Concerning Witcher 3, has anyone tried the Enhanced Edition mod ? I heard it changes fighting mechanics drastically

Went berserk with Ubisoft's sale, got Assasin's Creed Origins, Odyssey and the Division 2. Hooray for 67% off the two AC titles and 25% off D2.

Devil May Cry 5

Spent a few hours with it now and I can't help the feeling that it's a bit mediocre. It looks decent enough (though not spectacular), and it plays -fine- but that's about it. I just remember some of the other games being a bit more exciting, and not as easy. The V guy in particular is a novel idea, but he's just button mashing to win and get SSS ranks. I think I had a lot more fun with the one that had the Dante that everyone hated (although I haven't even played as Dante in this yet). The writing is hilariously bad too. Seems like it was written by 13 year old boys, for 13 year olds boys. Can't remember if it was always like that though.

The camera is objectively horrible though. It feels like it's working against your commands the whole time.

I'm starting to wonder if open world / multiplayer fatigue is causing all these focused single player games to get inflated praise, as this one so far, like the Resi 2 remake is just "fine" at this point.

So I was playing Textorcist then...

About a decade late, but I'm finally playing through Fallout New Vegas. I wish I had modded/patched/fixed the crashes back in the day when it first came out, because hot damn I'm enjoying the shit out of this one. Sometimes it's frustrating with all the crashes, but the first 20-ish hours were 99% crash-free and made me want to pull through no matter what.

^ Definitely play Old World Blues. Best part of NV.

Written by Mercurial on 08.06.2019 at 20:18

^ Definitely play Old World Blues. Best part of NV.

Oh, I will, don't worry. I'm planning on doing all the DLC and basically as much of the main game's optional content as I possibly can.

Just finished episode one of Life Is Strange. Beautiful, gripping stuff. Might have to wait until Steam sales start in order to finish though, I like it a lot, but not so insanely much as to spend 80 euros on the entire thing, especially since the episodes are not particularly long.

Written by Metren on 17.06.2019 at 18:41

Just finished episode one of Life Is Strange. Beautiful, gripping stuff. Might have to wait until Steam sales start in order to finish though, I like it a lot, but not so insanely much as to spend 80 euros on the entire thing, especially since the episodes are not particularly long.

The first one, or you mean buying the entire series? It's only 20? for the first game but yeah, it's frequently on sale. It's the kind of game I enjoyed playing with my wife, since it's equally entertaining to just watch, but we clocked 18 hours on Steam (maybe 15 of which were actual gameplay) and it's not a game I'd bother replaying. Very good value for the 5? I paid for it!

Slay The Spire. One of the better games I've played in a while that I know I'll never be any good at. It's really easy to get into and pick up though. On my first go I got to the second area boss (and died, but didn't do too badly) but I can tell I don't have the brain for the advanced tactics. All 3 of the heroes are pretty interesting and different. Because I'm a pleb I'll probably stick with the warrior guy.

Dig the handcrafted artstyle and the music too. The kinda game I wish was on android.

Written by IronAngel on 18.06.2019 at 21:12

he first one, or you mean buying the entire series? It's only 20� for the first game but yeah, it's frequently on sale.

I just realized that the entire first season is 19.99, not that sum for each episode. I can be quite a moron sometimes.

Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night

I was so skeptical of this game during it's development. Just looked like it would be total jank. It definitely turned out to be one of the ugliest games I've played in a while (PS2 technical quality with super garish artstyle), but, the gameplay turned out to be classic Castlevania. Has all the elements that make the best of the series great. Only put 3 hours in so far but definitely liking it. I'm definitely still not a fan of contact damage in games, in 2019.

Today I finished Life Is Strange (2015).

I'm sure a few weeks or months from now, after visiting Youtube critiques and forum posts about the game, I'll begin to see it in a more cynical and less fanboyish light, but for now, I am still in love... and heartbroken too. The characters are all rather cliche, but I think they're meant to be, so I don't really care. The game made me feel emotions I hadn't felt since The Witcher 3, I loved each episode and the final one was absolutely devastating, my eyes haven't dried yet.

Don't think I'll be playing it again. I can't. Like almost every other truly amazing work of art I've experienced in life (especially interactive works of art), I don't think I can go back to it. That would be like having a 2nd wedding with my wife, the magic just wouldn't be there. I loved it, adored it, it broke me and uplifted me, but I won't ever visit it again precisely because it was so good. I guess Life Is just Strange like that.

