Week 21 (Month 5) - Double Platinum

That's right everyone two platinums in one month! Not only that, but in the same Week! On Tuesday I received my platinum in Mass Effect 2, and early this morning I received my second platinum in Killzone 3! Welcome everybody to my awesome blog of Trophy hunting where I try to reach my goal 2,012 trophies by the year 2012. This month I am super excited, because I have made my first move to gaining on my fifteen platinum trophies. All the way up til now I have been completing one platinum trophy a month, this month I have one uped that putting me closer to my goal! Like every post I've done so far where I have completed my platinum I give you my tips on the best way to platinum this game. I will start off with Killzone 3, and finish it off with Mass Effect 2 following with some Mass Effect 2 videos.

My Roadmap for Killzone 3 is to start off on the easiest difficulty, this is needed due to the Elite difficulty to be unlocked so you can get that trophy by going through the easiest difficulty. You can play at a harder difficulty if you would like it's up to you. Along this playthrough you want to get the story missions and some of the random trophies. This game did a real great job of making the trophies easy to get in one playthrough. Here's the trophies you should be going for broken down by levels.

Chapter 1
Ready for Battle - Complete weapons training: This is story related.

Chapter 2
In Your Face - First Brutal Melee: This will be available early in the level.
Frag Out - Kill 3 Helghast with 1 Frag Grenade: Mid part in the level after a cutscene you will be behind a Helghast that you can Brutal Melee. To his left is is a hill of rubble and over that are 4-5 Helghast that are bunched up. Throw your grenade over this rubble pile.
One Each - Kill 3 Helghast with Shotgun Pistol, no reloads: In the area where there is a giant door blocking the tank route, and you have to open it by turning the wheel. One of the enemies drops the shotgun pistol here. Next you just need to find 3 unfortunate enemies to blow a hole through.
No Witnesses - Destroy All Dropships on the Highway: At the end of level 2 you will end up on a bridge where you will have 4 dropships come down. They can be real hard to take down, but with the detachable minigun they are no problem. The first one comes down after the first bridge. once you advance a bit another one comes down and is hard to hit because he's usually behind some highway signs. Then 3 and 4 both show up at the same time a little further down the bridge.
Time For a Dip - Reach the River: Story Related

Chapter 3
Mopping up - Kill 40 Helghast Foot Soldiers: Right at the beginning when your in the turret R1 fires shells and R2 fires the machinegun but overheats if held down for to long. Try to take out the 2 dropships usually holds quite a bit of enemies.
Sawn Off - Destory All Chasing APC's: After the beach you roll up on land and over a bridge. You need to kill all the enemy APC's which look like what your driving. The will usually show up behind you, and it's about 6-7 APC's.
Smoking Wrecks - Destory all Tanks on Senlin Beach: Same as the APC's there are about 4 tanks. 1st Tank will appear behind the debris to your right. 2nd Tank will be on your left up on the highway. 3rd Tank will be after a dropship appears this one will be on your left. 4th tank will appear after the guy in front of you stops suddenly, the tank is right in front of him.
Eagle Eye - Every Sniper Rifle Bullet is a Kill: last section of the game you will split from you team to go in a building there will be 3 or 4 snipers in this building that you can grab a sniper rifle from, and the next part is the best for this trophy.
Save The Intruders - Arc APC's Destroyed: Story Related

Chapter 4
Spiky Personality - Kill a Helghast Using a Burster: a Burster is those plants with orange bulbs that explode when you shoot them. just pick you shot this shouldn't be to hard.
Never There - Sneak Past Helghast: You don't have to sneak by everyone. Just make sure your not spotted period. If you need to kill someone brutal melee or Shoot the guy in the head.
ISA TV - Establish Communication: Story Related
Turn the Tables - Melee Kill a Capture Trooper: a capture trooper is the bad ass looking Helghast that kill by melee. You just have to give him a taste of his own medicine. These guys will come after you make contact with the ISA.

