Come one come all, and gather ’round while we chat you up once again about the games we’ve been playing for the past week in a little piece we’ve very originally titled, What We Played.
Tuffcub was the first to weigh in this week and I found out through him that Blackberry phones still exist, as he’s been playing a bit of Angry Birds on it. That didn’t last very long, though, and he moved on to a variety of other games, such as Destiny, Soldner X2, Little Deviants, and Counterspy. He also made time for a Stardust on his Vita, which he says serves as a good reminder of just what a ripoff the PS4 version is. Finally, TC turned his attention to Shadow Warrior.
I also rented Shadow Warrior which started out quite fun but then I got stuck about 20 mins in, and couldn’t work out where to go. It seemed like I had to jump over a broken bridge but I could never make the jump, and falling in the water meant i had to traipse round the entire area, which took about 3 mins, before I could try again. Got incredibly frustrated, so shoved the disc back in the box and sent it back.
Dom is up next and started his week with Xenoblade Chronicles 3D and Codename STEAM, the latter of which he’s bashing away at for a future review. He’s also been plugging away at inFamous: First Light, and he had great things to say about Fetch’s story. Finally, he’s been using his PlayStation Vita to play Marvel vs Capcom 3 with his son, Noah. He says the touch controls are easy to use, and his boy has been soaring through the arcade mode, which no doubt makes his gaming dad proud.
Aran and Stefan have both been exclusively wrapped up in Bloodborne. Aran is doing the review for the site so you can expect that in the coming days, but check out his thoughts on the first 15 hours or so to keep you busy until then. Since Stefan didn’t have anything else to talk about, he wrote a little nice little tune about Bloodborne to the theme of the ‘Bad Boys’ song.
Bloodborne, Bloodborne, whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
Die.
Catchy and accurate.
Blair starts to wrap us up with a bit of Threes! on his mobile, but he also found time for Paperbound, which he describes as a “Towerfall-esque multiplayer brawler, based around pages from old books.” He says it’s a well done game and he expects to have a review ready next week. He also took the time to play and review episode 3 of Game of Thrones, which you can read here. He finished out his week with Bayonetta, a game he’s hoping to play more of in the future.
As for me, I tried to sit down with a friend to play Halo 3 via the Master Chief Collection, but since that game is still a complete and utter train wreck six months after launch, we gave up trying to co-op after countless network problems and played Advanced Warfare instead. I also played a fair amount of Battlefield Hardline, and I’ve been playing a little game called Rack N Ruin for PS4, which you can expect to see a review on next week.
So that’ll do it for 196th installment of What We Played. We can’t believe you’ve cared enough about our gaming habits to read almost 200 of these, but head to the comments anyway and let us know what you’ve been playing for the past seven days.
R1MJAW
Not much variety for me this week.
Still beavering away at The Crew doing various things (got platinum medals for all story missions and gold medals for 500 skills).
Finished off the main levels in Mutant Mudds on 3DS, currently doing all the super secret levels with the unlockable character.
Played a little bit of Tomb Raider multiplayer last night.
As per usual, I’m still playing Binding of Isaac and, as Tef missed my update last week, I finally have the platinum for it as they managed to get the latest patch through SCEE’s QA department.
Avenger
I had some great BF3 game with cam_manutd, easily tearing up the competition. We also ran through the co-op, which had as its main feature me going down and being revived an awful lot.
Elsewhere I’ve been trying my hand at getting the last few Extinction trophies, with little success. By far the hardest ones are ‘Timing is Everything’ and ‘Always hard’. But still, just over 100 teeth to go until Cryptid slayer ammo, which I’m confident won’t help me out one single bit. I may not get the 100% trophy completion afterall. Still enjoying it though, especially the games I’ve had with Blast_71.
Youles
You might be surprised mate, that Slayer Ammo is fucking handy! Think it also stacks with the Arcing upgrade for the Stun Ammo too, if you have it. I found Always Hard VERY tough solo, defo needed some good players to help. Keep at it, and good luck! :)
blast71
Sounds like your co-op on battlefield is a bit like our games on extinction but with roles reversed, I need reviving every 5 mins. ;)
Avenger
Ha yes, it was rather. I think one game I got revived about 5 times across 15 minutes or so. I blame it all on the lack of an Ark :P
blast71
I’m trying to save up my teeth for the pistol ark, only about 90 to go. (ONLY!)
