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The Last of Us Part II can be upgraded to 100% for me 
Grounded was quite difficult, even with abusing the accessibility settings. I'm not sure I'd be able to beat it legit like I did for Part I.
I did the Permadeath play through on Light+, and that game mode is not for me. I know people like the challenge, but there's nothing more frustrating to me than replaying something I literally just did. Apparently it took me 10 hours and 38 minutes to beat the game, and I died 13 times, losing 2 full hours to deaths. But several of those deaths were in Abby's section on Day 2, where I fell off the bridge 3 times in a row (losing about 15 minutes each time). There were a couple of zombie sections where if they even get one hit on you, you die. I don't think I died in a particularly legitimate way any of the 13 times, so it was definitely frustrating.
Grounded was quite difficult, even with abusing the accessibility settings. I'm not sure I'd be able to beat it legit like I did for Part I.
I did the Permadeath play through on Light+, and that game mode is not for me. I know people like the challenge, but there's nothing more frustrating to me than replaying something I literally just did. Apparently it took me 10 hours and 38 minutes to beat the game, and I died 13 times, losing 2 full hours to deaths. But several of those deaths were in Abby's section on Day 2, where I fell off the bridge 3 times in a row (losing about 15 minutes each time). There were a couple of zombie sections where if they even get one hit on you, you die. I don't think I died in a particularly legitimate way any of the 13 times, so it was definitely frustrating.
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Reminds me of doing solo Legendary runs on Halo with the spotty as hell check-pointing.
Video games have a very rigid and pretty dumb idea of what "difficulty" is/means and I don't tend to have the patience for it anymore.
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Just got the platinum for WWE 2K23.
Since my large post in the other thread, I completed both story modes, which were much longer than I gave them credit for. I think there was a lot of potential for these modes, but the voice acting from the various WWE Superstars seemed kind of weak, and the acting for the two protagonists was really bad. The women's mode had a better story than the men's, but there was definitely more potential than the result.
After that, I grinded it out to get to 100 wins in the 4v4 tag matches, which didn't tag as long as it could have. I think I managed to do about 30 of them in my most productive day, so I surprisingly wasn't bored of it even by win 100.
Since my large post in the other thread, I completed both story modes, which were much longer than I gave them credit for. I think there was a lot of potential for these modes, but the voice acting from the various WWE Superstars seemed kind of weak, and the acting for the two protagonists was really bad. The women's mode had a better story than the men's, but there was definitely more potential than the result.
After that, I grinded it out to get to 100 wins in the 4v4 tag matches, which didn't tag as long as it could have. I think I managed to do about 30 of them in my most productive day, so I surprisingly wasn't bored of it even by win 100.
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Got the platinum for Shadow of the Colossus. I spoke at-length in the other thread about this game. The only thing I have to add now that I've got the plat is that for the one trophy where you need to max out your health and stamina bar, it appears that grinding out colossi battles does little or nothing at a certain point. After a bit of googling, I concluded that I should track down a few apples to boost my health and after 3 apple trees, my health was maxed out. It's tough to know when to do this because you're just looking at a long bar on the screen for health/stamina, but I'd say if you ever feel like your stamina bar is way longer than the health one, it's time to find some fruit trees.
Edit: Forgot to mention that I was going to play South Park: The Fractured But Whole for the first time and work on that next, but supposedly, the one missable trophy (which requires you to beat the entire game) is glitchy, and I'm unsure if I really want to risk playing a 20-hour game multiple times in case of glitches.
I think I might make another attempt at working on RDR2. I've made a couple of passes at this, but it's such a long grind that I do a handful of trophies at a time and then go back to something else. We'll see how far I get this time.
Edit: Forgot to mention that I was going to play South Park: The Fractured But Whole for the first time and work on that next, but supposedly, the one missable trophy (which requires you to beat the entire game) is glitchy, and I'm unsure if I really want to risk playing a 20-hour game multiple times in case of glitches.
I think I might make another attempt at working on RDR2. I've made a couple of passes at this, but it's such a long grind that I do a handful of trophies at a time and then go back to something else. We'll see how far I get this time.
