Topic: Games you've recently beat

I'll stick to last week due to memory loss, The two dlc's from The Outer Worlds are finally done for! Kept ignoring/neglecting it for some reason, but i rediscovered it and it's pretty kewl.. Oh yeah, that free Astrobot game that came with the PS5 still needed finishing. I did that. Again, no clue why i didn't do that earlier.

Tomb Raider II is done and dusted. Quite enjoyed it, even if the increased combat is not all that fun. Standout levels were the Opera House, Main Deck, the one with the snowmobile and the monastery. I could certainly go without playing the Oil Rig or Floating Islands again though! Think I’ll just start Tomb Raider III now.

@nessisonett Nice, glad you enjoyed TR II. That snowmobile section is great, I love the music that plays there. Hope you get on well with TR III, it can be one of the more unforgiving games in the series.

Out of curiosity, are you playing the PC versions of these games, or PS1 versions?

@crimsontadpoles I’m playing the PS1 versions via the PS Vita. So TR2 was perfectly fine using the touchscreen to sidestep and take out flares. However, the controls in TR3 are a bit more complicated as L2 and R2 make you crouch and dash. So I’ve mapped them to the right of the screen so that I can hold it while moving!

@RogerRoger Since my Vita has CFW installed, I’m tempted to use save states. These crystals are a nightmare, I’m so afraid to use them that I haven’t made it past the opening level as I keep dying and getting sent back to the opening cutscene!

@Lavalera nice, yeah I did a couple of auto battles when it was first introduced but I ended up going with the Press A a lot method for most battles lol especially the harder ones. I suppose if you know what you want to do in a battle and can intersperse some ups and downs with bashing A repeatedly then it's kind of like an auto battle but it does more of what you want. Couldn't read the news while I was doing it though 😅

@crimsontadpoles I played Papers please a while back. I just did the one play through though with the intent of returning to it (I bought it for Vita in the bruef time that my PS Plus sub lapsed and allowed me to purchase it. I thought what little I played was really good and effective though!

I actually wrote a mini review of it over in the PS3 thread back when I played it. I think our thoughts on it are largely similar. How many endings did you play through to in the end? I need to give it another go at some point!

@ralphdibny That's a well thought out write-up. Interesting that you got ending 3 of 20 when you played. I made the same mistake by showing the official the secret documents, getting that bad ending the first time around.

I ended up doing all 20 endings. That's a lot easier to do than it sounds, as most of them can be obtained very quickly by warping to a specific day and doing something specific.

@crimsontadpoles ah cheers! Maybe that ending is common for first timers? Some combination of wanting to see where the mystery goes contradicting the desire to get further in the game resulting in a half and half solution that gets the player in front of the firing squad.

That's cool there are warp points, I also never got to or noticed the decoration wall either. Sounds like there is a lot more to the game that I didn't realise. Certainly the warp points may entice me to return sooner rather than later!

Just finished ys 8 :Lacrimosa of Dana. Absolutely loved it. The music is awesome and the combat feels very good. The story starts out slow but picks up after a bit. Not going for the platinum since a difficulty is attached to it, but it was 70 hours well spend. Think im going to get it again when the ps5 version comes.

@Lavalera Backlog and the occasional new release has kept my temptation to play Ys VIII before the PS5 version comes out. Not sure how much better the PS5 version will be, but I'm looking forward to finally playing the game whenever I get to it. I need to play more JRPGs.

Fallen order, It had a lot of problems sure, but I actually really loved it, and it was a star wars game I was looking forward too, I totally didn't play it because its a souls like......ok I did.

@KilloWertz I get the backlog problem. Even though Im still fairly new to playstation I bought a ton of games in sales the last few months to build up a decent library. Ys was one of the game and around the time I decided to play it as next game the news broke of the ps5 version. Glad I decided to go through with it and for me it wouldn't be a punishment to play the ps5 version again in the future, I'm just not getting it at launch.

I decided to differentiate the games I play a bit more basically trying to rotate between jrpg and non jrpg. Before this I played Horizon fw, Ghost of Tsushima DC and Ghostwire Tokyo. And even I love open world games I had to play something else after that. This way I hope I won't get burnt out by certain type of games so fast.

Hope you'll like ys as much as I did when you get around to play it

@Lavalera Nothing wrong with that, especially since there's always at least one sale going on with a lot of games in it. Now there's 3 sales going on at once.

Even if I loved a game, I rarely played a game multiple times before this generation except a few times if I played it on Xbox and then PlayStation, but catalog titles getting PS5 versions is giving me an excuse to break that trend. I fully expect Ys VIII to be a game I end up loving, so I can understand being willing to play it all over again.

What is your PSN name, if you don't mind me asking?

@KilloWertz Yeah i barely replay a game either. If i do it, it is mostly when i didnt complete it the first time or if i want to replay it again because it was that good. The witcher 3 is one of the games i will play again for sure when the current gen upgrade comes. Still deciding on which platform im going to replay it, but still have time for that to decide, so will be fine.

