Lost Fragments

I have finally completed the final requirement for the game, the spec ops misson. At first, getting back to the game after some heavy fighting and RPG games, I tend to lose focus and my aiming scatters.

There was one mission, Big Brother, where I need to have a second player to play it. Luckily I got an online friend to help. Thank you GlobalFreq, for making my dream in completing this game turning to reality.

We only had that one full session of mission to get to know each other. He was one hella good comrade to have and we managed to finish the mission in some few good tries.

After the mission with him, I continued my journey to solo the other spec ops. The one that was most difficult for me always involved in me fighting juggernauts, heavily armored, hard to kill and kept on ramming to you while firing their machine guns. I remembered the last mission on echo, where you need to fend off more than 10 jugs in the favela. With only a grenade luncher and some rpds, I need to work around the jugs by hiding beside the cars and kept attacking, while watching myself of any sudden attack on the rear or side. Funnily enuf, if you position yourself right near the burned / destroyed car, the jugs could not attack you, and if you fire the grenade while hiding, the jugs would just stay there and do nothing. It did take me tries as when the number of jugs gotten below 5, they tend to divide and conquer, attacking me from different angles.

Another hard one is the snatch and grab mission where you need to battle shadow company and few jugs. The shadow company soldiers really have good aims and know when to hide. They would fire at me until I almost bleed to death and when I try to retaliate using the sniper, they would hide away and scramble position by communicating among them. After getting to the last part/area of the mission, I found a spot where I can hide inside a broken airplane. Its just a cramped small space, enuf for one person to crawl inside. While inside this, I managed to kill some few shadow company and a few jugs as well. Which greatly enhanced my chance of winning instead of fighting them head to head. But, being down their feet, crawling like some kind of insect while the go about to find an angle to shoot you is terrorizing.

Battling jugs on the oil refinery in echo is also a good memory for me. I learned that the sniper weapon barret .cal is an excellent choice in holding them back. But one need to shoot above the chest area. In the mission, I set up some mines to help me along the way.

All in all, I had a great time with this game and am really looking forward to Modern Warfare 3. I proved to myself that if I tried hard enuf to achieve something, I would get it someday and triumphant along with new skills i developed along the way. I would definitely remember what a friend of mine did to me, leaving me alone to fight the spec ops alone, ut its thanks to him that I found some good new friends to play online with and mastered some key FPS skills that would help me in my journey of gaming. Next on my list should be Final Fantasy XIII.

Labels: Modern Warfare, PS3 Game Log, PS3 Trophy, PSN

Posted by neobita at Tuesday, September 20, 2011 | Permalink | Comments

Battle Fantasia Trophies: 62/62

After all the hard work I put into this game, I can finally say that I have completed / mastered it. The few final parts of mastering it for me was completing the story 100% with every characters, getting End Of Deathbringer and Gatchi / Parrying his Apocalypse Flame and defeating him with 100% life.

After getting the End Of Deathbringer as a playable character, I started to train with him to gatchi his apocalypse flame which lands 22 hit. After some training, I managed to beat his apocalypse flame in training mode, but when it comes to the real deal, fighting him in the arcade mode is a whole different ball game.

In Arcade mode, and at the highest level of difficulty (very hard), Deathbringer would execute his normal routine, that is, when you are far away from him, he would either joust which connects 8 - 10 hits depending on the character you are using. Or he would power up his apocalypse flame 1 time. The third time he power up, he would execute the move.

Playing as Urs, I once managed to parry his 22 AF hits, but then playing the chicken game, running away from him and waiting to parry his joust (to recover heat) he would then perform the AF again!. For the first AF it is pure luck that I managed to parry it all, but for the second, I ate it at first hit to all the 22 hits...

I took sometime off, and play other games to loosen up the tension felt. Played some Castle Crashers with my daughter, and some Final Fantasy XIII just to take my mind of Battle Fantasia.

