Topic: Games you've recently beat

@Th3solution congrats dude… and although you had a few nit-picks, it sounds like you had a real good time with it. Resident Evil is a series I’ve been meaning to start for such a long time, hopefully this year is gonna be the year though 🤞.

Talking of series that I’ve been meaning to start for ages, I just finished my first playthrough on Darksiders: Warmastered Edition and it was a revelation. The one Nintendo franchise I actually like is Zelda… and this just filled that hole like a glove. Managed to get all missables and collectibles, so ‘just’ a playthrough on Apocalyptic difficulty now 😅.

Something that did surprise me is how many people hold this game dear. A good few of the guys on my friends list messaged me out of the blue to tell me how much they loved this game, which rarely happens tbh.

@Th3solution
Congrats. I bought the Gold edition a while back and played it in VR, it is such a great game and one of my favourite VR games. I’ve yet to play the ADA dlc (which doesn’t support VR) but it is on my list, I just needed a little break after about five play throughs back to back to ensure I didn’t forget much (speed running is still very much required for the platinum). Dual wielding with a knife and gun is the only way to go.
I’ve completed the Mercenaries mode in order to unlock a gun, I normally dislike this mode but it was quite forgiving.

@CaptD The Ada DLC is supposed to be great. She seems like an interesting character too (curvaceousness aside) with her ambiguous background and allegiance.

I don’t do VR but the RE games are best-in-class from what I hear.

@graymamba Thanks, bud. RE1-4 remakes are nothing short of excellent. Every one of them. Do you plan to start with the remakes or go back to the originals (which are all now available on PS4). You have a better tolerance to retro gaming than I, but the OG 1-3 are quite good on their own. 4 is the only one I couldn’t wrap my head around. The OG 4 is a halfstep between the old tank controls and the new run ‘n gun free movement, so it just didn’t click for me.

@Th3solution Congratulations on beating RE4 REmake, I'm pleased to know you had a great time with the game.

@Th3solution Curvaceousness, was that one of your words of the day by any chance?

@JohnnyShoulder 😂 No, the word yesterday was fress - “to devour, eat without restraint”
So what I should have said was “I hope you fress on the Ada DLC with the same level of enjoyment as you had with the base game.”

@Th3solution I’ll be playing the REmakes too… I did randomly play Resident Evil 2 Remake back in early 2020 and I liked it quite a bit tbh. I wasn’t quite the ocd trophy hunting monster then that I am today though and simply played it through with each character and moved on.

I did play Code Veronica on Dreamcast back in the day and the original Resident Evil 4 on Wii… but I always kinda stumbled into the series with no context nor frame of reference. That’s why I intend on doing it right this time, staring from the beginning (well, with 1 not 0) and attempting the platinum on each one. Not gonna blitz them though, at most I’ll be playing 2 per year.

@graymamba I think a sequential approach is best. The stories contained in the series are actually decent and playing them in order has helped me understand the characters and plot lines a little better.

RE1-3 are actually fairly short, but the platinums take a lot of effort and multiple playthroughs. My RE4 playtime was about 40 hours, but that includes pause time and some obsessing over inventory and vendor interactions. Probably closer to 30 hrs of actual gameplay. I think it was almost the ideal length, if not a smidge long. RE3 Remake is famously cut too short, and RE1 and RE2 are just about right, lengthwise. Two a year are certainly achievable for a player of your proficiency. But there’s also many other horror action game series you may prefer to add into the mix for the year instead.

Having finally checked off RE4 my next question is whether to continue on and try the lesser rated games in the series RE5 and RE6, as opposed to jumping past those and picking up with RE7 and RE8. My instinct is to go ahead and try 5 next, but that will probably have to wait until next year. I have other horror/zombie games slated for the year (Days Gone, Alan Wake, and at least one of the Dark Pictures Anthology)

Speaking of schedules, you and I had been discussing schedule modification recently, and I decided to veer off and do Star Wars Outlaws instead of trying to ram in another from my schedule out of turn. It was down to that or the Uncharted 2 replay, and I felt more like a SW Sci-Fi mood, as well as wanting to stay more topical with its recent revival after being patched. Early impressions are good and the stealth focus and lighter tone is a nice change of pace from murdering the infected.

@Th3solution I have something similar come through every day, but I rarely pay any attention to it lol.

Glad you enjoyed Resident Evil 4 a great deal more than your first attempt. I would be tempted to give it another go, but didn't like what I played of the demo.

