COLETTI Posted January 2, 2020 Posted January 2, 2020 Started Jedi Fallen Order due to my son's enthusiasm for it and it's definitely a good game but far from great. Spider-Man and the Arkham games have spoiled me when it comes to combat, I guess. Astro Bot Rescue Mission is absurdly cute and fun and exactly the kinda VR fame I knew I'd like. Meanwhile my kids are in love with Superhot so that's rad as well. 1
Casey Posted January 2, 2020 Posted January 2, 2020 Yeah, I'm really loving Astro Bot. I tried out Resident Evil, and... yeah, I still don't like these games. Not because they're bad or anything, but I'm a huge wuss apparently. I just can't do it. I already have anxiety, this game makes it worse. I'm sure it has nothing to do with me not being able to beat the garage fight, though. I might play it in non-VR, however. 2
Andrew POE! Posted January 3, 2020 Posted January 3, 2020 (edited) I also started on Astro Bot Rescue Mission but I will probably need to devout more time to Platinum it. I may just play through it for fun at first then work on the Platinum after that. In my neverending quest to Platinum fn hard games, I'm trying to Platinum Aliens Vs. Predator (2010) for PS3. I just got 6 trophies left for the game -- all involving Nightmare/Hard mode. Nightmare mode means no checkpoints and if you die, you start over the mission. Also, Axiom Verge is a great Metroidvania that's more like Metroid. I may buy it on Switch since it's pretty much Metroid. Edited January 3, 2020 by Andrew POE! 1
RIPPA Posted January 3, 2020 Posted January 3, 2020 47 minutes ago, Andrew POE! said: Also, Axiom Verge is a great Metroidvania that's more like Metroid. I may buy it on Switch since it's pretty much Metroid. In case you didn't know - Axiom Verge 2 is supposed to come out this year (Whether it does is a different story)
RIPPA Posted January 3, 2020 Posted January 3, 2020 Out of curiosity - has anyone here played Return of the Obra Dinn? I got a gift card for the Playstation store and I think that is what I am going to pull the trigger on because all I see is constant praise for it but I realized that I didn't remember anyone mentioning it here
Lamp, broken circa 1988 Posted January 3, 2020 Posted January 3, 2020 I LOVE IT A LOT. It's lovely to play a murder mystery game that's free of condemning people over laws or anything. High recommendation. 1
Andrew POE! Posted January 4, 2020 Posted January 4, 2020 On 1/2/2020 at 8:03 PM, RIPPA said: Out of curiosity - has anyone here played Return of the Obra Dinn? I got a gift card for the Playstation store and I think that is what I am going to pull the trigger on because all I see is constant praise for it but I realized that I didn't remember anyone mentioning it here No, not yet but I will probably get it soon. It looks appealing to me because I love that early '80s Macintosh style it has.
AxB Posted January 4, 2020 Posted January 4, 2020 OK, I'm finished with Horizon Zero Dawn (got the Plat). Now whether I go now to Spider-Man, get Greedfall, go to Hellblade or Uncharted 4, or go back and do a heel run on something I've already babyfaced, I don't know.
Andrew POE! Posted January 4, 2020 Posted January 4, 2020 (edited) On 1/4/2020 at 7:35 AM, AxB said: OK, I'm finished with Horizon Zero Dawn (got the Plat). Now whether I go now to Spider-Man, get Greedfall, go to Hellblade or Uncharted 4, or go back and do a heel run on something I've already babyfaced, I don't know. Congrats on Horizon! Greedfall may take awhile to do -- it's essentially a BioWare RPG from when they knew how to do that. Uncharted 4 is very easy. I would do this if you want the Platinum: 1) Complete the game on any difficulty and get all the collectibles, mission specific trophies, perfect parry with Rafe, and run through the game for Sharpshooter 2) Delete the patch or reinstall the game. Make sure it is on 1.01 or earlier when redownloading the update or stay offline after reinstalling. 3) Go to the last chapter and play it on Crushing 4) It will unlock both Crushing and Speedrun trophies I'm planning on doing Spider-Man as well this year and as well as Hellblade. Probably before or after Sea of Solitude (US and UK) for the mental health block of Platinums to do. Edited January 5, 2020 by Andrew POE! 1
SirSmUgly Posted January 4, 2020 Author Posted January 4, 2020 (edited) I ended up buying Lara Croft Go, and now I've dropped Hitman Go because the former is insanely good. Holy shit, I wish I had played this earlier. I think it's cross-buy/play, too, so it's time to bust out the Vita again. Edited January 4, 2020 by Smelly McUgly
COLETTI Posted January 5, 2020 Posted January 5, 2020 @Andrew POE! Yeah that glitch is SO helpful. I almost felt a bit of guilt doing it but after getting the Platinum on the other three? Yeah I paid my dues Also @AxB I'd suggest doing Hellblade since it's a fairly straightforward and short game, then do another 20-30 hour one. 2
Casey Posted January 5, 2020 Posted January 5, 2020 I love Hellblade, but I'm slightly annoyed the sequel isn't coming to PS4/PS5. 2
Matt D Posted January 5, 2020 Posted January 5, 2020 Finished Ori. Excellent game. My 3 weeks off are over so that's probably it for me for a few months. I'll slowly work through Deponia on my own in the margins I guess.
