Topic: Games you've recently beat

@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.

@Bentleyma Congrats! Will you be playing more Pokémon games after this one? Not immediately of course. There are two more mainline games you can check out, which are Pokémon Let's Go and Sword/Shield. The first one is rather different because you don't battle wild Pokémon, you can only catch them, while Sword/Shield is more of a traditional experience with open areas. I really enjoyed both of them!

There are also some free-to-play Pokémon games on Switch if you're into that. I believe Pokémon Cafe and Pokémon Quest are some of them, of which the later I've played and thought it was rather fun for what it was.

@KilloWertz haha furlough was a blessing and a curse. Much less money and much more time. Kinda blows going back to work and having a maximum of 2 hours to play each evening (unless I have another task like laundry) and then having to decide whether to spend the entire weekend playing games or doing something more productive. I wish I was a teenager again sometimes 😅

@Th3solution cheers bud. I think my favourite games from that new page were Ori and the Will of the Wisps, VVVVVV and Doom Eternal + DLC. 3 absolutely excellent games.

The Walking Dead series took me by surprise, absolute loved the 4 main games. Likewise Yakuza surprised me a bit too. Hopefully going to start Yakuza 4 soon 🤞🤞

Worse game (for me) was Borderlands GOTY. I 99%d it and the DLC. I found it so boring despite playing it for 70 hours. So I think I definitely gave it a good go!

@johncalmc I go back and forth on the ending. Yeah, it’s massively anticlimactic and I could have done with a proper resolution with the main relationship of the game. But then isn’t the whole point that life outside the loop is way less fun and interesting? So if that was what they were going for, I totally get it.

Persona 2 Innocent Sin is done and dusted. Been a while since I played that one. Best way to describe it is Hitler + Aliens + Cthulhu + Bisexual Love Square. So yeah it’s an absolute classic. I mean, the gameplay kinda sucks but the plot is so absolutely bafflingly insane that it’s worth it. And the character development is heads and shoulders above 99% of RPGs, arguably better than the rest of the series. Forgot just how great the ending was, properly set up for Eternal Punishment. Apparently the fan translation of the PSP port of that game is almost ready to go so I think I’ll wait. I played the PS1 version last time so this will be a change.