Topic: Games you've recently beat

I finished Forspoken on PS+.
Not the best game ever but it's perfectly fine, with a decent twist at the end.
I went back to do some post game quest and see how much I'd need for a platinum, only to find out about half of the map is still undiscovered 💀
So I'm not too sure I'll be doing that

@Voltan From what little I've played, it seems like a decent and fun game to play. Will you be checking out the DLC? If I recall correctly from the Push Square review, the DLC's story is apparently better than the base game's.

@LtSarge Hmm it's 70% off right now so I might just as well

@Voltan I was considering that as well, but I think I'll wait until I've played the base game.

Just to correct my previous post, the overall DLC is better than the base game according to the Push Square review. There wasn't much story in the DLC though.

Also finished LEGO Marvel's Avengers on PS5 today. Was hoping it'd be a good LEGO game but it was rather mediocre. Some levels were fun, but most of them were so slow-paced and tedious. It's definitely one of the weakest LEGO games that I've played. I'm glad that I didn't buy it and instead played it through PS+ Extra.

Just finished playing through Far Cry 5 again, this time on PC. My brother gave me his previous gaming PC for Christmas and it is has an RTX 3060 which is quite a decent setup. I bought FC5 off a Steam sale as a cheap benchmark to test the rig and was getting over 140 fps with every graphic setting cranked up to Ultra at 1440p. Looked incredible especially the foliage. Any other graphically impressive/interesting games you all can recommend for relatively cheap that I can test my new rig out on?

@PegasusActual93 Kingdom Come: Deliverance might melt the PC at maxed out settings, but it is worth a shot to see how far you can push it, it is a perennially cheap sale game and the sequel is only a month out 😁 might be able to max the first one out at 1080p at least?

The Witcher 3 always worth a mention.

Both of these were developed with a PC first attitude and the console games were scaled back from that.

Cyberpunk 2077? 🙈💀👀

@GirlVersusGame Oh yeah, for sure. All of the others in the series deal with heavy subjects to some degree. So depending how much you relate to the characters it can be emotionally draining.

Hopefully you feel up to trying LiS2 (with the Captain Spirit prequel first) and LiS: True Colors eventually after emotionally recovering.

I do like games that really make me feel something like that, even if the emotion is unpleasant or challenges my view of the world. These types of experiences are usually more memorable for me than other games. It’s why I liked TLoU2, Hellblade, RDR, Returnal, Brothers, Shadow of the Colossus, etc, etc. If it makes you think, cry, or makes your gut churn, then it’s doing something right.

Just finished off my Legend playthrough on Yakuza Kiwami 2 and it’s been good. I’m still not feeling as fanatical about the series as some… but I’m definitely moving in that direction.

Think the completion list was a bit easier in this one than the original and it obviously doesn’t have the highway car chase, which serves as a plat-blocker for many. I’m feeling like I liked this game more than the first one too… could just be recency bias I suppose but I definitely feel a fair bit more positive about the series than I did prior to starting it in December.

As an aside, I’m always trying to get the missus to game with me… and for the most part my efforts aren’t that well received. We have played the various Hazelight games together… but it takes me twisting-her-arm something chronic 😅… and we did start Silent Hill 2 Remake together as she liked the trailer… but she didn’t click with it and it was abandoned. She absolutely loves mahjong in these though… and it was a really good time taking it in turns against the ai. So much so, that she’s now twisting-my-arm to start Yakuza 3 so that we can play some more mahjong 🤣.

I was really meaning to make mention of the Clan Creator mini-game too but completely forgot about it for some reason. I’ve never really played anything that would be considered tower-defense, so this was a first for me and I actually really enjoyed it. So much so, I’m now taking a second look at Kunitsi-gami Path of the Goddess for some tower-defense fix down the line.

Beat Tengai Makyou: Ziria. One hell of a game, absolutely mad to think it’s from the 80s given it’s massively ahead of its time for an RPG. Probably due to it being a PC Engine CD game, the world is massive, the graphics are detailed for the time and the enemies are varied. Really great game, can understand why the series was up there with Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy throughout the 90s.

