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Firefoxie · 06-09-2022, 07:54 PM

Hitman 2 on Xbox.

Kid Boruto · 06-12-2022, 08:55 PM

I'm still playing Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (PS4), I just fended off a large French army and killed their general/commander inside his fortress.

Firefoxie · 06-13-2022, 10:22 PM

Persona 5 Royal on PS5

RandomMovieFan · 06-14-2022, 08:19 AM

XandertheGreat · 06-16-2022, 07:24 PM

games im playing this summer mostly for my Nintendo Switch Lite

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic
Zelda Skyward Sword
Star Wars Jedi Academy
Resident Evil 5
Mega Man X7
Paper Mario Origami

Playstation 4
Mortal Kombat 11
Kingdom Hearts III
Final Fantasy XV

Playstation 3
the last story mission in L.A. Noire

Cremildo · 06-25-2022, 03:41 PM

I'm playing Mass Effect 2 and Prey on XSX.

Kid Boruto · 06-27-2022, 03:48 AM

I finally platinumed Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood earlier today! It was a hard plat but glad it's over with lol.

Currently playing Assassin's Creed: Revelations, I'm about to start Sequence 2 Memory 1: A Warm Welcome.

Akibiyori · 06-28-2022, 12:52 PM

Recently finished up Final Fantasy XV (got the platinum, definitely the easiest FF platinum) and Final Fantasy III (NES version.) Finally finished with all of the single player main entries in the series.

FF III - Pretty good! The job system was greatly improved in FF V; changing jobs isn’t a developed mechanic, you want to just build your characters based on a specific role from the start - mages should continue focusing on subsequent mage roles, physical attackers the logical extension of early jobs, etc.. On the fly changing is really just a gimmick in a couple of very specific spots to the point I stubbornly refused to do so in the later areas with splitting enemies (made it out just fine but damn was that a tiring portion of the game.) Later bosses all just use hard hitting spells like Meteor that hit everyone and these battles ultimately come down to boosting your physical attackers to take ‘em down fast. It’s a brisk episodic game and really not grindy at all, save a little bit towards the end (two hours for me after I saw I couldn’t outlast Bahamut - went by fast.) Excellent soundtrack - Uematsu was taking it to another level even before FF IV (Amur is one the very best town themes in the series.) Fun stuff!

Ff XV - Yeah…this game is a bit of a mess and not quite what it should be but…I kinda liked it a lot anyway! The four guys are great, I enjoyed just doing anything and everything with them for 150 hours - driving, riding, fishing, spelunking, hunting, monster trucking, helping out a cat girl from another dimension, going on a road trip with Iris, etc. - and that chemistry made up for a lot of the unfortunate limitations of the story (the real draw of these games is giving you an appealing world and characters and themes to build on and live in, not truly good writing.) I recommend forgetting about preserving any challenge in the main story and just doing every side quest you can before the turning point in Chapter 9. Spend as much time with characters before that point. It is too easy - magic is an afterthought and you don’t have to delve that deeply into anything to get by in battle without too much trouble but it does feel good to play. The “help your buddy” mechanic actually seems to work fairly well so they shouldn’t have made item usage so unstoppable. The DLC is a sore point with this game but I wish they completed the whole set; the Ignis and Ardyn DLCs are genuinely good and do go some way towards expanding and filling out the story and they started to fix one of the game’s biggest flaws, the gutting of Ravus’ character and place in the plot, so it’s a shame they couldn’t continue. I also wish the game had more areas like Pitioss in it, a fabulous place and really fun to explore, one of the most interesting things I’ve encountered in an FF game.

Starting Xenogears now. Missed out on it back in the day, one of those games Blockbuster only had one copy of and it was always out, then you had other stuff to get around to. Can’t say much right now. Hope the dungeons improve, the cave with Bart I just did is pretty bland graphically and suggests how clumsy and annoying navigation is going to be in the game. Not a huge fan of the Gear battles at this point. LOTS of static scenes loaded (or is that leaden?) with dialogue.

EvilMoose · 06-28-2022, 07:04 PM

Metroid Dread. I'm on the final boss now and he's kicking my ass. Loving every second of it!

Warm Gun · 06-29-2022, 04:40 PM

A couple of hours into Little Nightmares 2. Just got the ability to teleport through TVs. Honestly, better than the first. Has a couple of more decent puzzles and more variety going for it. Though most puzzles still don't involve any thought, especially early on. Appreciate them adding surround sound for the sequel. Wish they had added HDR.

