Your 2025 Gaming Diary

[Hero-of-Time]

The grind for equipment and orbs wasn't that bad. I've read stories of people trying for days to grind the items they needed. 

I thought my game glitched during the final boss. I powered up the sword to the Mana Sword but was doing 0 damage. I didn't realise the magic ran out on it and had to keep topping it up. Terrible final boss fight though. It was so basic. Naturally I butchered the thing after my excessive exp and item farming.

The last trophy I needed was to max out all the magic spells. It was here, at the end of the game, that I only realised I could put magic usage on to a shortcut button. I'd been going through the menu to cast a spell during the whole game.

It's nice to have finally played it but it's not a good game. Take away the need to grind and there is very little to it. It does have a certain charm to it and, as Dcubed said, the soundtrack is pretty great, but overall it's very overrated and in no way deserve the praise it gets. 

With that done, there goes my first game off my 2025 pledge list.

@Julius you should stick everyone's pledges and updated pics in the first post. Would make it easier to see what everyone has picked and how they are getting on with things.

[Julius]

1 hour ago, Hero-of-Time said:

@Julius you should stick everyone's pledges and updated pics in the first post. Would make it easier to see what everyone has picked and how they are getting on with things.

Done and done, great idea H-o-T, happy to implement it 

Congrats on getting your first pledge game cleared for the year!

 

If anyone else has suggestions like this for the pledge (or just the thread in general tbh) I'm all ears! 

[bob]

First game of 2025 complete! 

 

 

Ok, granted I payed 90% of it last year, and I think I started it months ago, but nevertheless I have finished Uncharted 4!

 

Christ, it went on a bit. It did not need to be that long - it could have been half the length and I think it would have felt complete. The epilogue was so mind numbingly boring to complete, it clearly should have just been a cut-scene.

Anyway, I enjoyed the game. It really is visually stunning, and has some really fun set pieces in it. I think it might be my favourite of the 4. I liked the piratey theme and locations - it just needed trimming and removing a few dull chapters (wandering around that mansion during flashback; the chapter with all the exploding mummies; the epilogue).

 

Not sure what to play next. Maybe I'll make a gaming pledge! Although the idea of even attempting to compete 10 games is laughable, I may put a few on it that I want to play.