Just ordered Burnout Paradise Remastered, Dirt 5 and Project Cars 3 on Xbox for a total of €50. I've been really wanting to buy more racing games lately and I've had these on my watchlist for quite some time so I decided to finally buy them.
I also wanted to buy Grid Legends but I saw that the game's career mode is only 4-5 hours long so I figured I might as well just play it on EA Play for €4 instead of spending €20 on a physical copy. Not to mention I could play other racing games on there as well. Granted, I could've played Dirt 5 and Burnout Paradise on EA Play as well but I felt they were long enough games that they're worth buying physically and I could take my time playing through them.
So I went ahead and bought Grid Legends for €20 anyway. I didn't realise that the game has a traditional career mode with dozens of hours of content on top of the 4-5 hour long story mode. Seriously, this game is so good. The story is excellent, the racing feels great with a good balance of arcade and sim, the graphics are so good and it's overall a joy to play. I simply have to own this game.
I'm at least glad that I managed to realise how good this game is thanks to EA Play. Now I'll be able to try out other racing games that I'm not planning on buying.
@RogerRoger For sure. It's a bit discouraging to do that with the more expensive subscription services like PS+ Extra or Game Pass. But considering EA Play is only €4, it's a great way to explore different games.
@KAIRU I can't even remember the last time I heard a 50 cent tune never mind him being so popular that he had multiple games. Get rich or die trying was such a massive hit back in the day, its easy to forget how ubiquitous fiddy was! I plan on rolling back the years with a j and a beer Friday and playing some of this followed by catching up with the game awards announcements.
I had a really strange feeling as I’ve been chipping away at the remnants of my PS3 backlog. I mean, it’s felt like an albatross around my neck at times, when I’ve had PS5 and PS4 titles on the shelves metaphorically crying out to be played… but as the amount of unplayed PS3 titles in my collection dried to the dregs, it made me feel a little… well uneasy.
I’m pretty sure that this feeling was the deciding factor in me just pulling the trigger on Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 1 & 2… now my PS3-games-left-to-play is back into double digits 😅 phew!
Just ordered Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered and Hades on Series X for a total of €40. Besides NFS: Unbound, I've pretty much bought all modern racing games that I want to get now. I'm very excited to play Hot Pursuit down the line as it's such a fun game from the little that I've played of it. Also looking forward to playing Hades but I don't think I'll be starting it anytime soon as I want to play at least one or two games made by Supergiant before I get to Hades.
Went into CEX while Christmas shopping and picked up FIFA Street 2012, COD Black Ops 2 and Modern Warfare 3 for a grand total of £7.50. PS3 games are ludicrously cheap at the moment, might as well make the most of it. Cube games on the other hand are insanely expensive, plus they had Clock Tower boxed for the PS1 for £300.
Just ordered a used copy of Need for Speed: Shift on PS3 for a tenner. Before a couple of months ago, I had no idea that NFS had a few entries that were racing sims. And they were made by Slightly Mad Studios, i.e. the Project Cars developers. So I bought Shift 2 some time ago and now I've ordered the first Shift, which looks so good! Can't wait to give it a go.
@KAIRU Glad to hear it! I've become completely obsessed with racing sims so it was a pleasant surprise to find out that NFS has a couple of those. I feel like not a lot of people talk about the Shift games though, which is a bit of a shame.
I found a Guitar Hero PS3 controller with the actual dongle for once at a decent price. Time to get as good as I once was! Apparently that controller is compatible with the Rock Band games as well, so should be cool playing through them for the first time.
@colonelkilgore Extremely late to remark on this, but your commitment to playing through your PS3 backlog is admirable. I’ve had to consign myself to abandon any hope of playing some of the PS3 games I have. Gratefully, most of them are PS+ games that I didn’t actually buy, so it’s easier to just forget about them. And now I’m finding that the further into this generation we get, the harder it is to play my PS4 backlog. Even with back-compatibility of the PS5, I feel more of a pull to play the fancy new stuff rather than the old.
