Hello fellow assassins o/
For the past month I have managed to beat/complete 6 games.
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Orcs Must Die! 2
27 hours playtime
24 of 27 achievements
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Firewatch
4 hours playtime
10 of 10 achievements
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Her Story
3 hours playtime
13 of 13 achievements
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Grim Fandango Remastered
11 hours playtime
47 of 47 achievements
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Deadfall Adventures
9 hours playtime
30 of 50 achievements
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Orcs Must Die!
21 hours playtime
27 of 27 achievements
Orcs Must Die! 2:
As you can see I’ve played both Orcs must die games, but I did start with the second one first. I did that because I remember back in the days that the first one was pain in the ass to play. Also a friend of mine (Shirl) suggested to play the coop. The game is great and I had ton of fun playing it. We played it straight on Nightmare difficulty and we had zero trouble except for couple of levels. Sadly I miss only 3 achievements which are quite stupid to be honest. For example Queen of the Orcs, which is to charm 100 orcs with the sorceress, but when we were playing my friend played with her. I read that even if your coop partner is playing with her his kills count towords your achievement as well but ONLY in WARMAGE difficulty and we only played it on nightmare. Tbh the logic with this one is really stupid, we were playing on the hardest possible difficulty and still get penalized ???? The other two cheevos which are miss is to kill 50K orcs which is huge grind, I belive I’m sitting around 30K. And the last cheevo is to get 10x Combo which is hard to get.
Firewatch:
I belive I can describe the game with only one word: relaxation. The game is fantastic, the art style, the story everything was so calm and relaxing. I loved it. Big plus the game is very short, only 2-3 hours. Maybe one more hour for the achievements. Soundtrack is great.
Her Story:
This game was really something new, can say I liked it. Very short as well which is nice. I got confused couple of times but at the end I got the idea. There was one really nice song in the game which I added to my music list.
Grim Fandango Remastered:
I HATE POINT AND CLICKS, but this one was really nice and I’m not speaking about the point and fucking click aspect of the game. The story is simply amazing, the characters were builded perfectly, the voice acting is on point and the soundtrack is awesome. I will say I used walkthroughs to finish the game, because I fucking hate point and clicks. I really get triggered how ridiculous the logic of the puzzles are making really angry, I’m speaking not only for this game but as general for all the point and clicks.
I LOVE Glottis
Deadfall Adventures:
I saw a Steam user review about this game which describe the game perfectly: “It’s like uncharted, but it’s bad.”
The game is very boring with really stupid main character which is pretty annoying. Some bitch partner which is not developed at all, at least as companion she is not daying or getting in stupid situations. The story is bad as well, the game is really just average. Not recommended to cheevo hunters because of the dead MP and there are cheevos for MP.
Orcs Must Die!:
The first Orcs must die game is nice, but I prefer the second one. If you’ve played the both games in short period of time betweens them you will spot the improvements in the second one. Really frustrating to play in Nightmare mode, because it gives you 3 seconds to set up for the first wave, you simply pick up your loadout and the wave is started. They got rid of that in the second one! Some of the levels feels unpolished, you can’t place traps because there is not enough space but clearly there is. Achievements are quite easy. This game was sitting in my “Unfinished games” category for 3+ years, so I belive that it’s a small accomplishment.
First of all congratulations on your progress. You played and finished some great games I also personally found enjoyable.
The 3 achievements in Orcs Must Die 2 you are missing are quite easy, you just need to want to get them. Once you get some variations going in your trap setup, you can easily get 13-14 combo but only on trolls and ogres, 10-11 can happen very regularly. Normal enemies die too fast for combos. You simply need to create a sorcerer to charm 100 enemies. You don’t lose the progress on your previous character. It will take minutes to get that achievement if you wanted it.
Well yea killing 20k more orcs is a bit grindy but certain missions have tons of them and once you have the trap setup you can just sit back and relax, rinse and repeat. Did you play the DLCs, which are not included in the achievements? They are pretty fun and they can help you get closer to the 50k count as well. If not, well only grinding is left. You already passed the halfway but I can understand if you don’t want to grind it even though it really is not as crazy as the grinding I saw in other games :(
Both are awesome games but yea Nightmare mode in the first game was pretty stressful due to the only 3 seconds being given to prepare traps.
Glottis is awesome!
Yeah I do know that if I create another profile, the kills on the previous one are safe, but still I’m mad at the game for being disrespectful towords their players. For the combo cheevo, I watched couple of guides and they all seemed to be hard. I tried one couple times and failed and it required to be mid level which takes time T_T.
No I haven’t played the DLCs and I can’t remember why, but there was a reason :D
Also I really want to take some rest of killing so many orcs, maybe I will get those cheevos later this year.
I’m really happy that you tried a game in a genre you didn’t like too much and found things to love about it anyway. Grim Fandango is truly special, for all the reasons you mentioned. I think the game has such a unique atmosphere that was really lovely, and all the characters are cool as hell, too. (Point and clicks are one of my most favorite genres…. but I use a walk through for every one, too ;P )
I also liked Firewatch a lot - it was relaxing, but I felt the very last day was so tense. The art direction in this game was so so so beautiful, and I hope it inspires other games in its stylization.
Basically: Yay, you also like games I like! Yay!
I’ve never played Uncharted but bad can’t be good :D
For some reason, I’ve been intrigued by Deadfall but this surely puts it on the backburner so to speak.
Well it’s short, it’s easy. You can find little enjoyment in it, but don’t expect anything remembering.
I’ll keep that in mind. Short and easy can be good in and of itself sometime :)