Topic: Games you've recently beat

@colonelkilgore Maybe someday whenever I get a PS3 again. Obviously I'd upgrade and just play Ascension via PS Plus Premium if we didn't have to stream PS3 games, but that's another story. I still have my PS3 copy that I stupidly never played somewhere in the house, so it's no huge deal in the end.

Good to know that they surpassed your expectations. Uncharted is a major reason why I'm a PlayStation gamer to this day obviously.

@KilloWertz I have ties all the way to PS1, but I’d agree — Uncharted was one of the main foundational pieces to my fandom.

@Th3solution I've owned every single PlayStation console (minus handhelds), but it wasn't until the PS3 that I became a legitimate fan. Uncharted, Metal Gear Solid 4, Heavenly Sword, and some others really set the foundation once I bought a PS3.

Just finished Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge on Series X. Great game and perfect to play in between AAA experiences. I didn't grow up with TMNT but I did watch the 2012 show on Nickelodeon quite a bit and enjoyed it a lot. So I did like Shredder's Revenge more than I otherwise would have, it was nice seeing all these characters again.

And most importantly, I didn't find it to be that challenging compared to other arcade beat 'em ups like Streets of Rage. I played through it on Normal and found it to be a fair challenge. There's always a good amount of health pickups throughout the levels and the amount of lives always reset after each level, so you'll always start out with at least three lives, which is plenty. So even if you find games like this challenging and therefore not up your alley, this one is milder in difficulty and you can even play it on Easy if you want. I highly recommend it.

played through Bioshock 1 for the first time. Never gave it a chance before. played it 1 hour at most before. But now this year i am going through games that i never finished. Perfect year for that.

@kenshin4ever
Would you kindly expand and share your thoughts on the experience? I replayed it last year and thought it held up quite well, story wasn't really affected by its age but I quite enjoyed the combination of fun play and powers as well. Are you planning on doing the trilogy?

@sorteddan i really liked the mystery of the game. when he find the lighthouse. and then goes down. and trying to find out what it all mean. what happened in that place. and the panic, that i want to get out of there. i am trying to like bioshock 2, but i dont feel the connection to the main character. dont really care about being a big daddy. played 2 hours of that. i have played through bioshock infinite before. and i am planing to do it now again.

@RogerRoger
If I'm being honest then the rest of that post was just filler and justification for using that gag/reference. Good to know someone was paying attention. 👍😁

@kenshin4ever The “Burial at Sea” DLC for Infinite is a must play now that you’ve completed the original game too.

@Thrillho i will check that out =) i have the bioshock collection. so i can play it.

Beyond: Two Souls

I've never played Indigo Prophecy, so only ranking the Quantic Dream modern games, this would clearly be in the 3rd position. I have yet to see how Heavy Rain holds up as I still have the PS4 version yet to play, but I remember it being a fantastic experience for me back on the PS3, especially since it was the first game of it's kind that I had ever played. Detroit: Become Human was a fantastic experience as well when I finally played that late last year. I'd probably put that one first.

Anyways, enough rambling, as I don't intend for this to be very long. I did enjoy Beyond: Two Souls. Ellen Page (still going to call the person that) really did a fine job carrying the load, and I didn't feel like I wasted my week's time with it at all. I will say that I felt the story was overstuffed, with several scenes in the game that could have easily been left out, and the extremely overcomplicated ending to the game. I say overcomplicated because it could have ended easily without two scenes, with those being when she says she is losing her memory and having to write things down. I'd say this is the biggest problem with the whole ending because it makes no sense, especially considering once it cuts to the next scene, it's as if most of that never happened. No mention of her memory going at all, so including that at all makes no sense. Also, showing one last scene after the story is all wrapped up is completely unnecessary. It's as if he was setting up for a sequel, but to my knowledge he hates doing sequels, so why include it at all?

In summary, I enjoyed Beyond: Two Souls, but it could have been even better if he had cut out a few filler scenes and made a more cohesive ending that didn't also suffer from similar problems to the rest of the story itself. There were times when the game was absolutely brilliant, but as is I'd probably give it around a 7/10, which is still fine.

