@RogerRoger No, I never played Lightning Returns but I did play XIII-2 although I never quite completed it.
Lightning Returns was an unfortunate victim of its release timing. Coming out at the bitter end of the PS3 era, I moved on to PS4 and never looked back. If a remaster came to PS4 I probably would have played it though because it did look really good.
As for the gambit programming system of XII, it’s probably not for everyone but all it’s really doing is making the mundane decisions you would normally make into automated AI decisions. It’s a nice compromise between the satisfying feeling of total control over every party member during a fight (which runs the risk of feeling tedious) and the convenience of an AI controlled set of companions (which inevitably costs several victories that are due to party members doing inexplicable random actions during a fight). Giving a set of prioritized instructions like “if HP < 30% then heal”, “if poisoned use an antidote”, “if enemy then guard”, “if Foe flying then cast wind magic”... etc. So it’s fun to strategize the party to be ready for any scenario and for some reason I was really good at it. It felt like doing geometry proofs.
And if you did make an error in your program logic I think you could regain control of the characters and jump in to save the day, but I might be misremembering. It’s been a while.
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy It seems like you have a bit more leveling up to do. When I last left Dark Souls my stats were: 50 Vitality, 40 Endurance, 40 Strength, 40 Dexterity, out of the ones I leveled up, and I moved from a Guts build to a GiantDad one.
"I don't need a plan B to take away energy from my plan A."
@Th3solution@nessisonett I just completed Zeffo 2, in Jedi Fallen Order, where I got out of the prison after BD-1 & I were captured by the bounty hunter. About how far through the game am I?
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I have bought Island Living bundle in disc and some Expansion packs + Game packs from PSN
Get to Work, Dine Out, Vampires (i hate this add on but i bought it from 3 in 1 pack), Kitchen Stuffs.
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All the main Expansion Packs as they are really important.
For Game Packs, i want to take all of them except Star Wars stuff as i really dislike Star Wars and almost Western franchises & superheroes.
@Kidfried The Sims expansions are a nightmare. All the main ones are totally needed like @Anti-Matter says but then there’s loads of smaller ones. It’s not even a new thing for EA, my house is filled with discs for IKEA items in Sims 2 or Diesel clothes in Sims 3.
@Draco_V_Ecliptic it’s been a while since I played but I’d guess you still have like 30-40% of the game left, including the toughest boss. You’re pretty far along though.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution I'm assuming that it's toughest boss is the final boss in the game? I really liked that gauntlet of enemies that you had to face before leaving the prison, reminded me of similarly themed events in Fable and God of War |Champion's Arena, Gauntlet of the realms) do you know what I mean?
"I don't need a plan B to take away energy from my plan A."
@Draco_V_Ecliptic Never played Fable nor God of War. I really need to get to GoW though. I’ve had it in my backlog for several months now after I bought it on sale, but just haven’t taken the time to play it yet. As for Fable, it is actually one of the game series on Xbox that I’d like to play. Unfortunately I hear the latter sequels have been poorly received so it hasn’t been enough to push me to buy the console.
As for Fallen Order, personally I had the biggest issue with another boss outside of the final one. But there are a couple tough ones coming up for you. Similarly to Soulsborne bosses, some players struggle with certain bosses more than others. I came close to decreasing the difficulty level at one point, but I persevered and finally got past it.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution I would really recommend GoW, it's definitely another Souls-like. Fable is amazing too, the original and not the sequels. The Lost Chapters Edition has, obviously, extra chapters, and is just a great game overall, a lot of freedom and choice for an RPG, very similar to The Witcher 3, have you played that one? I believe it took a lot of influence from Fable, in my personal opinion. Really looking forward to those extra tough bosses as a SoulsBorne vet, but, on another level, as a bit of a noob, I am certainly not looking forward to them : (they sound very intimidating from your description.)
@Draco_V_Ecliptic Yeah, I didn’t really click with Witcher 3 on my first attempt. I started it and it was pretty decent, but for some reason I didn’t stick with it beyond the opening 5 or 6 hours. I think part of it was it was beginning to show its age slightly and it was also so overwhelming with all the map markers. And I felt also out of touch with its lore, having never read the books nor played the first two games. I’ve not ruled out returning to the game eventually though.
As a Soulsborne vet I think you’ll do fine on the bosses coming up. As a Souls pleb, I was able to get by so you’ll hardly break a sweat. 😄
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
I've been playing Genshin Impact for the last few hours and so far I'm very impressed. It borrows a lot for Breath of the Wild, but does enough of its own thing to not be a complete clone. Looks amazing too, probably one of my favourite looking PS4 games. I hope there's a PS5 version.
@Th3solution@nessisonett@RogerRoger I am currently exploring the gorgeous Flora & Fauna of Kashyyyk during my second trip to the planet and have recently acquired the ability to breathe underwater! @Th3solution ,is my epic boss fight coming up soon?
@Draco_V_Ecliptic Actually if I recall, you still have a little ways to go before you run into what I found to be the most challenging conflict. (By the way, I know the game’s been out for a while but you might want to mark a spoiler tag on your post there revealing one of the late game locations and skills. I’m not sure if some people may want to be surprised by that. 😄
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
... I decided to download Genshin Impact last night and give it a go.
First impressions are pretty positive so far. The music's quite nice and pretty chill, it looks rather gorgeous (I'll throw some screenshots up later). The fact you can climb anything and everything is cool too.
I haven't beaten the tutorial or even got to the first town... I was just wandering around, getting used to the combat (Which is pretty decent and I got my second character of Amber (the archer character), having chosen the girl option of the twins at the beginning) and exploring the starting area 😅
Previously known as Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy
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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"
(spoiler)then write the text to be blacked out here(/spoiler)
Except instead of round parentheses ( ) you’ll need to put the squared brackets [ ].
Try it out. I’m definitely going to want to read your impressions once you get to the late game, so it’ll be useful to be able to spoiler tag text so you can speak freely about some things! 😄
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Did you think that Dark Souls 3's plot was quite similar to Dark Souls Remastered's? With the Lord Souls in Dark Souls 1 and the Lord of Cinder Souls in Dark Souls 3
"I don't need a plan B to take away energy from my plan A."
Considering how Dark Souls II also does the whole beat four great beings thing and get their souls bit I think it's fair to say it's a recurring theme/element by choice. Dark Souls III in particular feels like a love letter to everything that's come before it (Especially the first game)
Admittedly I'm not the type of person who finds open worlds that interesting to explore going off the beaten path and all that @RogerRoger (baring a few exceptions). I'll happily bounce from quest marker to quest marker... So the fact I actually felt compelled to go exploring is a sign that it's doing something right for me.
Let's just hope the free to play monestisation nonsense isn't that bad... I'd hate to sour on this like I did for Let It Die with all that crap 😅
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