Topic: What PS3 game(s) are you currently playing?

@colonelkilgore
Repeat after me, whoosah.

@CaptD tempted me, the dark side has 😡

Well that’s Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 fully wrapped up. I wont say that I’ll miss it 😏… but I think there’s enough redeeming qualities to it, to make it worthwhile for fans of the genre. The combat in general is good, sometimes great… but sometime bull**** too. The attempts at a fully 3d metroidvania basically work for the most part but it is a lot easier to get lost here than on a 2D map. Great OST as did the original and an interesting direction to take the narrative. Also, the final boss fight on Prince of Darkness was incredible! A massive difficulty-spike but once you begin to acclimate, it’s Character-action combat at its best imo.

@colonelkilgore Thanks for the description of Alice: Madness Returns. That definitely sounds up my alley. After looking a couple of days on eBay, I bought a copy of it.

I'm not sure when I'll play it, but it's in the process of entering my backlog.

@KilloWertz cool, well I’ll look forward to your thoughts on it whenever you eventually get around to it 👍

Now that I finally finished one of two long games I'd been chipping away at for over a month, I've been able to get a breath of fresh air and start something new. And I decided I was in the mood to try Bayonetta. I'm not far in at all so far, but I'm having a great time and am very happy with my decision. I'm also somewhat surprised about how much I'm having a good time with the story and characters as I assumed that would've largely taken a backseat to perfecting the gameplay in this type of game. Maybe I'll eat those words as it goes on, but I'm having a blast so far.

After what seems like aeons… I finally got my next (fourth) trapezohedron drop in Final Fantasy XIII 😃. The bad news is I actually need 6, not the 5 I initially thought I required for the Treasure Hunter trophy 😔

@Gunnerzaurus the art design and OST on both are at a really high level to be fair… particularly on the original. I heard that the budget of the sequel got severely clipped… and it does feel that way a bit if I’m honest but there is still some good stuff there. Enjoy

5th trap drop on Final Fantasy XIII 🥳 and second playthrough on Alice: Madness Returns wrapped up.

Real glad about the 5th trap… it means that I can finally move on with completing the remaining Ci’eth stone missions. Then there’ll be another mat farm (though nowhere near as arduous as the one for traps)… then a further bit of mopping up. Been ticking-over on this since the beginning of September, so I’m feeling some relief that I can move to the next stage of earning this plat. Talking of which, it’s an absolute beast… cant believe it’s only 2.2% ultra rare tbh. I mean that does sound rare like but I honestly can’t believe that many people have gone through all this! 😅

Final Fantasy fans are a stubborn lot.

@Th3solution I’ll fit right in then 😉🤣

@colonelkilgore Ranking of extremist fandoms by series:
5) Final Fantasy fans
4) Souls and Fromsoft fans
3) Like a Dragon / Yakuza fans
2) GTA fans
1) Sonic the Hedgehog fans.
😂

@Th3solution 3/4 outta 5 ain’t bad I suppose… 🤔 or maybe that is bad actually!

Mad about Sonic fans… that’s one I don’t get tbh. And that’s from someone who named their garden hedgehog Sonic a couple months back 🤣

@Th3solution @PorkChopExpress don’t know if I’m thinking this particular series due to my love for it or if I’m right that it’s fans are extremely fervent too… but I’d add Metal Gear Solid fans to that list. Probably some others too tbh.

@PorkChopExpress “and the staff can now look back on the incident with a smile." 🤣

@PorkChopExpress and the West is a worse place for it imo

@PorkChopExpress 🍻

@colonelkilgore @PorkChopExpress Indeed. Some valid thoughts there, especially Kojima/MGS. Fans (myself included) venerate Kojima much more extensively than fans of other series do for their creators.

I’ve posted the discussion question over on a more general thread, the Hot Takes thread. I’m curious to read peoples’ thoughts on the matter.

Alice: Madness Returns

Since I just recently bought it thanks to a recommendation from @colonelkilgore, I figured I might as well make it my next game after I just finished Fallout 3.

Played it for roughly an hour this morning before work and I'm definitely enjoying it so far. Random thought, but for a PS3 game, I think the developer did a pretty good job with the blowing of her clothes and hair while in Wonderland. Looks better than some modern games in that regard.

@KilloWertz glad you’re enjoying what you’ve played of it so far bud. I thought it only got better too, with the new skills you collect along the way… and how dark it gets by the end.