Warm Gun · 06-30-2022, 12:44 AM

Finished Little Nightmares II.

Unskippable credits are such horseshit, particularly when they feature every region, "Bandai Namco Entertainment France," etc., on top of lawyers and such. If I made a game, it wouldn't even have end credits. It would open and end like Apocalypse Now. Just black. No pre-credits, no end credits. If anyone cared, the credits would be in the main menu, and you'd be able to control them, read them at your pace. So narcissistic to force the user in an interactive medium.

Weeb_Unleashed · 07-02-2022, 10:37 PM

Just caught up to the Kingdom Hearts story up until KHIII, so I recently started playing it. I've read a lot of negative stuff about the game, but I love it so far.

Akibiyori · 07-05-2022, 11:07 AM

Feeling a strong urge to give up on Xenogears, I’m not enjoying it much. The navigation is bad, pressing every button necessary to continue running while moving the camera or jumping feels awkward (seriously, auto run, please - make walking the button press function, like FFIX) and a rotating camera is totally useless when there’s next to nothing to actually find in any of these places. The combat seems like it should be interesting but I’m still doing the same things over and over again and the progression and payoff seems nonexistant - I’m level 30 and there’s little diversity in skills or deathblows (these are hardly different, just attack animations that take up time, plus it’s easy to forget the combinations between each fighting mode and the lengthy segments that go with each.) The Gear battles just feel sluggish and the animation is poor. The menus and interface could have been simplified and made much more straightforward.

The dialogue speed is unforgivable. If you have to talk multiple times to people in RPGs, standard operating procedure, you better be able to cycle through dialogue lightning fast if you’re not getting anything different. Even more important, if you lose a big fight because you didn’t realize quickly enough what the fight is expecting from you and have to start over again (Vanderkaum’s machine)…my god, you have to sit through torrents and torrents of static scenes full of this slow text.

Cut it out with the “boss battles” you can’t actually win - just make it part of the cutscenes I’m already watching!

I hear Mitsuda’s soundtrack is supposed to be amazing but so far I’m just hearing the same handful of pieces over and over again and I wouldn’t place any of it on Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross’ level. The battle theme is a total bore.

I hear that the story is the main draw and even people who adore this have said that the gameplay and design isn’t terribly great. Sorry, no story is worth playing through if the game isn’t a pleasure to play. If the story is all there is, just make a movie or series, not a video game. Also, I know what constitutes a “great story” to a lot of gamers and the way this is constantly superficially described as mixing “Religion…and Freud…and Jung!” sounds just like Metal or Prog fans giving you the “it’s complex!” spiel. Yeah, it’s not going to be quite what they’re making it out to be.

I’m kinda reluctant to stop because I had similar reservations about Final Fantasy XIII and that turned around for me in a huge way. However, there were things I appreciated about it even when I had my doubts; Xenogears is all red flags at this point.

DavePS3 · 07-05-2022, 01:02 PM

Sniper Elite 5 on PS5 and Halo Infinite on the XBox-X.

Warm Gun · 07-06-2022, 11:36 PM

Bought Shadow of Mordor for 5 dollars on CDKeys. Wanted to play it on my TV, but controller is way too awkward. Will play it with the mouse and keyboard like the first game seven years ago. People told me I was autistic for playing Arkham with a mouse and keyboard. They're crazy. Having to leave the attack buttons/run to use the camera properly is ass. Controllers are so small, so dinky. The buttons so close together in your grasp. At least I can use much higher settings at 2560x1440 (my monitor) than 3840x2160.

Derb · 07-08-2022, 02:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Warm Gun

Bought Shadow of Mordor for 5 dollars on CDKeys. Wanted to play it on my TV, but controller is way too awkward. Will play it with the mouse and keyboard like the first game seven years ago. People told me I was autistic for playing Arkham with a mouse and keyboard. They're crazy. Having to leave the attack buttons/run to use the camera properly is ass. Controllers are so small, so dinky. The buttons so close together in your grasp. At least I can use much higher settings at 2560x1440 (my monitor) than 3840x2160.

I know ya like to complain but uh, that last part.

Kid Boruto · 07-08-2022, 10:00 PM

I took a break from Assassin's Creed: Revelations to replay Splinter Cell via PS+ Premium...the game definitely hasn't aged very well at all imo.

The movement controls are all tied to the left stick, the character models are distracting, and some of the stealth missions made me wanna throw my controller lol.

Gamma_Winstead · 07-13-2022, 11:08 PM

Final Fantasy XIV and Dead by Daylight.