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Madden NFL 20 is done. The recent announcement of the server closure in early 2024 accelerated the need to complete this game. There's only one Madden I owned on PlayStation that I don't have the plat for, but unfortunately, the servers are closed and I'm only missing one online trophy. The frustrating thing is that I know I was 1 win away at various points from getting that trophy. Oh well.
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Shit like that sucks super hard, yeah. Noticed EA has been on an absolute tear this year, there's been a seemingly non-stop list of server closures out of them.
Somehow I've only managed to get got by three games across either platform over the years; Rock Band Blitz's servers just... disappeared one day, and Harmonix made some real dumb design choices that basically made it an online-only game without anyone (at the time of release, when I briefly played) really noticing. Smash TV released with an unobtainable that was never fixed. And then there's Kane & Lynch: Dead Men with the stupid Rank 1 & Rank 2 global leaderboard achievements, that may as well not exist.
For PlayStation, definitely going to go out of my way to avoid any games with online achievements/modes for anything I ultimately decide to pursue. Really should get around to finishing out Drakengard 3, as a matter of fact...
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The worst I've seen is WWE 2K games. Apparently 2K22 is going offline next year. It's the second most recent game that is available! That's way worse than the typical sports games. To be fair, it's probably because roster updates are less impactful than in a team-sports game, but that's still crazy.
I think I have 3 games in this category, but the most frustrating has to be Driveclub. It was a Playstation exclusive that was insanely hyped because they said they were giving it away for free (in practice, that didn't turn out to be the full truth). I'm not sure when they turned off the servers, but the game totally sucked, and I don't think you can even buy the full version nowadays. It seems so odd for them to abandon an exclusive that they had put so much into. I actually just looked it up and I guess the studio that made it shut down, so that's why, but the game was doomed to fail. If and when I get all of the platinums from games that I've already started, I'm going to go back to this and try and get as many trophies as I can. I have some of the online ones already, so I won't have to miss them all, but I definitely can't get the plat.
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PS3 Dante's Inferno is somehow still going. I was able to get the trophies for the online co-op DLC recently even though it was announced the servers were shut down.
Similar thing with Arkham Origins. Servers were announced closed a good few years ago, but if you idle on the "Connecting to server..." page for half an hour or so, it will put you in a lobby and allow you to invite people.
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Oh yeah, I saw the headline/notification for that one! Reminds me of, like, how quickly the Tiger Woods PGA Tour games would spin up and then get taken out back. In this day and age it's super weird too, because from my complete outsider perspective of how it works (so, potentially not the reality), Call of Duty actually found the correct solution via Warzone? Like you can have your yearly releases, but all of the online is a sort of "hub" that's kind of separate but gets content loaded into it every year. So you ostensibly get the best of both worlds.
Don't throw any Trophies/Achievements into the online, monetize it however you want, yaddayadda - reminds me quite a lot of the Rock Band platform model. So naturally nobody wants to do that.
Yeah, this happens far too often as well. It's startling how many of Sony and Microsoft's first-party games were shut down (and their studios with them); you'd think, as the platform holder, even if they aren't super popular you'd want those to always be there. The costs can't be even a fraction of a fraction of a percentage of monthly income, surely! Like on the Xbox side, Crackdown 3 took maybe 20% as long to shut down than it did to release in the first place!Spiner202 said:
This is a thing with basically all of Ubisoft's efforts, too. Even when they aren't announced to be shut down, there are just weeks or months on end where they are no longer functional. And then they come back randomly! Lots of games that are/were announced to be shut down, still work months or years later... it really makes it seem like they have to go completely out of their way to shut most of these games down, and surely that manpower costs more than the pennies it takes to just leave them alone.
Dante's Inferno is on my shortlist of things to get done, once I finish doing mecha pewpew. And then causing myself endless suffering and misery with Soulsborne.
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Part of me wonders if the tech monkeys they put in charge of pulling the plugs on these servers are like, "NO way, game preservation is sacred" and just refuse to shut them down. I feel like that sort of thing would be easy to hide.This is a thing with basically all of Ubisoft's efforts, too. Even when they aren't announced to be shut down, there are just weeks or months on end where they are no longer functional. And then they come back randomly! Lots of games that are/were announced to be shut down, still work months or years later... it really makes it seem like they have to go completely out of their way to shut most of these games down, and surely that manpower costs more than the pennies it takes to just leave them alone.