Chapter 5
Minigunned - Destory all targets: when your on the ship with the minigun at the beginning you will fly by these oil tower structures. you need to aim and shoot at whatever looks like a blue cylinder or vessel next to pipes marked by blue stripes.
Areial Superiority - Kill 5 Helghast While in the Air: When you get a hold of a jetpack kill 5 enemies while boosted in the air.
Quick Exit - Escape the Oil Rig Quickly: After setting the 2 bases with C4 you have 4 minutes to escape... do it in 2 and get you'll get this trophy.
Excessive Force - Kill a Lone Helghast with the WASP secondary Fire: The wasp is the attached weapon in this level. The secondary fire is lock on with L1 and fire. try and hit one target.
Spread The Love - Kill 5 Helghast at Once Using the WASP's Secondary Fire: Similar to the last one just try and hit 5 enemies. There will be a drop ship after destroying a few gun nests. Wait until it drops of your buddies and lock on and boom this trophy should be yours.
Into The Lair - Reach the Cable Car: Story Related

Chapter 6
Jail Break - Liberate Narville: Story Related
Shattered - Destroying All Glass in the Labs: This is a difficult one... in the first room there is 10 pieces of glass, 4 in the refrigeration room, and then 64 in the last room. This last room is tricky, STA14 or whatever the single shot rifle is that zooms in. easiest way to get the top floor.
Frazzle Dazzle - Kill 3 Helghast With One Shot From the Sta5x Arc Cannon: This is the weapon you start out with in this level, most likely the easiest to get somewhere in this level just keep it in mind
Go Down And Stay Down - Destroy ATAC: Story Related
Iced - Destroy all Ice Saws and Dropships: this is the last part of the level where your in some jet-ski vehicle. You must kill the 4 Ice Saws and 6 Dropships before the level ends.

Chapter 7
Power Spike - Nail a Helghast to an Exploding Object: You must pick up the Nail gun from a weapon rack and look for a exploding barrel then pin a helghast to that barrel. Not easy to find a helghast in front of a barrel. there is one to the far right of an area when you get to the huge tower and a bunch of miniguns. He will be on the minigun to the farthest right, if you position yourself just right you can nail him to the barrel to his right.
Pinpoint - kill the Heavy With an StA-14: The single shot rifle makes the heavy's a lot easier. Make sure you pick this up from a weapon rack. I believe there is one right when he shows up, but not 100% sure. Shoot him in the head and then shoot the pack on his back when he turns around.
You Drive - Drive the Mobile Factory: Story Related

Chapter 8
Completist - Destroying Everything on the MAWLR: Biggest pain in the ass here is a video for you :D

Bring It Down - Defeat the MAWLR: Story Related

Chapter 9
Let's Go Home - Destory Stahl's Cruiser: Story Related

After you beat the game, play through it on your new unlocked difficulty (Elite). After that you can co-op with a buddy or plug in a second controller and replay the first 3 levels. Then you have your online trophies. You can get the Infiltrator trophy with the brutal melee kill trophy. Also revive someone, repair a turret/or bot, and capture a spawn point all while trying to win a round in each gametype (you'll know this when the xp bar goes up) and playing a game with a friend (Squad)

That is the way I did it and was able to complete this in about 2 weeks of gameplay while working on Mass Effect 2 as well. Speaking of Mass Effect 2 Lets move on to that...

Unlike most other games you dont need to unlock the hardest difficulty, but honestly it's faster and easier if you hold it off to the second playthrough. In the first playthrough your looking to recruit every member, purchase every Normandy upgrade, do every loyalty mission, High paragon/renegade rating, and have a love interest. Really that's all you have to worry about in your first playthrough.

To unlock the Loyalty missions you must talk to every teammate on the ship between each mission until you exhaust there dialogue. The high Paragon/renegade rating is to prevent from losing members loyalty from the fights on the ship, so when playing through the game make sure to choose paragon or renegade everytime.

I found that Thane is the easiest to have a love interest in. Jacob just wasn't getting any closer and I didn't even try ?Jack or whoever else she could go with.

Play through the game, recruit, max Paragon/Renegade, Loyalty, Upgrade, and love interest are what you need if you would like more info on this playthrough I suggest going here.

All you should need after that is to hit level 30 and beat the game on insanity. get to level 30 will be along the way to beating insanity. Beating insanity is the hardest thing to do in this game, so I took the fastest route.

