[:plant:] The Game Review Thread - No Posts By Skills Because He Never Finishes His 10000 Games

Originally Posted by Philia

LOL, I'm sorry! But yeah I wasn't that much of a completionist though, only WITH RPGS I do. And only with jrpgs and grindfest rpgs. There's some games that are impossible to achieve with 100% completion and only people I know that likes that number often is Skills. xD

Speaking of which, I recently got 1,000/1,000 out of Sacred 2!

Spoiler:

Sacred is dead easy to finish but damn near impossible to complete. Starting a new bronze campaign, you could probably get to the end in well under 20 hours and that would include a lot of exploring. My focused run through to get the achievements for uncovering less than 20% of the map and not buying anything took me about 12 hours. You pick up a lot of achievements just by playing through but some require a bit of effort. None are particularly hard to get, just time consuming. My longest running character, the first one I started, is a level 80 odd Shadow Warrior, up to Platinum difficulty. I got the Niob achievement by joining a game online, I've not yet reached it offline. The max level is 250 too which must take forever to get to, I've spent over 200 hours on my SW game. The annoying thing about Sacred 2 is that skill choices are permanent, meaning that my SW is a dubious build with a few wasted skills. With what I know about the game now, I could have built him much better. That said, he's more than hard enough, rarely takes more than a couple of combos to kill most bosses and the last avhievement I got was the one for drinking 1,000 health potions because he never really needs to (I'm carrying over 3,000 of the things too).

Getting the achievement for visiting all the temples probably needs a guide. I've explored 90% odd of the map and I still managed to walk straight past a couple of them. Getting to level 15 with every character is time consuming, requiring about 12 hours per character and doing the same missions from the start of the game over and over can be dull.

I loved the game (Or I wouldn't have spent over 300 hours playing it) but I can't imagine ever completing it. Doing that would require getting to Niob difficulty, maxing your character and finding all the employees dotted around which would take forever as far as I can tell. If you're a fan of loot-em-ups though, there's few better games out there.

The only other games I've got 1,000/1,000 out of are Last Remnant (Which is another one that requires time rather than skill, although beating the proper last boss and a few of the optional ones takes a good understanding of the game mechanics) and the Vandal Hearts game on XBLA.

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I've still not got 1,000 out of Oblivion, I need to bust through the Fighters guild at some point to wrap that up although my character is a little more extreme than yours with a game-breaking suit of 100% chameleon gear which allows you to stand directly in front of someone and punch them to death if you so wish. Still, the thieves guild and dark brotherhood quests are fucking epic and I did those before I made the silly armour so there was still some challenge in them. I didn't really read into the game much before I started playing so made the foolish error of picking the skills I wanted to be good at as my class skills. You're much better off picking ones you'll never use so you can level up the skills you do want to use without actually going up in levels as like you say, that just makes the monsters tougher. It is a good game though and I'm a touch surprised they never made a sequel yet. Although the locations are a bit repetitive, they're more varied than Fallout 3's.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Oh hey so I got bored of the Arena in Resonance of Fate and decided to play Fable 2 instead, which I've more or less beaten the arse out of now. Still got a couple of achievements to pick up but no more than a couple of hours worth and I'm going to resign myself to not getting the multiplayer ones (Unless someone wants to hook a brother up with some hero dolls and the trading and combat one).

Anyway:

Spoiler:

First things first, easy game is helluva easy, as in comedically so. I've not died once nor come even close to dying. I bought the GotY edition which comes pre-loaded with Knothole Island and the Future thingy. I did the first quest of each before the main quest of the game even kicked off properly and that was the only challenge of the whole game, beating those with crappy, rusty weapons. Of course once I'd done the first bit of Knothole Island the game threw legendary weapons at me, instantly ending any challenge the game might possibly have had. Money is never an issue in the game as you earn rent from houses you own even when the game is turned off so if you play for a short while every evening, each time you turn the thing on you have enough money for a couple more houses and it doesn't take long to earn enough to buy pretty much every house in the game and all the other crap you could ever want for. I chose the money option at the end of the game and got a million gold, to add to the four million I already had...

The fights are easy even without the freely available legendary weapons and there's no hint of a decent boss fight anywhere in the game. I've not managed to beat the Arena thng record yet but only because I've only gone through it once and didn't realise you could use the flame jets in one room to clear it much faster until it was too late. Treasure chests are kinda well hidden but with Knothole Island you can make your dog a level 5 treasure hunter pretty much right off the bat so it's pretty much impossible to miss any chests or dig spots. I'm still a few silver keys short and a couple of gargoyles but I don't see it being too tough to track down the last few.

