Topic: Games you've recently beat

@Th3solution Oooooh that is a toughie! 🤔

Titanfall 2 has the more memorable levels and set pieces. The mobility and traversal is ace, feels really awesome. The story is a bit naff though, as are the characters with the best being the main mech. Which says a lot about the the rest of them.

Wolfenstein on the other hand does story and character development very well, which surprised me. I found myself caring about some of your comrades in the game and really despising some of the evil characters in the game. I found the pacing a bit off though with certain levels later becoming a bit of a trudge to get through, before ramping it up again for the last couple of sections.

If you can buy both as they are both great games, but if you can only buy one go for Titanfall 2. It is on there shorter side too, so shouldn't eat into your backlog too much. 😉

Only played some of the first Metro game so can't really comment on that.

@JohnnyShoulder Thanks! I heard Wolfenstein was kinda difficult, so I’ve shied away from it since I’m not good at the genre. I’m not sure I’ll buy right now, and I’ll wait and see if TF2 gets the heavy discount again. The Metro redux games were also just on sale really cheap - I think $5 a piece, but I wasn’t sure since it seemed also to have a horror vibe, which is not necessarily my favorite either. It’s just every now and then I get an inkling to play a FPS, and of all my voluminous backlog, the only thing in there that is even close to a FPS is Deus Ex Mankind Divided.

@Th3solution all the wolfenstein games are great imo. Maybe my favorite single player fps. For some reason I just couldn't get into titanfall 2, I need to try to play it again. If you do decide to get metro, don't be dumb like me and buy metro redux and not realize it includes both games. I bought the second metro game after I purchased redux...

@Th3solution I’ve not heard the Wolfenstein games being tough. They can be frustrating as sections feel made to play in stealth but often the DOOM style run-and-gun is the way to go, which can feel a bit disingenuous. Great games though.

@Th3solution I don't recall Wolfenstein being particularly difficult. And I probably played it on normal like I usually do.

The Metro games have horror elements, I wouldn't say they are flat out horror like Residential Evil 7. IIRC I wasn't that keen on the shooting in the first game which is which is why I gave up on it.

@Th3solution Yeah, Wolfenstein isn't hard. Fairly standard corridor shooter tbf - entertaining though, I thought the first was too long though. Very much outstayed it's welcome by the time I'd finished it.

@RogerRoger I’m still torn on the latest game. It was more of the same, which is fine, and I quite liked the story. I just think there was a bit too much filler and side missions so the main storyline lost its momentum for me. I wish I’d completed the main story and then gone back to do everything else.

@Thrillho @ellsworth004 @KALofKRYPTON @JohnnyShoulder Thanks for the very useful feedback! There’s nothing quite as useful as hearing real world player opinions. At the end of the day, I might have to wait on trying any of them since I have Spider-Man staring me straight in the face right now.
Edit: and @RogerRoger - sorry I missed you the first post. 😀

@Th3solution No worries - for context - I pretty much weight all single player FPS experiences against Resistance 3, New Order has many of the same sensibilities - but I was genuinely happy to have it over and done with.

I have some reservations about Spider-Man. I was telling myself that I wouldn't buy it on launch day, but thought I'd probably end up getting it. Given the recent DLC schedule, I'm a bit concerned that it's a bit of a light package.

@KALofKRYPTON I hear ya there. I was a little disappointed in the information about a quick release of DLC too. They say the story takes a solid 20 hours to complete, which is a tiny bit light sounding for AAA open world games nowadays. It’s too late for me since I already preordered and paid for it. I have faith in Insomniac to provide a solid experience, but I don’t like that practice of DLC being ready to go on or near day 1. I don’t mind a high quality shorter experience (in fact I prefer it to a huge long epic that overstays it’s welcome), but like I said in the comment section of the article, DLC content seems like it’s just a way to increase the price of games (which have been $60 for ages now) without increasing the price of the game — in order to get the full experience you have to buy the season pass for $20, effectively making the game cost $80 in total.
I was hoping for something more akin to Horizon Zero Dawn, which I am rounding out hopefully soon (Not sure I’ll finish in time for Spider-Man or not.) which is a 20ish hour game if you blow through the story only but for me is going to end up being about 50+ hours due to my interest in wandering around collecting and doing side quests. Then they announced and released the Frozen Wilds much later, indicating it was truly additional bonus content, rather than held back on day 1.

