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Re: What games are you playing?

Posted: 06 Dec 2020, 20:23
by thatguyif
BobisOnlyBob wrote: 3 years ago Congratulations! Glad you enjoyed it, trouble with

getting into ATP

excepted. I think Outer Wilds dovetails the story and puzzles together remarkably well. What'd you think of the finale?
It's rather sad, even if hopeful in the end. Realizing that your entire efforts throughout the game are rather

futile

kind of hurts a bit. Though I was surprised that

Sun Station

was thought by many people to be endgamey, I always thought it was either

Quantum Moon

or

the Interloper

.

Regardless, it was rather powerful, the way they told things.
BobisOnlyBob wrote: 3 years ago Ah, an easy hint for this one that makes this pretty trivial:

the coordinates are the same every single playthrough

.
I figured, given Any% speedruns of this game are now sub-9 minutes (technically sub-10, but they stop timers during sleep stage). I think the tricky part is going to be

locating the Vessel itself

. Like, the fast route would require precision planning, but I forget if you can detect

escape pod

signals before you know about them.

Re: What games are you playing?

Posted: 07 Dec 2020, 00:08
by KobaBeach
Started another shot at the first Dragon Slayer, ver. Level 2.0, inspired by a certain friend playing through it. She says it sucks ass but eh, I'll try. I'm currently at Phase 1 and I've just unlocked Save (50000 EXP). Circa 410000 STR too.

I'm also at Meryod during Lunar: The Silver Star, grinding for silver again.

Re: What games are you playing?

Posted: 07 Dec 2020, 14:25
by Bean
After a few days away from it, I'm close to finishing up my co-op run of Sackboy: A Big Adventure. There was a funny glitch where I got pushed into a pool of doom only for the camera to lock in on that spot and force the other player to take a dip himself. The level was all right, but that glitch was the worst thing we've seen in the game so far. Again though, it's been minor issues at best as outside of that, I've been having a good amount of fun with this one. Will be fun to get it taken down though.

I mean, it's been a couple months now since I've been able to edit my post in the Games Beaten list and all. BW

Re: What games are you playing?

Posted: 07 Dec 2020, 20:27
by Nast
Finally done with Baba Is You, 100% completed. There were like three separate instances where I expected the game to be done and it just kept on going. The very last areas are absolutely bonkers. I did need to look up a few of the solutions by the end, unfortunately. Amazing puzzle game, definitely recommend it.

Re: What games are you playing?

Posted: 08 Dec 2020, 02:58
by Ashan
Last night I had gotten to what I believe is the final mission in Mega Man ZX, so the plan was to finish it off today. Then I ran around the Guardian's HQ and talked to people and found out they offered some optional missions. So I figured I'd quickly do those first. Got a couple decent items out of it (apparently some boots that will stop wind from pushing me or something, and another item that makes my i-frames last longer after taking damage). But then I got stuck doing a mission where I relayed letters from a guy at HQ to a girl in the city and you do it literally like 5 or 6 times to no payoff in the end from what I could tell (other than E-crystals which I don't really care about). And then another where I had to go find some med packs in crates in this one area and bring them back to the doctor ladies at HQ and I hoped after a few it'd give me an item but I ran the route like 7 times and I think it was looping by the end so that was a waste of time.

Guess I'll properly finish off the game tomorrow.

Re: What games are you playing?

Posted: 08 Dec 2020, 03:27
by ano0maly
Just consult an online guide for those subquests to see what they are and what you want to do with them.

If I'm reading the nurse one correctly,

you get a subtank after the 6th time,

but it does keep looping after that point.

Also don't forget about the

Omega

fight - it gives you

an item that becomes Model O after you clear the main game

. This helps a lot if you want to clean up any remaining quests afterwards.

Re: What games are you playing?

Posted: 08 Dec 2020, 13:08
by BobisOnlyBob
BobisOnlyBob wrote: 3 years ago Time flies, huh?
Back again with only a few games.

October:
BobisOnlyBob wrote: 3 years ago Lucah: Born of a Dream! A 2D, top-down, dark and scribbly soulslike. [..] I suspect I'll be thinking about this one for a while yet.
Lucah: Born of a Dream! I ended up coming right back to it after my last post, reinstalling it and playing through the postgame and getting all achievements except the two "Hard Mode"/"Challenge Mode" ones, all endings and the surreal scenes known as "sacraments" that fill out the backstory, albeit still full of vagueness and mystery. This game is quite haunting. I very much enjoyed the speed-centric second playthough, working to manage my rapidly-ticking corruption gauge by perfectly clearing fights with Soulslike precision, and enjoyed the alternate finales and hidden boss. It's been on my mind an awful lot, considering its production values and quirks.