So the economy is a joke, the fights are easy to the point of being a joke and you can't miss any of the treasure so what is the point of the game?

Well essentially it's just good fun. I went, as I always do in this kind of game, down the pure evil route. There aren't actually that many morality choices in the quests themselves, you get most of your evil points by robbing houses and setting comedy high rents. Oh, and sacrificing a string of wives at the shadow temple. It's fun running into a town and having everyone run away screaming though. The quests are all pretty formulaic but the scripting is amusing enough as a rule. That you can kill everything without thinking about it makes your character feel suitably god-like compared to the general populace, a bit like playing a really focussed Sith Lord in KOTR 2 (My last character killed Darth Treya in two force chokes). The whole thing is basiaclly a no-brainer action game aimed at people who are really crap at action games. It's a nice change to have played an "rpg" that didn't take 300 hours for a change too!

Achievements-wise, there's not much that requires anything more than standard story-following to get. You need to save before the end and reload a couple of times to save yourself playing through three times and there are a few things you wouldn't do by accident but they aren't in any way difficult and I'm up to 950 without a guide, the only things I might possibly look up will be if I get stuck on a gargoyle or silver key or two.

All in all a decent enough game if you want something light-hearted and not too taxing and it's dead simple to get a huge AP haul from it if that's your bag.

I've heard that Fable 3 is a bit shit compared to 2 so I won't bother picking that up. Next I might go back and finish off Resonance of Fate or I'll play Arkham Asylum. I did buy Mass Effect 2 but that can wait until I've finished my ultra-nasty-bastard playthrough of the first one.

Edit: Oh yeah, I'm also playing through FFIX again on a PS emulator but I'm sure you all already know it's the best in the series so no need to lecture about that here.

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Donkey Kong Country 2 was awesome and the first game I ever really properly completed, getting 102% out of it. I found the game became much easier when you realise that the timing of almost all the jumps is to make them without waiting, i.e. if you jump as soon as you reach the edge of the platform you'll miss whatever the obstacle was, it's like the game was made for speed runs.

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Haha,I remember this thread. It's been a while since I finished any game to a completionist level but I've come close a few times since I last posted in here:

Final Fantasy XIII

Spoiler:

FF XIII was slated when it came out. Old school FF fans hated that you couldn't explore huge areas and there were no towns. Newcomers complained there was too much cutscene, not enough game and the combat was messy. Both those groups of people can suck a dick.

I actually really liked FF XIII. Sure, the levels are more or less tubes right up till near the end but all "exploring" has ever done in FF games is make you walk further to generate more random battles, there's never been any real sense of excitement in finding stuff for me and with no random battles, there's simply no point in making people walk further for no reason because if you don't want to fight you can swerve the monsters. Likewise with towns, all they've ever been is a long-winded, 3d menu. I prefer having everything laid out easy to find in one place.

I think the reason I like FF XIII and a lot of people don't is that I've always been one for playing rpgs for the system, not for the story. My focus is generally on working out how the system works and figuring the best way to maximise stats and so forth. The badly voiced chatty bits in between times kinda get in the way for me. With FF XIII you are battling down a series of corridors until you reach near the end when it opens up but when it does open up, it's a stat-maxers dream, primarily because of the monster hunts. Sent on a series of missions to take down various big monsters, these in some part represent a real challenge that take some careful planning to beat. Sure you can level up and bull your way past most of them but the fun for me was beating them as early as possible (And using the resulting loot to be hilariously over-powered). I didn't set out to unlock everything in the game but as a side-effect of hunting down all the monsters, I ended up getting most of the achievements anyway. The ones I didn't get are the ones that rely on a massive amount of boring grinding, to complete everyone's Crystarium and beat the last few monsters you'll never take without doing that.

As a FF game, most of you would probably hate it. As an interesting exercise in number crunching, it's worth a look!

XCOM - Enemy Unknown

Spoiler:

I'll admit I've not actually finished this yet but this is a cautionary tale as much as anything. Love the game, romped through, made a few dumb choices but toughed it out to end up with a team of xenos-murdering psychos, launched into the last mission, saved before I left just in case, fought my way easily enough through the base, accidentally rushed into the last room, got killed quickly, pressed retry, had a glitched save that would only let team members with flight packs into the last room (Meaning only 4 of my 6), got owned, reloaded, same thing happened, tried to entice the aliens out of the room, didn't work, went to reload my pre-last mission save, realised I'd saved over it with the glitched one by mistake, was sad.

