@Hapless yeah I played through 1 & 2 back in 2009, then played through them again together with 3 in 2019. Then I got the plat on 1 a couple of years ago.
@Hapless@graymamba I think I’ve mentioned this before but I don’t have any Uncharted platinums and have always been scared away from playing on Crushing. Perhaps I need to try it. I have UC2 on my list for this year and will probably get to it in the next few months, depending. My intricate schedule that I created for myself in January has already gotten off course. 😅
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Hapless never too proud to ignore advice, I can assure you 😉
@Th3solution I say go for it bud, what’s the worst that can happen? You’re gonna be playing it anyway, at least take it out on Crushing for a test-drive. Personally, I think it improves the game a fair bit… and is still pretty fair.
edit. You know I’m a sucker for schedule-news… what’s happened? 🫣
@graymamba I’ll apologize in advance for this boring post, but you asked… 😛
As far as scheduling, I looked at the backlog and made my 2025 goals and then created a schedule that would fit those goals. My approach had been to try to balance one big AAA game at a time with one or two smaller games on the side, …which honestly is the approach I’ve been happy with for quite a while now. It seems to keep the big AAA game (which tend to be long) from getting too tedious and has kept me really well-rounded, I feel. Also I wanted to alternate older games with more recent ones, when possible.
My year got off to a good start but I was supposed to have finished Crisis Core and Delivers Us the Moon in Jan so I could start Witcher 3 in Feb. I stumbled with Crisis Core and fell off for a little while (still haven’t finished it), but did get started on RE4 as soon as I finished DUtM and the little weekend game The Gardens Between. RE4 was supposed to be played in tandem with Witcher 3 for Feb, but I underestimated how big of a game RE4 is — seems to be about twice as long as RE1, RE2, and probably three or four times the length of RE3. So it looks like it is going to be my main game for Feb and so then I added Gris for my Portal side game in bed, and then to make matters worse a mate came over and wanted to play something and we started It Takes Two. 😅 Which is a great game but it’s got me even more off schedule. I had planned my main big game to be Witcher 3 for Feb and March and am scheduled for Baldur’s Gate 3 starting in April and have it be my main through July (I know how huge it is), but now I’m wondering if I skip W3 (there’s no way I can finish it in one month) or should I replace it with a less demanding 50 hour game (like maybe SW Outlaws or GoW Ragnarok) that could be done in one month or do I just move BG3 up or maybe move it back a month. If I push it another month back it will eat into either Days Gone or Dark Souls 3, which are ‘’mains” at the end of the year.
The only other “main” that was on schedule for the year is HFW, and then I wanted a little wiggle room to squeeze in either Death Stranding 2 or Ghost of Yotei, depending on reviews.
The big main games are the ones that are hard to schedule in, the little games (anything less than 20 hrs or so) are easy to fill in randomly.
Incidentally UC2 is currently scheduled to do as my side game with BG3 in April.
@Th3solution I feel your pain buddy 😅… my trouble is that I keep trying to squeeze extra games in. I get a little bit ahead progress-wise and think “ooh, I’ll chuck a Yakuza game in here… or a live-action co-op looter-shooter… “ and I’m back behind the 8-ball before I know it.
Last year I planned to get 40 plats to take me to an overall 200 but around September I started thinking I could fit a bit more in during these last 4 months and initially added another 5… and then another 5! Needless to say I was a bit over ambitious and ended up on 45 & 205, having to carry over 5 into 2025 (that’s a lot of numbers ending in 5!). Which meant I was right up against it these first couple of months, as I still wanted to get the games I’d scheduled for January and February done. I somehow managed to get back on track but sure I’ll end up doing exactly the same thing once I get a little bit ahead of myself 🤣
@graymamba Yeah, and real-life variance has a large role also. Sometimes it’s just not predictable, at least for me.
