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Post by polly on Dec 27, 2019 20:59:20 GMT
Phantom Brave (Wii) - Fun little 2D strategy RPG from Nippon Ichi, so basically the studio's signature style. I've been steamrolling through the game because of an exploit early on where, on one stage, there's an enemy who gains a level each turn without actually becoming stronger. So you just wait and let it get to the level cap, then kill it, and are rewarded with tons of experience and money.
I don't understand why they put this in the game - it's a well known trick and not a glitch or anything, but I'll take it. In the late going, the enemies are catching back up with me anyhow.
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Post by tuigirl on Jan 4, 2020 9:54:58 GMT
Got Disco Elysium on Sale, since it has raving reviews as best RPG of 2019. Plus promises great ambivalent characters and lots of social commentary. The developers appear to be HUGE Who fans. 5 minutes in and I already had 2 (!!) Who references. This is going to be great.
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Post by theotherjosh on Jan 31, 2020 20:46:08 GMT
I am Setsuna
Looking through my old saves, I see that I purchased it shortly after it was released in 2016, played it very aggressively for about three weeks and then dropped it.
Returning to it, I see why.
Oh my god, guys. It's so depressing. The developers have said the core theme of the game is sadness. The title and the character from whom it is derived come from the Japanese word "setsunasa" one of which is sadness or sorrow. It's bleak and snowy all the time and the music is all these melancholy piano chords.
Mechanically, it's a throwback to SNES RPGs. It has a Final Fantasy or Chrono Trigger vibe to it, with a modern sheen. I enjoy playing it, and I think I'm going to see it through to the end, but I'm not sure I'm ever going to want to come back once I'm done.
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Post by Timelord007 on Feb 1, 2020 7:13:38 GMT
Death Stranding on PS4, madness but magnificent madness all the same.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2020 9:05:28 GMT
Got Disco Elysium on Sale, since it has raving reviews as best RPG of 2019. Plus promises great ambivalent characters and lots of social commentary. The developers appear to be HUGE Who fans. 5 minutes in and I already had 2 (!!) Who references. This is going to be great. I've been looking for a proper sequel to Planescape: Torment for ages. Tides of Numenera is good, but it wasn't quite it. Very nearly, but it didn't quite grab the atmosphere of the original. Disco Elysium is the one. There's nothing that prepares you for the kind of shenanigans it gets up to (like your character traits actually fighting one another in the dialogue tree):
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Post by tuigirl on Feb 1, 2020 10:05:30 GMT
Got Disco Elysium on Sale, since it has raving reviews as best RPG of 2019. Plus promises great ambivalent characters and lots of social commentary. The developers appear to be HUGE Who fans. 5 minutes in and I already had 2 (!!) Who references. This is going to be great. I've been looking for a proper sequel to Planescape: Torment for ages. Tides of Numenera is good, but it wasn't quite it. Very nearly, but it didn't quite grab the atmosphere of the original. Disco Elysium is the one. There's nothing that prepares you for the kind of shenanigans it gets up to (like your character traits actually fighting one another in the dialogue tree): It is quite something, isn't it? I wish I had more time for really sitting down and get into it.
It is VERY clever.
No wonder they got prizes for this.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2020 10:51:15 GMT
I've been looking for a proper sequel to Planescape: Torment for ages. Tides of Numenera is good, but it wasn't quite it. Very nearly, but it didn't quite grab the atmosphere of the original. Disco Elysium is the one. There's nothing that prepares you for the kind of shenanigans it gets up to (like your character traits actually fighting one another in the dialogue tree): It is quite something, isn't it? I wish I had more time for really sitting down and get into it.
It is VERY clever.
No wonder they got prizes for this.
Oh, I know, right? Utterly brilliant. The creators already have plans for an expansion and a sequel. The other two I've been looking at are Deadfire (petulant gods and salty pirates) and Black Mesa's new "Xen" chapters. The work they've done on realising the "border world" is fantastic to see, astonishing to actually play through. It's the first time in a first-person shooter that I've felt reservations at a game forcing me to bring weapons into its setting. I just walked through the first couple islands like it was Myst.
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Post by anothermanicmondas on Feb 1, 2020 13:42:16 GMT
I have reunited with Minsc (and Boo) in Siege of Dragonspear
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Post by anothermanicmondas on Feb 29, 2020 20:58:24 GMT
I have reunited with Minsc (and Boo) in Siege of Dragonspear which took me 4 weeks to complete. now moved on to Baldur's Gate 2
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Post by Timelord007 on Mar 1, 2020 13:21:26 GMT
Giving Remnant From The Ashes another bash now I've completed The Division.
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Post by theotherjosh on Mar 4, 2020 19:33:47 GMT
Nier: Automata
I don't know if this game is just really hard or if I need to "Git Gud" as the kids say, but I had to turn the difficulty down to easy to get past the tutorial.
Depression Quest
I decided to play this near the end of my run of I Am Setsuna, which is itself crushingly depressing in order to confirm that Setsuna is actually more depressing than a game named Depression Quest.
