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McMitch said:
Been playing Batman Arkham Asylum. Of the three two-and-a-half I’ve played (i.e. up through the first couple hours of Arkham Origins), it is still the best one. Arkham City had better bosses, but the normal gameplay loop is hindered by the open world setting and the Riddler challenges are to an excessive degree. Arkham Asylum really shines as a Metroid-like, and isn’t bogged down with the expectation of being a franchise.
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I agree %100. The first Arkham game really played like a metroidvania. Once they moved to an open world it lost something for me. It became tedious and oh god the pacing of the story got severely hurt by it.

"Oh no, they're going to execute the mayor of Gotham, I must go rescu--Oh wait, I think I can get this trophy now~"

I have been playing Tales of Destiny Director's Cut on PS2 thanks to a translation patch. ToD PS1 is my favorite RPG on that system (Technically, if you wanna be anal, it would be Castlevania:SOTN but I don't consider that a RPG, it has RPG elements but it's a metroidvania first and foremost.) and this is a really great remake so far. Fully voiced with a great cast. A lot of different ideas that surprisingly never showed up in following tales games. A second playthrough that shows the game's story through Leon's eyes. And SO. MUCH. SKITS.
 
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I finished System Shock 1 Remake and I really enjoyed my time with it. Clocked in at a surprising 16 hours. The game wasn't what I was expecting to the point I wouldn't really call it a shooter just to avoid giving the wrong impression about it. It gave me old school dungeon crawler vibes and a little bit of adventure in there, both of which I really like so I was still enjoying myself. Inventory system can fuck off, but disciplining myself and just not picking up all the garbage helped.

Edit: Forgot to mention that I was betting with myself on when the game would throw in a pointless voice log of someone dying and saying "please tell my same sex lover that I love them *ACK*". The voice logs all seemed normal (minus kickstarter ones) that I forgot about it, then right just before the final level they throw one in lmao. It wasn't even a kick starter voice log.
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So you're saying you didn't know but expected it, and it turned out they actually did throw that fag shit in there? They're getting too predictable :story:
 
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Just got done playing Persona 3 Reload and I enjoyed that a lot. Don't know how I would rank it overall in relation to the other two modern Personas, but I feel like the music aspect might be the weakest imo. I've been thinking of starting the Trails series for quite some time now, but I don't know whether it's worth the time investment, seeing as there's so many different games and you need to go through an entire trilogy just to set up the world and characters. On the other hand, I also want to play Tales of Abyss as I've heard good things about it (played Berseria and Arise previously).

Any suggestions? Should I just go in blindly on Trails in the Sky and see how I feel about it? Any other perhaps less well known JRPGs, or other games for that matter, that you would recommend? I like trying/playing a lot of different genres. Pretty much anything goes other than sports, realistic racing, and realistic simulation games.
 
been playing AC:Unity, honestly enjoying it so far, its probably still second to Black Flag as far as the Pre-RPG Assassins Creeds go, but the story itself is solid
with the Templars being split between Monarchist and Revolutionary factions and the Assassins teaming up with the Monarchist Templars
 
Renewed my FFXIV subscription after being out of it since Endwalker launch. Started a new character on a new data centre so the little time I spent on it last night was filled by fixing my control scheme (PS5). Hopefully I’ll get to actually play the game over the next month and see if I get into it again.
 
I just did another playthrough of Elden Ring, enjoyed the DLC, not sure why it's getting hate. I didn't buy it though, so for free content I thoroughly enjoyed it. I like a lot of the new items and want to try several builds in a NG+ run. However, right now I'm playing through Salt+Sanctuary, it's 2D darksouls. It's pretty good if you enjoy that type of game, they gave away it and the sequel (Salt+Sacrifice) on epic a while ago.
 
I purchased the Spyro Reignited Trilogy during the Steam Summer Sale and I’m enjoying as much as I did on the PS4. My only complaint so far is that I encountered a bug that made the first game’s Alpine Ridge level impossible to complete. Thankfully a quick look though the game’s Community tab gave me the fix (I basically had to turn on V-Sync in the game’s settings) and it’s gone back to being enjoyable.

I also fired up my PC copy of Sonic Frontiers after not playing it since I bought it a while back, I actually got farther than I did on the PS4 version and I plan on playing it to completion.