Written by Mercurial on 20.06.2019 at 14:38

Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night

Was pretty good, but fell off on the second half a bit, where the dev team obviously stopped designing new enemies and just opted for reskins. Some of the later areas just feel a bit bland compared to the earlier ones too.

Hard as nails by the end as well. The difficulty really ramps up if you go for the proper ending (which you should as like the other games it adds many more hours of gameplay). Some of the bosses, especially the optional ones, are pretty absurd. It's no Symphony of the Night but there's a fuck ton of fan service and item content going on. Also, good music as you would expect.

Doom - the original . Forgot how simple it was and fun to play. still playing with training wheels but will ramp up the difficulty once completely back to mid-90's form.

The co-op of Doom is a blast too.

I'm currently playing Persona Q2 for the 3DS, probably the last "big title" for that platform. Nice dungeon crawler, but it is kind of lame that they didn't bother getting the English voice actors for the characters.

Remnant: From the Ashes

This could actually be the first really good Souls-inspired game. Only plonked about 3 hours into it but definitely digging it. I guess it could be loosely called Soulsborne with guns. It has stamina, rolling with iframes, "estus" recovery and "bonfires," and is pretty hard, but deviates in terms of the fact it's mostly played at long range. The combat is split between one handed weapons. i.e. pistols, two handed, i.e rifles, and melee weapons, and there seems to be a reasonable variety of weapons, armour, accessories and perks. The aesthetic and technical visual side of it is pretty good, kinda post-apocalyptic + interdimensional monsters. Closer to Bloodborne than Souls, but not quite the same as Bloodborne. Combat itself is fairly simple but feels very mechanically solid, and although you can melee in this game I can't imagine anyone other than challenge players would really rely on it.

I think how good this is in the long run will depend on how the procedural generation and enemy variety holds up, but so far so good.


[UPDATE]

Yeah, it's a solid game, but the randomly generated levels don't really carry this, like all other procedurally generated games you start to recognise segments here and there and it becomes a bit artless. Also, the bosses aren't great. Because the game is ammo based, bosses need to constantly respawn enemies for you to kill to get ammo, so it seems like every boss is just an add-fest.

Lately I have been playing Victoria 2. It's a fun little game by paradox that centers on the century between 1836 and 1936. I'm currently playing through as Russia and have half of Africa colonized....

It's a fun game if you like grand strategy games and are not afraid of messy menus.

Control

Wow, I actually quite liked this one. Not perfect, but I finished it so that's kind of rare these days. Visually great, especially with ray tracing, and nice use of sort of brutalist architecture and stark, colourful lighting which make it feel really alien and otherworldy in many places, especially in some of the larger locations which have an impressive sense of scale. I also liked the world (building) design. Almost like Dark Souls or Metroidvania-esque, but not quite imo. Just very labyrinthine, with lots of verticality, hidden areas and secrets.

Main story was fine, not sure it was the best told, partly because the main character really doesn't have any personality to speak of, but the alternate dimension / being setting and premise was intriguing. Where game really shone was with the amount of background, SCP inspired lore found through memos, case files and the like, and the live action scenes featuring a weird, unsettling kids show called "Threshold Kids," and the scientist, elaborating on the primary and peripheral elements, with lots of humour. Ahti, the janitor was the best, and most mysterious character by a long shot and I don't think I would have enjoyed it as much without his inclusion. Some of the unique side quests were well done too, seems to be a lot of content in the game. Definitely a 20+ hour game if you explore.

Gameplay was pretty fun. Repetitive, but somehow didn't get too boring, mainly because of the endless destructibility of the environment was always a great spectacle and hurling stuff at people while levitating is a nice power trip. Many of the set pieces were well done, the best probably being a bit near the end of the game, where you fight your way through an ever shifting, Inception like maze and the sound is drowned out in favour of a pretty epic, cheesy 8 minute long alt-prog song (seems to be by Poets Of The Fall). Really cool.

Got back to playing Final Fantasy VI.

