Finished Any Games Lately?

I finished Far Cry 5 over the weekend. It sure was a Far Cry game. That twist ending though. I saw it coming thanks to some stuff I heard over the radio. I would be interested in playing a Far Cry 5-2 that maybe picks up a few years later... or I could just play Fallout I guess

I just finished Pillars of Eternity. I liked the mystery and world building but most of my companions had sad endings because I didn't finish their side quests. I just wanted to know what the big secret to the Hollowborn was!

Finished God of War last night. 94% completion, missed killing all the ravens and missed some Artifacts. Maybe some hidden achievements.

Great gameplay, great story. It's all been said before, and I agree. I could see tooling around in the world for a while longer if there were any DLC. Very satisfying.

I just Redboxed Madden 19 to play Longshot: Homecoming. I didn't think the original Longshot in the first game was very good, but I was at least interested enough to play this years. L:H is worse. There isn't a cohesive story (the story alternates between the weakest NFL tale the League would approve and the worst episode of Friday Night Lights that would have never gotten made) and the TellTale "Clem will remember that" choices are gone.

I wish I had the $3 back.

Another Quakecon sale item completed - this time it's Rage. Which was surprisingly alright. Some of the vistas still look pretty stiking, but it's ridiculous you still get pop-in from the texture streaming with a GTX 1080.

Mostly it's got an identity crisis. The open world is not really open. It's a set of corridors for you to travel through from objective to objective. The shooting's fine, but it's kinda stuck between lighning fast arcade shooter and a more tactical one where headshots count. The weapons tend to be more geared towards the latter, but some enemies infuriatingly play like you need to be zipping about the room. (Mutants, I'm looking at you.)

And there's a bunch of minigames for no good reason. Although the card game was relatively fun.

Ultimately. it's not much more than ok, and if I want striking wasteland vistas, I'll replay Mad Max, and if I want involved wasteland gameplay, I'll start another New Vegas character, but I can't say I regret the 2,50€ I spent on it.

Hard Corps: Uprising is in the books. Fun throwback to 2-D Contra days... sad that it may be a while before we see a spiritual sequel or successor, if at all.

Finished Mission Asteroid over on the Sierra Adventures play through thread.

mrwynd wrote:

I just finished Pillars of Eternity. I liked the mystery and world building but most of my companions had sad endings because I didn't finish their side quests. I just wanted to know what the big secret to the Hollowborn was!

I hate when games do that. The new Torment game had that same problem. "You didn't see their companion quest all the way to the end? WELL HE NOW ENDED UP AS A CORPSE IN THE DITCH, SAD AND LONELY IN HIS LAST MOMENTS!"

Jesus man, I don't think Party Member #3 not finding out the true origins of his father would cause his life to spiral into disaster.

Finished up The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine, and loved it. Still working on DOOM this weekend, but I'm starting to get a hankering to replay BioShock...

Well, without really thinking too much about it, I have finished the main story in Ni No Kuni II. I have to say, it was quite entertaining. The ending was pretty satisfying and the general plot wasn't bad. It's not quite as good as the first one, story-wise, but it is a very good game. The battle system was better than its predecessor's, and the Level-5 magic is still very much alive even if Ghibli wasn't involved in this game.

I really enjoyed seeing how the world of Ni No Kuni changed from the first game.

Finished Pillars of Eternity last night. Dragged quite a bit through the last 1/4 of the game. Took me a few months to get back to it and power through. Good game overall though. Looking forward to picking up PoE2 now.

Finished up the main story for BATTLETECH. Now I have to see if I can finish collecting all the mechs before the DLC drops.

XCOM 2 on Legendary! I did it!

Never again. Ugh.

bighoppa wrote:

Finished Pillars of Eternity last night. Dragged quite a bit through the last 1/4 of the game. Took me a few months to get back to it and power through. Good game overall though. Looking forward to picking up PoE2 now.

I've started the game twice now and given up on my playthrough both times. Not sure what it is, but the game is not "sticking." And I mostly play RPGs and adventure games.

I just finished up Steven Universe: Attack the Light. It was quite a fun little romp on my mobile phone.

If you like anything like Paper Mario and/or Steven Universe, this little game is well recommended for anyone looking to have a fun RPG-lite experience in the Steven Universe world on the go.

I did finish the first three God of War games.
Pure revenge man, it was so satisfying to kill Zeus with bare freaking hands and punching him to the death.
I really loved that game.

Finished Subnautica earlier this week. I didn't want it to end!

Just finished Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. That's a game that really grew on me the more that I played it. I still have higher difficulty levels to play but I'm taking a break for now.

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Banner Saga 3 is done. I'd love to discuss the ending. Overall a satisfying button to the story that remained true to the spirit and tone of the series. I'm sort of surprised at how little chatter I saw about it. I hadn't even noticed the third game got released until a kind soul gifted it to me!

Not going to spoil anything but for those who played it, I had Alette as my survivor from Banner Saga 1. At some point in 2 she gets an overwatch ability plus there is an item that does knockback. Holy smokes is that broken. She could have solo'd her chapters. They were a breeze. The other side of the story was a real challenge though, and a satisfying one. I've liked but never loved the Banner Saga combat. Mostly it just served as a mechanical interlude to a well composed narrative. I didn't mind being able to breeze through the Alette chapters as a result. There are some really delightfully challenging decisions to make.