November:

Hades! 107 hours, 94 runs, of which 43 were successful in defeating the final boss. All achievements, max affininity with everyone, saw damn near every line of dialogue and I suspect it'd still have surprises waiting for me. Maximum "Heat" (difficulty modifier combinations) I went up to was 16, and although that final run could've been an Extreme Measures 4 run and I'm confident I would've won, I feel that I've seen how that version of the final boss plays out and I have sufficient closure.
So, for context: Hades is a roguelike by Supergiant Games, creators of the beloved Bastion, Transistor and Pyre. I would consider every single game they've made a masterpiece, but Hades is their Magnum Opus - bringing together all their artistry, game design and storytelling capability in the frame of a new Greek Myth about the son of the God of Death seeking to escape his father's realm from the depths of Tartarus, ascending through Asphodel, Elysium, and beyond the Styx itself to the surface. It is truly incredible how well the genre fits the story, and how the story is told in pieces regardless of victory or defeat - victories tend to progress the core plot, while defeats tend to progress the side-stories, relationships you build with the Cthonic Gods, the Olympian Gods, and the various shades of the underworld. Progress is earned through both permanent resources that upgrade your base movement, health and odds (albeit capping out quickly) and through per-run blessings from the gods that shape your build into either a finely-honed killing machine and/or a chaotic mess that spams attacks and hopes for the best. I never once felt limited by the choices on offer, excepting when I'd taken the one difficulty restriction that literally limits the choices on offer. Supergiant's now-signature difficulty modifications have far greater appeal in the roguelike format than they ever did in their linear narratives, providing you with more and more rewards as you gradually turn up the heat. The six base weapons are all viable and suit a vast array of play styles, as well as unlockable variations that provide a staggering amount of replayability. What a bloody great game. If you haven't got it already, put it on your wishlist. It's on damn near every platform and plays great with a keyboard and mouse or with a controller. This is unquestionably my Game of the Year.

December:

Snake Pass! A wholesome little 3D collectathon platformer... where you can't jump. You can move forwards, but only very slowly... unless you wriggle by tilting the analog stick left and right. Where you might expect a jump button, you can instead raise your head. This is a game about learning to move like a snake, coiling yourself around bamboo beams and fenceposts to pick up a trail of Shiny Things, including three big ones necessary to exit the level, a whole lot of wibbly water-bubbles called wisps that are akin to coins or notes, and 5 I-can't-believe-they're-not-Dragon-Coins in out-of-the-way and challenging locations. A nice bright mayan/aztec aesthetic and music by David Wise completes the vibe. Took me about 17 hours to collect every last thingamajig as I was quite meticulous in getting them all on the first pass, only to find the reward for rolling credits was an upgrade that lets you see hidden collectables. Oh well! Definitely a fun one for fans of novelty control schemes and classic collectathons.

Timespinner! I sat down to play this on Sunday morning and finished it - for the second time - shortly before midnight. A surprisingly compelling Metroidvania, with emphasis on the vania - this game is so much a love-letter to Symphony and Ecclesia that I can quote my Bloodstained review verbatim - "more of that familiar Castlevania flavour you love and remember". The menus are practically line-for-line identical in places, right down to a relics menu with toggles that are totally unnecessary, even being used for key items you'd never reasonably toggle off. The backgrounds and music are extremely familiar in places, as are certain layout setups. The character art reminds me more of Chrono Trigger though, another pixelated time-travel adventure. However, it tells a relatively simple story for a temporal one, two time periods 1000 years apart, with sci-fi elements in one and fantasy in the other, but both having magic and empires, and you're on a revenge quest to stop the Evil Empire from murdering your clan and stealing your time machine. Essentially, it just means there's two maps which are fundamentally the same layout but with different tilesets - not quite a direct parallel to the inverted castle of SotN but very close. A supposedly key mechanic is the ability to stop time, but it's rarely used except to briefly turn enemies into platforms, and I had no problem barely using it against bosses or in combat generally. Even the charged-up spells with a dedicated button are largely insignificant compared to your basic elemental attacks. The game seems to have a lot of cruft left over from emulating other games. Otherwise, it's a good game - good enough I was happy to throw on NG+ immediately after finishing it and speedrun it through to see the alternate ending I was locked out of the first time around, and ended up having 100% achievements in just under 11 hours. It's definitely not my favourite Metroidvania ever, but it's worth a spin? I'd place it above Axiom Verge and Gato Roboto, about on par with Bloodstained, but below Ori and the Blind Forest and Hollow Knight. That said, it's mostly just made me keen to pick up The Messenger, another retro-throwback-time-travel adventure inspired by a classic franchise.

