@Black_Swordsman So far so good BUT I'm scared as sh*t, the environment is spooky as hell for me and I'm always nervous and tbh I'm not sure if I'm gonna make it through the end but I'll do my best since I need to put my 100% on it and play during the day not night lol
I've been playing Gran Turismo 7, WRC 9 and Tetris Connected this evening on the PlayStation Portal which is quite nice I gotta say. My PlayStation was gathering dust for a long time but the portal has that pick up and play factor so I'll likely play more now.
@Bentleyma I never got a notification about your post, so this is only a week late... Glad to see that you loved Rebirth as much as you did. I'm only roughly 10 hours in so far (still on Chapter 2), but I'm highly enjoying it so far. Given how much I loved Remake, I fully expect to love Rebirth quite a bit too.
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After wrapping up Persona 3 Reload, I've now started playing The Last of Us: Part II. I can't express how happy I am to be playing a different game after 1.5 months of playing the same title. I played it for two hours straight and had no idea that much time had passed, that's how much I was craving a different game lol. It's really fun and I'm liking the story so far. I'm glad that I recently watched the first season of the show before playing the second game as the story so far is fresher in my mind now. Looking forward to playing more soon.
@Qu1n0n3z Sorry for the delayed response. To me it seems like a more streamlined, muscular version of Dark Souls, how do you feel about that? Lol, yeah, just play during the day if that's the kinda atmosphere it has in general. Anyway, please feel free to keep me updated about your activities in the game, spoiler-tagging all the parts that you think you shouldn't give away of course!
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I am temporarily halting my playthrough of Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth to play Jak & Daxter: The Lost Frontier. Dunno what to make of it, on the one hand it's nice to be playing a new (to me) Jak game, but it's lacking the magic that made the trilogy so great. I think the main offender is that it's no longer a seamless open world, which I get considering it was made primarily for the PSP, but it's still massively disappointing.
In kind of a weird position as I finished Banishers yesterday and Dragons Dogman and Rise of the Ronin I believe are both this weekend, two games that I absolutely expect to take over my life, so I sorta don't know what to fill the space with in between. I forgot I had the FF7 remake downloaded to my console from Plus, and I appreciate it is probably stupid to pick that up now as I'll get absolutely nowhere between now and the weekend, but it is just something to do.
I finished basically the opening tutorial part up until the Red Scorpion fight. Really mixed first impressions, it looks absolutely incredible even on performance mode (and man am I glad it includes one) but outside of the visuals, that battle through the reactor could have been a PS3 game from a design perspective. Just lots of small, narrow, corridors and the same handful of enemies.
I am also not usually a massive fan of these hybrid battle systems, and even with just two characters to control it already felt kind of messy. Especially as seemingly when you aren't controlling someone directly they only use their square attack, they won't heal or use any abilities. As such, I am already dreading it a little the idea of having to constantly cycle through four people, making sure they are using their abilities and are kept healed up. It is so weird to me so many JRPGs design their games like this, as I feel like we already solved these problems in the 90s with CRPGs that allowed you to set instructions for your party members when you weren't actively controlling them.
The Red Scorpion fight didn't help, I don't think. While it was visually spectacular, it was also just pure sensory overload too. If the boss had mechanics, or stages, I was not able to intuit what they were from the information the game was giving me. Sometimes it would go on the wall, or sometimes a part of it would become highlighted but it was so unrelentingly spamming attacks without a moments pause, so I was never able to take a moment, get my bearings and work out what I was meant to be doing or what the game was trying to tell me.
I beat it first time, but just by doing a lot of brute forcing and ability dumping, going through about 15 potions in one fight. It all looked very spectacular, but it was hiding the fact that I was a headless chicken with no clue what they were doing. 😂
@Kidfried Those are some valid FF16 thoughts and I think you have a point. I ended up enjoying the game quite a bit, but it was mostly because of the compelling main character, decent storyline, high end production value, interesting setting, and bombastic boss fights. But the moment to moment exploration was on the tedious side, if I’m honest, and there wasn’t quite the level of excitement and discovery between major story points. Some of this had to do with over half of the side quests and supplemental stories being rote and largely unnecessary. The problem is that some of the side content was quite good though, so it was tough to know which could be skipped so I just did them all. I will say toward the end there is a large dump of side characters story arc expansions that are mostly really good but it ruins the pacing to put it all in one large heap at the end. I would have liked that content to have been better spread out through the earlier parts of the game.