@Th3solution Yeah - I mean Guerilla's post launch support is excellent, so I've little doubt that it wasn't just conceived of for the sake of having some DLC.

I don't mind a short game either, The Order for instance was excellent, well paced and well worth the price I thought.

But, for what feels like side mission content to be behind a pay wall is annoying. Hopefully I'm wrong. I'm sure it'll be a great game to play and I spent plenty of time in TASM2 just swinging about after I'd finished it.

@Kidfried Second Son is a lot more than 10 hours for the plat.

I'm not talking about racing through games - and as I've said, I've not really got an issue with a well put together short game. But when potentially 10-15 hours of story gameplay is locked behind a paywall from the get-go, that's b****cks!

@Kidfried Ha, ha! Well I agree, actually. I much prefer a shorter high quality experience to one that is drawn out. Ratchet & Clank’s length was almost perfect. Of course I got it for like $30 I think. I think I paid full price for all the Arkham games and didn’t feel cheated at all (well, Akrham Knight and I don’t have a good relationship, but not because of its length). Honestly, I think most games now are probably too long. As much as I’m enjoying Horizon and Yakuza 0 now, if one does all the side content then it’s just a gargantuan task. I’m sure Spider-Man will be similar. Infamous SS has a bunch of stuff to do climbing around and doing extra side content and I’m sure I played it for over 30 hrs.
So the absolute length is perfectly fine for me at 20 hrs for $60. It’s just the thought that you’re getting an incomplete product on day 1 that gets under my skin. I don’t know why it bothers me, and I realize it doesn’t make sense, but I feel like if the content is ready to go, then it should be included in the base game. Of course I know that this is the world we live in now and season passes and DLC are just part of it. The next Ratchet & Clank will probably also have some kind of extra content you purchase where you play through a side story as Qwark or something. I’m sure I’ll happily get my money’s worth with Spider-Man, no doubt about it, but I probably won’t buy the DLC on principle. 😅

@Kidfried erm... what?

Bullsocks?

It's content that is likely already completed, waiting behind a pay wall. I don't like that. That's not asking for more for the same money, that's asking for the game.

I even object to the potential that the costumes may be obtainable via DLC only.

@Kidfried And then the fruit stand says, “You want my best pineapple? I’ve got this bigger juicier one for 4 Euros.” 😂
And I walk away from be stand with the 3 Euro pineapple wondering if the pineapple he sold me was the one he was going to throw away since he obviously had much better ones in stock 😂
And then I see he sells his best bananas (Ratchet & Clank) for only 2 Euros, the best deal in town. And I think maybe he’s making up for his banana losses by hiking his pineapple prices. 🤣
And then I realize his parent company who funds his farm and his overhead (Sony) is who tells him what to charge anyways, and so I know the fruit guy is just trying to sell the best fruit he can, but I still kinda wish the big juicy pineapple was the same price as the average pineapple.
Lol, ok ... I’ll stop now ...

@KALofKRYPTON @Kidfried Amyways, well at least for me - as long as I feel like the game is complete and wraps up well when I finish it, then I can live with the existence of DLC. Just as long as it doesn’t detract from the base game. I like to feel closure when I see the credits. But I do think early DLC announcement is a bit of a PR issue when we feel like content is carved out. I realize I am likely in the minority on that, and I need to roll with how things are done in the current gaming release world. I’m just a little slow to adapt.

@Kidfried I’m a big fan of metaphors. 😉

@Th3solution I think Witcher 3 is the only game I've ever gone back to specifically for DLC (and that was definitely worth it).

Whereas FF15 I still haven't played as I've been waiting for them to finish everything off before getting it. At this rate I probably never will..

@Thrillho Yeah, I really need to get around to playing The Witcher 3. Not sure what I’m waiting for, as I own the Complete Edition.
I just need to finish off some of the other games I have going on.
And I also have the base game for FF15 which I have not played either and, Yeah ... should have waited to get the Royal Edition or whatever Edition comes next

@Th3solution cup of noodles edition. But I do really like ff15, have spent a ton of cash on it...