Topic: Games you've recently beat

@jdv95 yeah anything involving the titans was a treat, with the Kronos fight being the pinnacle.

Most of the boss fights were cool though. I thought the Hades fight early on was class… obviously the Zeus fight(s) was/were ‘interesting’ too. My favourite fight though… and the one that gave me the most problems was the giant frost scorpion.

@colonelkilgore it's for the sure the goriest entry imo.

cutting off legs to smashing a guy's face in with his own weapons to stabbing out eyes with your thumbs in first person...

@jdv95 for sure… I kept thinking, dayum Kratos keeps going full-on Big Chris from Lock, Stock…! 🤣

Just finished Castlevania: Circle of the Moon on Wii U. It's a decent Metroidvania but man is it tough, especially the boss fights. I just can't imagine playing it without save states. The final boss in particular is an absolute pain in the butt.

I started playing it over a year ago but I dropped it like 80% into my playthrough since I lost interest. Today I decided to resume it and I had no idea that I was so close to the end of the game before I stopped playing it. I'm really glad that I finished it though after putting down so many hours into it. I wouldn't recommend the game though. It's too challenging and not in a good way.

Now that I'm done with it, I'm looking forward to playing Harmony of Dissonance and later on Aria of Sorrow. From what I've heard, those games shouldn't be as challenging as Circle of the Moon.

@Kairu I played the game two years ago when it was on Game Pass and it's so good! If you liked this one, then I highly recommend checking out Observation. Another interesting game set in space, but it's in my opinion more intriguing than Deliver Us The Moon.

Finished up the DLC for Lego Avengers. Each of the 5 levels were easily better than basically any of the levels in this one and Lego Marvel 1. I love their open worlds but the levels are a big step down from the older games. But these were great fun, especially the Classic Black Panther level and the Masters of Evil one. They brought gameplay twists which was pretty welcome after binging so many games in a row, such as Ant-Man going inside machines to destroy them.

I finished the storyline of Kirby Star Allies just now. 🙂
I unlocked the other challenging mode after that, but I know I'm not masochist so I will not torture myself in very hard challenge.
So far I could finish the stages pretty easy, rarely lost my life due to pretty easy gameplay.
I enjoyed this Kirby game than Mario game despite I still have very low hype with Kirby franchise.
I gave it 7/10 for Kirby Star Allies.

Beat Sniper Elite V2 Remastered. Really quite good game but massively let down by some absolutely dreadfully strict checkpointing. Other than that, the setting was great and the gameplay was fluid once I changed the setting to favour performance.

@Jimmer-jammer I think I had a similar experience with AC Origins. I left a lot of side content and parts of the map untouched; not that I wasn’t enjoying the game, but it didn’t seem different enough to compel me to spend another 20-40 hours clearing everything. I hear they Odyssey is even worse about the filler content and having a lot of bloat. And then Valhalla even takes the overkill to another level. I have Odyssey in the backlog and just need to try it. Instead I decided to play Immortals and it has a fresh take thematically to the mythological Ubi-open world.

@Jimmer-jammer Fair warning — Immortals: FR doesn’t take itself very seriously and it leans heavy into satire. For me it works though and I laugh out loud from time to time. But sense-of-humor is very individual.

If Little Nightmares II drops on PS+ then I’ll probably play it. I actually saw a hard copy of it at the game shop yesterday and thought momentarily about getting it.

@Jimmer-jammer @Th3solution Same here with AC Origins. After I finished the story I had all intentions in clearing up the map, but after awhile I could feel the gameplay getting stale, so stopped playing before my overall experience soured too much.

@Jimmer-jammer @Th3solution @JohnnyShoulder I cleared up the map in AC Origins after having finished the game and there's really not much else to discover after exploring the main areas. Most of the other regions are just empty deserts. I have no idea why they included these areas because there's literally nothing to do in them. So you guys didn't miss anything by skipping the rest of the map.

Just watching the credits roll after getting to the end of Man of Medan. It was fine, not a game I would highly recommend but not a game I disliked either. - I have seen many worse horror films. It used a bunch of horror movie cliches and had an over-reliance on jump scares, which often didn't work but was fairly enjoyable overall.

Will probably have another playthrough to see if I can make my trophy list a bit more respectable (I definitely didn't achieve the good ending!) but I'm unlikely to push myself to do the multiple runs required for the platinum

If you have access to it via PS+ and have any interest it's probably worth a go. Think it took around 4-5 hours.

