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Well, it's time to say: "hello!" to another year, 2018, how will you be compared to last year?

Hopefully, for me, in terms of RL, a LOT better. In terms of gaming, I wouldn't object to more of the same. smile

Onto the final round-up for 2017!

  • Completed Games 15


Twin Robots (EU) (Vita) Trophies

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Personal Difficulty Rating: 3/10 Personal Game Rating: 2.5/5
Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse: Episode 1 (Vita) Trophies

Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse: Episode 2 (Vita) Trophies

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Personal Difficulty Rating: 2/10 Personal Game Rating: 3.5/5 (ratings are for both episodes)
Invector Trophies

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Personal Difficulty Rating: 5/10 Personal Game Rating: 3/5
Welcome Park (Vita) Trophies

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Personal Difficulty Rating: 3/10 Personal Game Rating: 2.5/5
Lost Grimoires 2: Shard of Mystery Trophies

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Personal Difficulty Rating: 2/10 Personal Game Rating: 3.5/5
Squareboy vs Bullies: Arena Edition (EU) Trophies

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Personal Difficulty Rating: 3/10 Personal Game Rating: 1.5/5
Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Future Tone Trophies

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Personal Difficulty Rating: 3/10 Personal Game Rating: 3.5/5
HiQ Ace Trophies

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Personal Difficulty Rating: 1/10 Personal Game Rating: 2/5
Trine 2 Trophies

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Personal Difficulty Rating: 2/10 (w/ guide) *PROVISIONAL* Personal Game Rating: 3/5
Level 22 Trophies

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Personal Difficulty Rating: 2/10 w/ guide Personal Game Rating: 3/5
NBA 2K18: The Prelude Trophies

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Personal Difficulty Rating: 1/10 with guide (potentially unobtainable completion without!!) Personal Game Rating: 2/5
My Name is Mayo Trophies

My Name is Mayo (Vita) Trophies

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Personal Difficulty Rating: 1/10 Personal Game Rating: 0.5/5
Daytona USA Trophies

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Personal Difficulty Rating: 2/10 Personal Game Rating: 3/5
Phew! That took a while to write! 15 completions makes for a longer blog for sure. :P

Onto the games I played but have yet to beat:

  • Games In Progress 5


Geometry Wars³: Dimensions Evolved (Vita) Trophies

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DJMAX TECHNIKA TUNE (Vita) Trophies

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Project CARS Trophies

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Super Hydorah (EU) Trophies

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Rabi-Ribi Trophies (PLATINUM NOW OBTAINABLE ON BOTH VERSIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) rock

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So that has rounded up the final month for 2017! There's still more to be done, though.

Onto the stats!

  • Stats And Milestones


15 Games Started, 20 Games Played, 15 Games Completed

333 Trophies for 11,685 XP worth 15,186 TT!
Milestones Achieved

True Level 58

235 Completed Games

Playstation Level 42

450,000 TrueTrophy Score

79% Completion

7,750 Trophies Won

240 Completed Games

245 Completed Games
  • Games I'll Possibly Play In January


Well, I've already played one so far. INK Trophies but what else have I got in mind?

Well, it's safe to say that, whilst I want to push on and get into the 80% completion bracket pretty quickly, I've also looked at my insane backlog and some of the weird and wonderful games I have to play...and I'd like to play some of them, esp. if they contribute to my Platformer/Puzzle/Shoot-em-up goals!!!

I'd love to *finally* play Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Trophies, also Touhou Double Focus Trophies.

Some other weirder titles, such as Velocibox Trophies and Cosmophony Trophies are up for consideration and many more besides. It'd take too long to list them all at this point. XD

Plus any games I've played up to now that are: "In Progress" are always up for consideration!

  • 12 Days Of Christmas Community Challenge


So we finally reach the part of the blog that most of you will probably be most interested in. The round up of the last community challenge! What path did I take through it? Were there any unforeseen pitfalls? And did I even beat the thing???