Akibiyori · 07-14-2022, 10:26 PM

Keepin’ on with Xenogears, getting pretty close to the end of Disc 1 as I understand it (we’re going to take out the second barrier gate with the laser and mirror.) Getting more lively and prettier. Soaring - now that’s the kind of musical moment I’ve been looking for! One of Mitsuda’s best for sure.

Thing is, it took over 35 hours to get to this point. Still not having much of a problem getting through battles and without having to do much beyond deathblows. Ether skills seem almost entirely irrelevant up to this point save healing. The whole combo thing seems unnecessary. I’m aware of the Aerods exploit but I can’t use it - already passed the point of no return to get the Ether Doubler when I found out about it. Aerods are still mega useful in any case and I’m not having any real trouble anyway.

Getting into a bit of a groove but I feel like this is a super spiffed up early style RPG - it seems like it has more going on with its combat but in reality it’s very straightforward. Superfans don’t do this game any favors puffing it up so much, really.

Akibiyori · 07-18-2022, 01:39 PM

I am officially on the infamous disc 2 of Xenogears…Holy cow, this game!

Next time I hear a lot of garbage about FFXIII and XV, it’ll be, “Gather ‘round youngins and I’ll tell you ‘bout a time 25 years ago when there was a game that was not just truly and absolutely linear but also the most unfinished game you can imagine!”

How does this get such a pass?

06-28-2022, 12:52 PM	#168
Akibiyori Expert Member Member since:Nov 2014	Recently finished up Final Fantasy XV (got the platinum, definitely the easiest FF platinum) and Final Fantasy III (NES version.) Finally finished with all of the single player main entries in the series. FF III - Pretty good! The job system was greatly improved in FF V; changing jobs isn’t a developed mechanic, you want to just build your characters based on a specific role from the start - mages should continue focusing on subsequent mage roles, physical attackers the logical extension of early jobs, etc.. On the fly changing is really just a gimmick in a couple of very specific spots to the point I stubbornly refused to do so in the later areas with splitting enemies (made it out just fine but damn was that a tiring portion of the game.) Later bosses all just use hard hitting spells like Meteor that hit everyone and these battles ultimately come down to boosting your physical attackers to take ‘em down fast. It’s a brisk episodic game and really not grindy at all, save a little bit towards the end (two hours for me after I saw I couldn’t outlast Bahamut - went by fast.) Excellent soundtrack - Uematsu was taking it to another level even before FF IV (Amur is one the very best town themes in the series.) Fun stuff! Ff XV - Yeah…this game is a bit of a mess and not quite what it should be but…I kinda liked it a lot anyway! The four guys are great, I enjoyed just doing anything and everything with them for 150 hours - driving, riding, fishing, spelunking, hunting, monster trucking, helping out a cat girl from another dimension, going on a road trip with Iris, etc. - and that chemistry made up for a lot of the unfortunate limitations of the story (the real draw of these games is giving you an appealing world and characters and themes to build on and live in, not truly good writing.) I recommend forgetting about preserving any challenge in the main story and just doing every side quest you can before the turning point in Chapter 9. Spend as much time with characters before that point. It is too easy - magic is an afterthought and you don’t have to delve that deeply into anything to get by in battle without too much trouble but it does feel good to play. The “help your buddy” mechanic actually seems to work fairly well so they shouldn’t have made item usage so unstoppable. The DLC is a sore point with this game but I wish they completed the whole set; the Ignis and Ardyn DLCs are genuinely good and do go some way towards expanding and filling out the story and they started to fix one of the game’s biggest flaws, the gutting of Ravus’ character and place in the plot, so it’s a shame they couldn’t continue. I also wish the game had more areas like Pitioss in it, a fabulous place and really fun to explore, one of the most interesting things I’ve encountered in an FF game. Starting Xenogears now. Missed out on it back in the day, one of those games Blockbuster only had one copy of and it was always out, then you had other stuff to get around to. Can’t say much right now. Hope the dungeons improve, the cave with Bart I just did is pretty bland graphically and suggests how clumsy and annoying navigation is going to be in the game. Not a huge fan of the Gear battles at this point. LOTS of static scenes loaded (or is that leaden?) with dialogue. Last edited by Akibiyori; 06-28-2022 at 01:16 PM.