That said, (largely because of your recent platinum odyssey of it —) I’m well invested in MGS2 on Vita, so I’ve not completely lost my way.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
Neo-Geo Pocket Color Selection Vol. 1 on Nintendo Switch. A collection of ten NGP titles. Most of them are (very samey) fighting games, but there's also a golf game (which I'll never seriously try, because sports confuse me), an action RPG (which I believe is exclusive to the collection), and two Metal Slug games.
The emulation/customization options are solid. For games that released on the original NGP, you can choose to play in black-and-white, or the color variant. Sadly, NGP Color exclusives don't feature black and white variants. Games are bordered by a recreation of the console in question, although you can choose to zoom into the screen (which is more necessary when playing undocked). Realistically, I won't play most of these games very much, but it's still cool to have access to a previous extremely inaccessible handheld library. The fighting games are predictably janky, but I've been playing the Metal Slug games on here, and they're actually fantastic! Having been developed for a handheld, they're devoid of the obnoxious levels of difficulty that defined the arcade entries. Plus, they're both pretty charming. Especially the second one, which includes a second playable character, branching story paths, and more puzzle-y level design. Your character can even get fat if they eat too many food items in the level, which slows them down and gives them a gigantic belly that bounces around when you jump!
Arguably the coolest aspect of the collection is how it fully preserves every aspect of the physical releases. The collection features scans of the manuals, which you can peruse, and fully rotatable 3D models of the boxes, game cases, and game cartridges. It feels like a time capsule in the best sense.
Hopefully we can get Game Boy and Game Gear collections on the Switch. ATM, the only way to reliably play games from these platforms is to buy VC releases on the Nintendo 3DS, whose digital shop is shutting down early next year.
The games that released for these old handhelds deserve to be accessible to everyone.
@Th3solution nah it’s just one more example of my obsessive personality disorder I reckon… I appreciate the positivity though don’t get me wrong. I’ve had fun though in fairness… I have a strange fondness for the PS3 and it’s games and have enjoyed almost all of my forays back into gen7. For me it’s the oldest gen that still feels somewhat like today… but free-er if you get me.
How you finding MGS2 anyway? For as much as that game threw up some considerable frustrations, I genuinely miss it. Hands down my favourite gen6 game… even though I played it just last year 😎
@colonelkilgore I’m only partway through - finished the Tanker section and in the Big Shell. The holidays have made me stall a little bit hopefully I’ll get some of it and/or Dark Souls Remastered progressed this holiday weekend. I won’t hold my breath though.
I do like the game. It’s aged pretty well, except for the cutscenes, as I was noting elsewhere, which are well choreographed and directed but the CGI and lack of any meaningful facial animation is slightly off-putting. The worst part is probably Vita’s finicky controls. The rear touchpad is used for peeking out from cover and things like that and it’s just not very intuitive. The way the game uses first person perspective is also taking some adjustment.
But the story, the game design, and the general complexity of the game is quite remarkable for a PS2 game. For example, how you can shoot the enemy’s radio or interact with the environment in different ways is really not even matched in some current games. The voice acting is a little cornier than I remember the old MGS being, but it has a charm about it.
I’m really relishing it, as it is one of the few games left in a dwindling Vita backlog that I actually wanted to play.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution yeah I totally get your misgivings… I just guess that I’m somehow able to table any problems I have (or would have) in relation to todays understanding of quality and ‘see’ it for what it was at release. Having said that, the platinum was an odyssey and a half… I found myself (Babylon 5 reference to the episode Walkabout) many times during that journey 😅… with those requirements… and those controls… well… it was a lot!
Recently picked up a Vita which whist having a great library of its own is even more amazing modded. Now I have so many PSP/PS1 games on the go and even Crazy Taxi with the original soundtrack back in.
I've also just started to get back into retro game hunting and have a Saturn on the way and in the mean time picked up Virtua Fighter 2 and Discworld for it, speaking of which, I'd love to see a modern day collection of the Discworld games
Older than I care to remember but have been gaming since owning a wooden Atari 2600 and played pretty much everything inbetween.
@carlos82 I've been on a bit of a Saturn binge recently. First thing you should get is an Action Replay cart (or equivalent). That way you can play Japanese games - which are almost always cheaper than their European equivalents.
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