Topic: Games you've recently beat

@Thrillho Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is rather good at having the old school feel to it, while also feeling fresh. It's a much more polished game than the first Yooka-Laylee.

Just finished Hollow Knight, very good game, had a lot of fun with it and I highly recommend it. Was considering going for the really difficult platinum trophy, but I saw there's a way players can cheat to get it (and many have) so I decided to move onto the next game in my backlog. Which is for the best I think as I have a lot of games to get through!

@LieutenantFatman Nice. Was it the pantheons that you gave up on? I wanted to platinum the game but struggled too much with the second or third one of those. Completing the Coliseum of Fools was enough for me!

Did you manage to do the infamous Path of Pain?

@Thrillho
Haha, no, but I just had a look at Path of Pain, looks worse than dark world out of Super Meat Boy. Bet they had some fun designing that.

I did get to the third pantheon, I feel I probably saved myself some stress there reading up on how rock hard the difficulty is on the endgame.

A few years ago I most likely would have forced myself to do all of it.

@LieutenantFatman I managed the Path of Pain (putting those enemies at the end is a dick move) and beat Nightmare King Grimm too. I stopped at the pantheons as it just wasn’t fun and I didn’t want to be left with such a bitter taste after such a marvellous game.

I’m looking forward to the new game but may hold off for a while seeing as they released so many updates to this game.

My youngest son persuaded me to put Knack II on earlier... and we completed it! Fun game, much more tolerable than the first Knack, which I still haven't completed, come to think of it.

@crimsontadpoles I played the demo of Impossible Lair recently and came away very impressed. Enjoyed it enough to look out for it in a sale, definitely.

That’s me finished Metro 2033. I really enjoyed it, the atmosphere was excellent and while the shooting and animations were very last-gen, the story was brilliant and elevated it. My only real gripe was that you had to follow an extremely slow NPC almost constantly but other than that, I had a great time.

@nessisonett What system did you play it on? I hear it suffers a bit on ps4. It will probably be the next game I borrow from my dad.

@JohnnyShoulder I didn’t notice too many problems on PS4 to be honest, a few frame rate drops maybe but I encountered more annoying bugs than performance issues.

Just finished Resident Evil 0 I got in a sale to get me in the mood before Resi 3 Remake. I forgot how awkward the fixed camera and tank controls were. Still I'm chuffed I beat it on Hard (no comment on the rank D, 37 saves).

Just discovered the trophy for completing Resi 0 on hard didn't pop. I stopped myself a couple of times from knocking down the difficulty and persevered for nothing.

@BearsEatBeets have you tried synchronizing your trophy list with PSN manualy?

might fix it.

@jdv95 Yeah no good unfortunately. I even tried reloading my last save just before the final battle and doing it again but still nothing. Oh well it's just one silver trophy, just a shame when I could have had a more chill playthrough.

@Kidfried
Catherine was great fun, I was awful at it but the story was great, not tried the newly updated PS4 release mind you.

@BearsEatBeets
Always frustrating when trophies don't unlock unexpectedly, unlucky.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Yeah having to constantly drop things to pick up other things (especially that hookshot) was a pain. I've never found the inventory system as restrictive in the others in the series. It made me realise how much the games have improved in many areas.
@LieutenantFatman @RogerRoger Thanks, it's annoying. I couldn't find any mention of a glitch either so it must be super rare or I somehow made a mistake right at the start and it didn't register me picking Hard. I'm 99% sure I did though but realised when I started checking that nowhere does it tell me what difficulty I picked and you can't change it at any point to see. Oh well, if I was going for the Platinum I would be more bothered but there is too much repetition for me to be fussed.

I made up for it this morning by beating the last couple of side bosses in Control and getting the Plat for that. Think I've matched my total for last year already.

@BearsEatBeets Oh wow, that sucks RE: the trophy.

I do like collecting trophies for games I love, but, at the same time, I don't like how they often make me feel like I've done a substandard job of completing a game when, in the absence of them, I would have been perfectly satisfied with my playthrough. Or how they can inspire me to play a game through in a way that I probably wouldn't have wanted to otherwise, like you with RE0 on Hard Mode.

Well, YOU know you beat the game on Hard. You don't need a little digital sticker to legitimize that accomplishment, even if it would have been nice. Admittedly, I'd have probably been a bit salty as well if I'd played through HZD again on the hardest difficulty and hadn't had the corresponding trophy pop.

Pats your back

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I got quite far into the game before I realised I could just put stuff down anywhere. I got used to putting things into the chests in safe rooms. Yeah that stupid Bat boss took a fair few attempts to get passed. I was beginning to think I might have to go back to an earlier save and try and get there with more stuff but eventually scraped it. Also hated the leech-men.

@Ralizah Cheers. Yeah, missing one trophy on a 12 hour (for me) game I'm not going to try for a Plat is much less bothersome than if it happened on a huge game like Horizon. I nearly got glitched out of getting the Platinum in the Witcher 3 so that would have been much worse.
When I first finished that game I thought I had collected all the gwent cards for that trophy but it hadn't popped. I owned the game guide so I went through the list in the back and ticked off the list to be sure and I did have them. I decided to leave it as there were some other trophies I didn't have. I got both of the DLC but decided to wait for them both before playing but discovered they had patched in a book into the game which you could buy and it would track which cards you needed. So I loaded up my old save and went to the shop and got the book. As soon as Geralt walked out the shop the trophy popped and it made my day. Getting the book must have fixed the game into realising I had them all.
Subsequently I decided to replay the whole game on Deathmarch before doing the DLC.

But yeah I generally have to really like a game to go for the hard mode but I strangely chose it from the start for Resi 0. I really like games like Horizon/God of War that keep difficulty separate.

Few days ago I finished Kingdom Come Deliverance and all its DLC. 200 hours of slow but real(istic) fun! If the sequel will have no tech issues (pop in and slow loading time for textures) it will be a glorious RPG.

Just finished Firewatch. I started it a few years ago but had the save corrupt after a crash shortly into it and never got around to restarting it. I fancied something chill so had another go. Suffered from a lot of framerate dropping but I enjoyed the game and thought it had some great writing.

It's been a productive weekend (in a gaming sense) with Control, Resident Evil 0 and Firewatch all being completed and knocked off my backlog.