Avenger
I remember it being a bit of a long haul going for the Pistol Ark as my first major upgrade. After though, it was easier to complete missions and getting experienced with what setup I wanted, it wasn’t long before I earned teeth more regularly. I dare say it’ll be the same for you.
element666
It’s been more Destiny this week for me.
I picked up Borderlands handsome collection and dying light today so hopefully I’ll be playing them and not Destiny for a while!
Youles
Mostly GTA Heists for me on PS3 and PS4, each with various TSA members. Fantastic as always, and all the more fun for it being sociable.
Got 100% trophies on Stick It To The Man on PS4, really good game!
The PS4 firmware update is great although this deleting 0% trophies is odd, as I believe any PS3 deleted games will re-appear when I next sync my PS3 trophies, as trophy data is actually saved on the system, not just Sony’s servers. So in theory you’d need this feature to be available on PS3. I guess I could delete my PSN profile from my PS3, then activate it again, then sync trophies – but perhaps even then the PS3 data might re-sync from Sony’s servers?!
Avenger
I think that would work actually. As long as the trophy information on the PS3 was permanently gone, and the PS4 deletion registers online, it should be fine. Nice idea!
hornet1990
More DriveClub, and completed a veteran run on COD:AW which was pathetically easy. I remember when all this were nowt but fields and COD on veteran was something of a challenge :(
Pixel_nme
Yet again it’s been mostly Destiny,played quite a bit of The Golf Club and a bit of Hardline,now waiting for the patch for Borderlands which will probably be done by tomorrow with our current bb speeds,contemplating picking up Bloodborne tonight even though i may grow to hate and trade it quite quicky after :D
double-o-dave
I’m considering picking a copy up too on the way home from work even though I don’t think I’ll like it… at all. Think I’ll watch a couple of videos quickly to help me decide.
Pixel_nme
yeah i can see me getting slighty frustrated with it lol,i picked it up anyway just got to wait for update to download.
Starman
Bit of Evolve and DoA Last Round and I’ve just 1000g’d the Forza Fast & Furious game in a matter of hours. Its a nice introduction to Horizon 2.
Carrot381
Back to DA Inquisition for me. Almost finished main story quest but mostly doing all the side quests to grab as many trophies as i can before attempting it on Nightmare difficulty. I really want the platinum on this but I’m not very confident
The Lone Steven
MORTAL KOMBAT! Dun, dun duuu dun, dun MORTAL KOMBAT! Scorpion, Sub-Zero erm….
Yeah, i can’t remmeber the movie’s theme song but i have the Komplete Kollection of the reboot. Tis rather fun and a bit frustrating when the AI decides to spam a move. I do wish there were more X-ray moves and they should have brought back Friendship. But it’s a surperb game.
Played Just Cause 2 and it is very fun. Just causing chaos can last me an entire gaming session instead of doing the missions. The lack of a decent cover system lets it down though but that said, if there was a cover system, chances are, i would go “Fuck cover, i’m using the chopper.” Voice Acting is bad but have heard it’s bad on purpose and is meant to be a B-Movie. It is a bit repitivie but it is very fun.
Played Alien Isolation. Has a lot of promise but on the backburner so i can focus on Mortal Kombat and Just Cause before i decide to ruin every pair of underwear i own. Or be disappointed that i didn’t ruin every pair of underwear i own. :P
blast71
The great thing about just cause 2 is that the whole island is open from the beginning, no need to worry about ‘do task a to unlock town b’ sort of thing.
TSBonyman
I finally got my first plat* with Bloodborne.
I’ve improved my driving and whittled away another few stars on the Driveclub tour, just one star to go and i can then face the humiliation of attempting the pro trophy event. I’m really enjoying the combination of replays with photomode and have grabbed some neat photos along the way.
I decided to restart Counterspy from the beginning to see if i can do a bit better at it this time, not sure if i’m succeeding but i’m enjoying the challenge all the same.
Also, i didn’t think it would be my kind of game but i downloaded the Toukiden demo to confirm that. Yep.
*Assuming “plat” actually means “watched some streams of other people playing it”..
(As if anyone would have believed me anyway!) ;-)
double-o-dave
Thought as much. From what I’ve heard, I’d me more inclined to believe Harry Hill got a plat in his hair before anyone getting one in Bloodborne ;)
TSBonyman
Can i assume you went ahead and picked it up so? ;-)