@KilloWertz Any reason to deadname Elliott Page..? It’s not like it’s that massive an inconvenience, it’s two extra letters.

@nessisonett Out of all I typed, including my thoughts on the game's story, that's what you latch onto?

I'm not going to actually answer the question as I don't want to get into it on here. I don't want to start an argument on here about stuff like that or anything. I'll talk about my opinion of the game, but not that.

@ThereThere That was the name in the credits of the game, so that's the name I used and said so. It wasn't meant to be offensive, but unfortunately that's the only thing getting attention, not what I thought about the game.

Has anyone played that Greedfall? I finished it the other day. It's quite good as it goes. Not that I have much to compare it to as I don't normally play RPGs. I've played a fair few this year though!

@ralphdibny I haven’t played Greedfall, but the setting and look of the game are appealing. It’s didn’t review all that well, so I have cast it aside.

What in particular did you like about it? Story, combat, exploration, visuals, music, …all of the above?

@Th3solution I think story, setting, characters and aesthetic. It's hard for me to say because my experience with RPGs is limited. I was attracted by the setting initially. The kind of colonial, pirate-y but with cool looking monsters.

Lack of RPG experience being noted, I explored everywhere I could first and then ploughed through the story and sidequests using fast travel. Life was easier for me like that. Even though the exploration part was slow and tedious, it meant the story moved along at a fairly quick pace.

I have read online that they didn't have a lot of time to finish the game and what was left on the cutting room floor included all the bloat, fetch quests, collectathons and the like. So the opinions I've been reading have said that it is a fairly tight experience as RPGs go. I wouldn't disagree but I don't have much to compare it too!

The thing I didn't like, and I suspect it is a usual RPG trapping, was mainly the inventory management. Every two or three travels, I would have to sort my inventory and give everyone the best gear and sell or store the rest. That broke up the pace a bit and if I didn't do it then I'd reach the weight limit and my character could no longer run. No good for my speedy approach to the actual story!!

It's probably worth a look in if you claimed it through Plus though. I let my Plus expire so I played it initially on Game Pass. But then it left Game Pass so I moved onto Mass Effect (which gave me a better understanding of RPGs) and eventually just bought Greedfall and it's DLc for like 15 quid

@ralphdibny Yeah, I “own” access to Greedfall via PS+, so it doesn’t cost me anything extra to play it but time, which is unfortunately my most precious commodity.

The inventory and equipment management is an issue with RPGs, to be sure. Some people love the granular nature of poring through 20 different types of leggings or shields or whatever to balance out stats. Some people hate that. I actually like it sometimes. It needs to be a balance. I find that I have less tolerance than I used to for such things though.

I guess I assume everyone has some level of RPG experience. It seems like most games have some RPG elements nowadays. You’ve not played Horizon Zero Dawn, Witcher 3, Ghost of Tsushima, Assassins Creed, etc?

Haha tell me about it! Me too!

I think I pretty much hate inventory management. I suppose it depends on the game. Like I might enjoy it in a game I'm really into or love or if the inventory management is fun in some way. For average Joe RPGs that I'm playing for the sake of it, not so much lol.

I haven't played any of those games you mentioned actually 😅. Horizon and GoT are on the "to play" list though. I did play one Assassin's creed but I thought it was Ass(assin). I think it was freedom cry or something that came with Plus and I haven't touched another one since.

Yeah, there's lots of RPG elements in more mainstream games but they usually take the less tedious parts of RPGs to keep it relatively light. Stuff like skill trees, light crafting and side quests etc.

I played quite a few Pokémon games when I was younger, I think I played from Blue up to Black and gave up on the series after a few hours in X. I played all the mainline Yakuza games including Like a Dragon over the pandemic too. Mass Effect and Greedfall were my first proper Western RPG experiences that I stuck out until the end though!

@ralphdibny you should really play Ghost of Tsushima. It's such an amazing experience. It's the a pretty big time sink but one well worth. I played it for the first time this year and it's now in my top 3 games of all time. From the moment I started it I felt like i was Jin the Samurai and it felt like I was really in feudal Japan instead of playing it, usually it's a very good rpg then.