Topic: Games you've recently beat

Finally finished Golf Story on the Switch last night. Ended up putting something like 20 hours into the game doing everything and every interaction. Great little RPG/Golfing game and recommend.

@Kidfried Still not touched Far Harbour despite getting the season pass before the price went up. How does it run? The frame rate in the main game became quite dreadful for me towards the end and I'm not sure why. :-/

@Rudy_Manchego Sounds like a nice little game. I think I'll have to check it out!

@mookysam It's fun with a weird sense of humour. Very chill game!

@KratosMD After playing the first game all those years back, I was never really fussed on the sequels that I played. I remember playing a bit of DMC and enjoying it, so will probably pick it up at some point after your positive feedback. Cheers!

How do you feel about the new game that is coming out?

Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon (Switch) - As mentioned before, I don't have much experience with Castlevania proper, but I enjoyed my time with this. It had a really cool atmosphere, and although it could get quite tough, it never felt unfair (I especially liked the bosses).

Did both a Normal/Casual run & a Normal/Veteran run.

Today I finally finished God of War II. I'm currently torn between thinking that it's better than the first game, or about the same.

Combat hasn't really changed aside from different moves. It's still really fun, and a bit less reliant on mashing QTEs, which I'm definitely grateful for. Kratos also gets a hammer and spear for new weapons, but I didn't make use of them much, since Kratos' swords just get the job done better. I do like the new magic powers, with Typhon's Bow being a good distance weapon, with Chronos' Rage and Atlas Quake being great for wearing down crowds. Boss battles are good, with the final battle with Zeus being better than Ares in my opinion (probably because I didn't blow my shoulder out this time). A few encounters near the end started to drag on, though. The puzzles, while I took longer than I'd like for some, they're well designed

Story, is a story. Kratos is really mad at Zeus stabbing him. It works.

The graphics are good for PS2 standards as well. I played the version on PS3, so the cutscenes can look low res, but overall a good looking game.

That's about it. I'll work on Chains of Olympus next.

Haven't beaten (or played) anything deeply for a while. I'm hoping to get the all clear for my eye this afternoon - then back to the trophy hunt for Jamestown+ and Raiden V and dig deep in The Bannaer Saga.

@Kidfried Finally got round to playing Virginia! I remember you recommending it ages ago. It was a nice experience to whittle away a few hours. Very strange in places and the constant cuts to new scenes were a little jarring at first, but on the whole I enjoyed it. I'll give it a replay later in the week.

@DerMeister God of War 2 is mega awesome. It was so impressive when it was originally released. I love the scale of everything and how the island is so intricately designed. Some excellent set pieces and boss battles too! I actually can't decide if it's still the best in the series.

Beat Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Switch) last weekend. It was quite the unique and charming experience (the Odyssey inspired levels were really cool, too).

Didn't get the news I was hoping for yesterday, so no shmup goodness for me just yet

Probably just get on with The Banner Saga.

@KratosMD can I ask? How many games have u beat in the last six months? Ur a friggin machine!

@KratosMD Christ on a bike!

@KratosMD I've always had a problem with finishing games, I think it's due to wanting to find everything and do everything in every game I play. Really takes the fun out of it, I have a major problem with starting games over also, I don't know why I do it. Takes me forever to beat some games and by the end of alot of them I'm just not having fun anymore.

@ellsworth004 I have a similar problem. I think I spend too much time roaming around in games, at least the open world type games. However, I don’t usually start over, but I have been known to make multiple game saves and then go back to a prior save if I missed something and replay a section to see what I missed. In general I still enjoy the game even though it takes me so long, but it’s easy to get frustrated by how long it’s taking because I want to be able to move along and experience different games. As a result I end up with several games unfinished. But I’m trying to re-train myself to be less obsessive to see and do everything and move along a little more quickly. So right now I’m playing Yakuza 0 and Horizon Zero Dawn, both large games with tons to do, so I am trying to focus on advancing the story and just sprinkling in side quests or collectithons when they are just in my direct pathway toward the bigger goal. Last night I had to restrain myself from fishing at the pier, playing majong, and searching for phone cards in Kamurocho because I keep telling myself I need to make progress.
There was an article on here about a year ago which I loved by I think shogunrok about how he tried going through open world games quicker and ignoring side quests and it seemed to enhance his enjoyment of certain games (I think his example was Dragon Age Inquisition, which ironically was one that I got to bogged down and never completed) and that article motivated me. Also it’s motivation to try to be more streamlined when playing because of the sheer number of good games in my backlog that I want to experience. And it’s only getting worse!
Anyway, sorry for my ramblings but this has been on my mind too.

I don't even care about finishing video games these days to be honest, I play and enjoy them until I've had my fill and then stick it on the shelf or eventually delete it if it's digital.

I'd say I probably finish 50% of games I purchase these days but I won't force it if I'm not having fun.

I finished SuperHot (non VR) the other day. I loved the VR version, and quite liked the non VR. It is really fun and you feel like a boss when you time it all just right. Kind of wish I had played the other way round because the VR version is, in my opinion, really superior.

@KratosMD I don't know when I started doing it really - take Hollow Knight though. Great game, and I was really really enjoying it. Got 25 hours in and just didn't feel the urge to play it anymore. It's been 3-4 weeks now so I'm very unlikely to go back.

But then if I'm loving something (Nier, Divinity, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Mario Oddysey) I'll plough hours and hours into em!

BOTW is an odd one. 100+ hours but I've still stopped short of beating Ganon. But mentally I don't feel like I'm done with that one yet. In fact I'm eager to get back into it. It's almost like I want to leave some of the game unfinished so I can play it again sometime.

@kyleforrester87 I can respect that, and the further into this gen we get, the more I have a play history like yours with many partially finished games where I never saw the end. The only issue is, there are many games in which the ending is the best part, so I feel like I have to at least try to get to the conclusion, because sometimes that completely changes one’s perception of the game (for example: The Last of Us, NieR Automata, Red Dead Redemption, ... etc). Actually, that’s part of motivation in going back to HZD recently is because I quite enjoyed it at launch and was amazed at the quality of it and was having fun, but I got side tracked and never saw the ending. So many people have raved about the story and the conclusion that now I feel compelled to see it, and I’m having fun and enjoying it all over again. And I didn’t have to start over, thankfully.

But on a related note, I also have a strange compulsion in games to save my resources for a rainy day, always wondering what cool item for sale or for crafting that might come up late game that I want to have enough resources or in game currency for. And this time around with HZD I decided to just throw caution to the wind and start spending all my shards and components on the latest weapons upgrades and armor and I think it’s helping me enjoy it a bit more. Experiencing all the different weapons is sometimes part of the joy of a game. I’m trying to adjust my thinking tonknow it’s not always like real life where you need to save up for the future 😅

@Th3solution Pretty much the same as you minus the saves. God of War for instance took me a month to complete whereas some other people finished it in about a week.

I like to explore games and even when I try to concentrate on the main story I almost always get distracted by a side quests or something shiny over the hills.

And I share @KratosMD sentiments regarding starting games over again, I just don't understand why and the only times I can recall doing it is when I've had a game breaking bug quite near the start.

I finished Assassin's Creed Black Flag the other day, and finished Freedom Cry last night. By the end I was starting to feel a bit bored of the same old follow/eavesdrop quests, but then the second-to-last mission of Freedom Cry really caught me off guard, I thought it was superb. I'm not usually a fan of the storylines in AC games, but Freedom Cry's was great.