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Post by lukasz on Jul 15, 2022 12:19:18 GMT
I don't know about actually playing Rome as that would be a colossal game. Maybe, though.
Haha. Congratulations. It is colossal game as rome but only if you want to do empire. Rome is op So you can start slowly conquering peninsula and only really a Carthage is an issue. Then can play slowly or as fast as you want painting the map and learning issues with medium sized countries (huge countries have the same issues. So after a while it is just map painter) Took me some time to get mare nostrum Achievement and 3 tries to do world conquer and around 80 hours for the final run. But if you have any queries pm me. Happy to help. Love this game and wish it did better so there would be expansions.
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Post by quadfather on Jul 15, 2022 12:20:00 GMT
Ocarina of TimeI mean come on, it's Ocarina of Time - there's nothing else I can add. Tried doing a 100% playthrough on my own for the first time ever but still forgot a couple of heart pieces and didn't bother trying to find 100 Skultullas. Still love everything about it. 10/10 I've never played this but want to. Is the n64 version via Nintendo online the version go for? It's just that I've seen screenshots online for it that look better than the n64 version?
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Post by rhaegyr on Jul 15, 2022 12:39:33 GMT
Ocarina of TimeI mean come on, it's Ocarina of Time - there's nothing else I can add. Tried doing a 100% playthrough on my own for the first time ever but still forgot a couple of heart pieces and didn't bother trying to find 100 Skultullas. Still love everything about it. 10/10 I've never played this but want to. Is the n64 version via Nintendo online the version go for? It's just that I've seen screenshots online for it that look better than the n64 version? It was the most easily accessible version for me and there's a few improvements to the graphics. I've heard the 3DS one is the one to go for though if you don't mind playing it on a handheld - lots of quality of life improvements, particularly equipment/item switching.
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Post by Kay on Jul 15, 2022 12:40:11 GMT
N64 version via the Switch. I'd love to play the 3DS version (never played it) but as I get older my tolerance for smaller screens has practically gone. Bit frustrating as I'm moving on to Majora's Mask now and I've heard the 3DS version has a ton of quality of life improvements! The 3DS version of OoT is great, and probably the definitive version imo due to the quality of life improvements and graphical upgrade. Never played 3DS MM though, and from what I've read a lot of the changes it made did not go down well (e.g. the swimming has been butchered a bit), so the N64 version is probably still the best way to play.
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Post by quadfather on Jul 15, 2022 13:16:44 GMT
I've never played this but want to. Is the n64 version via Nintendo online the version go for? It's just that I've seen screenshots online for it that look better than the n64 version? It was the most easily accessible version for me and there's a few improvements to the graphics. I've heard the 3DS one is the one to go for though if you don't mind playing it on a handheld - lots of quality of life improvements, particularly equipment/item switching. Nice one, cheers
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Post by Chopper on Jul 15, 2022 13:18:39 GMT
Took me some time to get mare nostrum Achievement and 3 tries to do world conquer and around 80 hours for the final run. But if you have any queries pm me. Happy to help. Love this game and wish it did better so there would be expansions.
I remember your timelapse video! I don't know how you did it.
My second game went better - I formed Parthia after starting out as a steppe tribe:
But the final step of that came with these conditions and then the Seleucids roflstomped me:
I would have been better biding my time and building up my levies and population, but it had been quite a long game at that point.
Also, I just realised that I only get achievements if I play Ironman (first Paradox game outside of Stellaris and Vicky 2). Doh! So I am trying a Thrace game now.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2022 21:50:11 GMT
Lost Judgement on ps5
Fuck, how can a studio be so consistent? Despite every game in the Yazuza series changing things up and adding minigames or characters of going rpg or sticking one location it never (barring one misstep) fails to be brilliant. In 18 months I have found, loved and completed the entire series and am genuinely quite gutted there is no more for me.
I have hunted in winter, done prison breaks, become an idol in dance contests, run a hostess club, taxi rank, construction firm, an orphanage and several gangs.
Kiryu Kazuma is now my favourite video game ever and I just dont know how it took me so long to find this series. I should be burnt out,this game alone was 55 hours, dragon was 80, kiwami 1,2 and 0 were over 50 each. But I am tempted to replay zero already.
