sequel: The Holodome Onslaught (DLC).

Watch Dogs Legion. Completed and platinumed. It hurts to say that I cannot recommend this game at full price and thankfully I won’t have to as it has been heavily discounted since its release for good reason. At its core it’s a really fun, addictive game but it’s clearly a next gen concept trying its damnedest to run on last gen consoles and it shows. It crashes consistently, trophies are bugged, loading screens are out of control, and missions break on you for seemingly no reason. Ubisoft has released some patches addressing these issues with no luck and they’ve had to push back multiplayer to focus on getting the base game stable.

I am somewhat sympathetic to Ubisoft here because, unlike say Cyberpunk, nearly everything you see on screen is interactable from the different drone types flying all over the city, the cargo drones, the cars, the shops, side activities, and finally the NPCs – all while the graphics are fairly decent. That’s a lot going on for any system to handle, let alone last gen consoles.

But if you can get through the technical issues you'll see that where the game shines is in its most marketable feature which is the NPC recruitment system. The construction worker is very OP so in theory you could just use them throughout but the game trusts you to experiment with different strengths and weaknesses of the characters. The non-lethal approach is encouraged and most enemies, except for gang members, won’t shoot unless you do. There is a respect for human life that you don’t see in many games and I think that’s down to this concept that anyone is playable and therefore has a real life.

There are lots of water cooler moments too because of the RNG nature of the whole thing. I described this moment in the dedicated thread but thought I’d share again:

With the ‘play as anyone’ feature, Ubisoft basically turned NPCs into loot.
It’s like recruiting the character with the best look, best voice and best perks in itself becomes the “perfect roll” and for me that’s what kept it interesting. Also, the recruitment missions never got repetitive just because of the many different ways you could take them on and there is enough location variety to not to get bored of the environments. London is noticeably scaled down but nobody was expecting a complete recreation; it’s just jarring because I’m a Londoner.

I smiled at the little things like the way the character types will murmur different things when you’re roaming the world. For instance, one of my favourite recruits was a randy guy who frequently attends singles events and he is always muttering about sex.:D Also, sometimes when you profile an NPC type you haven’t profiled before your robot A.I. companion, Bagley, and whatever character you’re using at the time will start talking about them. It’s little touches like that that show what this game could have been if they had just delayed it for next gen only and went all the way with the whole concept.

The main story is quite good, in fact some might say that it peaks too early with a brilliant story mission involving you exploring a creepy mansion and trying to discover what happened. What you do discover is genuinely disturbing, almost tonally out of place, and the choice you make at the end of that quest line is interesting – except it seems to have no bearing on the overall story line (I suspect a last minute rewrite to make it more linear). If this particular story line had been the entire game I wouldn’t have minded but Ubisoft had to have their typical lieutenant takedown structure before the final Big Bad.

Alas, the 'play as anyone' mechanic is a solid foundation but it's not quite the revolutionary game changer I wanted it to be. Hopefully, with the death of last gen Ubisoft can expand on this feature a lot more, that's if they don't just throw out the baby with the bathwater. Would recommend when all patched up.