It was all going so well. I had a game I enjoyed that kept me amused for a reasonable period of time, I had the plan for the next 4 games all planned out.
08/11/15 - 5 Trophies, 27 Total
09/11/15 - 5 Trophies, 32 Total
10/11/15 - 3 Trophies, 35 Total
11/11/15 - 4 Trophies, 39 Total
12/11/15 - 2 Trophies, 41 Total
13/11/15 - 2 Trophies, 43 Total
14/11/15 - 1 Trophy, 44 Total
15/11/15 - 7 Trophies, 51 Total
16/11/15 - 8 Trophies, 59 Total (All Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag
17/11/15 - 26/11/15 - 0 Trophies
Now, it seems to have all fallen apart.
Mostly down to the mental capacity and personal issues which are all my problems.
I may need to find a new positive feeling to continue this challenge, but I will keep trying.
November 26, 2015
November 08, 2015
22 Trophies in a week, seems a little low...
So, I have started my challenge, yet have already cheated in my process.
I started playing a game called Kung-Fu Rabbit (which obviously doesn't begin with the letter A) and the latest numbered Assassin's Creed before finishing the remaining Assassin's Creed games.
Below is the current trophy count, mostly due to Kung-Fu Rabbit and Assassin's Creed IV.
1st November 2015 - 1 Trophies, 1 Total
2nd November 2015 - 0 Trophies, 1 Total
3rd November 2015 - 5 Trophies, 6 Total
4th November 2015 - 9 Trophies, 15 Total
5th November 2015 - 0 Trophies, 15 Total
6th November 2015 - 2 Trophies, 17 Total
7th November 2015 - 5 Trophies, 22 Total
Will post daily updates from now on, seems a much better idea.
I started playing a game called Kung-Fu Rabbit (which obviously doesn't begin with the letter A) and the latest numbered Assassin's Creed before finishing the remaining Assassin's Creed games.
Below is the current trophy count, mostly due to Kung-Fu Rabbit and Assassin's Creed IV.
1st November 2015 - 1 Trophies, 1 Total
2nd November 2015 - 0 Trophies, 1 Total
3rd November 2015 - 5 Trophies, 6 Total
4th November 2015 - 9 Trophies, 15 Total
5th November 2015 - 0 Trophies, 15 Total
6th November 2015 - 2 Trophies, 17 Total
7th November 2015 - 5 Trophies, 22 Total
Will post daily updates from now on, seems a much better idea.
November 03, 2015
My 365 Day Game Challenge
As I perused my game collection for something to play, I realised that I hadn't played a lot of them for longer than a couple of minutes to an hour. Some games are made that way, but I also aim to complete a game 100%. Microsoft first increased the lifetime of games by adding Achievements starting in 2005. It added a brand new level of playing games, providing in game rewards and progress checks as you completed certain tasks.
Sony decided that they would add the same option on their PS3 console in 2008, but instead of choosing a score total to add to games, they decided to add physical 'Trophies' to games. These come in Bronze, Silver and Gold; each supposedly meaning the level of difficulty they require to unlock them. On many of the retail releases, there is also a Platinum trophy which symbolises full completion of the game in question.
Some people play only certain games, some people play many games and some people have the urge to complete all games available and like to be eclectic. I fall in the latter category and decided that I wanted to test my mettle against my game list before trying anything new.
Below is my list based on www.psnprofiles.com/Psy-Tychist/ showing what games I haven't completed to Platinum or 100% in alphabetical order. My challenge is to do it in this order rather than choosing the easier games and do them first and putting off the difficult trophies. I will try to write daily updates on how I am doing and hopefully, it will show some perseverance and be interesting to read.
Sony decided that they would add the same option on their PS3 console in 2008, but instead of choosing a score total to add to games, they decided to add physical 'Trophies' to games. These come in Bronze, Silver and Gold; each supposedly meaning the level of difficulty they require to unlock them. On many of the retail releases, there is also a Platinum trophy which symbolises full completion of the game in question.
Some people play only certain games, some people play many games and some people have the urge to complete all games available and like to be eclectic. I fall in the latter category and decided that I wanted to test my mettle against my game list before trying anything new.
