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ABOUT Cynical Guides

Welcome, Achievement Hunters!

This simply a safe haven for Hunter's to collaborate with one another & discuss all things Achievements. If you need help with a specific Achievement, need a boosting partner, or just want to gush about your favourite video games then head over to the Discussions tab!

I will also be using this Community Group for new updates & announcements on my upcoming guides & projects as well.

This Group is public for anyone to join, but there are some ground rules that if not followed will result in your Comment being deleted or a permanent ban from this community:

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Most of the rules are common sense: we are here for the love of video games & Achievements! Respect each other, & most of all, Happy Hunting!

This Community Group is a work in progress & I will be updating it frequently to better suit the needs of its Members. There is also the potential for this Group to revert to a "Request to Join" depending on how things go...*

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August 2024: Any Guides Coming Out Soon...?

5 August - Cynic 0055 | 5 Comments

Hey Hunters, so yes I have been working on guides this whole time... just way less so then usual. Darksiders 2 ended up being so much more intensive than the first game with over 100 Collectibles I had to make descriptions for... & now 50 hours in I realize that there is a mandatory NG+ playthrough I have to do. That shouldn't be too bad in theory as I can reduce the Difficulty, blast through up until I hit Level 30 then finish off the game blasting through the Crucible. So it is almost done, & will be released this month.

Dead Space Remastered is also more than halfway done - I am close to finished NG+ which only leaves the intimidating Impossible Mode/One Gun playthrough, but once I start that I plan to just blast through it. So potentially that should also be released this month as well if not early September.

My guides for Brink & Saints Row 4 are actually already edited & finished, but since those are pretty "low hype" games/guides I was just planning on sitting on them until I had a more exciting guide to release along with them. If anyone was interested in having these guides put out early, I'd happily oblige as I can just do that in an afternoon. Otherwise they will be released at the same time I put out Darksiders 2 or Dead Space Remastered.

As for what's next... I am not totally sure. With my initial slate cleaned, I will most likely do my next push through Arkham Knight & hopefully get the massive first playthrough completed. While I do this, I think I will work on Witcher Tales - Thronebreaker as a game with very different gameplay as a "palette cleanser" when I need a break; this will also fully complete my guides for the Witcher games (I don't plan to touch the Online Gwent game).

Blasphemous 2 & Skyrim are guaranteed to get done this year as I am very excited to play them. Ideally I will also get Darksiders 3 done as well, but with how the second game went, I am a bit leery with how large a game that one is. Other potential guides will be Borderlands 1, Assassins Creed - Origins, Saints Row - Gat Out of Hell (to finish the series), & now randomly the Final Season of the Tell Tale Walking Dead game due to there being missable Collectibles in it (it was suggested to me). That Walking Dead guide will most likely happen since I have never played these games & heard they are amazing - so now I have an excuse to. Problem with that though is I will need to burn through the first three Seasons before the Final Season, & the first three do not require guides. But just means I can actually play a game & not need to worry about breaking it down into a guide...

One thing I can no longer guarantee is if I can manage getting Arkahm Knight out this year. I am already 50 hours in (gameplay only, not including guide time) & I am halfway through the first playthrough. The biggest part of the guide though, but I imagine I still have at least another 100-150 hours (gameplay) to get through the entire project. I probably have another 20-30 hours left in the first playthrough, NG+ & the DLC Episodes will be a breeze, but of course the Riddler's Revenge Challenges could take a while. Remarkably, I don't actually mind these anymore, & I actually beat the Challenges in Arkham City faster than I did when I was doing Arkham Asylum somehow. So it is a bit of a coin toss for Arkham Knight; they did add an extra two Characters you have to earn Medals on though & a brand new Batmobile Racing Challenge...

One final monkey wrench into all of this, is the field work of my day job is finally coming online (when it ideally should have in April). So I may have a lot less time for gaming in the next couple months until "the snow flies" & I can no longer do survey work. Which technically is a good thing for me, as funnily enough given my hobby, I am a garbage office worker & prefer working outside.

So bear with me this next little while, those guides are coming & I do still plan to hit over my standard "12 guides a year" for this year.

June Update: A Little Distracted...

15 June - Cynic 0055 | 5 Comments

Sorry everyone, that Arkham Knight guide will take longer than I wanted to be released. I have been on a bit of hiatus from working on it since April & have been distracted with the Darksiders games... & now Saints Row 4.

The biggest problem with Steam... is games I want, go on sale too often & it throws my whole schedule out of whack. Because of that though, I am "swapping" some guides/games planned for this year - tentatively, I have now added Dead Space Remastered to the list; probably start on that around September-ish.

But for the near future, here is a progress update on my current guides (worth mentioning):

Saints Row 4 - My newest diversion, but if it is anything like SR3 (which it seems to be) it really won't take too long to finish as it is easy to binge. It should be 3/4 complete by the end of the month & released in early July.

Darksiders 2 - I am about 1/4 of the way through. Lots of Collectibles to write descriptions for, but apart from that, it is not really that complicated of a game. I started out really strong, but my motivation started petering out on it a few weeks ago. I am hoping to have it finished sometime in July.

