Topic: Games you've recently beat

@GoodGame Well done!! How many hours has it taken you to get that far? I might install this and have a go for the platinum if it's not too long as it does look good.

@render It's really good fun. I love it. I would say around 20 hours maybe.

@GoodGame Oooh go on then, think I'll give it a go. Thanks for letting me know and good luck on the platinum!! 😀

@render Thanks

Watch Dogs 2 story done, some really cool missions (or Ops) in the latter half of the game too. I’ll be interested to see how Ubisoft mess this franchise up with Legion as I really feel they had something with WD2… if it had of been nurtured properly they really could have had their own GTA!

@RogerRoger I picked up the PS5 version of Legion for around £20 a few months back but it was always WD2 that people were suggesting I play, so I took the prevailing advice and I reckon they were right. Funnily enough the original Watch Dogs was the first game I ever played on my current PSN profile (when I first booted up my PS4) and it’s been stinking up my trophy list on 1% ever since. Although I hated it back then, I think I’m gonna give it another chance after I’ve finished Ghost of Tsushima. Not sure if the plat will still be achievable due to online trophies but I can definitely improve the percentage some.

If you’re ever looking for a sandbox crime game, I’d definitely give WD2 a shot.

@colonelkilgore To be fair, Watch Dogs 2 is only a ‘crime’ sandbox depending on your political stance 😂😂

@nessisonett correction - sandbox whistleblower game 😎

I thought WD1 was fine and I finished it. I fell off the 2nd one though 🤷‍♂️
Not sure why, tbh.

@RogerRoger 😂🤣 I know right. In all seriousness though I wasn’t always obsessed with the dopamine rush derived by meaningless digital trinkets. Back then if a game didn’t grip me within an hour or two I’d generally quit and start something else, which was probably the case with WD1. I only really started going after platinums on everything I played after lockdown last year, before that I had a few on games I really enjoyed but that was about it. The strange repercussions of covid huh?

@Voltan yeah no game is for everyone in my experience, it’s possible that maybe you weren’t in the mood for a sandbox at the time though… if that was the case and you’re ever fancying a GTA-like in future it might be worth digging it back out. Or if you never played Sleeping Dogs, I really enjoyed that also.

@colonelkilgore I did finish Sleeping Dogs and liked it a lot
I could never get into any GTA btw

@Voltan yeah it was an awesome little game fair play… although it’ll never happen I’d love a sequel. GTA-wise, it (GTA3 to be precise) brought me back to gaming after I discovered drink, drugs and boobies and fallen off of gaming during the PSone era.

For a while there GTA games were the only thing I’d play, things change though and I’d be in no particular rush to play GTA6.

@colonelkilgore So I take it that playing WD1 is not really a necessary prerequisite to playing, enjoying, and understanding the story of WD2? I too have had it on the fringe of my “maybe one day when I’m in a specific mood” list. It’s way down the list, mind, but your enjoyment has me more curious.

@Th3solution no very little connection at all from what I could gather... just one small side-quest that went nowhere really. In regards to if/when you decide yo draw it from you backlog... definitely wait until you're in the mood for 'something' akin to GTA. Maybe that won't happen but if it does, you'll have the perfect game to slot in 👍

I finished Yakuza Kiwami 2 yesterday. It was really good.

@johncalmc Some great fights at the end but I found the whole ”haha, I’m Korean!”, “gasp, so am I!”, “and me!!” got a bit silly at the end but the Yakuza plots are always a bit daft/camp.

There are certainly more ridiculous bits in other games.

Just finished the story of Ghost of Tsushima, bit of mopping up to do for the Platinum but done a big chunk of it during my play through… magnificent game. Probably one of my favourites of all time and I will definitely play the Directors Cut in the future.

@TraCruz @Thrillho @Jimmer-jammer just to echo the great things you guys have previously mentioned about GoT… I frikkin’ loved it! Will be a bit sad when the Plat pops actually. I’d place it there or thereabouts in my top 5 games ever.

Also, I couldn’t help but feel some narrative and thematic similarities to Batman Begins and The Dark Knight while playing it… maybe it’s just me as I love those films so much but Jin reminds me a lot of Nolan’s Batman… though he obviously kills a helluva lot more baddies.

@TraCuz- here you go dude:

@colonelkilgore @Jimmer-jammer The gameplay in Ghost is just sublime, I thought it was so intuitive how they handled the gear menus (Holding L1/L2 then D-pad or face buttons) and I know I seen a lot of complaints about it but the game not having a lock on never once bothered me.

@colonelkilgore If you truly love Ghost that much you owe it to yourself to not complete, but at least check out the online Legends mode. I'm completely down to run a story misson or two, and a survival mission but if you wanna run solo I completely understand. You just have to check it out before you ever say bye to Ghost.