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moop_fogo said:
signed up for the "playstation: now" service on ps4, just because it's the modern version of renting games from the video store/playing games i'm not sure i want to actually pay for in entirety.

just started xcom: enemy unknown tonight. seems like it will be a lot of fun. tactical strategy/turn based games are just so relaxing to unwind after work with. first time playing the xcom series though
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Good choice. The sequel isn't as good IMO.

Thinking of getting Fable Remaster, but before I do, I've been playing Afterburn, a very short, very simple fighter game. I always get stuck on mission 6 due to so many enemies on screen, but it's a good game if you want to turn your brain off or waiting for something. Potato PCs can play it too, so I'd recommend it. Same with Crazy Taxi too.

Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae... is frustrating. It wants to be like Bayonetta, but it's so slap-dash in its execution. I doubt dodging has I-frames, just guards are underwhelming given the difficulty in performing them, and the camera is the biggest opponent. It's too close which cuts out peripheral vision, the warning sounds you'd usually hear in Bayonetta/Nier Automata are arbitrary, so attacks can happen with little warning. Also, you know how Nier Automata has the Anti-Chain damage chip or how Bayonetta and DMC have very long knockdown animations so the enemy doesn't just hit you over and over again? This game doesn't have that nor does this game have the enemies suffer a parried animation if you Just Guard right. Difficulty does that Dynasty Warriors method where they just change damage values significantly and make non-bleeding large enemies immune to stagger, which leads to rock punching sensations on higher difficulties.

Oh well, I only spent 2 bucks on it.
 
Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
Good choice. The sequel isn't as good IMO.

Thinking of getting Fable Remaster, but before I do, I've been playing Afterburn, a very short, very simple fighter game. I always get stuck on mission 6 due to so many enemies on screen, but it's a good game if you want to turn your brain off or waiting for something. Potato PCs can play it too, so I'd recommend it. Same with Crazy Taxi too.

Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae... is frustrating. It wants to be like Bayonetta, but it's so slap-dash in its execution. I doubt dodging has I-frames, just guards are underwhelming given the difficulty in performing them, and the camera is the biggest opponent. It's too close which cuts out peripheral vision, the warning sounds you'd usually hear in Bayonetta/Nier Automata are arbitrary, so attacks can happen with little warning. Also, you know how Nier Automata has the Anti-Chain damage chip or how Bayonetta and DMC have very long knockdown animations so the enemy doesn't just hit you over and over again? This game doesn't have that nor does this game have the enemies suffer a parried animation if you Just Guard right. Difficulty does that Dynasty Warriors method where they just change damage values significantly and make non-bleeding large enemies immune to stagger, which leads to rock punching sensations on higher difficulties.

Oh well, I only spent 2 bucks on it.
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Thanks man. Pretty cool game so far.

Maybe i'll give the Mitsurugi game a try. Sounds like it could be real frustrating to play but sometimes you're in a mood for a masochistic experience. lol. I've really enjoyed those style of fighting games, atleast the ones i've tried.

Loved the "chip" system in Nier: Automata. I thought it was a great way to sort of customize the difficulty. considering some of the chips you could find gave you an absurd edge!
 
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A JRPG with memorable characters, intricate worlds, and cutscenes by Studio fucking Ghibli - what's not to love?!
 
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Started Lost Judgment and enjoying it. Wished they did more with the chasing/tailing sections, but they don't feel as tedious as the first game so far but i'm only on chapter 5. No other complaints another solid Yakuza title. One of the few franchises that can put out a new game and I don't have to brace for disappointment.
 
Playing Pathfinder: Kingmaker, I don't know how I slept on it for so long it got a sequel. In this world of there being more than a decade between Elder Scroll releases CRPGs are pretty much the closest I get to that feeling. It's making me appreciate the Pathfinder system whereas I've played plenty of 5e, I think it probably translates to a video game much better. Lots of stuff to do though I gotta admit I don't like the railroading into main quest via instant kingdom destroying events if you sandbox it too much. Still, in terms of content it is a verified A+, I don't think I'm even 1/3rd through the game after dozens of hours.
 
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Code Vein, basically Weeb Souls. Actually pretty good, stacking buffs is super fun to do, by doing so I can deal enough damage to 1-shot the second boss and I still have 3 or 4 more buffs I can get. Only problem is that the lock on is a bit wonky and slow rolls keep fucking me up cause, well, they're slow in a game that focuses on speed.
 
