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Flicking between FIFA 19 and Forza Horizon 4 on a daily basis. Once RDR2 comes out, it will put an end to them for a while.
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I really want to get back into DB Fighterz.
Fucking red dead though. Already skipping Soul Calibur for the moment. And like, everything else. |
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I want to read your thoughts so bad but i havent plated it yet. Ibhear the gameplay is good but the story is bad
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I won't spoil anything but I will say this knowing your stance: NieR Automata has better combat. Much better.
And you know how much you LOVE the Borderlands loot system? Yeah. |
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The story is absolute lunacy though, as Guycott alluded to earlier, if NNK1 was GTA, this is Saint's Row. In my head this is somehow a totally viable comparison. |
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It's not absolutely horrible, there's some fun to be had in there, it's just... disappointing. Maybe even the most disappointing experience I've personally ever had with a game. This or Phantom Pain for sure.
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If this tops MGSV for "most underwhelming game of all time" i might openly weep
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Its hard to measure, Phantom Pain trailer got my hopes sky high but my expectations had already been shattered into a million pieces before I even got to touch it. There was definitely a much steeper curve of "THIS IS GOING TO BE AMAZING" to "Oh" going on in MGSV. NNK2's nation building is more fun than PP's, so there's that.
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Went and picked up my copy of Soul Calibur 6. I'll mess around with it tomorrow.
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Soul Calibur 6 is great. Libra of Soul will probably take a good chunk of my life away. So, it's gonna have to wait until I get tired of RDR 2. Which will probably be a long, long time.
Reloaded Spider-Man on the PS4 and played The Heist DLC. Short but sweet. Leaves you on a good cliffhanger. |
Revisiting Fallout: New Vegas at the mo; I'm not quite sure whether I've ever completed the game.
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doing everything...like always
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NNK 2 isnt nearly as bad as you make it sound Mantis. Its nowhere near the game the original was but I had a good time with it. I also disagree that the loot system is anything like borderlands.
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Red Dead Redemption 2
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Dark Souls (Switch)
Been interested in years to play one of these games but never felt the impulse to do so until now. Instantly thought of MGS 3 Snake Eater when it came to finding out that it uses the opposite button to confirm stuff. |
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It's an okay game, it's not great, its not bad but it definitely doesn't hold up to any of the other RPGs I've played over the past two years. It was a personal disappointment to me after the first game, glad you didn't have such a bad experience with it though. Maybe there is hope for Destor after all. |
I never had to rely on rng for drops in order to survive. I was fine with whatever equipment I had at any time. Im wondering.....did you not engage the higgledy system much? Its not explained very well and I disnt get it for the longest time and ignored it....but good God if you learn what all those different moves they have do and choose the right team they can becime godly. Some of the combos they can unleash can pretty much single handedly destroy even the post game super bosses.
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For instance, get one higgledy that spawns the cannons, one that summons the knights, and 2 with the me too me too skill. Or sacrifice the cannons for a second one with the Knight summon. The summon happens and one of the others with me too auto copies it and summons a second super soldier. And those knights do massive damage. If You get 4 of them on the battlefield at one time you will be doing MASSIVE damage to anything.
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Reliance is probably the wrong wording because the only battles I ever struggled with were some of the optional tainted monster quests and dreamer doors, it was more of an annoyance than a progression halter. The Borderlands comparison came from being constantly bombarded with shitty outdated gear for pretty much the whole game.
I used the higgledies a lot early game then end game but not much in between because most battles became trivial. Had the healing one, the gravity bomb guy and the special water / wind attack ones mainly. Ended up just running all four knights because they add more targets to the field and you spend less time healing / reviving your idiot friends. |
Finished episode 1 of Life is Strange today - bunch of people have told me to get on it.
It lived up to the hype and I'm excited to play the rest. |
Going to try my hand at Friday the 13th. I'm guessing the licencing situation is why it's on sale for six bucks, which seems fair enough for my curiosity. No way in hell I was ever going all in on the full price, even if they did get around to the single player... and I figure I'd better give that a go before I steel my resolve and marry myself to Red Dead.
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Cant decide what to start next between Divinity 2, Nioh or Witcher 3. Probably Nioh.
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Witcher 3 blind???
