Andrew POE!

Almost as I predicted, Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection will be out on January 28, 2022. $10 upgrade for owners of PS4 Uncharted 4 & Uncharted: Lost Legacy. Uncharted in January, Horizon in February, Gran Turismo 7 in March, Sony will have my wallet.

Got my 234th Platinum trophy with Freedom Wars for PSVita. Servers are supposedly shutting down on 12/24/2021, so it's nice to get it done early. Now onto Soul Sacrifice then Soul Sacrifice Delta in about two to three weeks.

For anyone that cares and still has a Vita, Sony Japan announced that Freedom Wars, Soul Sacrifice, Soul Sacrifice Delta, and Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines would see their servers shut down on December 24, 2021. Since it's Christmas eve, it's likely it'll be Monday before they are shutdown unless Sony Japan's office doesn't celebrate Christmas or have a Christmas holiday.

Got my 233rd Platinum trophy with God of War: Ghost of Sparta on PS3. I liked Chains of Olympus a bit more as far as PSP God of War games, but this wasn't too bad.

I don't bother with GOTYs anymore. I can barely keep up with doing PS3 games that are over 10 years old. But if I were to award one, it would likely be Deathloop or Returnal. Both have gameplay I want to dive into.

Having gotten all the major online trophies for Metal Gear Solid V on PS3, I'm working on Platinum'ing the game. Just have four trophies left - the major headache will be the S rank missions trophy and all the mission tasks trophy. Even though the servers on PS3 version shut down next year, the game will be crippled by it and may be unobtainable/next to impossible to Platinum. There's at least five trophies that do better with the servers being active and online (earn 10 million GMP, develop 50/100/300 items, and key dispatch missions trophies).

That's fine - gameplay looked a little rough from what I've seen of it. They would have gotten killed if they stuck with the original release date.

There's rumors that Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection will be out in spring 2022 since a retail listing appeared. I hope that Horizon: Forbidden West keeps the February release date since the first game also came out in February. If Sony releases Horizon in February, Gran Turismo 7 in March, then Uncharted Legacy of Thieves Collection in April, that's a pretty good Spring lineup.

What's sad is that nothing will happen to Kotick. People will still buy Activision (and Call of Duty) games. Bobby Kotick approves every PR piece that gets put out (even the one sent by their VP of corporate compliance when the whole thing broke). It really paints every PR response from Activision / Activision PR / Activision board of directors as suspect. What I see happening is Activision spinning off Call of Duty as a wholly separate company, dissolving Activision Blizzard and Activision, and spinning off Blizzard. The can will get kicked down a different road.

To further prove that I am old, today is the 20th anniversary of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty release. I probably need to play this on PS3 from the MGS HD Collection after I finish/Platinum MGS V.

Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep just shadow dropped as a standalone game today to prepare people for Wonderlands next year (which I completely forgot was coming out next year).

Good that will give me enough time to start Final Fantasy XIV and try to Platinum it (although I will need over a year to do it).

Janina Gavankar (who played the lead in Star Wars Battlefront II campaign and was the best part of the whole game) is involved with this game. Rumors I'm hearing now is she's going to play Elektra which does nothing but strengthen the Daredevil rumors. There's also talk that she would be perfect as She-Hulk and maybe Ms. Marvel (although she may a little older to play a high school kid). I just hope the game actually comes out. Amy Hennig was supposed to be involved with a Star Wars game that was shown at an EA Play event but we haven't heard anything since then.

Got my 232nd Platinum trophy with Donut Break. It's one of those $7 trophy whore games that's mostly decent.

The game is getting cancelled. When they put something like that out, it's going to happen. Same with Digimon Survive. It got delayed to 2022.

Death's Door has a release date and is more indie Zelda goodness. Star Ocean looks reeeeaaalllly bad.

It's going to be 15 minutes of Deathloop DLC and you know it.

https://twitter.com/shinobi602/status/1450102037836861440?s=20

I want to Platinum it since it's Halloween. Sadly, Shadows of the Damned was a better game than Lollipop Chainsaw so far. LC is No More Heroes but even more mindless.

Got my 231st Platinum trophy with Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. on PS3. Took several years to do but in the last two weeks got all the mulitplayer trophies and the campaign done.

Considering that I haven't even played Dragon Age Origins.....on PS3, I'm sure I'll be done by the time Dragon Age 4 is out. Maybe.

I was excited when I saw this and wanted this on my PS5 until I realized at the end it's some mobile game bullshit for Android and iOS devices.

Do they want to go back to Far Cry 2 where you have to deal with weapons jamming and taking malaria pills? And ridiculously long multiplayer trophies/achievements?

Can't wait for the US release so it'll sit prettily next to DQ XI and DQ XI S on my shelf.

I'll probably end up getting G-Darius HD and the Saturn re-releases (Cotton II, Cotton Boomerang, and Guardian Force) myself. The trophy hunters I know recommend Chernobylite because it's an easy yet really fun Platinum to do.