Topic: Games you've recently beat

@nessisonett I think alot of people were just annoyed by Sega at that point especially after the mess with the Saturn and the 32X before that. If someone else released the Dreamcast as it was I am pretty sure that it would have done better but with the Sega name it was doomed from the start.

@Tasuki The 32X mostly just confuses me. The price alone is extortionate for what actually released for it. No wonder Sega lost their sheen.

@Tasuki As somebody who bought both the 32X and the Saturn (with the latter being me rushing to Electronics Boutique after school when they shadow released it), after they killed the Saturn so quickly, I had no interest in buying another one of their consoles. I'm sure the Dreamcast was as good as some people said it was, but I was done with Sega at that point.

If they had released the Dreamcast instead of the Saturn, who knows how things would have ended up. They had already dug their own grave by the actual release though.

Just finished DOOM 3 on PS4 after 13 hours of playtime. I really liked the game, for the first 8 hours. Then it went on for too long with nothing new or different that kept your interest up. Just the same enemies, same weapons and the same damn level design over and over again. Even the jump-scares stopped being effective for me. It's the perfect example of a game where more isn't always better.

Putting aside its length, the game itself was sublime. Tons of scares, fun gameplay and the story was fairly interesting, albeit a bit unnecessary given the vast amount of characters and lore. If you can prepare yourself for a bit of a long-winded experience, then as a horror fan, you're going to love this game.

Yakuza 5, i feel refreshed after the hard timing y3 and y4 give me, weak games, almost quit the franchise. Then y5 came by and is so good, i want to play more yakuza again.

@KilloWertz Right that is where I was and why I didn't care about the Dreamcast when it first came out. It wasn't until a few years ago that I bought one.

Finally finished both expansions of DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil and Lost Mission. Took me about 6-7 hours in total and it was rather fun, even if it was mostly more of the same. I think the expansions gave more of a closure to the story, even if that's the least important thing I find about a DOOM game. Also, Resurrection of Evil introduced new mechanics such as a weapon where you can catch enemy projectiles and toss them back at the enemies, and an item which lets you slow down time. Both were really cool but I ended up just using the normal weapons since they were more effective.

I also have to mention that I somehow completely missed the double-barreled shotgun when I played through the base game. I didn't even know it was in the game until I played through Resurrection of Evil and found it there. I can't believe I played through the entire base game without it, it's easily my favourite weapon in the game. It can kill most enemies in one hit, it's so good! I'm glad that I at least got to experience it in the expansions.

Anyway, it feels really good to finally be completely done with DOOM 3. It took me almost 20 hours in total playing through the base game and both expansions. It's a very long game but I still enjoyed my time with it.

Looking forward to playing DOOM (2016) next!

Went back to AC VI and finally finished my first playthrough. Enjoying my second playthrough. Might also try to beat the final boss of Sekiro over the holidays.

@LtSarge I can recommend the Wolfenstein games as well. Find them pretty neat. With that being said I very much enjoyed your thoughts on the game. Cool that you fished it.

@oliverp I've played Wolfenstein: The New Order and The Old Blood and they were fantastic games. Both Wolfenstein and DOOM share a lot of similarities, although Wolfenstein is more story-focused. I enjoy both series but I prefer Wolfenstein due to the story.

I really need to play Wolfenstein II one of these days! But not so soon after DOOM 3 lol.

Just finished Tokyo Xanadu eX+ on PS4 after 63 hours of playtime. I started playing this game back in September and I managed to finish the base game before new releases in October grabbed my attention instead. Then I had the epilogue and the new story content in the PS4 version left to play, which I just finished.

Anyway, another phenomenal game from Falcom! It was really cool to see their take on Persona. Well, the game is a mix of Trails of Cold Steel in terms of story and side content and Ys in terms of combat, but the structure is heavily reminiscent of Persona.

I just love high school JRPGs and I thoroughly enjoyed my time with this one. Great characters, awesome soundtrack (as always!) and the gameplay was really fun. You could tell this game was originally made for the Vita due to the bite-sized dungeons. Most dungeons are around 10 minutes long, which is a good length.

Most importantly, this game is a one-off. So for those who are intimidated by long series like The Legend of Heroes or Ys (even though Ys games are pretty much stand-alone experiences), this is a great way to experience what Falcom games are all about.

Just finished Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory on Switch after roughly 10 hours of playtime. Very fun game, I really enjoyed it! It was nice going through all the games and getting an extremely brief recap of each game's story. The 15 minutes or so of completely new content at the end was pretty nice as well, it bridges the story a bit more from Kingdom Hearts 3 to the next game.

One thing I want to say about the actual game is that making a music game of Kingdom Hearts is not really a good idea. I'd say 80 percent of the tracks in this game are completely obscure and not recognisable at all. I might as well have been listening to most of the music for the first time. I definitely can't see myself replaying the game at all.

Anyway, it's both nice and sad that I'm done with this game. I'm glad that I got to spend my holiday time with a Kingdom Hearts title, but this was my last KH game. I seriously love this series so much and I can't wait for the next Kingdom Hearts to come out.

Just finished Shantae: Half-Genie Hero on Switch after roughly 5 hours of playtime. The game was fun but it's easily the weakest entry in the series. There's very little in terms of actual content and there's so much padding. If you remove all the padding, the game would probably only take a couple of hours to complete. I enjoyed it, but I would've rather wanted a Metroidvania like the past entries. So I'm looking forward to playing the next entry, Seven Sirens, which is supposedly another Metroidvania.

Just finished Call of Duty: Black Ops II on Xbox 360. Another phenomenal CoD campaign! It started off a bit slow and the missions were a bit samey but that quickly changed as you progressed. The strike force missions were nice breaks from the main story. Having different choices throughout the campaign that would affect certain outcomes as well as the ending was actually really cool and refreshing for the series. The story itself was very interesting and kinda on point given how closely it resembles the situation in our world today. The villain was also really interesting and memorable. It was cool that you got to play as him on numerous occasions throughout the story in order to make you care more about him.

It's honestly crazy to me just how many great CoD campaigns there are. This series gets a lot of flack for being the "same" game every year but the campaigns are actually really good.

@LtSarge I started that one cause I played them all on Veteran (some are disgustingly hard at times) but I got stuck on the one checkpoint where you’re on a horse which is so difficult that I gave up 😂

@nessisonett Yeah, I read that the Black Ops games are notoriously difficult on Veteran, which is why I played them on Regular lol. It's not even worth playing BO2 on Veteran since you barely get any trophies/achievements for doing so.

I even had issues going through BO2 on Regular. There are plenty of BS moments in this game. You should definitely give it another shot on Regular since it sounds like you dropped it fairly early. The story gets so good later on!

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - my first ever CoD believe it or not… and I enjoyed it 🤷‍♂️. Played it on Veteran ironically (considering what a CoD noob I am) and did struggle a fair bit at times… but managed to get through it in the end.

Just some mission-specific objectives left (which can be done on easy afaik) and some co-op.

@colonelkilgore It’s a proper sequel to the first one though! The first one’s brilliant to be honest, they’ve been riding its success for years but MW2 is like the Michael Bay sequel and still really fun.

@nessisonett yeah I’ve heard the first one is excellent… and always planned on making that one my first CoD funnily enough but @White_Moose messaged me out’ve the blue about doing the co-op trophies on CoD: MW2 and I thought why not. As someone who generally moan’s about online trophies… I’ve had a good time with the co-op too surprisingly. Might even get the third one now off of the back of this.

@colonelkilgore Third one is where the wheels fall off but I have really great memories of playing Spec Ops with my brother on the PS3 in the second game, especially the snowmobile ones!