My previous save is only a few hours before that but it's long enough to have disheartened me for a bit. I'll get back to it at some point.

Achievement-wise, there's nothing too taxing in here. The only one likely to cause problems is the one for completing a game on Classic Ironman. The game is pretty brutal in Classic mode and a wrong choice can easily lead to your whole team getting wiped out. I imagine beating the game on Impossible Ironman is an exercise in extreme frustration but it's not necessary for an achievement. If you find Impossible tough then you could always save and reload through the missions and slug it out that way.

Annoyingly for a long tp play game, you have to finish the whole thing five times for a full house but I'll manage that over the years I imagine.

I was speaking idiomatically.

So I just got the secret ending of Final Fantasy XIII-2, which requires getting every single fragment in the game. I'll admit I used a guide for a lot of the fragments, some are stupidly well hidden. Also the chances of you seeing every single monster in the game for the last fragment without a guide are basically zero.

Whole thing took 75 hours but if you were rushing through you could do it in half that I reckon. Fun game all told, although the DLC is pretty pointless, a bunch of characters you're supposed to fight after the story, by which point you don't need them at all, plus their crystal drops are a really low percentage, I've still not got Lightning's crystal after beating her 15 times.

All in all, easier to get 1,000/1,000 than the first game, if only because filling the Crystarium is significantly quicker in this game, plus the bosses are all pretty easy. I can't recall one that took me more than a couple of attempts.

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Ok so I've still not actually Caiught 'em all but I did finally hit 1,000 km on my Pokewalker so I've unlocked the last area and have a limitlkess supply of Feebas and Spiritombs at my fingertips meaning I can trade for any Pokemon I want more or less (Heartgold by the way). Closest I've ever come to catching all of them I reckon and I'm only two games behind the curve!

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Played through Darksiders on PS3 over the last few weeks, I didn't get all the trophies but they're certainly achievable if you're that way inclined. I got 70% without using a guide and just playing through it.

Pretty awesome game actually. More Zelda than God of War, nice balance of puzzles and fightan although suffers from the same issue as Zelda in that the new toy you unlock is how to solve every puzzle in the dungeon you find it in, rather than introducing new ways to use old items particularly. I found all the Abyssal Armour bits without looking anything up and two of the legendary upgrade thingies. Game could have benefitted from some optional bosses and making levelling up your weapons a touch quicker, I didn't get any to max level and I wasn't exactly rushing through it.

As for the trophies I didn't get, I couldn't be arsed to play through on the harder difficulty, although I did restart it to see how tricky it might be and with the Abyssal Armour already unlocked from the start, it's basically the same as normal mode. Picking up the one for killing things with scenery wouldn't take much effort and getting max level equipment would take forever and be exceedingly dull but wouldn't be actually difficult. I forget what else there was but there's nothing in there especially tricky, just time consuming.

Might pick up the second one at some point although I guess with THQ going tits up there's little danger of the series getting finished off.

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Today I finished Ni No Kuni and by finished I mean beat the Guardian of Worlds. 85 hours total play time, Oliver at level 95, massively over-powered. Great game but a weirdly easy post-game, especially given the monster amount of grinding you need to do to level up your monsters and alchemise the best gear. At no point did I specifically grind for levels, just for ingredients for quests really and I waltzed through the optional bosses with no real planning or setup. It does make me laugh to see the idiots on GameFAQS banging on about needing to be level 95 and have fully trained your monsters and need a tank, striker and healer on each team member to beat the endgame bosses because that's complete bullshit. Pick any monster you like, give them decent gear and so long as their defence is in the 200's, you can't lose.

I'm missing a few trophies but only the ones aimed at OCD weirdoes with no life who are happy to spend hundreds of hours grinding to get the "Every monster" and "All the alchemy" type achievements. Fuck that shit.

But yeah, great game but far too easy and I wish they'd not made the main character the only person in the whole game without a British accent (And an annoying American one at that).

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Having cancelled my Live subscription and got PSPlus instead, I got a bunch of games for free and with not much free time at present and my girlfriend hogging the laptop, I've been playing through the PS Vita version of Lego Lord of the Rings and it's now the first game I've got a platinum trophy for.

