No more heroes
I like how its a satire on "EPIC" plots in general not just games.
But I still consider Killer7 as a better game despite the change from its original script . Cant wait for
Flower, Sun and Rain in October so I can get some sort of understanding of his Kill the Past series.
Finished Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas. It was fun, but had numerous faults. I played the PC version, which is, from what I heard, the worst port.
Finished Silent Hill:Shattered Memories on PSP. Good Game, I will rate 8/10. It has some nifty mechanics, like characters and locations change appearance according to how you play.
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Finished F.E.A.R 3 in like 6-12 hours it was awesome and it has grate replay value,still going through it a sedcond time,i reccomend that everone play's this game :D ,though the multiplayer was a let down i could neaver find a match and the one time i found one he disconnected in like 10 mins D: rate 9/10
Beat El Shaddai in 2 sittings, 5 hours of play then a 4 hour nap then 5 more hours to finish it out. I didn't want to sleep but I didn't really have a choice.
I cannot describe this game. The only thing I can say is that I really enjoyed it and there will never be another game like this again. Easily goes in my list of top games I enjoyed this console gen with Uncharted 2 and No More Heroes.
I finished Syberia a few days ago. It was nice. A little aged, and slow to start, but I loved the atmosphere. I hear that the sequel isn't as good however.
Beat Fire Fight, in so far as completing all the missions on normal difficulty without getting 100% scores on everything. Was OK, but not the greatest game. The dialogues tended to give me the nagging impression that I might be playing as the bad guy, and the end text seems like it's up for interpretation rather than doing much to confirm or deny that.
I guess I'll try to do challenge mode / 100% completion some time, but a look on GameFAQs doesn't indicate any alternate ending for doing so, so for now I'm shelving it. Moving on to Hellbender next I guess.
Recently finished San Andreas on the xbox. I remember playing it on the ps2 and having a blast and xbox converion is even better. It has better controls with the aircrafts, cars, on foot, custom music-playlist, gnarly graphics (not as greatly improved as expected though), I don't think any story related changes were made. Over all a solid conversion of a GTA classic and a favorite of mine.
Now that the main story is finished I'm contemplating going for a 100% run. That's probably going to add another good 900 hours of gameplay.
>>251
San Andreas isn't that large, 50-100 for post-game at most.
Took down Ninja Gaiden. Without save states.
The most recent game I've finished is Serious Sam 3. I had never played a SS game before that one. It's insane, like a bullet hell in first person.
>>255
I never thought about it this way. But true, it's quite danmaku like. Also you might like "Tower of Guns", that's actually really danmaku/bullet hell game in first person.
Just beat Sonic Adventure 2 Battle!
did you get all the emblems and all that? I swear you could put 100 hours into SA2B
>>254
Holy Crap Congrats!, I've been trying to do that for years
I just finished Terranigma and oh boy was it fun. It's been a long time since I've played an offline game, I'm glad that I'm getting back into it. Cleared it in 18h40min at Lvl31. The thing that was kinda disappointing was that I accidentaly overleveled at some point so up until the last boss I basically one hitted every mob and killed every boss in 1 - 3 minutes tops. The last boss was kinda harsh if you don't know what to do at first and the final form battle was also really long for a change, I liked it. I can't put my feeling into words properly, if you haven't played that game you definetely should.
I beat Doom II. It kicks ass and you should go beat it too if you haven't.
>>262
I meant to start Doom II, but I decided to finish some of the other Mission Packs for Doom I before it. I got to the last level, or some kind of secret level, where you spawn with a shotgun and all the monsters are invisible. I never managed to beat it, I'd end up playing the level for half an hour after I ran out of ammo trying to beat up Barons of Hell with my fists. It was just taking so damn long.
>>speaking of Doom II I finally beat Plutonia on Ultra Violence.
Arch Viles are the worst.
Beat the Orc campaign of Warcraft II, probably not for the first time, but the first time in many years at least. Still working on the Human side.
>>265
And the Human campaign too. I guess that leaves Beyond the Dark Portal but I think I feel like a bit of a change of pace first.
I have no mouth and i must scream.
Beat Enclave. Kick ass game.