Well, let's see what happened:

Day 1 - One Game Completion -
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Day 2 - Two Versus Trophies -
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Day 3 - Three 3.0 Ratio Trophies -
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Day 4 - Four Letters of NOEL -
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Day 5 - Five Gold Trophies -
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Day 6- Six Single Player Trophies -
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Day 7 - Seven Trophies in Different Games -
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Day 8 - Eight Cooperative Trophies -
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Day 9 - Nine Action-Adventure Trophies -
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Day 10 - Ten Bronze Trophies -
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Day 11 - Eleven Main Storyline Trophies -
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Day 12 - Twelve Trophy Leap Frog -
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Overall, I did enjoy the challenge! I wish I hadn't got sick towards the end of it, forcing me to wait until the final 24 hours to complete it, made it far more stressful than it should've been! I'm glad to still have a 100% record for TT Community Challenges so far and am intrigued to see what future ones will be like!

  • Final Thoughts


So that rounds up 2017 pretty much. At least, the individual months, I still have the yearly round up blog to do and as this one took a while to write, might be a few more days until I get to that one.

I learnt one thing: I won't be going to another work's do ever again, at least, if I'm still at the place I am now. Didn't enjoy the Christmas Do at all and got the flu as a nice parting gift from it. Awesome.

Seriously, while the meal (well, the Starter and Dessert) were nice, the overall experience was AWFUL! Music on FAR too loud whilst dining, meaning you could barely hear the person next to you...but that was nothing compared to how loud it became when the: "party" part kicked in. Holy CRAP!!!! Earthquakes galore!!!!!!!! cry

Then, to round it off perfectly, one of my colleagues was adamant I'd dance with her because I did last time. I was scarcely in the mood at that point, plus hadn't had enough to drink to be loose enough for it (I mean, I had to be up early for work the next day, why would I be?) and I must've said: "No!" to her at LEAST 20 times! If not more, did it work? Did it FUCK!

Sorry for swearing there but I can't understate my sheer frustration with the whole thing. If it had been the other way around, I'm pretty sure I'd be in jail for harrassment at this point! But because I'm a bloke, it's OK and the laws of consent clearly don't apply! FFS!

And yes, I could technically have just not done so or walked out or w/e...not so easy when peer pressure is involved (at least 2 others were pressuring me) and then there's the obvious awkwardness that would come the next day.

And yes, I know it's a whole world of difference from what consent usually refers to...but it's still the same principle, isn't it?

I think I'd better move on before I open a whole can of worms on that one. Let's just leave it with I'm really annoyed about it. Definitely not going to another one, I never wanted to in the first place, not being a socialite and that's just turned me off from it once and for all!

Don't want to end the blog on a negative so I thought I'd get that out of the way first.

So my gaming ended up going really well in 2017! I definitely did by FAR the best I've ever done from a completion viewpoint and my scoring was a substantial improvement from 2016 as well! I really hope I can continue this trend for 2018 but it no doubt will be tough, esp. as I probably really should be focusing on other stuff more.

I'll probably leave that for the yearly summary and/or plans for 2018 blog. :)

Gonna wrap this up now: thanks to all of you who've read any/all of my blogs and everything in between. Special thanks to the people who comment regularly or just speak to me in general in the feed, you have no idea how much of a difference it makes to have such nice people to speak with on a daily basis. :D

Here's to 2018 hopefully being awesome for all of us! As ever, leave a comment and let me know what your month was like and what you have planned for 2018! toast
Posted by AtsumaKarin on 06 January 18 at 21:53 | Last edited on 08 January 18 at 12:57

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Slayer1189 Woooo, 2018!

I hope it does bring a good year for you! both in terms of games and IRL toast

For me, 2017 was a great year for games and I hope 2018 keeps up the pace which is looking to do. i haven't had this much enthusiasm for the main direction of gaming for a VERY long time... prob over 20 years given that I would hardly put XBLA in "the main direction of gaming".