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Bloodborne can be upgraded from Platinum to Platinum & 100% for me!
The DLC was really fun. Tons of new enemies and the bosses were - for the most part - fun. I have no problem admitting that I abused the NPC characters where possible to help me out with the bosses. That said, Maria was the best fight by far and I had no help for that. Even though she is insanely fast, she actually felt a lot fairer than most Bloodborne bosses. I think the smaller bosses are better sometimes because they can actually miss hitting you (despite their massive range of attacks).
Orphan of Kos is probably the hardest boss across both the main game and the DLC. I had to resort to getting co-op help to beat him. I probably could have kept grinding it out and done better, but his second phase is so difficult that I'm happier to have had help.
I did most, but not all of a regular game playthrough to supplement the DLC, and I'd say at this point that anyone new to Bloodborne should buy the DLC alongside it. I'm sure it's better/easier to do near the end of the game once you are fully levelled. Apparently I was fairly underleveled for when I took it on, but I'm not sure having a little bit more health/vitality/attack would have made a huge difference.
The DLC was really fun. Tons of new enemies and the bosses were - for the most part - fun. I have no problem admitting that I abused the NPC characters where possible to help me out with the bosses. That said, Maria was the best fight by far and I had no help for that. Even though she is insanely fast, she actually felt a lot fairer than most Bloodborne bosses. I think the smaller bosses are better sometimes because they can actually miss hitting you (despite their massive range of attacks).
Orphan of Kos is probably the hardest boss across both the main game and the DLC. I had to resort to getting co-op help to beat him. I probably could have kept grinding it out and done better, but his second phase is so difficult that I'm happier to have had help.
I did most, but not all of a regular game playthrough to supplement the DLC, and I'd say at this point that anyone new to Bloodborne should buy the DLC alongside it. I'm sure it's better/easier to do near the end of the game once you are fully levelled. Apparently I was fairly underleveled for when I took it on, but I'm not sure having a little bit more health/vitality/attack would have made a huge difference.
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I never understood why people thought Orphan was so difficult. Maybe it's just my playstyle, but I had a lot more trouble with other bosses -- especially some of the Chalice dungeon bosses. I almost beat Orphan on my first try, were it not for his lighting summon, which I didn't understand when he did it. I got him on my third try. He felt a lot more fair than other bosses in the game that you just need to cheese to get by.
DLC is definitely better than the main game IMO.
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That's a good point about the Chalice dungeon bosses. I didn't do any of them this time around, so it has been years since I faced them, but I remember them giving me a difficult time.
As for Orphan, I don't think his first phase is too difficult, but he's just so fast and has such massive range that one bad combo can take out 90% of your health, and it's hard to recover from there. I never had an attempt where I was even close to beating him before I got help. I still think he's one of the coolest looking bosses, and the location of the fight is one of my favourites.
As for Orphan, I don't think his first phase is too difficult, but he's just so fast and has such massive range that one bad combo can take out 90% of your health, and it's hard to recover from there. I never had an attempt where I was even close to beating him before I got help. I still think he's one of the coolest looking bosses, and the location of the fight is one of my favourites.
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What's it been like so far? Would you recommend it to anyone? How long do you think you've spent on them altogether now?
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i’ve personally had a great time! i started with y0 way back in 2018 and have been going game by game since then. usually i’d play through the game regular and then take a break before going for the plat and that helped me not get too burnt out. i will say going from yk2 to y3 was a big downgrade in terms of game engine and QOL but y5 has shinada in it.
that said, these games and specifically the completion list features are built for people with brains like me. some plats didn’t require the completion list, some did. the ones that did got pretty grindy at times (y0, y3, and y5 in particular). overall i spent prolly 60-110 hours on each game and i’d wager i spent at least half of that time baked
that said, these games and specifically the completion list features are built for people with brains like me. some plats didn’t require the completion list, some did. the ones that did got pretty grindy at times (y0, y3, and y5 in particular). overall i spent prolly 60-110 hours on each game and i’d wager i spent at least half of that time baked
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What's the best starting place for someone who's never played a Yakuza game but it is warily intrigued?
