Topic: Games you've recently beat

I just finished Live A Live. I have strong opinions. I can understand why it was a commercial failure in japan, Because this could have been a power point presentation. There are a lot of good ideas here, but little glue to hold it all together.
The game the game is a slog. You basically have to do all eight of the introductory chapters before it heats up, and that's about twenty four hours already invested, so it doesn't pay off. Everything is too quick and shallow to garner much investment, but the True ending has some great moments to it.

But basically, there's some scattered good ideas here and a decent moral of the story. It's a heap of broken images that is about as lower mid-shelf as it gets. I wish I'd just emulated it.

It's hard to give it a good review playing it today and knowing it's 30 years old because most of the ideas and concepts have been executed elsewhere in a far more superior fashion. I'm not going to give an a for effort or anything like that, Tokita got his ideas implemented elsewhere.

Also, playing the game today makes it feel like octopath traveler 0 with the 2DHD.

This is a strange one. I completed "Super Castlevania IV" on the SNES many years ago but for whatever reason I've spent this morning bashing my head against the brick wall that is the final Dracula fight (on the emulated Switch version) before finally giving it up as a bad job. Very frustrating indeed.

Recently beat Control Ultimate Edition.

Really enjoyed it even though I had no idea what was going on!

Main game was really good, DLC seemed to have a massive difficulty spike though and got a bit tedious honestly.

Still highly recommend it though!

Forgot about the invisible stairs cheat - that and a favourable bit of RNG and I'm done. Good game but not a patch on "Rondo of Blood".

@nessisonett The courtroom scenes in Judgment are great and I'm kind of glad they were used sparingly as it makes the end really quite impactful. I agree that it was one of the best stories in the RGG series too. I really need to get round to the second game at some point!

Wolfenstein Old Blood. If you have not played it you are missing out on something. Just saying. So it can be a good idea to add the title to your backlog if you are interested in playing it at some point in time.

Far Cry 4. Quite good minus bloody Troy and his bizarre English(?) accent he puts on while pretending to be a Hong Konger. The campaign actually changing a bit depending on your choices was a good idea even if the choice of ‘pedo guy vs drug woman’ was a rather easy one.

@nessisonett I really loved the setting for 4 a real joy to soak up and Min is almost nonexistent to be fair, although not sure what back story he was trying to bring to the character. I really miss the progression system from this one too. Double points for The Clash and Sayid from Lost 👍

A side note, I got a heavy dose of the mandela effect thinking Troy Baker was also Joesph Seed, for years I’ve thought this. I assume you’re planning on playing 5?

@AgentCooper Not entirely sure how I didn’t recognise Naveen Andrews’ voice, it’s fairly distinct! I’ll play 5 yeah, just when I get round to it. Sort of tempted to try Primal, an FPS without guns sounds like a recipe for disaster.

@nessisonett I’m the same, I want to at least give it a go. I’m currently playing through New Dawn and it’s pretty cool, well worth playing as a companion piece to 5.

Finished ModNation Racers: Road Trip on Vita. I beat all the tours except for the bonus one, which required reaching a certain amount of different stats. But I'm definitely not playing any more of this game. For every race in the career mode, the game gets worse and worse.

First of all, the frame rate is absolutely terrible. It's constantly below 30 fps and to makes matters worse, there's always so much going on on the screen that you can't control your kart. The tracks themselves are awful and because of the physics, you're constantly bouncing around the place due to how narrow the roads are. There are so many obstacles and hazards and on top of this, other players will make your life miserable. Not only are there items like in Mario Kart but other players can actually ram you off the road and even them bumping into you will make you veer off course. Finally, as I was reaching the end of the career mode, I encountered a glitch where I couldn't even drive on the main road anymore! The game kept telling me I was offroad and it would reset me.

All in all, this game is terrible. The controls are so janky, the tracks are OTT, the game is too physics-based and the frame rate is so bad. Avoid it!

On a side note, I was kinda excited to play this game because there aren't many racing games on the Vita. Oh well, I just have to hope that WipEout 2048 and NFS: Most Wanted are better than this crap.

@LtSarge Yeah I didn't think much of Vita Modnation.
Wipeout is pretty good, long load times though and NFS MW is also good, in fact I was playing that just a few weeks back (on my Vita TV), it is quite popular and the servers are still up.
Sonic all stars transformed is also a good racing game.

@CaptD Good to hear! I've already played Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed on PS3 back in the day but I've indeed heard that the Vita version is good as well.

I'm looking forward to playing WipEout as I haven't experienced that series yet. I also bought WipEout Pulse (PSP) on Vita a while back, which is supposedly good as well.

@LtSarge Wipeout 2048 has some of the best wipeout tracks.
Truly amazing playing them again in PSVR with Wipeout Omega collection and the 2048 tracks are stunning, one of the best last gen experiences.
It is extremely frustrating that it hasn't been ported to psvr 2 and it is the lack of PSVR1 ports like that which is holding me back from purchasing the new headset...Sony/Jim can be extremely backward with their whole "no one wants to play old games" attitude.especially as for a great deal of VR2 owners it would be a new game/experience.

@CaptD I'm actually thinking about playing WipEout 2048 on Vita instead of on PS4 just to experience the game on a handheld. But I'll probably play WipEout HD + Fury on PS4 through the Omega Collection to get the console experience. I think the Omega Collection also has content from WipEout Pure and Pulse, so I want to play both titles.

Bit random but I was scrolling through PS Plus and ended up playing Ratchet and Clank 2 (unfortunately not called Going Commando over here). Beat it yesterday and working on challenge mode now, I’ll probably go for the platinum. I’ve only ever played the PS4 one and Gladiator so was surprised at just how good it was, plus PS2 games are just so comforting to go back to. The game starts and you play. You sit down and you make progress. No fluff, good difficulty curve, it’s so straightforward to play through.

@LtSarge Are you done with Resident Evil 6? I was thinking about buying Revelations on the sale and give it a try soon (althougth I have been busy with some ohter games as of late). Resident Evil is a franchises that dont seem to wanting me let go. In fact it its one of the franchise in which l have played most games in during the recent years so it feels like I have decent good picture of it.

@oliverp Yeah I finished RE6 yesterday. I wrote down my thoughts in the RE thread: https://www.pushsquare.com/forums/ps_general_discussion/the_r...

Probably won't be playing another RE game for a while but I might actually play Revelations as my next RE title.

@nessisonett The Ratchet & Clank series is one that completely passed me by until the Reboot game which I only played a couple of years ago (and then Rift Apart too of course).

Kind of gutted I never got into them as they all seem like solid games with some great humour in them all.

@Thrillho I dunno if my internet’s just pretty good but if I can stream a game that action-heavy without input lag then the tech’s clearly improved. It’s a pretty good way to get into series, I was contemplating playing Sly Cooper at some point too.