@sorteddan That’s a pretty consistent response I’m seeing about MoM. I have been on the fence about it, and wasn’t really inclined to play it until now I hear the Dark Anthology series gets progressively better with the latter installments, so I feel like I need to start with this first one, even though I think each entry is narratively independent. Now that I subscribe to PS+Extra, the second of the series is on that, if I’m not mistaken. Reckon you’ll have a stab at it?

@sorteddan I honestly didn't like Man of Medan that much. It takes way too long before you get to the horror part of the game, like 2-3 hours. Then it gets fun, but at that point it's too late.

@Th3solution
I only had PS+extra for about a month at the end of my subscription and then went back to essential. As I have no free access to the sequel I don't currently have any intention to seek it out. Though if it turns up cheap enough in a future sale I may well pick it up.

@LtSarge
Yeah I get that. I felt the prologue/tutorial part was largely unnecessary and felt really disconnected from the actual story when it began. I completed it over three sessions so never actually spent more than an hour or so on it at once, maybe that helped me not get too bored by it.

Just rolled the credits on Red Dead Redemption 2… and it’s been a helluva ride! Really glad I went back to this at a time when I had nothing but time (which is a very rare occurrence). Even when I tried it back in 2018, before ultimately dropping it in Chapter 2… I knew on some level that it was a masterpiece but I just couldn’t click with it no matter how hard I tried.

It’s nowhere near perfect mind you, as no game is… and in many ways this has been the most frustrating game I’ve played in a long time. The way it controls (both on foot and on hoof), the loading times, the sheer amount of time that even the most simple of actions take for the animations to complete… the list goes on and on… but even considering my frustrations it’s an incredible experience.

The narrative, characters and actors are just top tier. I’ve always liked Rockstar’s games and feel that all of their stories have been very good… this one tops them all though. My father is the biggest western fan (I really enjoy them too) and his absolute favourite - The Wild Bunch - seems a real heavy inspiration, as are others. I could’nt help but think on many occasions during my playthrough that I should buy the old man his first PlayStation and a copy of this to go with it. He has never had any interest in gaming whatsoever… but he’d frikkin love this if he could get past the initial pain a 68 year old non-gamer would naturally feel when trying to partake in something that would be so alien to him.

Special mention goes to the hunting though… and well just the ‘natural’ eco-system of the game world really. I had just dipped my toe for the longest part of my playthrough but going for the platinum has pushed me to hunt certain animals and yield a certain quality of pelts. It’s both simple to master but very deep with multiple layers at the same time. Very surprisingly, it has produced some of my favourite memories of my time with the game so far.

Still got bits and bobs to mop up for this gargantuan trophy list but I can definitely say that working towards 100% has elevated my experience. Can’t remember the last time I put this many hours into a game… Skyrim maybe… so over 10 years ago!?!?

It’s funny that as I watch the credits roll with a suitably appropriate western score accompanying the images, i can’t help but feel this game was the end of an era in terms of Rockstar games in much the same way that the Wild West was in its final death throws during the events of Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption 2. I really hope that the Housers return to create games following their departure from Rockstar as they weave a particular type of cinematic-open world narrative that no one else can do. I don’t know where I’d place the actual game in my all-time list… but purely as a game narrative it’s up there. Maybe top two… maybe one! Such an amazing prequel to the events of Red Dead Redemption, which was probably my favourite Rockstar narrative previously.

That actually encapsulates it perfectly in all honesty 👍

@colonelkilgore Yeah, all well said, colonel. I agree with your assessment of RDR2. Sometimes while playing it I felt some annoyance, but the overall package was so overshadowing brilliant that it made the little things matter less. To squeeze that game world and it’s intricacies out of the the PS4 is simply an amazing feat. I didn’t get anywhere near the platinum and I never even booted up the multiplayer, and yet I got dozens and dozens of hours; many times over the value of paying launch price for it. And it’s a game that after you finish it you ponder for days, weeks, and months afterward. I love games like that — the games with gripping narrative and performances that just make you think about the messages they portrayed. For sheer emotional and psychological impact, RDR2 is up there with PS4’s greatest, if not even the greatest of all time.

@Th3solution funnily enough sol, I’m pretty sure that it was during a chat with your good self that RDR2 was put back on my radar. I think I was moaning about how disappointed I was by the game back in 2018… and that even though I absolutely loved the previous RDR that I just could not glean any enjoyment from its sequel. What followed was a decent bit of subtle but effective convincing by yourself that it might be worth me giving it another shot at some point. Well it certain was dude, so I appreciate the nudge 👊