Katana Zero! Barely 30 minutes into this one. Room-clearing murder-puzzles, like a side-on Hotline Miami as a lethal samurai with precognition. Made by Askiisoft, creators of the wonderful Tower of Heaven and Pause Ahead, and featuring a video-like rewind aesthetic to the latter. More on this once I've bested it.

That's all for now, besides Fall Guys (35 crowns and counting, although I've stopped until Season 3), and I'm still intermittently playing Warframe and Ring Fit Adventure.

Re: What games are you playing?

Posted: 08 Dec 2020, 13:14
by Ashan
ano0maly wrote: 3 years agoIf I'm reading the nurse one correctly,

you get a subtank after the 6th time,

but it does keep looping after that point.
Dammit I'm pretty sure I stopped on the 6th time because I was getting dialogue I had seen before! Guess I'll go and complete that one before moving on. What a tedious mission for something as unique as a subtank though. I was almost certain anything that boring would have been put in just as a way to farm e-crystals.
ano0maly wrote: 3 years ago Also don't forget about the

Omega

fight - it gives you

an item that becomes Model O after you clear the main game

. This helps a lot if you want to clean up any remaining quests afterwards.
Yeah I went out of my way to fight the Zero 3 and 4 bosses once I found area N cause I was hoping I could do that before beating the main game but I guess not :P

Re: What games are you playing?

Posted: 09 Dec 2020, 01:36
by Ashan
Finished off Mega Man ZX! Managed to get through the final level on my first attempt with the help of my 3 subtanks and a decent amount of health farming in between boss fights.

I don't know what it is with the boss fights in this game but I just never got the hang of them. The play style of each of the forms was too radically different from how Zero controls, and if there were boss weaknesses I couldn't find them (for most bosses I'd cycle through all the forms and try their charge attack and nothing did more damage than my regular attacks), so I was almost exclusively using ZX form for most of the game, and occasionally switching to Harpuia mode for platforming.

I also fought Omega even though I found out after I didn't really need to because I did the Zero 3/4 fights (I thought you had to do both). I still have no idea how to fight him other than try to jump over him and hope he doesn't just spam heal. I actually had to kill him twice because they pull a really cute move where after beating him you have to redo the set of yoku blocks you used to get there, but in reverse. So I killed him on my first life, then blew the remaining lives on the first screen of reverse yoku platforming. After cursing out the game for a bit, I did a few trips to that section to practice doing it in reverse (and by doing it in reverse I mean getting as far as a block where I could dash jump, air-dash, then hover-fall with HX form to get back to the other side) and once I got somewhat consistent I beat him a second time (after another failed attempt where he just spam healed) and made it across the spike pit.

I'm thinking I might look into what sidequests I have left before moving onto ZX Advent

Re: What games are you playing?

Posted: 09 Dec 2020, 01:38
by raekuul
I've picked up Lunar Knights again (anything to not play through Disgaea, I guess), and I'm currently invading Santa Cecilia Station. Man I forgot how fun this game is.

I'm also keeping up with this year's Zelda 3 Festive Randomizer - this year they're running an Advent CalenDOOR Randomizer - come back each day for a new passcode for a new mini-dungeon. Dungeon Goals are, in no particular order: beat the boss, open all chests, find the Hint Tile. For each day, complete all three dungeon goals and read the Ped Text (the Ped Pull is always the Book of Literacy, so it's not like you have to hunt it down or anything)

@Ashan: Congratulations! I always preferred ZX over ZX Advent, though that's at least in part because ZXA isn't as Metroidvania-y as ZX is.

Re: What games are you playing?

Posted: 09 Dec 2020, 08:49
by Crow
finally finished steins gate zero, which was not very good and i would not have finished were i not so stubborn. bleh. super unsatisfying ending too!

Re: What games are you playing?

Posted: 11 Dec 2020, 23:49
by Bean
Will I ever start the new Hyrule Warriors game? Who knows? In the meantime, it's back to Animal Crossing: New Horizons & Fire Emblem Heroes for that quick play experience I want at the moment.

Re: What games are you playing?

Posted: 12 Dec 2020, 00:53
by thatguyif
Bean wrote: 3 years ago In the meantime, it's back to Animal Crossing: New Horizons & Fire Emblem Heroes for that quick play experience I want at the moment.
How far are you in the former? I just cleared all my debts. All that's left now is collection and the gold items...