I beat Echo Night 2, it was really good (though I couldn't find the last hiding child). Now onto Echo Night Beyond...
I've just beat The Wolf Among Us, if you can even call that a game. It was pretty enjoyable, but I didn't like the ending. It's one of these games that rely more on the form than the plot, even though it's no more than a visual story.
Blade of Darkness, twice (one run as the dwarf and another as the barbarian. Only the amazon is left that I haven't beat this game with now).
Uncharted 1
Awful game, I've held out for 10 years until I finally bought a playstation to play this game and it sucked. I went into it expecting it to focus more on exploration but instead I got a boring shooting gallery. I'll be honest, I didn't know that there was any supernatural stuff in the series so when some zombies appeared I was surprised and mad because it felt like such a cheap out.
Overall I enjoyed what little puzzles and exploration there was but the game was so heavily dragged down by boring, generic shooting that I can't ever see myself playing it again.
Uncharted 2
Against my better judgement I decided to play the next game in the series. I was told that it was a better game than the first but I honestly think I liked it less. The set pieces were cool but the shooting was so generic and boring. I hated the moment when it would throw me into a shooting gallery because it immediately slows down the game and it ruins the entire pace of whatever action was going on before. The story involves a generic Russian bad guy looking for ultimate power which I can forgive because it came out in the height of every game having Russians as the bad guy but they just made him a comically evil person who had no redeeming qualities and I couldn’t care less about the stakes of the story.
I don’t think these games are for me and I probably won’t play the last two games since I don’t expect some radically different games that will blow my mind.
Nier Automata
I'm glad I got to experience the story as I did, and I'm also glad that I was able to look up all of the different endings without having to go through all of the different shit to get them. Especially the true end. I feel bad for the characters, but Platinum did a great job. I will have to look into their other games that are on PC because the gameplay was cool and the story kept me from drifting away to other games. The plot twists were definitely my favorite part.
Super Lovely Planet, and Lovely Planet 2
Cute little games that get progressively more difficult. The music never fails to be nice, and the amount of precision the games require makes them fun. I even get some recorded world records on some of the levels! I'm sure someone's beaten them by now but it's the first time I've done anything like that, so that was exciting. I couldn't beat the original Lovely Planet though, that game was just too hard towards the end. I think I got to like level 5-20 or something before I gave up.
Just beat Megaman Zero 4. It was fun.
Beat Hexen a little while ago
I thought it was good overall but my opinion of it gets worse as the game goes on, especially once I started Death Kings of the Dark Citadel expansion. Even in the main game, I was hoping for an end by the 3rd hub and it just keeps going, there are some good levels afterwards but the 4 just feels like filler. I beat the main game with the fighter easily enough but made the mistake of trying the expansion with the mage, his ice magic is fucking garbage and it takes a long time until you get his good weapon.
I liked Heretic more at this point. At least you get more than 4 weapons at a time.
Finally got around to playing the 2013 Tomb Raider a couple months ago. The hunting mechanic felt tacked on, and the "run from cover to cover while shooting an army of bad guys" sequences were annoying, but overall it was an enjoyable game.
The last six weeks have been all about Monster Hunter: World. Started the DLC Iceborne a few days ago and I feel like the jump from High to Master is way more difficult than the jump from Low to High.
I Wanna Kill The Kamilia 2.
Search The Bread K, and most games MicroHorrorArcade and PhuCat103 played, i love this type of games. Itch io type games are very charming to me.
> mage, his ice magic is fucking garbage and it takes a long time until you get his good weapon.
Get close to enemies and chill touch them. Counter-intuitive but it works best that way.
Wand is slow to kill things, but pretty effective in larger areas against groups.
>>281
>>285
Addendum, also his Flechettes slay if you know how to use them. Their explosions are shield-piercing (read: hits centaurs and heresiarchs even when they're guarding).
