@Werehog In fear of angering the resident Final Fantasy fans, I won't ask you to elaborate further on your experience of disdain with 7 to spare you their ire! A shame it didn't hit the same way for you. I do think I'll eventually get around to them, but I'll go with the remakes. As far as I can tell, they're highly respected even by fans despite the story changes they make, which is as high praise as anybody can give a remake. I've got plenty of JRPG on my hands right now with Star Ocean however, so it'll probably be a while before I press play!
I'm sorry to hear you had another bad "Game Over" experience with Star Trek: Voyager. It seems we've both been cursed with it in the last week, but in both of our cases, the games have luckily grabbed us enough that we could move past the initial anger! Did you start playing it on hard difficulty and moved down to normal, or was it even just normal difficulty that proved too much for a first-time playthrough? I'd love to hear your general thoughts on it so far as well. This game was not on my radar at all until you'd mentioned it recently, and it seems like something that might equally be up my alley.
@Tjuz I'll come back with thoughts on Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown once I've finished my first playthrough (which should be tomorrow, pending any endgame catastrophe) but to answer your question, it has three difficulties, and I started on its "normal" equivalent. Had to bump it down to "easy" and that's how I've been able to progress. It's reportedly been designed to be tough, but since I have little experience in its particular genre, the lower difficulty is plenty engaging enough for me.
How about your ongoing experience with Star Ocean, have you suffered any more setbacks?
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@Werehog Well, I'll be eagerly awaiting what you have to say regarding Voyager! In the meantime, I've heard some... let's say negative opinions on the game from some Trekkies who run a gaming podcast I listen to. I wonder what your reaction would have been to the same moments they discussed as standing out for them! And well, no shame in lowering the difficulty if that's what makes it easier for you have fun with it. It's all about preserving your best possible experience in the end. I'm sure I would do it too with any game that actively makes itself hard by default... I just tend to avoid them!
As for Star Ocean, I've just happened to post my impressions of it over on that thread. I'll send you the link if you want to check it out at any point!
Started Mafia 2 - Definitive Edition yesterday and was pretty impressed by the remaster tbh. I played the game years ago on PS3… and played the remake of the original Mafia in around 2019. I’d been putting off 2 since then as I’d heard that it was a poor remaster and port but I was really pleasantly surprised by it tbh. I’m sure it looks both considerably sharper and more vibrant than the original PS3 version and also runs real smooth. I’ve looked into it and it apparently runs at a locked 30 fps but feels smoother than that (hence my checking). Couldn’t see any information about a PS5 patch… but who knows.
Anyway, I’m enjoying it and for anyone that likes to play wintery games at Christmas, this would be a good one. Very chilled and it’s set in a proxy for New York covered in snow.
@Tjuz That was (and is) a fantastic Star Ocean review! Enjoyed reading it on the train the other day, and will forward it to that friend I previously mentioned when next we speak. Fingers tightly crossed that your high hopes for continuing the series pan out! Thanks for sharing!
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@graymamba Good to hear the Mafia II remaster isn't as dire as its reputation suggests. Having played both Mafia games either side of it, I was kinda wanting to pick it up at some point, so your endorsement (and the fact that it's a wintery game, which I didn't realise) helps! Cheers!
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@Werehog I haven’t played Mafia 3 yet but I’d definitely say that you’d like 2 if you liked 1. From memory, I’d probably say that I enjoyed 1 a bit more… I seem to remember really liking the narrative in that one. That’s not to say I don’t like the story in this one but it maybe feels a little less grandiose and more street level. The games themselves are really quite similar though.
Edit. So I just finished it and it actually had a great ending, so I’m not actually sure which if the two has the best story. Both are really good tbh.
@graymamba Grateful for your expanded thoughts! I played the Definitive Edition of the first game, for what it's worth, but the sound of a smaller, street-level story certainly appeals (and praise for its ending will definitely pull me through any mid-game lulls).
Got any plans on playing the third game anytime soon? I remember it getting a pretty average reception, but I thought it was great. Didn't play the DLC, though.
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@graymamba logically there is only one game to play after Mafia 1 and Mafia 2... and it ain't Mafia 3 😉 (Mafia 3 is genuinely a really good game, though, with a genuinely iconic atmosphere, just it is a game with one really big flaw at about 70% of the way into it that needlessly halts the story and flow. So do play it, it is definitely worth it, just you know, not yet) of course, i'm talking about part 3 of the Daniel Vavra Quadrilogy - Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Going from Mafia 2 to that really let's you see how the devs got free reign to go as deep on the game's systems as possible, much deeper than just flicking light switches, fixing engines and taking a passenger to a different location than initially requested for a different reaction, but the seeds were planted in Mafia 1 & 2 for what was to come, for sure.
@Werehog The Mafia 3 DLC is really good. But it's all blurred into one with the game itself, for me. Do you intend to play it, or do you not usually play DLC after the fact? I'm pretty confident it is really quite good and well worth playing, though! Like 99% sure it is better than the base game, even.
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@Ravix Someday, yeah. I got Mafia III via PS Plus, so the DLC cost extra, and I'd kinda had my fill by the time I saw the credits roll. I'm also not a fan of buying DLC for something I don't technically "own" (whatever digital ownership means these days) but I keep seeing Mafia III in the sales, so I'm sure I'll fancy replaying it at some point and, when I do, I'll most likely fold it in then. Thanks for the recommendation!
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@Werehog yeah Mafia 3 is my next scheduled open-world crime ‘em up, though if GTAVI does release later this year I’d imagine the pull to play that at release will be too strong to resist. Either way, I’ll be playing Mafia 3 around this time next year. I have to buy a laptop to take it back to version 1.9 though, which is a bit annoying. Mafia 3 is maybe the most notoriously glitchy games in regards to trophies. @CaptD managed to get the plat recently and the only way to do it was to downdate the version to 1.9. So, I’ll be asking the missus for a laptop for Christmas id imagine, as even though Mafia 3 didn’t do great critically… I think that I’ll love it.
@Ravix I actually wasn’t aware that the games had the same director, so I appreciate that little knowledge drop there. I do have the two Kingdom Come games… and should really have played the first one by now if I’m honest. I guess it was always an easy sacrifice from the schedule due to it not having any online trophies (so it’ll always be obtainable basically). In a way I’m glad I’ve waited though, due to the recent PS5 free upgrade, so it’s definitely been nudged up the list of priorities. Strangely I hope that I love it due to the place it holds in so many other peoples hearts. I know I feel a little bit of my soul dying when people don’t like certain games that are dear to me (the reaction to Days Gone damn near killed me 🤣), so I’m hoping that I don’t end up doing that to you and a few others who feel similarly.
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I thought that all versions of Mafia 3 were ‘upgraded’ to complete versions with version 1.12 so I think the dlc should be available to all.
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Love Days Gone, one of my favourite PS4 games. I’ve yet to do the £10 upgrade but I will at some point, as a note I haven’t paid for any Sony upgrades so far as I’m not really a fan of remasters of games which are playable on current gen, I will make an exception for Days Gone (more of a two fingers up at Sony than anything...which seems a bizarre comment to make).
As for the plat I think the “completed Days Gone” trophy has a pretty high percentage and considering how long the game is it indicates to me that it was very popular, once people actually played it.
As a footnote, it made me laugh that Bungie has asked for a review delay (which is BS imo), Sony Bend must be saying to themselves at this very moment, “Wait, so we could have done that?!” .
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