Topic: Playstation 4 Backloggery and most wanted!

@themcnoisy Spotify was my best friend towards the end of Dirt 4's platinum to be honest. Great game though!

I recently completed Mad Max and Yoku's Island Express, so those are gone from my backlog.

I'm currently playing Resi Evil 7 and have got past the boss I was stuck on, so will crack on with that.

I did start Rayman Legends too after trying the demo on Switch. I'm not liking it so much this time, but will give it another go.

My next purchases are most likely to be Spider-Man, Far Cry 5 and Resi Evil 2. But I will probably start Detroit Become Human after RE 7.

@JohnnyShoulder

Rayman Legends is a game I sometimes play with my daughter, it's pretty entertaining in 2 player.

@RogerRoger get on ff15 quickly. It's great imo.

@JohnnyShoulder @KALofKRYPTON Rayman Legends in 7 years old I think. Shows its age a touch now, but back then I absolutely loved it. I bought it for my son on Switch but its hardly been touched.

Current Backlog

Soul Calibur 6 - finish up the campaign.
Super Bomberman R - get upto world 4 and decide then if I want to play on.
Astrobot - Start the Damn thing
Moss - finish the game
Puyo Puyo Tetris - get 2 more perfect clears and drop 100,000 puyos (on about 62k atm)

That's my lot. I've passed on Ace Combat 7, life's too busy right now as much as I want the game. Ive also got a ton of started but on the backburner games like Odin Sphere, Nier Automata and South Park but with my limited time until Easter I don't want to start on a story based long game.

@themcnoisy You think?

I picked it up for my daughter for Switch too (and have in through Plus).

For me Origins (Vita) and Legends (and pretty much anything on the UBIart framework) look and play supremely well.
Also, I hadn't played it but my daughter was playing it after getting bored with LoZ and she fell right in to the addictive nature of the game. It was a well time Plus get as she enjoyed practically 'leading' me through the game in 2p.

@KALofKRYPTON I am a big fan of origins and legends. I just don't have the motivation to play through either game again. That said I can't get the motivation to play Astrobot so take that with a pinch of salt.

@themcnoisy I feel that.

Take the pressure off. It's easy enough to stumble away from past time to perceived obligation to play things.

Just do a stage or checkpoint of something, then do something else entirely until the desire to go back to it hits.

@themcnoisy I didn't realise it was that old and I did not think it was showing its age. Those style of graphics tend to hold up better than more realistic 3D games. I just found some sections a bit frustrating and fiddly, it was probably more down to me not being in the right frame of mind than the game being bad or anything.

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Backlog:
1) Valkyria Chronicles 4 (Switch) (COMPLETED)
2) Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice (3DS) (COMPLETED)
3) Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition (PS4) (COMPLETED)

Purchases
1) SEGA AGES: Phantasy Star (Switch) (Didn't purchase)
2) Sega Genesis Classics (Switch) (Didn't purchase)
3) Etrian Odyssey Nexus (3DS)

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Games completed in 2019 so far: 4.

Games purchased in 2019 so far: 0; this will change upon release of Resident Evil 2.

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New Backlog:
1) Hohokum (PSVita)
2) Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness (PSVita)
3) Furi (PS4)

New Purchases:
1) Resident Evil 2 (PC)
2) Wargroove (Switch)
3) Etrian Odyssey Nexus (3DS)

@Kidfried @Ralizah I forgot that's how we do things round here lol. Crazy that you have both played games with Carpenter Brut music tracks - Hotline miami 2 and Furi. He's the man when it comes to music. I actually played Le Perv in work last week when no one was looking and just about got away with it. Class track.

Old Backlog
Pes 2019 - get platinum - Completed
Dirt 4 - finish campaign - Pass (did the main rally and racing but can't for the life of me muster motivation for the triple crown)
2064 Read only memories - play through story - Completed - in fact I did it 3 times

To buy
Red Dead Redemption - got and hated
Celeste - fail
Astrobot - got and its blown my tiny mind
Moss - got and it's okay buy very mediocre

New Backlog (I will pick 3 per the rules)

Soul Calibur 6 - finish up the campaign
Astrobot - Complete the campaign
Puyo Puyo Tetris - get 2 more perfect clears and drop 100,000 puyos (on about 62k atm)

To buy

Celeste
Ace Combat 7

@KratosMD It will be interesting to hear your take on Odin Sphere, I initially loved it but fell into a bit of a mundane routine. Same thing happened with Disgaea 5 and I've had that since launch!

