Topic: Games you've recently beat

@Thrillho @LtSarge yeah the karaoke is killing me! Maybe I have no rhythm (very probable) but struggling to find 'the beat'. Managed to get Haruka's first request done (Otometal MY LIFE with a score of 800) but she's just dragged me back there and wants me to score 950.

Hilarious though, the images they show during the songs... think my fave so far is the one of Kiryu in prison, pulling root vegetables from the earth! 🤣

@LtSarge Hey there friend.
Getting on the Yakuza franchise? Then you are in for a treat. I don´t know if you did, but you should have started with Yakuza 0 wich is an absolutely fantastic videogame experience and acts as a prequel to the series. I have finished Zero, Kiwami and Kiwami 2 and will eventualy go for The Yakuza remastered collection and the Yakuza 6 A Song of Life.
And then there´s the Judgement series. So many games!!!
Anyway, you are absolutely right the Sonic franchise as some of the best and memorable OSTs. It is not the only that have bangers left and right, but it has a very consistent music portfolio. I have quite a few songs from the Yajuza and Sonic series on my phone that I listen when I go to the Gym 👍
As for Sonic CD on PS3 or Xbox 360, if you enjoyed the other Sonic games, then go for it. The game does save everytime you enter a level if I´m not mistaken, so it shouldn´t be too much of a hassle.
Unless your going for the good ending, wich in that case you´ll need to achieve a good future in every zone. Wich might take some time..... And effort 😜
Cheers, stay safe and all the best

@RaZieLDaNtE No, I was replying to @colonelkilgore since he's the one who's playing the Yakuza series for the first time. And yeah, he's heard plenty of times now how he should've started with Yakuza 0, lol. I've actually already finished all the Yakuza games except for Like a Dragon, so I do know how great this series is. I'm jealous that you still have more games to play since I absolutely loved playing through the Kiryu titles. Hopefully Like a Dragon will also be a great experience!

As for Sonic CD, I'm glad to hear that the game saves whenever you enter a level. I'll take a break from the series for now but I definitely want to play that game in the foreseeable future.

@LtSarge Oh, my bad then. That means your the Yakuza expert 😜 You must know Kamurocho like the palm in your hand. it has beesn very cool to see all the changes in that city.
Since the Yakuza series as so many games, I´ve been playing them sporadically. I´m still on the fence regarding Yakuza Like a Dragon though. More interested in the new Judgement games to be honest.
But I´ll play them all eventualy. Sometimes there is a need for a break form a series, no matter how good or how much we enjoy it. It´s good to keep the things we like as fresh as possible.
Cheers, stay safe and keep on keeping on

@RaZieLDaNtE yeah we’ve had the ‘should’ve started with Zero chat’ many (many) times 😅 by now 🤣. It was an intentional choice… I will get to Zero (I plan on playing all of them, including the [em[Judgment[/em] games and I’m gonna dust of Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise) but I plan on playing it last (or possibly right before 6).

@RogerRoger Not a problem, it should be on sale fairly often. Either that or maybe a monthly PS+ game would be awesome. 😁

I bounce between all three consoles to be honest. Only reason right now my Xbox is getting more love is because I still haven't been able to replace my stolen Switch and my PS4 is in storage while my house is rebuilt.

Yakuza Kiwami 1. I've finished Haruka's sidequests and every substory (had to lower the difficulty for the Amon fight though). That was a lot of fun. My favourite thing was the Majima events, there were a lot of clever ways for him to turn up.

Yakuza 0 is the better game overall, but Yakuza Kiwami 1 is still well worth playing. Now that I'm done with Kiwami 1, I'll have a quick revisit to Yakuza 0 and clear up the remaining substories I missed. I've just found the one with totally original characters Stephen Spinning and Miracle Johnson.

@crimsontadpoles Oh god, that substory (set of sub stories?) is some of the peak Yakuza weirdness so enjoy!

I think only "Nugget" comes closer to typifying the Yakuza series from that game than Miracle Johnson does.

Just finished Renegade Ops on Xbox 360. Awesome game! I've had this one in my backlog since 2011 and over a decade later, I've finally finished it. When I first played it, I didn't think much of it as there were lots of games like this back then. But playing it ten years later when there are less of these games has made me enjoy it even more. It's been such a long time since I played a twin-stick shooter with arcade elements. It's simple, it's chaotic and it's so much fun. Highly recommend it!

