Catching the Endless Bean Dive: October 2018 Report
As mentioned in a previous blog post (
zzUrbanSpaceman's blog post - Catching The Potentially Endless Bean Dive) I am working to catch the Potentially Endless Bean Dive folks. I've given myself a conservative deadline of July 2020, which works out to diving 2 games a day on average.
I finished my long running bean dive today and will start a new one each month for tracking purposes while I'm still in the hunt. The one for October is here:
zzUrbanSpaceman's Bean Dive, and the one for November is here:
I need to hit
2,904 games started by July 1st, 2020.
I have started
1669 as of the 1st of November, 2018.
I'd set a goal of 61 starts during October, actually diving a total of
64 games for the month. The full list can be seen here along with some notes on the games in the spoiler tags below. I've set a goal of
62 starts for November, and anything more than that is a bonus which will bring my overall average required down.
Details of games dived in October:
*** Spoiler - click to reveal ***
The Mooseman Achievements
2D side-scrolling puzzle adventure based on ... I don't know the source of the mythology. This is a Sometimes You release, and it showed up by glitching one of the achievements (technically two). Fortunately they were easy enough to re-do. I used Maka's excellent guide for this, there are some pretty tricky and fiddly button combos you need to enter.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate Achievements
Complete the first mission, unlock an achievement. I like the lead characters in this one immediately, plan to come back to it eventually.
Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition Achievements
Never really been a fan of this series. I found a place I could farm out the kills in level 2, there's a platforming section where you need to do your jump-grab action several times, but if you miss you drop into an area where you need to fight 4 enemies before you can continue and retry the platforming bit. Which would be pretty frustrating, if I didn't actually fail the platforming on purpose to farm the 100 kills achievement.
I, Hope Achievements
A cancer charity driven action adventure game, looks to be a fairly easy completion although not super quick. It'll go on my "clean up later" pile, maybe even before the month is out.
Spiral Splatter Achievements
Action puzzler. Think of the board game "Operation" where you need to to thread your "ball" thing around a maze as quickly as you can without hitting the edges, adding in switches, portals, and turrets later in the game. Apparently a "quick" completion (1-2 hour) but I wonder how much of that comes down to skill. Managed to get a bit over half way through though, with only about 76 swear words.
STAY Achievements
You are on the other end of a computer directly talking to a kidnap victim and must guide them through the trials they face. Interesting concept. I've seen a few phone games along the same lines in recent years. Interesting way to tell a story.
DmC: Devil May Cry: Definitive Edition Achievements
Over the top sexuality aside, this game doesn't actually see that bad. Certainly interested me a lot more than other games in the series. Didn't get automatically deleted after diving.
Don't Starve: Giant Edition Achievements
As it says on the tin, the objective is to not starve. Or get killed by anything else really. Has a lot in common with Minecraft's foraging and survival aspects. First unlock requires surviving 8 days (not necessarily in one sitting).
DiRT 4 Achievements
I used to be a) much more into racers than I am now, and b) also liked rally games for a while, although I found them tough. Not so much into them now, but this one was easy to dive.
Paladins: Champions of the Realm Achievements
Another FPS, this was available as a free to play weekend deal so I played through the tutorial and dived it.
Double Dragon Neon Achievements
The classic brawler has a press start to unlock achievement (1 pointer too!).
Disneyland Adventures Achievements
A Disneyland simulator, I guess? Ran through the gestures with Mickey right at the start and popped an achievement. Clearly you don't need to run through the tutorial first, contrary to that achievement's 1.00 ratio.
Everspace Achievements
A space sim, I should really like this given my love of Elite, but the differences in the controls really threw me (and it didn't seem you could adjust them easily). Plus I'm not sure I've got the time for TWO space sims in my life.
Don't Sink Achievements
"Open the credits menu" achievement, so nice easy dive. Also a decently quick completion.