It's the same as the DS version and from what I can tell, hugely cut down from the 360 and PS3 versions. Anyone who's played a Lego game will know what they're in for here and it's pretty formulaic. There's less fighting than the Star Wars ones and fewer puzzles than the Batman one. Also it's not in any way funny which was the charm of the earlier ones. For a free game it's diverting enough for 15 hours or so but dear God don't pay for it.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Yesterday I more or less finished Arkham City on the Xbox. I got the game of the year edition with all the DLC included so I'm still playing through Harley Quinn's Revenge but I finished the main story.

It's a pretty awesome game actually. Retains the atmosphere of the original whilst adding to it. Having a more open-world setting lends itself to more, annoying fetch quest style things but none of them are story-related and the couple of times you do need to get across town in a hurry for a main mission the time limit is incredibly generous. The combat is still fluid and intuitive and the learning curve is still pretty forgiving, although there are sections where a proper tutorial would help, I still can't work out how blade counter takedowns are supposed to work for example. Puzzle-wise, there is a touch of variety but mostly they revolve around working out which gadget to use in each situation. There are a few I can't figure out and a few I don't possess the manual dexterity for, plus there are a total of 400 Riddler tokens in the game so fuck bothering to find all of those. One niec touch is you can interrogate certain thugs to get the location of some secrets added to your map so there's actually an outside chance of being able to 100% this without a guide but you'd need a good couple of months with fuck all else to do to achieve it.

As well as the main campaign there are the challenge modes which again, there are a ton of and I've not bothered with it. Also included with the GOTY edition are a bunch of alternate skins for Batman you can use after you finish the campaign and there's an extra, tougher, new game plus mode so you certainly get your money's worth for the tenner this cost me.

Worth it for the campaign alone I'd say.

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Haha, speaking of bugs, on the Deadshot mission in Arkham City, I saved the last dude from getting shot and you're supposed to chase Deadshot across the rooftops I guess only I ninja-roped up onto a roof, swung straight through the building and clipped straight through the floor of the level, ending up in endless freefall away from an inverted version of the city. Needless to say this let me very easily pickup all the gliding long distances riddler trophies as well as the diving long distances ones...

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Spec Ops: The Line. I've been playing through my new backlog of free, PSPlus games, the first of which to get done was Spec Ops. It's a fun enough run and gun affair, more arcadey than your Ghost Recons, less arcadey than Gears or something like that. It's a bit easy to be honest and coming from me who is notoriously shit at shootan games that's saying something. It's also pretty linear, every fight is more or less a selection of things to hide behind while you pop up and shoot people all coming from the same direction. For a shooty game, the story is actually half-decent and where the game attempts social commentary and moral questioning, it doesn't fail miserably. Achievements-wise I got everything except the finding all the hidden intel items and finishing it on harder skill levels on a single, normal-mode playthrough and a couple of dips back into levels on easy mode to pick up the ones you get for making one of the moral choices. I actually found half the intel items without even looking for them so the others probably aren't too well hidden. The main issue with the game is a couple of completely unfair sections where you die a lot because of game mechanics rather than anything else, most notably a bit where you're running away from a helicopter and if you don't hit the run button quick enough or if you clip some scenery or don't take the most effective line you die, over and over again. Fun enough game though and certainly not bad for effectively free.

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So I just completed the living shit out of Far Cry 3. Platinum trophy and everything, that's two more Platinums I have than Skills...

Anyhow, game is fucking awesome. It's like Just Cause 2 mashed with Skyrim and Fallout 3 (kinda). Massive island, suitable variety in the scenery that you don't get bored of it, lots of stuff to do and whilst most of it boils down to sneaking into camps to disable an alarm before killing the fuck out of a bunch of people, there is an interesting mix of bad guys in each and the range of kit you give means you can mix it up, sniping people at one base then rushing in with a flamethrower to cook the bad guys in the next. The story is a bit bollocks but the bad guy characters are interesting enough to make up for the painfully annoying main character and his mates. There's a moral choice at the end made incredibly easy by how annoying the American kids in the game are...

In terms of completionism, this is how games should be. There are a ton of collectables hidden around but rather than having to resort to online guides or videos, you can buy items in-game that show everything up on the map. You still have to hunt around a bit, especially for the stuff underground but I managed to get all but one achievement without resorting to the internet and that's because one of them is finding a random head buried in the sand on a beach.