Re: What games are you playing?

Posted: 12 Dec 2020, 14:10
by Bean
I paid off my last loan sometime back in the spring. At this point, I'm just going for the rest of the songs, some stuff for the museum, a few new villager photos, and probably until the game hits its anniversary unless they keep updating beyond that.

Re: What games are you playing?

Posted: 12 Dec 2020, 22:08
by Ashan
I was originally gonna just complete all the optional missions to say I was done with Mega Man ZX but once I got into the swing of things I kinda ended up going all out and completed it 100%. Did all the optional missions, got all the equippable chips, all data disks, all usable items (E-tank, apple, cake, bread, etc.), unlocked the one arcade game you need to beat a high score to unlock, and got all the level 4 clear trophies for the pseudoroids.

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Level 4 clears weren't that bad for the most part, though I'm playing on normal which definitely helps. I got the first 4 of them by accident just in my regular playing even though I didn't know how the rankings worked and had to look it up. The only ones that took a few attempts were Flammole because he's mostly arms which you aren't allowed to hit, and Fistleo which was kinda nonsense because the game seems to think every part of his body is his head. I eventually finished him with a strategy where I would just charge a shot with Model OX and only shoot him when he does a high jump into the air and is falling, and also sometimes when he does the weird appearing/disappearing balls because he holds his arm out which blocks his head.

Re: What games are you playing?

Posted: 13 Dec 2020, 02:11
by Crow
started indivisible, so far it's pretty fun! the platforming is more serious than i was expecting and i dig it, the combat's pretty dang cool too, tho i'm worried it might get too hard for me later

Re: What games are you playing?

Posted: 13 Dec 2020, 14:28
by Argumentable
I need to finish Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin and Murder by Numbers. I sprinkle a little Hades in there, too. Every controller I have for my switch sucks though and I asked for some new ones for Christmas so I guess I need to pick something for the PS4 from my massive backlog

Re: What games are you playing?

Posted: 14 Dec 2020, 04:11
by Ashan
About 2.5 hours into ZX Advent, just got to the part where you first meet up with the Sage Trinity or whatever they're called.

I'm feeling a little lukewarm with this game so far. The voice acting was the first bad sign, I didn't even remember this game had voice acting when I started it up. I sat through the title screen intro which is just the intro for Grey and thought "oh boy how is this guy voicing the lead character?" But when it came to choosing the character I went with Ashe because her story is more of a direct continuation of Vent's story from the first game, whatever that means (ATMM was a while ago now). Her voice is at least a little more tolerable but still not very good. And some of the side characters are hard to listen to as well, like the new chosen one for Model F whose name I don't remember. Though there is a few people who I think did an okay job, like Albert.

My other issue with the game is the saving system is kind of convoluted and annoying. I don't know why they changed it in the first place cause it worked find in the first ZX. Now transervers are much more rare but basically every sub-level has a check point you can pay to activate. But the thing is, they're one-way so you can teleport to them from one of the very few transervers, but then you're kinda just stuck there until you find your way back to a transerver. Which means there's lot of redoing levels because you wanted to go back for one thing. There's also little teleport pads that look like transervers but they just teleport you to a specific place somewhere else. And then there's also this train that you can take from the main base but it's only one way, and if you want to go back you have to pay some random guy to teleport you back there, or run through a bunch of level to get back to an actual transerver and then you can teleport anywhere. I don't know why they had to make this stuff all so convoluted, but it means I'm saving way less, so there's more stressful gameplay where I'm like "i haven't saved in like 30 minutes so if I game over I have to do this all again and try to remember where all the collectibles I got were." I had an incident pretty early on where the game finally opened up so I went exploring in the hub, did a mini-game that won me some money, then accidentally went through some door that triggered an event where the door locked behind me until I continued through the whole level and killed the boss. I ended up getting to the boss on my last life and game over-ing, so I had to go do that dumb mini-game again cause the dumb saving system.

That was a bit rambly but eh, whatever. I'm mostly having fun.

Re: What games are you playing?

Posted: 15 Dec 2020, 03:47
by KobaBeach
Out of the Wolvesmouth cave in Legend of Heroes, chapter 5: The Alluring Tower of Light. Heading to Corks to meet up with Gale's old acquaintance Hans (pretty sure Gale hates him though).

Also at Episode 02: Yummy Poison Fly in Sengoku TURB. Currently grinding Jino-chan's stats by eating Fairy Tainyans.

Re: What games are you playing?

