Topic: Games you've recently beat

@Jimmer-jammer So, turns out, Psychonauts is not a game for me. Love the writing and the characters and the brilliant art style, but platformers like these just frustrates me and I'm not having fun. Almost through Milla's world now and I'm not sure if I've got the energy to finish it (that race gave me so much aggro that I had to do something else for a while). I expect Psychonauts 2 is a similar type game, so I will probably give that a miss.

@AgentCooper Got Bioshock on my to-do list as well. Got quite far back in the Xbox 360 days and have the collection in my PS backlog, so I'll be giving it a go one of these days.

@Jimmer-jammer Well, I just went back and powered through the rest of Milla's level and when I got back to roaming the camp, looking for collectibles and interacting with the characters, I instantly started enjoying it again (as mentioned, the writing is sublime... Vernon's "ghost story" in the TV room cracked me up... an abandoned Indian insane asylum built on top of a caveman burial ground... dude knows how to cover his bases ). So, I may still power through the rest of the missions as well, for the sake of the writing alone:-)

Just finished Dead Space (2023). Absolutely phenomenal game! I've never enjoyed playing a horror game as much as with this one. Not to mention that I liked the remake way more than the original.

This is honestly survival horror perfection. It's the best horror game of all time for me. So much fun, so many scares, great story, tons of improvements compared to the original. All around a tremendously enjoyable experience.

I'd love for Motive Studio to continue remaking the trilogy. Would be weird to skip 2 and 3 now just to make a new game. Considering how much I enjoyed experiencing the first game again, I'd enjoy playing through 2 again as well.

@LtSarge I recently beat dead space (2023) for the first time a few weeks ago. I agree that it is a great game.

I also hope that 2 and 3 get remade. I'm tempted to try the original sequels on EA Play but hoping for an announcement that DS2 is being remade.

Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart

Really brilliant, easily the best the series has been since the PS2. There’s definitely room for the series to expand in new and exciting ways too. Just a shame that Insomniac are the busiest devs in the business, I doubt we’ll see a sequel any time soon!

@nessisonett It wouldn't surprise me if they announce something soonish, as they seem to be able to work on multiple titles at once.

I've only played it briefly, but my 8 year old nephew absolutely loved it. His reaction when the controller was doing its thing was priceless!

@JohnnyShoulder The haptics really enhanced the experience, although I played with headphones for the 3D Audio so didn’t hear what the speakers were doing on the controller. Such an under-utilised element of the controller, they felt much more like actual haptics than odd vibration.

I finished Star Ocean 2 Remake with both Claude and Rena.

@nessisonett I like the controller speaker but it is a bit of an oversight that wearing a headset blocks it out.

I did have to turn it off playing BioMutant though as it was so loud and intrusive. It can also be a bit jarring when it’s so loud compared to your TV too.

@Thrillho Yeah, it's a shame that you basically lose the controller speaker if you were a headset. That was one of my favorite features of the DS4 controller while playing games like the remakes of Resident Evil 2 & 3 and some others that utilized it well too.

I'm not going to stop wearing my headset since I don't want to lose the 3D audio, and I know there would be times you wouldn't hear it anyways, but it is an unfortunate trade-off nonetheless.

@FuriousMachine So while this is maybe not a grand achievement I did manage to 100% Miles Morales the other day (something which felt nice). If anything this just maybe makes me at least a decent Spider-Man fan. Iam a little bit tempted to attempt to get the platinum trophy but not sure if I will make it.

Spent three hours completing Class of '09 on Steam.

Dear lord lol

@RogerRoger I'm gonna play the sequel this week and then post a combined review of both games (they're short), but suffice to say I've never played a game where one of the routes involves your high school photography teacher grooming the student body into forming a murderous white nationalist cult.

@oliverp Cool! If memory serves, you should just have to breeze through the story again on NG+ for the platinum, isn't that so? I found that I didn't mind that for this game as the story is fairly short and I hadn't grown tired of the gameplay at that point. Good luck, hope you get that plat!

Well that definitely took a turn I wasn't expecting! 😳

@HallowMoonshadow The game is packed full of deliberately offensive dark humor, but pulls it off (mostly) because of strong voice acting and a witty script that pretty much never slows down long enough for you to process what you're hearing until a route ends.

Finished The Expanse, A Telltale Series. A fairly short, and very sweet, game in the traditional Telltale mold. I loved the character Camina Drummer from the books and Cara Gee's portrayal of her in the TV series, so it was nice to see her back in action here. The story is good, though not exceptional, but I think I'll be down for anything new Expanse for a long time to come, so here's hoping they'll make a sequel.

Now I've started Control, which I also hope to finish. Got a bit worried with the feel of the shooting aspects of the intro segment, but I see that there are plenty of assists and setup tweaks one can make, so hopefully I'll be able to adjust it if I end up getting frustrated.

@FuriousMachine Oh as someone who recently beated Alan Remastred it would of course be awesome as to get to know more about how Control feels at some point in time hehe. But dont feel to stressad about posting any impressions (I can wait). As with regadars to Spider-Man-Man Miles Morales I actually beated NG+ the ohter day (which feels nice). But there is still some misc trophies I need to get in order to earn the platinum something which I think will take some time of I manage to do it at all.

@FuriousMachine @oliverp I played Control early on after getting my PS5 and had a blast with it.

The combat does feel pretty clunky to start with but as you unlock new abilities and weapons the combat becomes much more fun. I loved the whole world they built though and thought it was clever how they incorporated Alan Wake into it (subtly in the main game and much more overtly with the DLC).

It had lots of performance issues on PS4 but I had no issues in performance mode on PS5. My only annoyance was the utterly atrocious map.

@FuriousMachine @oliverp I’ll second @Thrillho regarding Control — it was really one of my favorite PS5 experiences so far. The combat can get chaotic, but it’s great fun. The haptics on the DualSense and the ray tracing on the PS5 version are really sweet. The story is like a fever dream, but you have to just roll with it.

I never played Alan Wake, which is something I should do, given how much I enjoyed Control.