Topic: Games you've recently beat

@Iver Admittedly the camera can prove a bit problematic, especially during boss fights. Can't say I recall having any issues with the controls or the map though.

@Iver Obviously I agree on the difficulty, and even somewhat on the map. I found it easy to get lost at times since, while it clearly labels where on the map your next objective is located, the path to it can sometimes be confusing even though it seems easy just looking at the map. I didn't have much in the way of issues with the camera or a lot of glitches though.

@Iver @KilloWertz Yeah no glitches for me either. Agree that the way points in the game could be better, but I had no problems using the map.

@JohnnyShoulder Like I said, I did find it fairly easy to get lost at times. Since it's been a little while since I played the portion of the game that I played, it's possible it's just the game itself and not really the map that causes that.

@Iver So was I, as it was my most anticipated game of the year after Horizon 2 got delayed like we all expected it to. That made it really disappointing when I stopped played it because I was really frustrated with the boss battles. I don't play games to die 40 times fighting bosses that are intentionally insanely hard, but I will likely give the game a second chance and just drop the difficulty down when those bosses pop up. That's really the only times I had extreme issues with the difficulty.

After almost 4 months of pure fun and entertainment, today I brought down the curtain on Far Cry 5 - and I was just a bit disappointed with my ending. No spoilers here from me but even having played the alternative options, I was left very unsatisfied and a little annoyed, given the excellent game up to that point.
Still, a bloody good game overall though.

@RogerRoger This was my first Far Cry game, and from what I have seen of 6, it looks almost the same kind of deal - so I'm not really up for more right now. Yeah, I mean the ending didn't ruin the game for me, but it did disappoint somewhat. Although, I knew early on that, for me, the game wasn't going to be about the story, but more a sandbox of fun to play through for a few months. But as the end neared, I became more interested in how it would play out.

I beat Yakuza 5 and I have mixed feelings about it. My favourite in the series going into it was 4, and I like the multiple stories thing and I like the side stories stuff, having extra tasks to do etc. I just didn't think the story came together at the end. I spent most of it not knowing what was going on but assuming they were going to do a big reveal at the end that tied everything together and I was going to be like SO THAT'S WHAT THAT WAS ABOUT but when it ended I was just like pretty nonplussed.

Anyway I'm on 0 now and it's very good so far.

@johncalmc So I guess you’re playing them in release order? Or have you already played Y0 before and and just going back?

@Th3solution I'm going through them all in release order, except for Judgement which I've already played.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Your last sentence makes me sad, lol. But it's understandable considering you played through the games back-to-back. It's very easy to get burned out on games like this, so I think it's a good call to take a break from Yakuza. Take your time and hopefully you'll be able to enjoy the games to the fullest!

just beat god of war 2018 for the second time in anticipation of ragnarok so i'm re-caught up on the storyline.

@RogerRoger It also removed all traps and arrow thingys. I'm not complaining, but it was the strangest bug I've ever had in any game. And that includes Bethesda ones! I'm not sure what triggers bugs for some people and not others. Guess it could even be subtle differences in hardware components, or tackling gameplay in a specific way.

@Kidfried For what it's worth I played on a launch PS4. 😂

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Trails of Cold Steel 1 was such a wretched experience on the Vita I repurchased the second one for the PS4! I think if I played them back-to-back I would have ended up absolutely hating it and swearing off the series for ever, which would be a shame because I adored the Trails in the Sky games.

Finally finished Tomb Raider! It was dated, irritating at best, infuriating at worst. But I kinda enjoyed it despite all that. The fact I had to kill the final boss 7 times because you have to then make a series of jumps to finish the game which I kept failing, probably says a lot about how much I enjoyed it in spite of the mechanics. I’m not sure whether I’ll go onto Tomb Raider II right away but I really did enjoy it.

@mookysam lol Trails in the Sky put me off the entire series. The thought of having to play TitS (laugh it up, mental twelve years olds!) SC and 3rd has stymied any progress I could have made on the series this year.

When you say ToCS1 on Vita was a wretched experience, do you mean you didn't like the game, or something about the performance?

@nessisonett Are the other TitS games REALLY needed to properly appreciate later games in this series? If not, I'm just jumping into the Crossbell games.

@Ralizah Absolutely yes. The bad guys are introduced in SC and they’re still the bad guys by Cold Steel 4. SC is way way better than the first one though. I liked 3rd but it’s definitely divisive as it’s a straight dungeon crawler. Crossbell really does follow straight on from the Sky games so I couldn’t really imagine jumping in there.

@Ralizah The performance was woeful in parts and never fully stable. Most of the game is tolerable, but there's an entire section at the academy near end of the game where it completely tanks for the whole time you're in the area, rendering it practically unplayable. Other than that I didn't see why it felt the need to adopt some of smuttier elements of modern Japanese games, and the whole waifu harem thing it had going on just made me roll my eyes. So I rebelled and had Rean go on a date with one of his male classmates.

And like @nessisonett says, TitS (my inner 12 year-old giggles) SC is pretty important for the overarching story of the series. It is a much better game than the first one, with a more sustained, exciting plot. I know you were put off by the incestuous storyline in the first one, which continues in force. Estelle probably needed a Moonstruck Cher slap to snap her out of it.

You can date your male classmates?

That sucks about the performance, though. Falcom's Ys games on PSP seemed to run pretty well, so you'd think they'd have some experience with optimizing games to run decently on Sony's portable systems.

k, fine, FINE, I trust you and @nessisonett on this. I'll give it a shot, incest or no.

@Ralizah Yeah, the Estelle and Joshua stuff never stops being a bit icky but from what I’ve heard of Cold Steel, I think I’d prefer that to going down the dodgy harem side of things!

@nessisonett Out of curiosity since I haven't played the Trails in the Sky titles, who were the bad guys in the second game? (put it under spoiler tags) Because as far as I'm concerned, the villains in Cold Steel that were in Liberl show up in pretty much every CS title, so by the time you get to CS4 you're already well-acquainted with them. I definitely didn't feel a need to have played the Sky games for that reason.

However, there are definitely a lot of sections in CS3 that didn't resonate with me as much because I hadn't played the Sky titles. But for the most part, CS1 and CS2 are perfectly playable without prior knowledge. I'd personally recommend to @Ralizah to play CS1 and CS2 while you wait for the Crossbell titles to come out next year and then play them before CS3 and CS4 as those two games will delve heavily into the Liberl/Crossbell arcs.

@LtSarge Ouroboros. Several enforcers appear throughout the 3 games and also in Crossbell.