Shadow and Flame with Magik

Thanks to Rocket League and Grand Theft Auto V, I finally got to Rank 16!

Sorry the picture isn’t better, I should have changed my theme and then taken a picture and reverted back to the Las Vegas theme that I got for Walker Dennis and his love for Chad Wild Clay.

16 Rank
1929 Total Trophies
21 Platinums
127 Gold
407 Silver
1374 Bronze

Plus a lot of hard work and dedication!  No sweat or tears, that I can remember.

That last ten percentage was a slow crawl from 15 to 16.

I was reading this website :

https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/ps4-trophies-everything-you-need-to-know/

Gabe Gurwin writes that:  Bronze trophies are worth 15 points, silver are 30 points, gold are 90 points, and platinum trophies are 180 points.

So I knew once I got the platinum for Late Shift (which still hasn’t happened), I was for sure making it to Rank 16 but that was probably going to take a while before I got back to that game and then another round before I beat it.

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I was having a blast playing Rocket League online and just trying different modes.  The 4 v 4 match was intense and no wonder they nicknamed it the Chaos Run, as so much is happening at all times.  It took a long time to find me a match but once the game paired me, I was pretty worried about making sure my team won the game and we did in overtime!  I was fully committed to just selecting the option again until we won but once we won, I ran out of that lobby to try other modes.

I still need to complete my first offline season, and now I wish I had the forethought to have made sure I had used either a Dominus or Takumi for an entire season so then I could have earned Winning is Winning and Champion at the same time.  But that’s okay, I’ll play two full seasons and still enjoy the heck out of it. It would have just saved some time, but I’ll be so much better at it the second time around.

I’m still using the Cristiano wheels to try to get 50 km as I got 10 km on them so I just have to keep using them.

I’m still trying to earn items, it just takes a long time to do so.  I barely have any rare items but once I get five of them, I have to trade them in to earn a very rare item and then win a match wearing that item.  I’m also trying to earn my first painted item too.  I haven’t come across Certified Items either.

I’m still not good enough to play against non-rookie bot opponents in handicap matches.

Those are my basic trophy goals for Rocket League but even after I get those and maybe a few other trophies, I’ll probably keep this game in the rotation and just enjoy myself that night.  Such fun!

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I started Grand Theft Auto 4 with the pure intentions of just earning trophies.  So I cheated and got the Play in First Person Mode for 15 hours as I hate playing in first person mode if I have the option for third person mode.  I left the game on all night and used a rubber band to keep the right stick at an angle so the system nor the controller would turn itself off.

I played as Franklin got a slew of trophies.  I already had 200,000 for the cab company but I saw there was a side quest where I could pick a guy up and he’ll give me a good stock tip.  I only earned like $80,000 more dollars when I thought I was going to get into the millions but it was enough of a bump to earn me a trophy for using the stock exchange.  Plus, I was able to fully modify Franklin’s pistol and his personal car.  He bought the cab company and then did a private ride and maybe got a girlfriend out of it?  I don’t know, they were flirting but then the next night, she was too busy so I’m not sure what is happening there.  It was late though so I didn’t blame her.

I got the team together to do a FIB mission.  Then I thought I’ll quickly play as Trevor and get a few of his trophies but instead I did the prep work for The Merryweather Heist, which will be the next thing I do in the game.  Oh, that was after I tortured a guy as Trevor so Michael could snipe a chain smoker.

I’ll probably still try to knock out a few of Trevor’s trophies but at this point, I’m just committed to just beating the main story and I’ll see where I go from there.

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A game I am done with for the meantime is Yakuza Kiwami.  I was having a great time escaping from the funeral until I came up against Futoshi Shimano.

From what I’ve read, he’s by far the hardest boss in the game, and the other ones are more fair.  I also read the game has 15 chapters which I was looking forward to playing through all of them but I spent like 30 minutes dying to Futoshi Shimano and that wasn’t even a fun 30 minutes.

I read that the match does essentially take 20 minutes of the most boring fighting there is.  Essentially, we have to hit him, run away, and repeat.  Which is not great and I clearly didn’t have the patience to do keep trying last night.  I’m hoping the game autosaved my progress as I really don’t want to do the 20 minutes of fights that led up to Shimano but if I have to do it, then that’s just what I have to do but, for now, the game is out of my rotation.  Be more fun game!

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The PlayStation Plus subreddit just started accepting guesses for what the free September games are going to be.  Someone on the Trophies subreddit mentioned how they got the plat for Grand Theft Auto III and now I really want to play that game again.  It would be nice to get it free of course but I added it to my PSPrices wishlist.

There is two ways about getting the game for the PS4.  One is to buy the trilogy pack that comes with Vice City and San Andreas.  Which I really liked Vice City but I didn’t quite get into San Andreas.  Vice City, I went back too later to see if I could goof around in the world but too much time had passed and it just felt like a foreign city to me.  San Andreas had a mission very early on where I had to chase a guy on a bike while I was also on a bike (which is fair) but I just never got good enough to complete it and that left me feeling defeated.  I even tried to keep CJ on a bike to increase his speed abilities but it was never enough.

