Topic: Games you've recently beat

@jdv95 I agree with the comments above. I played almost all in a row and around 4 it started to feel sameish. I took a break in between and enjoyed it more again. So yeah take your time in between you will only enjoy them more

@Jimmer-jammer Not yet but I've done that in the past, I've been recording some stuff for my soundcloud recently, solos and whatnot.

@Jimmer-jammer https://www.soundcloud.com/ltomlinson9 there is some old band stuff on there too, from when I was in a metal band.

Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne HD Remaster

That was an enjoyable 40 hours getting the Neutral/Freedom ending that I've never actually seen before. Was pretty good.

Though I have to admit that was the easiest run of Nocturne I've ever had on normal difficulty.

I did have a little run around on Mercilful on an older save afterward and... Wow that really is completely braindead for difficulty. Great for grinding though I bet with the ridiculously boosted exp gain.

I'm gonna actually go for the True Demon ending with the main save though so... I've still got a fair bit to do! Probably gonna double that play time trying to do everything & fill the compendium out.

Think I might actually have to try hard mode in earnest though on new game plus and beyond...

I don't think you mentioned this @Ralizah in your review of it but did you try new game plus and check out the first person mode that you unlock? Always thought it was rather neat in the PS2 version and I'm glad to see it's still there for PS4!

@HallowMoonshadow Probably not, since I didn't touch NG+. That is pretty cool, though. I should boot up my save file for Nocturne HD one day and try it out!

(I know you're on holiday but still... Thought I might as well reply)

It's actually just a button toggle if you do check it out @Ralizah. No idea what it would be on a switch controller but it's the Select button on a PS2 controller and the touchpad on the PS4. I'm sure you know the equivalent button for the switch.

The original PS2 PAL release (Or at least my reprinted copy) of Nocturne was a bit weird too and I've never actually seen the option you get to choose on a new cycle of whether you want the original demon sprite jacket or the new leather jacket option either.

Not that it looks particularly nice and you only see it in the opening still before you become the demi fiend so... It's kinda pointless aside from changing your starting stats ever so slightly 😂

Finished Spider-Man: Miles Morales. I just have an NG+ left for the platinum, which I have already immediately jumped into.

I will say, the game is fantastic. Really what I was looking for right now. A really fun distraction with addictive gameplay and a pretty decent story. Fresh characters, fun new powers to play with, and that Sony first party sheen to the whole package.

If I had any complaints they are minor —
Some of the voice acting falls flat. Overall I warmed up to Miles’s VA but some of the line delivery felt a little corny at first. Same for Ganke (sp?) and Finn.
Also, there was more than once where I got slightly frustrated at the controls. The worst offender was crawling on walls, where suddenly perspective shifts made pushing the left stick up made Miles move inexplicably downward, or vice versa. Really weird. And occasionally the web shooting wouldn’t respond as quickly or accurately as I remember the first game doing. But perhaps I am just looking back through rose-tinted glasses.

But actually overall, I think I liked this game better than the original. I liked playing as the nerdy teenager trying to figure things out, as opposed to the older Peter with his all too familiar feeling young adult life problems. But most of all, the venom powers are much more fun to play with than the traditional Spidey arsenal. It makes me worried that Spider-Man 2 might feel bland by comparison, but we’ll see.

@Th3solution yeah I enjoyed it a fair bit more than the original too. Great little game fair play

@Th3solution NG+ can be done really quickly too as you can unlock the final things easily enough and just fly through the main story.

I thought it was a nice length but there is a lot of side content, although very little of it ever felt like filler.

@Th3solution Don't forget Spider-man 2 will also feature Miles Morales too we can assume, if the teaser trailer is anything to go by.

@Thrillho If I complete it, this might just be the first NG+ that I ever finish; not being a fan of replaying games very often. The short length of MM is going to make it less of a chore. And honestly, the game is still fun for me, although I am skipping all the cinematics that I’m allowed.

@JohnnyShoulder Oh yeah, that’s true. Hopefully flipping back and forth between power sets isn’t too confusing. I wonder if we’ll also get Spider-Gwen, etc.

Epic Chef PS4

@Anti-Matter It seems you got your money’s worth out of that one

How did you do from a trophy point of view after all that time with the game?

