It has its faults and won't appeal to everyone, but I absolutely loved this game. It's about a group of 8 people who wake up on a small island in a ruined world, who are said to be the last of humanity. The gameplay is dungeon crawling and RPG.
The story is interesting at first as it sets up the situation. The 8 main characters wake up in a small island, with various questions such as what happened to humanity, and why are they there. The story falters a bit as it delves into their backstories, but the story picks right up again once it starts to focus more on the bigger mysteries.
The gameplay involves exploring the various dangerous ruins, with the map being filled in as you explore. I enjoyed the exploration aspects of the ruins. There's various environmental puzzles, often involving switches and pressure plates to unlock different paths, so it requires exploring everywhere. Enemies can be a bit repetitive in the earlier ruins, but there's some trickier surprises in the later stages.
There's a surprising number of different systems in play, which can be intimidating at first. As well as health and stamina (hunger), there's also a bladder meter and stress meter. Characters age rapidly from children to seniors, before dying from old age. They can then be bought back to life on the main island, with bonus perks depending on how they died. For instance, death by slash attacks makes that character more resistant to slash attacks. This all takes a while to get used to, but it's fine once it clicks.
Some aspects of the game feel rough round the edges, but then there's other parts where they've clearly put a lot of effort into it. Personally I had a lot of fun with this game.
Just finished Call of Duty: Black Ops on 360. Absolutely phenomenal campaign! I think it's my favourite one thus far as it was a very trippy experience set during the Cold War (Vietnam, Cuba, etc.), which is a setting we haven't seen much of in video games. Lots of varied missions and fun vehicle sections, I highly enjoyed my time with it.
I can't say this enough but the older CoD games seriously have some of the coolest campaigns I've seen in an FPS. Really glad that I've now finally experienced Black Ops.
@Kidfried Wow, congrats mate! Didn't think you'd end up playing the game for almost 200 hours, that's very impressive. Surely that must be the longest game you've ever played in terms of a single-player experience?
I really liked using Morgana and Makoto as well, since the former is a great healer with some nice critical hit attacks, and the latter being a strong fighter in general. I also used Ann in my team since she had some good moves like being able to put enemies to sleep and is also quite speedy.
Unusually for me with a JRPG, I tend to mix my party up in Persona 5 and switch the characters around a lot because I like most of the cast quite a lot. The only real mainstay is Morgana who I tend to use a lot on account of him being an amusing kitty.
Anyway, the game I recently beat was Yakuza: Like A Dragon, which concludes my playthrough of the entire Yakuza series, and I really, really like this game. It's probably my favourite except for 0. I am totally surprised by this as I went into it thinking it would be a fun spin-off but I wasn't expecting to love it with an all new cast etc.
But it's still basically everything I love about Yakuza only with a combat system that's more up my street personally, a wonderful cast of characters, and a genuinely endearing reverence for the lore/characters of the previous Yakuza games. Loved it. Might even go for the platinum.
@Kidfried Congrats! It’s a marathon, for sure. Glad you enjoyed it and persevered in the end.
@crimsontadpoles Thanks for the impressions in Zanki Zero. If memory serves this is the game made by the Danganronpa people, so I’ve been curious about it. It seems to have not been as well received, so I haven’t really looked too deeply at it. Your report makes it sound really interesting though. Looks like it has some unique ideas and creative concepts. It’s a shame it’s a little rough in the implementation department because it sounds like the premise is great.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
Just managed to get the Big Boss emblem on MGS4. As most of you know, I like to do a little ‘minor’ scheduling of my playlist 🤣… so this play-through has actually been on my mind since January believe it or not. Hanging over me like the sword of Damocles for very nearly 11 months. I’ll still have to do at least one last play-through (which’ll be my 10th) to get the plat… but this was the notorious/infamous obstacle (amongst trophy hunters anyway) that prevents people from achieving the plat, so pretty happy right now.