Really a big part of sucking at Hexen or thinking Hexen sucks is down to not using the items or not using them correctly (won't defend some of the more obtuse puzzle designs tho).
after a half year pause (initially interrupted by disco elysium) I finished sekiro, i was already pretty far so I only needed to do the divine dragon, demon of hatred and final boss, I am glad i pulled through, I watched a guide video for the last boss but it didn't help me whatsoever so I just made my own "strategy" which was mostly dodge to the right in phase one and then dodge to the left in phase two, phase three was praying that he does the lightning often so I can punish hard
a friend gave me shit for not learning to parry him but i already unlearned most of it due to the passage of time and frankly was never good at it to begin with so I just used whatever approach seemed natural to me, just because it's a sword fight doesn't mean your legs stop working, foot work, left right, POW right in the kisser
I can't remember the last time I beat a video game.
>>286
I wish they would've given the mage the thrown flechette instead of the fighter, getting close to enemies to use the dropped flechette is just a rough spot, and the ice magic even at close range isn't too great. The fighter could've worked with the dropped flechette a lot better than the mage.
Also, fuck the slaughtaurs. Annoying blocking that can reflect all but ripper projectiles, ranged attack that they can do instantly from block, looks exactly like the chump cenataur. And their everywhere in the first few DK maps like they common fodder when they are more tedious to deal with than just about any enemy in the game.
>>289
I understand why they did the flechettes that way from a theming perspective, with the mage effect being a carry-over from Heretic's timebomb where Heretic had a more magely protagonist, but that's an interesting take gameplay-wise. Hexen II had its closest mage analogue (the Necromancer) lay explosives more like a seeker mine, and the even closer mage analogue from the expansion (the Demoness) threw them as gas grenades.
Beat Monster Bash, not for the first time, but for some good Halloween season nostalgia.
Somewhat tough game, especially that swamp section in episode 3 with the moving platform jumps. Count Chuck is a pussy though.
I beat the first episode of Blood for the first time. I don't really like episode 2 so far.
>>292
There are a bunch of people in the retro FPS circles who love to fellate Blood, but they really do oversell it.
Duke 3D was better.
God Hand on hard mode has been beaten! ╭( ･ㅂ･)و
I swear, if you want to attempt something like this, buy something to destress yourself, cause this stuff's t o u g h (´Д｀)
even now, my fingers still hurt.
I beat Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. I liked parts of it but I'm perfectly happy with never playing it again.
Mega Man for DOS. Weirdly short and features Dr. "Wiley" (not that the console entries have ever been 100% consistent on spellings either...) but not as bad as people say.
And Mega Man 3 for DOS (there was no DOS MM2 apparently). This one's more substantial, but most of the bosses are major pussies. It's alright.
I beat Gex 64: Enter the Gecko. 100%. All remotes. The game sucks, but it holds a special place in my heart for nostalgic reasons. I owned it on the PC and rented it on the 64 a lot as a kid, because for whatever reason I didn't care that the game was on two platforms. The game really sucks. Don't play it. But if you like good bad games, it's a good bad game. The PC version is better, cutscenes and voiceacting wise, and there were a decent number of levels cut from the N64 version. I'd like to track it down and play it on my new windows 98 PC i'm building. But I can't find any copies of a physical disk anywhere in the entire world. I wonder what happened to my disk as a child? Where does this stuff go? How did I lose it? At what point in my life did I stop caring about the wise cracking gecko? At what point did I forget he existed? And why did I remember that I forgot he existed?
>>296,297 I can respect this. I've been wanting to try DOS Mega Man for a while.
Industrial Killers, a weird-ass FPS that was apparently built as a demo to showcase Pie In The Sky's 3D game creation system. Took me several tries to get the hang of it as the starting level is decidedly newbie unfriendly (it's not hard to miss out on the machine gun and if you do that's pretty much a death sentence).
The engine has some interesting/promising features it seems like, stuff you wouldn't find in Doom even though some other aspects of the engine are more primitive than that (most annoyingly, no control remapping). The game doesn't make the best use of them though and has a certain nonsensical quality to it which I have mixed feelings about. The ending is also bizarre and made me wonder if I'd done something wrong somewhere along the way, and the game as a whole was pretty short.
Pass unless you have a fetish for weird and lesser-known 2.5D games like I do.
>>298
If you want to try them, you might like to be aware of this:
https://github.com/bbbradsmith/mmpatch
Though, disclaimer, I haven't tried it, I just used my crusty 16Mhz 286 which is about the level of machine they were designed for.