IRL for me 2016/17 were easily my most hectic and unstable years, but plenty of good stuff also happened (Very importantly I met basically everyone I know in the wonderful little community in 2017 wink). I spent a lot of time in 2017 travelling, with family (It is rare that I see family most years) and playing some games that will go down as favourites of all time rock

I expect the the first half of 2018 will be 'meh' for me but if all goes to plan then the 2nd half of the year and into 2019 should be the best time of my life so far. Here's to that! smile

Games

Broken Sword - Broken Sword is one of those series I have never played but No reason that I haven't. I'm not a huge P&C fan but I generally really appreciate the well crafted ones. Monkey Island was one of my favourites from the days of old too laugh

Invector - I didn't realise this was ALL Avicii, though i knew there were some Avicii songs. I'll prob pass on this as I'm not much for the music, though some of the songs can be catchy!

Future Tone - I am getting conflicting opinions from you on what the best Miku game to start out with the series wink laugh

Trine 2 - Yeah I agree this series are all very pretty games to look at. I love how the puzzles change in how you approach them depending on if you are playing single player or coop aswell smile. I really need to get round to Trine 3 one day! If it needs co-op at any pint maybe that could a game for our future plans (They will come promise redface, later this year I will have a good setup)

My Name is Mayo - It certainly was a quick way for you to finish challenge 12 especially as you were ill beforehand! You were also lucky the day 12 challenge was changed to calculate Ratio to so many decimal points as at first it was only to 2 decimal places. As far caring what other gamers think of what you play, I 100% agree with you. I play games for me, so I never consider what anyone else thinks.

Other

As for my 2018 plans, you already know the games I am looking forward to and my new rule to limit the backlog wink

Your work do was definitely your hardest trophy of 2017! I don't know how folk manage it. Luckily for me, My work only consists of one person, so even if I decided to have an end of year party, I'd just be buying myself dinner and a couple of drinks laugh

I can completely sympathise with you in terms of you saying no and getting nowhere with the girl you work with. I have always maintained that drunk females are terrifying and persistent! I do just say no and outright refuse to give them any leeway but that usually does make people seem to think I am the bad guy for some reason and that I should just give 'consent'.

Anyways, I look forward to your future blogs and many more years of gaming and discussing with each other toast
Posted by Slayer1189 on 06 Jan 18 at 23:46
ImperatorA3 Congrats on an amzing month and a magnificient year!

I'm impressed by your 12 days of Christmas badge. I also signed up, but alas my journey ended on the third day.

As for december, I'm quite happy with my results.

Games I completed
Mirror's Edge Catalyst
Treasures of Montezuma 4

Adventure Capitalist
Broken Sword 5 Ep1
Broken Sword 5 Ep2
Lumines: Supernova

Games I played
Defense Grid 2

In January I'm going to spend some time in Gotham City with Batman Arkham Knight and Batman The Telltale Series. And I'm going to continue playing Defense Grid 2 and Cosmic Star Heroine.

I've got two main goals for 2018:
- Increasing my completion percentage
- 10.000 trophies

I wish you the best for 2018 and I look forward to your milestones this year.
Posted by ImperatorA3 on 07 Jan 18 at 18:18
biff_beefcake Congrats for all your milestones and completions for 2017 (and December, too)! It's nice that you were able to complete the challenge after all. As a side note, I hate work get-togethers too: thankfully my only job now is taking care of the kids/household and I can party with my coffee & video games after they've gone to bed and the chores are (mostly lol) done! And no means no no matter who you are and who is doing the asking: gosh, what a frustrating experience that must have been! :(

I had a great December gaming-wise! The challenge really got me motivated and I ended up having the best scoring month I've ever had (and only my second 10k+ month since I started getting trophies). I'm really hoping to carry the momentum through January and well, keep it for as long as I can laugh I'd like to keep up the streak I'm on right now: even just as a reminder to a) sit down and do something for myself each day and b) make sure I'm not getting stalled or bogged down in any one game (which tends to kill my enthusiasm a bit, but also has a nice side effect of me looking to my backlog more often).