Once I came back, I played around with Urs and Ashley. To my surprise, these two characters has different gatchi timings. For Urs, the timing is strict, you cannot just pound the gathci button hoping it would work, you need to hear the sound of the parry. But for Ashley, you can tap the button in a melodious manner, if you are a musician, or have some musical timing skill you would notice that the tap required has a unique timing and if you attune yourself to it, you would gatchi the attack with breeze.

Nonetheless, I still have the problem of EoDB performing the AF more than once. What I would do to overcome this is... I denied EoDB's chance to perform AF during the first 10 - 20 seconds of the fight. If I see him charging the AF up, I would go and perform a throw, if the throw is successful, it would reset his current charge, example if he charged at 1 and you perform a throw, the next charge would also be 1. Whenever he perform his joust I would gatchi all the 5 - 9 hits which would recharge my heat to level 3, then I would punish him by heating up, performing super special, and repeat the step while at the same time resetting his AF charge. After I got his health to a critical minimum (one you could finish with 1 heated super special) I would let him charge his AF to level 3 and try to parry it once he performed it. I know it sounds easier said than done, but I did tried and tried again, without giving up, I knew that I would eventually be able to get the "you want me to what!?" trophy.

Parrying the AF 22 hit and finishing EoDB, the top right off the screen pops up the first gold trophy, and then shortly after, the second trophy which is the platinum. It was an emotional experience to obtain that Platinum trophy and I am glad to be one of the few person in this world to obtain it. Once PSN is up, I will know whether I am the first to get it on Gamespot. And I don't know of any other achivement (home t shirt, or other) that comes with it.

And with this I conclude my journey with this game. Time to finish all the other games in my backlog. Maybe I'll start with Final Fantasy XIII.

And last but not least, I dedicate this Platinum Trophy to Japan....

Labels: Battle Fantasia, Castle Crashers, Final Fantasy XIII, Platinum, PS3 Game Log, PS3 Trophy, PSN

Posted by neobita at Monday, May 23, 2011 | Permalink | Comments

Battle Fantasia Trophies: 60/62

Finally, I managed to obtain 100% story completion for every character in story mode. Although not that hard, its very time consuming. There are 2 path for every character and to unlock it there are certain requirements to be met. Like for example urs, he needs to win the match againts olivia by time out. And did I tell you that you need to win and lose every battle in Path01 or Path02? I always fell asleep when I had to do this time consuming task, waiting for the computer to beat me. But the stroryline is interesting though, there are some characters which dwelve into storyline completely different from the original story. Like Deathbringer's for example, the storyline changed to Battle Sentai Fantasia where all the character that he would fight seems to use gimicks from popular Sentai (Power Rangers, Kamen Rider, etc) and there are storyline that tells the true story of the game, like for example the real reason for Deathbringer's current state and who is Dokurod, and characters relationship with one another... man, this truly feels like an RPG game rather than a Fighting game as the storyline (Path 01 usually) gives more depth to the character's background story and sucks you into their adventure.

Anyway, all that has passed now, the requirements has been met, and I was happy to unlock alternate costumes for all the characters as some alternate even changed the whole appearance of the character giving it a fresh new look. Of all the unlockables I get from the story mode, the best is The End of Deathbringer, which is the final boss of the game. Its like Deathbringer, but with a completely new powerful moveset with the most powerful final attack in the game, the Apocalypse Flame. The move which I need to learn to gatchi in order to prepare me for the final battle against him in the Arcade match.

In practice mode, you can record a move for the cpu to do and when you play it back, it will repeat the same move all over again. I entered the button combination for the apocalypse flame which is Down Back B / D, and do it 3 times. The third time, EoDB will perform his apocalypse flame. Training with him I've managed to gatchi all 22 hits of the AF about 70% of the time. However when I fight him in arcade, I never manage to perfect the gatchi... stage fright perhaps? Anyway, this is the lask task I need to do to complete this game.

While finishing the end task for Battle Fantasia, I am also casually (read: devoted) playing the new Mortal Kombat. As PSN is still down as of today 26-April-2011, I think I will set the Battle Fantasia's task the first priority before I delve into MK online mode which will definitely take away 90% of my gaming time.

