The "Defeat Rajaah" Backlog Challenge (Ends May 31st @ 11:59 PM EST)

KurganAU said:

I played in spurts of hours and would use the next chapter showing up as a marker to stop for the night.

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It's getting late, I'm on chapter 10 and I get to the bit where you are fighting the reskinned ghost fog enemies (because reusing assets is tight!), and it just keeps going and going. After a few rounds, I caved and looked up what to do. From being prompted to make choices the whole game, doing QTE, now I'm supposed to do nothing while still being prompted. I said fuck you game out loud. Let me go to bed dammit!

Like you mentioned, gameplay decent enough but cutscenes and story was the drive to play.

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Reusing assets is tight!

That was my problem with it, some of the levels would just go on and ON. And later on there were things like that where you had to do a certain obscure thing to continue with the game or else enemy waves would just repeat over and over without any indication that you're doing it wrong.

Had a super-weird dream. I picked up Fallout 4 to finish Nuka-World. Except the game was...real? Not sure if it was a VR holodeck thing or what, but I was "in" the game and it all felt completely real. However I still had VATS so it was still a game.

I picked up the quest I left off with in Nuka-World and followed quest markers trying to figure it out. Ended up finding an overworld open-area base with like exterior walls of stacked cars and stuff, then got blasted by laser turrets because it turned out to be one area I hadn't cleared. Couldn't get the hang of fighting in this real-world gameplay so I ran away like a COWARD.

Next I found some kind of bombed-out mansion in the woods and ended up exploring that. Followed the quest markers and ended up finding a room with a bunch of potted plants, where it said I could craft a marijuana. Had a few choices, like Indica, Sativa, and a third thing with a name I've never seen before and can't remember. I made Sativa, then a guy showed up immediately and asked to share it. Was gonna save it for later but I went ahead and did that because I thought it was for the quest. It wasn't, and nothing happened except the "screen" (my vision) got all sway-y for a minute. Followed the objective markers through the house and back outside, slid down a slope in the woods, and ended up...right back where I started, still totally lost.

Now the unfinishedness of my Nuka-World game is haunting me in my sleep.

Anotha one! I had way too many of these Warriors games to catch up on. This one was the longest by far, probably 3x the length of your average Dynasty Warriors. Was the most fun out of all of them though, due to the magic system among other things.

Finished Warriors All-Stars. This one was super short which caught me off guard, took like 4 hours. Compared to most modern Warriors games that's nothing. Kind of a weird-ass game but it was alright. Now I'm all out of Warriors games aside from Dynasty 9 which is pretty shite so I don't know if I'll actually finish that one.

We're down to the last ten days of the challenge! Let's see some last-minute submissions.

I've only got Monday and Tuesday free, but I've got two of those pairs left. Might try to knock out Resident Evil 1 and 2 finally, maaaybe Nuka-World if I want to suffer. Cuphead and FNAF 5 are both close to the end. If I got all five of those I'd have pretty much obliterated all of the backlog I set out to get at the beginning of the year so that'd be cool. However it's just as likely I won't get to any of 'em, despite all being short. We'll see.

Well, I didn't get to Resident Evil 1, Cuphead, FNAF5 or Nuka-World, but other than those I finished pretty much everything on the backlog that was nagging at me (i.e. not the really good things that I'm looking forward to).


For my last game of this run I fired up Far Cry: Blood Dragon (PS4 remaster) because I wanted to play something that is actually awesome, and it didn't disappoint. Such a good nod to Terminator, Predator, Karate Kid, and basically everything rad that I grew up with. I'm gonna 100% it in the near future when I have time, too.

Seananigans said:

Last one this month, Salt and Sanctuary. Somewhat bland overall, but enjoyable. Can’t compare to Hollow Knight though.

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I liked this one a lot, as a Souls guy. I didn't find it bland as much as "oppressively gloomy" and that particular moodiness actually added a lot to it for me.

ANNNNND TIME.

Gonna add up everyone's points and post the winners this week.

Kithani said:

Am I the only one that thought this would be a "who can beat Rajaah the most at investing" thread?

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That'd be more like the Special Olympics: Everyone's a winner.

Fight said:

This one is a real, real long time backlog entry:

Icewind Dale Enhance Edition
Took about 44 Hours

I started and stop this game, probably 4 different times over the past 20 years. I've played through BG1 and BG2 probably 4 times each, but never could get past the first few hours with this one. Finally kicked in the dick and finished the whole thing.

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This is on my list too. I wonder if Icewind Dale II is gonna get the enhanced edition treatment at some point like Baldur and all these other CRPGs.

One of these years I'm gonna take a few months and just go down the CRPG rabbit hole. So many great ones that I missed because I was primarily a console guy.

Here we go Utnayan

Note: I went off of the exact version of the game people played when I did HLTB totals. For example, the original Kingdoms of Amalur is listed at 31 hours and the remake, despite being the same thing, is listed at 20 hours (likely because modern people are spending less time and speeding through it). I finished the remake so I got 20 points, not 31 points. Everything is version-specific.

In order of appearance:

Regime
Far Cry 6 - 23
Blood Dragon - 4.5
Elden Ring - 51

Rajaah:
Doom 64 - 7
Pokemon Legends: Arceus - 24.5
Skywalker Saga - 18.5
Injustice 2 - 5.5
Jedi Fallen Order - 17
Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning - 20.5
Guardians of the Galaxy - 17.5
Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate - 35.5
Warriors All-Stars - 8
Blood Dragon - 4.5

KurganAU
Bulletstorm - 7.5
God of War 2018 - 21
Skywalker Saga - 18.5
Blood Dragon - 4.5
Guardians of the Galaxy - 17.5

Fight
Mad Max - 20
Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition - 31

Falstaff
FF7 Remake - 33

Seananigans
Overcooked: All You Can Eat - 28.5
Castle Crashers - 7
Horizon: Forbidden West - 27
Hollow Knight - 26.5
Salt and Sanctuary - 16

Gavinmad
Minecraft - 130

Shmoopy
Outer Worlds - 13

Totals:
Rajaah: 158.5
Gavinmad: 130
Seananigans: 105
Regime: 78.5
KurganAU: 69
Fight: 51
Falstaff: 33
Shmoopy: 13

CHALLENGE #1 WINNER: Rajaah

Rolling off out of 480 points, going by the previous list and excluding me:


#262 falls in Regime's number block

CHALLENGE #2 WINNER: Regime

Rolling between the remaining 6 people
Gavinmad: 1
Seananigans: 2
KurganAU: 3
Fight: 4
Falstaff: 5
Shmoopy: 6



CHALLENGE #3 WINNER: Seananigans

A fun time was had by all, hope we do this again.