Brink - Chipping away at this one. I am in the final grind of beating all the Missions on Hard Difficulty (which is a pain) but after that I am in the home stretch. This should be done by the end of the month, or in early July as well.

Zombie Army Trilogy - I have been working on this guide in the background since November of last year. All that remains is a few Online Coop Achievements in Horde, & then farming out the 10,000 severed limbs Achievement. This should ALSO be done around the end of the month, & be released sometime in July.

Arkham Knight - After I have finished Darksiders 2 & Saints Row 4, I promise, I will be coming back to Arkham Knight for my next "tour". In the next run of it, I want to have the first playthrough of the campaign fully completed which is the longest part of the game due to all the Collectibles. Once that is done, I still need to do a NG+ run on the hardest difficulty, a run of each of the short DLC Episodes, & then... white knuckle through all the Riddler's Revenge Challenges (which I actually enjoy a lot... ignoring the Predator Challenges). The Combat Challenges & new Batmobile Races are pretty fun.

Unfortunately, games like this are really difficult for me to crush & usually require bursts of attention. I did good for my first "tour" though, & got 71 pages written, which is a lot, but unfortunately I am probably only 1/5 of the way through the game. It is 100% going to be way bigger than even my Arkham City guide was - which was big for the time.

Which brings me to a question I have to all of you: do you have a preference towards 1 single massive guide (my Witcher 3 guide), or a multi-part guide (Mass Effect, Arkham City, Phantom Pain). For me, multi-part guides makes things more manageable oddly enough & also helps me with "mental milestones" - but as someone actively using the guide, is it easier just having it all in one place? Let me know down below (if you read this) & if you have a preference or opinion on this matter... At the end of the day, it really doesn't matter to me, as the whole point of the guides is to make things as easy as possible for all of you to earn your 100%s.

To cut a long post short, at the moment once these aforementioned guides are all finished, my remaining forecasted guides for 2024 are: Darksiders 3, Skyrim, Dead Space - Remastered, & Witcher - Thronebreaker. I don't really like talking about future/forecasted guides as it is tough to follow through with & rarely ever pans out how I want. Those four are most likely going to happen, & there is probably another two or three I also want to do as well, but could also be swapped out/not even end up happening. So I won't mention them.

Happy Hunting, everyone. I really appreciate you all being here!

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Zoutje 29 Jul @ 4:06am

I can't wait for your Blasphemous 2 guide! Blasphemous one was sooo good! That was the reason I started Hollow Knight (I was digging another Metroidvania). Dead Cells isn't that roguelike though? I only played it a little bit, just wondering if it was all random generated if that is the case it might be difficult to write a guide for it.

I gave it some thought after your comment and I agree that I will start with the original and do that 100% first as you are right I can probably blast through the 2nd playthrough pretty quickly so I think that will be my approach!

Congrats Division, not familiar with that game. Doom is pretty fun although the MP grind is pretty annoying (same with Eternal, I completed both) but I wish it was just a Single Player game. Looking forward to the new Doom game!

Division 28 Jul @ 10:09pm

I finished Chernobylite, which has a simple achievement list. Anyways I will be getting down to playing other 100%s I am familiar with maybe DOOM, Alan Wake 1 or some games like Borderlands just simple.

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28 Jul @ 12:58pm

Both HZD games are on my list to do guides for at some point. After Blasphemous 2 I will probably start Dead Cells for my next Medtroidvania before moving on to Hollow Knight; probably save Hollow Knight for last. Not because it is bad of course, but I find its Achievement list pretty intimidating haha

As for how to tackle a double 100%, I personally would recommend doing them one at a time. I feel like jumping back & forth would break your flow; your second game would go a lot faster than the first run since you would probably remember a lot of what to do & spend less time referencing the guide. Then again doing the same Sequence back to back would also go pretty quick for the same reason.

If you went that option, I would then recommend to not always take the Sequence break as the best time to switch; I am limited by words/characters I can put in each Sequence, & when I HAVE to stop the Sequence is not always where I would actually want to.

Division 27 Jul @ 6:08pm

I remember Hollow Knight long ago, I still haven't adapted to that kind of game but I like that game.

Zoutje 27 Jul @ 2:03pm

So... I started both HZD and Hollow Knight. I already 100% HZD on Playstation so I will just run through it again fairly quickly, Hollow Knight I will be chipping away slowly as it's a difficult game so I don't want to get too frustrated.

Now I was thinking about how I should approach doing Darksiders 1 twice. The first option is to do one sequence at a time and switch games after every sequence. Or option two is getting 100% in the Original first and after that doing the same thing over in Darksiders Warmaster, I am still not sure which approach I should go with...

Zoutje 26 Jul @ 1:44am

Discovering the map and all the markers is pretty straightforward, the game has suggested levels for the fog parts so it's pretty easy to know when you should come back to an area when you are a higher level. The only thing of note on discovering the maps are some of the Tombs, they are not very difficult but for some a bit of direction could help. Also I think you need to collect 50 specific material to access one tomb that is required for 100% completion, you can find these materials in other tombs. But to get back to your question about de-fog the map I don't think a whole lot explaining is required, it's mostly go to the question mark and do the (repeated) activity, there are only a couple activities so after a couple hours you have seen them all.

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