Summary for June:

18 achievements for Typoman: Revised - 800G
16 achievements for SpeedRunners - 770G
10 achievements for Refunct - 1000G
10 achievements for Active Soccer 2 DX - 1000G
15 achievements for The Turing Test - 1000G
20 achievements for Party Hard - 725G
29 achievements for Ryse: Son of Rome - 760G
25 achievements for Her Majesty's Spiffing - 1000G
6 achievements for Need For Speed - 390G
10 achievements for Mortal Kombat XL - 355G
12 achievements for Shred It! - 540G
8 achievements for Unnamed Fiasco - 550G
10 achievements for Cel Damage HD - 480G
30 achievements for Letter Quest Remastered - 395G
6 achievements for Vertical Drop Heroes - 350G
17 achievements for Call of Duty Modern Warfare Remastered - 225G
3 achievements for #IDARB - 275G
4 achievements for Dead or Alive 5 Last Round - 120G
6 achievements for Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 - 130G
10 achievements for Hitman - 190G
2 achievements for 101 Ways to Die - 100G
5 achievements for Yasai Ninja - 130G
2 achievements for FIFA 17 - 120G
6 achievements for Albedo - 190G
15 achievements for Zoo Tycoon - 140G
3 achievements for Solar Shifter EX - 150G
1 achievement for Slash Dash - 100G
2 achievements for Amazing Princess Sarah - 100G
3 achievements for Trackmania Turbo - 45G
4 achievements for Borderlands - 70G (360)
2 achievements for Madden NFL 17 - 55G
7 achievements for Rise of the Tomb Raider - 70G
5 achievements for Halo The Master Chief Collection - 50G
6 achievements for Ori and the Blind Forest Definitive Edition - 70G
1 achievement for NHL 17 - 15G
1 achievement for Gems of War - 15G
1 achievement for Assassin's Creed III - 20G (360)
1 achievement for Zuma's Revenge - 30G (360)
1 achievement for Medal of Honor Airborne - 20G (360)
1 achievement for Final Fantasy XV - 10G

Overall: 334 achievements - 12,555G
(June '16: 301 achievements - 6,770G)

Very good month, especially when you consider that I wasn't even at home for the first 5 days of the month.
Completed tons of games this month. FIFA 17 (Journey), Typoman, SpeedRunners, Ryse, Refunct, Active Soccer 2 DX, Her Majesty's Spiffing and The Turing Test.

The Turing Test is a really good first person puzzle platformer similar to Portal or Q.U.B.E.. The game features about 70 puzzle sectors, some of them containing more than one puzzle. Took me 6h45min to 1000G, which only consists of beating the game and completing the 7 optional puzzles. The puzzles are decently challenging and never unfair. I never got stuck in a room for more than 15min. Graphics are extremely good, though there are some technical issues in some specific environments and the game has to load between each of the puzzle sectors. 8.5/10

Typoman is a puzzle platformer as well, but in 2D. Sadly the platforming is extremely simple. You create words to solve puzzles and sometimes the game is really clever, but at other times the words have to be really specific. Took me 5 hours to finish. 7/10

Refunct is THE definition of a platformer. No enemies, just getting to the next platform, activate a button and continuing to the next. The game can be played calmly, but there are achievements for completing the games in 8 and in 4 minutes, which takes some practice runs. The game is really nice to look at and controls perfectly. It's short, cheap and enjoyable 8/10

In Party Hard you need to kill everyone without being identified as the murderer at several different party locations. The idea is good, but the game has a few elemental flaws. There are about 50 people on each party that need to be murdered. There are traps that can help you, but there are too few of them in the levels. You can maybe kill 10 to 15 of them with traps and the other 35 (or 40) must be killed with your basic weapon (knife). The main character is very slow and thus you'll lose almost every chase with the police (or FBI). Then it's game over and you have to restart the whole level. 7/10

Ryse: Son of Rome. Finally finished it last month. As already mentioned way back, the game looks absolutely stunning. Sadly gameplay, while not bad, is pretty repetitive. A lot of that comes from the maybe 5 or 6 different enemy types. Since each guy within an enemy type looks completely identical, you will quickly know what kind of attack will or won't work. I feel like they could've gone further with the story and introduce mythic creatures. After all it's really not aiming to be realistic if you know the end of the story. I played the game for 12h45min, mostly completing the story, getting all collectibles (of which there are too many...) and fighting in only a few multiplayer arena matches. I enjoyed the game for what it was. 7.5/10

Already recommended Her Majesty's Spiffing some pages ago. Funny point and click adventure. Only 2h30min to fully complete, but a worthwhile experience. Basically as long as your typical adventure game episode. If you can get it in another sale, go for it. 8/10



As for the current month, I'll try to complete Letter Quest, CoD MW Remastered (for real this time) and maybe finally start Quantum Break.

We talk about Crackdown 3. And after E3 ended it doesn't seem that this game generated a lot of hype. And a lot of people who was interested in it were dissapointed with downgrade. I think it is safe to say that it will flop regardless when it will be released. I don't see it selling even 1 million physical.

Yes I know about your habit of stating things numerous times :) Titanfall is the only game I can think of that really got hurt competing against COD and Bäfä1. Final Fantasy XV sold well, Watch Dogs struggled but that had lot to do with negativity around original WD I think. Then there's Dishonored which did ok I guess. So what is this bunch of launch games?

Fallout 4 sold great against Black Ops III and Star Wars Battlefront. All of these games were on sale during holidays though.

Anyway, I'd imagine there is a reason why Microsoft choses to release games during holiday season. Think of Halo Wars 2 and Quantum Break. That's what would happen to Crackdown if it was released in July I believe. September or October might be ok but there's competition too.

The people who said it was downgraded were people who didn't like Xbox or certain Sony fans, from what I heard Crackdown was always a cel-shaded video game series so this should be normal. Saying it already flop is pretty much jumping the gun, a holiday release is good and will sell better than the likes of Quantum Break and maybe Halo Wars 2. Sunset Overdrive benefitted from a holiday release back in 2014 and sold better than QB.

This might apply to Destiny 2 as well since there isn't much hype for the game since the first one was a disappointment content wise.

heh I just unlocked the "scarab lord" achievement in mcc yesterday. I used a guide from trueachievements app of course. You had to lure a banshee into a tunnel, shoot off the wings, lure it into another tunnel, hijack it and then fly up to this huge building. I mean, who the fuck was the first one to figure out how to find this scarab gun? :D Many of these Halo easter eggs seem impossible to find. It's fun to hunt them with a guide though.

Crackdown has indeed always been a cell shaded game. No idea who was expecting ultra realistic graphics from that one...

Poor Battlefield and Calls of Doody, needing price drops every single November just to survive. I hope the devs are ok :(

I mean honestly, is there a SINGLE game that releases in November and does not receive a price cut? They all do it. What an irrelevant tangent you're going on.

I did it a different way. U move a little box to a certain spot, get on it and shoot ur rocket launcher in a certain nearby spot and it launches you into the air.

Yep I agree, if it sells 1m of physical copies I don't think it should be considered a flop at all. Microsoft will probably go easy on marketing budget too so it should be profitable.

Well that sounds far less complicated heh. It took me a good while to get that damn banshee through the tunnel.