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definitely absolutely y0. there are some things you won’t have context for but it’s a really good introduction to the universe and also you play as majima for half of it. don’t get me wrong kiryu is great but majima is one of a kind. then play yakuza kiwami which is a remake of the first game that’s very good, and then watch the live action adaption directed by takashi miike
i’ve also known people where yakuza: like a dragon was their entry point but it does have a different protag/playstyle than the games prior
i’ve also known people where yakuza: like a dragon was their entry point but it does have a different protag/playstyle than the games prior
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This doesn't bother me, as long as the gameplay is solid.
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Somehow, I got the Platinum for Star Wars Battlefront tonight. My last remaining trophy was to beat every mission on the hardest difficulty. After I beat the third to last mission I had left, the trophy unlocked, and the platinum followed!
The DLC will be a trickier, longer road. I'm making a good dent, but I'm almost at the mercy of the DLC maps being active enough. There's also a trophy for reaching rank 100 online (I'm currently 63). No idea how many hours this will take, but I'll just keep plugging along and see if I get bored.
The DLC will be a trickier, longer road. I'm making a good dent, but I'm almost at the mercy of the DLC maps being active enough. There's also a trophy for reaching rank 100 online (I'm currently 63). No idea how many hours this will take, but I'll just keep plugging along and see if I get bored.
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For just the original game, no DLC or anything (err... with an asterisk... it's complicated, sometimes), yeah.
Both the Xbox and PlayStation have tons of (actually good) visual novel and escape room-type games with achievements/trophies these days, so don't count those chickens just yet!
Which, on that note, I'm still obligated to tell everyone to play Zero Escape 1 (999) and 2 (VLR). Pity a third game never materialized to finish off the series. ...What's that? Nonono, you're mistaken. YOU. ARE. MISTAKEN!
In other news, I may have a pair of Platinums to post before year's end! Possibly. I ain't even gotten around to booting up AC6 in over a month on the Xbox side so who knows.
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co-sign. it really is a shame that third game never got made because the first two are so good. luna is my psn icon even
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Will get this updated over the weekend.
For now, I have been bamboozled!
Phantasy Star Online 2 [PS4]
Doesn't have a Platinum?! Thankfully that only took around 2 hours to run around and pick 'em all up since I have 1,500+ hours logged across Xbox and Steam and everything is generally still complete and up-to-date.
011. Final Fantasy XIV [PS5]
Requires the base game trophies, as well as the Heavensward through Shadowbringers add-on trophies, in order to actually get the Platinum. Functionally just means I need to venture off into PF and unsync O4S, O8S, O12S, E4S and E8S. E12S will probably still take some doing, but, I figure the hardest thing about it is just gathering enough decent players. So Soon™ and all that jazz. 102/159 trophies for the full completion as-is after a couple of hours/partial days, with most what's left being waiting on queue times and only a handful - like clearing all 200 floors of Palace of the Dead solo and catching 1,460 unique fish - being genuinely awful.
The PSNProfiles community lied to me! My Platinum just popped without having all 6 of those Savage fights cleared on PS5.
For now, I have been bamboozled!
Phantasy Star Online 2 [PS4]
Doesn't have a Platinum?! Thankfully that only took around 2 hours to run around and pick 'em all up since I have 1,500+ hours logged across Xbox and Steam and everything is generally still complete and up-to-date.
011. Final Fantasy XIV [PS5]
The PSNProfiles community lied to me! My Platinum just popped without having all 6 of those Savage fights cleared on PS5.
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I am hoping that I can tell you to upgrade Star Wars Battlefront to 100% soon. Yesterday, I got the second-to-last trophy for reaching rank 100.
The final trophy I need is in the 4th DLC mode. There's a trophy for winning 10 matches in the new game mode. Unfortunately, the playlist for this DLC is mixed, so it alternates other game modes in with the new one. The real problem is that of the 4 DLC packs, this one has the fewest people playing, which makes no sense because 3/4 of them require a concerted group effort to have enough people to start the playlist.
