Topic: What (Non-PS4) game are you playing??

@RogerRoger How dare you besmirch the name of Spiderman 2!

I seem to remember you can unlock a zip line type move like the current game has which helps with traversal. My favourite combat move to unlock is one where you tie enemies up from lampposts which I spent way too long trying to do.

It’s a shame to hear it’s not clicking with you though because, at the time at least, it was a great game.

@RogerRoger It's hard to know quite how the good the game is now seeing as it's probably been 15 years since I played it..

I quite liked the swinging mechanic with the combo of shoot web, speed swing, jump feeling really cool at the time. It's interesting to hear you say about the combat being a pre-cursor for Arkham etc though as it's funny that I can't think of any games between the two which used something close to that but it's now quite a ubiquitous combat mechanic.

The Bruce Campbell narrated tutorial is pretty neat too

@RogerRoger I bought them as a collection on my PS4 - The Telltale Batman Bundle. I am playing both of them of them on my iPad using remote play.

Vice City has Danny Dyer in it, I’d recognise that voice anywhere. Instant 10/10.

@nessisonett 😂 Eastenders - 10/10

I totally forgot what an awesome voice cast that game had!

@JohnnyShoulder It’s crazy the number of big names all doing voices. They also deliver their lines well, compared to some celebs who phone it in, like Matthew Perry in Fallout New Vegas.

@nessisonett Never played that one but I've seen the clips. Yep, it was really bad! The one that springs to mind is Patrick Stewart in Castlevania Lords of Shadow. I seem to remember the narration between the levels going on forever too!

Played some Tekken Tag Tournament and it’s alright, not quite on the level of Tekken 3 but there’s some characters that I missed from 2. I really really dislike that in order to get the arcade ending of the character you want, you have to deliver the final blow on the boss with that exact character. So if you’re close to dying and tag out, you’ll get the ending of the person you tagged in. It’s really annoying but I’ll get there eventually.

Also, the soundtrack is brilliant, it’s totally outdated and stupid sounding but I love it.

@nessisonett I think that has Tekken Bowling, which is stupid but really good fun when I played with my fam all those years ago!

@RogerRoger I had to laugh out loud as I read your Tomb Raider: Legend post there. If nothing else, your struggles have entertained the rest of us who got to read about it. Looking forward to hearing about Anniversary. 😄
I’ve long since gotten rid of my PSP. When I bought my Vita, I think I surmised that since it was backwards compatible, so to speak, that I didn’t need to keep it. Same with my old PS1. Nevertheless, I still have my PS2 and PS3. I’ve vacillated about whether to keep my PS4 whenever I take the plunge into next gen. The BC of the PS5 makes the old machine obsolete, but as I’ve gotten older, I think I see the value in keeping these things for the long haul for nostalgia and the inevitable quirky and unique experiences like playing TR Legend on a PSP. 😄

@KratosMD Chinatown Wars is excellent; I played the original DS version and had a blast. The PSP version benefits from higher screen real estate, cleaner visuals and music and some additional content, but loses the touchscreen features. Liberty City Stories is good but quite difficult. I felt like I was wrestling with the controls the whole time. At the time it was pretty incredible to play an almost full featured GTA game on a handheld, but that is less impressive these days. Daxter is a great little platformer and eschews the edginess and darker visual cues of Jak 2 & 3. I thoroughly recommend it. Not yet properly played The Lost Frontier (one day!) but really enjoyed the demo I played when I got my PSP.
I would recommend skipping LittleBigPlanet entirely. It’s very stripped back compared to the PS3 (and later, Vita) games and the single player is short and not particularly memorable. What I do remember is struggling with the creator mode and giving up because it was such a nightmare to do anything. So for the single player story it’s not particularly worth it.

@RogerRoger Great news about Anniversary. You make me want to replay those older TR games because it’s been a long time for me. I wonder if they play on the Vita.

@RogerRoger You’ve actually reminded me that I’ve barely gone near the Tomb Raider games. I’ve only played parts of 1, Angel of Darkness for my sins, the reboot and the first hour of Rise. I really should go back and play that trilogy, I’ve heard they’ve held up the best before Uncharted put a spanner in the works.

Been playing more of Hades and I think it’s legitimately up there with the best games I’ve ever played, and I’ve played a whole lot of games. For a rogue-like to have that much plot, nuance and subtext, it’s truly a testament to how great Supergiant are at making games. I still haven’t ‘completed’ it yet because it’s bloody difficult but I can feel myself getting closer each time and it’s just such a joy to play, with all the different weapons, skills and randomised rooms. I could easily sink 1000 hours into it, same as I’ve done with Binding of Isaac, although for sheer enjoyment and investment in the characters rather than trying to unlock every new little thing. Plus you can pet the three-headed dog. Roll on 1.0

@nessisonett Do you know if it is coming to consoles once it is out of early access?

@JohnnyShoulder It looks like they’ll reveal a console release in the next few months once it hits 1.0, but for now there’s not many details. It’s hard to tell if they’ll bother doing a PS4 release or just jump straight to PS5.

This week I’ve spent a large amount of time playing Batman: Arkham Origins on the PS3. I’ve largely been enjoying it; the atmosphere is great and I like playing as Batman - a lot. It’s open worlidness also has that comfort food thing going for it, which is nice, and I like that the world isn’t too big and is interspersed withe generally well designed linear story missions. It’s exactly the kind of game I need right now.

There are some design niggles and having snipers in a beat-me-up is extremely frustrating, but by far my biggest complaint is the performance. The frame rate is appalling and too often brawls descend into a jittery slideshow, making combat far more difficult than it should be. It’s worse when it happens simply gliding or grappling round the city. What is baffling is it actually ran reasonably well to begin with, but now I’m well into the second half of the game the performance has deteriorated. I know that Unreal Engine 3 did not perform very well on the PS3, what with it’s grotesque hardware design and all, but this is on another level.

Tried to go back to Yume Nikki since I’ve played so many horror games since the first time I attempted it. Nope nope nope nope. Still as unsettling as ever, nothing’s got under my skin as much as that game, despite it being version 0.10 and an RPG Maker game from about 2004. It’s like LSD on PS1 but even more horrific.

SpongeBob. Yes there is a God and he accepted me to do this

Just lost 6 hours of playtime in Zero no Kiseki, absolutely fantastic. I know it’s what I get for using an English patch but I had no idea that putting the console in sleep mode makes saving impossible until you restart the game. I played through the whole chapter without saving for some stupid reason and then when I saved on completion, it gave me an error saying it couldn’t save. An RPG like this is not the sort of game you want to lose that many hours in. There isn’t even a turbo button in battle so this is going to be extremely painful. I can’t bring myself to go near it, at this rate I don’t even want to think about it.