Anyway: 0 - 10/10 Kiwami - 10/10 Kiwami 2 - 9/10 3 - 9/10 4 - 8/10 5 - 9/10 6 - 9/10
Like a Dragon- 10/10
Judgement 6/10 Lost Judgement 9/10
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Post by damagedinc on Jul 17, 2022 23:25:02 GMT
Slay the Spire.
The idea of "completing" a roguelike always seems somewhat nebulous, so I decided ahead of time that I'd consider the game to be done and dusted (for the moment, at any rate) once I'd beaten Act 3 with all four of the playable characters.
8.5/10.
Nice! I never did beat it with that fourth character as I’d bought it on multiple platforms and had burned out on it by then. So addictive at the time though, I remember it disrupting my working day something awful as I couldn’t keep away. I’m not an expert in the genre but something similar but different if you’re on PC is Trials of Fire. Look past the godawful overworld map graphics and it’s something really special. I just started Gordian Quest, and it seems to be a good take on the genre too, though it has a whole bunch of RPG systems added on top of the deck building. I'm back into this again,just lost to the act 3 boss by 6 HP with silent..... gutted
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Post by dfunked on Jul 18, 2022 12:42:35 GMT
Super Metroid - 10/10
One of my few all time favourite games that still stands up today. Started it on my commute on the Vita and ended up ploughing through the last couple of hours in the hammock yesterday, which was absolutely lovely of course. I almost seem to treat it as a memory test these days - can I get 100% items within an OK time (2:59 this time)
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Post by Ulythium on Jul 18, 2022 12:44:14 GMT
I'm back into this again,just lost to the act 3 boss by 6 HP with silent..... gutted
Oof! I feel your pain.
Which boss did you get?
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Post by damagedinc on Jul 18, 2022 15:24:59 GMT
I'm back into this again,just lost to the act 3 boss by 6 HP with silent..... gutted
Oof! I feel your pain.
Which boss did you get?
The awakened. So should have been fine, I made the mistake of forgetting he had two phases. If I got rid of the two sidekicks first I think I would have been ok.
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Post by Ulythium on Jul 18, 2022 16:28:28 GMT
The awakened. So should have been fine, I made the mistake of forgetting he had two phases. If I got rid of the two sidekicks first I think I would have been ok.
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Post by damagedinc on Jul 18, 2022 17:37:07 GMT
The awakened. So should have been fine, I made the mistake of forgetting he had two phases. If I got rid of the two sidekicks first I think I would have been ok.
Haha!!! Yup agree completly
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Post by damagedinc on Jul 18, 2022 18:54:45 GMT
Haha!!! Yup agree completly Gutted as I have been struggling with the silent and I had such a good deck.
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Post by rhaegyr on Jul 19, 2022 13:19:02 GMT
Metroid Dread
Finally finished this yesterday on 100% and it's been a little...underwhelming?
Samus' movement and control is the best the series has ever been - I think it's incredibly slick and responsive. Difficulty seems perfectly pitched too and the puzzles have been half decent. Some good additions to Samus' arsenal too, particularly the Pulse Radar. Nice ending to the story (considering how slight it is) too.
My main issues are aesthetic - I'm not keen on the art style (it looks quite basic), the enemy design is a little boring, music is practically non-existent (which is surprising) and the map layout seems a bit random and not that fun to navigate. All this adds up to practically zero atmosphere which is startling when you compare it to Super/Prime which oozed atmopshere as soon as you got off the ship.
Outside of the atmosphere - some of the upgrades are fairly pointless, it feels there's more of an emphasis on combat than exploration and the final boss went on a little too long.
Oh, and the EMMI's suck.
It's a good, often great game but doesn't feel up there with Prime, Super or even Fusion.
8/10
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Post by Aunt Alison on Jul 19, 2022 13:21:27 GMT
I swear I already read that exact review from you
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Post by rhaegyr on Jul 19, 2022 13:25:40 GMT
I swear I already read that exact review from you You did - I posted the same thing in the 'What are you currently playing' thread with a few tweaks. Couldn't be arsed to change it in any meaningful way; just needed validation from everyone for completing it. Thanks!
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Post by Aunt Alison on Jul 19, 2022 13:26:18 GMT
Well done!
