Games you are currently playing - Part 7

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Been playing Duke Nukem Forever...

The first 4 missions (I think?) are kinda fun but man after a while, you realize the game didn't age well.
 
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Age well? It wasn't particularly very good even when it came out lol.

I seem to have enjoyed it more than most and even I still thought it was just OK. The boss battles were pretty fun and they had some silly mechanics but it was really just a comedy mod of the original Prey.
 
I tried playing MotoGP 22 cos it's on Gamepass Ultimate on the Series S but it's f***ing hard even with all assists on, I can barely stay on the track and keep spinning out.

Think I'll just try F1 22 lol or failing that, Need For Speed.
 
Started WWE 2k23 last night with the John Cena Showcase mode, pretty good so far, game looks great, and thru the first couple of hours no major glitches or issues

Probably gonna get started on Resident Evil 4 this weekend
 
I started a newer, lesser known indie game, Warstride Challenges. It just came out 3 months ago and it's already 50% off. It's a speed run arena shooter with set levels that you replay over and over to try to beat times. The game play is really tight and the levels are fun to figure out an optimal route for. I bought it late Thursday night and already have 5 hours in it. It's so much fun to dive into for a longer session or even just a quick 10 minutes session. Unfortunately, it's such a niche genre I know it'll never get anywhere close to the credit it deserves.
 
Giving Cyberpunk 2077 a full playthrough finally. Got it at launch for PS4 and stopped playing for obvious reasons. Started again on PS5 last year and got side-tract, figured now is the best time to devote all of my gaming attention to it
 
Been ripping through Xenoblade Chronicles 3 while sick the past week. Lot's of fun, story is superb.

I don't usually play long JRPG's but this may get me to try a few more.
 
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I'm looking at Resident Evil 4, Jedi Survivor and Mirage, they all went on sale today. I need something that'll last 20-40 hours, that should last me a month till Infinite Wealth comes out. And recommendations between those three? This would be for ps5, I think Survivor had some issues at launch but I would hope that's been taken care of by now.
 
I'm looking at Resident Evil 4, Jedi Survivor and Mirage, they all went on sale today. I need something that'll last 20-40 hours, that should last me a month till Infinite Wealth comes out. And recommendations between those three? This would be for ps5, I think Survivor had some issues at launch but I would hope that's been taken care of by now.


I recently started RE4 on the Series X, it's very good, I don't know if you can stretch it too much past 20 hrs, unless you are a find every single thing kind of player
 
I'd say RE4 is the best out of those games.

Jedi Survivor was okay but it really felt like they went super overboard with the amount of wrinkles they added to combat. Far too many times I found myself surrounded by enemies that throw out unblockable attacks or attacks that stagger the shit out of you. With no animation cancels or fast moves in general, it kinda makes it play like a slog.

Mirage is just old school Assassins creed with the shitty new stuff pasted on top.
 
I finally started Baldur's Gate 3. The combat definitely takes some getting used to compared to Divinity. I know it's early but I prefer the skill points system vs this one where you can move a certain distance and perform one action each turn. I liked the strategy more of trying to make optimal use of your points like maybe sacrificing a move for two attacks.

That being said, I'm loving the dialogue in this one way more. The actual role playing part is a lot more fun. It's not to say it wasn't good in Divinity either, it was great there as well. But this one is just so much deeper and I like seeing the dice roles, picking the right characters etc.

I just wish that if you had a party member that was better at something, they could do the skill check instead of the character you were controlling when you initiated the conversation. Even if there was like a "I'm not very skilled in this field but my friend here is, let them try." I'm playing as Karlach and I have Shadowheart in my party. Shadowheart has points in medicine. I initiated a conversation with a hurt character as Karlach and it had to do the skill check as Karlach instead of switching to Shadowheart. If anything, it just makes me save scum to switch to the character I should have initiated the conversation with to try the skill check with them. I won't save scum the results because I feel like that's cheating while forcing the player who initiated a conversation for a skill check is a bit of poor design.
 
Started playing Helldivers to get ready for Helldivers 2. This game is one of the most underrated games of all time. Amazing multiplayer.