@colonelkilgore First, respect for sticking it out for the Big Boss emblem and your hopefully-soon-to-be platinum for MGS4. 👊🏼
Secondly, thanks for the “Sword of Damocles” idiom usage. 😄 I hadn’t heard that and so I had to go down an internet rabbit hole and I enjoyed reading the story of Damocles and Dionysus. I’m going to have to remember that one!
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Iver@Th3solution cheers guys. Think I’m gonna go back to MGS2 now before I mop up the last play-through of MGS4. ‘If’ I can get past the notorious & infamous plat blocker on that one (& it’s a big fat ‘if’ if I’m honest) I can try and pop both plats on the same day.
Oh and anytime sol, I do love me some Greek tragedy 👊
Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness (PC). It's a lot more janky than I remembered from the PS2 days. It helps that I could still remember where to go, so I could breeze through it. It was enjoyable revisiting it, but it's not a game I would recommend.
It was funny to steal the mysterious trinket box people were after in Paris. You're supposed to give it to Pierre in exchange for a key code, or Bernard for the doorman's password. Alternatively, you could just bribe the doorman with the box and a pile of cash. Instead, I chose the fourth option: get the key code, then reload the save and use the code whilst keeping the box for myself.
@RogerRoger I always assumed the box contained an ancient treasure, but have seen speculation suggesting it was a drug stash. Nothing's ever been officially confirmed as far as I know.
Detroit: Become Human
Have been playing this the last couple of weekends and finished my first playthrough yesterday. I say 'first' because I decided pretty early on that I'm going back to this at least once more, to play each character slightly differently, in order to see how relationships and stories vary along the way. For instance, I played Connor mostly as dutiful and robotic (no pun intended), but next time I'd quite like to be more cocky and antagonistic in my dialogue with Hank (where choices allow), just to see how that relationship develops.
The presentation of the game is nothing short of outstanding, and while a good deal of it was watching a story, I was very invested in the characters individual stories and the over-arching plot of the game. 'Gameplay' as such is limited, but everyone knows what their in for with a Quantic Dream experience.
I am aware of multiple ending variations, so I'm not sure my ending would be considered a spoiler, but I'll spare the finer details - suffice to say that all 3 of my protagonists survived, but there was a fair amount of bittersweetness too.
Incredibly well acted, with great pacing and world design, definitely check it out.
@lolwhatno I had great fun with JC3 too after it was a PS+ freebie. It’s just a silly game that lets you do lots of fun stuff.
I was nowhere near the platinum as getting 3* on all the challenges was a nightmare (especially with the slow loading times to restart challenges) and the one to acquire all vehicles was too much of a chore.
@lolwhatno Just Cause 3 is alright and silly fun but I just found the second game to be miles better. Just Cause 2’s associated with a specific point in my life though so I’m willing to look past the flaws and just remember the great stuff like messing around in the open world and attempting to steal jet planes.
@lolwhatno man I loved Just Cause 3 too, so much fun. I went back to it earlier this year, having played a bit of it back in 2017... it was such a pleasant surprise.
Pillars of Eternity 2 - phew 😂 took me 80 hours and over 2 months, I still have plenty I can go back to do but the pressure is off. It’s easy for me to bounce off these meaty isometric RPGs - I didn’t finish Pillars 1, Divinity OS 2, Baldurs Gate 2 or Neverwinter Nights.
But this goes in the “completed” stack, along with Divinity OS1 and Baldurs Gate 1 🎉🎉
Ok, I just beat Guardians of the Galaxy.
Not the most visually impressive game I've seen and definitely lacks the polish of some other games I played on the PS5. Many of the environments don't look particularly great and enemy designs aren't the best either - but the game's strength is the characters and the writing, wich is excellent. Level design and combat weren't bad either.
Overall I really enjoyed the game and it was the perfect length for this kind of action-adventure thing. There are some choices you make throughout the games which can affect how some things play out later so I guess there's some replayability too.
I'm still going back to mop up the trophies (I got 5 left + the plat)
edit: aaaand it looks like I might have to replay a chunk of the game for one of them lol
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