Okay, slight spoilers.

Spoiler:

I also enjoyed how all of the choices from the three games come together to buy your other party time. It makes all of those Clansmen and Varl numbers feel more important in retrospect. I ended up with 16 days worth of time and had to revisit Aberrang three times. I think my other party could have made it to the White Tower with only two revisits needed if they hadn't had to rest for two days after a particularly brutal wave encounter on the heels of a tough fight earlier left everyone but Iver and two others injured (!)

TheHarpoMarxist wrote:

Not going to spoil anything but for those who played it, I had Alette as my survivor from Banner Saga 1. At some point in 2 she gets an overwatch ability plus there is an item that does knockback. Holy smokes is that broken.

Same, and hell yes. The only threat is if you somehow run out of willpower, but since there's ways to boost willpower per kill, she'll dominate every battle.

But, I'm kinda fine with that? It makes for a satisfying counterpoint to the mountains of sh*t the story has her wade through.

Orwell. It was free recently on the Humble Store. It requires a certain level of suspension of disbelief, but is otherwise a decent piece of dystopic fiction.

Wolfenstein: The New Order

Incredibly solid, cheesy as hell first-person shooter. Started stronger than it finished, but that could have been the fact that I marathoned 4 hours to see the credits roll.

I was surprised by how solid the characterization was, I enjoyed interacting with the cast a lot more than I thought I would. They also did a fantastic job of making the Nazis feel like the absolute worst villains imaginable. It made the already solid gunplay feel that much better, satisfaction levels were off the charts.

I was also surprised by how much I enjoyed the stealth sections. A bit simple, but a perfect change of pace. In saying that, the pace was off in other areas. It felt a little unfocused when the player was asked to stop shooting Nazis and navigate tedious under-water mazes or fetch tools to progress the story (fetch quests in my dumb Nazi shooting game? No thankyou!)

To cut it short:

+ Amazing gunplay
+ Really interesting characters
+ Solid graphics
+ Dual-wielding EVERYTHING

- Sometimes meandering
- Occasional bullet-spongey enemies
- Loses steam 3/4 of the way through

A_Unicycle wrote:

Wolfenstein: The New Order

Are you going try the sequel? I haven't played New Order but I thought New Colossus was brilliant!

I'd like to, but I'm not sure when. I've heard it's worth playing the standalone expansions for The New Order before diving into New Colossus, but I need a bit of a breather after finishing this one.

I have a hunch I'll just buy New Colossus if it's cheap in the next big Steam sale.

A_Unicycle wrote:

I'd like to, but I'm not sure when. I've heard it's worth playing the standalone expansions for The New Order before diving into New Colossus, but I need a bit of a breather after finishing this one.

I have a hunch I'll just buy New Colossus if it's cheap in the next big Steam sale.

Yeah that makes sense, no point moving on to Colossus if you're not 100% done with Order yet!

I'm on a roll, I just finished Celeste!

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I love, love loooved this! Best platformer I've ever played. Brutally difficult at times, but always fair. As someone who has struggled with anxiety, and has had to go through counselling to cope with it, I found it lovely having a bit of healthy representation. Sure, in a roundabout fantastical way, but there was a huge focus on learning to live and cope with your struggles. It was pure charm.

I also appreciate the "assist mode". It's nice that less dextrous gamers can still enjoy the story, music, and art of this game without being frustrated from dying 1808 times (see above image).

Straight up 10/10. Gonna be hard to knock this off the top of my GOTY list.

I finished Shadowrun: Hong Kong. This is my second Shadowrun game in the past 12 months, and I've come to really like both the setting and Harebrained Scheme's writing. I think I liked Dragonfall's more epic story to Hong Kong's more personal one, but HK is probably more true to the setting, since a lot of it is just a bunch of diverse (and always interesting) covert ops missions. Highly recommend both of these games, even to people who don't normally like CRPGs.

I'm catching up from last week.

Finished God of War. I thought it was excellent. It's the best God of War game ever made. The story is stronger and finally means something. The crafting and collection systems are meaningful and interesting to explore. I really enjoyed the fighting system. The tight perspective makes it brutal and direct. With upgrades, there's a decent amount of techniques to explore and use. This is my favorite game this year and one of the standout games on the PS4.

I also finished Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 in a very slow attempt to play through the single player portions of the Call of Duty games I missed. I thought a lot of it dragged. I didn't really like the flexible/optional extra missions. They all featured enemies that respawned at a ridiculous rate, both taking me out of the experience and leaving me frustrated. Even so, I did all of them. They are an interesting idea. I wish the implementation was better. Things picked up near the end of the game, though. The standard shooty parts of CoD work when they really try.

DOOM is down! It really is as good as everyone says. I was even surprised to find decent lore stuff that was interesting to follow. I wouldn't mind if they expanded on that a little bit in the upcoming sequel.

beanman101283 wrote:

DOOM is down! It really is as good as everyone says. I was even surprised to find decent lore stuff that was interesting to follow. I wouldn't mind if they expanded on that a little bit in the upcoming sequel.

Looks like you won't be disappointed; the devs have mentioned that the lore will be getting a greater emphasis in Eternal.