Sheikah

Yeah, that's something Tapatalk really needs. I would have thought spoiler tags are popular enough across forums to have warranted support by now.

Yeah FF is a massive deal. It is always hotly anticipated and the main series titles fly off the shelves.

Whenever it goes down at Christmas I basically get compensation time for days when I don't have Plus access during family visits. Not that this is right. Bunch'a sad bastards.

Ok, I can be on.

No need really, not worth the moneyhat. Their main competition is the X1. The amount of people who would have bought a PS4 for this but now no longer will and will instead wait for a PC version is probably a pretty small slice.

Ok then, let's do that! As Saturday 19:30 seems free for all, can we use that as our continuation date/time after tomorrow?

I cannot guarantee Thurs or Friday evening unfortunately. I won't be able to do next Monday (Christmas party). This is basically one of the reasons I scheduled this raid for Wednesday, given it's so close to Christmas and I know a lot of us have things to go do. It seems like from the list we have two options - either wait until weekend or @Deathjam considers offering a place to the reserve for tomorrow. No offence intended at all with this suggestion, I would just like to see some resolution.

I can't come online tonight (going to see book of mormon). Can do most other nights, not sure about Thursday though.

You get games every month for all 3 systems with Plus.

Oh right, got it. For some reason I read Shorty's post the other way round (that platinums do get taken away).

Platinum trophies or their icon aren't taken away when more DLC hits - you still have the platinum trophy displayed by your game. The only thing that changes is the percentage of game complete, which makes sense. I'm glad there is a star now for achievements. No obvious award for differentiating getting 980 gamerscore and all 1000 for a single game was a bit of a misjudgement. Can you see all these stars at a glance though? Seeing a person's number of platinums at a glance is more interesting than a score (or that level thing that PSN does).

Aside from 1 trophy, all of us here that got the Destiny plat got it without even trying for it.

What time today? I can do it tonight.

Personally I would place Bloodborne over Witcher 3. Witcher 3 was amazing but I think one of its weaker areas was its combat and difficulty. The combat was pretty repetitive and easy and didn't feel that refined (the same couple of moves over and over easily got me through). Putting the game on hard mode actually just made the game more annoying rather than difficult - stuff breaking all the time, for instance. Then there was also the fact that, as a high level, random items found in treasure were usually always of a lower level or just complete junk. Crafting was really the only way. Saying that, the storytelling and world building was phenomenal. Bloodborne was just bliss start to finish. Gameplay heaven with an awesome atmosphere.

Yeah I don't reckon they will abandon buttons. There's just no way you can play most of their games properly without them. To do that would be utterly insane.

The way I see it, we are going to have this raid as the main raid for a long time, and these challenge modes will come up again and again. That's fair enough, but I can see us rolling in 320 stuff before too long.

It's mostly because it's difficult to get everyone together again and/or a lack of enthusiasm in people continuing the raid. Personally, I'm not too bothered about getting regular loot since challenge mode gives you guaranteed 320 versions. It's very rare that I'll get 320 versions of things normally (I have only ever got 2 x 320 pieces normally, both in the same raid). I spend a lot of nights playing Destiny already, so I'm actually quite open towards doing all raid activities in a single night.

If you want I can get us an Oryx checkpoint some time on Tuesday night (if that's where challenge mode starts). Don't question the means.

Then let's start a signup for another challenge mode run next Wednesday, 7:30-8PM start time, since I know you can do Wednesdays. Who else is with me?! [sheikah] [space] [space] [space] [space] [space]

That's the first one. I already have some opinions on that one...

What were your thoughts on this in the end?

The lulz. The lulz will be had.

Since Zell has already signed up himself, Zell takes the last spot.

I think the sparrow racing is a bit cack. Easy enough, but sparrows just are not fun vehicles to race. I kinda wished they would redesign sparrow mechanics for this mode but I knew they wouldn't.

I'm a little more OK with this now that it sounds like each episode will not actually be an episode, but a game in size. I think 'episode' was conjuring ideas of very short games a la Walking Dead episodes. If they decide to go with a multi-game franchise I am good with that. And if the first part has complaints from fans (e.g. gameplay) they can sort that out, probably. Looking back at the video, it's not clear whether Cloud can free run in the battles or not. If not, if might be that it is rather turn based with a display that looks a bit less strategy. Time will tell.