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i know what you meant and my point still stands. that's how content deficient final fantasy 16 is.

PsychoSoldier said:

I 120% agree with this. Unless Rebirth somehow ends up being a complete flop, I wouldn't bother.

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so watching the rebirth presentation from the tokyo game show and yeah, this game is going to blow final fantasy 16 out of the water. hamaguchi showing off a 30 minute slice of gameplay from just after the party departs kalm was not something i expected so close to the the last trailer, but gawd damn this past week has been flush with news.

Badger said:

I got Final Fantasy III on the PS4, never played the original as it’s pretty hard to find.

I did all of Cuphead and the Last Course on regular and Expert except Chef on Expert. Really fun yet frustrating game but yeah had to uninstall so would have to go get and go through the whole game and bosses again just to get back to Chef on Expert but nah won’t be doing that lol. Took me long enough.

Getting PS5 when FFVII Rebirth. Hopefully can get a discount as friend just started a new job in GAME (UK video game shop). The trailers look fucking good btw. FF16 might do after that.

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i get the feeling going to ff16 after rebirth might not be the idea. given the info out about rebirth, i think a lot of ff16's limitations and design choices are gonna stick out like a sore thumb if played after.

just finished up metroid prime. really love the game, but there was a handful of bullshit annoyances during the last couple of hours. that gauntlet of rooms without a save point when you first go into the phazon mines is a bit brutal, but considering it's the last big, proper biome you go through, it's understandable. i lost about an hour of progress to the fuckin electrical grid maze puzzle where you get the power bomb cause i was just low as fuck on health and got pinged around two times. that hurt. if lore scanning persisted through deaths and of you could skip cutscenes it would have been a lot more tolerable having to redo. i think this mostly comes down to 2002 game design. they likely could have implemented them for this remaster, but i also get why they didn't.

i also started to notice issues when it came to the responsiveness of the controls. a dozen or more times of my jump input not registering so i end up falling to the bottom of a platforming section. i was using the 8bitdo ultimate wireless controller, fully charged, so im not quite sure whether it was my gamepad or the game.

meta ridley almost made me lose my fucking mind. four times i got him down to the final chunk of health but couldn't finish the job. i started off doing the super missile method. in his last phase i just had a bitch of a time hittin him in the mouth to get him to expose his chest and i burned through all my fucking missiles and then would end up dying cause of his charge attack over time. a couple times i got him down to one last shot, and i'd hit in in the mouth, he'd rear up and expose his chest, but would go back down before i could fire the super missile, which would hit his mouth, and he'd go back to exposing his chest. i was going fucking nuts. seriously thought it might be some glitch or bug so googled it and read a post on the gamefaqs forum with most people saying they just used the plasma beam the whole time to kill him. did that the next try and beat him. for fucks sake.

then the fissure metroids in the crater while trying to platform. fucking dumb tedium.

the map system is also kinda really shit for trying to navigate from biome to biome.

overall, though, its pretty fucking amazing. retro translated the metroid formula to 3d perfectly and the majority of my time was incredibly enjoyable.

so ended up doing the leon playthrough of the resident evil 2 remake. really enjoyable way to see leon's growth playout, with this acting like a prequel since i played re4r first. i will say, i probably like watching the survival horror focused resident evil's moreso than playing them, but it was still a really fun playthrough. re4r obvs had some more quality of life stuff baked in, plus it being more of an action game means the gameplay is just different enough that going backwards in the timeline is a bit more tedious. it can't be said enough how much the parry and melee additions in re4r really just help combat to continually flow and be engaging.

i love the atmosphere and aesthetic of resident evil 2, though, and the two storylines are so classic. i'll end up playing claire's bit in time.

annnnnnnnnnd just finished dredge. great little lovecraftian tale. few annoying bits with some of the mechanics of enemies, but given the game has no combat and revolves entirely around navigating, fishing/dredging and selling, i can't complain too much; they needed to inject some difficulty into the formula somehow. steam has it clocked at 17.2 hours, but i can't trust steam playtimes cause i'll often leave a game on pause to go cook dinner or some junk. shave off an hour or two, and that's a nice, quick playthrough, and that's with doing all of the optional side quests, too.

beat hogwarts legacy awhile back. i forget the final tally for the hours put in, but definitely over 50. it really does hit a point where the main story quests just kinda suddenly lead ya to the final battle, like the floor dropping out from under ya. i did all the side content i had wanted to do by that point, so knocked out a bit of the unique post game stuff and that was that. very enjoyable experience, and quite ridiculous as the introductory game of what is likely a brand new series, especially given the dev's resume up to this point. if they can improve and iterate well for the sequel, i'll be excited to pick it up.

started spooky fisherman life sim game, dredge, when that released. awesome art style, intriguing story and fun enough when it comes to gameplay. ended up putting that down for a couple weeks cause...

resident evil 4 remake. first resident evil game i've actually played. the first two resident evil games were staples of sleepovers during my childhood, and i'm sure i attempted to play them in some way, but for the most part they were spectator experiences for me. i am, as they say, a bit of a puss, so horror games were never really my jam, thus the franchise was never really on my radar, past a certain age, in any meaningful way. once livestreaming picked up, i've come to really love the games in the same way i digested them as a kid; as spectator experiences. so i was pretty familiar with most of the mainline entries through 4 and then the resurgence with the release of 7, the remakes of 2 and 3 and village. village, in particular, holds a nice spot with me, cause that opening and the whole castle dimitrescu section are absolutely fantastic and a blast to watch people playing through for the first time.

still never got a huge urge to actually play any of them, though, until last summer i ended up buying the re2 remake. still haven't played it, but the seed was planted. then this january i dove into dead space, never having played the originals, and like i said earlier in this thread, fucking loved it. once the hype started to build for the release of re4r, i was in a proper spot to be grabbed, and watching people play the chainsaw demo put me over the top. beat the game on standard a couple days ago with around 23 hours and some change played. thoroughly loved the game as i was going through it, but what i wasn't expecting was the twinge of sadness i felt in the days after. i'm not someone who replays shit very often or does new game plus or unlocked difficulties, so not having that playthrough to boot up and sink time into sucked. so yeah, needless to say, amazing remake, amazing game, i'm probably going to end up jumping into the re2 remake before long.

back to playing through dredge now, though.

VoidKitten said:

Adding Hogwarts Legacy to this list. I completed the entire game (all quests) and will work on platinum once I knock some other games out.

I would give it a 10/10. The entire game; from ambiance to spells to combat, were done well. It felt like you were in Hogwarts and was quite fun to cast the spells.

Way more shit to do than I had ever expected from this game and it was glorious.

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I'm about 41 hours in right now. just did the dragon fighting ring quest. maxed out the challenges for the merlin trials to open up all the gear space, even though i habitually optimize based on stats and sell off everything else and haven't actually had an inventory problem for probably the last 20 hours of the game. that's how stupidly distracting shit can get. side quests and missions are entertaining enough that i end up doing all them before advancing the main story. shit like a family heirloom being stolen and the villager blaming it on his black sheep sister, but by the end of the quest i've got the irondale pilferer living in one of my vivariums.

really did not expect it to be as good as it is or to find myself this invested.

finished dead space last week or the week before. really great game, great story. will almost certainly end up playing dead space 2 before long. at some point i started exclusively using the plasma cutter and pulse rifle, which just felt the best, with some flamethrower for quick crowd control on the little critters that swarm you. the sound design was probably the best part and what contributed to the atmosphere and setting the most. from the growling and scraping of metal by necromorphs in the vents, to far off screams of other crew members and especially the constant unitologist whispering isaac hears making his way around the ship. fucking unnerving.