A rather different two platinums earned in quick succession;
#82 Clair Obscure: Expedition 33
Not much to say about this that won’t have already been said. A wonderful game but one with some rather faffy and time consuming trophies in the post game.
#83 Thank Goodness You’re Here
A short but properly funny game (if you enjoy surreal humour), especially for the Brits. Lots of missable trophies and I had to replay the game for one but luckily you can mainline the game in about 45 mins if needed.
#59 - Borderlands 2. Sort of got massively into the game after years of dipping in and checking out because of the truly woeful humour. Probably Stockholm syndrome but the humour has sort of circled back to being so atrocious that it’s honestly borderline endearing. The game is so genuinely an affront to writing in every sense other than character development and design, Handsome Jack is really up there with the best. Gameplay wise it’s basically crack for ADHD brains, especially when I was dealing out millions of damage by the end. Sank like 150 hours into it over the last month, taking a Zer0 through all three difficulties, farming for my preferred build and doing every DLC including the BL3 prequel that basically spoiled Tales that I haven’t played by fully telling me a major character died. Platinum wise, makes you do quite a lot which I didn’t mind other than spending a couple hours killing 750 enemies with shotguns to the face for a specific challenge. Thank god for the level 30 boosted characters from the FFS DLC for the character specific trophies too, took 15 minutes instead of several hours. Honestly loved my time with the game, will absolutely play The Pre Sequel now. I really do hate Randy too, for several reasons including my love of Risk of Rain, so this is about as begrudging praise as you get, but when Gearbox get it right they really do get it right. Which is not very often.
@nessisonett Nice one. I played the hell out of the game back in the day and I think I got to like NG++ at least. The platinum was never an option seeing as you had to level each character so much so it’s interesting to hear you can get round that now.
It was fun how they added some DLC to tie it into Tales From the Borderlands too.
The Pre Sequel is fine but the oxygen mechanic is a bit of a pain. I quite enjoyed how Australian the game was with the dialogue and humour (given the developer was 2K Australia) and overall it is fine but didn’t have quite the impact on me.
I never bothered with B3 though for the reasons you give about Randy.
@Thrillho I forgot to mention the main barrier to the platinum which was that I apparently did so much slag damage that I triggered an overflow, meaning I had to do over 2 billion slag damage to get it back to 0 and complete the challenge again. Theoretically that means unlimited badass ranks but it was rather annoying. The level 30 boosted characters thing is great but it does require a DLC not included with the Handsome Collection so I’m glad I got it on the cheap.
@nessisonett
Congrats. I must get back to the PS4 version.
As I recall the challenges were pretty annoying and I spent most of the game with the shotgun even though it isn’t my preferred weapon but it needed a crazy amount of “up close and personal” shotgun kills.
@Thrillho
As stated you can use the dlc or you can get a high level coop partner to do a particular mission over and over (I think it is called Bar room blitz or beat down).
I’ve actually completed the VR version (highly recommended with the Moves/AIM) which didn’t have the DLC boost method or support coop and the character specific trophies were annoying.
@CaptD Fair enough. I doubt I’ll be going back to the game again now though; December 2013 I got my first trophy for the game on PS3! But just seven years since I got my first when replaying the game on PS4 so maybe I’m overdue a replay
@CaptD Yeah, I barely used shotguns because I used the Unkempt Harold for burst damage. I think I had about 30 close kills with the shotgun before realising I needed 750. It was a grind!
Just got platinum (#112) for Outlast 2 which has a 0.01% and I've got to say it was one of the most unfun/stressful trophies I have ever got, I do not recommend anyone attempt this unless you are a glutton for punishmentlike me...
I just got my 5,000th overall trophy (and 28th Platinum) playing RoboCop Rogue City: Unfinished Business (very fun game). I am not really a trophy hunter (as you can see from the relatively small number of Plats), but I have always liked trophies. They are a fun way to find new ways to play games, and a fun diary of what you have played.
That is why I am posting this-5,000 is not a huge number considering the years I have been gaming (and I game on other platforms, so it doesn't really capture everything I am doing). But, once I realized that it was a round number trophy, I looked back through all my old games/trophies and had a great time reminiscing about all the fantastic games I have played over the years.
Gaming is such a fun hobby. I am very thankful for it.
@Westernwolf4 I agree with you about the nostalgic value of trophies. I enjoy perusing my trophy list from time to time and reminiscing on past gaming experiences. I don’t really focus on the individual trophies of most of those games from yesteryear but just seeing the actual games and the trophy percentages is a fun stroll down memory lane. It will often help me recall times and events in my non-gaming life that were happening at the same time I was playing some of those games in the past. Great stuff.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
Not much to say about this that hasn't been said before. Excellent game.
My only gripe with it: the hardest optional boss requires your character build to be so good, that if you do this before finishing the game, everything else from that point just dies before it can even take a single turn. Had to grind a bit to get there (and get to level 99 for another trophy) but it's pretty chill if you know where to do it and doesn't take too long.
I think they meant for that to be tackled after the main story but the game does not make that clear at all.
Oh well.
Anyway, got both endings too, even though that's not required for the trophy. One of them is kind of insane.
Total time was 70 hours, which includes a bunch of time failing the optional boss fights before deciding I need to grind it out to make it doable
@Voltan Good work. Did you defeat Simon properly or with the glass cannon Maelle build? I went for the latter and also dropped the difficulty for the Endless Tower as I got fed up of repeating fights.
I did like that there was no good ending but I found Maelle’s ending to be kind of insane so I hope you agree
@Thrillho I didn't look up a specific build but I did hear solo Maelle with every damage-buff lumina was a good pick so I did that indeed.
The tower though, I did that earlier without putting much thought into specific builds (just using whatever felt good along the way). That one took a lot of parries.
The only things I did after Simon were Clea (and her flying manor thing) and the main Act 3 mission. At that point I didn't really have to try.
As for the endings - yeah, that's the one I meant.
4 full playthroughs on varying difficulties and characters. 3 partial playthroughs. Some truly irritating trophies. Claptrap screwing me over for the very last trophy. Second controller shenanigans. Genuine frustration boiling over into the final trophy popping at yes, almost 5 AM due to the bank holiday meaning I get tomorrow off as well. This really did have it all. Solid 7/10 game really, a lot of missed potential but I liked the plot for the most part even after seeing the opening literally 7 times. The vault hunters are honestly more interesting than 2 and I like that cast. The devs could have delivered something special with the post-release content if they weren’t taken out back and euthanised, the Claptastic Voyage is really well done. Glad I got as much out of it as I could.
And with that, my 199 hour (according to PS5) ride with the Handsome Collection is over. Mad to think it never clicked with me before, I think my brain is at a stage where numbers going up is like crack and I prefer the FPS angle to looking down on a tiny Diablo person. I do own 3 but none of the DLC and I very much would like to play it with the DLC included, which is apparently like £60 so hopefully it goes on a deep sale soon. If the first one’s remaster goes on sale too then I’d be up for a playthrough of that as well. Randy is Randy but the games really are good underneath the Randy, you just have to dig past the often eye watering jokes to find the gold hidden underneath.
I think my brain is at a stage where numbers going up is like crack..
I'm surprised you're not seeing those numbers in real life after that much time with the game. Fair play for sticking it out all that time for the plat though!
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