Post your recent video game accomplishments.

Got all four endings in Skaultfold: Shrouded In Sanity; two of them were done in New Game Plus.

I finally managed to slay Darkeater Midir without summoning a phantom.

Red Moon is now a FIVE-STAR ISLAND, BABY! Golden watering can get! Now I just need some black roses...

I beat Nameless King without a phantom for the first time. I didn't really feel the same level of satisfaction as Midir, though. It kinda felt like I was cheating because I completely changed my loud-out by equipping the Iron Dragonslayer Armor and Dragonslayer Greatshield to absorb his lightning attacks, while I was able to beat Midir with my typical Glass Cannon Fragile Speedster build.

I beat Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume.

I got the worst ending.

I probably shouldn't have used the plume on Liselotte for the sake of killing her.

After 18 years of trying I caught a bee in Animal Crossing for Gamecube and paid off my final house loan.

Yesterday: Spyro Circuit and Nina's Nightmare Oxide ghosts DOWN!

Today: Grew my very first black rose!

Edited by ReikoKazama on May 19th 2020 at 7:12:32 PM

I've been playing Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice for over 47 hours, and I finally killed Isshin Sword Saint and got the best possible ending (the "Return" ending). The fight with Isshin himself is tough as nails already, but adding Genichiro (who's been the bane of my existence playing this game) made it borderline Fake Longevity. But holy hell did I feel amazing when I killed the cheating bastard at long last with a lightning counter.

The game is as Nintendo Hard as advertised, but man it's an incredible one to play through. Up there with Breath of the Wild and Resident Evil 7 as one of the eighth generation's best games.

Edited by sanfranman91 on May 19th 2020 at 2:57:52 AM

Defeated the Amon Clan in Yakuza 5! Kiryu's fight against Jo Amon was really annoying...

Edited by Zanreo on May 20th 2020 at 3:06:40 PM

Got every single achievement in Heaven Will Be Mine.

Finished Streets of Rage 4 without dying against the final bosses.

Edited by WillyFourEyes on May 24th 2020 at 12:45:32 PM

I got all the fossils in New Horizons! The last one I needed was a T-Rex skull. On Gamecube I have almost all of them too; all I need is a stego tail!

Just finished Ocarina of Time in Project64. I've always heard people talk about how amazing and classic this game is, so I figured I had to try it someday, just to see what all the fuss was about.

On the plus side, the story was pretty good, the music was catchy, and some of the things they did with the graphics technology of the time were quite impressive. However, I was rather disappointed with the gameplay. The control scheme was just unnecessarily janky and difficult to use, particularly limited to keyboard input (I couldn't even use the mouse), although I imagine that even with the original hardware it wouldn't have been much better. Speaking as someone who has played the original Gothic, OOT's controls make Gothic look fluid, responsive and logically coherent by comparison. On top of that, the quests and puzzles were not designed very well, with the solutions often being highly arbitrary and non-obvious (and often accompanied by annoying timers); and the combat was likewise not very balanced or player-friendly. I was consulting a walkthrough for just about every step of the game, and without it (and memory state save/load, of course) I likely would have gotten nowhere and long since given up. Conveniently, the final dungeon and boss were actually pretty easy compared to a lot of the earlier levels, although the aforementioned save scumming probably had a lot to do with that. Unlike many people I didn't find the infamous water temple to be unusually frustrating, but maybe that's just because everyone else found the rest of the game that much less frustrating...

From what I understand, the later Zelda games mostly just tell variations of the same basic story, with the same characters and setting. I could see that getting boring pretty quickly, so I doubt I'll play another game in this franchise for a very long time yet. (I have heard that Breath of the Wild is very well liked- and hopefully comes with a more modern control scheme- so maybe someday in the distant future when emulators can handle it smoothly and I have nothing better to do, I'll give it a shot.)

Breath of the Wild is very praised for giving more freedom in the way you decide to conduct your adventure - temples are substituted by shrines and Divine Beasts (the proper dungeons in the game) and become optional - once you get the Paraglider, you can run straight from the starting area to the final boss if you feel prepared enough. They still reward you in some way should you decide to do them, though: Divine Beast quests involve getting to know more about the culture and history of a given race and their main characters, shrines give the means to raise your hearts/stamina, as well as nifty items, etc.

Because of the recent Steam Spring Cleaning 2020 event, I decided to download Half Life: Episode 2 and give it a long-overdue replay. And since this was on the PC version (I originally played Episodes 1 and 2 via the PS 3 Orange Box collection), that meant I didn't have any of the achievements. Figured I may as well knock them out, can't be too hard right?