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Jul 19, 2022 18:42:47 GMT
Promesa: Another small walking simulator. It does some interesting things with its visuals and transitions and the music/atmosphere is good too. Playthroughs can turn out somewhat differently, but scenes the player missed out on can be visited from the menu.
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Post by Nanocrystal on Jul 21, 2022 11:48:34 GMT
Yakuza 3Of the ones I've played, this was my least favourite so far (3 < Kiwami < Kiwami 2 < 0). I hated the levelling up system and the combat felt limited and repetitive as a result, while a few of the main missions felt like they were deliberately wasting your time to pad the length of the game. All that said, it was still really enjoyable overall. The story was typically nuts, particularly towards the end with the CIA/Black Monday stuff . Okinawa was great as a companion location to Kamurocho and everything involving the orphans was just heartwarming and lovely. A shame Rikiyu had to die though. On to Y4, which seems to be a return to form from what I've played so far!
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Post by Ulythium on Jul 21, 2022 12:45:53 GMT
Dead Cells.
Having beaten Hand of the King with 0 Boss Stem Cells (basically the game's default difficulty setting, for those who're unfamiliar with it), I'm largely done with this for now.
I'll probably have a few more runs to unlock additional weapons, tools, etc. - not least because I still haven't bought The Binding of Isaac, which I'm planning to get as my next game! - but I don't think I'm going to make any serious 1-5 BSC attempts. The game's hard enough already!
Although I only have the base game, there is a free DLC expansion called Rise of the Giant - it adds new biomes, enemies, and bosses into the mix, so I'll save that for a rainy day.*
All told, I enjoyed my time with Dead Cells. It's my least favourite of the AA roguelikes I've played so far (the others being Hades and Slay the Spire), but it was still very good, with tight and responsive controls, fast-paced combat, and some nice Metroidvania-esque exploration aspects. There's not much in the way of narrative, but I did like what little writing there was, and the in-game world is pretty interesting.
Points off for the non-HotK bosses, as they're basically clown shoes compared to him; hell, they're pretty tame compared to the trash mobs you encounter in each area! I died *once* to a boss before I reached the Hand, compared to dying umpteen times to generic enemies (especially those Golem assholes in the Slumbering Sanctuary).
8/10.
* If we ever have another one of those. Thanks, folks! I'll be here all week - tip your waitresses, and be sure to try the veal!
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Post by robthehermit on Jul 25, 2022 12:00:33 GMT
Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising
Very simplistic and button mashing will get you through every fight. The whole gameplay loop revolves around backtracking and repeatedly travelling through a not particularly expansive dungeon doing pointless, endless, fetch quests and incrementally upgrading your gear for ever so slightly more damage and defense. Probably 30% game, 70% grind.
It's fun for what it is and I enjoyed it enough to grind out the 1000g, which wasn't challenging just time consuming.
6/10
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Post by theguy on Jul 26, 2022 17:43:29 GMT
Stray
It's a decent little game. I thought the traversal was great and the level design as well as the environments themselves were quite fantastic. Really impressive stuff for a smaller studio. Where it falters is the rest of the gameplay I think, which remains a bit basic and never really evolves at all. Puzzles are completely straightforward and I wasn't a fan of the mission structure either, which was just go there and interact with that. The one shakeup you do get is a weapon, but I found that more dull to use than enjoyable. Even despite it's short length those things grated me, so I can't say I'm a huge fan of the game, though overall I'd say I liked it.
It's still a solid output for the devs first title and I'm glad it's seemingly doing well since it's something a bit different.
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Post by dangerousdave on Jul 26, 2022 19:35:31 GMT
Far: Lone Sails (Switch)
A lovely little indie game that offers a beautifully melancholic journey in which the narrative is delivered purely within its scenery. It's not the most challenging game, but navigating/managing the ship is very engaging. Whenever it gets damaged I felt like I was losing a limb.
Its on every platform under the sun, but I played it on Switch. It looks amazing and runs well. Hardly a taxing game, though.
Would recommend to anybody who likes the idea of Limbo or Inside swapping out the horror theme for something more melancholic.
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Post by Chopper on Jul 29, 2022 13:21:45 GMT
I had a good time (18 hours) with Lock'n'Load's Heroes of Normandy module, a boardgame port which works really well on PC. Defensive missions are a bit easy, as you generally just hunker down and wait out the onslaught, and the AI doesn't have the deviousness to succeed (generally as a player you have to sacrifice a bunch of guys in a feint, while you attack from the flanks). The missions where you are on the attack, on the other hand, are really good, with lots of victories coming down to the last action of the last turn.
