Topic: Games you've recently beat

@FuriousMachine That’s a shame. I was hoping my “quantum leap over the original” comment would serve as a light at the end of the tunnel as I know the first has not held up well at all. Provided you find it at a great price, I’d still recommend giving it a whirl. There’s a solid recap of prior events from the menu to catch you up. That said, you know your tastes better than anyone!

@Jimmer-jammer Well, I just went back and powered through the rest of Milla's level and when I got back to roaming the camp, looking for collectibles and interacting with the characters, I instantly started enjoying it again (as mentioned, the writing is sublime... Vernon's "ghost story" in the TV room cracked me up... an abandoned Indian insane asylum built on top of a caveman burial ground... dude knows how to cover his bases ). So, I may still power through the rest of the missions as well, for the sake of the writing alone:-)

@FuriousMachine That’s awesome! The writing is indeed excellent. Good luck!

Just finished Dead Space (2023). Absolutely phenomenal game! I've never enjoyed playing a horror game as much as with this one. Not to mention that I liked the remake way more than the original.

This is honestly survival horror perfection. It's the best horror game of all time for me. So much fun, so many scares, great story, tons of improvements compared to the original. All around a tremendously enjoyable experience.

I'd love for Motive Studio to continue remaking the trilogy. Would be weird to skip 2 and 3 now just to make a new game. Considering how much I enjoyed experiencing the first game again, I'd enjoy playing through 2 again as well.

@LtSarge I recently beat dead space (2023) for the first time a few weeks ago. I agree that it is a great game.

I also hope that 2 and 3 get remade. I'm tempted to try the original sequels on EA Play but hoping for an announcement that DS2 is being remade.

@FuriousMachine It still holds up incredibly well, more so for its themes, atmosphere and story. Hope you enjoy it when you get round to it, be sure to check in 👍

Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart

Really brilliant, easily the best the series has been since the PS2. There’s definitely room for the series to expand in new and exciting ways too. Just a shame that Insomniac are the busiest devs in the business, I doubt we’ll see a sequel any time soon!

@nessisonett It wouldn't surprise me if they announce something soonish, as they seem to be able to work on multiple titles at once.

I've only played it briefly, but my 8 year old nephew absolutely loved it. His reaction when the controller was doing its thing was priceless!

@JohnnyShoulder The haptics really enhanced the experience, although I played with headphones for the 3D Audio so didn’t hear what the speakers were doing on the controller. Such an under-utilised element of the controller, they felt much more like actual haptics than odd vibration.

I finished Star Ocean 2 Remake with both Claude and Rena.

@nessisonett I like the controller speaker but it is a bit of an oversight that wearing a headset blocks it out.

I did have to turn it off playing BioMutant though as it was so loud and intrusive. It can also be a bit jarring when it’s so loud compared to your TV too.

@Thrillho Yeah, it's a shame that you basically lose the controller speaker if you were a headset. That was one of my favorite features of the DS4 controller while playing games like the remakes of Resident Evil 2 & 3 and some others that utilized it well too.

I'm not going to stop wearing my headset since I don't want to lose the 3D audio, and I know there would be times you wouldn't hear it anyways, but it is an unfortunate trade-off nonetheless.

@FuriousMachine So while this is maybe not a grand achievement I did manage to 100% Miles Morales the other day (something which felt nice). If anything this just maybe makes me at least a decent Spider-Man fan. Iam a little bit tempted to attempt to get the platinum trophy but not sure if I will make it.

@oliverp @AgentCooper I’ve completed Alan Wake Remastered! If ever there was a game I’d describe as ‘scrappy’, this would be it. Beyond showing its age, I also found some of the scenario design and checkpointing to be downright frustrating. That said, the highs shone bright as the sun and carried me through to the end. I also thought it got better as it went, which is always preferable to the alternate trajectory. I love how they didn’t so much lean as jump head over heels into the absurdity of it all. All in all, I enjoyed my trip to Bright Falls and am looking forward to giving the sequel a spin.

Spent three hours completing Class of '09 on Steam.

Dear lord lol

@RogerRoger I'm gonna play the sequel this week and then post a combined review of both games (they're short), but suffice to say I've never played a game where one of the routes involves your high school photography teacher grooming the student body into forming a murderous white nationalist cult.

@Jimmer-jammer Glad you enjoyed it overall, which is pretty much my feelings about the experience too, I can’t really remember my takeaway from the original release. The checkpointing is atrocious agreed, definitely a sign of its age. The sequel has been well received so excited to get to that eventually 👍 top stuff

@oliverp Cool! If memory serves, you should just have to breeze through the story again on NG+ for the platinum, isn't that so? I found that I didn't mind that for this game as the story is fairly short and I hadn't grown tired of the gameplay at that point. Good luck, hope you get that plat!

Well that definitely took a turn I wasn't expecting! 😳

@HallowMoonshadow The game is packed full of deliberately offensive dark humor, but pulls it off (mostly) because of strong voice acting and a witty script that pretty much never slows down long enough for you to process what you're hearing until a route ends.