And, I really need to update my Backloggery

Labels: Battle Fantasia, Gamespot, Mortal Kombat (2011), PS3 Game Log, PS3 Trophy

Posted by neobita at Tuesday, April 26, 2011 | Permalink | Comments

Battle Fantasia Trophies: 55/62

I have managed to complete the storyline for all the characters, and I can say that some of the characters have a very interesting storyline. Anyway, looking back at the character select screen in story mode, I saw that the completion for a character's story that I've done is only at 30% at most 50%.

It seems like in order to complete a character's storyline at 100%, you would need to loose every fight and continue, then you must choose a different path in the storyline by performing a move / taunt during "Gachi Battle". This is the battle that would change the path of the character's storyline. Like for example when using Ashley, in a fight with Coyori, successfully perform a taunt, and this will change the outcome of the battle (should you win). After getting to 50%, you would get an alternate costume for the character. And at 90%, you would get another alternate costume for that character.

Completing the story mode for all character at 100% is benificial to me as I want to unlock the character The End Of Deathbringer. And I want to practice parrying / gatchi his attacks in practice mode so that it would be easier for me to do the almost imposible task to complete this game. That is, ehem "In single player arcade mode, on a difficulty higher than NORMAL, survive Deathbringer's Apocalypse Flame attack and win the round with full health." Firstly, the move is like 20+ hit, and Deathbringer (The End) is the final boss of the game and you are expected to parry (not block, coz it will chip of your health) every move he got including the Apocalypse Flame and win the round with full health.

I know its not impossible, but for now, I think I would unlock Deathbringer (The End) and spar with him in practice mode until I understand all of his move set and how to defeat him flawlessly.

Labels: Battle Fantasia, PS3 Game Log, PS3 Trophy, PSN

Posted by neobita at Wednesday, April 13, 2011 | Permalink | Comments

 
Battle Fantasia Trophies: 46/62

 

After some gaming time hiatus (actually, I got bored and don't know what to play) I've decided to continue my endless backloggery of unfinished game. I chose to play Battle Fantasia and complete this game.

As we all know, Japan, the country where chrono cross, final fantasy, metal gear solid, kingdom hearts and many other great games hail from, have been hit by an earthquake of 8.9 magnitude leading to several aftershocks afterwards which latest is the 27th Of March's (as of this writing and to my knowledge).

Many people from around the world rallied together to provide a helping hand to japan. The Gaming industry had also take part in this mission of kindness, namely some of the game composers have proposed to develop an Album in which the profit gained from selling this album would go to the AID Japan fund. A Theme for the PS3 have also been developed and which you can buy at $2, $5, $10, $25 and $50 from your wallet at playstation store. I have yet to buy this theme.

Alas, for me as a gamer, seeing how the industry is taking part in this noble endeavor, I have decided to dedicate one of the hardest (if not, impossible) Platinum trophy of all time to Japan. I will platinum Battle Fantasia and at the same time pray that all is well in Japan and that they can muster the strength and willpower to get back on their feet and their industry mainly the gaming industry would continue to provide us with excellent titles that they had always been.

Before tears start flowing in my eyes, I leave this post with something to ponder.

I cried when god gave me rain in such a bright day, But I smiled later knowing that god was actually showing me a rainbow.

Labels: Battle Fantasia, PS3 Game Log

Posted by neobita at Sunday, April 03, 2011 | Permalink | Comments

Bayonetta Trophies: 51/51

Well actually, I have completed this game a while back. 6 months ago to be precise. Its just a challenge I put myself into. To fight the final most powerful boss that this game has to offer.

 

************** From Here On, Its Spoilers ****************

I have come to notice an item that can be bought in "The Gates Of Hell", one of Rodin's Treasure, the "Platinum Ticket". The item is priced at 999999. Quite costly, although now I have the knowledge and skills that is required to farm for that amount of halos. All I did was, equipped Bayonetta with the durga (lightning) on her hands and durga (fire) on her legs for set A. And for set B, I equipped her with Shuraba on her hand and Lt. Col. Kilgore on her legs.