I did think I wasn't going to get the co-op trophies but it turns out co-op is fucking awesome and there are still a bunch of people playing. One thing to note though is that left to their own devices, most co-op players will play the first two levels over and over. To get the trophies for the later levels with random online players, you need to keep re-starting until it sets you up as host then you get to pick the chapter. I played through the whole lot in one day yesterday with primarily the same three randoms.

So yeah, really great game and eminently 100%able.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Very true, the XP I got from finding relics in FC3 made me unlock all the skills pretty much as soon as I got on the second island. Combined with going to all the radio towers being the first thing I did there so unlocking all the weapons, it did make the end game a touch too easy on normal mode, not something I'd usually say about an FPS game! I'm definitely in favour of games giving hints to collectibles though. I literally see no point in using a guide to find collectibles in a game, why bother? What does it prove? That you're capable of following instructions?

FELIPE NO

I finished God of War 3 the other day, although only got about half the trophies. It's a decent game but doesn't do anything all the others don't and has a few annoying bugs in it. Certainly I wasn't so in to it I can be arsed to do the challenges or play through again on hard mode. There's nothing too taxing in the trophy list though, most of it you get just playing through normally although I suspect there might be some annoyingly hidden pickups somewhere.

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Nier - PS3

So today I saw ending "B" of Nier. Being the kind of gamer I am, I saw absolutely everything during my first play through: Did all the sidequests (Including the bullshit farming one), got all the weapons, killed the shit out of everything.

It's a fun game although there is very little imagination in the side quests, most of which are "Go here, get that" or "Go grind for these items". The actual story you could blaze through very quickly if you wanted, to get the subsequent endings you get dropped back in half way through the game and to romp through the last five bosses and final dungeon only takes about three hours, if that. Which is good as I don't know how arsed I am to play through again just to see ending C & D. I would say if you do play it you should definitely play for the second ending because on your second run you get a bit of extra story from the point of view of the bad guys and it puts a totally different spin on the story.

Achievement-wise, I definitely have better things to do than upgrade all the weapons and grow a Lunar Tear but if you have a stupidly high boredom threshold to get those two, the rest are pretty simple to get.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Edit: Seen all four endings now. Ended up with 80% of the trophies. I got pretty much all the "Beat the boss in x minutes" ones just being in a hurry to finish, with a level 4 phoenix spear they aren't very tricky.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I just hit 100% in the 2013 version of Tomb Raider, didn't get al the achievements because lol, multiplayer achievements and I have better things to do than spend ages collecting loot to buy the last few gun upgrades seeing as how I've finished the game now.

It's a really good game though. There are a few head scratchers in there although it's not nearly as tough as Tomb Raider 1 and 2. Also there's very little actual tomb raiding, it would be nice if they'd set more of it indoors but I guess that's what sequels are for. Also the end section is more like Gears of War Raider but it's fun in its own little way. Shame the next one is a time XBone exclusive as I would probably buy it based on this effort.

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Today, in my ongoing quest to play all the free PSPlus games from the last 18 months, I finished Remember Me. It's a 3d punching game with climbing elements and gameplay-wise will win no prizes but god damn is it a pretty game. The post-apocalyptic world is really well realised and graphic style is nice.

It's a by the numbers punching game though with obligatory endless hidden pickups that do distract from the action a touch as they are hard to spot and it's easiest to just run round the outside of each area hammering the circle button in case you missed any.

Quite a short game, it took me about 12 hours I guess and not very difficult on normal mode. There are harder modes but I have too many other games to play to be bothered to play things twice. There is also an easy mode so even Paco can enjoy the fun.

Nothing too tricky in the achievement list. Lots of finding things you could rattle through with a guide if you cared enough and a couple of potentially tricky beat a boss with conditions ones but it probably wouldn't take too long to platinum this.

Worth a look if you got it free I'd say.

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Me again! This time I have finished Aliens: Colonial Marines and yes, it is as bad as everyone says. Possibly worse.

The graphics are PS2 standard, the animation is as limited as it is terrible, the AI is literally retarded, the story is dumb, there are more glitches than AC:Unity and frankly, Gearbox should be fucking ashamed of themselves.

The one redeeming feature is that the weapon sound effects come straight from the movie and even that is a bit stupid because the sound effect for the pulse rifle sounds like the short, controlled bursts the film was so famous for so even if you jam down the trigger and empty the entire 80 round clip in one go, it sounds like you are firing burst fire. Also when you get an upgrade that makes your rate of fire increase, the sound effect doesn't change.

