Topic: Games you've recently beat

@ishaajo840 nice one buddy, new to the genre/series, or you’ve played some other souls-likes?

@Th3solution @KilloWertz @Keith_Zissou I’m really feeling that a reschedule is needed, as discussing Mass Effect with you guys is making me think now is the right time to dip in.

@JigsawPieces yeah I’ve heard a lot of reports about the game’s difficulty. I wouldn’t worry about the difficulty drop unless you’re going for trophies mate.

@JigsawPieces I beat the final boss after five or six goes as I didn't find it too bad once I got the hang of it. Not losing any/much health on the non-boss parts is pretty important but having to do the whole thing again got a bit annoying, particularly the platforming bit which was felt a little odd to throw into the middle of the fight.

@Keith_Zissou I think I’ve picked up both Fe and Sea of Solitude along the way. Now you’ve gone and put them on the radar too! 😡 You really are my nemesis… or at least the nemesis of my schedule 🤣

@Keith_Zissou @Th3solution @colonelkilgore @KilloWertz I'm really looking forward to playing ME2 and actually started to think will I be able to squeeze it in between now and HFW. I've just finished Uncharted 4 and was going to make a start on Lost Legacy so that I could wrap up the platinum on the Legacy of Thieves collection. If I can get that done this weekend that would leave me with just under 2 weeks. Is that long enough though! 😏

Buzzing! Just finished my Deus Ex: Mankind Divided permadeath ‘I Never Asked for This’ difficulty playthrough… and managed to mop up my non-lethal and no alarms playthroughs at the same time. The non-lethal and no alarms requirements can be very temperamental from what I’ve read… and there is no way to track them either. So the only way you know if you’re good, is once the game is complete.

Just need to (start and) finish the online Breach mode now for the last four trophies.

Fortunately the only trophy locked behind a higher difficulty in Kena, is the one for completing the game in Master difficulty which is unlocked after beating the game once on any difficulty. So even less reason not to drop the difficulty down.

@JohnnyShoulder I’m only too aware mate, the thought of the Master difficulty playthrough, given the issues I’ve read people have had on Normal… is already giving me conniptions 😥

Finally got around to finishing HZD and getting the plat, amazing game am super hyped for HFW!

Now to finish Ghost of Tsushima..

@MightElf-69 @Gunnerzaurus congrats guys 👍

@Th3solution If you're going to be Fem-Shep, which makes sense for variety, you might as well be a Renegade as well. Like people say, Jennifer Hale's performance works really well as a Renegade.

@KilloWertz Good to know. I was wondering that very thing. I always go the paragon / benevolent route in these types of games and feel strange doing the renegade choices or popping off to NPCs in rude or mean ways. But since I do want to see other aspects of the game I’ll probably do that.

@KilloWertz @Th3solution I remember starting a playthrough of the original Mass Effect to show it to a friend (not long after I completed the game). We only got a few hours into it but it was interesting (& hilarious) to go full renegade/womaniser. Basically we chose the absolute worst conversation options when dealing with male npc’s and was then all sweetness and light with the female npc’s. Was probably only funny for the brief time we put into it… but I remember us laughing out loud quite a few times that evening. Probably helped that I was in my mid twenties… and that it was almost twenty years ago too… but good times 😁

@colonelkilgore Haha, we’ll now you have given more more ideas to play around with. I might do a full Fem-Shep womanizer.

@Th3solution I always played that way too. Even started my initial playthrough from last year that way, but then realized I should actually be doing something different than what I did back in the day and wanted to experience her performance since people praise it a lot.

I kind of still did a bit too much Paragon in Mass Effect, but by the time I played Mass Effect 2 several months ago I did basically everything Renegade unless it was something that made no sense for Mass Effect 3.

Also, might as well be a womanizer. Not a big fan of the male options to romance for her, except for Garrus, but I thought he would fit better with a Paragon FemShep.

@Keith_Zissou 👍 it was a nice surprise when the ‘no alarms’ trophy popped tbh, I was sure I’d triggered at least one. Just means that I won’t have to do another playthrough, which is great news for my pre-Forbidden West mop up. Might even help me to squeeze Mass Effect in this year 😉.

Finished Axiom Verge. Quite liked it. It’s a very very pure Metroid clone, none of your RPG elements which I kinda appreciate. However, there’s so much backtracking which was rather tedious. Took ages to trek from one end of the map to the other. The final area had a heavy dose of BS as well, incredibly irritating normal enemies yet very easy bosses. So it was a mixed bag but I did enjoy it. It suits Vita perfectly.

@Keith_Zissou I guess you should just hand her the controller then. She'll get the job done.

I can't really do it either. After doing more good things in Mass Effect than I probably should have even though I wanted to be a Renegade (technically still ended up as one), I found a happy medium of only treating my crew members well and only choosing the Paragon option if it would really benefit me for Mass Effect 3's endgame. In other words, I punched the reporter in Mass Effect 2 instead of 1.

@colonelkilgore @Thrillho @JohnnyShoulder Thanks, for the reassurance, all Now it's settled I'm pretty sure it was the right thing to do, for me, as it just wasn't fun any more.

I've been quite enjoying going around mopping up, looking for the collectibles I missed before - now that the pressure's off, I'm reminded what a pretty game it is!

@colonelkilgore Have Played Bloodborne & Sekiro. This was the first Soul game otherwise.