Tutorial and Freedom's Progress
recruit Master Thief
recruit Mercenary
Recruit Professor
recruit krogan
recruit convict
recruit archangel
Horizon
5 missions (loyalty or side missions)
Collector Ship
Reaper IFF
Suicide mission

Don't bother with saving loyalty or keeping your team alive it's not worth it the pain that will be in your ass. Lucky for you guys I'm releasing videos and commentary for my Mass Effect 2 Insanity walkthrough. All I could get down this past week (takes a lot of time up just to edit and commentate these videos) is my recruitment of Zaeed (mercenary) and Mordin (Professor), and it takes place after my last 2 videos. here's your 5 part series of the recruitment of the two

Mass Effect 2 Recruiting Zaeed & Mordin 1/5 (Insanity)


Mass Effect 2 Recruiting Mordin 2/5 (Insanity)


Mass Effect 2 Recruiting Mordin 3/5 (Insanity)


Mass Effect 2 Recruiting Mordin 4/5 (Insanity)


Mass Effect 2 Recruiting Mordin 5/5 (Insanity)


That's it for this weeks blog! Thank you all for tuning in! Hope you join me next week for some game updates on Socom 4 and Brink, as well as some more Mass Effect 2 videos! Follow me on Twitter @Majorpain2587 hit me up talk to me I'm actually quite a cool guy and love to talk anything nerdy (mainly video games, comics, and movies). Please tell your friends about me and my super awesome goal!

Trophy Counter:
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Week 19 - It's Not Over!

Alright! Welcome back to my blog 2012 by 2012! It's a good weekend. After PSN has been down for almost a good month it finally has returned to us last night! I know I've had a lot of friends waiting on it's return, and the second it popped on they were already gaming. They didn't care it was 1 or 2 in the morning all they cared about was that satisfaction of bashing in some guys head or fragging their friends and enemies. Although I am a big fan of online gaming... I have to say this PSN outage wasn't that big of a deal to me. I had my Single player experience to hold me over, and I'm glad it was Sony's Single Player experience that kept me alive for this long :P.

Lets get started on this week episode shall we! I have completed Killzone 3! That means I have a review for ya! Also I promised to start getting out a few videos of me going through Mass Effect 2, so I have some of those for you today as well!

Lately I've been kind of lazy when it has come to trophy hunting. I've tried to sit down and just bust out some trophies or work towards Mass Effect 2 platinum. It has just gone slow and I've lost the motivation for the day and I would stop. Sadly I have to say it's because Mass Effect 2 glitches. I'm literally 4 levels away from completing this game, but it takes 3 hours (sarcastically) to beat one level due to the difficulty with the glitches/bugs tacked on to that. That is mainly why I didn't do an update last week, because I got like a whole 5-8 trophies as was just like big whoop what am I going to talk about?

We'll start with the Killzone 3 Review and leave the goods for last. Killzone 3 not a earth shattering stop the presses FPS game, especially with the market flooded with FPS it's hard to shine. What does give it that shine and little above the top and edge on other FPS is it's was created by Sony's team... is Sony the only team that knows how to make a shooter? No I'm not saying that, but what I am saying is it's not a third party shooter allowing Sony to professionally implement their new motion controller into the game correctly. I played 95% of the game using the move + sharpshooter controller combo. I must say it added some frustration at first, but once you get use to it it's quite fun! That's enough with that let's move (pun intended :P) on to the review!

Review:
Sounds: The music did an awesome job of drawing you into the firefights. When a big battle came up I was guaranteed that my blood would pumping from the intense music working with me to feel in the moment. Clean crisp sounds everywhere I would go faded sounds of explosions and gun fire in the back. Nothing to fancy for FPS today, but enough to know that your in a war driven planet trying to make it out alive. I didn't get a chance to test out the surround sound, and that was do to me using the move (couldn't where my SS headphones and play with the move). I do plan to take advantage of it when I play it through the hardest difficulty next time (which I'll give you a heads up that I will be recording that as well).

Gameplay: Average FPS you can say... run here, shoot these guys, run over there, complete objective, shoot more guys, continue on, and do other objectives and killings. It used a lot of the stuff it picked up in the second game, but nothing else really new, which kind of seems lackluster. setting the C4 and turning the valves with the movement of your controller was brought back. A lot of the same weapons were back, but they also introduced some cool new ones. Sadly though there was 1 rifle, smg, sniper, and lmg... so yea not much variety to choose from. Heavy weapons shined in this game though from flamethrowers to detachable miniguns and guide mini rockets (kind of like the Jericho from the first Iron Man movie). A new enemy joined the Helghast team, but didn't show up a lot in the game. The final boss fight was disappointing though.