Started playing Greedfall and my general thought is that it makes for an excellent Xbox 360 game. Oh? It's current-ish gen? Then its sepia color tone and wooden acting hurt it a bit. I know some of these actors were bit players in Witcher 3 (Vernon Roche and Yontek stand out to me, at least), so I know they can be good actors, but they probably had weak ADR director or not told what their characters' motivations are. That being said, it promised to be an old-school Bioware game and it does feel like a spiritual successor to Jade Empire. It's deeply invested in its worldbuilding and does a good job giving quests that influence it in (seemingly, I've only put a five or six hours into it) non-linear quests. It's a shame that De Sadet is so boring to listen to. I get that he/she is a blank slate and might have no points in charisma, but the lead should have a lot of dramatic range.

Also got DMC1-3 HD and one thing I'm noticing in 3 is that guns feel a bit more powerful than in 4 and that the early games were not as linear as 4. I'm divided as to whether linearity is a good or a bad thing for these kinds of games. It's good because not getting lost in circles is good, but it's bad in establishing a setting's atmosphere. The Temen-ni-guru and Mundus's castle (from what I remember) establish the eerie nature of the place. In 4, passing through a castle, a forest, and then into another, different castle is a whole lot of whatever, forced backtracking aside.
 
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Eastward on PC, or at least I'm trying to since it crashed twice in a row upon startup.
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I hear the recent update took care of some of those issues, I played it on the switch and it had some bugs+a couple of load/crash issues too. Supposedly they tweaked the chapter 8 boss fight because it's a real bitch, too.

Not too shabby for what it is tho.
 
I've been playing the Lumines remaster and it's fucking kino. Just as good as I remembered, but in HD. Combines that "in the zone" feeling of a rhythm puzzle game with a sense of "just one more try".
 
Final Fantasy XV 💕
I lost all my save data when my old PS4 died so I’m starting all over 3 years after I last played which was just after I finished Episode Ardyn so I still love the chocobros but I’ve forgotten enough of the plot for there to be a couple surprises
 
Just finished Scarface: The World is Yours on my modded PS2 (through a CRT) after seeing some rose-tinted posting in the GTA thread.

Man oh man does this game not hold up well for nowadays. The game is severely frontloaded with stuff to do and by mid-game it becomes a total repetitive slog. Go here, kill this guy, buy these fronts, take over this warehouse, occasionally do missions to reduce your Gang/Police heat, occasionally buy coke from suppliers and distribute, go defend whatever front is getting assfucked by goons across town, wash rinse repeat. There are certain novelties I will give the game, like being able to target certain parts of the body and the variation they gave the game so that it's not a pure GTA clone, but the game wears out it's welcome in the last 25% of it, by the end I was just wanting to be over and done with so I could move on to something else. Buying stuff (exotics) to increase your reputation was an interesting feature but it fast becomes needless busywork to enforce the buying/selling coke gameplay loop the game foists upon you. Also the friendly AI is some of the worst I've ever seen, protection missions will see your protectee run out into the middle of a hail of bullets only to get capped in 0.5 seconds forcing you to restart over and over, or watching as your guards armed with AK-47's get slaughtered by goons with chainsaws running across the map. Don't even get me started on the last few missions, they are frustrating and unfair to a point of repelling you from even bothering to finish the game.

6/10 - mostly just glad I finished it so I could move on to something else.

Also the VA for Tony Montana stinks so bad I ended up turning the dialog volume all the way down halfway through the game and the final cutscene was silent because of this which only added to my amusement.
 
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>Try out Days Gone because zombie biker game should be good.
>Have to have data collected. Why? Block that shit with firewall.
>Burley Biker dude protag, best friend and wife who got stabbed and evaced out.
>Boys stay behind in falling city.
>Okay cool, have to deal with the chaos and try to get out fighting off infected and looters.
>TWO YEARS LATER
>Somewhere in Oregon.
>Mission where you ride on the back of a bike.
>Mission where you get into a truck stop.
>Mission where you chase down someone who stole your bike.
>Crafting on the fly, need to avoid zombies and all that.
>Have a Wiffle Bat and a .22, weapons that do piss poor damage.
>2 hours have gone by. Check map.
>3% completed in this one region. 250 collectables left to find.
>Uninstall game.
It wants to be open world Last of Us, even with the cut away at the start of the story to present day. This is the "Playstation Experience" PSfags have been having ever since Last of Us was popular back in 2013? Jesus, imagine sinking hundreds of hours into this to get everything, being railroaded with story and "gameplay" and have the game not respect your time. If this is what modern games are like, I'll stick to my JRPGs then.
 
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Currently blowing through the Castlevania remasters for PS4 and PS5.
Requiem and the Castlevania Advanced games.
After that I'll be going through Shin Megami Nocturn remaster.
Picked them up on Black Friday sale.
 
Tearing up the Mojave

Got the suite and banned from gambling at the Ultra-Luxe cus I'm too good. Winning at blackjack is mad easy in New Vegas and I only have 4 Luck lol

Gomorrah next gonna clean out them hoes
 
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