Not been around much because for the last few weeks I've been grinding out Diablo 4. Honestly really burnt myself out on it, and appreciate FF16's arrival to give me a break.
Physically cannot bring myself to play more than 5 minutes of Knuckles’ Chaotix and Sonic 3D Blast. Both just baffling creative decisions and aren’t fun to play in the slightest.
@BeerIsAwesome I know some people can’t see past the jank with the Adventure games but I do think they hold up, if surely just by way of being insanely ambitious for the time. Considering the previous attempts to bring Sonic into 3D were a dodgy isometric platformer and Sonic Jam’s surprisingly cool hub world, it’s a gargantuan leap forward for the series.
@BeerIsAwesome Sonic Heroes is one I have really fond memories of, I had that and Adventure 2 Battle on the Cube, which is more than the Mario platformers on that system! I love Sunshine more than most but Sonic probably gave it a run for its money on that system.
Started playing Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time on Series X. First impressions are very positive! The game came out in 2003 on the original Xbox but it holds up so well and it feels so ahead of its time with mechanics such as wall-running. You can clearly tell Assassin's Creed was inspired by this series. The game also has excellent save as well as checkpoint systems. I'm definitely going to be enjoying this game a lot and I'm glad that I've finally started playing this classic franchise.
@LtSarge Sands of Time was one I had on the Cube as a kid and remember enjoying despite some difficulty spikes. There was a room with loads of gears that made me somewhat sick of the music that plays when you rewind!
@nessisonett I feel the same way after having played the game for several hours now: it's an enjoyable experience overall despite some difficulty spikes. Some puzzles are just so out of place and some fights were a bit confusing given that enemies would constantly spawn for a fairly long time. Rewinding is a cool feature, especially when given that it's easy to mess up the platforming. I don't like though that you're always getting spoiled of what's coming up ahead at every save point.
@Kidfried I actually own pretty much all games so I'm definitely going to play them eventually. I think I'll play them in release order, even if Forgotten Sands takes place after Sands of Time. I'd rather see how the series evolves mechanically across each entry, so I'm definitely looking forward to giving the HD era games a go. From what I've seen of Prince of Persia 2008 though, it looks pretty interesting. I'll give it a shot and see what I think of it!
@nessisonett@Kidfried Out of curiosity since you guys have played Prince of Persia, are you interested in the upcoming 2D game? Personally, I think it looks cool and since it's a Metroidvania, I absolutely want to play it!
@LtSarge Yeah, the new one looks like a great time, and Ubisoft have made some really good platformers over the years so I do think the smaller scope of a Metroidvania will suit them. It’ll be perfect for the Switch.
Started playing Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon on Wii U. It's been some time since I finished The Sacred Stones on GBA and I've been in the mood for some FE, so I decided to start up the last retro FE game in my collection. I've played it for a couple of hours now and it's been a lot of fun. The game feels more simple compared to the previous ones I've played, which doesn't come as a surprise since it's a remake of the first game. Moreover, I think it's very cool to finally get to play the game that stars Marth. I'm looking forward to experiencing the rest of the game!
After about 30 hours of Final Fantasy 16... I'd just had enough, honestly. I think I have like forty percent of that game left and I... just can't take any more. Because of this, I picked back up from where I left off with Star Trek Resurgence. This fell by the wayside to games like FF16 and Diablo IV. Feel kinda bad that I shelfed it honestly, as once I reoriented myself with what was going on, I found a spark really got lit in myself which had been so missing when playing through FF16.
It isn't exactly fun to play necessarily, but I like Telltale style games and I’m just generally a sucker for any game that gives you choice, even if in most games it is all pretty fake. Bolt a loot system or a dialogue tree onto any mediocre video game and I’m probably gonna score it like two scores higher than anyone else will. But give me a dialogue system where I felt like my choices genuinely mattered like they do in Resurgence? Oh baby, I'm feasting.
This makes it almost like the inversion of FF16 for me, FF16 is inarguably way more fun to play in the moment to moment, but it serves as a reminder that at least for my tastes no amount of mechanical proficiency will be enough for me when it is basically holding up a game alone. However, when a game is kinda jank like Resurgence most definitely is, my tolerance for that jank is far greater as long as I am as engaged with the story and characters, as I am in Resurgence.
Would I have been as engaged if I was just passively watching the cutscenes play out like I was in Final Fantasy 16? Probably not, honestly. I think it maybe shows the industry under appreciates how much something like a strong narrative choice system can add to a game, I'd argue far more than a flashy combat system can.
But different strokes for different folks, as they say.
Started playing MadWorld on Wii U. After finishing up Prince of Persia, I've been craving a new game and I was in a mood to play something short but sweet from my Wii backlog. I've played through the first level and it's such a fun game! Another good example of how much fun the games on the Wii were thanks to the motion controls, which work great with this game. I also had no idea that PlatinumGames developed this game, which is cool! Looking forward to playing more of it.
@LtSarge Oh very cool that have picked up Mad World. I remembered the game very clearly (played it back in the days). Its a little bit sad that the game have not got more attention then it have... It would be so very cool to see a remake. Unfortunately it does not seem as PlatinumGames does a lot of remakes.. Its also a little bit of a shame in a way that MadWorld is only available on Wii and Wii U. Would be nice to see the game available on more platforms so more people could try it out although I guess it will unfortunately not happen..
@nessisonett Very true. I played through Red Steel 2 last year, which is one of the best games with motion controls on Wii in my opinion. Still got some more promising third-party titles on Wii to play, such as the Trauma Center games, Epic Mickey, Rabbids Go Home and Zack & Wiki to name a few.
@oliverp Yeah I only know that the protagonist shows up in the crossover title Anarchy Reigns, which I sadly sold my copy of. That one also seemed like a decent game. But yeah, MadWorld definitely seems like one of PlatinumGames' more creative titles. It truly feels like the Wii brought out the creative side of developers back then among all the same-y games we got at the time.
Hopefully more Wii titles get re-released, at the very least on Switch. No More Heroes 1 and 2 are good examples that it works to bring over old Wii titles to a modern platform.
A few sprays of compressed air and my Guitar Hero/Rock Band controller feels good as new. I was playing the Rock Band games cause I was always more of a Guitar Hero fan and it’s been really good, a surprisingly decent tracklist minus Jet’s Are You Gonna Be My Girl, a contender for the worst song of all time. Just having a bit of a nightmare with Enter Sandman, and haven’t played the game in a while so The Who’s Won’t Get Fooled Again was a crampfest due to being like 9 minutes long 😂
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart on PC. I wasn't sure if my PC would even be able to run it, but thankfully it runs surprisingly well. It even coped with the rift-hopping set-piece, with only a tiny split-second of buffering between rifts. My PC does have an SSD, though the CPU is slightly worse than what's specified in their minimum specs, and the GPU is only slightly above their minimum.
I'm very happy with this. It was the current gen exclusive that I was most eager to play, and now I've got the means to play it.
As for the game itself, it's great so far. The gameplay is fun, and they appear to have done their magic in terms of story and humour. The visuals are also brilliant. I am playing with the lowest display settings and 1080p, but the parade section still looked phenomenal. I'm surprised that game graphics could look that good on my PC.
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