Story: There was a story, but as most FPS that doesn't really show. Not very many cut scenes that relate to story in this game most of the cut scenes are just transitions to new objectives/missions.

*Spoilers*
The story is pretty straight forward your Sev and your partner in crime is Rico. You start off at a Helghast base blending in as Helghast, your there to save Narville who is scheduled to be executed. You then head back to 6 months earlier where you just left off in Killzone 2 where you killed Visari. You have to escape the city why facing heavy resistance. Rico disobeys Narville's orders and separates from the team to go save a group of soldiers. Narville abandons him there thinking he's dead (I think he does it because he's tired of him disobeying his command).

Meanwhile the Helghast leaders are having a problem with Officer in Command Orlock has takin over, but is doing a poor job, so weapons designer Stahl is trying to turn the council against him and make him leader, and eventually refusing them his weapons until they do so. Stahl eventually becomes head of the council and has designed this new weapon that basically melts whatever it passes, which he plans to use on earth.

During this Narville and Sev gets captured and is being sent to some snowy Helghast base (which is where the game first took place) Rico intercepts the plan taking Sev, and you find out Rico has been alive for 6 months working with a resistance group made of ISA's. Sev wants to save Narville, but Rico says it's suicide but eventually ends up helping Sev anyways.

Then you take place in the middle of a helghast base with 3 guys (after saving narville) that's when you find out about the WMD and decide you need to plan an offensive now. You escape the building and due to thins Stahl is made a fool of (due to not properly executing Narville when he was right in front of him but instead gloating about it). The council have turned on him and have gone back to Orlock. Sev, Rico, and Narville make there way to the orbital elevator with there team of 60. Narville says we can't go we don't have enough men where Rico and Sev say we don't have time the world will end soon. Gives this huge long spirit lifting speech and they all head up there and in the end they basically stop Stahl from unleashing the WMD on Earth. I also need to add that I'm very upset that this game wasn't left at a close. They left it open hinting another one will be made, and I was really hoping this one was going to close the trilogy.

*End Spoilers*

Replayability: After beating it once you unlock the hardest difficulty, so it has a little replayability in that aspect. This game was also equipped with Online multiplayer, which I hear is really good and resembles much like the second one. It lacks the fanbase like CoD games have had though, but that might be because of how easy CoD games are to just pick up and play.

Graphics: Didn't feel that they improved much over the Killzone 2 graphics, but still highly comparable to any other game out there. No graphic tears or rips, and didn't see any bugs or glitches. All around very well ironed out game.

DS3: The bit that I played with the DualShock 3 was really good. The response didn't feel slow like in Killzone 2, but you still had that feel that you were holding a heavy weapon. Great job by the team on revamping what was a great idea but complained a lot about. They didn't ruin the aspect of it or dumb it down and out of the game.

Move: Few problems with this... The synching is off by some bit. I haven't played any other game yet with it, but it seemed off all the time. I even synched it up in the XMB options before going into the game, but when I aimed it at the eye and the two corners it would be anywhere from 4 inches to off the whole screen from where I was aiming. It also would move when I held the controller still in the center, you could see it slowly inch away from where I was aiming. which made it a little difficult to play with having to resync it so much. All it all the controls were easy (except the melee), aiming, firing, pause, jump, reload, and etc were all easy to do/learn. Pause was out of place and the Melee was stupid IMO... jerking the controller forward would make my guy spaz out and look left or up or down due to me arm movements. at the end of the game i learned circle was my not movement melee button, but the reload on the bottom or even twisting it to reload as well as the melee were poorly implemented in this game. They probably should have froze the reticle when the controller was under sudden movement maybe that might have been better.

Overall great game to add to the Killzone story, you can beat it in a few hours which is sad so I would suggest rent if you just want the story. If you want the platinum and want this for you Killzone collection then obviously buy it. It has a great online gameplay and community especially if you want to venture away from the CoD series.

Now the moment you have all been waiting for! My Mass Effect 2 videos! I will be showing you the Intro and Freedom's Progress today.

Intro


Freedom's Progress


I would like to thank everyone for reading, and I hope you enjoyed my video help and commentary. Please let your gamer friends/family now about my blog especially if they're interested in receiving some help/info about trophy gathering, and I will hopefully see you all next week! I should have more Mass Effect 2 videos for ya (hoping to get caught up so that would be a good 5 or so videos).

