@LieutenantFatman I bought Death Stranding in the Halloween sale but haven’t started it yet due to my house move and lack of internet seeing as a fair bit of it centres around that multiplayer experience.
I’m pleased to hear you enjoyed it though as most people on here seemed to so I’m looking forward to the chance to give it a go once our router turns up next week!
@nessisonett Like you say, you're probably burned out on pirate action by now, but Freedom Cry really is worth a go. Decent story, and there are some very good missions
Good job, Parappa. You can go on to the next stage now.
@Gremio108 I think I got that with PS Plus so might download Freedom Cry since it’s really not supposed to be that long. I liked Adéwale a lot too, he was the moral centre for most of the game.
@Th3solution Honestly, I’d say I preferred Assassin’s Creed III as well. It felt like a more focused game with a very grounded plot focused on the father/son relationship between Connor and Haytham. The remaster probably fixed most of the issues people had with the original so I didn’t get a true picture of the state of the game on release however. Black Flag did quite a few things right but I just felt it didn’t really stick the landing and marry the different elements of the game together into one coherent whole.
@nessisonett Yeah I probably wouldn't have played it if I hadn't got it on Plus, but I was glad I did. I found myself far more invested in it than I was in the main game.
I seem to remember the gameplay being a bit more varied as well but I can't recall how, so I might be making that up.
Good job, Parappa. You can go on to the next stage now.
I finished off Freedom Cry there and it was honestly brilliant. It had an actual sense of focus which was missing from the main game and I loved the new gameplay twists. The plantation raids especially were incredibly designed. It also had real consequences for being caught, the overseers would start harming slaves if you caused too much noise. I found myself freeing as many slaves as I could not to pursue the rewards given for reaching milestones but because I just couldn’t ignore the blatant cruelty being shown on screen. They handled a difficult subject matter extremely well, giving you the power to stand up to one of the most horrific atrocities committed by man, while still keeping the game grounded in that one tiny error resulted in the loss of human lives. It’s quite simply one of the best DLCs I’ve played in any game. Cheers to @Gremio108 for reminding me about it, I would have overlooked it otherwise.
I completed Trails of Cold Steel 4 on Thursday with a play time of just over 84 hours. I completed Celeste in just under eight hours dying 1850 times on Saturday morning.
I’ve just completed skyward sword with a plate timer 40 hours.
That’s everything I want to play on the PS4 and Wii U completed. I don’t really feel like playing anything else till the PS5 arrives.
My plan to sell my PS4 pro. The nine games in the PlayStation plus collection I own and Assassin’s Creed Syndicate has been foiled by lockdown. So I guess it will be Astro’s playroom
@nessisonett It may be short but it's one of my favourite Assassin's Creed games. You're right, it gives you reasons to fulfill objectives beyond simply ticking off an arbitrary list - it makes you feel like a proper hero. This sense of heroism was flipped on its head in the mission where the ship was attacked. People were dying left, right and centre and I was powerless to do anything about it, just had to get out of there while the whole ship went down
Good job, Parappa. You can go on to the next stage now.
Trails Of Cold Steel 2 is officially done and dusted.
I... have VERY mixed feelings regarding it personally.
I won't say a whole lot about my gripes with it here but the pacing of this one did get on my pip quite a bit to say the least.
I do wonder if you'd appreciate some of the things it does more then me @nessisonett as it has a lot of callbacks to the previous games in the series (The Crossbell games in particular as it takes place at roughly the same time)
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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I’ve honestly heard a lot of mixed things about the Cold Steel games in general, at least from series veterans. I’m on the final chapter of the first Crossbell game so should be onto Cold Steel soon but yeah, pacing’s an issue with basically the whole series. I think a lot of people jumped in with Cold Steel and so that’s all they know, usually supplementing their knowledge of the series through YouTube videos or the Wiki. These people usually tend to love the Cold Steel games but never actually go back and play the older ones. Then there are the original fans who aggressively dislike the Cold Steel games probably mostly because the influx of fans makes them feel insecure, although a lot have issues with the waifu elements of Cold Steel similar to the older Fire Emblem fans. And then there’s me, who’s just playing the games in order and don’t know what to think!
I actually really quite liked the slow pace of the first game @nessisonett as I found the world building for Erebonia and the field trips around the country to be quite interesting.
But the second drags for me quite a bit.
There's padding and then there's what this does among other problems that I have with that won't talk about here (Though the waifu stuff is getting on my pip a bit too...)