06-30-2022, 12:44 AM	#171
Warm Gun Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Dec 2020 Home Theater Gallery:29 4K collection:80 Blu-ray collection:440 DVD collection:92 Digital collection:2 Trading Score:8	Finished Little Nightmares II. Unskippable credits are such horseshit, particularly when they feature every region, "Bandai Namco Entertainment France," etc., on top of lawyers and such. If I made a game, it wouldn't even have end credits. It would open and end like Apocalypse Now. Just black. No pre-credits, no end credits. If anyone cared, the credits would be in the main menu, and you'd be able to control them, read them at your pace. So narcissistic to force the user in an interactive medium. Last edited by Warm Gun; 06-30-2022 at 12:51 AM.

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06-09-2022, 07:54 PM	#161
Firefoxie Senior Member Member since:Nov 2016 Location:Twin Peaks	Hitman 2 on Xbox.

06-12-2022, 08:55 PM	#162
Kid Boruto Active Member Member since:Apr 2019 Location:Sacramento, California 4K collection:90 Blu-ray collection:1165 DVD collection:119 Digital collection:3	I'm still playing Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (PS4), I just fended off a large French army and killed their general/commander inside his fortress.

06-13-2022, 10:22 PM	#163
Firefoxie Senior Member Member since:Nov 2016 Location:Twin Peaks	Persona 5 Royal on PS5

06-14-2022, 08:19 AM	#164
RandomMovieFan Expert Member Top contributor Member since:Nov 2021 Location:Cabinet 4K collection:12 Blu-ray collection:179 DVD collection:2 Prime collection:3

06-16-2022, 07:24 PM	#165
XandertheGreat Banned Member since:Jan 2022	games im playing this summer mostly for my Nintendo Switch Lite Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic Zelda Skyward Sword Star Wars Jedi Academy Resident Evil 5 Mega Man X7 Paper Mario Origami Playstation 4 Mortal Kombat 11 Kingdom Hearts III Final Fantasy XV Playstation 3 the last story mission in L.A. Noire

06-25-2022, 03:41 PM	#166
Cremildo Blu-ray Prince Member since:Jul 2011 Location:Brazil 4K collection:32 Blu-ray collection:874 Trading Score:18	I'm playing Mass Effect 2 and Prey on XSX.

06-27-2022, 03:48 AM	#167
Kid Boruto Active Member Member since:Apr 2019 Location:Sacramento, California 4K collection:90 Blu-ray collection:1165 DVD collection:119 Digital collection:3	I finally platinumed Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood earlier today! It was a hard plat but glad it's over with lol. Currently playing Assassin's Creed: Revelations, I'm about to start Sequence 2 Memory 1: A Warm Welcome.

06-28-2022, 07:04 PM	#169
EvilMoose Active Member Member since:Jan 2012 Location:Top Rex	Metroid Dread. I'm on the final boss now and he's kicking my ass. Loving every second of it!

06-29-2022, 04:40 PM	#170
Warm Gun Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Dec 2020 Home Theater Gallery:29 4K collection:80 Blu-ray collection:440 DVD collection:92 Digital collection:2 Trading Score:8	A couple of hours into Little Nightmares 2. Just got the ability to teleport through TVs. Honestly, better than the first. Has a couple of more decent puzzles and more variety going for it. Though most puzzles still don't involve any thought, especially early on. Appreciate them adding surround sound for the sequel. Wish they had added HDR.

07-02-2022, 10:37 PM	#172
Weeb_Unleashed Member Member since:Sep 2021 Location:Sweden 4K collection:77 Blu-ray collection:111 DVD collection:77	Just caught up to the Kingdom Hearts story up until KHIII, so I recently started playing it. I've read a lot of negative stuff about the game, but I love it so far.