AxB Posted January 6, 2020 Posted January 6, 2020 On 1/2/2020 at 6:59 AM, Tabe said: INFAMOUS SECOND SON - This is one I had never played before but have owned for a long, long time. And...yeah. After an intro section that lasted roughly 83 hours and was about as much fun as licking dirt, I finally got into the actual game. And...yeah. Oh great, I'm out of smoke energy after like 2 shots - again. And the camera sucks. And the controls are terrible. I made it to an early section where I had to climb the Space Needle and, after falling off yet again because my character went a different direction than I was pointing, I ejected the disc and deleted the game. This game sucked. Very disappointing, I loved the first two games and got platinums on both. And I've just started my second playthrough of it (having already completed it as a babyface, I wanted to see how different the story was if you embraced selfishness). I tried messing about with my old save in the post-game, but I'd forgotten what all of the controls were, and how to do things.
Tabe Posted January 6, 2020 Posted January 6, 2020 19 hours ago, AxB said: And I've just started my second playthrough of it (having already completed it as a babyface, I wanted to see how different the story was if you embraced selfishness). I tried messing about with my old save in the post-game, but I'd forgotten what all of the controls were, and how to do things. I was doing a selfish playthrough. It's more fun to randomly beat up civilians. I usually do babyface first but I could tell I wasn't going to play it through twice so I went heel from the jump. Of course, as I said in my original post, that didn't last either
J.T. Posted January 7, 2020 Posted January 7, 2020 VtM - Bloodlines 2 will not come out soon enough for my likings.
Casey Posted January 7, 2020 Posted January 7, 2020 A couple of things: How are the Yakuza games? Watching gameplay... it seems just like a normal beat 'em up. Am I missing something? Someone sell me on the franchise, damnit. And what are some good VR games? I don't have the motion controllers (yet), so just assume right now I'm limited to just the dualshock controller. I'm not too crazy about shooters in general, so forget those. Astro Bot is fun as hell, but that doesn't mean I want to exclusively play stuff like that. The Moss demo was decent, but I wasn't hooked. I guess just stuff that I can get lost in, if that makes sense. I'm leaning towards Obduction, because my Dad was a weird, weird person in the 90s and loved Myst so I kind of fell in love with them too.
Cliff Hanger Posted January 7, 2020 Posted January 7, 2020 17 minutes ago, Casey said: A couple of things: How are the Yakuza games? Watching gameplay... it seems just like a normal beat 'em up. Am I missing something? Someone sell me on the franchise, damnit. Gonna do VR stuff separately. As for Yakuza: the fighting is fun, but the real joys are (a) the soap opera madness of the story and (b) dicking around for an hour. Learning mah jong and shogi, looking for hole in the wall bars with the rare liquor, running a hostess bar, blowing half a million yen on one hand of poker. They are basically River City Ransom As The Godfather. All time great fuck-around games. 1
John E. Dynamite Posted January 7, 2020 Posted January 7, 2020 22 minutes ago, Cliff Hanger said: Gonna do VR stuff separately. As for Yakuza: the fighting is fun, but the real joys are (a) the soap opera madness of the story and (b) dicking around for an hour. Learning mah jong and shogi, looking for hole in the wall bars with the rare liquor, running a hostess bar, blowing half a million yen on one hand of poker. They are basically River City Ransom As The Godfather. All time great fuck-around games. You forgot entire Virtua Fighter arcade ports, chicken races, bowling, pool, saving kittens, trying to eat every kind of yakitori, working as a male escort, performing a J-Pop concert at the Dome, being a good dad, catching a tuna so you can have a tuna sword, bringing peace to a small hunting village by hunting a legendary bear, obeying traffic laws while operating a taxi cab, teaching the husky orphan kid how to be a better pro-wrestler despite his asthma, learning a devastating martial arts technique by filming a petulant child who isn't allowed to go into the dildo store... I don't even know why they make other games.
Tromatagon Posted January 7, 2020 Posted January 7, 2020 The Yakuza games are basically the Shenmue games if the Shenmue games were good and had a likable protagonist 1 2 1
John E. Dynamite Posted January 7, 2020 Posted January 7, 2020 I can't imagine how Ryo Hazuki's Shaw Bros. dub lunkhead-in-the-extreme asexual good-boy jock schtick isn't anything but likeable. He has no idea what's going on, is never a jerk about it, and wants Mario to teach him some Italian.
JLSigman Posted January 8, 2020 Posted January 8, 2020 Been noodling around with the Steam port of the Nintendo DS version of Final Fantasy III. I forgot how much the old games loved to kick your ass and laugh over your corpses. 1
jaedmc Posted January 8, 2020 Posted January 8, 2020 8 hours ago, JLSigman said: Been noodling around with the Steam port of the Nintendo DS version of Final Fantasy III. I forgot how much the old games loved to kick your ass and laugh over your corpses. As someone who has been going through all the Mega Man games with his son, this speaks to me very loudly. Old games in general are fucking brutal. 1
AxB Posted January 9, 2020 Posted January 9, 2020 Made it up the Space Needle on my first attempt no problem. I'm playing InFamous Second Son on Expert difficulty and it's not hard at all.
RIPPA Posted January 9, 2020 Posted January 9, 2020 So I went ahead and got Return of the Obra Dinn and started playing it yesterday Holy Fuck do I love it I am lucky in that all the streaming of it only showed the very very beginning because they spoiled nothing and going in blind has been awesome. I haven't played anything like this in a long long time. Plus I am playing this completely differently than most games in that I am not looking anything up. Of course now I am in a full blown panic about something and all I can do is think about it until I get home tonight to play 3
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