It'll be an intetesting review for sure whenever I get round to penning it. I do have the demo of the third to go through and honestly I'm kinda glad about that because unlike after the first where I was eager to play more... I can't honestly say I feel the same after the second.
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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"
I've reached the end credits of Yakuza 0. The game is so good. It's got a fine story, and the characters are fleshed out. The combat was cool as well, with the different fighting styles providing plenty of variety. Plus I love the stylistic choices in the game, and how over the top everything is. Then there's all the side content and various mini games (the big tough yakuza did spend a lot of time in the arcade playing Out Run in my playthrough).
I'll head back to it and try out some of the content that I missed. However, I probably won't go for 100% completion or try to get the Platinum trophy though.
Just finished off Splinter Cell Blacklist after playing Conviction. @RogerRoger thought I'd give you a shout as we were discussing them in the Trek thread! I don't know if you bothered with these games because Conviction was 360/PC only and Blacklist is Ironside-less but both are pretty good.
Conviction is fun but not very splinter celly whereas Blacklist, once you get over the lack of Ironside, is actually brilliant. It's a really good game and while it has loads of options for gameplay style, I found it much better to play it in the classic splinter cell style rather than the kind of third person shooter style of Conviction. I guess it's a bit like MGSV in that regard, a few ways to approach missions (in the campaign at least).
There are 3 other sets of side missions given by other characters that are playable in solo. Grimsdottir gives you perfect stealth missions (one alarm and it's game over) which are just excellent, Kobin gives you kill all the mercenaries missions which can be done stealthily so these are also good and Charlie gives you wave based horde mode style missions which are a bit rubbish in my opinion.
Charlie's missions and a few Call of Duty-esque parts of the campaign are the few poorly implemented distractions and while I criticise them, they are so few and far between that they really don't detract from the overall game which is really good. It feels like it takes the best bits of the first 4 games and the best bits of Conviction and mashes them up which gives you leeway in terms of how you want to play the game.
I played it on Wii U so I'm not sure how far this stretches to other formats, but the frame rate is a bit choppy on the Paladin (central level select hub) and the loading times are atrocious. Also I was kind of hoping the Wii U version would implement the gamepad in a similar way to how the old games on GameCube could connect to the game boy advance. In the old ones, you'd have the action on the TV but look down at the GBA to check the map and use certain gadgets but both screens were on at the same time. Blacklist on Wii U does shift the view down to the gamepad for gadgets but you lose the image on the TV so I don't really see the point of shifting anything to the gamepad whatsoever.
I'd give Blacklist a solid 8, knocking a point off for lack of Ironside (I think Grim sounds different too but I haven't checked the voice actor) and a point off for slightly poor performance on Wii U. Though luckily the frame rate and load times only really apply to the hub world, the campaign played really well on the Wii U. It's a bit overwhelming at first, and it was both a blessing and a curse that I jumped straight into a Grim side mission before playing the first (non-prologue) mission of the campaign. Took me ages to learn this extra difficult stealth mission which kind of formed the way I played the rest of the game!
@RogerRoger im glad you like blacklist too! Its so weird how it just kind of went under the radar. I and probably so many others probably dismissed it for the Ironside replacement but it was just so good and an appropriate update to the splinter cell formula. I hope they get off their butts and make an 8th (9th if you include the second version of double agent) game in a similar style to it!
Maybe the PS3 installs some of the game to the hard drive which helps with the load times, I think the Wii U just reads everything off the disc because of a lack of reasonable internal storage (I could hear the disc drive going crazy when I was playing it)
Have you not played conviction then? I'm surprised Blacklist made sense but I guess there was enough cursory dialogue to explain the status quo change. Conviction basically explains the resurrection of Sarah Fisher, why Sam hates Grim now and why there's no Third Echelon in Blacklist. I think I've only said what is shown in blacklist without revealing the spoilers of the finer details but I apologise it not!
Anyway, it was nice to finish a game on the Wii U, I have loads of games for it but I've completed relatively few of them. (Mario Kart 8, the 2 HD Zeldas, Star Fox Zero, Breath of the Wild and now Blacklist). Despite that, I've always had the thing set up since it came out, sucking up that stand by electricity because there's no off switch!
Another thing I forgot to mention, I always thought that Ironside was replaced because Ubisoft wanted someone young to do the motion capture (like that's a problem in any other game 🤦🏻♂️) but Wikipedia says Ironside couldn't do it because he had cancer but it cites no sources for that info. Very weird!
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