07-05-2022, 11:07 AM	#173
Akibiyori Expert Member Member since:Nov 2014	Feeling a strong urge to give up on Xenogears, I’m not enjoying it much. The navigation is bad, pressing every button necessary to continue running while moving the camera or jumping feels awkward (seriously, auto run, please - make walking the button press function, like FFIX) and a rotating camera is totally useless when there’s next to nothing to actually find in any of these places. The combat seems like it should be interesting but I’m still doing the same things over and over again and the progression and payoff seems nonexistant - I’m level 30 and there’s little diversity in skills or deathblows (these are hardly different, just attack animations that take up time, plus it’s easy to forget the combinations between each fighting mode and the lengthy segments that go with each.) The Gear battles just feel sluggish and the animation is poor. The menus and interface could have been simplified and made much more straightforward. The dialogue speed is unforgivable. If you have to talk multiple times to people in RPGs, standard operating procedure, you better be able to cycle through dialogue lightning fast if you’re not getting anything different. Even more important, if you lose a big fight because you didn’t realize quickly enough what the fight is expecting from you and have to start over again (Vanderkaum’s machine)…my god, you have to sit through torrents and torrents of static scenes full of this slow text. Cut it out with the “boss battles” you can’t actually win - just make it part of the cutscenes I’m already watching! I hear Mitsuda’s soundtrack is supposed to be amazing but so far I’m just hearing the same handful of pieces over and over again and I wouldn’t place any of it on Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross’ level. The battle theme is a total bore. I hear that the story is the main draw and even people who adore this have said that the gameplay and design isn’t terribly great. Sorry, no story is worth playing through if the game isn’t a pleasure to play. If the story is all there is, just make a movie or series, not a video game. Also, I know what constitutes a “great story” to a lot of gamers and the way this is constantly superficially described as mixing “Religion…and Freud…and Jung!” sounds just like Metal or Prog fans giving you the “it’s complex!” spiel. Yeah, it’s not going to be quite what they’re making it out to be. I’m kinda reluctant to stop because I had similar reservations about Final Fantasy XIII and that turned around for me in a huge way. However, there were things I appreciated about it even when I had my doubts; Xenogears is all red flags at this point.

07-05-2022, 01:02 PM	#174
DavePS3 Blu-ray Guru Member since:Jan 2007 Location:Toronto Home Theater Gallery:55 Blu-ray reviews:1 Trading Score:1	Sniper Elite 5 on PS5 and Halo Infinite on the XBox-X.

07-06-2022, 11:36 PM	#175
Warm Gun Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Dec 2020 Home Theater Gallery:29 4K collection:80 Blu-ray collection:440 DVD collection:92 Digital collection:2 Trading Score:8	Bought Shadow of Mordor for 5 dollars on CDKeys. Wanted to play it on my TV, but controller is way too awkward. Will play it with the mouse and keyboard like the first game seven years ago. People told me I was autistic for playing Arkham with a mouse and keyboard. They're crazy. Having to leave the attack buttons/run to use the camera properly is ass. Controllers are so small, so dinky. The buttons so close together in your grasp. At least I can use much higher settings at 2560x1440 (my monitor) than 3840x2160.

07-08-2022, 10:00 PM	#177
Kid Boruto Active Member Member since:Apr 2019 Location:Sacramento, California 4K collection:90 Blu-ray collection:1165 DVD collection:119 Digital collection:3	I took a break from Assassin's Creed: Revelations to replay Splinter Cell via PS+ Premium...the game definitely hasn't aged very well at all imo. The movement controls are all tied to the left stick, the character models are distracting, and some of the stealth missions made me wanna throw my controller lol.

07-13-2022, 11:08 PM	#178
Gamma_Winstead Blu-ray Prince Top contributor Member since:Jul 2007 Location:Derry, or at least it feels like it. 4K collection:115 Blu-ray collection:759 Blu-ray reviews: 36 Trading Score:6	Final Fantasy XIV and Dead by Daylight.

07-14-2022, 10:26 PM	#179
Akibiyori Expert Member Member since:Nov 2014	Keepin’ on with Xenogears, getting pretty close to the end of Disc 1 as I understand it (we’re going to take out the second barrier gate with the laser and mirror.) Getting more lively and prettier. Soaring - now that’s the kind of musical moment I’ve been looking for! One of Mitsuda’s best for sure. Thing is, it took over 35 hours to get to this point. Still not having much of a problem getting through battles and without having to do much beyond deathblows. Ether skills seem almost entirely irrelevant up to this point save healing. The whole combo thing seems unnecessary. I’m aware of the Aerods exploit but I can’t use it - already passed the point of no return to get the Ether Doubler when I found out about it. Aerods are still mega useful in any case and I’m not having any real trouble anyway. Getting into a bit of a groove but I feel like this is a super spiffed up early style RPG - it seems like it has more going on with its combat but in reality it’s very straightforward. Superfans don’t do this game any favors puffing it up so much, really.

07-18-2022, 01:39 PM	#180
Akibiyori Expert Member Member since:Nov 2014	I am officially on the infamous disc 2 of Xenogears…Holy cow, this game! Next time I hear a lot of garbage about FFXIII and XV, it’ll be, “Gather ‘round youngins and I’ll tell you ‘bout a time 25 years ago when there was a game that was not just truly and absolutely linear but also the most unfinished game you can imagine!” How does this get such a pass?

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