Week of Oct 8 - Oct 14
Hey everyone! Back again with another weekly report. Hope last week has been great for you.
Here’s what I’ve been up to last week:
- McDROID: Completed 100%. The game becomes quite easy after you learn the ropes. Getting survival achievements was boring. Game’s buggy as hell in co-op, and I’ve had huge frame drops on single player sometimes for some reason.
- The Magical Silence: Completed 100%. Well, there isn’t much to say. You help a dog (guy?) commit suicide.
- Moon Colonization Project: Completed(?) 100%. I think the aim of this game is to make a self-sustaining colony on the moon, but I am not sure about how the game proceeds. Oh well, easy achievements.
- KickHim: Whack-a-mole. ‘nuff said.
So, there’s this inter-group challenge called “Play Games or Make a GA” I’m participating in. The goal is to play one of three never played games from your library before November 6. A random participant picked the games I’m to play, and I picked games for some other random participant. I’m going to post my progress on those three games as well until we reach the deadline.
| Game | Status |
|---|---|
| STAR WARS™ - Knights of the Old Republic™ | On hold. Kind of thinking about skipping this as I’ve played and finished KotOR before, just not on Steam. I could’ve started over if the game had achievements, but currently there is no incentive for me to replay, though I might do that if I’m done with the other two and there’s still time. |
| Dishonored | On hold. Will start once I’m done with Valiant Hearts. |
| Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ | Playing. I’m near the middle of the game. The gameplay was entertaining at first, but it has become repetitive and bland rather quickly. |
Last week’s game nights:
| Day | Game |
|---|---|
| Oct 8 - Saturday | Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide - Continued on the campaign. I think I’m starting to get the hang of it with the Wayfarer. |
| Oct 12 - Wednesday | Tabletop Simulator - Played a game of Pandemic. Lost the game to Outbreaks. Cured black though. |
| Oct 14 - Friday | Town of Salem - Skipped. |
Last week’s boosted co-op objectives:
| Date | Game | Objective | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8 | Tabletop Simulator | Jenny Clark is NUTS! - Play a game of Dead of Winter | Failed: Played game night instead. |
| Oct 9 | Talisman: Digital Edition | To The Tower! - Complete a game (playing this in Tabletop Simulator is suitable) | Failed: Was busy. |
| Oct 10 | Tabletop Simulator | Jenny Clark is NUTS! - Play a game of Dead of Winter | Failed: Was busy. |
| Oct 11 | Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes | Match-3 Showdown - Complete a competitive game | Completed-ish: Played a challenging 1v1 game as Ludmilla. Was about to deliver the final blow when Steam hanged and I got disconnected from the game. Still, objective was counted as done. |
| Oct 12 | Tabletop Simulator | Looting Atlantis - Complete a game of Forbidden Island | Failed: Played game night instead. |
| Oct 13 | Magic 2014 — Duels of the Planeswalkers | Twofer - Play a game of two-headed giants (any Magic game with the two headed giant game mode is suitable) | Completed: Played 2v2. Got rekt again by Kataztrophik’s OP deck. |
| Oct 14 | Age of Empires II HD | Age of Wololo - Complete a game (Age of Mythology is suitable) | Completed: Played a 3v3 hard game on Team Islands. Despite having to defend against amphibious assaults mid-game, we steamrolled later and won. |
I agree for Valiant Hearts: The Great War! I’ve done the first chapter and started the second but It gets boring and can’t bring myself to play it again ^^
Oh i see you are also a part of Beard-topia group :D I nearly participate to the Play Games or Make a GA event but I’d rather pick the games for myself :P Anyway good luck !
I’m not in Beard-topia, but in The QUIPS, where two Beard-topia members (adam and erdbeert) are also in. They decided to make their event inter-group, and I liked the idea, so decided to participate in it.
Well I’ve finished Valiant Hearts now, and I can tell you, it doesn’t get any better in chapters three and four. If anything, the mini-games become harder, and in some cases you have to do the same section over and over again just because you forgot the third falling bomb on an autoscroller and failed to position yourself. The story also becomes more bland and aimless once you defeat Baron von Dorf.
Ohh I didn’t know it was intergroup but I agree the idea is nice. And thanks, now I want to play Valiant Hearts even less! This game will fall into my unfinished games for quite a long time, I fear..
If you can, just play until you do every kind of mini-game at least once, or until you reach the spoiler point above. I can tell that a lot of effort went into it to bring a new aesthetic to adventure games, so I don’t want to turn anyone away from it.
I really like these daily/weekly objectives on your updates even though I believe I haven’t even commented once on your posts. Keep ‘em coming :)
Thank you! :D My backlog is too large and these days, and I don’t know where to begin with, so these objectives and stuff give me some aim at least (and I get to gain points as well).
Make sure to pass by howlongtobeat.com and when you have beaten the games you really want to play right now, start playing them by length? Just an idea.