You have all sorts of derring-do happening as well, with heroes close-assaulting armour, overrunning machine-gun nests etc.
Really, really good. I had a quick look at the boardgame it is based on, and this module sells for 90 Euros! So the fiver I paid was well worth it. Also finished The Train to Sachsenhausen, which is an educational, choose your own adventure game based on the Nazi annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938. It doesn't work brilliantly as a game - while the art is nice (you swipe to one side or the other here to make a decision)... ....it's pretty arbitrary how each ending (there are many) occurs. Sneak on the boat or bribe the captain? What's that, Bribe? Oh well:
The scenarios and endings are all based on survivors' tales, and there are interviews with those guys at the end. Doesn't work great as a game, but of course the stories are grim and shocking so it's worth checking out if you feel like a dose of despair. You can play through the whole thing multiple times in half an hour and I think it's available on mobile (as well as PC) for free.
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Post by pierrepressure on Jul 30, 2022 11:15:33 GMT
Batman Origins via PSNow.
7.5/10
It's not quite the standard of the Rocksteady games which I really loved (even Arkham Knight) but it's still enjoyable being in that world. I couldn't put myself through more Riddler nonsense though so only did about 15% of his mission.
Surprised someone else hasn't came in and taken up the Batman mantle, did the games not sell well?
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Post by Chopper on Jul 31, 2022 11:53:21 GMT
My backlog is creaking under the weight of all the tactics games, so I thought I'd break out a bit and blast through some stuff on Itch from old charity bundles. Signs of the Sojourner is a card 'battler' where playing your cards against another character represents a conversation. Cards come with a variety of symbols - square, triangle, circle - and you have to match the symbol on the left of your card to the one on the right of the card that's been laid down prior. There are a lot of complications which arise after that, as you develop your deck. It's more of a logic puzzle than a card battler, really. You start with circle and triangle cards, and then you head out on the road where some towns use primarily circles and triangles, and others use squares, diamonds etc. There are various other markings on the cards which allow reshuffles, looks at your opponents' hands etc. This was all a bit much for me, so I stuck to a small subset of towns which had circles and triangles - the headache of having a fixed ten card deck which catered for all symbols was too much for me. It would probably be very appealing to more logical/puzzle solving folks though. So I got an ending, but not the best ending. I didn't like the presentation style or story anyway so I was happy for it to be over. There's a good game there though, for the right person. One Night Stand is a very short game about waking up in someone's bed with absolutely no idea how you got there. You have to do some light snooping around the bedroom in order to hold your own in conversation while you try and figure out how you got there. It's short, fifteen minutes to half an hour, with 12 different endings which you are encouraged to find. It has some nice touches:
I also saw two walking sims on there which had been mentioned by ToomuchFluffy upthread, Sunlight and Promesa. Sunlight was nice, kind of like listening to someone very, very eloquent telling you about their acid trip. Promesa left me cold. I couldn't make much of it. It was like walking very slowly through a collection of Unity assets which the dev chose at random. Might have missed something here.
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Post by Nanocrystal on Jul 31, 2022 12:46:20 GMT
Yakuza 4
I really liked the four protagonists and their backstories, and the main story as well as their more personal substories were all great. The combat was a bit variable and some of the bosses were annoying with their ability to block, dodge and often stun lock you. I button mash my way through these games on easy (I'm in it for the story, characters and craziness rather than the action) but even on easy the bosses felt frustrating and unfair at times. Most annoyingly, heat actions felt very finnicky and would fail to execute more often than not. These frustrations aside, it was one of my favourite Yakuzas so far due to the four likeable main characters. Was nice to have a go at Pachinko too, though I had absolutely no clue what was going on.
Onto Y5!
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Jul 31, 2022 18:57:14 GMT
Promesa left me cold. I couldn't make much of it. It was like walking very slowly through a collection of Unity assets which the dev chose at random. Might have missed something here. Yeah, it was a bit difficult to make much of anything out of it.
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Post by Duffman5 on Aug 1, 2022 6:10:27 GMT
Road 96. Excellent 9/10
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