@Th3solution yeah I am kinda focussing on Resident Evil for the next few years at the expense of other horror games I’d want to play tbh… but a line in the sand has to be drawn as it were. Having said that, I will still play Dead Space 2 early next year for plat #250 though, which may in-turn impact my ability to get two Resi’s done in 2026 tbh but it is what it is.

Two games that I think I’ll love… maybe more than Resi are The Evil Within games. I’ve watched a few reviews and their mental demons-vibe seems more up my street than mega-corp monsters slant… but I’ll get to them eventually, I just wanna check off the major series that I missed over the last 20 years or so first I suppose. As it’s all too easy to push things back as infinitum (something I know you have experience of 😉).

Anyway, it’s good to hear a bit of positivity about SW: Outlaws… I’ve liked what I’ve seen of the game from back before release. Also, I’m the sole Ubisoft-stan out there… so am pretty confident that I’ll enjoy it when I get there. Always good to hear other people say some good stuff about it too though… as there was a shed-load of negativity back when it released 😅. Always thought it may well have been overblown as this current gaming sphere either love something or hate something, with nothing in-between… oh and the amount of hate spread seems to far outweigh the amount of love. What a world we live in!

@graymamba Yeah, the hate train seems to be at full speed on certain games. And once it gets rolling, it’s hard to stop.

I do think the stealth insta-fail sections were a legitimate problem, so those have been improved in the patches. As far as the Ubi open world criticisms and the ‘bland protagonist’ comments, that’s largely a matter of preference, I think. So far I find Kay to be interesting and enjoyable to play as. And yes, the Ubi open world is still great to engage in from time to time. The different setting more than makes up for sameness of the game structure. It’s nice to take a break from the historical and classic fantasy settings for a while (even though I love those too).

On a recent podcast I was listening to the guy said Outlaws was the best Star Wars he’s engaged with since the original trilogy. That’s high praise indeed, so we’ll have to see if it holds up.

@Th3solution bloody hell… that is incredibly high praise! Well if I (or you I’d imagine) feel half as positive about the game as that podcast-guy, I’ll be over the moon.

@graymamba
Whoa there sunny, you’re not the only ubi fan out there.
Joking aside I’ve seen quite a few adverts on YouTube for the new AC game, they are at least trying to sell it.
Also just seen a top 10 hardest RE Cheevos on WatchMojo (yes yes I know they are pants), I have a few of them but have never been great at the RE games and there is normally a roadblock, be it Mercenaries or speed running. Anyhoo one of the top 10 was invisible enemies in RE1R and I have to admit it was the most stupid mode ever, what muppet* dreamt that up.

*And no you don’t need to tell me that it was the godfather of survival horror, probably.

@CaptD sorry dude, I forgot that I had a partner in that particular crime 😅. That trophy sounds bloody awful… maybe I’ll shove Resident Evil back another year 🫠

@graymamba
Definitely don’t do that as it is a great game which still holds up surprisingly well, it’s just the invisible mode is a bit daft but then I guess that is RE, I mean whatever next? Playing as a stick of tofu?
However do give the trophy guide a quick look before you start as you can make it really difficult for yourself (possibly insanely difficult tbh).

@CaptD will do mate, I have a vague recollection of there being around 5/6 playthroughs required. Presumably invisible enemies and tofu protagonist accounts for 2 of those 😉. In all seriousness though, the stick of tofu thing does register with me… but it’s giving one of the sequels if I ain’t mistaken 🤔… though it could be this one I guess… it’s been a while since I’ve checked the trophies.

Sounds like I got a couple of toughies coming up then, as I’m planning on starting the Devil May Cry and Resi series’s during the same month 🫠

I finally beat Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 on the PS5 and got the platinum for it, approximately 10 minutes ago. I’m very proud of this achievement. Phenomenal game. Now I can put my main focus on Suikoden 1 until Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition releases.

@Kraven congrats buddy, I haven’t looked into the platinum for KC:D2 but I can imagine the amount of dedication it would need 👏.

Just finished my second playthrough of Darksiders on Apocalyptic difficulty. Would never consider myself a speed-runner of any description… but managed to get the whole run done in a day. Quite an intense and long session but the plat is done and I can move on to the next game having had a damn good time!

@Kraven
Congrats on what looks like another tricky but awesome platinum.
Of course you will have to play it all over again when the hardcore mode drops in a few months.

@Jimmer-jammer thanks buddy, it’s gonna be a while until I play the sequel though. It’ll probably be around this time next year tbh… I ain’t in any rush though, I reckon I’ll just about be chomping-at-the-bit to get back to the Darksiders world by then.