My PSN name i just changed to Lavalera, it was some random stuff before, but wanted to put in this name. I think i have it set up as public profile, i can see myself on psnprofile so i guess thats correct.

@Lavalera I found you, but it won't let me add you because of your privacy settings. Could you add me instead?

@KilloWertz Sure no problem, just added you. Was playing around with privacy settings a while back to see what does what exactly, at least I know I didn't have it set up properly yet.

I've beat Shin Megami Tensei: III Nocturne HD Remaster via the true demon ending and I enjoyed it quite a bit.

Paul Eiding (Col Campbell from MGS) playing The Old Man in the Wheelchair AKA. Lucifer was a surprise and a half when I finally realised he was the VA for him. 😄

The true final boss honestly went down a lot easier then I remembered it going and that was even with me having a magatama on demi fiend that didn't block ailments so I had to waste a few extra turns having to heal stun a number of times.

Probably didn't help I ended up grinding forever to get the trophy for Max stats on the MC (Which was such a slog even when using merciful for x3 exp gain!) so Demi fiend was somewhere in the 110-120 lvl range I think (It only shows to lvl 99 but goes up to 255) so I was doing a bit of extra damage too then normal 😅

Still it was enjoyable time aside from that slight grind and I'll definitely go and get the other endings for it too (and I'll eventually pop the platinum because of that grinding I did for it here and now).

Definitely gonna try a hard mode run at some point and maybe even try a challenge run or two (on normal cus I'm not that masochistic ) and see how those turn out.

... Not sure what I'll play next though.

I was thinking of maybe continuing the Atlus hype train I've got going and finally revisting Persona 3 FES after so many years... But I still have a number of PS4 games I've not even got round to starting yet like YS VIII and a bunch of others.

Truly we're spoilt for choice! 😁

Just finished Judgment on PS4 after 48 hours of playtime. It's honestly one of the best "Yakuza" games I've played. Yakuza 0 and 6 are at the top of my list, and I find Judgment to be at that level of greatness. The story was so engrossing and well-crafted, the gameplay was more varied compared to the Yakuza series due to the detective/Ace Attorney elements, there were so many memorable and likeable characters, and it was overall a great Yakuza package. I managed to complete 48 side cases and befriend 47 people out of 50 respectively and felt pretty content with ending it there.

Despite having played almost 10 Yakuza games now, I was pleasantly surprised to find this game to be a refreshing spinoff to the series. It did enough to distinguish itself from the Yakuza series and managed to tell a more compelling story with varied gameplay than most of the main series titles. Absolutely phenomenal game which I highly recommend, especially to those who haven't touched the Yakuza series and are looking for a good starting point without feeling intimidated by the amount of titles in the series.

Oh no apologies needed @RogerRoger... After all I haven't got back to your reply in the movie thread from over a week ago. I'm so sorry about such a delay 😅 Though it did seem to spawn a good discussion!

To tell you the truth I actually thought Paul Eiding was a different voice actor at first just putting on an slightly raspy old man voice. He only had like one line at the beginning so I never really got to hear him properly til the finale where I finally made the connection.

I've only heard him in one other role I think besides' Col Campbell (Dark Chronicle (Dark Cloud 2 in the US) if you were curious)... So he'll always be Roy to me lol

With the whole PS Plus new service thing and then Sony mentioning some games you'll be able to seperately purchase (And some previous PS3 PS1 classics purchases being honoured) Metal Gear Solid has surely gotta be one right? Be nice to play that with some extra little polish on PS4/5 😄

... Shame the rest of the series is still pretty much bound to PS3 though with their newest versions.

Ha ha deal!

I'm doing okay thanks @RogerRoger in regards to work but I have rascally little Ash (who's huge now) so she takes up a lot of my free time with how energetic she is. 😥

Yeah I was in the middle of The Legend Of Dragoon on PS3 via the PS1 classic but with this whole situation I'm waiting to see what the deal is before I commit going any further.

I would like to write a review for LoD (Good lord it's been a long while since I wrote one) so if it does come to PS4/5 it'd help so SO much if I can take screenshots of it 😅.

... Not to mention a potential little resolution bump and save states would be a nice little bonus too!

... You in the market for a dog who's quite the card Rog?

Just kidding. Though she is a bit more of a handful then I was anticipating her to be. My poor garden has a ring stomped into it from how much she loves zoomin' round it

Heh well great minds think alike!

I did purchase Metal Gear Solid on PS3 for like a £2 or something at some point so i'd certainly give that a playthrough if it makes the jump as it's been forever (I did attempt it sometime last year but admitedly I'm not that fond of the PS & Dualshock 3. The PS & DS4 have spoiled me lol).

Hell I'd even like to replay Soul Reaver myself to see if my thoughts have changed on it.

... Just... trying to not get my hopes up at the moment in case these or any of the others that tickle my fancy are exclusively tied to PS Plus Premium. Cus I ain't paying for that no matter how much I love The Legend Of Dragoon 😅