Only thing I would say is: buy it with the DLC. It just makes the game significantly better. Theres tons of weapons and perks (strategems they're called) in the DLC that just change the way you tackle the game. Dont get the game if youre not gonna buy the DLC, it just wont be as fun.
 
I finally started Baldur's Gate 3. The combat definitely takes some getting used to compared to Divinity. I know it's early but I prefer the skill points system vs this one where you can move a certain distance and perform one action each turn. I liked the strategy more of trying to make optimal use of your points like maybe sacrificing a move for two attacks.

That being said, I'm loving the dialogue in this one way more. The actual role playing part is a lot more fun. It's not to say it wasn't good in Divinity either, it was great there as well. But this one is just so much deeper and I like seeing the dice roles, picking the right characters etc.

I just wish that if you had a party member that was better at something, they could do the skill check instead of the character you were controlling when you initiated the conversation. Even if there was like a "I'm not very skilled in this field but my friend here is, let them try." I'm playing as Karlach and I have Shadowheart in my party. Shadowheart has points in medicine. I initiated a conversation with a hurt character as Karlach and it had to do the skill check as Karlach instead of switching to Shadowheart. If anything, it just makes me save scum to switch to the character I should have initiated the conversation with to try the skill check with them. I won't save scum the results because I feel like that's cheating while forcing the player who initiated a conversation for a skill check is a bit of poor design.
That whole style of game has never been my jam, personally. To each their own and I think it’s cool a game like that won GOTY but I have 1000x more fun playing something like Elden Ring over that.
 
Tried Final Fantasy 16 since my cousin got me it as a christmas gift. Got about five hours in and uninstalled.

What a pile of garbage. I feel like i spent an hour of that 5 hours actually playing the game while the rest was spent sitting there watching cutscenes. My favorite was when you get to the part Jill sees Clive off as he's sitting on the balcony of the castle thinking to himself. The cutscene ends, then goes right into another cutscene. Lovely.

Combat that has no oomph to it. What's the point of Eikon abilities if they're just different types of flashy and give you no sort of tactical advantage? 7 remake's combat has so much more going on and it felt way better

Story felt like a shitty game of thrones clone. I feel like you wouldn't be able to tell what this game was if it wasn't for them hamfisting the summons and other series staples like Chocobos into the game. If i wanted shitty GOT, i'd go watch the 8th season.

This game tries to be an Action RPG and kinda fails at both to be honest. RPG elements that are either tacked on or irrelevant and not deep enough of combat to be a good action game.

Funny because as i understand Stranger of Paradise does the exact idea, but way better. Hopefully this isn't the route Square takes with the series long term. Chasing western audiences with a cheap clone of a western game isn't the move.
 
Tried Final Fantasy 16 since my cousin got me it as a christmas gift. Got about five hours in and uninstalled.

What a pile of garbage. I feel like i spent an hour of that 5 hours actually playing the game while the rest was spent sitting there watching cutscenes. My favorite was when you get to the part Jill sees Clive off as he's sitting on the balcony of the castle thinking to himself. The cutscene ends, then goes right into another cutscene. Lovely.

Combat that has no oomph to it. What's the point of Eikon abilities if they're just different types of flashy and give you no sort of tactical advantage? 7 remake's combat has so much more going on and it felt way better

Story felt like a shitty game of thrones clone. I feel like you wouldn't be able to tell what this game was if it wasn't for them hamfisting the summons and other series staples like Chocobos into the game. If i wanted shitty GOT, i'd go watch the 8th season.

This game tries to be an Action RPG and kinda fails at both to be honest. RPG elements that are either tacked on or irrelevant and not deep enough of combat to be a good action game.

Funny because as i understand Stranger of Paradise does the exact idea, but way better. Hopefully this isn't the route Square takes with the series long term. Chasing western audiences with a cheap clone of a western game isn't the move.
Square Enix wasted the combat system that Platinum Games helped them build. The fun of games like Devil May Cry and Bayonetta, is how you can juggle enemies and do some insane combos. Final Fantasy XVI has enemies that are either too weak so they die before you can do some cool combos or they are too big or supposedly too strong to be juggled. They should have stuck to the combat system of Final Fantasy VII remake or Final Fantasy XV.
 

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