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@hunter, Added a clear note to the op.
^^ I enjoyed infinite's combat a lot, and I thought the first 6 hours of story was great. It got a little weird later on, but........ the game was still awesome. I wish people would stop comparing it to Bioshock and accept it as its own game. Because even though they share a name, this is a very different entity than Bioshock was.
Are you going to eventually go for the "scavenger hunt" achievement/trophy? The one for beating 1999 mode without buying anything from a dollar bill machine?
Speaking of which, here is the first level, "Welcome to Rapture", of Bioshock on Hard, with links at the end of the video to the rest of it.
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I still have to go through on my Infinite achievement runs, theres a few of the easier ones I can pick up quick since I've only done my 'story' playthrough thus far.
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^^ The theme park, the second time you go through it after getting Shock Jockey, is one of the best places to farm kills for all the rail and weapon related trophies that you are possibly able to get up to that point. If that helps at all.
The below is just me talking about the game. Feel free to read it or not, but I complained about trophies, bragged a little more than I should have, oversimplified some things, and generally typed enough that I spoiler tagged the whole thing so I could add this warning.
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Honestly, the only hard trophy was "scavenger hunt". And the only super hard parts of 1999 mode were
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actually the part before you get your shield (good aim and tons of scavenging and patience with the possession Vigor worked there), and the siren fights. The second and third siren fights did not have as well defined a safe spot as the first one, and the whole thing just devolved into a real @#$% fest. The trick to those fights is to use the Undertow Vigor to bring her minions into areas she doesn't go to, or to use the fire Vigor to burn the bodies before she can resurrect them.
Frankly, most of the outdoor areas can be cheesed with Winter Freeze (or whatever that piece of clothing that gave you temporary invincibility for jumping on and off rails was) and the flying fire thingy that went well with it, and you can restart checkpoints to reroll gifts (which are random) until you get those or anything else you want. Combine that with good aim and Bucking Bronco and the Crow vigor; and a ton of scavenging; and it wasn't actually that bad.
The only 2 tricky trophies were the one where you had to snipe from a rail and the one where you had to kill a handyman by only shooting it in the heart. Good aim and practice with a sniper on the easiest difficulty fixes both of those, and the handyman one has glitches you can abuse if you care to.
The only easily missable trophy is the one for fully maxing out one of your stats. Unfortunately, unless you get the DLC you are going to be about 5 short of maxing out everything. Thus there is a really sucky situation where you can just miss the trophy completely and have to start a whole new run.
Every other trophy was negligibly easy, or just a grind, by the end of my second playthrough. And it was one of the funnest games I've played in a long time. Enough fun that I went through 1999 mode a second time recently, albeit this time I actually used the Dollar Bill machines.
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Sorry for the double post but the last one was just so freaking long.
I forgot to add, there are so many good songs they put in the game, from the Beach Boys to Cindi Lauper, that it amazed me every time I heard one. They were changed just enough to fit into the game, but they are still clearly recognized and come from so many eras of americana that..... it's just freaking awesome.
Here are two videos that managed to get the songs between them.
So the reasoning behind this was that
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Elizabeth can tear holes in reality open wider right? Well a famous musician from Columbia named Albert Fink was actually just listening at these tears and plagiarizing them directly. There was a big one in his office that gave him most of this. He rewrote them for a 1912 audience, and... yeah a ton of good songs made it into the game.
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^^ Liked the video. Keep them coming. I've never played touhou just because I don't play a lot of games on pc anymore, and I learned of it too late, but I have seen a lot of the gameplay and its a cool series. A lot of the fan games are also very interesting.
Hatsume Miku Project Diva F
It's a japanese rhythm game that's part of a very popular series they recently just started porting. Here are a couple of songs on Extreme.
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Yeah. I tried to find a version where they turned that off. Which is possible actually. But none of the videos for those two songs had just the music. I'm Really Sorry.
You can actually go to youtube, type in the name of the song, and listen to the video without gameplay if you are interested in hearing it without those noises.
Bastion, the best indy game I've played in a long long time. Awesome art, good story, and utterly amazing music to tie it all together. If by some freak of nature you have not yet played this game, go onto Steam during the next sale and get it. I've only got a few of the 10 idol achievement left to do but still just love tinkering with it from time to time.
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I def did not get the "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" in the beach music, that's neat. I have been exploring a lot of music from the 20s/30s for my D&D game, and I really enjoy music in those styles/redone in those styles. Like in the recent Great Gatsby.
I am not very good at Bastion but I always stick with the bow and hammer. (I am not very good at video games in general.)
Scrap Musket and Dual Pistols is the stuff of the gods!!
I love the Scrap Musket, but there's no way I can kill anything on the hardest difficulty with the reload time because of regeneration. I use the Shortbow, because that weapon is godly, and then I think I used the Hammer for more damage per hit, but it might have been machete. I can't remember, I killed most things with the bow.
Didn't notice pistols had armor penetration, maybe that can help against those god awful frog things. The amount of time I spent trying to kill those is nauseating.
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Unfortunately, nothing aside from the narrator in Bastion appealed to me, so I never played it. I play way too many rpgs for my own good as it is, and I have a backlog of like 20 games that includes about half a dozen 100+ hour rpgs. Bastion is a little similar to other things I have played if you remove the narration, and I just never had the time.
Being an indy game its not exactly long at all to get through the main story, but of course there's the little side things and achievements to go for etc. But not playing a game because its 'too similar' is a poor way to go about video games... at the end of the day an RTS is going to be similiar to an RTS, and RPG will be an RPG, and a Bullethell will still be a Bullethell. Everyones got a backlog of games, but dont go skipping good ones just becuase of that
In other news I've knocked out a huge chunk of the Dishonored achievements so far, but will still need two play throughs at least to 100% it. Well, that and theres DLC achievements, dunno if i'll go for those, depends how the game pans out.
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Bastion is actually a fairly unique experience, being an ARPG that doesn't have miserable controls like the glorified real-time point and click games such as Diablo, Torchlight and Path of Exile.
I've been slowly playing through Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag. I'm a really big fan of the series and I like that they took it in a new direction but I have to say that it might not be my favorite. I feel that there is too much a focus on the naval elements when I want to be exploring cities and stuff. I like that the setting is very interesting and something that hasn't be rehashed a bunch of times but it's not super interesting to me.
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^^ I can't stand any of them after Assassin's Creed 2. I 100 percented the first one on xbox. I platinumed the second on psn. I got 80% through the third before it pissed me off for the last time. I never touched the 4th. I only got 20% of the way through Assassin's creed 3 (the 5th). And........ I am afraid to try the 6th based on this history.
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