Hopefully you didn’t think we planned on stopping this train after article 200, because we’re good for at least a few thousand more of these. That’s right, we’re back after our milestone entry last week for another round of What We Played, the piece that catches you up on what some of the staff here at TSA have been playing over the past seven days.
Mark checked in first this week with a bit of Mortal Kombat X to get his blood pumping (or pouring all over the floor, in the event he lost). He says he’s not great at fighting games but he’s really enjoying his time with this one. He also picked up and played Ori and the Blind Forest and Helldivers for the first time. He made a point to talk about the wonderful soundtrack in Ori, and he described Helldivers as having “unintentionally hilarious moments.” One such moment led to him being run over by a friendly, supposedly by accident. Supposedly.
Dom continues to play State of Decay on Xbox One, and he wrote a nice little piece on it earlier in the week. He’s also been logging time with Codename: STEAM, and a bit of Super Monkey Ball on Gamecube. Why is he playing a Gamecube? I’ll let him offer the explanation.
After last week’s Star Wars feature the Gamecube has been out nearly every day to play Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron 2. My son Noah has just got into Star Wars in a big way so between the films and the games it’s been on fairly constantly in our house – I am a proud father!
Miguel started off his week with some imported action in Gundam Breaker 2, a game he says is very import friendly due to the english menus and the fact that all the new content is patched in. He also spent some time with Style Savvy: Trendsetters, Bloodborne and Mortal Kombat X. Finally, Miguel went off the radar a bit and tried the english version of the new free-to-play Halo Online, but ended up playing Halo 3:ODST instead, which he says is the best Halo game.
Stefan brings us to a close this week with a bit more Destiny, followed up with Driveclub, which he’s getting very close to hitting the platinum on, along with obtaining 100% of the trophies for all the DLC. He also sat down with the new DiRT Rally game on Steam, and had very positive things to say about an iOS game called 80 Days. At last, he played and reviewed the second act of Broken Age, giving it a 7 out of 10 while praising it for its visuals, voice acting and narrative.
As for me, I continued to play Far Cry 4 and I’m getting very close to completing it. I’ve enjoyed doing most of the side objectives but I haven’t decided yet if I’ll go for 100% completion. I also wrapped up Halo 3 via co-op with a friend, and I’ve still been heisting it up in GTA V with a group of buddies. The madness that occurs in that game when we get four or five of us together is pretty ridiculous.
So there we are, another week down, another week closer to summer, and just 99 more of these until we hit our next milestone. Be sure to head to the comments and let us know what you’ve been doing for the past week so we can secretly make fun of you. If you don’t want us making fun of you, then be sure to only talk about games that every person in the history of gaming can agree is the best game ever. Should be easy to find.
R1MJAW
A lot of Shovel Knight and Mortal Kombat.
Got back into Pure Pool (mainly just grinding XP).
Dying Light and Borderlands co-op.
Last few nights have been mainly the Rocket League beta.
R1MJAW
Update – Just finished my first run through Shovel Knight. Also, and I can’t believe I forgot to post this yesterday, I passed 12000 trophies last weekend.
TSBonyman
Bloodborne! This week i’m feeling quite accomplished as i managed to defeat the Bloody-Sweaty-Bastard (ie Blood-Starved-Beast) and have also reached the third layer of my first chalice dungeon.
Youles
Got my 80th platinum, Dying Light.
Started CoD Advanced Warfare. Campaign seems ok although it’s so recycled – how have they not tried to integrate some of the instructions on screen into dialogue or changed the Intel since 4 CoDs ago. Does the work experience kid place the shitty laptops in ridiculous places? Not tried the multiplayer yet. Have found the Exo Survival rather dull. Despite picking it up for only £20, it’s made me realise why I didn’t buy it at release, it’s more about the game than price really.
Also played a round of Extinction too, which is also enjoyable.
And the usual Monday night GTA 5 heists on PS3.
freezebug2
Very nicely done mate, I told you that you’d catch me on the platinum tally before too long. I’m at 89 at the moment but acquiring one every several months lol.
