I legitimately forgot if I'd said that or not for Ghost so no worries at all @RogerRoger. I'm pretty sure I said i'd look forward to trying stealth too at some point so yeah 😅
Yeah the repeating overworld dialogue in the market does seer into the brain @Elodin
I've really gotta get back to Pathfinder: Kingmaker after this (Wrath of the Righteous is coming up soon too and I hope it's a lot less buggy then Kingmaker is), not to mention I have Pillars Of Eternity 2 in my backlog but it's also making me wanting to replay DOS II as well!
@HallowMoonshadow Strongly disagree that the music in OS is worse than OS2, although it is quite different.
You know what? You're absolutely right kyle. I'll admit I have a bit of a bad habit in regards to music of saying "it's bad" when it's something I don't personally like.
It's not badly composed by any means and I really should listen to some tracks on Youtube without all the other ambient sounds and the likes from the game and take it in properly. Probably listen to some tracks from the older games too!
Having enjoyed the soundtrack for OS1 I learnt it was scored by Kirill Pokrovsky who did all of the music for the Divinity games and was apparently a bit of a hero as far as the fanbase were concerned, perhaps the equivalent of Final Fantasy's Nobuo Uematsu. He'd have undoubtedly written the music for OS2 but died after the release of the first game.
I was only aware of his death earlier actually both from your post and due to the Watcher Statue questline I played yesterday with the earth demon showing you "your end"... The end credits & seeing the memoriam message for him.
I feel like a bit of an arse now...
He certainly has some locks and I'l definitely make sure to look over the interview in a bit!
Otherwise, OS1 has better combat in my opinion - the magic/physical damage shields in OS2 do add a layer of challenge to encounters but can just be really frustrating - and it feels like so many spells and attacks in OS2 have AOE damage meaning you often trigger environmental damage accidently in a combat round and well laid plans turn to absolute chaos. I do struggle to remember aspects of OS1 these days though as it has been 8 years (!!!) since I played it. Perhaps the problem was as much me trying to approach combat in OS2 just as I did in OS1.
Ah ha for me it's the opposite... I really quite liked the magical/physical armour split in the sequel whereas the "defence" stat and how much attacks absorb doesn't seem to make any sense in relation to it in Original Sin 1😄
It doesn't help I've chose different schools of magic for my mage (Hydrophist and Pyrokenetic) that don't really snyc well and I'm not using the enviroment effects as much as I should either.
OS2 does loads of stuff better, mind you. Story, character, voice acting, graphics. Lots more in-your-face refinements. Just an easier game to like, I think. Still havn't finished it though, I am near the end of Act 4! Stuck on a crazy encounter.
So ready for Baldurs Gate 3!!
Is it the kraken in the harbour? Took me a while to get through that ok. The Doctor messed me up a number of times too. The final battle was real nasty stuff but so satisfying when I finally got to the end.
Baldurs Gate 3 looks so good too. Ugh I need a PS5 cus no way in hell is the PS4 getting that!
Twials Trials of Mana. Playing with my nephew, and he wanted an all-female team, so that made deciding the team composition pretty easy. While it's interesting how the game interweaves the stories of the various characters, the stories themselves are super basic, even for an SNES JRPG. Wouldn't be so bad if the storytelling itself wasn't so mediocre.
I'm trying to enjoy the game for what it is, but between the underwhelming combat (basically Ys combat, except you're primarily fighting things that look like stuffed animals, and combat itself is weirdly stiff), disappointing narrative, stilted character animations, and insanely bad english voice acting, it's a bit of a trial to play (badum-tish!).
Currently Playing: The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy (PC)
I recall playing the demo for that and having very similar thoughts about it @Ralizah.
Especially the voice acting! Goddamn the english voice acting... It's like they just roped people in off the street
I also chose an all female team I think and I thought the sorcereress had the best opening? The Valkyrie's made me roll my eyes and... I don't recall the other's at all 😅
@RogerRoger Yes, thank you. The monkey's bored expression really sells it.
@HallowMoonshadow It's really bad. Like, 90s anime localization bad. It's actually a little nostalgic, in that respect: I thought we were beyond the point of companies hiring the janitorial staff to voice characters in a major JRPG release, but I guess not.