The other thing that would have probably helped would be to have better and more consistent rewards for exploration and random battles. I liked being able to see the little flickering glitters of light scattered throughout the open areas that indicated a collectible, but 90% of them were worthless. Even those that appeared to be guarded by a bigger enemy were often just trash like 5 Gil or 3 sharp fangs, etc. Eventually I learned to ignore the temptation to go after every sparkly icon on the map because it was a waste of time and there were better ways to spend my time and better enemies to battle through the main stories and optional hunts.
Kudos to the game for having so many ways a person could dive into the game and spend time though. My playtime ended around 80 hrs and although I did all side quests and hunts, I didn’t even scratch the surface of the Arete Stone or those other little pillars scattered throughout the world (I forget what they’re called) that had optional combat trials. I also spent very little time in the lore, but Vivian’s map and character charts were fantastic ways to get into it.
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Helldivers 2 which is just an absolute great game in terms of gameplay and fun to be had, playing with friends just makes it even more fun, hats of to the developers for this one it feels almost like a 90's game in terms that it's made by gamers for gamers and you can really feel it when playing.
Alongside this I'm playing Assassins Creed Valhalla, I've held off on playing this game for so long for 3 reasons, 1 I completed and Platinumed Oddesy in 2021 and after 150 hours felt like I needed a break from anything AC. 2 I knew this game was similar to Oddesy in size and would be a massive undertaking in time. 3 the "main stream" reviews and comments are largely negative towards this game and I constantly hear its the worst out of Origins, Oddesy and Valhalla. After around 18hours of playing it my self and finally able to form my own opinion so far so good, I can not st all honestly see what is so bad about this game, its a really good game, great combat and exploration. Story so far is ok nothing amazing but just following the rule of most viking sagas, its biggest problem is its pacing lots of slow parts before the next inevitable big encounter. Yes the map is probably too big and there's probably alot of clutter on the map but with recent updates you can turn certain things off the map(like in cyberpunk) to feel less overwhelmed. I get that the biggest bug bear for hard core AC fans would be that it's not stealthy and not really much in terms of an AC game, the Hidden ones is sort of a side line to the main quest which is the viking saga but its there if you want all that stuff. Anyway another 20 or so hours and I might start to feel a little worn out but so far so good a solid 7.5/10 of what I've experienced so far.
I started BG3 and got to the end of act 1 but basically Helldivers took over and I'm yet to return although I definitely will because I was having a great time with it
@Pizzamorg I remember my first impressions of FF7 Remake being very similar to yours. There’s almost too much spectacle and it’s like a migraine headache on display with all the flashing colors and lights. You eventually grow accustomed to the visual overload and settle into a rhythm with the combat. But I can definitely understand your sentiment of the ‘messiness’ of it all. I played on normal but apparently cranking up the difficulty makes the experience better, paradoxically. I guess it forces you to learn how to strategize and balance your materia and party member usage. But for me, I had enough trouble with some of the bosses that I suspect I would have been frustrated by playing on hard. In the end, I liked the game and it was beautiful and fun to play, but the story went a bit sideways for my taste. Still, I’ll tune in to Rebirth at some future point.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@MaulTsir Hey buddy, it’s good to hear about your latest gaming endeavors! Glad you’re enjoying Helldivers. It’s a game I’ve not got a lot of interest in, but have an appreciation for what they’ve accomplished.
I’m curious to try AC Valhalla some day. I need to play Odyssey first, but it still intimidates me with its size. I know you’re still early days with Valhalla, but do you think you still prefer Odyssey overall?
And Baldur’s Gate 3 is on my list to play as well. Interestingly, I had a dream about it last night, kind of out of the blue, and so maybe it’s a sign that I need to start it. I chose to jump into Spider-Man 2 first instead (which I’m really liking so far) but I might try a BG3 concurrent playthrough. It sounds like you’ve been trying the tactic of playing it alongside other games, and it seems like it could be done successfully. I don’t know.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution hey mate! Yeah been a bit busier is real life so haven't made it much to the forum. I'm not a big social media user and much prefer this little forum as it seems a more "calmer" place so like to try get on from time to time!
Yes Helldivers is amazing, it's crazy because it's not amazing but it is amazing if that makes any sense at all, like theres no story, mechanics are simple, game play loop is even simple but it's magic you know like tetras or something because it's just there for fun, not to bog you down with some big story or make you feel like you need to grind to get anywhere you can just turn it on and play, I would recommend it to anyone, it's not like a game you need to set a load of time aside for you can play it as much or as little as you like and that's the beauty of it! Obviously it's much better playing with people you know but I've not had any real issues finding or playing with randoms.