Duck Dynasty Achievements
Not being familiar with the TV show, I'm not really sure what the appeal of this is. So bad it's good? Called some ducks in, achievement unlocked.
Forza Horizon 4 Achievements
It's Forza Horizon. You race ridiculous cars.
The Long Reach Achievements
A horror themed point n click? Seems to be a quick completion with a guide, I'm trying it without on for now.
Black Mirror Achievements
I remember being intrigued with this game when it was released but very put off by the price. It recently went on sale for 80% off. Having now started the game, I can't say it justified the full price. Point n click game, supernatural horror/mystery themes.
Dragon Age: Inquisition Achievements
Ugh this looks good but I sooo don't have the time for these games anymore.
Dovetail Games Euro Fishing Achievements
It's a fishing game. I didn't play it enough to really comment on whether it's a good fishing game. I did get a really cool glitch when I caught my first fish, caught on video somewhere.
Dungeon of the Endless Achievements
A roguelite dungeon exploration game with some base building involved. Odd.
Electronic Super Joy Achievements
Pure action platformer with a rockin' soundtrack. Also enough to make Spaceman go something something. Took me more tries than it should have just to get past one level to unlock the first achievement.
Enter the Gungeon Achievements
Twin-stick dungeon crawler, pixel art style, plays well. Achievement for beating the tutorial.
Galaga Legions Achievements
A remake of the original Galaga with new mechanics. It's been around a while but I'd never played it before now, was surprised how fun it was.
Contra Achievements
Definitely plays like an old run and gun arcade game, I was glad it was over fairly quickly.
Worms Achievements
I played this back on PC, fun little side view turn based skirmish type game. Best played with other people.
Tower Bloxx Deluxe Achievements
Tower building puzzle game, first achievement was for dropping one block onto another perfectly, easy.
A bullet hell game, but only 5 levels and unlimited continues made it easy to get one achievement at least.
Small Arms Achievements
Old XBLA run n gun, didn't play much of it to unlock this achievement. Didn't really grab me.
Sky Force Anniversary Achievements
First of a set of games leaving Xbox Game Pass at the end of the month. A pretty slick vertically scrolling shoot 'em up, probably leans into bullet hell later in the game if the opening intro boss fight is anything to go by.
Resident Evil Achievements
Fixed camera angles tend to ruin these otherwise great survival horror games. This one has an achievement for dying.
World of Van Helsing: Deathtrap Achievements
Tower defence slash action game set in the Van Helsing universe, certainly nothing wrong with the game but I'm not really fond of tower defence games myself.
Mega Man 9 Achievements
It's classic Mega Man - a game series I never played while young and never saw the appeal while old. The quickest achievement in this was for killing 1000 enemies which was quite tedious, but it did prompt me to finally set up my Titan One to automate it.
Another vertically scrolling shoot 'em up.
Planets Under Attack Achievements
A kind of RTS. You expand, take over planets, conquer the galaxy.
Omega Five Achievements
Horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up, not quite bullet hell level. Has an odd anchor mechanic. One thing that always struck me as odd about this style of game is the amount of scantily clad ladies are protagonists.
Conan Exiles Achievements
A survival game set in the world of Conan, however the vast majority of the achievements can be unlocked via admin settings within the game. This was available for a free weekend, so I, like many on TA, jumped at the chance for the easy points.
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (Win 10) Achievements
Loved the story and atmosphere of the Xbox One version and decided it was time to pick up the Windows 10 stack too. This game treats the topic of mental illness with a great deel of respect...
The Town of Light (JP) Achievements
OTOH, the story of this one attempts to do the same thing, but is really a horror story about how bad mental asylums were in the last 1930s and early 1940s. While there are certainly a lot of bad things to be said about that era (and well, pretty much all mental health before they developed anti-psychotics) I don't feel this was done with the same respect and compassion as Hellblade. In any case, a friend had the Japanese version on an alt tag, so I borrowed if for the easy points. The only notable difference between the versions is that they removed some nudity, and in particular a (brief, non-detailed) sex scene between two women in a shower. The Japanese censors seem quite ok with a rape by one of the male staff at the ward. Go figure.