I've never played anything quite like it. It deserves all the plaudits it's received. Not to everyone's taste, I'm sure, but a worthwhile game.
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Post by polly on Mar 5, 2020 20:17:16 GMT
Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse - It's been long enough since I played Episode 1 that I've had some catching up to do. They've tinkered with the gameplay in this one, and I don't think it's for the better. Also, this is a two disc game and it seemed like almost nothing happened up until the end of Disc 1.
Not awful, just not as good. I do at least appreciate a sci-fi RPG that stays sci-fi, unlike the Star Ocean series which tends to plunk you down on a planet that just so happens to have a medieval fantasy society.
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Post by tuigirl on Mar 7, 2020 19:34:51 GMT
Since I have played Half Life 2 and the following episodes and kind of enjoyed them... I decided to find out what the fuss was about and got Black Mesa. I am not really an ego-shooter kind of person. I am the kind of person who commits absolute heresy by saying that I was bored out of my mind by Halo (Singleplayer, I do not do a lot of multiplayer). I even once upon a time tried myself on Doom 3 and never made it past the first few levels because it did not grab my attention. At all. Yes, I do enjoy the Far Cry and Crysis Games in short bursts, especially when I have aggression built up which can only be released by slaughtering pirates messily with a knife and a shotgun... but I lack the patience and dedication (and stomach) for doing this for longer than an hour at a time. At least Black Mesa keeps my mind occupied by making me think and solve the basic riddles. The story itself is a very basic alien invasion affair and as a Whovian I am very familiar with the concept of running away from aliens along winding dark corridors. Which also appear to be a common theme in ego-shooter games (maybe this is why I like the Crytek games, because they break the mold and play in exotic jungles?). This is a bit... samey and uninspired. But I have seen that there are some alien planet levels in there, and that is what I am actually looking forward to. Just need to get through all those samey dark corridors and sewers first. Who exactly designs these levels? And how would any of this make sense in a real research facility? However, it works alright when approached as escape room mystery.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2020 23:43:06 GMT
Since I have played Half Life 2 and the following episodes and kind of enjoyed them... I decided to find out what the fuss was about and got Black Mesa. I am not really an ego-shooter kind of person. I am the kind of person who commits absolute heresy by saying that I was bored out of my mind by Halo (Singleplayer, I do not do a lot of multiplayer). I even once upon a time tried myself on Doom 3 and never made it past the first few levels because it did not grab my attention. At all. Yes, I do enjoy the Far Cry and Crysis Games in short bursts, especially when I have aggression built up which can only be released by slaughtering pirates messily with a knife and a shotgun... but I lack the patience and dedication (and stomach) for doing this for longer than an hour at a time. At least Black Mesa keeps my mind occupied by making me think and solve the basic riddles. The story itself is a very basic alien invasion affair and as a Whovian I am very familiar with the concept of running away from aliens along winding dark corridors. Which also appear to be a common theme in ego-shooter games (maybe this is why I like the Crytek games, because they break the mold and play in exotic jungles?). This is a bit... samey and uninspired. But I have seen that there are some alien planet levels in there, and that is what I am actually looking forward to. Just need to get through all those samey dark corridors and sewers first. Who exactly designs these levels? And how would any of this make sense in a real research facility? However, it works alright when approached as escape room mystery. I replayed Halo recently and I was surprised by just how sparsely populated it felt by comparison to earlier memories. I think what a lot of people remember is the Cooperative setting and playing as part of a team. There's a lot of banter there that just isn't captured within the game itself: Speaking of... I think you'd enjoy Freeman's Mind as a companion piece. It's a walkthrough on YouTube of the original Half Life, but it's done in-character as theoretical physicist Gordon Freeman and follows his "rambling, eccentric, paranoid and narcissistic thoughts" as he delves deeper and deeper into a facility that just increasingly seems to make no sense. Also, there's Gilbert and Sullivan. A lot of the episodes are him trying to rationalise in-universe what otherwise seem to be deeply irrational design choices or thought processes.
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Post by christmastrenzalore on Mar 9, 2020 21:23:25 GMT
Sonic Mania. Lots of fun. A solid throwback to classic era Sonic. It builds a lot on top of the old mechanics, and a lot of the stress and frustration has been alleviated with the option to level select.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelists. I played Yu-Gi-Oh! quite a bit growing up, and this game lets you play the story from the Anime, collect cards, and build your own decks with no gatcha strings attached. I'm having a blast with it. Though now that I'm getting further into the future, some of the challenge decks are bonkers strong and convoluted.