The trilogy is usually $35 but goes as low as $17.49, which seems pretty generous.  Especially as III by itself is $15 but goes as low as $7.49.  Which I wouldn’t mind getting the trilogy for $18, as three full games for $18 is an amazing price!  But if III goes on sale prior to the trilogy, eight dollars for a game I really want, is a great price too!  I can only imagine if one is on sale, the other would be too.  So it is a race to see which goes on sale first!

I would feel compelled to play Vice City and San Andreas too, and I’m way better at games now, so I’ll probably have a great time but I’m also older and don’t have all the time in the world, so these games would hold me over for quite some time.  Plus, I own them, so I can play them whenever.

Looking at the trophy guide for III :

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/grand-theft-auto-3/guide/

I bet I don’t get the platinum for it but I just remember loving III so much and having a great time in Liberty City.

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We really need to move Stranger Things Season Three up our watch list as :

Thanks to Dead by Daylight for hosting their own video!

Nancy and Steve are coming to Dead by Daylight!  They are bringing a demogorgon with them and a new map too!

I can only imagine this is going to be upwards of seven dollars with two new survivors and a new killer.  If we can finish the series in time, I’m buying this day one, if not, I’ll be buying it once we finish it.  I still want Ghostface which I’ve been tempted to just buy right now but I imagine once this gets released, all of the other DLC will get discounted.  That’s what I’m hoping happens.

The Dead by Daylight subreddit is getting hyped for it too!

 

So nice to see the community come together for great news!

People are posting that they are coming back to the game for this, which sounds pretty legit.  Possibly, too legit!

People are hyped for Steve but of the two characters, I’ll be playing as Nancy.

I would also be okay if Alien and Ripley join Dead by Daylight, let’s get nuts!

They have also announced the nine new perks too!

Which sounds pretty cool, especially once redditors were explaining the actual benefits.

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During the latest PlayStation Store update video, Rob mentions new game, Erica, that I really want to get.  It is only ten dollars but I think I will still wait for a deal on it.

Thanks to PlayStation for hosting the trailer.

I just finished my sixth playthrough (second to last) of Late Shift and I’m sort of in the mood for another live action game where I get to make the decisions.  Seems like either the game just came out or it just came out and people have already unlocked all seven endings already.  Which seems way fast but maybe it is a shorter game but that seems odd for a mystery.

Seems like some good and honest reviews for the game.  Seems shorter than 90 minutes so all seven endings might be fast to do.  There apparently is an app too that hopefully actually works unlike Beyond : Two Souls app that would not connect to the PS4.  Until Dawn had an app but it was mostly a fun novelty to track friendship meters and to do a quiz to see which character you are. I want to say after the quiz, we got a fun fake phone call that I had to uninstall and reinstall each time for someone else to experience it.  Pretty fun.

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I got a lot done in Lego Marvel Superheroes 2.  I completed the Ego the Living Lego Planet level so I have two more story missions before having to replay them all in Free Play.  Before that, I’ve committed to just doing the six DLC levels, once I complete one, I’ll go right back in for the Free Play and trophy cleanup.  Then I will tackle all of the story missions again with Free Play.  I also got Knowhere unlocked but none of the hub activities were available besides the cartographer monitor.  Oh, and those birds showed up so I have the Arial Avenger challenge completed.  I also rescued Stan Lee twice and completed maybe five races.  I nearly lost my mind doing so, but after completing the Billboard challenge, I earned Black Widow’s motorcycle which made two races much easier to handle.  One of those races was a webslinging one that was pretty difficult but now I have the Captain Britain Spider-Man.  I also unlocked Vulture too, so that was nice.  He’s the version of Spider-Man : Homecoming.

So tonight, I’ll play Beyond : Two Souls and do the briefing chapter, which is a short video and then I’ll do whatever comes afterwards.

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I got to play Sniper Elite 4’s second mission as well.  It either seemed shorter or I didn’t have as many tutorials to learn skills with.  Mostly, they taught me how to not be spotted by a sniper and then I got spotted anyways as I couldn’t really make out where he was.  So I’ll definitely attempt the third mission next.  I’m really enjoying myself with the game.  I got to rank 6, and I also shot a guy in his foot and then shot him in the nuts for that sweet nutcracker trophy.

I think my rotation plan is working as I envisioned, but it is definitely too many games as I want to play all of the games and it is too long of a rotation before getting through the lap.  That’ll become faster now that Yakuza Kiwami is out and Late Shift is one playthrough from being done.  I do like taking a break between playthroughs as it would be a bit much watching the same film over and over again.  Though I was tempted to just knock it out that night but that isn’t the right mental state to play.  Plus, it would have been another two hours.