Topic: Games you've recently beat

@KilloWertz - Never played a ME game, so I’d be going in cold to the trilogy remaster…. But I’ve heard this could be positive! Now that Eden Ring has been pushed back, I might have the needed gap to squeeze into the backlog before Feb… will see how I get on, cheers for the recomendation!

@Iver I'm finding Kena a pretty solid 7 - 8 out of 10 so far. Like I said elsewhere, the gameplay is pretty standard fare, but the presentation and story is what I think rises it above average for me.

For a studio's first game it is a really good effort and am glad they have already made back the cost of making the game. One to watch in the future, fo sure.

@LtSarge Yeah, I think we did, and I remember how much you enjoyed Ys Seven. 😀 It's taken me a long time to finally get into the series! Next up I'll do Memories of Celceta, which is in my Vita ready to play after Metroid Dread. I had initially considered playing the games in chronological order, but the shift from old to new and back again would be too jarring. There's one character in Ys Seven that seems to have been in Ark of Napishtim, so I had no idea who they were or why they had so much animosity towards Adol and Dogi, but aside from that there's been nothing particularly linking the games thus far.

Ys Origin is so good. The framerate was pretty atrocious during boss battles, but I love the combat and script. I'm looking forward to getting to Ys VIII and IX, but have preferred the shorter playtimes of the other games.

@nessisonett I wasn't expecting the entire party to be split up in the final battle, so even though reserve members do gain XP, they were still a few levels behind my main team. It was a really unnecessary difficulty spike that dragged the final section out far too long. It was also the only boss battle that didn't give the option to drop the difficulty when I got a game over, which was a bit mean!

@RogerRoger I played Temple of Osiris in local co-op, so maybe that's why there were performance hiccoughs. It seemed a bit strange considering it didn't seem to push the system hard. There was this really strange bug that emerged when redoing the first level alone for the time trial. All of the enemies disappeared, and none of the cutscenes popped up, so it made whizzing through it a breeze.

@Iver That's somewhat surprising, unless she really struggled against the bosses too. Then I could definitely understand.

@Iver It's not gonna beat Returnal for me, but it is defo up there in the top 10 to 5 games I've played this year. Unless some drastic happens in the last third.

@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.

Sorry for the lateish reply @LtSarge.

I'm definitely taking a break from the series for a spell. Even if I did have Yakuza Kiwami 2 (Which I don't... yet) I don't wanna do what I did last summer with Trails Of Cold Steel 1 & 2 back to back.

And no... No you don't want to know my thoughts on Cold Steel 2

@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!

I'm well aware given your love for the series 😅

I was sad myself writing that after rather enjoying Cold Steel 1 @LtSarge... But I wouldn't say it was entirely burnout either unfortunately (In fact playing Kiwami sorta gave me similar vibes to my thoughts on Cold Steel 2)

For the record I did play Cold Steel 3's demo a while after (December... Or maybe January this year?) and I did enjoy that so... I haven't wrote off returning to the series 😄

And I hopefully when I get back round to Yakuza I'll enjoy the next installment!

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.