Marathoned Commander Keen, including the fan-made third trilogy which I'd never played before. They're pretty well done, although 7 may be the weakest one in so far as it's the one where it's easiest to see what old enemies were skinned over to make the new ones.
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Duke Nukem 2. Beat it for the first time after only having ever played the shareware episode and a little bit of episode 2. Played on easy mode this time though as the item and enemy placement tends to be more than a little trollish.
I'm still inclined to say the original Duke "Nukum" was more fun despite the sequel's added glitz and gimmicks.
I've finished beating Borderlands 2!
Just finished Pikmin 1 on the GameCube. Really great game, loved micromanaging all the Pikmin to do different tasks at the same time. Loved planning routes and figuring everything out. Though the game itself was a little on the short side. I'm looking forward to trying Pikmin 2 next once I get some free time.
I 100%'d Celeste. Took 50 hours. It was really fun. I really enjoyed the game.
Beat Black Mesa. Although it looks just slightly too modern for the engine (it's not quite "HL1 with HL2 graphics" but rather "HL1 with modern graphics), and it diverges from the original in some parts, it's still a very high-quality reinterpretation of the original game.
>>306
I quite liked BMS but nu-Xen dragged on for way too long. Doesn't really feel as creepy as the original either.
I beat Marathon 1 and 2! The recent updates to Aleph One allow you to play them at 60 FPS. I'm playing Infinity right now and it's really interesting but the level design took a nosedive.
>>308
I should really play those some time. I've heard people who hate the engine but apparently Damage Incorporated was built on that engine too and it seemed okay to me (at least the Windows version did). Probably bitchy nitpickers who hate everything that isn't Doom, just like with BUILD games.
100%'d DUSK. Fantastic game. Any old-school quake/doom/hexen etc players would feel at home.
Just wrapped up Xenogears. I'd never played it before. I can see why it's a classic, but damn if it doesn't have a lot of pacing issues.
Played through Black Crypt and ShadowCaster, first time beating either (though I'd played some of ShadowCaster before). As a big fan of the Heretic and Hexen series this was kind of a pilgrimage type thing for me.
Black Crypt was pretty good for what it was (a Dungeon Master/Eye of the Beholder follower) and most of the annoyances in it were par for the course for that type of game (inventory management juggling and the like). I do have to give it points off for having one place where you can fuck over the triggers and make a section unwinnable, which necessitated going back to an old save and redoing some stuff. Aside from that, pretty cool creature/environment/lore designs. As an Amiga game it might be a bit of a pain in the ass to emulate, your best bet is probably to grab TheCompany's repack for painless running, if you're on Windows.
ShadowCaster on the other hand had great concepts, like being able to shapeshift into various cool creatures as you progress, but felt like a showcase in game engine growing pains. Part of it tries to be like Wolf 3-D and the other part tries to be like the earlier dungeon crawlers and it results in this clunky hybrid that's not great at either, with dull combat, annoying inventory management, and even more annoying regen mechanics (the official hint book even suggests parking yourself somewhere safe and going AFK to regenerate as a legitimate strategy, FFS). It's also kind of a letdown that despite having a fully functional hub system (that remembers things that changed around the map, unlike the one in the Catacomb games that reset on every visit) they didn't implement more Metroidvania style stuff. Would have been cool if you could, for instance, go back and explore the lake in the early levels once you had the Kahpa form to swim around in. The CD version does add a couple levels that put some of the niche powers to more use, but at the tradeoff of switching the nicely illustrated intro/ending animations for awkward 3D rendered ones. The CD version also has, through no fault of its own, an issue running in DOSBox because the dumbshit DOSBox devs broke it and then never fixed it so you have to use v0.73 of DOSBox instead. The end boss is also a joke, even more than Korax from Hexen is, just turn into the Grost and punch the living fuck out of him. You'll take damage sure but at full health and with the protection amulet he'll die before you do. I usually sneer at game reboots, but this is one that I think could actually benefit from a do-over.
Finished 車輪の国、向日葵の少女. Felt a bit of everything. Really good game, for once found something that doesn't feel like complete detached from reality escapism. It still is escapism though, and it's sweet.