The openings were all pretty silly, tbh. Riesz's wasn't too bad (although even my young nephew questioned the wisdom of allowing a small child to waddle around with a device that deactivates the machine protecting your kingdom from attack) until she stupidly ran off and just left her kid brother (who is royalty) with an enemy, and then acts shocked when she discovers he was kidnapped. Literally just grabbing the kid's hand before running off would have prevented that entire storyline. Angela's storyline involves her mother randomly turning evil and trying to sacrifice her to trigger some sort of dark magic, which causes her to run away. Charlotte's storyline... she''s chasing some guy, or something, and runs away from the castle. That's it, lol
My nephew wants to keep playing, but we're kinda just openly making fun of it as we play now.
@HallowMoonshadow I actually gave the os1 soundtrack a full listen after I wrote that in case I was wrong and the soundtrack was actually rubbish but I was surprised that it was even better than I remembered it being 😂
Thanks for the run down of the openings @Ralizah. Ya made me recall that it was Riesz's opening that broke me with the idiot ball being passed around among the cast like there was no tomorrow. That scenario could've been so easily prevented it threatened to make my eyes roll right out my skull! 😅
Good to hear your nephew is still enjoying it, even if it's laughing at it alongside you
... I just realised you have got a LOT of JRPG on your hands at the moment with that, Xen Chronicles 3 by yourself and Soul Hackers 2 coming up at the end of the month too!
Well snap @kyleforrester87! Glad to hear you enjoyed the soundtrack even more then recall.
I've just done the Braccus Rex fight which at first seemed utterly impossible thanks to the firestorm/metor like spell he leads off with that just destroyed my party in one turn.
... But then I completely broke the fight by sending my mage in by themeselves (after juicing them up withbfire resistance) and then by teleporting him in front of one of his minions it blocked them both off from the fight for some reason, allowing me to turn it revive my mage and turn it into two 4v2 fights where I decimated them 😅
Re3Make! Approaching the end of my 1st 'blind' playthrough on normal difficulty.
This is, IMO, one of the weakest entries in the RE series.... especially when you weight it up against RE2Make, RE7 and RE8 (7 being my personal favorite)
But I wanted a shorter game following on from getting the Nioh plat, and RE3 has ticked the box. Not sure if I'll push for the plat, see how I feel after being the game once.
@HallowMoonshadow I expect, between older games and new stuff, and with how long these games often take to complete, I'll be knee-deep in JRPGs just from Square-Enix, Atlus, and Nintendo for the rest of my natural life.
Currently Playing: The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy (PC)
Strange one for me this evening as I’ve done all I can do on Red Dead Redemption 2 Online until the weekend and I don’t want to start God of War 3: Remastered until my day off on Wednesday… so I checked what I had installed.
I’d had a quick hour on Resogun back about 6 months ago and liked it quite a bit… but I was spinning other plates at the time and never ended up going back to it. Loaded it back up today and the game is Walter White-level Blue Sky crystal meth. Very addictive!
@ThereThere That’s exactly what this hobby is all about! I loved taking turns with my younger brother because he’s too young to have played the older ones like we did growing up.
Tetris Effect via PS Plus Extra. It is the most zen I've been from playing a game for a very long time. Shout out to the T shaped tetromino which has saved my bacon many times.
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Started God of War 3: Remastered this morning and I can already tell that it’s probably gonna end up my favourite of the Greek saga. The boss fight against Hades in particular was phenomenal!
Little bit worried that I might’ve lowered the difficulty from Titan by mistake after dying one too many times… but hopefully not as that would mean a whole extra playthrough. Oh well, fingers crossed that I didn’t 😅
Edging towards the end of God of War 3: Remastered and it’s been great. Really hoping I am still on Titan difficulty as some of these fights have been quite the challenge, so I wouldn’t like to think that I’d have to beat them again… only with added difficulty.
Reckon I’ll take quite a bit longer to 100% Lego Avengers. I do remember bits and pieces from playing it on Wii U years ago but I didn’t realise that the open world is essentially the postgame. So I couldn’t really run around in between levels. It’s going to take a long long time.
@nessisonett I’m impressed that you’ve been playing these Lego games back-to-back-to-back. I’ve never completed one but I recently played one of them with a friend at his pleading. It was a decent time playing co-op, which isn’t something I do a lot of. But I don’t have much investment into Legos per se, even if I’m a big fan of all the franchises they base them on, like Star Wars, Marvel, Harry Potter, DC, etc.
Regardless, sticking with several of them in a row is almost as impressive as the people who marathon the entire Yakuza series back-to-back. 😅
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