@colonelkilgore
I tend to start lots of stuff and jump from one to another until something sticks or unless I'm obsessively hunting a plat. So have recently been attempting to go back to the things I had started and getting them to a reasonable state of completion so I can delete them from the hard drive and move on.
And I love some of the housemarque stuff but they are more arcadey drop in and out of where the platinums are probably be beyond me. Both Dead Nation and Super Stardust are both on my 5 most recent played on the dashboard. Also Nex Machina is fantastic - like a modern take on Robotron and Alienation was the first one I played (think it was PS+) and made me start paying attention to their output.
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
@render I will say the enemy AI is fairly poor. The guards are predictable in their patterns and behavior. And they don’t really search very well. The game counter balances with basically one-hit kills and the fact the enemies can be pretty quick sometimes so if you’re seen it’s game over.
There’s a section you may not have got to yet that I died multiple times because the enemies are so fast so if you don’t execute perfectly several times in a row then they are on you so quick. It’s been the first time I was forced to use the dodge button and even then I just barely took the guards out in time.
@colonelkilgore@Sorteddan I actually dipped my toe back into Resogun this weekend out of impulsive curiosity since I’ve been playing Returnal so much. Man, Resogun is such a fun game. I was just wanting to re-experience it since it had been 7 years since I played it, and before I knew it I was knee deep in the addictive arcade loop of satisfying gameplay. I still prefer Returnal for its deeper mechanics and full blown story, but these Housemarque games are something else. I think I’ll add Dead Nation to my backlog list since I already own it via PS+
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Sorteddan@Th3solution so in relation to the Housemarque games, I havent tried any of their stuff yet but from the looks of them they would make perfect side-games when you only have a half hour to play. Currently have Resogun, Nex Machina & Matterfall... I really want to add Dead Nation and Alienation too but they never seem to go on sale though. I'll keep checking though.
@colonelkilgore
Resogun, Super Stardust and Nex Machina are exactly that arcade style quick game thing.
Dead Nation & Alienation are more top down twin stick campaign shooters, though individual missions are fairly short. Alienation is great co-op if you can still find players online.
I have no idea about Matterfall, May have to read up on it.
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
@Sorteddan cheers for the info... I'm planning on playing Returnal in June of next year, so hopefully I'll have played a couple of their previous games by then.
Really had fun with this one. Trophy/collectable hunting was truly enjoyable, outside of one little issue with a missed tablet that was easily correctable.
“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.” C.S. Lewis
@Jimmer-jammer glad to hear you managed to style-out that lil' speed-bump with the 'correctable' (love it btw). Picked this up today, so I'll hit you up around 2029 to chat on it 😉
Took me about 13 hours to get the Platinum trophy. Honestly, it was pretty much a pure grind towards the end as I had already finished the game a few hours earlier and was just playing the same songs over and over in order to unlock the last couple of social ranks. It's a very straightforward Platinum trophy but it will get tedious after a while.
I'm very surprised though at how much Atlus has streamlined the Platinum trophies for their Persona games. The Platinum trophy for Persona 5 Royal (which I also got) was very straightforward as well and now I find that the one for Dancing in Starlight is like that too. It's honestly nice to see because I would never get the Platinum for any Persona games before.
@Keith_Zissou cheers buddy, I never used to be a completionist myself but I’ve found it has improved the enjoyment and satisfaction immensely since I started going for plats.
And MGS V: The Phantom Pain… what a game! It was my first MGS game and I loved it so much that I’m now working my way through the others. I also get anxiety when the end is drawing near on a piece of entertainment I hold dear… you should go back though, as if you have been avoiding spoilers, it’s a cool ending. It was a really fun plat actually… lots of hours, I think I put around 180 in but it was worth it. Getting s ranks on some of those missions takes a combination of so much speed and precision that when you finally achieve it there is not many games out there than can touch it.
You still on The Last of Us part 2 or have you moved onto something else?
@Keith_Zissou As I played 5 first (never intended to play any of the others) I ended up playing them in a wacky order… so I went MGSV, MGS:PW, MGS3 and MGS. I have MGS2, MGS4 and MGRising left in that order. Hoping to get them all done by the end of the year is poss.
Big fan of Death Stranding too, how you finding it?
Finally managed to get my 20 online wins for 'Human Lover' in Wreckfest which meant I only needed to level up a couple more times and the Plat was finally done. It was another fun game that I never would have probably tried if not for being on Plus so I brought a couple of DLC cars part way through to give some extra support to the devs.
That meant since my last update I've got the following Platinums
#72 - ME1
#73 - ME2
#74 - Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart
#75 - Wreckfest
I'm still playing ME3 so that platinum shouldn't be too far off. Maneater has replaced Wreckfest as my something quick to mess about with when I don't have long and I believe that's a fairly simple platinum
so might be next.
Maneater is easy but a bit of a pain at times. I still never quite figured out how to make the ranked human enemies enemies appear. At least finding collectibles isn’t too hard.
@Thrillho Cheers, I'm not doing too bad with it but feel I've reached a point where I need to be able to take on high level alligators or grouped lower ones and I'm having to swim away to stay alive. Think I'm going to have to keep chipping away at lower fish to try and level up. I'm guessing I will be able to leap higher out of the water when I switch to Adult shark (level 8 at mo) as I've found plenty of collectibles but can't reach them.
@Keith_Zissou yeah the story in 3 was so good. I think V will remain as my favourite due to how it plays... but narratively 3 was a world apart.
Death Stranding provides some moments that are really chilled... as well as some odyssey-like journeys into the unknown. Really liked the setting, themes and story too. Hope you enjoy.
@BearsEatBeets Yeah, as you get bigger you can jump higher so will have to leave a lot of collectibles until late on. Jumping high was another mechanic I seemed to fudge rather than fully understand how to do.
I found I ended up doing the same for the bigger early fights of attacking and then running (swimming) away to get health and going again. It gets much easier once you start unlocking extra abilities too; I was a big fan of the electric attacks in particular.
@colonelkilgore Thanks. Respect for your Last of Us platinum. That game had one of my lowest trophy counts for a game I actually finished. I think I had about 5% or something. Got some more with the remaster but don’t think it was much more but never touched the multiplayer.
@Thrillho Good to know, I’ll ignore the plates for a while then and just chip away at levelling up.
@BearsEatBeets yeah I think I had around 3% completion the first time I played it through back in 2015. Going back through it was definitely worthwhile though, really enjoyed both extra runs,
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