I finished the original version of Fable: The Lost Chapters on PC. Yes, I have nostalgia for this game but I think it's still one of the best western RPGs, and the issues it has are very minor but some could be annoying to some. The biggest thing that stuck out to me positively was probably the attention to detail, it feels like almost everything, even inconsequential NPCs and objects have flavour text and voiced lines. It kind of feels like the same principle as Betheseda open worlds but instead of vast open spaces that feel almost procedurally generated, it's nearly the complete opposite where there are closed-off spaces that are heavily detailed. I also feel like the humour the series is known for is rather understated here, with a funny line here and there mostly as actual comic relief in cutscenes because of the serious nature of a lot of the storyline or in the optional flavour text. It's not overbearing and given how seedy and dangerous Albion is in the main story it would probably actually break the suspension of disbelief (this happens once, though, with the union jack underwear being a reference to the real world and unless you deliberately undress you see them during one of the most serious parts of the game).
It's not perfect though, the melee combat is rough on PC, at least until you get high-end gear and stats because you basically spam clicks which gets painful after a while. It kind of reminds me of how some people play diablo and its clones so unless you're gonna use a controller I'd recommend using Will or skill for most of the game until you can pour extra points into melee. Near the end of the game, melee combat feels visceral and satisfying, especially killing the minion enemies but until then it feels like Dynasty Warriors in that it feels you're beating people with sticks rather than swords. It's also obvious that it is designed for 1 on 1 combat and it can get clunky when you're fighting groups of enemies. Another thing that is solved by using Will.
Another issue is that when you're escorting people, the sometimes changing voices seems uncharacteristically unpolished and the cheering can be annoying, I get what they're going for though and the reputation system this comes from works well when you're running through settlements and the romance system feels a little half baked (although, maybe romance systems in games not specifically for it or just straight up H-games are inherently limited)
Overall, I enjoyed it a lot and I did a good/hero run, and I thought it was refreshing that you can be a knight in shining armour who marries a woman and has a humble cottage in his rural hometown with zero wink-wink-nudge-nudge/subversion and it kind of reminded me of Fallout New Vegas in that your actions directly affect the world, except it does address that a single person with this much influence would be a legendary figure.
I immediately bought Fable 2 and want to do an evil run and do the side content, but I feel like I have so many games to play/media to consume in general instead of just replaying the same game, but regardless I am glad the game is having a resurgence at least in the modding community. I definitely will be buying a physical copy though, especially since it is under $10!
Onto Diablo II and Quake remakes for the Switch.
Also the atmospheric music is good if a tad generic but I remembered it after finishing the game so hey! Oakvale's theme is very fitting for the atmosphere the game is going for.
>>74 Ah, I really liked it, I think it's maybe one of my favourite Final Fantasys. I cheated though, early on there's a cave with a more difficult route that you come back to later, but you can sprint through up to the back to find a chest with a Deathbringer sword. I did that 6 times so I had one for each character. It has a chance of instant death on hit, with your whole party attacking with these it usually killed nearly every enemy within 10 hits!
It was the old version too where you could fill every character's skill board thing the same rather than different job classes
>>90 Nice! I never finished it... completed Ape Escape 1 and 2 though, I finished AE2 4 times (twice on PS2 with Hikaru/Spike and again on the PS4 just recently).
I bought it again on PS4 for like £4 which is worth it for Monkey Football alone!
>>186 Damn I got to the last level of that, got a bit stuck, then got distracted by something else and never went back to it. I have a few almost-completed games like that, and since time has passed and it's in the end stages of the game it's hard to get back up to speed sometimes
>>298 I finished Enter The Gecko and Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko on PS1, I always thought it was dumb how the voice actor in the UK version changed from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Phillips in ETG to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_John-Jules in 3
10,000 gecks is your reward
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I borrowed Crash Bandicoot 4 and the Spyro Reignited Trilogy from my brother. A few days ago I finished Crash Bandicoot 4, but not 100%, didn't bother with the inverted levels or flashback tapes or time trials. I got quite a lot of the gems. Then I started Spyro 1 and just finished it right now. Might 100% it today and start Spyro 2
Got 120% on Spyro 1 remake
Finished Borderlands 1. It was alright :)
Finished Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel on the PS4 Handsome Collection. I liked it more than the first one. I'm a dumbass and thought the cross-save feature meant I could continue Borderlands 2 with my Pre-Sequel character, so I spent a bit of extra pointless grinding time after the last boss. Maybe I'll play the New Game+ one day, probably not. One annoying thing compared to the first one is how you can only fast travel to certain places, even though the machines are everywhere, so sometimes I had to try and work out where to walk.