Below is my list based on www.psnprofiles.com/Psy-Tychist/ showing what games I haven't completed to Platinum or 100% in alphabetical order. My challenge is to do it in this order rather than choosing the easier games and do them first and putting off the difficult trophies. I will try to write daily updates on how I am doing and hopefully, it will show some perseverance and be interesting to read.
Games to be completed:
2010 FIFA World Cup
Alien Breed 2: Assault
Alien Breed 3: Descent
Alien Breed: Impact
Alone In The Dark
Alpha Protocol
AMY
Assassin's Creed III
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Assassin's Creed: Revelations
Batman: Arkham City
Batman: Arkham Origins
BAYONETTA
Beyond: Two Souls
Bionic Commando
BioShock 2
BioShock Infinite
BlazBlue Continuum Shift
Borderlands
Borderlands 2
Braid
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Brütal Legend
Bulletstorm
Burnout Paradise
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Captain Morgane and the Golden Turtle
Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse
CastleStorm
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
CATHERINE
Chariot
Cloudberry Kingdom
Contrast
Cubixx HD
Cuboid
Damnation
Dark Void
Dead Island
Dead Rising 2
Dead Space
Dead Space 2
Dead Space 3
Dead Space Extraction
Deadpool
Defiance
Demon's Souls
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
DiRT 2
Dishonored
DmC Devil May Cry
Doki-Doki Universe
Double Dragon Neon
Dragon's Dogma
DuckTales: Remastered
Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition
Dungeon Siege III
Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara
ENSLAVED: Odyssey to the West
Entwined
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
F1 2010
F1 2011
F1 2012
F1 Race Stars
Fallout 3
FEZ
FIFA 09
FIFA 10
FIFA 11
FIFA 12
FIFA 13
FINAL FANTASY XIII
FINAL FANTASY XIII: LIGHTNING RETURNS
From Dust
Frozen Free Fall: Snowball Fight
Frozen Synapse Prime
GHOSTBUSTERS: The Video Game
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
God of War II
God of War III
God of War: Chains of Olympus
God of War: Ghost of Sparta
Grand Theft Auto V
GRID 2
Guacamelee!
Guardians of Middle-earth
Guitar Hero 5
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1
HOARD
Hotline Miami
I AM ALIVE
ICO
inFAMOUS
Iron Man 2
Jak II
Jetpack Joyride
Jetpack Joyride Deluxe
Joe Danger 2: The Movie
Jurassic Park: The Intruder
KickBeat
Killzone 2
KINGDOM HEARTS FINAL MIX
KINGDOM HEARTS II FINAL MIX
Knytt Underground
Limbo
LittleBigPlanet
Lone Survivor
Luftrausers
MALICIOUS
Max Payne 3
Metal Gear Solid 2
Metal Gear Solid 3
METAL GEAR SOLID 4
Metro: Last Light
Mirror's Edge
Modern Warfare 3
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
MouseCraft
Narco Terror
NBA 2K14
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD
Outland
Papo & Yo
Pinballistik
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
PlayStation Home
Portal 2
Prince of Persia
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones
Proteus
PROTOTYPE
Puppeteer
Race The Sun
RAGE
Rainbow Moon
Ratchet & Clank
Ratchet & Clank 2
Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One
Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus
Rayman Origins
Red Dead Redemption
Red Faction: Guerrilla
Remember Me
Renegade Ops
RESIDENT EVIL 6
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
Resistance 2
Robot Rescue Revolution
Rogue Legacy
Sacred Citadel
Saints Row: The Third
Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse - Episode 1: The
Penal Zone
SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD: THE GAME
Shadow of the Colossus
Shoot Many Robots
SingStar
SingStar
Sleeping Dogs
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time
Soldner-X: Himmelssturmer
SOULCALIBUR Lost Swords
Sound Shapes
Spec Ops: The Line
Spelunky
SPLATTERHOUSE
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Stealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones
Stealth Inc.