A friend of mine also gifted me a copy of Stardew Valley at the start of the Steam Summer Sale. I normally don’t play farming sims but I liked the story it presented when you sided with the town and kicked Joja Mart out.
 
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TheAtrophyOfFlesh said:
Just got done playing Persona 3 Reload and I enjoyed that a lot. Don't know how I would rank it overall in relation to the other two modern Personas, but I feel like the music aspect might be the weakest imo. I've been thinking of starting the Trails series for quite some time now, but I don't know whether it's worth the time investment, seeing as there's so many different games and you need to go through an entire trilogy just to set up the world and characters. On the other hand, I also want to play Tales of Abyss as I've heard good things about it (played Berseria and Arise previously).

Any suggestions? Should I just go in blindly on Trails in the Sky and see how I feel about it? Any other perhaps less well known JRPGs, or other games for that matter, that you would recommend? I like trying/playing a lot of different genres. Pretty much anything goes other than sports, realistic racing, and realistic simulation games.
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Trails is really good. Though if you end up liking it you'll be in for a ton of games to play through. The first three "sky" games aren't all setup, though so it's not like you are just playing through a prologue. They definitely build on each other but have their own independent story progressions and character building.

Not like you have to play through them all at once or anything, too. There are a couple that end on epic cliffhangers but I feel like as long as I know the sequel is right there whenever you're ready it's not as bad as it was when we didn't know if the sequels were getting released in the west or not.
 
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Unicorn Overlord. I like it a lot but it bums me out that it didn't sell well and pretty much no one is going to play this.

It's significantly higher quality than all of the recent Fire Emblem games but will never get a sequel.
 
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TheAtrophyOfFlesh said:
Just got done playing Persona 3 Reload and I enjoyed that a lot. Don't know how I would rank it overall in relation to the other two modern Personas, but I feel like the music aspect might be the weakest imo. I've been thinking of starting the Trails series for quite some time now, but I don't know whether it's worth the time investment, seeing as there's so many different games and you need to go through an entire trilogy just to set up the world and characters. On the other hand, I also want to play Tales of Abyss as I've heard good things about it (played Berseria and Arise previously).

Any suggestions? Should I just go in blindly on Trails in the Sky and see how I feel about it? Any other perhaps less well known JRPGs, or other games for that matter, that you would recommend? I like trying/playing a lot of different genres. Pretty much anything goes other than sports, realistic racing, and realistic simulation games.
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I played First and Second Chapter recently and absolutely loved them! The story is pretty slow in FC going so I think it comes down to whether you end up enjoying the combat. That's how it was for me.

Loved both games on hard mode and used the voice acting mod (if you use japanese voice acting, 100% do this. Easy to install and pretty much the entire game is voiced and most of it is super good) and just kinda enjoyed the ride. I think you should go in blind and try to get thru FC and if you cant, no hard feelings. It can be a rough game for some but I really liked it.

Tales of the Abyss is also super good. I highly recommend that one! Tales series is just a ton of fun if you want hack and slash combat with fun characters. Phantasia (the very first one) is also great if you can get past how weird its combat is.

These arent really lesser known, but if you want some great turn based rpg stuff play the Breath of Fire games. Breath of Fire 3 and 4 in particular are a technical marvel for the PS1.

I could throw some more ideas out but im droning a bit.


For what I'm playing. Ive been playing the Trials of Mana remake. Using Duran, Riesz, and Angela. I really like the game, especially now that i have the second tier of classes, but Im shocked at how railroaded the game is compared to SoM. It warps you around a lot and you dont get a lot of choice to explore. Maybe the later game gives you a bit more freedom? I am only on Chapter 2 and about 6 hours in.

Love the combat though, so excited for Visions.
 
Doing a run of Cataclysm Bright Nights; I'm I cyborged-out pseudo-vampire and I just found a helicopter. Now I need to scout out a farm with an orchard so I can make fruit preserves and set up an atomic reactor to power a rechargeable gameboy.

Cata's nuts and I love it for that.
 
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Sniperwoof said:
Unicorn Overlord. I like it a lot but it bums me out that it didn't sell well and pretty much no one is going to play this.

It's significantly higher quality than all of the recent Fire Emblem games but will never get a sequel.
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Another victim of having a stupid game title or poor box art.
 
Land Above, Sea Below. It's okay.

