@Ralizah It's not even had as much use as my other consoles. Maybe a little over 1000 hours. I've looked on eBay and probably will get a second hand one at some point. Digital Devil Saga and its sequel, Suikoden V and Valkyrie Profile 2 are the main games left to play.
That's... a lot of Atlus. How far did you get with Persona 3 and Nocturne? I ended up cancelled my pre order of Persona Q2 because the first has been on my shelf in its cellophane wrapper for years. Most of my handheld backlog is PSP and Vita stuff, but now the Switch is adding to it.
TitS (yeah, I giggled at the acronym) SC is definitely on the slow side but I enjoyed what I played once I got into it.
@mookysam I've heard the phat systems are more reliable. Thankfully, PS2s are generally pretty cheap to come by. The games often less so, however.
I got 10 hours or so into Nocturne. Only a few into Persona 3, unfortunately. I'd start them and then get distracted by something else.
There are so many Atlus games I want to play, but I also space them out so that I don't burn myself out. Once a release date is announced for SMT V, I'll probably avoid playing those games like the plague for a year or so until it releases so that it feels entirely fresh for me.
As to Trails, FC is, like, thirty hours of build-up for practically no pay off. And it does the Japanese thing where the central romance is kinda-but-not-really incest. I don't get why so many people online act like the series is God's Gift to JRPG fans.
But, then, people acted the same way about Xenoblade Chronicles on the Wii, and I was similarly... underwhelmed by that.
So, for SC. I nabbed the music files from the Vita Evolution remasters and swapped them in to replace the vanilla PC version's music. Also replaced a few of the tracks with their Zanmai counterparts. So, for example, when Sophisticated Battle happens to play in SC, I'll hear this version of the song:
The files were slightly modded so that they loop like normal background music, of course. Otherwise you get a really distracting space between the beginning and end of the song.
Currently Playing: Fields of Mistria (PC); Cookie Clicker (PC); Metaphor: ReFantazio (PC); Overboard! (PC)
@Ralizah Thanks for the tip, I'll have a look at phat ones.
Nocturne takes some time to get into and is one of the most difficult RPGs I've played. You can really see how they stripped out a lot of the MegaTen difficulty from modern Persona games. Anyway, once I did get into Noctune I found it pretty phenomenal. It's dark and although the story is light, alignment choices feel like they matter.
I'd recommend the P3P version of Persona 3 if you have the means to play it. Production values are stripped back but the ability to directly control battle actions for party members is a huge improvement. The female MC has a lot of changes and additions which is great on a replay.
Burning out on RPGs (especially more hardcore ones) is always a concern for me. SMT V will have to wait until I get round to playing IV!
I really enjoyed Xenoblade on the Wii. It was never God's gift, but it was one of the few noteworthy JRPGs to exist on system. Perhaps the campaign for the US release raised hype levels too and it kinda stuck?
That's a noice tune for SC.
In SC an issue is that the romance is a heavy aspect of the story. Estelle needs to get a grip. 😂
Playing Kingdom New Lands on Switch. It's a side scrolling pixel art kingdom builder. You control a king or queen that rides back and forth, collecting coins and using those coins to spend on various resources, such as hiring soldiers and weaponsmiths, building defenses against creatures that can attack and steal the king or queen's crown which will end the game, and otherwise expanding their kingdom. You otherwise have little direct control of the game, and thus must use the coins they collect in judicious ways.
It's quite obtuse, apart from a very brief tutorial at the beginning you are left to you own to find out how the game works. Your builders, erm, build and control catapults (how you get these is not explained), archers shoot arrows at the enemies and hunt rabbits and deers for income etc. You have to recruit wanderers with coin and then turn them into workers with more coin, building anything also costs coins. You gain coins by the aforementioned hunting, paying taxes, farming and exploring. Exploring is probably the worst part of the game so far for me. You can find chests of coins, boats to build, shrines (not found a use for these yet) and camps of wanderers. The only thing is your horse doesn't have a great deal of stamina and the day doesn't last long enough, as the enemy comes out at night and your only defence is back at the kingdom.