Earth Wars Achievements
A strange side scrolling Japanese beat-em up, I guess? Beat the first area, achievement unlocked, game deleted.
FreezeME Achievements
A 3D adventure game where you can freeze things by taking pictures of them, clearly for solving various puzzles. You get an achievement for freezing something for the first time.
Fruit Ninja Kinect 2 Achievements
Finally got my Kinect up and running again so I can tackle these titles, finally. Slash fruit. Not much more to add to that really.
FRU Achievements
Another Kinect game, this time it's a platformer where you use your body to kind of "shade" out parts of the screen, either revealing pathways or hiding obstacles to let you proceed, while controlling a person who needs to navigate these levels via the controller. Interesting concept. There's an achievement for dying 30 times, easy.
Haunted Halloween '86 Achievements
Probably one of the quickest 1k's in recent memory, you literally only need to play through to about the third area of the game to finish unlocking all of the achievements. Side scrolling beat em up, sort of.
ACA NEOGEO WORLD HEROES 2 JET Achievements
I thought this would be a lot easier (well, quicker) than it is. Ruled it off my "extremely quick games" list for now. It's a NEO GEO fighting game.
Asemblance: Oversight Achievements
Sequel the already quite weird Asemblance, this is a quick completion but oddly enough the final achievement hasn't synced to TA although it shows as unlocked on Xbox. First person puzzle/experience game.
The Journey Down: Chapter One Achievements
Overpriced point and click adventure that can be finished in under an hour.
ACA NEOGEO WORLD HEROES (Win 10) Achievements
ACA NEOGEO WORLD HEROES 2 (Win 10) Achievements
Preparation for Extra Life 2018, I forgot that WH2 isn't anywhere near as cheeseable as WH, so it likely won't make the cut for my "how much GS on a new tag during Extra Life" challenge.
The Journey Down: Chapter Two Achievements
Overpriced point and click adventure (even in a bundle) that can be finished in under an hour.
Midnight Deluxe Achievements
Fairly easy physics based (sort of) puzzler, some timing involved too. Not actually a bad game, could be a little challenging to complete if you're not good or patient with this style of game.
ACA NEOGEO OVER TOP (Win 10) Achievements
Bought and tested this out for the upcoming Extra Life challenge. All but 100 or so of the Gamerscore is very easy.
The Journey Down: Chapter Three Achievements
Overpriced point and click adventure (even in a bundle) that can be finished in under an hour.
Rise of Insanity Achievements
This is a quite bad horror game, that not only totally messes up mental illness and treatment, completely messes up having a plot that makes any sort of sense, but also completely messes up it's own achievements and I still have not been able to unlock the final two in this game. Avoid.
Bulb Boy Achievements
A very weird point and click style game.
Red Dead Redemption 2 Achievements
If you don't know what this is, well ...
AirMech Arena (Xbox 360) Achievements
Arcade like twin-stick online mech shooter, looks like it would be a lot of fun if you're into this style of game. Worth noting the excellent soundtrack by Frontline Assembly.
Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space Achievements
Double dipping here, this early game achievement is also on my Random To Do List this month. I bought the Sam and Max point and click games in the wake of the Telltale Studios closure.
Minecraft: Story Mode - Season Two (Xbox 360) Achievements
Minecraft: Story Mode - Season Two Achievements
Minecraft: Story Mode - Season Two (Win 10) Achievements
Starting the triple set, also double-dipping with RTDL.
Western Press Achievements
Button combination game with a western shootout theme. Not bad. Couple of tricky achievements, even with cheesing the pause button.
The One We Found Achievements
Reviewing this, but it's past embargo now so I can talk about it anyway ... it's not great.
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition (Win 10) Achievements
Another game where you can use cheat commands to unlock achievements; I picked this up as more fodder for my Extra Life challenge.
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