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Hey everyone, hope you're all doing ok?

*PLINK* Wait, what was that?? What the? Oh wow, it seems I've just had a trophy pop early for me. Totally unexpected! And, well, kind of annoying actually too - I was kind of saving it for next week Oh well, too late now! LOL.

So, due to popular demand (Ok, not really popular demand - Due to Atsuma demand ), I thought I'd do a bit of an update as to where I'm currently at with some of the various games I've had on the go for a while. As the title suggests, I've been spending a fair amount of time over the last couple of weeks grinding away at, well, grindy trophies. And honestly I've not had a great deal of fun doing so Now, before any of you say, "Well then why are you doing it then?", the answer to that question is because...well...actually...actually I don't really know. I guess because I want the trophies? Is that a good reason? I don't know What I do know though is that, when they're done, it will definitely all feel worth it. But I don't really know why it will. But it will!

So, which game shall I begin with? I'm thinking...Gran Turismo 6. Again, due to Atsuma demand :P
So the last trophy I need for Platinum is

I finished the rest of the game months ago and I think by then I was at about 4,500km. Not even halfway Gran Turismo 5 had this very same trophy, but due to the amount of content and also the B-Spec mode that was also required for certain trophies (B-Spec for those who don't know is where you instruct an AI driver during a race, rather than you actually doing the racing yourself), I got the trophy long before I'd finished with the rest of the game. Not so in GT6. Not even close. So, I've been left with the long, long grind of driving aimlessly until I rack up enough Kms to unlock the shiny Plat. Honestly, I don't really have the DRIVE to do it But on the other hand I DO really want the Platinum for this one, so I have no choice but to force myself to sit down and actually DO it. I'd been putting it on the backburner but Atsuma keeps asking how my progress is going which keeps reminding me I really need to get back to it. Which is kind of a good thing really since procrastinating is not going to get me anywhere!
Anyway, so as of today I currently sit at 11,994km out of the 12,718km that is required. 724km remaining I can finally see the end in sight! I'm going to try and do a race or two a day from now on. I WILL get there!!!

Now onto Gems Of War...
I completed the base game of this back in June, but only a few days later the devs dropped an update which added in 3 new trophies. One of them is a right pain in the butt
This -

I guess you COULD, make this much quicker if you're prepared to throw money at it, but if you're like me and don't want to pay for it then you'd better get yourself into a good guild and start saving up those gems and glory! Thankfully I hadn't been too wasteful with my resources throughout my time playing the base game, so I already had a bit saved up. But it's taken me another 3 months of logging in every day and saving up my guild rewards so that I can finally afford to "buy" this trophy. I can actually (I believe anyway) unlock this one at any given stage now, BUT I've decided I'm going to sit on it for a bit and unlock it later on down the track. I'll also continue to log in every day and claim my rewards, just in case they ever decide to add any more trophies which may need lots of loot. Gotta be prepared, right?!

Project Cars is another one I've been chipping away at in the background. I finished all of the multiplayer trophies back in May (WOOHOO!), but the one I've been working on since I started the game is this -

Now it would be so bad if these events were somewhat regular. However, unless you own much of the DLC packs then you're going to be in for the long haul. Months. Maybe even a couple of years. I don't own any of the DLC for this game, but I'd bought Mr Funder the Limited Edition last year when it released. This came with I think 5 bonus cars and it turns out that those cars must give you access to some of the "On Demand" (as they call it) events. We didn't realise this until Mr Funder told me there was a new Community Event up and I went to play it on my console while he was playing it on his and I found I couldn't enter due to it being "On Demand". So we doubled checked and compared events and yes, sure enough, he could enter this particular event and I definitely could not. Since then there's been a few of these that he is able to enter which I can't from my console, so I've been hijacking his PS4 so I can take advantage of these as well There's another one coming up in a few days time which will bring me to 10/20, so this one looks like it won't take me nearly as long as I'd originally thought.
As for the rest of the game, I haven't started any of that just yet. The CAREER tab is still locked actually, because I haven't even created my driver yet! Not sure when I'll get to that yet though.

LittleBigPlanet 2 has kind of fallen by the wayside as of late. I did manage to finish the online component of it though, which was the main reason I started the game in the first place. So I'm very pleased with that I really didn't enjoy it too much, and the Dive In trophy was just plain irritating. You had to "Dive In" with other people 25 times and not leave right away. Now this wouldn't have been a problem if the Dive In feature actually worked
Problem 1 - 95% of people won't allow you to join, which then results in the game timing out and often even locking up completely on you.
Problem 2 - When you finally find someone who allows you to join you'll almost ALWAYS get dumped into their Pod rather than into an actual level (which the trophy requires - joining them in their Pod does NOT count).
Problem 3 - Once in their Pod you'll usually find they'll do one of 4 things -
1. Stop whatever they were doing so they can come over and slap you
2. Stand around in their Pod just chat texting about garbage such as who did
what at school today, and who doesn't like who, etc...
3. Wave at you and then proceed to show you all their costumes or plaster stickers
all over the place
4. Kick you back to your own Pod
Awesome. Very rare that you actually find someone who will, you know, actually PLAY A LEVEL
Anyways, I'm glad that is all over with now. It's about 7 hours of my life I can never get back now.
As for the rest of the game, I really enjoyed it! The story was a lot of fun and I think I might have liked it just slightly better than the first one. It seemed to have more variety and the controls felt a little better than in the first, although I'm not sure if that's purely because I'd played so much of number 1 that I just got used to them. I do intend to get back to this one at some stage and try to ace all of the levels and collects all the prize bubbles. I've just lost a bit of desire at the moment, but hopefully it'll come back soon! So far I've aced I think 19 out of the 30 levels, but the ones I have left are of course the harder ones to ace. Oh joy!

Prominence Poker has been coming along quite nicely I've been working on several of the trophies -



I should have at least a couple of these sometime next week. For the most part I've been enjoying it but I will admit it is a bit of a grind to keep levelling up. I'm not sure if I'll go for the one which requires you to be level 110... Maybe over time I'll get there but I don't know yet if I'll actually go out of my way to do it. We'll see.

In other gaming news I've been spending a bit of time helping Mr Funder with Resident Evil 6. We have been playing split screen which has made it probably more difficult than it should be, but honestly it's not really a "Me" game so I'd never look to buy it or put it on my own profile. But I'm having a lot of fun co-oping it with Funder, although sometimes I think I'm more of a hindrance than a help Ah well, nevermind! We're both having a blast! I think? We are aren't we Mr Funder??

Moving away from gaming now and I guess some of you are wondering what on Earth I'm talking about Cheer, Cheering the Red & the White. All my Aussie friends will know what it means, but for those from across the seas, my beloved AFL (Aussie Rules Football) team has made the 2016 Grand Final My team is the Sydney Swans and our colours are red and white. Our Club song starts with the line, Cheer, Cheer the Red and the White, hence the reference in my blog title! The big game is tomorrow (unfortunately I'm not going to it ), so I'll be watching it on TV instead. And I'll be barracking hard for them! It should be a good match and I expect it to be pretty close. Hopefully we can come out on top though Time will tell!

Anyway, hope you all have a great weekend and CHEER, CHEER THE RED & THE WHITE!!!