Topic: Games you've recently beat

@Gremio108 I’ve been playing loads of Forza Horizon 4 recently, it’s just brilliant. Partly because it’s a game set in the UK and totally captures the crap weather but it puts Gran Turismo Sport to shame in terms of content and fun.

@nessisonett Yeah if it were on PS4 I'd have bought it in a heartbeat!

I finished off the Tribunal expansion for Morrowind, it was half brilliant due to the main plot being fantastic but the lack of an overworld kinda took away from the experience. All the exploration and fighting takes place underneath Mournhold, in the sewers... which is about as exciting as it sounds. I really did enjoy my time with it though, I think that’s me ready to move on from Morrowind. Maybe I’ll start another playthrough of Oblivion!

@RogerRoger Aye, that was me. Cheers! Have you considered The Outer Worlds? I think you'd quite like it

@nessisonett @Thrillho @RogerRoger I do often prefer more linear, structured games. The open world in Origins feels a little pointless, despite not being overly large, but this is more than made up for by its excellent story sequences. If Arkham City has a smaller world it may strike a good balance between the two styles.

@Gremio108 Congrats for The Outer Wealds platinum! How was supernova difficulty? The writing really is excellent throughout. Some of the dialogue options are absolutely hilarious!

Just finished the PS4 version of Tomb Raider: Isle of the Incels. I played it years ago on the 360, but wanted a refresh before playing the other two games in the trilogy. It’s very good, although pushes some of the Uncharted 2-ish genre tropes a little too heavily at times, and also goes a little too far with the whole “let’s put “vulnerable” Lara through hell” premise. Gameplay overall is extremely solid and it’s very well made - a few bugs aside - and fun to play, if not a little overlong. The package is slightly let down by a rather weak script (dialogue is dreadful at times) and cookie-cutter characters with some embarrassing accents, but I’m looking forward to playing the next game.

@mookysam Oh lord, Groundskeeper Willie’s dialogue is atrocious in Tomb Raider. The whole game suffers from terrible dialogue, I’d agree with that but I found myself quite enjoying the gameplay and I did get 100%.

@mookysam Cheers! Supernova gets easier the further you get into the game. As you amass XP you end up with more points to play with and higher dialogue-based stats, allowing you to talk your way out of things.

There's a higher emphasis on stealing stuff, or at least there was for me. More money means more opportunities to either a) bribe or b) respec so you can hit that dialogue mark you need to progress easier. Basically avoid conflict wherever possible, because most enemies will waste you. Running away is a perfectly viable option too.

I recently beat Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and thoroughly enjoyed the experience, it was great, especially the final, third, canonical part of the game, which was excellent along with the rest of the non-canonical content.

@nessisonett Groundskeeper Willie would be preferable! https://youtu.be/78vl3QzVZMY

Lord knows how they did their casting. The absolute worst are the voiced text logs, especially the Japanese and German ones.

Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2 on the PS2.

I'll share my thoughts at some point in the future. Still need to go back and clean up some endgame stuff before the final boss. But I've seen the credits, so whenever I get the hankering, I can happily drop it.

That’s the credits rolled on Assassin’s Creed III Remastered. I think I still have a couple of epilogue chapters before I chase the last few percent and start the DLC as I edge closer towards the platinum. I have to say though, that ending was proper brilliant even if the whole Desmond thing ended a bit abruptly. Given what I remember of Black Flag’s modern day stuff, they seem to have panicked and not known what to do afterwards. The game as a whole was brilliant though, some glaring bugs and weird gameplay aside. The remaster apparently fixes quite a few issues from what I’ve seen, specifically around stealth. There were some truly dodgy bugs, including some hard crashes and the strange misspelling of ‘British Amiral’ on ships but hey, it’s Ubisoft. Really didn’t think I’d enjoy it as much as I have!

Tonight I beat the Lost Bear on PSVR, and I'll post my impressions in the appropriate thread sometime soon.

I've also finished up Trials of Mana (PS4), Vader Immortal (PSVR), Super Mario 64 (Switch), & Super Mario Sunshine (Switch) in recent memory, with my thoughts posted in the Impressions thread over the past few weeks.

@Arugula Yeah that’s unpopular and for good reason mwahahaha. I dunno, I loved it despite the clear pacing issues!

I just beat Trails of Cold Steel III for the third time and I'm just so hyped for the fourth game in the series. However, I'm on PC and seeing it being released in 2021 has left me really sad but still very excited.

@Arugula I waaaay preferred it to RE2 Remake. Mind you I was never that fussed on RE 4 either.

@RogerRoger @Kidfried I just felt the act IV just kept on going and having blown through the game so quickly I needed a break afterwards. So when act V was so short I felt a little letdown although that final moment with the music is beautifully done. I can’t imagine what I must have been like for people to have waited two years between act IV and V!

I liked the fact that you had to embrace the journey rather than the destination and as long as you get on board with accepting that it’s the experience rather than a tidy story then I think people will get it. But I understand why people can’t buy into that.

I do think the cast got a little bloated by act IV as well but also liked the fact it wasn’t the story of any one character in the end.

I can’t imagine how it must have been to follow the game as it was released but I wonder if that added to the mystery of it all.

That soundtrack though!

Just watched my mum finish Mafia: Definitive Edition. That last chapter was absolutely brilliant and really capped an amazing game. It’s cool that since it’s a remake, there’s a major tie to the second game in the final cutscene which sets it up. I think my mum will finish off Uncharted 1 and play 2 before moving onto the next Mafia though!

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I think there was a patch a couple of weeks ago so I really don’t know if it’s been fixed yet! Guess we’ll find out when we boot it up but most of the glitches in the first game were funny rather than frustrating. The incredible cutscene quality more than made up for it.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy One great thing about the Mafia remake is that it’s linear. It’s easy to burn out on open world games but it’s just a solid story with a great setting, stunning graphics and relatively decent gameplay.

I have finished Hannah Montana PS3 2 weeks ago. 😀
It was very short game, about 3 - 4 hours.
But i took several months to finish the game.
I realized Hannah Montana and Miley were same Miley Cyrus with different wigs.
Also, following the storyline during gameplay, i thought it was ironic to see Miley have to pretend to be Hannah by wearing blonde wig (kinda made her looks like drag queen) and did role changes during having family dinner and dating with her boyfriend at the same time.