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Post by polly on Mar 10, 2020 22:28:12 GMT
Since I have played Half Life 2 and the following episodes and kind of enjoyed them... I decided to find out what the fuss was about and got Black Mesa. I am not really an ego-shooter kind of person. I am the kind of person who commits absolute heresy by saying that I was bored out of my mind by Halo (Singleplayer, I do not do a lot of multiplayer). I even once upon a time tried myself on Doom 3 and never made it past the first few levels because it did not grab my attention. At all. Yes, I do enjoy the Far Cry and Crysis Games in short bursts, especially when I have aggression built up which can only be released by slaughtering pirates messily with a knife and a shotgun... but I lack the patience and dedication (and stomach) for doing this for longer than an hour at a time. At least Black Mesa keeps my mind occupied by making me think and solve the basic riddles. The story itself is a very basic alien invasion affair and as a Whovian I am very familiar with the concept of running away from aliens along winding dark corridors. Which also appear to be a common theme in ego-shooter games (maybe this is why I like the Crytek games, because they break the mold and play in exotic jungles?). This is a bit... samey and uninspired. But I have seen that there are some alien planet levels in there, and that is what I am actually looking forward to. Just need to get through all those samey dark corridors and sewers first. Who exactly designs these levels? And how would any of this make sense in a real research facility? However, it works alright when approached as escape room mystery. The levels set in Xen (alien dimension) are generally conisdered to be the worst part of the original release. They spent a lot of time reworking them for the Black Mesa remake, but I don't know how well it turned out. For myself... Spider-Man 2 (Xbox) - I needed a break from constant RPGs. I don't usually go for movie tie-ins because quite often they suck, but this is an exception. Open-world Manhattan to swing around in, with plenty of snarky commentary from Bruce Campbell.
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Post by christmastrenzalore on Mar 10, 2020 22:43:39 GMT
Nier: Automata
I don't know if this game is just really hard or if I need to "Git Gud" as the kids say, but I had to turn the difficulty down to easy to get past the tutorial. The opening is pretty rough. It just drops you in with no healing items and doesn't give you a checkpoint for a really long stretch. Even after beating the game, I still can't beat that section on Hard Mode. Spider-Man 2 (Xbox) - I needed a break from constant RPGs. I don't usually go for movie tie-ins because quite often they suck, but this is an exception. Open-world Manhattan to swing around in, with plenty of snarky commentary from Bruce Campbell. Damn straight! Classic.
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Post by Timelord007 on Mar 11, 2020 7:37:45 GMT
Since I have played Half Life 2 and the following episodes and kind of enjoyed them... I decided to find out what the fuss was about and got Black Mesa. I am not really an ego-shooter kind of person. I am the kind of person who commits absolute heresy by saying that I was bored out of my mind by Halo (Singleplayer, I do not do a lot of multiplayer). I even once upon a time tried myself on Doom 3 and never made it past the first few levels because it did not grab my attention. At all. Yes, I do enjoy the Far Cry and Crysis Games in short bursts, especially when I have aggression built up which can only be released by slaughtering pirates messily with a knife and a shotgun... but I lack the patience and dedication (and stomach) for doing this for longer than an hour at a time. At least Black Mesa keeps my mind occupied by making me think and solve the basic riddles. The story itself is a very basic alien invasion affair and as a Whovian I am very familiar with the concept of running away from aliens along winding dark corridors. Which also appear to be a common theme in ego-shooter games (maybe this is why I like the Crytek games, because they break the mold and play in exotic jungles?). This is a bit... samey and uninspired. But I have seen that there are some alien planet levels in there, and that is what I am actually looking forward to. Just need to get through all those samey dark corridors and sewers first. Who exactly designs these levels? And how would any of this make sense in a real research facility? However, it works alright when approached as escape room mystery. The levels set in Xen (alien dimension) are generally conisdered to be the worst part of the original release. They spent a lot of time reworking them for the Black Mesa remake, but I don't know how well it turned out. For myself... Spider-Man 2 (Xbox) - I needed a break from constant RPGs. I don't usually go for movie tie-ins because quite often they suck, but this is an exception. Open-world Manhattan to swing around in, with plenty of snarky commentary from Bruce Campbell. If you own a PS4 i highly recommend you play Spider-Man awesome game, great story & plenty of costumes & upgrades defo worth playing.
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Post by polly on Mar 11, 2020 17:50:23 GMT
If you own a PS4 i highly recommend you play Spider-Man awesome game, great story & plenty of costumes & upgrades defo worth playing. I do have a PS4! I don't play it often, but I would like to give that Spidey game a try. I actually used to be friends with someone who worked on the game, it was his first project after being hired by Insomniac. So I kinda feel obligated to check it out either way lol.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2020 0:41:01 GMT
Sonic Mania. Lots of fun. A solid throwback to classic era Sonic. It builds a lot on top of the old mechanics, and a lot of the stress and frustration has been alleviated with the option to level select. Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelists. I played Yu-Gi-Oh! quite a bit growing up, and this game lets you play the story from the Anime, collect cards, and build your own decks with no gatcha strings attached. I'm having a blast with it. Though now that I'm getting further into the future, some of the challenge decks are bonkers strong and convoluted. Snap. A recent replay of Sonic Mania got me checking out Sonic Robo Blast 2, a game made on the Doom engine. The team for it have taken a lot of care in alleviating some of the recurring problems that have plagued the 3D era (camera control, et al.). I hadn't played this in ages. More than a few versions back. I had a look at their most recent V2.2 that was released just a couple months ago. Oh, it's good.
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