...Oh, my god. I forgot about that damned Gnome and the Neighborhood Watch achievements. The Gnome was more tedious than anything else; just needed to read up a couple of online guides on where or when I could leave it behind safely, or how to cram it into the muscle car without it falling off all the time. Bit of a note: the Combine gunship will actually try and shoot it out of your grip whenever you're holding it with your hands or the gravity gun. Make sure to put him aside in a safe spot, you don't want it getting blasted into an unreachable area.

The Neighborhood Watch achievement was utter pain. Just read a freaking online guide: you absolutely need to know which Striders to prioritize first, because a handful of those walkers will try and make a beeline straight to the structures instead, ruining the achievement run.

And I gave up on trying to hunt down the antlion grubs. I'm not gonna bother trying to scrutinize which one I missed, because there's roughly 333 of those suckers throughout the antlion caverns.

Paid off the last of my home loan in New Horizons! Just trying to think of a good greeting for Beardo... I'm bad at coming up with this stuff oof

Just finished the keepers (good) campaign of Age of Wonders. I went for the dwarves first (although thinking back on it I should have gone lizards) and then highmen. Highmen seem pretty good because their low-level units are really fast and they get valkyries, although of course the humans' flying galleons are clearly the ultimate unit in this game (too bad you can't stack up more than one!). In the final level I ended up killing Julia last, which was kinda sad. The humans took out the undead pretty early, then I took out the dark elves and finally went up and assassinated Julia with a fleet of flying galleons. I guess that's what happens if you refuse to accept change.

The music and graphics in this game were pretty slick, it kinda comes from that era right around the late 1990s and early 2000s when the visual quality of sprite-based games hit its peak before being increasingly replaced by 3D graphics. The aesthetics really captured the sort of LOTR-style fantasy setting. (With that being said, I was disappointed not to get another cinematic or some such at the end of the keepers campaign.) The gameplay was fairly solid, but the AI was about as smart as a sack of bricks and in general the pace could become tedious at times from having to cycle through so many armies every turn. Also the units and races didn't seem terribly well balanced, and the levels were divided between some levels that were way too easy (including the final level) and some that were much more difficult, with no particular ramping-up of difficulty over the course of the campaign. Overall I liked the game but there are definitely things that could be improved. I thought it was more refined and approachable than the Civilization games, and more logical than the Heroes of Might and Magic games although they perhaps have a stronger and more unique character to them. I wish I could say it ran perfectly stable too, and it almost did, but there were a couple of instances where something weird happened with the combat mechanics and crashed the game.

I mean to do the cult campaign too at some point, but not just yet- gonna cram in another game or two first so it feels a bit more fresh when I get back to this.

Got help with my missing hybrids and started work on my rainbow garden for real! I might make little pride flags around my island with any leftover flowers...

Tamed two Yuty's in ARK and released my two Bronto's back into the wild. Have their egg which is open to a good home. Play on Steam on my private server.

Eight years after my first attempt at Dark Souls, I at long last beaten the game. Playing through and clearing Sekiro made me motivated to plow through this personal nemesis of mine, so I bought a copy of its remaster on Nintendo's eShop and dedicated entire evenings to go through levels and bosses I have never experienced or seen before. After numerous deaths to Ornstein and Smough, getting toxic at Blighttown, falling off the invisible platforms at the Crystal Caverns, and other misadventures for 45 hours, I beat the final boss on my first attempt with a Zweihander +13 with a Rotten Pine Resin applied to it. Linking the flame and hearing Nameless Song made me drop to my knees and cry heavily over my Switch Lite.

This game may be second-fiddle overall to Sekiro in terms of From titles. But after eight years of aborted playthroughs, progression-halting deaths, and overall discouragement and disappointment, I can easily say slaying Gwyn on my first try is the greatest accomplishment I have felt and that Dark Souls is the most personal game I have ever cleared.

Edited by sanfranman91 on Jun 5th 2020 at 10:45:10 AM

Shifted my orchard to the left a bit so I can expand my bottom-level cliff to create more space for my top-level cliff... hoo boy. This rainbow garden is turning out to be a lot more work than I first thought...

Just finished 100%-ing Final Fantasy VII Remake. Meaning I've finished the campaign on both Normal and Hard, gotten all the trophies including Platinum, completed the Play Log, and fully leveled up every character and weapon.

I have now seen and done literally everything this game has to offer.

Edited by Primis on Jun 7th 2020 at 8:55:07 AM

I caught a piranha and giant catfish in Animal Crossing for Gamecube!

Got all of the non-Exile endings for Cultist Simulator. Now to move on to the Exile DLC.

One doggo (Bones) acquired and one robo-birb (Sprocket) successfully yeeted! (Took a few tries and a lot of Button Mashing... first he wanted to swap with Hazel, then he wanted to swap with Audie, then Puddles, then Octavian... and he kept either turning me down or winning the card game!) Now I just need to wait for a friend who wants Bones to have an empty plot so I can get another of my friends to show me how to basically turn my phone into an amiibo card and get Filbert...