89th plat being Resogun PS3 which was waaaay! more difficult to ace veteran difficulty on the final Mefits planet than it was on PS4 due to not having the ship editor utility to create a ship of my exacting requirements…neat feature on PS4!
Pixel_nme
Indeed congrats on that Plat Mr Youles.
Youles
Cheers guys, and congrats on yours too!
I may give up trophy hunting once I reach 100, or at least ease off, particulalry as my boys are getting older and I get less time. I may just save the virtual silverware for my favourite games! Could be hard to break the habit though lol
Pixel_nme
We’ll for me it’s been a lot of Saints Row IV on PS4 that I went back to and picked up the Platinum,started Gat out of hell also went back and played a bit of Knack,played a bit of Destiny and Hardline then it’s been Borderlands with Forrest and R1MJAW and with R1MJAW and Berzerka for past few night for the Rocket League Beta,then to tonight I’ll be teaming up with R1MJAW Zerka and Forrest for Friday night Dying Light :)
Crazy_Del
Battlefield Bad Company single player and multiplayer for me :)
Eldaveo
Not quite so much DOTA2 this week. Played a few rounds but I’ve mainly been on Team Fortress 2 with a few mates. Another game I cannot believe is F2P. Really enjoyable :)
DividSmythe
For me not much had changed recently. Just GTA V and Rayman Legends on both consoles. I’m getting closer to Beyond two Souls platinum thanks to Ps Now Bseta, I should be done next week.
The Lone Steven
Completed Bayonetta and Quick Time Events that give you literally 1 or 2 seconds to respond or refuse to adknowledge your button inputs as correct if you are a microsecond too late need to die. Do wish it didn’t punish me for using items as the stone awards make me feel like a crap gamer. I shall have to whip Bayonetta until i improve all of the scores. And yes, i know what i just said.
Picked up Killzone 2 and 3 along with Dead Island:GOTY edition.
Killzone 2 is rather good although the cover system is taking me a bit of getting used to. I do wish they didn’t scrap or get rid of alternate fire as the PS2 managed to do it without any issues. I mean, did they really think that removing a grenade launcher as altnerate fire on a rifle needed to be done? I seriously doubt it would have made much different in a massive fire fight but would give us more options.
Dead Island is rather good although the lack of dialogue from the PC is a bit crap. :( All those backstorys with a voice over and they couldn’t be arsed to have the actors record lines beyond yes, no, get some. (it’s all the same thing, just with different words, which will get old very quickly.). I am liking the analog system as it is challenging and prevents me from going “Well, this is easy, I think i’ll try my luck.” to “Oh crap! It’s a horde! ALL MY WEAPONS ARE BROKEN! I AM GOING TO DIE!” Ok, maybe not that but if i panic in a fight, i probably would break a weapon or two. Shame the story seems to be generic and shame that the emotion that the trailer promised or misled everyone into believing would be in the game is not there. I am hoping that the plot does pick up as it seems to be nothing at the moment and follows what is now probably a cliche of He/she is immune, we must get her to X! God, i feel old now.
JR.
I listened to people gushing over Halo for years and recently bought the MCC collection. I Couldnt wait to play them. I expected an incredibly rich story like Mass Effect but it was like playing an even more bland version of Destiny. Which I also thought was overtated and bland. But even Destiny is a masterpiece compared to the Halo games.
I think unless you played the Halo games on the original Xbox or 360, they dont hold up at all. Without nostalgia, they’re pretty god damned disappointing.
Matt Wingler
If you went into Halo expecting a Mass Effect-esque story, you were setup for failure from the beginning. Halo has always been about the interesting (though not fully realized in the games) universe and mechanics. While the story is much more coherent than Destiny and doesn’t require you to go looking through dumb grimoire cards to understand even the basic fundamentals of the story like who your enemies are, where they come from, and why they’re fighting you, it’s still very simple. And honestly, as much as I love the series, even the mechanics in 1-3 are starting to feel a tad dated.
But yeah, if you’ve never played them before now they’re probably not going to rock your world.
hunterstryfe
Pretty much been all mortal kombat x this week for me.