Challenges

• Syberia - The World Before
  

  20 hours playtime

  30 of 30 achievements

Report #415: Syberia - The World Before

Is this the grande finale?

Well, well. The fourth and (currently) last game of this series just finished. Someday this year the first game of the series gets a remaster and I remember buying this one last summer. So time to finish it.
Compared to the others I found it way more casual. It was too complicated to progress through the story and there were no game breaking/savegame breaking bugs except one. Sometimes when starting the game the quest log is frozen. If you then reload you can finish the scene, but the quest log will not recognize it as completed. Its annoying, because this invalidates the achievement to get all side actions done. Had to start over about half way through the game.
But anyway, a nice fourth game.

• Dying Light
  

  115 hours playtime

  78 of 78 achievements

Report #414: Dying Light

Do not play solo

What a ride this game has been. In 2015 I first started to play this alone. Did not have too much fun with it, but recently a friend and me decided to jump into the game in 2-player coop and we really enjoyed that. So for the last 10 months we played it 1-2 times per week and today finished the last achievement in the last DLC.
During that journey we discovered a lot of annoying bugs and frustrating time runs, but it was worth the time at the end.

Now installed Dying Light 2 and we will start playing that soonish.

And since I started playing that in 2015, this kinda puts at least some progress to the long forgotten 20/22 challenge

• Tiny Tina's Wonderlands
  

  49 hours playtime

  47 of 47 achievements

Report #413: Tiny Tina's Wonderlands

Good, Bad, Buggy

Finally done with Tiny Tina Wonderlands. I like and dislike the game more or less at the same time. Its definitively a nice and different concept of having a Loot Shooter combined with Pen & Paper / DnD elements. Story telling also was in most cases very funny. But once you rushed through the main story and side quests the game suddenly gets super annoying.
For example there are 4 DLCs, which just adds 4 Portals where you fight a couple of enemy waves, kill a boss and do that 4 times each to reach the highest difficulty. Cann’t get more boring. Then you have those Chaos Chamber Runs, which are also very repetetive.
But we sticked to it in a group of four.

• Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping
  

  3 hours playtime

  11 of 11 achievements

Report #412: Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping

Very similar to the previous one. See my post here.
Again a very quick completion from my family library. There is one area at the coast which was a bit annoying as the colors of the symbols above the characters is misleading, if you can talk to them about a new topic or not.
But besides that very fun game.

The end of Batch #40

• Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
  

  2 hours playtime

  7 of 7 achievements

Report #411: Duck Detective: The Secret Salami

A nice, short game for some time killing. Not really sure it should count as backlog removal, as I just played it because its part of my family library :D
Anyway was a pleasant game and already installed the second installment.
Basically more or less a point & click game combined with sherlock detective work. You need to deduckt a crime and find the culprit.

• Mass Effect™: Andromeda
  

  35 hours playtime

  16 of 55 achievements

Report #410: Mass Effect™: Andromeda

Wow, this has been a long time I actually “finished” a game. Have been playing a lot of coop sessions and other endless games.
Anyway had this for a while on my bucket list. Enjoyed the previous games and was okay with this one. Although I kind of rushed the story at the end, the additional mechanics and exploring just felt a bit too repetetiv.

Off to new adventures!

• The Curse of Monkey Island
  

  7 hours playtime

  no achievements

Report #409: The Curse of Monkey Island

Life of Daerphen Challenge Year 1997

Played a bit of a nostalgia game. Not really sure which of the Monkey Island games I played at a friends place back then. For sure not right after release but a few years later.
Its a nice game, the graphics of course are not too great compared to current point & clicks, but its solid. And it had no weird game closing bugs as other modern games.

• A Plague Tale: Requiem
  

  9 hours playtime

  no achievements

Report #408: A Plague Tale: Requiem

Game crashing bug

Been a while that I marked a game as broken/not playing anymore.

The game itself was really cool. Until it crashed to desktop after a cutscene. And is not startable again. As soons as the game loaded the checkpoint it stops again. Without error messages. A shame of error handling. Really glad it is “just a HB choice” game

• Nanotale - Typing Chronicles
  

  8 hours playtime

  34 of 34 achievements

Report #407: Nanotale - Typing Chronicles

Learning to type very very fast

This is this kind of games where I midway through the game think “why the hell am I playing such games”. Typing a lot throughout my work day I then go in the PC in my free time to run around a beautiful world and killing enemies, collecting lore by typing words above their heads.
It is similar from the gameplay as Epistory, but it has some new modificators and elements that you can use to either kill, heal or build something.

• Syberia 3
  

  20 hours playtime

  40 of 40 achievements

Report #406: Syberia 3

Here we go, number 3 of the syberia series done. Somehow I thought I already completed this part, when I purchased the forth game (Syberia: The World Before) in the summer sale.
The story is nice and was happy to play it. But the controls sometimes made me hate the game. I soft locked myself twice. First time was a real bummer, because I did not know of the soft locking possibility and the game only has one autosave slot. So I lost about 4 hours of progress.
The second also was annoying, almost at the end but forgot to backup my autosave for maybe 2 hours and had to replay those.
But with a guide I managed to get all the achievements and happy to continue with the next part sooner or later.