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about 39 hours of playtime and just got to the gold saucer. can already tell this barret storyline is gonna hit hard.

yeah, probably the collector's edition steelbook. basically a fancy steel case for the game instead of the usual flimsy plastic, and with a better aesthetic for displaying, if one is into that.

PsychoSoldier said:

Rebirth is incredible so far. I can't help but feel they patched up the holes XVI left in it's exploration. I think there's a tighter, more enjoyable experience for those who want to rush through the main shit, but the side content has been really enjoyable for me so far. Just feels like getting more slices of the FF world, and the dev team were clearly having a lot of fun with it.

Queen's Blood is almost as fun as Triple Triad.

Last left off on the ship from Junon. It might be a couple days before I can properly sink into it again, but I've already lost about 30 hours in to it.

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21 hours and i'm just now entering under junon. it is insane how big this game is and how much there is to do, and that i actually feel like doing it. the open world really lends itself to the side questing more than midgar did, which makes sense. midgar was very hallway-heavy. left no room to discover anything on your own, and the scope of what you could do was limited. being able to find all of chadley's intel quests, for the most part, without needing to activate the towers is awesome. small spoiler for the opening grasslands area;


i'm absolutely loving it.

balatro.

there is nothing but balatro.

i've watched people play the new threat mod. it's really good. as someone who has played the original a lot, you'll definitely get something out of it.

there's also the echo-s 7 voiceover mod, as well, which came out last year and adds full voice acting for every line of dialogue of the original game. with that, and the visual mods that are available, we basically have the 'one to one remake' some hardcore fans wanted the actual remake to be. obviously if square enix were making it in house, it'd have a bigger budget and more modern quality of life shit that modders just can't do with a 26 year old game, but it's the next best thing.

edit: quick edit to point out the voice mod obvs wouldn't work with the new threat mod.

just finished the prince of persia: the lost crown. final clock time was 27.5 hours and 90% completion. really, really great metroidvania. absolutely loved the story, which i wasn't expecting. the map is huge, the movement very fluid, responsive and fun and the combat is pretty great, though there's a few complaints i have about it. the controls for combat definitely didn't feel as responsive as for movement, and group fights are kind of a pain in the ass. they want you to parry a lot, but in a 2d pov, it's hard to tell what some enemies are doing when assets start to overlap on each other. but outside of the standard difficulty presets, they let you mess with sliders for a bunch of stuff like damage, parry window, etc. i chose the second highest difficulty and didn't mess with the sliders, so some of my issues i probably could have mitigated, but whatevs. highly recommend it if you're into metroidvanias.

i'm kinda just in a holding pattern until rebirth comes out. been playing a lot of plateup with my wife, which has been fun. i set up some 7th heaven mods for og ff7 and have been playing through that a bit, but man, turn based rpg's a rough for me. i got the ability to turn random encounters off and all, but then i worry about being underleveled for shit when it matters and then having to do some grinding just to get where i'm supposed to be at before maybe grinding to get ahead a bit. i dunno, IT'S TOUGH OKAY.

morrison said:

so playing jedi survivor now. it's running well enough on my PC, no crashes or significant issues. stuttering, but i don't think that'll really be going away even with patches, tbh.

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so played through all of survivor. the more fleshed out systems that made exploration kinda worthwhile was welcomed, cause the exploration was my favorite part of the game. still not thrilled with the combat. i constantly felt like inputs were being eaten. i never managed to feel confident going into combat, like what i wanted to do was likely to be pulled off. the games combat is designed for one on one encounters, so when they put ya against two, it can easily get away from ya and suddenly you need to use a heal you weren't expecting. a good challenge. then they throw mobs at ya as well as ranged enemies that can shoot you from off screen and prevent every stance but one from animation cancelling meaning you can't react to the shit in front of you in any meaningful way.

it's dopey and never stopped being an issue with me the whole playthrough. overall, the game was fine, but i hit a point where i was just done with it and blitzed through the story.

trying to think what i played next. think i just went right back to where i was in the final fantasy 7 remake and finished that. i had been playing it late last year and then ragnarok came out and stole my time and then there's been steady new releases getting my attention since. so finished the main game and polished off intermission. i fucking love the way yuffie handles. having this ranged melee attack where i spend ATB to change the elemental effect? yes please. she was also amazing as a character and a joy to play as after spending so long as buzzkill cloud. they captured that teenage doofiness and blissful lack of awareness perfectly. even down to details like the frumpy way she sits on rest benches and the exaggerated energy she dedicates to standing back up off of them.