As per usual with this game, some things are amazing and others are not. The famous and much-lauded opera sequence has great music (Nobuo, duh), but the entirety of it is so contrived and pointless storywise that it's ridiculous. Celes just happens to look like Maria and just happens to be capable of performing operatic vocals. Setzer just happens to own the world's only airship and just happens to want to kidnap Maria at the exact moment when the party arrives and needs an airship. Also, Setzer is dumb enough to warn Maria of his plans... not to mention the rather disturbing idea that one of the game's supposed protagonists is a kidnapper LOL. The opera scene just seems like a cynical attempt at showing off technology and Nobuo's talents to me, it doesn't advance the plot, it has nothing in common thematically with Celes and Locke's potential romance and it all just comes across as too goddamn silly and over the top. It's one of those "let's put this in there because it will impress the easily impressed" moments.

On the other hand, discovering Terra's backstory is really interesting and I even enjoy the town of Zozo. Sure, the endless random battles can be annoying, but the atmosphere of the place is just so cool. As bizarre as it may sound, it's a really immersive location.

And now it's on to Vector.

Loved FF III (that's what it was for us) and loved the Opera scene. You're looking entirely from hindsight, at the time it was just a lot of fun and really different. It's a JRPG, ffs. Even now playing Yakuza 0 there are all sorts of oddities in the game that have fuck all to do with the plot, like karaoke, bowling and going into an arcade to play old video games from the 80s.

I don't doubt that FF VI was mind-blowing for its time; It's just not as perfect as many fans and critics claim it is. The praise thrown at the opera scene specifically is just one good example of how the game's quality has been exaggerated. I really like FF VI (not quite up to love) and I like the music of the opera scene, but that's about it. I don't see why a scene that has nothing to do with the main story and adds nothing to any of the characters should be seen as an all-time-classic scene.

Again, I like the game; I appreciate its pixel art design; I love the OST and the character interaction scenes are fantastically written. I'd rate it an 8/10 on a bad day and an 8.5/10 on a good day. It doesn't belong to my top 3 FF games' list however.

I've been playing a lot of Secret of Mana and Chrono Trigger for SNES recently. Chrono Trigger in particular is one of my all-time favorite games independent of console or style. To this day I still can't find fault with anything other than I would have liked an option for open-world random battles because I like grinding and loot systems, but it's perfect in my eyes nevertheless.

Written by Troy Killjoy on 09.09.2019 at 01:19

I've been playing a lot of Secret of Mana and Chrono Trigger for SNES recently. Chrono Trigger in particular is one of my all-time favorite games independent of console or style. To this day I still can't find fault with anything other than I would have liked an option for open-world random battles because I like grinding and loot systems, but it's perfect in my eyes nevertheless.

I hate to do this, but I'd hate myself even more if I didn't do it...

Here's an in-depth, incredibly well-detailed analysis of all of Chrono Trigger's many faults:

Written by Metren on 09.09.2019 at 02:31
Here's an in-depth, incredibly well-detailed analysis of all of Chrono Trigger's many faults:

I fundamentally disagree with the content creator's existence and refuse to acknowledge any of those talking points as anything other than slander for the purpose of generating views.

Reported for promoting terrorism.

Written by Troy Killjoy on 09.09.2019 at 02:53

Reported for promoting terrorism.

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Chrono Trigger is great, but Chrono Cross will always be my first love.

Haven't played FF 3/6 in many years, but I have to say the opera scene is one of the moments I remember the most. I keep meaning to replay it, but the game is a bit of a grind by today's standards.

Written by Troy Killjoy on 09.09.2019 at 01:19

I've been playing a lot of Secret of Mana and Chrono Trigger for SNES recently. Chrono Trigger in particular is one of my all-time favorite games independent of console or style. To this day I still can't find fault with anything other than I would have liked an option for open-world random battles because I like grinding and loot systems, but it's perfect in my eyes nevertheless.

Great soundtracks also

For both of them

Written by Mercurial on 09.09.2019 at 11:23

Chrono Trigger is great, but Chrono Cross will always be my first love.

Haven't played FF 3/6 in many years, but I have to say the opera scene is one of the moments I remember the most. I keep meaning to replay it, but the game is a bit of a grind by today's standards.

Not really. I finished it with an under lv15 party once

The best things about Chrono Trigger are the music, character and world design and pacing. It's just a really fun game to play. The game's own specific explanation of how its time travel works makes the entire story impossible though and there are other problems with the time travel as well. This isn't nitpicky either, because time travel is the game's focus and major selling point. I also think most of the characters are very shallow from a literary standpoint. That said, CT is a good game, just not nearly as great as its reputation would suggest.

Change of topic

Did you guys hear about how Sabin is planning to suplex the FF VII remake hype train?