It's a board-game-style-game where you try to "grow" an island with tile placement faster than the island can sink. You have hexagonal tiles of different terrain types. They're grouped by biome and you have a limited number of "days" (turns) to a "season" (round). At the end of the round the island sinks a bit. If you can place new tiles in such a way as to border other tiles you can raise the elevation of the ones they border. Flooded tiles can never be raised again. The more connections you can get the better and above a threshold it gives you more turns, so you can extend your play/lift the land more by better play. Tiles come in a sequence (you can't choose the order to play them, but you know what's coming up).

You lose when your magic pagan tree (that you start building from) goes underwater.

The very basic premise is complicated, as it usually goes, by fuckery with the tile types. Specifically, you get tiles that both divide the island (preventing it from raising without an unbroken regular land connection) and that require other tiles to feed into, specifically rivers. You also start out with mostly just one type, then it starts to feed you more and more bullshit rivers, until eventually you're just fucked over because you never have enough to adequately keep your island outgrowing the pace of sinking and the flood cascade means you get disgusting snakes of inundated water that fuck up future tile placement.

I only realized today that I misunderstood the exact nature of raising the land (it does a bad job of explaining it) and that you want to avoid, at all costs, separating a chunk of land entirely by river tiles and that the true function of the rivers is to let you snake your way towards islands. I didn't realize how to read what type the islands were (like, biome) and that I should have been building out

It's one of those things that wears off fast but is decent for a while, much like Mini Metro and Ozymandius that I play.
 
I just finished Remnant: From the Ashes. It was OK. Once I got over the fear of running out of ammo I had a lot of fun. I was shocked by how short it was or felt, it being a souls like. If you want a Souls with guns that feels like a really good first draft of a much better game then I recommend getting it on sale.

I liked it enough to get the sequel, Remnant 2, and was unbelievably disappointed and pissed off. It suffers from the unbearable problem that proliferates so many new games: The characters never shut the fuck up. The writing is such ass and in a very specific and empowering way that I'm trying to find out if Sweet Baby Inc tainted it. Your character starts off with a strong, black wahman companion and you're trying to find the hub of the first game because it's safe, has food, and is ran by an old, white guy. The black chick makes a point to say that it's ran by some old, white guy. This is so out of place because they are so far past the collapse of civilization that they wonder if people actually had the happy lives that they see in a coffee billboard ad and don't seem to know what broccoli is yet black lady seems aware of racism. She never shuts the fuck up and things get worse once you get to Ward 13 and you meet it's incredibly diverse people and hear their gripes against the old, white guy leader who's not actually the leader or something i don't fucking know. The game play, I think, is an improvement on the first one but I cannot begin to care because the story, your reasoning for being a part of the story, and the characters suck so much ass that it overshadows any fun I get from dodge rolling underneath an attack and unloading a 12 gauge into the baddy's face.
 
Ralph Barnhardt said:
I just finished Remnant: From the Ashes. It was OK. Once I got over the fear of running out of ammo I had a lot of fun. I was shocked by how short it was or felt, it being a souls like. If you want a Souls with guns that feels like a really good first draft of a much better game then I recommend getting it on sale.
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It's short but you'll have to reroll worlds quite a bit to experience everything there is. There are loads of special interactions and specific world seeds to hunt.
 
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McMitch said:
Been playing Batman Arkham Asylum. Of the three two-and-a-half I’ve played (i.e. up through the first couple hours of Arkham Origins), it is still the best one. Arkham City had better bosses, but the normal gameplay loop is hindered by the open world setting and the Riddler challenges are to an excessive degree. Arkham Asylum really shines as a Metroid-like, and isn’t bogged down with the expectation of being a franchise.
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100% agree. I much prefer a fairly linear narrative, compared to an open-world scenario.

I'm currently playing It Takes Two.
This game is amazing. It gets better and better as it goes along, and was clearly made by people who play and love games.
I would unhesitatingly put it into my Top Ten games.
The studio has announced they've got something new coming out this year, and I can't wait to see it.
 
I'm into the second half of Hellbalde 2 at the moment and it is pretty much a walking sim with occasional really basic, imprecise combat bits thrown in every now and then.

That said, it is genuinely breathtaking to look at. Borderline photo-realistic and the lighting and particle effects are fucking amazing. It seems to have skipped over the uncanny valley problem and some of the photo-mode screenshots legitimately look like real life actors. It's very much a "theme park ride" type of game but i still recommend anyone who has Gamepass to give it a go.
 
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