@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Nice. Always satisfying to successfully come to the other end of a deep, massive experience like this must have been. Although, if it was good enough, I can sometimes feel a bit hollow for a day or two after finishing a game like that.
The last time I had that "don't wanna put it down feeling" was for Hollow Knight last year @Th3solution which I played over the 2018 christmas break (so before I joined here) so it wasn't too long ago thankfully
Though trying to beat the true final boss and one of the bonus bosses did cause me to put it down out of frustration and I don't think I went back to get one of the "better" endings. 😂
I might experiment and see the other endings for Divinity though...
That's me polished off the Tomb Raider reboot. Overall, I enjoyed it, solid 7/10. It's aged alright but it does come off sometimes as slightly uninspired. I've heard Rise improves in almost every aspect so looking forward to playing that at some point!
@KratosMD I have to say after playing Uncharted 2 last month that Tomb Raider’s gunplay is far, far better. It might be because of the fact I was playing on PC with a mouse but the bow felt suitably satisfying to use and the combat was generally OK.
@KratosMD@nessisonett I've (and others) always said that Uncharted do story and characters better, Tomb Raider (since the reboot) do combat and gameplay better.
After playing all 3 Tomb Raider games, I thought they were all very good. The first one had my favourite story as I thought it was a more personal one for Lara than the other two. The combat was better in the second game but the overall game seemed to be a bit of a retread of the first game. I thought Lara was a bit dull in bith games. The third one the combat I thought was more clunky than the other two, but stealth felt much better. This was the most intresting Lara was as a character across the three games.
Also you can play as Lara from the first game, but it looked really weird and dated. Not as weird and dated as the very first Tomb Raider games, but still off putting enough for me to change after a short period.
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Beat Portal 1 for the first time in a couple of hours. It’s a really good puzzler and the Source engine still surprisingly holds up. I played 2 on PS3 years ago but might boot it up again.
Just finished Code Vein yesterday, and was so impressed by the deep variations of builds you can create and the presentation of the narrative. I originally played the demo a few months back, and knew I had to get back to this game someday, and I am so happy I did.
@Natenosaints72 I have a renewed interest to check out Code Vein after I saw how well it’s sold. I played the demo, but it seemed a little too confusing to me with all the depth of builds and combat. Of course a demo can sometimes have that issue where you don’t get the full tutorial experience and I’ve had games where the demo wasn’t good but the game was. So, would you say the gameplay and learning the depth of the combat and character builds is well paced in the game? Is it frustrating to learn at the beginning or do they ease you into all the mechanics? It seemed a little too much too quick in the demo.
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After Baldurs Gate I decided to tackle another gem that I'd not been able to finish, although I did play this one much more recently.
And 6 years and 1 day to the date I first bought it, I finally managed to complete Bravely Default a few minutes before midnight last night! (55 hours over about 3 weeks). I got right near the end back in 2014 but I hadn't focused on building up my characters jobs and hit a brick wall on the 4th to last boss.
I thoroughly enjoyed my second play through. The notorious second half of the game (which basically makes you run through an abbreviated version of the first half FIVE TIMES) is really quite poor, but I love the rest of the game enough to let it slide. Since I knew what was coming, I did all of my grinding at the start of this second half and blitzed through the remainder of the game in a few hours once my team were at max levels and I had my jobs set up how I wanted them, with the battles turned off so I just had to deal with the bosses, which I destroyed. The final boss nearly had me though, to be fair, and it really came down to my final megalixir.
I know I enjoyed it because I'm pumped up to dive straight into a new run of Bravely Second tonight, another game I didn't get all the way through at launch either. I really hope it doesn't pull the same trick that the first game does at the mid-way point, although I've heard rumours it might...
Finally beat 428: Shibuya Scramble. I’ve been at it on and off for months and it’s probably the best VN I’ve ever played, right up there with Steins;Gate and Virtue’s Last Reward. The ending is unbelievably satisfying, tying together all those loose ends and side characters across the whole game. You can even unlock special stories that expand on the really small characters, that appeared in a scene or two. I’d recommend it to anybody who loves VN or even if you don’t, it’s a fantastic introduction.
I finally beat Castlevania Circle of the Moon today. That is legitimately one of the hardest games I’ve ever played, it makes Dark Souls and the like seem a trifle. The final boss was utterly brutal, with an attack that could finish me off in one hit but I prevailed! Onto Harmony of Dissonance now, which doesn’t actually feel as tight gameplay wise despite being the newer game.
I've posted full thoughts on three of them in the Impressions thread, while I'm still mulling over my feelings on The Last Guardian since I just finished it this morning.
Currently Playing:
Switch - Blade Strangers
PS4 - Kingdom Hearts III, Tetris Effect (VR)
@Kidfried, @Octane, there's a lot it does right (hauntingly beautiful world, engaging puzzle platforming gameplay that constantly adds new elements as it goes along, and is simply engrossing in a way that the hours can fly by without you noticing), however in my experience the performance is very rough on base PS4, with the framerate absolutely tanking in certain spots, which mars an otherwise great & unique game.
Currently Playing:
Switch - Blade Strangers
PS4 - Kingdom Hearts III, Tetris Effect (VR)
@RR529 Yeah, the controls are wonky, but that's to expect from Ueda
The frame rates definitely dipped a lot, but ultimately, I felt that the positives outweighed the negatives. Apparently the AI and physics were so complicated that it wouldn't even be playable on PS3. So maybe they've waited for PS5, ideally. I don't know. I'm glad I played it though.
I finished off Kentucky Route Zero earlier today and what a tremendous experience that game was. It'll take me a little time to put something more together to say about it in the other thread but it's fair to say that there is no other game like it.
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