Just started Borderlands 2.
Finally finished Starcraft & Brood War after 20 years.
I finished Borderlands 2 the other day, so I played 1, Pre-Sequel and 2 in a row. They were okay. When I was finishing 1, my friend said they were all the same game, and I see what he meant when I got into 2, I think I liked the PS the best for that reason, the lunar setting with low gravity and ground pounds made it a bit more interesting. Overall I found all the characters annoying and kinda couldn't wait to get it over with, but all I was looking for was a fun non-realistic FPS so I got what I wanted I guess :) Probably won't play 3 unless I get it super cheap in a few years.
After I finished BL2 I finished Wattam, I got halfway through last year and it fell by the wayside. It's very nice though, I love the characters and sounds. The story too, I felt it was like Katamari in that on the surface it seems like a wacky Japanese game with random humour, but there's kind of a deep feeling there, makes you think about the world and how it works and all the people and things in it. Kind of a spiritual Zen feeling or something
I would have got the Platinum trophy if I'd known about keeping the Snowman safe! If you're going to play it, apparently you should eat the Snowman as soon as you can to turn him into fruit, which stops him melting.
I finished NIPPON MARATHON the other day - I had finished one character's story ages ago, so I blitzed through the other 3 then picked up the collectibles to get the Platinum trophy. Anyone else played it? It's pretty fun despite the hilariously bad character models!
I got the platinum trophy in HENTAI VS EVIL on PS4. It took less than an hour. Seems like a simple game made by one guy, but was kinda fun for a while just shooting zombies with different guns.
Got 100% in Kirby and the Forgotten Land. Definitely a great transition to 3D for a classic series, and packed full of content.
Final boss rush (True Arena equivalent) was a bit easier than usual unfortunately, especially with the final Sword upgrade which is totally broken. I feel a little cheap for using it, but at least I did it without items.
Finished the main story of FF7 Remake the other day, I'm going to finish it on hard mode next. Apparently you can beat the big secret superboss to get a limit break boosting accessory and it makes it easy to fly through hard mode, so I think I'll do that
Finished Flipon and Iwaihime.
Flipon was a lot of fun. Basically a modern reskin of Tetris Attack/Panel de Pon, which I had not had the pleasure of playing before. I only played the single player campaign (which is my definition of "finished" here) but I do want to try out the multiplayer sometime if I can convince my tetris rival to give it a go
Honestly, a bit let down by Iwaihime. Started with some great denpa but devolved into boring slice of life, kind of like a reversed version of Ryukishi's normal formula. The end was not satisfying at all despite the very strong opening which is a much bigger problem than the inverse. Reminded me of Yume Miru Kusuri.
Finished Metal Gear Rising on Easy Mode. It was unexpectedly an unironically great game, and instantly got into my top 5 game list.
Now I'm going to replay it on Normal Mode.
>>335 Nice one, maybe I should check it out
I just beat The Silver Case. Very interesting game, dare I say Lynchian? I wish more games did the sort of things this game does. Also, Masafumi Takada's soundtrack is incredible.
Just like >>1 I can't wait to play the sequel, Flower, Sun and Rain... though I'm hoping a remake/remaster is announced because I really don't want to play it on DS.
I finished Tangle Tower. Quite a well-polished game, though the ending was very abrupt and it felt like the game was cut short. Recommended for fans of Double Fine games or Professor Layton / Ace Attorney.
Just got the platinum in Chess Knights on PS4... I think it was maybe a phone game first, it was cheap in the sale. A sort of puzzle game based on chess. Meh
Finally finished DMC3 the other day, now moving to 4