Topic: What (Non-PS4) game are you playing??

@colonelkilgore Cool. Sounds like you’ve got a good set-up plan. But I’m disappointed there’s no 85 in. 8K 120hz TV yet, huh? Ah well, gotta have something to look forward to. 😜
S’alright — Mine is a smaller set than yours (43 in.) and I still have the PS4 hooked up to my 1080p 40 inch set, and it actually looks great still.
(I just realized — I guess you all have to deal with the quirky American stubborn reluctance to give up on the old English measurement system. I’ve always thought it was ironic that even the English don’t use the system anymore but we do. Inches, feet, yards, miles, etc. I guess these tech companies keep their monitor and TV sizes standard across the world?)

As for MGS2, I’ve almost booted it up a few times this past week on the go and I think I’ll like utilizing the Vita. I’m sure it won’t be as epic as being on the big screen but the MGS HD collection is one of the few Vita games I have left in the backlog that I actually want to play. If it goes well then I might replay Snake Eater and I think maybe it has Peace Walker on it too (I have the actual physical game card), but I’m not sure. I know it has MGS2/3.

@Th3solution yeah measurements are a funny old thing here in the UK. We kinda use a hybrid of the metric and imperial systems. Money is purely metric, as are home furnishings (as I’ve recently reacquainted myself with…) probably a load of other things too. Then people’s height & weight, automobile speed, TV sizes etc are all imperial. It’s probably confusing to outsiders but you get used to what you’re brought up using I guess.

If the vita MGS HD Collection is the same as the PS3 one it will have Peace Walker… it’s good too, though you’ll have to find a dance partner if you want that plat. It requires that you clock up a helluva lot of ours in co-op… and if you want s-ranks on all missions, some would be almost impossible on your own. Plat aside though, it’s still a worthy part of the series imho.

@colonelkilgore Yeah, I actually played Peace Walker on PSP and liked it quite a bit. It would be a replay for me, and I don’t know if I want to experience it again that badly, given my other looming backlog games. It is one that I played through really quickly though and only experienced the base story and didn’t really delve too deeply. It probably should have had a proper remaster for PS4 to release alongside Ground Zeroes since it was pretty essential to the whole MGS5 saga and a lot of people missed it since it was on portable.

@Th3solution it would’ve been awesome using the fox engine tbh… well pretty much every old MGS would be phenomenal in the Fox engine in fairness.

@RogerRoger ahh fair enough, it's probably my least favourite of the series tbh but I still really liked it. The co-op was particularly good.

@RogerRoger Merciful indeed. Thanks for the clarification. I was wondering what kind of black magic they had used to get 3 full length games onto that little Vita game card. 😄

@LtSarge How have you been getting on with Xillia? The older Tales games do have a tendency to get bogged down in really strange lore and terminology. I spent half of Vesperia trying to work out exactly what an entelexeia was, but that’s nothing compared to Tales of Abyss! The Lillium Orb system reminded me a little of the Sphere Grid in Final Fantasy X, though not as deep. It’s a nice way to customise the character though.

I’ve been meaning to do a replay of Xillia for a while now, so would play as Milla next time. I really enjoyed the banter and comedy between the characters, but also appreciated the surprisingly dark moments in the story. Jude’s personal growth and progression is an important part of the story, so was nice to see unfold: even if he can be a bit naïve at times (particularly when it comes to the antics of a certain character).

@mookysam I haven't played much of it this week due to The Evil Within taking up most of my time. I did play a couple of more hours since my latest post and got to that small town where you meet the fourth member (the girl with the weird doll). Really enjoying the game so far, I can't wait to play more of it once my gaming schedule frees up a bit.

@RogerRoger Legacy of Kain is a cult classic, for sure, and me that I remember enjoying. It’s commonly endorsed as a good candidate for a remake, so I’ll be curious to see if you agree by the end.

The Medium

I only got to play it for an hour or so today on my Series X as it took me longer than I expected to finish up Scarlet Nexus today, but so far I'm enjoying it. I put it off even though I was really looking forward to it due to the mediocre reviews, but it made sense to finally give it a shot since it's October.

Has it really been two years ago since I wrote that? Good grief

The voice acting and opening scene REALLY are quite good though aren't they @RogerRoger? even for today's standards I think Raziel's Va is top notch 😄

I'd agree with you in that the combat wasn't anything to write home about from what I remember when playing it... And I'd also agree in that it could seriously do with a remake as it does have an interesting world and lore plus the spirit world & shifting geometry would still be a rather unique mechanic to this day!

Also I swear you could get a first person view or something... Maybe by holding down both the camera buttons rog?

Started up Visage yesterday only knowing that it's a psychological horror game where you explore a house, kinda like P.T. Having played an hour of it now though, it doesn't really feel like P.T. but more like Phasmophobia I think. I haven't played that game, but I've seen people play it and I believe in that game you have to keep your sanity up, otherwise weird stuff will start to occur. It's like that in Visage as well, you have to stay out of the darkness or you'll start to lose your sanity. Although I haven't seen what happens when your sanity gets too low, but I think it's fairly obvious. It's definitely a very tense game though, I don't think I'll be able to play it more than an hour at a time, lol.

On a side note, the opening was absolutely brutal, like holy crap.

Ahh no thanks needed @RogerRoger

I'm pretty sure I didn't know about that either whilst playing til I brought up the PS1 game system menu-y thing to (virtually) change discs, memory cards, reset etc with the home button and looked through the software manual option (I don't think that would be region specific but my version of Soul Reaver is from the US store... )

So I’ve returned to MGS2 today to pursue what is rapidly seeming to be the holiest of holy grails… and after two hours (& god knows how many attempts) I just managed to complete Snake’s VR Variety mission 4 (a notoriously difficult sniper one). I’m not gonna lie, i was as close to being broken by it as I’ve ever been… phew 😅.

I have a feeling that there is at least one more particularly difficult sniper mission (& probably loads of just plain hard other missions) but it’s definitely progress.

@colonelkilgore Nice work! All that time off moving to your new home has your skill rusty, my friend. 😜

@Th3solution I know right… though my ‘main’ skill (or the more appropriate word would be trait) has always been ‘persistence’ in fairness 😩.

Think I might have screwed myself on the final level of Tomb Raider. Went into it with 1 health pack, which is basically needed for the boss fight. I haven’t found another one the entire level and now I’ve saved outside a set of dart traps that I think are impossible to do without being hit. So I’m caught in an endless death loop. Brilliant.

I'm (slowly) playing through The Great Ace Attorney 2.

Meanwhile, since I only have half a month or so to get far enough into Genshin Impact in order to gain access to Aloy on PC, I finally started playing it. It's a game I've avoided since it released since I hate the way it's monetized. And, don't get me wrong, the gacha elements are pretty patently obvious, but they're disguised under a rather charming and addictive open world action-RPG. Granted, one that borrows pretty liberally from Breath of the Wild, but I'm continually impressed with the quality of this title. It runs at a smooth 60fps on my rather underpowered PC, and I'm finding it actually works really well with a gyro-enabled Steam controller. It's just too bad I have to rush through the beginning of the game so that I can get to adventure rank 20 before time runs out on Aloy.

Paimon is a truly obnoxious companion character, though. Just awful.

@nessisonett Only having one manual save? Are you mad??

(Or does the game not have more?)

@Thrillho The game only has save points which you find throughout the level. I could restart the level but I’d still only have the one health pack. Urgh.