I've tried getting a group going in the discord a couple of times with no luck. These DLC modes basically only run on weekends because nobody is around to play them. I've gotten into this mode a couple times before and would guess I have somewhere between 4-6 wins, but I think I'll essentially need to boot up Battlefront every time I turn on my PS5 and check if there's an active game before I start playing something else.
The final trophy I need is in the 4th DLC mode. There's a trophy for winning 10 matches in the new game mode. Unfortunately, the playlist for this DLC is mixed, so it alternates other game modes in with the new one. The real problem is that of the 4 DLC packs, this one has the fewest people playing, which makes no sense because 3/4 of them require a concerted group effort to have enough people to start the playlist.
I've tried getting a group going in the discord a couple of times with no luck. These DLC modes basically only run on weekends because nobody is around to play them. I've gotten into this mode a couple times before and would guess I have somewhere between 4-6 wins, but I think I'll essentially need to boot up Battlefront every time I turn on my PS5 and check if there's an active game before I start playing something else.
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How was the game? I haven't picked it up yet but am really looking forward to playing it!
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The fact that I took the time to actually 100% it is the highest compliment I can give it.
I'm typically the type to just stop playing a game before finishing it. Takes a lot for me to commit this much to a game these days.
As a big comic book nerd, it's my opinion that it is the best representation of Peter Parker we've had in any media in a very long time.
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why are jrpgs like this
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Every JRPG is obligated to have fishing. It doesn't matter how good or bad the experience it is, it must contain fishing to be a JRPG.
No but really, I think it's largely a Square thing. Having distractions in the games - Triple Triad/Tetra Master, raising Chocobos, snowboarding, tower defense, racing in some capacity or another - was seen as a good way to give the player something to do besides combat. A lot were... not great, but, I do definitely find the complete lack of optional fluff stuff in a game like FF13 to be even more detrimental to the experience than them having rewards locked behind them.
This fucking thing is going to haunt me when I get around to it though, I can already feel it:
Honestly having Trophies/Achievements in RPGs in general is probably a detriment unless the developers put time and effort into their lists. Which... is basically never. Most of the time the lists are super basic and easy, other times...
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Returned to Rain World. I've platinum'd the game, now I'm trying to 100% it -- both in trophies and in in-game collection (not linked to trophies). Gonna take a long-ass time to collect all of the pearls, but I got a bunch with Rivulet. Working on finishing the spear master campaign and collecting all the broadcasts at the moment. Probably gonna be a 150hr endeavour by the time I'm finished. I reckon I'm about half-way through now, maybe a lil more.
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I am proud to say that this game is now 100%! It was a bit of a wild ride to get that last trophy.
As I had mentioned, there is a Discord for this game. Some guy posts in Discord saying he's starting a massive PSN group chat for people who want to get any and all trophies for the game. I asked to join, and he actually had at least 3 group chats going (I was only in 3 of them, thankfully). One of these group chats had closer to 100 people than it did 0. As you can imagine, my phone has been blowing up non-stop for two days with messages as these guys try to boost trophies that are irrelevant to me.
Anyways, yesterday, they actually managed to get a lobby created around 5PM when I finished work. They taught everyone how to switch teams in-game (which makes getting the 10 wins faster, since you can always be on the winning team), and all hell broke loose. People basically started doing that every game, but the problem is that you have to leave the game first in order to do it, and the game doesn't run with fewer than 12 people. After a couple hours yesterday, the lobby burned out, but we started up around the same time today, and I managed to get the trophy.
As for why I'm telling this story - the problem was that other people needed competing trophies (ex: get a certain number of kills with a vehicle only available in the game mode that we were trying to win super fast in). The guy who set-up these group chats was getting really frustrated that people were only working on whatever specific trophy they needed and not helping him win. I empathize with his problem, because it is frustrating, but he needs to chill out. Quite frankly, some of the things he said in that chat should probably be reported to Sony. Someone sorta called him out on it once and then he started to say he was kidding after each outburst, but the guy clearly has anger issues over an imaginary milestone in a video game (and I say that as someone who is pretty obsessed with trophies).
Once I got my trophy, I unfriended everyone from the group who added me and blocked this guy, so hopefully our paths don't cross again.