I might purchase the DLC that comes with more levels since the base game was fairly short. There are only nine missions and you can finish the game in pretty much 3-4 hours. The DLC adds three more missions so I should be able to get another hour of enjoyment from it!

Astro's Playroom and Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart on PS5, both 100% with the Platinum trophies as my first jump into the PS5 console. Both were incredibly fun platformers to play that weren't incredibly long and it felt somewhat refreshing to play these after we've had a lot of open world games from Sony which while I enjoy, have felt like dominated their PS4 line up. It's nice when we have some variety and I hope Sony will provide more of these throughout the PS5.

@Sam_ATLUS I agree. Astrobot and R&C are a nice change of pace, and both excellently crafted. Great DualSense implementation.
We’ll get back some long open-world games soon enough — Forbidden West and Forsaken.

@Th3solution Forspoken

@KilloWertz That one too. 😉

@colonelkilgore Hey there friend.
In my case I was one of my friends who would constantly mention Yakuza and great the series was. Until Yakuza 0 came along and I saw a youtube review and realized how bonkers the game is. So as soon as I saw the game on sale, I immediately bought the game and completely understood what my friend always said about how good these games are.
Then I bought Kiwami 1, 2 and 6 A Song of Life all of them at half price 😉
Only need to get the Yakuza Remaster Collection to experience the full Kazuma Kiryu storyline.
I´ll also be getting eventualy Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise and the Judgement games as well. They are probably going to be my last PS4 games to purchase. It´s just PS5 games now.... And PC games..... And Switch games..... Who needs to eat and sleep anyway, right? 😜
But Yakuza 0 is an absolute fantastic game from begining to finish. Such a strong entry to the series.
If you enjoyed the others, your gonna love Zero.
Cheers, stay safe and have a good one

Horizon Zero Dawn

This was my 2nd playthrough of the game and I really enjoyed it once again. I would say even more, but I lowered the difficulty to Easy this time around so I can just experience the game without the frustrating fighting some of the bigger machines brought to get myself ready for the release of Forbidden West.

I doubt I will play The Frozen Wilds a second time, but that's mainly because I want to take a month to cleanse the palette so I don't get any sense of deja vu while playing Forbidden West. That happened when I played the DLC for Spider-Man on the PS5 remastered version right before Miles Morales. I still highly enjoyed Miles Morales, but I definitely got a sense of deja vu throughout the game. You could say it's because they were similar, which is true, but I'll be a little safer this time around as Forbidden West is a pretty big deal for me.

At some point toward the end of 2020 I posted this handwritten list of games I'd finished since the beginning of the pandemic:

I carried on writing games down on the other side of the paper and 2 weeks into 2022 i've managed to fill the other side!

It slowed up a lot last year unfortunately, going back to work, lots of other real life tasks to do as well. I am glad I've noted all these games down though.

The list is at 140 games since March 2020. (On the first page, two games might share a single entry where I may have played some of it before March that year. So if I finished 2 pre pandemic games, then I counted the two games as one instead)

I'll probably post this over at Pure Xbox too so my apologies if you read this twice!

That's A LOT of games. Not jealous, but a part of me wishes I didn't have to work through all of it so I could have accumulated a list close to that.

@ralphdibny Oh yeah, I remember that list. Impressive stuff.

Just finished Super Rub 'a' Dub on PS3. It took me only an hour to get through all the levels but obviously you're supposed to replay them and get high scores, which I don't want to bother doing since I just wanted to play through it once. And it was a fun game! It utilises the DualShock 3's Sixaxis motion controls and the premise is that you're controlling a rubber duck and the goal is to collect all the small rubber ducks as fast as possible without falling off or losing them to the enemy sharks. I grew up with the Wii and motion controls so playing something like this felt refreshing after having mostly played games with traditional controls in recent time. Even though some of the later levels were rather annoying, the game was overall relaxing to play and a great palate cleanser.

I beat Deathloop.

I liked it quite a lot. It was different to how I imagined.

I didn't really care for the ending much as I found it anticlimactic and I would have liked more story, like more building upon what they have which is really interesting. Other than that it's great.