Posted: 15 Dec 2020, 16:55
by Crow
Cyril wrote: 3 years ago started indivisible, so far it's pretty fun! the platforming is more serious than i was expecting and i dig it, the combat's pretty dang cool too, tho i'm worried it might get too hard for me later
update: the combat has gotten easier, i feel like i am way less at risk of dying now (probably like halfway-ish through the game?) than i was during the earlier areas of the game

Re: What games are you playing?

Posted: 15 Dec 2020, 20:21
by thatguyif
I guess I'm halfway through my Fall Fiesta run. While I'll admit that I'm playing the PSP version, which has some (though not many) QOL improvements from the original NES version, the game is easier than a lot of people say it is. Granted, I've been grinding a bit more than what I'm probably expected to, and my team benefits from having some black magic spells (I can't imagine what it'd be like playing this with an all-physical team or only a White Mage/Wizard). But still, the game has had this notoriety for being difficult, and I only had one party wipe in the game so far (which was rather early on).

In any case, the game has a bit more of an open-ended feel than I anticipated. Like, the game is highly flexible in terms of your direction once you get the airship (which is the point I'm at right now). You could go after one or the other crystal, or you can go for the class change (or not). You could even get the airship sooner (like after you beat Lich). This I hadn't anticipated from an 8-bit JRPG. There's a definitive distinction between FF and its then-external rival DQ in how it handles play styles, which is interesting.

Re: What games are you playing?

Posted: 15 Dec 2020, 23:04
by BurntTenda
I've played up to Chapter 8 of the FF7 Remake. I really enjoy it so far.

I've also played through most of the main story of Horizon Zero Dawn. It's fun.
The DLC has certainly been a difficulty spike.

Re: What games are you playing?

Posted: 16 Dec 2020, 05:54
by PSI Ninja
BurntTenda wrote: 3 years ago I've also played through most of the main story of Horizon Zero Dawn. It's fun.
The DLC has certainly been a difficulty spike.
Hey, I actually beat this game earlier this year. I finally bought a PS4 this March and it was bundled with a physical copy of The Last of Us Remastered, and download codes for God of War and Horizon Zero Dawn. I decided on a whim to play Horizon first. I was hooked right away. The story was compelling and always made me want to play a bit longer each night just to see what would happen next. The gameplay was super fun too. It always felt satisfying to take down the machines, and to try to find the optimal weapon and armor builds for Aloy to destroy them more effectively. Yeah, the machines exclusive to The Frozen Wilds DLC are a lot meaner and more aggressive, so I had to change my combat strategies to avoid expending too many resources. Overall, the game felt like a cross between Breath of the Wild and The Elder Scrolls, with the open world exploration, having to gather resources, and crafting ammo. It's also one of those games where you start out really weak and feeble, but become godlike towards the end. It took me about 60 hours to 100% the main game, plus 20 or so hours for the DLC.

Horizon is only the second game I cared to Platinum (along with Rayman Origins). It wasn't too much trouble because the trophies are mostly progression-based, so it'll come almost naturally if you try to finish all of the missions. Also, there aren't many annoying achievements that are too grindy or have arbitrary requirements, unlike some other games. I'm glad that I played this game - I probably never would have given it a chance if it didn't come bundled with my PS4. I can't wait for the sequel, Horizon Forbidden West, to come out next year. Thank goodness it'll also be released on the PS4, so that I don't need to throw down another couple hundred on a PS5 just yet.

Re: What games are you playing?

Posted: 16 Dec 2020, 07:23
by BurntTenda
Oh wow I had no idea Forbidden West will be on PS4. That's also good for me.
Yeah, I wouldn't have played this without PSNow.
I love the world of it, I absolutely want to know more

Re: What games are you playing?

Posted: 16 Dec 2020, 10:38
by KobaBeach
thatguyif wrote: 3 years ago In any case, the game has a bit more of an open-ended feel than I anticipated. Like, the game is highly flexible in terms of your direction once you get the airship (which is the point I'm at right now). You could go after one or the other crystal, or you can go for the class change (or not). You could even get the airship sooner (like after you beat Lich). This I hadn't anticipated from an 8-bit JRPG. There's a definitive distinction between FF and its then-external rival DQ in how it handles play styles, which is interesting.
Dragon Quest 1 is also pretty open considering it takes a lot of inspiration from Ultima, but Dragon Quest 2 made it a lot more linear.
Final Fantasy 2 on the other hand goes all the way in the other direction and lets you walk straight into game over level enemy areas right out of Altair if you're lost enough. I have not replayed FF3 enough to remember how it handled it, but I think it was more linear.