This month I want to dive-rescue of few of my long-ignored incomplete games (I've so far brought 4 back to the top of the list where my last trophy unlock was from late 2013/early 2014, I'm hoping to do at least one more before February). I'm going to make sure that none of my LEGO backlog games make it out of 2018 and I also want to make a push to both start and finish an additional backlog game each month (I'll try to set specific goals for them). Hopefully I can recover my pre-bean dive completion % before July this year! laugh

Anyway, I always look forward to your summary blogs every month! To gaming fun in 2018! toast
Posted by biff_beefcake on 07 Jan 18 at 18:52
AtsumaKarin Slayer1189: me too lol. Cheers, mate, really hope you have a good one too, filled with many fun boosting sessions in the future. wink

Yes, it's been a purple patch for gaming for sure! I've played a lot of great games and I hardly touched the big releases, so goodness knows how I'd feel about it if I did!

Yes, 2016 was when I took the plunge and added the majority of people who are now on my list. So glad I did, though there were one or 2 hiccups along the way, that's life, though. smile

Then things got better in 2017 joining GI/Genre Team. Can't wait to crack on more with that in 2018. toast

I need to play the other Broken Sword games on Steam, assuming they don't come out on PS4 one day. Would love to see #6! dance

Yeah, you're telling me! Without You has been stuck in my head today. laugh I think it might be worth you having a crack at it even so, once it comes on sale but of course, the decision...is YOURS! *Audience gasp* laugh

Sorry re: Future Tone. If you ignore Extreme, then it probably is the best one to start with, a lot of my grievances are more on a personal level than actual faults with the game. Am I contradicting myself again? IDK lol. redface

TBF, I think I'd say do them in order of how they released in the West (F, F2nd, X and Future Tone) and make your mind up that way. Just make sure you *do* do it, Miku demands it! wink

Indeed, Mayo was a stroke of genius lol, wasn't aware of that initial stipulation, though! That would've screwed me...or forced me to *shudders* Bean Dive. cry

Yeah, there are some games I'd play in the future regardless if the price was right. Barbie's Puppy Rescue would be one but I'm not willing to pay the Earth for it (those cute widdle puppies) :P. If I ever got it for free, either on PS+ or in a bundle, even Hannah Montana but that one I wouldn't go out of my way for.

I play all kinds of games and that's how I want it to stay. I perhaps could do with varying it a bit more, tbf and play some games in different genres out of my comfort zone but there's time for all that. smile

LOL @ terrifying and persistent, I certainly learnt that one the hard way. cry

Me too!!! headspin
Posted by AtsumaKarin on 08 Jan 18 at 14:42
AtsumaKarin Oh, before I move on to other comments, I should say I nearly bought Get Fit With Mel B or w/e it's called, thought it might make for a good laugh but the price tag put me off that one.

ImperatorA3: cheers mate! toast

Shame about it ending that early, though! Was that a time constraint or just you weren't willing to go out of your way for it?

It was kinda fiddly in that regard.

The Top 2 completions in that list are tasty for sure!!! I want to play the Mirror's Edge games soon!!! Broken Sword 5 ftw too! headspin

How are you finding Defense Grid 2? Curious about that one.

Ooh, the Caped Crusader will like that! Those goals, I'd love to achieve as well, the 2nd one could be a bit tight depending on what games I play but it's definitely achievable as I need fewer trophies than I got last year to do it! toast

You too! toast
Posted by AtsumaKarin on 08 Jan 18 at 14:48
AtsumaKarin biff_beefcake: thanks, Cynthia! toast I 100% agree with that, you'd think that in the 21st Century, we'd have more respect for one another by now. cry

Yes, you kicked serious butt last month!!! Fancy embarking on a 10K TT per month quest this year? wink

Yes, I want to do that too, go back to some of the ancient games and bolster my % as well as completing at least 90% of any new games I start for the year. Want that shiny Gold Badge eventually!!! smile

Here's to a great 2018 for us all! toast
Posted by AtsumaKarin on 08 Jan 18 at 14:53
ImperatorA3 A bit of both (time and will) I was more focused on finishing the game that I started.

Enjoying DG2 a lot, played the first one PC and saw this one in a sale. It's a solid tower defense game, deep enough for different playstyles/strategies.
Posted by ImperatorA3 on 08 Jan 18 at 20:46
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