Fucking do it. |
I know absolutely nothing about Witcher 3 other than the main guy is called Geralt and everyone says it's amazing. I'll roll with it.
Also based on the cover art, Geralt and the main character of Nioh look EXACTLY the same. Pretty weird. |
Witcher 3 is on my short list for best games of this console generation
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such a huge undertaking to think of a true GOAT game
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If we're talking top 50 though yeah for sure.
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I dunno. If I had to pick just shooting from the hip I'd pick it. I mean, what were the complaints about it? Some longish loading times if you die or fast travel? They patched a lot of good shit like the inventory system.
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I guess the big boss might be considered a letdown. It's no fistfight with the Pope from AC2 but that whole world was amazing. Fn played Gwent for hours.
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Im not disputing how amazing the game is at all. I just couldnt begin to craft a GOAT argument for any game. Too daunting. All time is too steep of a mountain for me.
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and Gwent is everything. I played more gwent than I played the game lol
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Witcher 3 is fuckin' amazing; make sure you get the Heart of Stone and Blood & Wine dlcs.
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Money so well spent i felt undercharged
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I got the GOTY edition for £12 a few months ago, couldn't pass it up at that price.
Loving it so far, on the second map doing the Baron Robert Baratheon quest. Geralt is a lot cooler than he looks haha, combat is great. Could compare it to a bunch of games, including RDR, but it seems like it does everything better than any of them, at least early on. Going to assume it only gets better. |
It only gets better.
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And yeah it takes from a lot of different things but does them so well that it manages to reinvent the wheel while doing nothing new. Mind blowing game.
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That's what I'm talking about though. The Bloody Baron story is pretty small potatoes in the grand scheme of things, but it's a fantastic story. Not many games (Mass Effect is another that comes to mind) male their side missions or expansions much more than fetch quests. Even great games like Spider-Man and Horizon fall into that trap on a number of occasions. Witcher 3 never seemed to.
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And like Ultra Mantis said, he got it on sale. GOTY edition with all the expansions is always on sale for like $20. I don't think there's a better investment in your gaming you can make even though it's a few years old now.
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Bought Soul Calibur. Between that and Red Dead, I'll be cave trolling it up this weekend.
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Final Fantasy 8.
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1 right now,i just got the Brothers GF and on to Caraway's Mansion.
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The Tomb of the Unknown King is a great Level Grinding Spot.
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Level grinding in FF8 is a bad idea.
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Red Dead Redemption 2.
And, I totally forgot I had Hitman 2 on preorder. That's gonna collect some dust too. |
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iirc ultemecia's difficulty depends on how much you handicap yourself in the final dungeon
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Yeah, if you are grinding you're only handicapping yourself, since your stats come from junction and not levelling. It makes monsters stronger, but not your characters.
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I think there are junction skills you can learn that give you bonus stats upon levelling, but you definitely don't have them that early so it's counter productive to level without them. You're just lowering your growth cap.
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I remember the first time I tried to beat Ultemecia, I was in really good shape and then when she started blowing away magic, it was blowing away all of my big magics that kept like HP and Strength up. Wasn't too thrilled with that.
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Ultimecia is my favorite ff villain. Something about her that's super cool to me.
Also IMO, the most fun final dungeon and boss fight in the series. |
FF8 is the 2nd most underrated FF. Half of everyone seems to hate it. I dont get it. I love that game.
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Has everything to do with following ff7. Because that game is so beloved, anything that doesn't quite measure up in the next game creates a lot more negativity than it deserves.
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I played ff7 for the first time on the ps3. Played ff8 immeaditly after. Wasnt that impressed with ff7. Fine game but not GOAT level. Id replay it again but its very overrated.
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Important to remember the context of when it came out. Today, or even during the PS3 era, it doesn't seem like anything that incredible, but at the time, it was a game changer. FF8 in comparison had far less impact .
The Rise and Fall of Final Fantasy article pretty much nailed it when it said "FF7 is overhyped, but it's not overrated." |
Fignuts. There are a lot of articles out there that have the same title towards what you said. Can you get me a direct link to it
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Also FF8 is criminally underrated. I loved FF7 because that was the first final fantasy game I played. But as time has gone on, I’ve played both games and beaten them again. FF8 has an ending that some didn’t like but damn. So many different forms of Ultemecia and Griever at themed to such a climatic final battle. Even the final battle music was great. Birth of a God is still one of my favorite songs of all time.
