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

@RogerRoger I immediately left that first room and got stuck on a table. Absolutely, totally stuck. Couldn’t move. I had to restart 😂

@nessisonett You know can play Diablo III pretty much totally offline, and without using seasonal characters etc., right? We've picked up playing it again recently on PS5, and it works great

Got to say I'm impressed with the graphics mods I'm using with FF7 on Steam. Just entered the Forgotten Capital!

Non-PS4 ? It used to be HALO The MCC on Xbox one , I love the old-school halos Pre-4/5 . Halo 4 isn't all that bad as people make it to be , but HALO 5 ? Garbage. Worse than 4.

Since I don't have a Xbone anymore , nowadays every blue-moon Id play smash on the switch like twice a month , lol .

@RogerRoger It’s amazing what a difference using the FMV models makes. The whole scene at the end of that dungeon (I guess it’s still semi-spoilers?) was made all the more impactful given they looked like actual people and not polygonal blobs.

@RogerRoger I have to say that it really helps not having that bloody Barret animation of him shaking his fist at 4 million miles an hour.

I’ve been playing Valorant a lot on my PC and osu haha

@RogerRoger Well, I mean, the characters looking like sentient lego people didn't strike us at the time. The style, as rough as it is now, was still incredibly involving coming off of 2D games of the era. It's hard to overstate how big of an influence its often heavily cinematic stylings had on the medium as a whole.

With that said, THAT scene never bothered me. In fact, I deliberately refused to Aeris when I didn't have to, and was even more sour on her after the foisted her underleveled a#s on me in... The Temple of the Ancients, I believe it was called... so her death was a welcome development for me. Primarily, though, I've always been a huge Cloud x Tifa shipper, and she was in the way.

@Ralizah @RogerRoger I’m definitely Aerith > Tifa but yeah, I don’t think I ever willingly used her in combat. I usually have Red and Barret/Yuffie for their ranged attacks and then as soon as I get Vincent it’s Cloud, Red and Vincent for the rest of the game.

@nessisonett Vincent has the worst limit breaks though in my opinion.

#teamtifa

@Thrillho If you keep Vincent healed then he probably has the best limit breaks. The only issue is getting the right elemental one in levels 1-3 as some enemies are immune. Chaos, his level 4 one is insanely good as it’s non-elemental. I also love Vincent because I pair Deathblow with Extra Cut, which means he usually lands Deathblow with his higher accuracy and also gets another attack in. Currently that’s about 2000 damage per turn and I’m just about to go to Mideel for the first time.

I remember Vincent being my favorite. And Tifa. Definitely Tifa. Aerith was lame.

@nessisonett @RogerRoger Potions and the materia system in general kinda make a dedicated healer feel unnecessary.

Haha, the Barrett x Cloud date only gets triggered if you keep all the women at arms length until that point. The tension between them on that ride is hilarious, admittedly.

I've seen the game played with mods that add the FMV character models, but it always looked sort of strange to me. The exaggerated, almost mime-like animations they often engage in and weird humor of the game jive better with the older models.

The HD version's low-res backdrops look terrible when contrasted with the razor sharp HD character models, though, and I HATE how S-E added mouths to them. The original PC release was the worst, because it gave certain characters these horrible O-mouths, like you'd see on cheap blow-up dolls.

It's especially hard to take Sephiroth seriously when he walks arounds like
: O
all the time.

Jessie had an O-mouth too. Ugh.

Even when they're closed, though, the mouths just look awful on those models. They're not supposed to have mouths!

So, on PC, I use the ReMako mod that uses A.I. to upscale the backdrops and make them look much sharper in HD, and I used a mod of some sort that removed the mouths to give them that authentic PS1 look.

@Ralizah Yeah, I’m using ReMako too but I quite like the FMV models in the environment. To be fair, I haven’t played Midgar with that mod as I keep a save straight after Midgar due to me not really liking it and having played it approximately 5 million times.

I’m getting absolutely slaughtered by The Lion King on Mega Drive. How in the hell did kids beat this game???

@nessisonett they didn't 😅. One game used to last a long time because of repetition back then even if the game itself is really short! Takes a while to learn all the level designs I think but it is possible

@nessisonett Is it that mother fudging level of jumping between the hippo tails?

@Thrillho I finally beat that level yesterday and then got floored by the Elephant Graveyard. Got further tonight in the Elephant Graveyard after clearing the first two levels on one life but lost 2 continues worth on that one level! It’s just brutal.

@ralphdibny Even so, I’ve played some older games that haven’t been quite this insane! Great game though, the soundtrack and graphics are brilliant for the time. Less sure about the detection on holding onto ledges!

@nessisonett I think it was the only game we had on our PC at home when we were little; the Disney one with Lion King and Aladdin.

The latter was fine with some tricky levels but Lion King was insanely difficult. 99% of the time I gave up on that second level.

Slowly making my way through my Mega Drive backlog with Shining in the Darkness. Lord this game is punishing. I quite like a dungeon crawler though and it’s cool seeing the little flourishes back in 1991 that would become Camelot’s trademarks and be seen right the way up to Golden Sun and the Mario sports games on GBA.