I've had three runs at the game and not really got any further than my first attempt. If you make a mistake it is quite hard to correct it. Like in my first run I was cutting down trees, only to find out later that if you do that on both sides of a wanderer camp they will be gone forever. The nearest other camp was almost a day's horse ride, the wanderers take an age to get back to the kingdom so it made it really difficult to progress, especially if any of my workers get killed defending the kingdom at night. It's stuff like this that bring the game down.
I will probably give the game another couple of goes to see if I can progress, if not I will probably sack it off.
Bounty Hunter is up soon, end of the month I think - keep an eye on their site. I know there those who say you can't get LR stuff, but so long as you're within 5 or 10 minutes of the start time for something really popular, you'll be fine.
They usually run a second batch these days too.
Bit of a shame, I really hoped that Super Star Wars would make the list for Vita.
You don't need much of a PC to play any of them without mods. I'm assuming they'll be the GOG style DRM-free ones too, but who knows?!
It is a great list though, I'll keep an eye on deployment too, there's a lot of really good gifting potential there!
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I've never had to be up late for a LR release as I recall. And as I say, the split batches by about 6 hours I think anyway.
The games will likely run well enough. I think for the most part they're in a sweet spot of being not demanding but mostly also updated over time to run on more modern framework.
Some gog stuff has drm issues with Windows 10 (which I think needs to see some sort of drm) - but since this is a collaboration with Lucasarts, and LR are pretty good at what they do, they'll be authored to run on as many configurations as possible.
Even if they don't, you always just get the Steam versions for the 50p or whatever they cost these days 😂
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I keep trying to get back into Final Fantasy IX, and... I dunno. I just can't. It's not catching my interest. I can't even put my finger on why... it looks good for a PS1 game. The character writing is decent. But it'll feel like I've been playing forever and, when I check, less than hour has passed.
shrug
I'm on Disc 2. If I continue feeling like this for too long, I might just cut my losses and drop it.
Currently Playing: Fields of Mistria (PC); Cookie Clicker (PC); Metaphor: ReFantazio (PC); Overboard! (PC)
@KratosMD I wish those games would get the Ratchet and Clank treatment, I always preferred those games to the R & C ones. Maybe it's the secret game Bluepoint are working on?
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@KratosMD@JohnnyShoulder@KratosMD Yeah, I have yet to play the PS4 remaster of the first J & D game that came as a pre-order bonus for Uncharted Lost Legacy. It has been sitting on my hard drive for over 2 years. I forget it’s even there.
I keep forgetting about Bluepoint. We still have heard nothing about what they’re doing. J & D already got a PS4 port so likely not those, although I realize they are just an HD upres and not a true remake. Ideas I’ve heard include Ico, Metal Gear Solid, Demon Souls. Maybe we’ll find out at PAX.
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Started playing Danganronpa 1: Trigger Happy Havoc. I wasn't planning on playing it this weekend, but I just had a random urge to give it a go. Anyway, it's wonderful so far. Having just done the prologue, which nicely set up the story for the game, I'm eager to play more later and see what happens next.
@KratosMD Yeah, it's my first time playing a Danganronpa game. I do love a good visual novel, with the Zero Escape series and Ace Attorney series having some of my favourite games, so I'm looking forward to playing more of it.
Ended up playing cookie clicker yesterday. I was reading up on passive gaming systems and ended on the website. Started on the browser at around 6:30. Two coffees later and way after 9pm the website crashed losing all my progress. I was just about to buy my first wizards temple as well! Too addictive from now on any such games are getting dodged.
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So far Dangaronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc has felt like a weird and wonderful mix of other games that I've loved, whilst still being unique in its own way. It has people being trapped in a death game in a similar style to Zero Escape, with Monokuma acting like Zero Jr's long lost cousin. The class trials and related investigations have an Ace Attorney vibe to them. And the style of the game along with hanging out with classmates has a slight Persona feel to them.
Currently, I've made it past the first class trial. It was far too easy to figure out the culprit, but otherwise it was great (the numbers on the wall made it too simple). The events of the crime turned out to be rather different than what I was expecting.
@crimsontadpoles Danganronpa is a brilliant series. I took a real gamble on the first game, buying it on the basis of one trailer on a shopping website. Thankfully I ended up absolutely loving it, so it paid off! Two and V3 are even better in my view.
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