I designed one my goals for the year with that “hey, I think I might want to squeeze in this game here that I hadn’t planned on” approach in mind. It was to: “Embrace a little impulsivity - Play 2 games that I currently don’t have plans to play” and I’ve already easily accomplished that, having added three games into the schedule. 😅
I think you and I are among the few ‘schedulers’ for our games, but I think you’re probably a lot better at keeping yours. I’m trying to be more like you but so far I haven’t got it down yet. 😄
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution 🤣 I’m not sure anyone should be following my lead tbh… I probably cause myself a fair bit more stress than my scheduling actually saves 😅.
I think a bit of pro-active scheduling is definitely worthwhile when backlogs are the way that they are though… but it’s all about trying to consciously prevent it from weighing on you too much if expected ‘deadlines’ are not met. I’m a fine one to talk in that regard but I do try at least.
I’ve also found that it’s a skill that develops the more you use it. My first attempts at schedules back in 2019 are schoolboy-like compared to the PowerPoint-like presentation I’m working with these days 😁.
@graymamba 😂 I do have a way to go before getting to your level! My schedule is limited to my notes app on my phone.
But I do think there’s value in a little advanced planning, even when plans go awry. Mainly because it’s so easy to forget about games you want to play because they get buried in other games quickly in today’s environment of voluminous releases. A prime example for me is Days Gone, which I brushed under the rug back in 2019 but has since then come back to my mind many times, only to get buried again. So putting on my schedule will hopefully nudge me to get it played this year.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
That’s Crushing negotiated on Uncharted 2. Still a few miscellaneous trophies to mop up but that’s the hard part done. Still an incredible game to this day… just wish it were longer!
@graymamba
Nice but it is Brutal that separates the hardcore gamers from the casuals.
Just been watching the latest Friday Access video and they show a board meeting at Naughty Dog, someone should really inform them that Bluepoint added the Brutal shizzle.
PS. In the same video they go on about hardcore in Kingdom come deliverance, don’t worry about it as it isn’t that difficult.
@Hapless cheers buddy, yeah I ain’t sweatin’ it tbh… simply for a gold/silver or whatever it is.
Straight banger of a game though… it’s really messing with my personal GoaT rankings. It was nowhere near my top 10… and now I’m left trying/struggling to find reasons that it should’nt be included 🤷
@Hapless Ha ha definitely, I have heard it is pretty much broken but I thought I would see how far @graymamba would go for that bling, clearly nothing less than platinum would do it.
@CaptD dude, surely you’ve known me long enough… through my whole **** dlc-phase that you weren’t gonna bait me in for a adhoc trinket. How very dare you 😏
@PeaceSalad cheers buddy, yeah I got through it a fair bit quicker than I was expecting. As I mentioned to you prior to my playthrough, the Lazaravic boss fight was probably the toughest part for me. Didn’t struggle with the blue guys as much as I was expecting though… just tried to keep some grenades for them and as soon as one was down… grab their crossbow and dispatch any others left. I honestly think it’s a better game on Crushing, far more engaging and impactful. I reckon you’ll be pleasantly surprised by it.
The speed runs were easier than expected too because I was so used to Crushing difficulty by that point, that by lowering it down to Easy for the speed runs just meant that I could perpetually move forward without fear of dying.
@PeaceSalad like I always say mate, I ain’t particularly skilled but I’ll keep banging my head against a brick wall until I’ve somehow bust my way though 😅
Made a start on Darksiders this morning, only got about 2 hours in but it’s decent. Initially I thought it was overly basic and a little bit slow… but within about 45 minutes I was enjoying myself. Definitely more character action than Zelda for the moment at least… but I can kinda see the comparison even this early on.
Very 90’s artstyle in terms of chunky masculinity but it’s not a bad thing… I actually quite like it. I quite like the lore and narrative too, which while it was never gonna win any awards is still pretty cool (at least to someone who was in their teens during the 90’s 😅). Looking forward to playing some more.
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