Odin Sphere is sort of like Smash... fun but repetitive. Granted, I almost 100% completed the game (my data got erased before I found the last few recipes, screwing me out of the platinum trophy, but I'm satisfied enough with it), so I still very much enjoyed the game, but I don't know if I'd want to play it from start to finish with no games in the interim.

@KratosMD Combat is fast enough that it remains fun. The bigger issue is that you'll run through a lot of the same areas between playthroughs over and over. A lot of the bosses are shared between playthroughs as well.

It's a beautiful game, though. It's an RPG, so I'm a much bigger fan of this than Muramasa (similar to how I vastly prefer NieR: Automata to Bayonetta).

@KratosMD it's worth a punt. @Ralizah has summarized the game really well. You have a few options with attacks. Your standard attacks, magic and abilities. The gameplay is fine It's more like diablo in as much as you are waiting for your moves to cool down (or charge up) to use them again.

But it does get repetitive. I really should put it back on. I've been having a moan recently about how hard some games are to jump back too. Odin Sphere shouldn't have that issue.

@themcnoisy @Ralizah @KratosMD I haven’t played Odin Sphere but I had considered it from afar, if only because it popped up once on a Push Square top 20 list (top 20 RPG maybe?) but I know very little about it. I do know that I was completely underwhelmed by Muramasa Rebirth. Despite it looking beautiful visually, the whole running through the same areas and backtracking and still getting lost with where I was supposed to go... yeah, it drove me bananas and I quit the game after about 4 hours or so. I guess it’s not considered a straight up Metroidvania, but to me it seemed very reminiscent of that genre and for some reason I just can’t get into those.

And as I self-analyze, I see the irony of my own disdain for the whole “return through areas over and over to get past previously blocked areas after you get the required key or skill” in the sense that I loved Bloodborne and other 3D games which do this to a degree. It just seems different when it’s a 3D experience vs 2D side-scrolling and backtracking over the same screen a dozen times. And it would have been okay if I knew where to go next, but I got stuck fairly early in Muramasa and the gameplay was just not fun enough to pull me through the frustration of trying to figure it out. Anyway, it’s good to hear I probably need to avoid Odin Sphere then.

@Th3solution Nice description of why I should avoid that game lol. Odin Sphere is nothing like that example though. It's hard to describe but here goes; The game is predominantly a 2d beat em up with occasional interjection paths to take (not in the story but within the levels) and a few secrets hidden withing the artwork. There are a number of characters (6?) and you play through their stories in succession. You have to eat to level up your base skills and can cook different fruits, meals or go to a restaurant. You gain experience which go towards unlocking abilities on a Sphere grid of sorts. The spheres on the grid have preconditioned criteria before they will allow you to use exp to unlock them (such as finish x level or find x thing in level). So it's not a typical RPG and it's very linear. The story doesn't change* You visit the areas again with each subsequent character - but the order can be different and interspersed with new areas.

OLD BACKLOG:
Red Dead Redemption II
Okami HD (final third of)
Wasteland 2
Nioh
Yakuza Kiwami
Burly Men At Sea

I put Red Dead on hold over Christmas and finished Okami instead. Burly Men At Sea kind of took care of itself to be honest. Shenmue I and II have since been added to the list. I think I can actually finish Shenmue I tomorrow, platinum and all. Then I'm going to go back and finish Red Dead. I'm not going to rush into Shenmue II, I want to take my time and savour that one.

NEW BACKLOG
Red Dead Redemption II (second half of)
Shenmue I (final couple of hours of)
Shenmue II
Nioh
Wasteland 2
Yakuza Kiwami

UPCOMING PURCHASES
Sekiro
Shenmue III

Accidentally wrote 'Burnley Men At Sea' at first. What a game that would be

I’ve been hesitant to post my update because I’ve been so lousy at making progress, but I’ll just start fresh with a new plan. Like they say, “Today is the first day of the rest of your life!”

And I might modify my outline slightly —

Current backlog (aka games I’m working on and plan to finish in the immediate or not too distant future)
-Red Dead Redemption 2
-The Council
-Spider-Man
> >>Vita (because it deserves its own backlog)
-Papers, please
-Trails of Cold Steel I
-Persona 4 Dancing All Night

On Deck (aka games that I anticipate to use as occasional diversions from the main games, ie games that you don’t really “finish” in the traditional sense)
-OnRush
-Tetris Effect
-Soul Calibur 6

Next Planned Purchases
-Code Vein
-Sekiro
-Valkyria Chronicles 4

Games purchased in 2019: 1
Games completed 2019: 0
Platinums in 2019: 0

I reserve the right to completely stray from this plan at any time 😉

@RogerRoger Could make a good sequel though