I didn't intend to absolutely devour this game and meant to put up a post saying I was playing it but... I beat Digimon Survive.

It really is mostly a visual novel with some grid based tactical rpg fights (It's pretty basic and not that complex).

I... Was not prepared for the surprising amount of deaths that happened in this game. I ended up going on the Harmonious route and the one death that ends up happening on this route was a real gut punch.

There is a golden route where everyone lives and I'll probably go through that sometime soon. Really enjoyed my time with it

@Herculean I kept thinking I'd start Pentiment before KCDII as a little medieval appetiser, but seeing you mention it is actually quite long and labour intensive maybe means I'm less bothered if I don't get round to it right now 😅 I'm assuming it's a game I will still really quite enjoy due to the setting and themes, but i'm maybe not in a big rush to get to it.

Will you be partaking in KCDII next month?

Currently rolling credits on Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. All I can say is "Bravo" once more.

This game is going to sell many, many millions on PS5 😅

And to anyone who said it will "suck and/or fail because of it being first person", it's good to be wrong every now and again, isn't it 😛 Take that L. it's a quality game and perfect for a First Person experience.

Admittedly, people that said things like that are infrequently in the push square forum, it's more comments section fare from people that seemingly don't like any games anyway.

If I had to rate it objectively I'd struggle between an 8 and a 9. By the end I'm glad it was the exact length it took me, as I couldn't have stuck with the gameplay loop for, say, 6 more hours, and the last open world area had a LOT of pop in, but it's hard not to respect and celebrate the job they have done with the game. It is pretty much the exact game they should have made, and they have made it damn well.

Graphics, content, structure, performances and audio all very high level with only some minor issues. Gameplay works nicely with it for the most part. It is also full of charm and humour, especially if you are patient enough to give all the dialogue and information pick-ups a read and listen rather than tear through it like a kid that had too many Red Bulls. The multi language element adds a real nice feel to it.

Okay. It's a clear 9, then, having written all that down. It won't go in my all time top games or anything like that, but you have to appreciate the effort and execution and praise it. Bravo 👏

Shame it's on Game Pass, really. But glad it's coming to PS5.

@Ravix Cool, looking forward to it!

Just beat The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt with the ending where Ciri became a witcher and Gerald got the best ending with Yennefer.

Also saved Keira Metz and she took off with Lambert

It is my very first time finishing a witcher game. I loved it but it is not perfect by any means.

The worst thing for me is Gerald's movement, it is so unresponsive The stories on the other hand were amazing and the world is cruel and mysterious.

Definitely going on a vacation to Toussaint next!

See you on the path!

@Zuljaras do hearts of stone before blood and wine. That is all.

Had to write this quickly. But can now elaborate via an edit 😁 Blood and Wine is the definitive final chapter of TW3 (almost a game in itself anyway) so if you've yet to tackle 'Hearts of Stone' it's best to do that first before you go off to Toussaint for B&W.

Both are top quality DLC's but B&W is the true ending of the Witcher 3 story.

How long did you put in your TW3, by the way? It feels like only yesterday that you mentioned joining us all on the path. Time really flies 😱

I recently beat Stalker 2 on the Series X. My total hours played was 165 hours. I never play games for that long; I tend to get burned out once I clock 50+ hours, even on some of my all time favorite games. However, I’ve never been more immersed in a world before. It is going to be an all-timer for me, and once it hits on PS5 I’ll be jumping in again.

@Ravix I think it was around 20-25 hours as I started it 2 weeks ago. I played it completely offline, so I don't have my time tracked.

Hearts of Stone is first then.

I beat boss mode of Lost Ruins. This being a mode where you play as 3 of the bosses stuck in one body and have to switch between all 3 (Each one having a limited and set playstyle).

It was rather fun going back and replaying this once again. Yuri (the Zombie witch girl) I used the most, Kana (The demon girl with a Katana) was played a decent amount & Jun (The archer spider girl) was barely used at all aside from rolling into secret areas.

I admittedly made Yuri really broken quite early on by using Kana's aerial attack to grab some equipment I wasn't supposed to have for a good while and basically made Yuri able to spam laser beams with my crazy mp regen and just never used anyone else unless I had to