Valhalla is big! Not as big as Oddesy I don't think and there's a few things Valhalla actually does better than Oddesy like side quest for example are world events not and they don't force you to do them it's completely up to you if you engage with them or not, there's not hidden weapons or anything it's only xp. It's a really good strong game though, like it's basically Horizon Forbidden West but your a viking! Like everyone wanted to play as a viking and a game comes along and says here play as a viking and then everyone crys that he's not stealthy enough or a super assassin but like mate your a viking! Lol I would say I preferred Oddesy although at the moment I am only about 20% through the main story so will fully judge when I'm done, I will say the world is awesome and I prefer it to Origins. I played as Kassandra in Oddesy as it seem to fit the story better but I've played as male Eivor as this seems to fit the story better.
Yeah BG3 is a really strange one because it's my first real jump into DnD world and its honestly a really great game but I don't find my self being able to play it in long stints if that makes sense, like sometimes a fight then a long rest and some cut scenes can take over an hour an then I feel that's enough or a run through a dungeon and then levelling up all the characters takes an hour and a half and then I'm like right I need something fast paced for a bit! I never play games side by side either but BG3 obviously feel like playing a board game. That's not knocking it either because the games amazing, the story, the detail very similar to Helldivers 2 you can tell the developers love there game.
How are you getting on with Spiderman 2? I managed to grab the plat over Christmas and really enjoyed my time with it so interested to hear your thoughts mate
@MaulTsir I haven’t been able to make much progress yet in SM2 but it’s quite good so far. The opening section with Sandman is brilliant. It looks wonderful and feels great to play. I know it doesn’t trailblaze new ground in the genre, but so far it’s great comfort food for the desire to be a superhero and feel like an athletic BA swinging and punching. 😄
@Kidfried Yeah, the crafting supplies are just really poorly implemented. I suppose you can sell most of them for Gil since they’re often useless, but a few of them are essential for an upgrade later on, and came sometimes require large numbers of them for the upgrade, so I personally didn’t sell any supplies. It seems like I had plenty of Gil to spare also. I should have rounded all the merchants and got all the music for the Hideaway’s juke box since I think I might have had enough Gil, but I couldn’t be bothered.
As far as the NPC companions, I did find FF16 to be quite variable in how much good they did for me. They did help some, but I did a lot of the Hunts without a companion and they didn’t feel that much harder. Maybe a little bit. But I tried for a while to control Torgal with the left D-pad, but found it annoying to try to concentrate on my own attacks and also his, so I always wore the accessory that made his actions automated. They meant that often he didn’t heal me when I needed it and he would abandon an enemy and concentrate on another one that I preferred he ignore, but it was worth not having the stress of controlled and queuing up all his actions.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
Finished my first playthrough of Alone in the Dark. Had a good time with it, so doing a second playthrough as Emily. I don't usually do second playthrough's, but the game went by so quickly that playing it again doesn't seem like a chore.
I'm looking for some recommendations. I have some free time coming up where I'd love to get into another proper game, but I'm absolutely overwhelmed by choice and incredibly limited by my pickiness. Nothing I've wishlisted or had my eye on over the last year is really jumping out at me. I think it's because I'm looking for a new, yet familiarly unique experience and have no idea where to get it.
I usually stick to my adventure, narrative-focused titles with some might say minimal gameplay, but over the last year I had much success venturing out slightly into other mechanics/genres with Hades and Midnight Suns. They felt so fresh and interesting to me exactly because I pigeonholed myself into one specific type of game for so long.
That said, story is still a very important part for me in a video game. I love engaging with strong narratives and meeting interesting characters, but I think I need to venture out into looking for a bit more than exclusively that. That's why I'm not feeling like starting yet another RPG, visual novel or adventure game right now, but I'm still craving that kick of a thrilling story.
So, in short terms, I'm asking of anyone has some recommendations for games with great narratives where the focus is still very much on the gameplay as well instead of just being a walking simulator or RPG or the like. The one caveat I would like to add is no open world games, because those I end up never finishing. A ten to twenty hour experience would be the sweet spot probably, but I'm open to shorter and longer. It can be indie or AAA on whatever console. I'll probably be able to play it somewhere!
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