Then I pick chapter 2 and after the fight where the train wreck, I activated the Alfheim portal. This is the portal where you can Farm for Gil. Just make sure you don't kill all the angels here otherwise you won't be able to go back. Using the combo PPPPK (Switch to set B) and KKKK, at the time you press kick on the durga (set A) and change it to set B (Kilgore) you would notice that there will be a barrage of rockets coming out from Bayonetta's feet. This move would kill some enemies almost instantly, but what we should do in this Alfheim portal is, activate witch time by dodging some of the Angels attack which is predictable. Unleash the combo, continue by firing the gun (square) and never let the combo window dies, keep juggling the combo until you (with luck) reached 9999 and after that, it would leave you at around 1 million halos, if I'm not mistaken, anyway close to that amount and just a battle that only take 15 minutes or so to complete, you would definitely be able to buy that Platinum Ticket in The Gates Of Hell in no time.

Rodin The Infinite One

To defeat him, I just use Pillow Talk, with Lt. Col. Kilgore for the legs. With accessory Climax Bracelet and Rosary beads.I tried to get as far away from him as possible and kicked like hell, that would trigger the missile weave attack that does quite some damage to him. Whenever he comes close, I would just dodge his attack sand the beads would explode and damage him. There was one time however, he caught me and use his ultimate attack (like shun goku satsu from Street Fighter's Akuma) and drain up all my lifebar. Luckily for me I managed to get up after the attack and started running around like crazy and finally managed to defeat him using the Beads and Missile techniques earlier.

So, ends my journey in Bayonetta, now to return this game to its owner and continue to play other games in my collection.

I will be using this new default template for my gaming log.

Labels: Bayonetta, PS3 Game Log

Posted by neobita at Friday, February 04, 2011 | Permalink | Comments

MK vs DC Universe
Trophies: 43/43

I have finally completed this game. The final requirement for the platinum is somewhat challenging as I have to complete 200 vs fights. Man, 200? That is alot of fights. Nevertheless, I kept on fighting and fighting until I reached the 100 mark. Then suddenly the trophy pops in. I thought to myself whether it is a glitch of some sort.

After searching online for the answer to this "glitch" I found out that the 100 online matches I've completed recently was accounted for the whole 200, so my online 100 fights, plus 100 local fights, equals to 200!. So, there you go, all I needed was 100 local fights. I felt a bit relief as even in fighting the 100 local vs took me about 2 - 3 hours. :)

Currently I'm borrowing this game from a friend. And as I played it, I felt in love with the game and decided to buy a copy. The problem is, I bought a different region version of the game and the save file also differs. Slotting in the new game I bought, presents me with the same game, albeit the unlocked version, meaning, I have to complete the arcade mode, the story mode and the Kombo Challenge all over again, my god, KOMBO CHALLENGE?

No, definitely not now. But I will try to find sometime to complete it AGAIN just to prove my love for the game and that I really deserved the Plat.

The third spot in Gamespot is finally mine. Now onwards to other games!

Labels: MK vs DC, PS3 Game Log

Posted by neobita at Wednesday, February 02, 2011 | Permalink | Comments

MK vs DC Universe
Trophies: 37/43

Finally completed the online requirement of the game. It was not that hard as the server is good and lag is of no issue, congratulation Midway, looking forward to fight online in the new Mortal Kombat coming soon. Anyway, back on my progress for MK vs DC, its all about finishing arcade mode with all the characters to view their story, and to perform all the fatalities, heroic brutalities and all the moves available to each character.

And I will finally get the 3rd Spot on Gamespot for this game :)

Labels: MK vs DC, PS3 Game Log

Posted by neobita at Monday, January 10, 2011 | Permalink | Comments

MK vs DC Universe
Trophies: 32/43
After pushing my execution skills to the limit, the game finally succumb to defeat and I was able to finish all of the characters combo challenge. Tip for completing the combo challenge? Well. for me, whenever I do each character Kombo challenge, I tend to stop when I reach the hard ones, and continue to perform other character Kombo challenge. Then after a while, I will get back to finishing the Kombo challenge I left earlier. I find that this is not the best method to do so.