ended up finishing the DLC like, a day or two before the trailer for rebirth dropped, so I'm very fucking pumped for early next year.

made a post about it over on rajah, but after having no real interest in playing final fantasy xvi, i ended up watching the prologue and loving it, playing the demo and enjoying it and therefore buying the game. i was deep in for the first couple weeks, but haven't gone back in the last week and a half or so, at somewhere over 62% of the way through the main story according to the ps5 readout. i definitely hit a wall as far as the gameplay and combat, and considering the lack of any systems to throw time or brain power into, i just wasn't itching to jump back into the loop of questing and combat. i'll end up finishing it, though.

started up dave the diver the other day, and is the perfect type of game i need right now.

so playing jedi survivor now. it's running well enough on my PC, no crashes or significant issues. stuttering, but i don't think that'll really be going away even with patches, tbh.

finished my leon playthrough on re2r and decided to take a break instead of jumping right into claire, so now I'm playing metroid prime remastered.

i rented metroid prime when it first came out and played through the first section on the space station, and that was it. unfortunately this was around the time where my relationship with video games got really funky. actually, most hobbies and interests i had as kid, outside pro wrestling, got really funky. looking back at it now, it was absolutely my undiagnosed adhd beginning to rear its head in a way more intrusive way. i would start games but only ever play them for a quick session initially, and then never go back, cause when it came time to decide what to do with my free time, i would fall head first into choice paralysis and instead not do anything.

this struggle is something i've only just started to break through in the last couple years. since november of last year, when ragnarok came out, i've managed to start playing and finish 6 games(ragnarok, dead space, hogwarts, re4r, dredge, re2r leon), which is insane pace for me.

anyway, i love the metroid series. on a more macro level, metroidvania's are probably my favorite kind of game to play. so with all the whispers of a metroid prime trilogy release for the switch, i kept holding out on attempting to play them any other way. i'd though about buying the trilogy on the wii u, but i just had this feeling the controls might put me off. when they finally announced the remaster of the first prime, i was excited as fuck, and now was a perfect time to play it.

it's sooooooooo fucking good. i obvs can't speak to the original or any of the other console versions outside of having watched them, but the dual stick control scheme is seamless and it plays so nicely. lock-on is still the best way to face enemies, but exploration and general movement is so fluid now. the story you get from all the space pirate and chozo lore you scan is actually really awesome, and it's surprising how little the game holds your hand or directs you. a couple times now i've had to look up a walkthrough cause I've been stumped on what exactly i should be doing next, and each time i was like ohhhhhhh, cause i just wasn't picking up on the environmental storytelling, which in a 3d world is so much more open compared to the 2d games.

i just got the ice beam, and it's already one of my favorite games ever. hopefully it keeps up for the remainder of the playthrough.

and speaking of metroidvania's, i'll probably sign up for a month of ea play pro and install jedi survivor and see if it runs on my pc before the weekend is out.

Claws said:

Im currently playing hogwarts legacy its the best idc if combat is lame

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so far i really enjoy the combat. it's just involved enough to not be completely mind numbing.

this is what I'm currently playing, as well. just finished the room of requirement quest despite being 12 hours into the game and level 21. have gotten VERY distracted with side stuff.

started the dead space remake last night. never played the originals. i hear they pushed exploration more for this, so I'm excited for that. love me some trinket collecting.

don't love the whole 'dark with constant awful noises' thing. i may be a weeping vagina.

PsychoSoldier said:

I've mostly been playing God of War 2018 the last couple weeks. I think I'm about halfway through, exploring everything possible as I come across it. I figured I'd love it, but I'm fucking hooked now. And I love how despite how different it is, it still very much feels like a God of War game.

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VoidKitten said:

I did the same with God of War. Ragnarok is exactly the same but just better. Phenomenal games

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oh man. you already saw my love letter to ragnarok on rajah, and void is spot on. can't wait for you to get to it and close out the entire story.

my ragnarok high resulted in a post-game crash that morphed into scratching the itch and starting the original ps2 GOW after watching someone on twitch playing GOWII. i rented the first GOW when it first came out, but it was a down period in my of playing video games so i didn't manage to do much before returning it. borrowed my friends copy of the remaster collection after he finished it in 2009, but again just didn't commit to it. so overall, i didn't realize just how much the norse saga games kept the heart and bones of the franchise in tact. you go off how the greek saga fanboys reacted and you'd think they completely abandoned the soul of what made the games popular in the first place.

definitely enjoying my playthrough more this time. being invested in kratos from the latest two games definitely helps that. it's definitely rough in some parts. a proper remake would actually be wonderful.