@Thrillho
Oh, actually I finished the storyline of Epic Chef PS4 yesterday. It took 3 weeks to finish the game. I played my PS4 games not for trophies since I don't care what achievements I got but I saw I have unlocked a lot of trophies on my playing record.

Just wrapped up Yakuza Like a Dragon this evening. It was bloody good in the end. I was getting a bit bore around around the 20-30 hour mark but I'm glad I stuck it out because it picked up toward the end and the last few chapters were really good.

That's all the Yakuza games on game pass done now. Going to take a break from the series before I go and mop up the spin offs later in the year.

I have about 16 days left on my PS Plus subscription 🤔. Bioshock 2 is next for me as I voted for it in the game club but I am not sure if I might try and plough through some more games off the PS Plus list. I really really don't think I am going to renew this time. I just want to be subscription free and not have to worry about end dates. Ps plus goes in 2 weeks and game pass finishes in August. Looking forward to being free!

@ralphdibny I know what you mean about subscriptions, my uni money’s running out since I’m graduating in November and unless I find a job very soon, I’ll need to cancel them all!

@Anti-Matter Cool. It just seemed you’d spent a good amount of time with the game so I wondered how you might have done with the trophies. I can imagine that game might have you do some quite weird man’s specific things to get them all! Do you know what game is next for you now?

@ralphdibny Good to hear you (mostly) enjoyed LaD as I still have that one to go. How did you find the new combat mechanics?

I know im soooo late on this, but i just finished RE 7 main story 2 nights ago, and now i started playing the "not a Hero" dlc. (where the hell can i find the night vision thing ?!)
On a different note i also finished playing the story chapters of RDR2 (still didn't play the 2 epilogue chapters yet as i can't imagine the game without Arthur - Rip Mr. Morgan)

@Thrillho
Okay, after finishing Epic Chef PS4, I continue my progress of Dodgeball Academia PS4.
Currently my team have reached level 20 in Episode 3 and I saved my last position inside school toilet to exploit $15.00 from a boy student which you can challenge him anytime to get instant $15.00 as the reward. 😁

@nessisonett ahh im sure you will find a job! There seems to be an abundance of jobs in coding if that's what you want to do. Very well paid if you go for some of the big corps/banks in London

What subs do you have at the moment then? I think GPU is quite cheap if you do the Gold->GPU conversion at like £40+change/year - certainly better than the £130 you pay if you do it in the normal way. PS Plus was just about cheap enough for me to bite at £30/year during the days of play sale and it's mainly so I can play existing plus games but they just keep adding more 😭. May have to cut my losses this year as I doubt they will do the discount again with the big launch happening. NSO is a bit of a joke (as is Plus "essential" and Gold) but still fairly cheap at ~£15/year at shopto. The only reason I have NSO at the moment is so I can buy those N64 controllers if/when they get some in stock. It's so annoying that I bought the sub just for the controllers and they sold out as soon as I put in the code. I literally haven't used the sub for anything else.

@Thrillho They're OK. I had to put my RPG hat on a bit, especially for the later battles. I don't really play turn based RPGs that much to be honest but I was casting accuracy and defense debuffs like nobodies business in the second to last fight. Also summons and healing spells. It did get a bit tedious and I suppose toward the end it was basically just 3 characters supporting 1 character that had a really powerful spell which probably goes to show how unbalanced I'd let my team get. I can't say if it was more or less tedious than the fights in the older games, there is still a lot of them and they still go on for a long time. I'd say you do have to do the two main dungeons for at least a second time to grind, as well as a 30 fight colloseum thing to level up just to be good enough for the final chapters. But it's not that bad compared to some other games I've seen/played.

I just try and sort of remember that Yakuza 0 did drag in places and I consider that to be probably the second best game in the series (after 5).

Not sure where I'd place Like a Dragon in my ranking, maybe like tied with Yakuza 4 in third place? Then Kiwami 2 and 3 in fourth place, 6 in 5th place and and Kiwami 1 in last place. 4 is so linked to 5 that it's hard to rank it differently but 5 is definitely a better game but it wouldn't be as impactful if you hadn't played 4 before it.