Trophy Counter:
Trophies: 1340/2012 Platinum Trophies: 21/32

Month 4 - Checkpoint

Welcome back everyone to another episode of 2012 by 2012! Today I will be discussing a little about if I'm currently on the right track/path to completing this goal. I will also talk about my future plans and what I'm currently working on, so on that note lets get this fun filled blog on the way!

I have been working on this goal for some time, and I feel it's time to check to see where I'm at in my goal. Back in the first month of this self challenge I determine that I would need at least 85 trophies a month, so lets take a look at how far I am along this challenge. Keep in mind I started at 1000 trophies and my goal is to get to 2012 by then end of this year! That's 1012 trophies! That's not the whole challenge, but I was also looking at getting 15 platinum trophies as well this year. I started at 17, and I am now at 21! Which is an average of 1 per month, but I also got a head start for this month and will most likely get 2 more platinum trophies this month (Mass Effect 2 and Killzone 3, but more on that later). Okay so lets determine how well I'm doing trophy wise, so starting this goal at 1000 trophies I am now at 1326. That means I have scored 326 trophies in 4 months, but is that on par with my goal. If needing 85 trophies a month and it's been 4 months we should be at 340 trophies, so it looks like I'm slightly behind but not to far behind. My goal still seems very attainable, especially since I have been missing a lot of gaming on my days off. I know comfortable that I can keep at this rate, so I wont find to far behind, but I will need to pick it up a little in the future.

What are my plans for the future. Well here's what my look at the future in a past post.

Backlog list:
Dragon Age: Orgins (Almost completed 1 play through, requires 3)
Demon's Souls
Final Fantasy 13
Batman: AA
Darksiders
Bayonetta
Prince of Persia
3D Dot Game Hero
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Single Player Complete, Multiplayer Trophies only left)
Battlefield Bad Company 2 (Single Player Complete, Multiplayer Trophies only left)
Dead Space (Must beat on impossible)
Dead Nation (Only beat first 2 levels)
Shank (Must beat hardest difficulty)
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (Only beat first level)

From this backlog I have made a few changes. Dragon Age is off the list, great game, but the platinum is just to time consuming. Most likely FF13 will be off the list as well. Dead Space has been beaten. Most of my Platinum trophies have come from games that came out this year.

Platinum trophies that came out this year:
Dead Space 2
Dead Space: Extraction (For PS3)
Marvel Vs. Capcom 3

ME2, KZ3, Socom 4, and Bulletstorm will be on that list soon enough, but Infamous 2 is the only one from now until fall, and that leaves me my main chunk of time to backlog. This goes a little more into my future of my goals. I plan on working on KZ3 Platinum with the ME2 Platinum, and this is because ME2 platinum will take a lot of stress to beat (ME2 Insanity difficulty is not nice), and KZ3 is going to be my stress release, and an easy platinum. Bulletstorm and Socom 4 will be worked on together after that as well, and again this is due to Bulletstorm taking more time and being a bigger stress than Socom 4. After the completion of these 4 games I am guessing will be around the time Infamous 2 comes out, which will be then be worked on around that time. After that (and before that if time permitted) will be worked on my backlog, as well as the Sly Cooper collection, which if anything like God Of War collection should be able to complete the 3 games all in 1 month.

I promised you guys more videos as well, and I am currently recording my process through ME2 Insanity, and I am dying a lot, which will help you guys in the long run by allowing me to show you the best way about going through the mission. Also remember that I'm not fully playing through the game, that would be crazy insane to do. I am going through the bare minimum, and that is because it's faster and easier. If you want to feel free, but I'm only showing video of what the bare minimum that is needed. Anyways back to what I was saying... Hopefully I will have a few videos of this by next Sunday ready to post.

That's it for this week. Again Thank You all for joining me for another week of trophy hunting and hopefully you'll all stop by to check out some of my commentary videos of Mass Effect 2 next week. Again plug for a couple of my good friends and the ones who are always showing me great support and interest in my goal. Follow @Dvntsvnt great friend, awesome gamer, and knower of all knowledge On Twitter, as well as my blogger friends @Sengeki blog http://fancyarmy.tumblr.com/ and @Elmander blog http://bronzetrophy.tumblr.com/. Catch you all next time on 2012 by 2012

Trophy Counter
Trophies: 1326/2012 Platinum Trophy: 21/32