I realized that each character has different timing and hit boxes to master. The best is to perform each character's Kombo challenge through and through. But who could stay all day and just Kombo away right? Well, I also did this, whenever I got bored or tired of one combo challenge, I just simply stop. maybe play other games or just hanging out with my daughter or play the PSN game Fat Princess with her. Whenever I come back to MK vs DC, I would always perform all the Kombo challenge from the first. Meaning I don't simply continue to the one's I haven't finish, I perform it back from the start. This method would get my muscle memory back for that current character, it would make me remember their timing and hit boxes. And this just simplify everything. It helps to reduce the stress too. :)

Now, all that is left is to fight in the arcade mode, and online and also perform some fatalities and heroic brutality. I think I will plat this game yet.

Labels: MK vs DC, PS3 Game Log

Posted by neobita at Wednesday, January 05, 2011 | Permalink | Comments

Battle Fantasia
Trophies: 38/62
Currently fighting online in ranked or player match. Not alot of people online nowadays. At first, I was trying to win a requested amount of ranked match, but after seeing someone in the leaderboard who is about 700 wins, I've decided to go for number 1 in online ranking as well. I would also try to aim for the win in player match.

Labels: Battle Fantasia, PS3 Game Log

Posted by neobita at Wednesday, December 29, 2010 | Permalink | Comments

MK vs DC Universe
Trophies: 22/43
Completed 2 more Kombo challenge. That is Shao Kahn's and Liu Kang's. While doing the Kombo challenge, I have also tried to complete the arcade mode in the highest difficulty setting and without using continue. But some of the opponent cpu is giving me a hard time, those are Deathstroke, kept side stepping and Dark Kahn, he utterly destroys you without giving you the chance to retaliate. I need to work up my combo for 1 character and then try out that character on the arcade mode.

Labels: MK vs DC, PS3 Game Log

Posted by neobita at Tuesday, December 28, 2010 | Permalink | Comments

MK vs DC Universe
Trophies: 20/43
Currently trying to complete the Kombo Challenge. I seem to have some grips on how the move / special move initiate and my execution successful rate for this game has somewhat doubled. I have managed to complete some of the combo challenge that I have had hard times with. Such as Captain marvel's, Sonya's, Jax and even DarkSeid. Maybe this is due to my intense activity on the Street Fighter IV .

While working on the MK Vs DC Title, I am also working on Battle Fantasia . Maybe this is due to my sudden interest in fighting mechanics, as my try on COD: Modern Warfare2, is of to no avail as I find myself lacking or maybe lost skills needed to play First person shooter games.

 

Battle Fantasia
Trophies: 34/62
Currently trying to find some people to fight online. After that I will complete all characters story mode.

Labels: Battle Fantasia, MK vs DC, PS3 Game Log, PS3 Trophy

Posted by neobita at Monday, December 27, 2010 | Permalink | Comments

Street Fighter IV
Trophies: 48/48
I have finally completed this game. It was such an emotional experience when I see the trophy window appear in the PS3 and stated that I had just obtained 3 trophy, Icon Master, Title Master and Unbeatable Fist. I doubt that I will ever play this game due to the fact that Super Street Fighter IV is newer and the online community is stronger. But before I put my hands on SSFIV, its time to finish another game in my list.

MK vs DC Universe
Trophies: 16/43
Need to find some friends to fight online, and finish up all the other requirements to complete the game.

Labels: MK vs DC, PS3 Game Log, Street Fighter

Posted by neobita at Friday, December 24, 2010 | Permalink | Comments

My dream of completing this game is coming true. I have only 20 more online fights to win to obtain my platinum. Feels like contacting those old friends I've been sparring with at the time this game was released. How I missed fighting in the tournament and just playing online. Sigh. time flows faster when you are busy with life. But these memories, the lost fragments that made me who I am today.