Why did I bother finishing this you ask? I have no idea and even less idea why I felt the need to get all the hidden dog tags but I did and although I used a guide, they aren't too hard to find. You'll never get all the achievements though as some require online play and you'd have to be some kind of fucking weird masochist to put yourself through that, even if you could find anyone online to play against.

This is a huge, steaming dump of a game and not worth the £2 I paid for it. Easily the least fun I've ever had forcing myself to finish a game.

I was speaking idiomatically.

You people need to stop playing so much Mario Kart and finish some other games.

I finished Wolfenstein: The New Order on PS4 a couple of days ago. It's an FPS by ID so you know what you're getting yourself into. There is a tiny bit of character advancement and I guess technically there's a cover system but what this game is primarily about is gunning down Nazis. Lots and lots of Nazis.

You get a reasonable range of guns (Pistol, machine gun, shotgun, sniper, laser) and you can hold one in both hands should you wish (You should wish). You walk into a room, you blast the Nazis, you leave by the only door. Repeat a few hundred times and that's the game! There are some sneaky bits that you are entirely free to sprint through, guns blazing, alerting every single guard and basically nothing you could describe as a puzzle.

So it's not deep or clever but it is incredibly fucking entertaining. Sometimes you want to fiddle with gear and stats and sometimes you want to out-think the clever AI and use precision sniping to stealthily kill bad guys but on those occasions you want to run around with a machine gun in each hand spraying bullets at people swearing at you in German, this should be your go to game. It's a decent looking game although I can't imagine the PS4 version is stretching the capabilities of the console much and the sound is suitably teutonic.

There are hidden things to find if that's your thing and all kinds of ridiculous challenge modes (Uber difficulty, dying is permanent sort of ridiculous) so there's plenty of life in this game if you have a longer attention span than I have. I got quite a lot of the achievements playing through once on normal difficulty (There are two easier ones for Mexican gamers) so if anyone still cares about that kind of thing, the full set is probably pretty easy to get.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Hahaha, I'm not sure how many computer games you can finish in a month is something you need to be worrying about either way mate.

FELIPE NO

I got home from work at a reasonable hour today and finaly hit 100% on Shadows of Mordor which is an incredible game. It starts slow but once you start unlocking skills and can slaughter hundreds of Uruks at a time, the combat is just so satisfying you can easily spend hours just getting into fights for laughs.

Another game following the modern convention of putting collectibles on the map so you can get them without needing a guide which is a good thing. You don't really gain anything other than experience for finding things though which is a shame, would be nice to get special abilities for finding all the collectibles. Like many games of this style too, if yoiu take the time to unlock everything before finishing the story, the last few missions are laughably easy.

Not quite got all the trophies, I'm missing a few relating to specific ways of killing captains and one about caragor riding I won't bother with. Most of them come naturally with game play though.

I bought the season pass this game is so good so I'll do the dlc next. Really can't recommend this game enough.

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Lol, posting.

Anyway, over the last couple of days I finished Metro 2033 Redux and Last Light Redux. They're essentially corridor shooters with not much ammo (If you play survival mode, there's also a Spartan mode which is more run and gun). The shooty bits are pretty average but the sneaking about bits, especially in the second one are a lot of fun with the real challenge being getting through without killing anyone. I had being playing MGS4 before that which seems to have abandoned stealth altogether in favour of being Ghost Recon so to play an actual stealthing about the joint game was refreshing. The survival elements are limited to having enough air filters for your gas mask when you're above ground but it only really becomes an issue on the really long above ground sequences near the end of each game and only then if you piss about looking for secrets rather than cracking on. There are a couple of annoying bits though. Possibly as a tribute to Halo, the library level in the first one is annoying as fuck (If the monsters come near you, look at them and they won't attack, except you'll run out of air standing still, and they'll attack you anyway) and the bit where you get caught in a hilarious cross-fire towards the end of the second was a pain in the dick but only because I had about 45 seconds of air left when I got to it.

Lots of achievements for finishing levels without being spotted or killing anyone that I can't be bothered to get, one or two finding all the stuff ones and a few slightly situational fun ones.

Given you can get the complete set with all the DLC (Which is kinda fun too) for £15 or so on PSN it's very little expense for a decent couple of days gaming. The first game kinda follows the plot of the book a bit, certainly some of the areas are well realised and if you've read the book (And if you've not, you really should) the end will come as no surprise. I played it with Russian audio and English subtitles which I think is the right way to play it, even if you then don't understand a single word of the background NPC chatter.

Jam it back in, in the dark.