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Probably the best, and most honest retrospective of the series ever, imo. |
FF7 didnt do anything that hadnt been done by ff6 already. It just had good marketing and a lot of people played it.
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Ooooh. That person reviews Chrono Cross and Chrono Trigger. Excited to read
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Playing through System Shock 2, i'd forgotten how much this was above everything else from that time peroid. The supposed remake of the first game is taking too long to get here D:
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Feel like every decision I make in Witcher 3 is a bad one but at the same time I feel like there is probably no good decision and everything is shades of Gray. Just gonna continue banging and killing and hope I don't meet any more trees.
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Def keep banging. BANG EVERYTHING. Bang trees. NO LIMITS
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Witcher 3 might be up there for Games of all Time. Can't really fully judge as I have only just finished the main story.
Tops would be: Super Mario World, Super Mario Bros 3, Super Mario Brothers, Ducktales, Knights of the Old Republic, Fallout 3, Skyrim, GTA 3, Oblivion, New Vegas, Fallout 4, San Andreas, Vice City. |
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Also Gwent and Triple Triad are both fantastic mini games, to tie these threads together.
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Right? Gwent feels like someone was playing Pazaak and thought "lets give this steroids"
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Only complaint I have so far is that the game is not letting Geralt bang enough. Two girls in a row have had questlines finish with no bang. Corrine and Rosa def set up like there would be a bang. Rosa and her twin primed for a double bang maybe. Not even a small bang. Let Geralt bang.
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Just entered the "Winter" portion of The Last of Us. Interested to see how the story wraps up. Still have to finish Horizon Zero Dawn (I'm like 2 hours in :lol:). All this needs to be wrapped up before Kingdom Hearts 3 drops 1/29/19 and takes up all my time before I beat it.
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Firstly Last of Us is a truly exceptional experience that I wish I could relieve for the first time
Secondly You do not need to finish Horizon. If you've played 2 hours you've seen enough. move on. thirdly KH3 HYPEEEEEEEEe |
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It's like when Square Enix promised me a FF7 remake that would be just like the original when they showed the video 5 years ago at E3 for it. I was all excited and then since then it's been nothing. |
I need KH3 so friggin bad. Im trying to plan my games so that im ready to go into KH3 as close to launch day as possible.
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Last of Us is sooo good.
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Steam have Civilizations V on sale, so I got the whole Civ V bundle for less than a tenner; downloading at the mo, and will play it this weekend. It has been a while since I played Civ IV; don't want to splash out on Civ VI.
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Gwent sucks. Makes a great game into fucking Magic The Gathering. Failing those card missions was very rewarding.
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Playing AC:OD
Way more loading than AC:OR |
Blasted Civ V; you lose most of the day to it.
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red redemption 2
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If Triple Triad were in FF9 instead of Tetra Master and they relaxed the random battle frequency a tad, it would be the perfect RPG. |
There is a lot I like about ff8, but yeah, it's definitely jarring going from action packed prologue levels in the previous games to wandering around a school.
Also, most of the playable cast didn't really do much for me. |
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P4 is so damn good
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Final fantasy 8 was weird for me. I’ve beaten 7 five times from start to finish 9 four times from start to finish. I’ve only beaten 8 twice. It’s nothing the game has done it’s just it drags at times.
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9 is the one out of those that I always struggled with. I love 7 and 8 both.
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FF9 is my favourite of the PS1 mainline trilogy, Tetra Master really sucks compared to Triple Triad though.
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Yeah they should just update Triple Triad for all their games tbh. Best mini game they ever created by a wide-margin.
It's like Gwent in The Witcher. I can play that all day. |
Dont make me choose between Gwent and Triple Triad :(
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There are a couple of major free PS+ games for November (Yakuza Kiwami and BulletStorm: Full Clip Edition for those not in the know) but I decided to download the 2 other, possibly more overlooked free games for this month, Burly Men At Sea and Roundabout.
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Popped Final Fantasy 1 in the ps2 just yesterday.
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