Stormrise
STREET FIGHTER IV
TEKKEN 6
TEKKEN REVOLUTION
TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT HD
The Cave
The Chronicles of Riddick Assault on Dark Athena
The Expendables 2 Videogame
The House of the Dead: OVERKILL Extended Cut
The Last of Us
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North
The Swapper
Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10
TOKYO JUNGLE
Tomb Raider
Tomb Raider: Anniversary
Tomb Raider: Legend
Tomb Raider: Underworld
Tower of Guns
Trine 2
UFC 2009 Undisputed
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Unmechanical
Velocity Ultra
Vessel
Wanted
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
WET
White Knight Chronicles
White Knight Chronicles II
WipEout HD
Wolverine
WWE SmackDown vs. RAW 2010
Zack Zero
Zen Pinball 2
Unearned trophies (including DLC): 5500 as of 03/11/15
Unearned trophies (excluding DLC): 4369 as of 03/11/15
April 07, 2011
Women Gamers
I've had this thought recently about gaming and how it's perceived.
Over the past couple of years, gaming has become as mainstream as film, books and most other art forms. As it has become more accessible and another alternative for evenings in, I'm wondering on how it affects the women in a relationship, or the female gamer.
I don't know many avid female gamers. I know one or two who will casually play games, or have their own specific games or game types they stick to rigidly.
If any women would like to take the time to comment with the answers to the following questions, I'd be most grateful:
What is your favourite character from a game, or gaming series?
Which console(s) do you own?
What game, or gaming series do you enjoy most?
Which type of game do you enjoy most? (E.g. Racing, Sports, RPG, FPS etc)
Do you play games more than your partner or male friends?
Have any games given you an emotional reaction? If yes, which one one(s), and what happened?
Do you believe women in games are undervalued or just sexualised?
Are there enough avenues for women to get into the gaming community?
Do you have a idea for a game which you think would sell really well?
Feel free to add anything I may have missed.
I'm hoping to find some interesting results to my questions.
Over the past couple of years, gaming has become as mainstream as film, books and most other art forms. As it has become more accessible and another alternative for evenings in, I'm wondering on how it affects the women in a relationship, or the female gamer.
I don't know many avid female gamers. I know one or two who will casually play games, or have their own specific games or game types they stick to rigidly.
If any women would like to take the time to comment with the answers to the following questions, I'd be most grateful:
What is your favourite character from a game, or gaming series?
Which console(s) do you own?
What game, or gaming series do you enjoy most?
Which type of game do you enjoy most? (E.g. Racing, Sports, RPG, FPS etc)
Do you play games more than your partner or male friends?
Have any games given you an emotional reaction? If yes, which one one(s), and what happened?
Do you believe women in games are undervalued or just sexualised?
Are there enough avenues for women to get into the gaming community?
Do you have a idea for a game which you think would sell really well?
Feel free to add anything I may have missed.
I'm hoping to find some interesting results to my questions.
March 23, 2011
Bioshock (2008) - Review
A man smoking on a plane, stares at a photograph lovingly.
Next moment, he's in the water with oil slick flames surrounding him, swimming to escape a wrecked plane. Finding refuge on a rocky outcrop, he enters a door slightly ajar and within comes face to face with a face set in bronze. Descending steps into a circular room with a spherical pod seemingly sat on the water, the only way to escape is to enter the pod and see where it goes. Upon entering and pulling the lever, he descends over 20 fathoms into the sea, with a voiceover from a man who describes a vision of life unburdened by rules of the government or faith. The pod enters open water and a city sprawls in front of your eyes, set at the bottom of the ocean. This is where obsession and ambition create the incredible and the perverse. This is Rapture.
From this opening sequence the scope of the game set before you as a player seems immense and to truly understand the whole story of Rapture, the gamer has to take this First Person Shooter at a slower and more deliberate pace than most FPS's. It presents a variety of moral choices and showcases the fragile nature of the mind, of what power can do; even in the right hands and how far people will go for the sake of it.
Story:
The story starts with you, the faceless and voiceless main character, being guided through Rapture by a man going by the name of Atlas. He wants you alive so that he can save his wife and child and somehow put a stop to Andrew Ryan's rule over Rapture. As you progress throughout the game, a moral choice is put to you about how to deal with the major piece in the society of Rapture: Little Sisters. They are young girls who have been implanted with a sea slug which cultivates ADAM, a genetic material with the ability to transform anyones DNA and create abilities which seem impossible. Little Sisters are protected by giants in diving suits, incredibly strong, violent and fiercly protective of the Little Sisters called Big Daddys. Once seperated from a Big Daddy, you have the option to either harvest or rescue the Little Sister. Harvesting kills the girl, giving you the optimum amount of ADAM to procure new abilities. Rescuing the girl, kills the sea slug and reverts them to normal young girls, but at the expense of less ADAM to use. To progress, you will have to make this choice often and often with consequence.
