That doesn't sound terribly fun @Ralizah regarding Animal Crossing and fishing. I assume it's a seasonal thing?
Good to hear you're enjoying DOOM 64 (and one hell of a counterbalance to Animal Crossing) ... I should probably bite on that for the ridiculously low price!
Oooh it's going well from the sound of things there @RogerRoger with Resident Evil.
Probably a good choice in picking Chris first seeing as you're more worried about your survivability and he can take them hits compared to Jill at the expense of only 6 item slots.
If you get on with it I'd definitely recommend trying 2 (My personal favourite of the three PS1 games) as well as the other games like Dino Crisis (Which I haven't played but I probably should as it sounds like good fun (and a bit goofier too))
Previously known as Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy
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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Yep. A few rare fish are only available January - March, and then disappear for months. Not usually an issue, except for games that launch near the end of March...
Well, I'll catch them next year if it comes down to it. I'll probably start fishing when the family is watching TV right now, though, since there's next to no thought that goes into the activity. Pure RNG.
Sharks will require sound when they come around, though. I needed godlike reflexes to catch them in New Leaf.
@nessisonett Yep. Part of the whole crafting system. It's a minor annoyance at times, but the crafting has added so much to the game overall.
I'll probably start fishing when the family is watching TV right now, though, since there's next to no thought that goes into the activity. Pure RNG
Least it isn't Star Ocean: Til The End Of Time (The third one) and it's bunny races @Ralizah which are without a doubt the worst minigame in existance.
Pure RNG with a two minute long race you can't skip past with a one in four chance of winning 1-3 points.
You need a 100 points I think to get the best smithy inventor for it's crafting system.
A 1000 is needed for a single bronze trophy. I hear that alone can take like 50+ hours to do 😂
Pretty sure I tried it for thirty minutes & got two races right for 3 points in total before dropping it. I'd take slightly boring fishing mechanics and a seasonal event over that any day 😅
@nessisonett Alas, it would appear to be. I haven't reached the basement yet, which I remember being the name of the track you posted. A shame, as I've rather enjoyed the minimalist music thusfar!
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy My only frustration has been the teeny-tiny inventory, so to hear that such a restriction is Chris' trade-off for being a tank gives me hope for a Jill playthrough, thank you! By then I'll know the attack patterns of each enemy (freakin' crows...) and be able to compensate for her lower overall health, not that I'll ever be playing on anything above Training difficulty regardless.
And I've got the PSone Classics of Resi 2 and Nemesis installed and ready to go, providing I don't end up hating my time in the mansion (which is highly unlikely; I've played a lot more today than I expected to, and will stick with it rather than alternating like I'd originally planned).
"We want different things, Crosshair. That doesn't mean that we have to be enemies."
@RogerRoger I do love all versions of Resi 1 but what made you plump for the original rather than REmake? It’s probably one of the best remakes in the pre-HD era so did you just prefer having the original trilogy on the one console?
@RogerRoger I've always started with Jill, considering she begins with a gun, which, imo, makes her the game's easy mode. Even if Chris is a tank, trying to survive the beginning of the game with that terrible knife is just annoying.
Honestly, other than the fact that it's repetitive, this sort of goal-oriented fishing isn't too bad. If anything, hunting around my beaches for thirty manilla clams before each fishing trip (I use them to make fish bait, which helps when the fish you're trying to nab can only really be found in a very particular area) is probably worse.
@nessisonett I'm fairly certain RogerRoger is going for something that isn't too scary, and REmake did a fantastic job of making the original RE just that: scary. I'd call it more moody and gothic than frightening, but, regardless, I don't think he's going for something chilling.
@nessisonett Yep, @Ralizah knows me too well; anything more advanced than blocky PSone graphics and I'd be running for the hills. I can handle blood, zombies and icky dogs when they're all in 32-bit, but I've got no chance with anything more detailed. Besides, the original trilogy is what made the franchise so iconic, and whenever I try something new, I'm very much a "start at the beginning" kinda guy.