Labels: PS3 Game Log, PS3 Trophy, Street Fighter

Posted by neobita at Wednesday, December 22, 2010 | Permalink | Comments

I have finally completed all the hard trials for Street Fighter 4. Now onwards to network battle. Just need 5 more time out wins and another 25 or so for match wins. After that I will obtain arguably one of the hardest platinum of all time.

Labels: PS3 Game Log, Street Fighter

Posted by neobita at Tuesday, December 21, 2010 | Permalink | Comments

Street Fighter IV
After evaluating all my time and effort needed for finishing / completing this game, I found out that I have so little time to give it and had gotten me so busy these few days. So now, I think the 8 plats (T.O.G.E.T.H.E.R) would have to wait. Maybe I'm not put up to be a gamer anymore, the errands of life has gotten its toll on my gaming life, and I am in a position closed to being bored with games not because I don't like it anymore, Its because I have no time to like it anymore, its all about utilizing every moment I got (playing game) to finish it, no more enjoyment in flowing through the storyline, admiring the graphics and gameplay.

Maybe to platinum Street Fighter IV is my way to fight back through life that I can actually achieve something even if Life's grips has gotten more and more tighter around my body.

Labels: PS3 Game Log, Street Fighter

Posted by neobita at Monday, December 20, 2010 | Permalink | Comments

Street Fighter IV

What have I accomplished thus far? Finally completed the Hard time trials. Now onwards to the Hard Survivals. And waiting for a friend to get his hands back on his SF4 that had become a dust gatherer. Playing online this game should bring back lots of interesting memories.

Labels: PS3 Game Log, Street Fighter

Posted by neobita at Saturday, December 18, 2010 | Permalink | Comments

Up until now, I had collected too many PS3 games, and with no time to play any of it, the titles kept on piling up as new games come out and my desire to own them kept burning a whole in my wallet. On September 2010 I have decided to keep a backlog of all my games and establish a well mannered gaming time to finish it all.
What / How does one know that he / she has completed a game. Well, at first, I though that fighting the last boss of a game and seeing the end credits justify it. But then again, what about those extra missions, difficulty levels, special item to be collected, or just plainly busting that last boss *** with a high level character equipped with the most powerful weapons in the game? Or at some point to prove you are the best among the best in network battle?
Seeing My Backlog, in each game, you have an option to enter / state the achievement you have completed / collected from a game. And in some terms, you have completed the game in a sense that you have collected every achievements from that game. So, to make it simple, a 100% achievement is what I need from every game that I own to feel that I have completed it. This would also prove to be my money's worth as games are not that cheap to buy in the first place and having them bought only to be placed on the shelves doesn't help resolving the matter a bit.
In the spirit of gaming towards 2011, I have decided to finish some of these games that I have / borrow. And sync it on 31-Dec-2010 and at a specific time to be appointed to later.
The Games:
Street Fighter IV
Trophies: 44/48
I need to win some 68 online battles, and finish up the time trials and survivals in hard.
COD: Modern Warfare 2
Trophies: 44/51
Need to find some friends to help with the Spec Ops part of the game
MK vs DC Universe
Trophies: 16/43
Need to find some friends to fight online, and finish up all the other requirements to complete the game.
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Trophies: 26/48
Need to finish the game in Hard and Crushing mode and find all the treasures.
Resident Evil 5
Trophies: 6/71
Need to play in Normal / Easy mode and unlock the infinite Rocket Launcher and blast through the game and finish it.
Prince Of Persia: Trilogy
Trophies: 0/54
I always loved the POP series, the way the developer translates the movement of the Prince from the old games certainly deserves a praise in the Free Running arena. I would like to enjoy this game as well as to complete it.
So, up until now, I have a 8 titles to finish up by the end of December. Although I doubt I could ever do it as my schedule is quite tight these few months, I will do my best to utilize every minute I have to do so, insyaallah.

Labels: PS3 Game Log, PS3 Trophy

Posted by neobita at Thursday, December 16, 2010 | Permalink | Comments