Also, I'm blown away that this method worked, because, as far as I know, Battlefront has crossplay, so using PSN group chats rather than Discord seems like it would be less effective. Major props to the angry dude because he was hustling. Seriously, probably every 20 minutes throughout the day, I got a notification that a new person got added to one of these groups. You'd have no idea there were still so many people trophy hunting on this game.
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I have boosted many times before, although I generally don't enjoy it. But this was a special beast because it was a game that was somewhat dead and segmented by DLC ownership. On a more current game (or even one like GTA V that will never die), it would be easier.
The next game in my sights is Red Dead Redemption 2. I've made a few attempts in the past, but I'm going to make a more serious effort now. I only have 1 online trophy left (get to level 50; I'm currently 32), and then the single-player stuff will be its own beast. I have a feeling I won't have an update for this thread for a couple of months!
The next game in my sights is Red Dead Redemption 2. I've made a few attempts in the past, but I'm going to make a more serious effort now. I only have 1 online trophy left (get to level 50; I'm currently 32), and then the single-player stuff will be its own beast. I have a feeling I won't have an update for this thread for a couple of months!
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Getting to lvl 50 is the worst trophy because it's a lot of mindless grinding the same exact area for hours. The rest of the game is more interactive and more fun, but some of the missions are a pain in the ass to get gold in -- especially if there's some long-ass intro scene with minutes of horse riding before any actual action. There's enough easy missions to get the platinum without much stress, but if you're like me and want to 100% the game, you'll be in for some pain.
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If it's anything like the Xbox side of things, there are a surprisingly large amount of people that keep an extensive library tucked away just for impromptu boosting sessions and short-notice server closure announcements. The downside to this end of things is that, as far as I can tell, there isn't really a good central hub - nothing remotely like TrueAchievements (and their Boosting Session feature, which is a godsend), or really even OG X360A's more ad-hoc forum approach. So you've got like two large-ish hubs, Reddit, various per-game dedicated Discord servers... I can certainly see it being possible to round up big groups, but a massive pain in the ass.
Dude sounds like a real piece of work, though. Definitely met some characters in my time, but thankfully - at least ~10 years ago - most people were pretty chill and organized. Anyone like that probably would've gotten banned/exiled pretty quickly since the community wasn't super large and you'd see the same names quite often game-to-game.
Shit like this is the bane of my existence, Assassin's Creed in particular immediately springs to mind.
Armored Core 6 right now as well in a roundabout way, insofar that end-of-mission report with the ranking award doesn't have a "replay mission" option so you have to sit through 2 unnecessary load times per attempt.
If everything was as snappy and to the point as, say, N/+/++ or Super Meat Boy, I would be quite happy.
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It just blows my mind that, with everything people know about game design by now, these simple BASIC mistakes keep being made.Shit like this is the bane of my existence, Assassin's Creed in particular immediately springs to mind.
Armored Core 6 right now as well in a roundabout way, insofar that end-of-mission report with the ranking award doesn't have a "replay mission" option so you have to sit through 2 unnecessary load times per attempt.
If everything was as snappy and to the point as, say, N/+/++ or Super Meat Boy, I would be quite happy.
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This is why I always look up trophy guides now. I don't like having to go through a game again, or restart huge sections just because of one dumb missable. Still, I prefer these over "do repetitive thing 200 times" trophies because of how mind-numbing they are. Ni No Kuni was a lot of that -- finished a good few podcasts while grinding random shit out
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Yeah I'm doing the Collector role and just going around picking stuff up and trading them in for XP. Seems like the fastest thing to do, but no doubt quite repetitive. I actually don't mind grindy stuff these days because I usually just pop on football or wrestling or something on my laptop, but this one is annoying because I need the map to find the items, so I can't do that.
There's also PSNProfiles but I find that almost every single boosting session says that the date/time is just a placeholder. I find that doesn't work because (1) you don't even know what timezone the people that you are signing up to play with are in, and (2) without a definitive time/date, things tend to fizzle and not happen. If people stuck to the date/time, it would work a lot better.
In general, I've had a lot better luck trying to boost with 1 person than to organize a larger group for anything. That sounds obvious to begin with, but I also find that groupthink sets in with the larger groups and no one wants to do anything.
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Nah:
racking up kills at Thieves Landing is the fastest. There's a YouTube vid for it.