@Ralizah After that first, historic zombie encounter I returned to the lobby and found Jill's discarded Beretta (on both the Training and Normal difficulties) so it isn't long before you can have Chris packing heat; theoretically, you don't even have to fight that first zombie, you could just run back and collect the Beretta. Honestly, I just picked Chris because he was the dude, and I've just come away from 60+ hours of staring at Aloy's backside. I needed a change of scenery!
"We want different things, Crosshair. That doesn't mean that we have to be enemies."
@Ralizah@RogerRoger As someone who was until very recently a massive wuss, I totally get it! That reminds me, I’ve got a save on REmake I need to get back to after I ran to a save room with about a million Crimson Heads after me 😂😂
Tell me about it. I've played through that game twice on PS2 and once on PS4. I've never done more then a go or two at it before stopping cus it's not only long and so boring to watch but that RNG is killer. Thank goodness I'm not a trophy hunter in the slightest or that'd drive me batty 😂
Good luck on that fairly tiresome sounding resource farming! You've got more willpower then me @Ralizah
Oh yeah those crows (The one in the gallery in particular) are fudging awful @RogerRoger though it's the Cerberus (zombie dogs) that get me still!
Jill isn't that much worse at taking hits I don't think? For me the extra two slots she has typically means packing Jill with more firepower or an extra herb (Or both)... So she made up for it quite easily
@Ralizah Ooh well done. I haven't encountered that yet. I did randomly get a blue marlin which I was pretty chuffed about and finally managed to catch a tarantula before it bit my poor villager. 😂
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy It'll be a while before I'm playing the sequels, as I'd hate to suffer burnout, but I'm looking forward to getting back to Resi later on, so thanks!
@Ralizah Congratulations on your catch! I laughed way too hard at the game's joke.
"We want different things, Crosshair. That doesn't mean that we have to be enemies."
@Tjuz Well, I'm including the whole process: selling off the excess fish clogging up my inventory as I look for it, digging for manilla clams, fashioning new poles and fish bait. Probably only a solid three hours or so of actual standing at the river fishing for it.
And thanks! The game is fun enough that I don't even feel particularly sore about the time spent trying to catch it. Just netted me some extra money, and I actually found a few new species I hadn't donated yet in the process.
I'm glad the Switch is a hybrid, though. I wouldn't want to sit near a TV doing this for hours. I can just integrate it into time I'm otherwise not doing anything with my hands, though.
@Ralizah Haha, the more I read about Animal Crossing the more I'm convinced it'd drive me insane! It does sound like a great tuning out game, so I wonder if many people actually play it with the Switch docked past the initial excitement. Glad you're having a great time with it, though. At least your efforts were still worth something even if you didn't get the fish you wanted for all those hours!
@KratosMD People often say that Jak II is the best of the franchise; for the reasons you've outlined above, I'd argue the opposite. I had much more fun with every other Jak game, even The Lost Frontier on PSP, because they felt more balanced and enjoyable to play.
It's still pretty cool, don't get me wrong, but I was so glad to leave it (and its multi-tiered, traffic-dodging races) behind. Was toying with the idea of replaying Jak 3 soon. Much better game.
"We want different things, Crosshair. That doesn't mean that we have to be enemies."
@KratosMD I'd heard that Sony instructed Naughty Dog to cash in on the popularity of Grand Theft Auto, but it's six of one. Whoever said what, we still ended up with a pretty weak clone, shoe-horned into a franchise that really didn't need to go all urban.
Brace yourself for what's to come. There are some escort missions and races which require milliseconds of perfection and, in a game with slow and randomised NPC traffic... well, you'll get the idea.
Good luck, and take it from me; there's no shame in walking away!
"We want different things, Crosshair. That doesn't mean that we have to be enemies."
I played a bit more of FF7 Crisis Core. I’m still undecided, it’s a bit fanfic-like in the way it tells the story. The gameplay’s kinda button mashey too. It’s not bad, just a bit ungainly. It’s worked well as a test of my laptop’s ability to upscale PSP games though, it looks incredibly good.
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