The Guildmasters

Hi all,
Well i’ve been pretty busy the last few days online and offline. Lost computer for a day but that’s back online now.

Managed to grind quite a bit of Big Red, now have 8.5 million towards my 10 mill trophy. Hopefully I will have chance to get on the game again today and tomorrow and finish that off.

The bind trophy shouldn’t be as bad as I expected as most of the stuff I need to bind is low level stuff so if any of you see this GR 15 running kibble quests and such you know why. I need some massive molars and troll king crowns so lots to get from the lower quests which is cool.

So what’s happened to Death and George??? Haven’t heard from you guys in a few days, still grinding? leveling? I did notice you Death in my room one day and was going to join you, went to check the message board and when I came back you were gone:(

I’m still on from 10pm till midnight my time and usually throughout the day at different times so hopefully will catch up with you guys soon.

There seem to be a few GR 11 players who seem to think that GR 15’s are invincible, had one player the other day start big red, just me and him which was ok, but then he ran and started the battle before I even had half my AC up, we eventually did the quest but then at the end he says to me “GR 15? you suck” I’m guessing that’s because he spent the first half the battle healing himself.

GR 15’s don’t mind helping but you have to help them help you, give both a chance by building AC, sometimes it’s better to wait an extra minute for a third person, the quicker you beat a boss the better/ more items you get in the reward screen, that’s why I don’t bother soloing big red so much because it takes about 5 minutes longer and I end up with hardly anything in the reward screen.

Having said that there are some pretty awesome GR 11’s coming in now, don’t mind chipping in with a heal or haste, pretty cool when everyone helps.

Well that’s what i’ve been up to, anyone else done anything interesting. Oh yes and I did spend a couple of hours helping some lower GR’s with some quests and made some new friends (i think). It’s pretty cool to see how bad things were at GR 4, I had forgotten and I was pleased to get a chance to help one or two out.

Tony:)

Wow,
I’ve never really bothered checking before but today I was running Best Served Cold 3 (big red) and before entering the quest I caught a glimpse of the stats, you know it says ‘Best Grade’ ‘Times Completed’ ‘Fastest Time’ etc..Well I noticed that ‘Times Completed’ was 1000, it’s now 1002, lol.

That is ridiculous, it doesn’t feel like i’ve ran that quest that much. It’s not as though i’ve run that over a couple of weeks but still it has to be the most times i’ve ever completed any kind of quest online or offline on any game, wow.

If only I had saved the items and cash from those quests I would have had the 10 mill trophy months ago. Incidentally although i’ve ran this quest so many times it has been since I was GR 11 so it’s not as bad as it sounds (yes it is). I’ve been playing this game now for about 6 months and I must admit i’ve probably played on it every day, now that sounds bad but i’m including days I only go on it for an hour but i’ve always managed to play some every day, apart from 3 I think.

Although there are and have been better games out there this one has to be one of top in terms of hours you can put in to get the platinum trophy. There are games which are harder to obtain the platinum, this one is hard in terms of time, there is no quick way even though some have got platinum at GR 12 or 13 we are still looking at racking up a minimum 1000hrs.

My hours played are registered at around 1800 but that is not entirely true as at times I just leave it on all night even though i’m not playing, plus it’s left on when i’m charging the controller. Having said that I bet my actual game play is well over the 1,000hrs.

I know there are many more players who have clocked up even more than me, I was just dumbstruck when I realised I had ran big red that many times.

How many times have you ran big red? 1, 2 or 3??

Tony:)

Yes I will be getting back to RPG’s very soon but I said i’d write the review on Cabela’s Big Game Hunter 2010 after getting a couple of days of fun from Cabela’s Outdoor Adventures 2010.

Well I actually liked this one better than the last one, this was more fun and took much longer to get all PS3 trophies, you can complete this game in a day but if you really want to complete everything, which means all gold medals, all mini-games and all PS3 trophies or XBox360 achievements then it’s going to cost you two or even three days.

This game doesn’t spend too much time on the aspect of searching for your hunt like the previous game, your pretty much directed to where your animal is going to be, the focus here is more on your accuracy, ability to work out the best vantage point and maximize your points for each kill.

Compared to the last one there wasn’t as much in the way of weapons, you didn’t get a bow, just a crossbow, one pistol and a few rifles. There wasn’t a trophy for using each weapon so you didn’t really have to worry about switching too much, although there is a trophy for killing so many with the crossbow, pistol and muzzleloader rifle.

The hardest trophy by far, for me anyway, was finding at least 90 animal signs, that was a pain as I had to play through the entire game a third time to find those, which gave me the platinum.

This game I found much more realistic in the way the animals fell when you shot them, I actually got drawn into really trying to get the prize trophy in each group, the one animal in the herd worth much more than the rest and was actually disappointed if I got a bronze or silver.

As it turns out another PS3 trophy (or achievement on xbox360 ) is to collect all gold medals.

Some of the animals in this game were great, I really enjoyed hunting a buffalo and being able to creep within 20 yds for the challenge kill.

One aspect of the game which actually took me by surprise was when told to hunt a bear, a mountain lion or leopard, I really had no idea that they would attack you. I thought I would stalk a grizzly bear and shoot him from a distance but when I came across him at the waters edge there were no “vitals” showing, so I shoot this big grizzly and he looks up and gets really angry and starts chasing me, now i’m panicking as I had no idea what to do, then he jumps all over me and now i’m button mashing to sock him in the mouth with my rifle, four or five shots later and lots of paw prints on my face (presumably), he goes down, leaving me thinking “what the hell just happened? How cool was that?”

Well without going on too much if you liked Cabela’s Outdoor Adventures 2010 then you’ll probably really enjoy this one, it’s a lot of fun.

One other thing that was really fun was the mini-games you come across during the game, most were shooting ducks but there were also rabbits, foxes, and hares. It’s actually pretty funny shooting the rabbits and hares, rent it just for fun.

If you want to check out my review of gamefly just click here, I noticed blockbuster has started game rentals too but there are more expensive than gamefly and gamefly does have “keep” prices on many of their games which are quite often cheaper than the stores.

There was something I got wrong in my last review on Cabela’s Outdoor Adventures 2010 and I mentioned that this one Cabela’s Big Game Hunter 2010 had over 50 trophies, there is actually 28 trophies in all, 27 plus the platinum.

I’ve just recieved Burnout Paradise in the mail, now I know this one is a couple of years old and I may just hate it, racing games don’t do much for me but occasionally one comes along that I don’t mind playing with the boys. The reason Burnout Paradise was put on the list was because I did a search for the PS3 game with the most ever trophies and this game was it apparently, they say 98 trophies, well i’ll find out now won’t I?

Even though it’s been out two years i’ll write a review on it and let you know if I manage to get the platinum trophy, or if I just give up and throw it in the garbage,lol

Tony 🙂