The story as a whole is broken into sections of Rapture, each with several sub-missions to both help you progress and ease you into the way of playing the game. The most notable of these sections is when you reach Fort Frolic and meet Sander Cohen for the first time. This section is by far the most amusing and disturbing in equal measure, partly dues to Sander Cohens morbid obsession and his brilliantly scripted pieces which bring levity into a place so full of death.
As with any good story, there are twists and turns throughout, making you question why all the while. Not just about the character and why he is brought here, but to all the choices that the people in Rapture had, where it all went wrong and how brilliance became a sadistic power struggle.
Overall, the story is a triumph. Fully realised into a place that more than likely have existed, or possibly still does. The characters throughout create an experience which you will still be thinking about, and wondering whether it should've turned out different.
Next moment, he's in the water with oil slick flames surrounding him, swimming to escape a wrecked plane. Finding refuge on a rocky outcrop, he enters a door slightly ajar and within comes face to face with a face set in bronze. Descending steps into a circular room with a spherical pod seemingly sat on the water, the only way to escape is to enter the pod and see where it goes. Upon entering and pulling the lever, he descends over 20 fathoms into the sea, with a voiceover from a man who describes a vision of life unburdened by rules of the government or faith. The pod enters open water and a city sprawls in front of your eyes, set at the bottom of the ocean. This is where obsession and ambition create the incredible and the perverse. This is Rapture.
From this opening sequence the scope of the game set before you as a player seems immense and to truly understand the whole story of Rapture, the gamer has to take this First Person Shooter at a slower and more deliberate pace than most FPS's. It presents a variety of moral choices and showcases the fragile nature of the mind, of what power can do; even in the right hands and how far people will go for the sake of it.
Story:
The story starts with you, the faceless and voiceless main character, being guided through Rapture by a man going by the name of Atlas. He wants you alive so that he can save his wife and child and somehow put a stop to Andrew Ryan's rule over Rapture. As you progress throughout the game, a moral choice is put to you about how to deal with the major piece in the society of Rapture: Little Sisters. They are young girls who have been implanted with a sea slug which cultivates ADAM, a genetic material with the ability to transform anyones DNA and create abilities which seem impossible. Little Sisters are protected by giants in diving suits, incredibly strong, violent and fiercly protective of the Little Sisters called Big Daddys. Once seperated from a Big Daddy, you have the option to either harvest or rescue the Little Sister. Harvesting kills the girl, giving you the optimum amount of ADAM to procure new abilities. Rescuing the girl, kills the sea slug and reverts them to normal young girls, but at the expense of less ADAM to use. To progress, you will have to make this choice often and often with consequence.
The story as a whole is broken into sections of Rapture, each with several sub-missions to both help you progress and ease you into the way of playing the game. The most notable of these sections is when you reach Fort Frolic and meet Sander Cohen for the first time. This section is by far the most amusing and disturbing in equal measure, partly dues to Sander Cohens morbid obsession and his brilliantly scripted pieces which bring levity into a place so full of death.
As with any good story, there are twists and turns throughout, making you question why all the while. Not just about the character and why he is brought here, but to all the choices that the people in Rapture had, where it all went wrong and how brilliance became a sadistic power struggle.
Overall, the story is a triumph. Fully realised into a place that more than likely have existed, or possibly still does. The characters throughout create an experience which you will still be thinking about, and wondering whether it should've turned out different.
February 03, 2011
In a Galaxy, not so very far away...
...there was a man who had decided to tell stories.
Stories about what he loved and stories which could be better.
Stories with passion, disbelief, humour and unsurpassed ideas and ideals.
Within these pages, I hope to explore the meanings and thoughts behind some of the greatest (and not so great) games we know and love (or not in some cases).
Come join in, help me out, or just sit back and enjoy what is to follow.
Stories about what he loved and stories which could be better.
Stories with passion, disbelief, humour and unsurpassed ideas and ideals.
Within these pages, I hope to explore the meanings and thoughts behind some of the greatest (and not so great) games we know and love (or not in some cases).
Come join in, help me out, or just sit back and enjoy what is to follow.
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