Topic: What PS4 Games Are You Currently Playing?

@LtSarge Half-Life and Half-Life 2 absolutely still hold up. They play remarkably modern for their time too.

@nessisonett I've been wanting to give the series a go but I don't have a good way of playing the first Half-Life. The second one and its episodes are available as part of The Orange Box on PS3, but the first Half-Life is only on computers or on PS2 and I don't have the latter or a PS3 that plays PS2 games. So I honestly don't know what to do.

@LtSarge half life 1 is regularly discounted on steam to such a low amount that it would probably be worth buying it just to see if your computer would run it. I haven't actually played it, I've only played 2 and Episodes from 2 on the orange box and I loved it

I think (check this before you buy/if you buy) that the orange box is BC on Xbox one as well. Not sure though

@LtSarge The first Half-Life will play on a potato tbh. It was recently remade as Black Mesa though and I’ve heard that’s brilliant. Still need to play it.

@nessisonett does that potato need an Intel Celery processor?!

@ralphdibny Brilliant 😂😂

@ralphdibny @nessisonett Got it, will check it out and see if it works decent enough on my Macbook.

@RogerRoger Hooray, now you can enjoy this absolute gem!

@RogerRoger Fantastic! Glad you took the plunge. It's an absolutely classic series, with tons of colorful characters, funny dialogue, great mysteries, and a compelling story that develops over the course of the three games in the original trilogy.

The fact that you're already taking to it bodes well for when you get to the meat of the game.

Now that they're going full multiplat with these games, they'll hopefully port over the second mainline trilogy and Investigations spinoffs sooner than later.

@Th3solution @Jimmer-jammer In RDR2 I just broke Micah out of jail and now after some shooting and an escape on horseback there's now a bounty on my head, it was a fun mission but what should I do now? Try to get back to Horseshoe Overlook and sleep for a few days in order to lose my bounty? Can you do that? Or pay it off at a Post Office? Is it expensive? What do you guys advise?

@Th3solution @Jimmer-jammer And how are your games going?

Edit: I actually think I'm only wanted in Strawberry and don't believe I need to go back there any time soon so escaping the law shouldn't be a problem!

@TheBrandedSwordsman I don’t remember exactly how I handled that specific scenario actually. In general I tried to pay off any bounties pretty quickly. I played the game as honorable as I could and so I didn’t run into it very often but I did pay a few bounties at the post office during the game. I don’t think it was really too expensive. In fact I had a lot of money, but I took advantage of an infinitely respawning gold bar glitch, which is probably patched out now. So I was swimming in dough. 😂 It didn’t really ruin the game for me though and in fact made it more fun I think because I would experiment with a lot of different clothes and hats and guns.
Sounds like you’re still having fun with it though. Who’s you’re favorite characters? What do you think is going to happen in the story?

As for me, I’m about half way through Chapter 8 in FF7R, so not a whole lot of progress since last report. But it’s really good and I’ve come across a new character and new area so it’s staying really fresh. Each character added to the party brings a different playstyle in combat, so it’s enjoyable to experiment around with them. You can continue to just hammer away with Cloud during encounters and let the AI control your party, or you can switch around on the fly and control different companions whenever you want. It’s pretty typical JRPG stuff, but there is a lot of flexibility built in that way.
Since I last commented to you, I had a really cool boss fight. It was a very pleasant surprise. The other couple boss fights I’ve encountered have been okay, but this one has so much interesting tactics and visual flash and style that it just brought a smile to my face 😄

@RogerRoger The Ace Attorney trilogy effectively carries everyone through similar emotional journeys with Miles Edgeworth, I think. And that's all I'm gonna say, because I don't want to spoil anything.

Six mainline entries.
Two spinoff games following everyone's favorite cravat-wearing prosecutor (although the second game was never officially released outside of Jpn; really hoping Capcom remasters those and releases them on modern devices eventually).
A crossover with Professor Layton (interestingly, some of the ideas introduced in this were carried over to The Great Ace Attorney).
The Great Ace Attorney duology.

Ace Attorney 7 is heavily rumored to be late in development as well.

So, yeah, there are a LOT of games in this particular series. And, possibly barring the Layton game, they all take place in the same universe, so the worldbuilding across everything ends up being really fantastic. A strict sense of continuity is maintained as well. It's a lot of fun seeing characters grow up in the mainline games, since the games take place (so far) across a span of twelve years or so.

Glad you're enjoying it!

Going to put F.I.S.T. on hold and concentrate on Tales of Arise. Enjoying it a lot so far.

@TheBrandedSwordsman I think I just paid it, though I can’t exactly recall. Micah is such a well realized character (they all are, really). I played as honestly I could in every way. I’m pretty boring when it comes to decision making in games and will almost always take the “good” route. The right D&D campaign can bring a little more out of my darker side but for the most part I’m not too exciting. Disco Elysium is brilliant in this regard.

Finished up the Iki expansion, which I felt was brilliant, and have moved on to Psychonauts 2, which so far is everything I’d hoped it would be.

@Th3solution Micah and Hosea are my favourite characters, I like Dutch as well though, they don't seem to pay much attention to the development of the female characters though, but that's probably reflective of the time the game is set in , though, as women were always sort of just in the background, I am expecting that may change as the game progresses though? I liked Hosea's reflections on his time with Bessie during the hunting mission. As far as where the story will go next I expect Micah will get into trouble shooting up the town in Strawberry again, and, from seeing some stuff online I know there will be more than one more train robbery as the game progresses, Arthur will probably have to bail Micah out of trouble, as I say, again, though, and maybe Dutch will finally have that much-desired confrontation with Colm O'Driscoll at the end of the game, no, I'm sure that will happen. Care to give me a rough % on how accurate my guesses are, without giving anything away? Who were your favourite characters out of the ones who have appeared in the story thus far?

@TheBrandedSwordsman Hmmm…. In my best recollection I’d say you’re about 35% on track with your predictions, but there is a lot of story left and things yet to occur that you probably don’t even have on the radar. The story is just so fantastic.

As far as my favorite characters, I have a soft spot for John since he’s the protagonist in the original RDR and I grew to love him there. But he’s depicted as kind of a jerk in the early part of RDR2 and not very likable at all. I like Dutch and think his character arc is probably only second to Arthur as far as impact it had on me. I also like Charles and Sadie. And although they have smaller roles I just like their backstories. And it is true that the Wild West was a man’s world and the women don’t really get much screen time, but you’ll have to keep playing to find out if that’s going to continue 😜

@RogerRoger Wasn't that a great case? It was the conclusion to the game, originally, but they tacked on Rise From the Ashes as a fifth episode when it was ported to the NDS. Which is one of the longer cases in the series, btw: it's easily more than twice as long as Turnabout Goodbyes was. I'm kinda curious how the Nintendo DS-centric gimmicks in that case will translate to the PS4, since you presumably won't be blowing on your controller.

I do think the next three games will make the jump. Although the information in the Capcom leaks that revealed the existence of AA7 also seemed to heavily imply it was releasing sooner than later, so if they really want to make it where new fans can play the games leading up to 7, they'll need to port the second trilogy soon. Realistically, if they're going to, I think it'll happen early-to-mid next year.

Love the new avatar, btw. One of my friends is an Ace Attorney nut, and he's a massive Gumshoe fan, to the point where he even cosplayed him at a few anime conventions we went to.

@Ralizah How's your God of War playthrough going/

@TraCuz- Stalled, lol. Haven't played it in half a week or more.

I've gone back to Nocturne HD for the moment (btw, thanks for reminding me about GoW; I'd forgotten to update my sig).