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Mass Effect 1 trophy guide, 1/5 This is for Legendary Edition on PlayStation: 35 trophies, including the platinum. One thorough run can get them all, on any difficulty and with any class. The separate trilogy trophies are covered in the las...
Mass Effect is one of my top three game series of all time. Between Mass Effect 1, 2, 3, and Andromeda, I probably spent somewhere around 600 hours with this series. I spent a great deal of time with all four games, but the way I approached...
Mafia is one of those series that's special to my heart. I've beaten pretty much the whole series twice, except for The Old Country, which I just recently finished for the first time. I loved the hell out of these games. They're right up th...
If you're counting the Metro Exodus expansions too, there are three more weapons to add. These are DLC weapons, not hidden guns you have to unlock somewhere in the Volga or Caspian. Location and equipment spoilers below, but no ending choic...
The gear in Metro Exodus has more choices than it first appears to have too. You don't just collect every upgrade and have all of them working at once. You choose one upgrade in each of four categories at a workbench: • Helmet/gas mask: Ext...
The weapon customization in Metro Exodus goes a lot further than putting a scope on a gun. You can replace stocks, barrels, feeding systems and even the mechanism that makes a weapon fire. A gun you didn't like in its basic form can behave...
Metro Exodus has 10 main weapons in the base game. A lot of what looks like a different gun is actually one of those weapons with a different configuration. This covers where to get each one. There are location and equipment spoilers, inclu...
Metro Exodus achievement guide (9/9) Sam’s Story Story/ending spoilers below. There are eight here. Set Normal before launching if you want Untouchable, and keep it there. Areas close behind you as the story moves on, and there is no post-e...
Metro Exodus achievement guide (8/9) New Game+ and The Two Colonels Story/ending spoilers below. The New Game+ trophies came with the free Ranger Update. They are not part of either story DLC. Finish the main campaign first to unlock New Ga...
Metro Exodus achievement guide (7/9) Collectibles and the Platinum Librarian — Fill the main campaign’s diary collection. The trophy text says 70, but the full location checklist contains 71 diary pickups. Follow the complete chapter list i...
Metro Exodus achievement guide (6/9) Weapons, kills and maintenance Professional — Get a kill with each of these TEN base-game weapons: Revolver, A-shot, Shambler, Bastard, Kalash, Bulldog, Gatling, Valve, Tikhar and Helsing crossbow. A hum...
Metro Exodus achievement guide (5/9) Crew outcomes, endings and Ranger Hardcore Full Strength — In ONE continuous campaign, get Duke through Volga alive, bring Damir back from Caspian, and finish Taiga with Alyosha unhurt. Then finish the g...
Metro Exodus achievement guide (4/9) Taiga and Dead City Decommunization — Near Taiga’s beginning, find the large statue outside the children’s camp, near the bridge. Hit the statue with melee until it breaks. You are looking for the big st...
Metro Exodus achievement guide (3/9) Yamantau, Caspian and Summer Righteous vengeance — Get 90 cannibal kills in Yamantau. Do not sprint past all the fights. The waves during the escape are useful for topping up the count; take the heavy en...
Metro Exodus achievement guide (2/9) Moscow, the train and Volga Brakeman — On the enemy train at the end of Moscow, detach BOTH carriages as you move towards the locomotive. Look for the red coupling controls beside the connecting doors an...
Metro Exodus achievement guide (1/9) Before starting Metro Exodus achievement guide. Every base-game achievement/trophy, then New Game+, The Two Colonels and Sam’s Story separately. The base game has 49 achievements, or 50 trophies on PlayS...
Metro Exodus was an extremely good game. The mechanics were deep, the gameplay was deep, and the weapon systems were deep. The one thing I really liked about it was how much more complex it was than I thought. When I first played it, I thou...
Cheshire’s side of this deserves its own post, because what he stands to lose feels more personal than simply being stuck away from a place he wants to go. There’s an important detail in #46: he says he originally came from Earth and was ki...
Something else I want to talk about in this stretch of Zenescope’s Wonderland is Calie’s complete reversal when it comes to the place itself. For so much of her story, she wanted to get away from Wonderland. Get free of it. Keep it away fro...
I've just been having an amazing time reading comics lately. I have a lot of hobbies. I'm a writer, I read novels, I play video games, and I read comics and manga. I do a lot of different things, but reading comics has felt really special l...