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Post by SmashTV on Feb 22, 2021 13:36:49 GMT -5
Red Dead Redemption 2 - assuming you accept finishing the main storyline and epilogue as completing it and not necessarily all the challenges.
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agent817
Fry's dog Seymour
Doesn't Know Whose Ring It Is
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Post by agent817 on Mar 3, 2021 20:27:53 GMT -5
6. inFAMOUS
I went the route where I played as the good guy. I might go through it again with the evil route soon, but not this soon as I am thinking of doing inFAMOUS 2 next.
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Post by sarkerpolseng on Mar 3, 2021 21:12:58 GMT -5
I beat the hell out of Hitman 3. Beat all the levels, several times, several ways.
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agent817
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Post by agent817 on Mar 5, 2021 19:45:07 GMT -5
7. Dead to Rights: Retribution
As someone who loved the original game from 2002, I will note that the game hasn't aged well. Yet, there is a feeling of nostalgia when it comes up, as well as acknowledging all of the problems it had. But for some reason I had an itch to finally try out this version, even though I had heard mixed reviews about it, especially with some saying that it is average at best.
Usually when it comes to the write-ups of video games I don't give reviews, but all I can say is that I felt that this was fun for what it was. Yes, it was a lot grittier than the original and the story was a little easier to follow than the original.
I will note that I ordered it on Amazon and when it came last week, I played a bit of it but clearly was a bit buggy due to the damage of the disc. I ended up sending that one back but I also reordered another copy which team rather recently and worked much better.
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Post by aka Cthulhu on Mar 6, 2021 11:19:25 GMT -5
Finally, I beat Diablo 2! Like for the first time ever.
Back when I was in high school, I didn't have a PC with enough speed and space to play the game, and a lot of other PC games for that matter... so like many high schoolers back then, I went to internet cafes and played the game there. I remember going as far as Act 3, but nothing beyond that.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2021 22:29:01 GMT -5
15. Persona 5 Royal
Was doing a New Game Plus run, my third full run through of Persona 5 - did one in vanilla and a previous one in Royal, plus a New Game Plus run in vanilla that stalled out near the end because Royal was impending anyway. Feel like by now I've kind of done everything there is to do in the game - beat the bonus bosses, had enough free time devoted to working out that by the end of the game I had 999 HP and like 830 SP, compendium's maxed out with a pretty damn reliable team a bunch of which have maxed out stats - so I can see it being a long time before I really want to play it again, but still definitely will at some point, pretty in love with it.
Left me kind of conflicted at the end, wanting more of this experience and this cast but also kind of glad to be done with what a huge timesink it is. I'll probably get to focusing in on Strikers soon given it's a nice way to address both those issues, being more of the crew but also way shorter, but for the time being my main focus is on Xenoblade 2.
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legendkiller1985
Don Corleone
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Post by legendkiller1985 on Mar 11, 2021 0:21:08 GMT -5
I've been breaking out the NES classic a lot lately and recently beat the original 3 Super Mario Brothers games on there and beat some added games like The TMNT Games, Ghostbusters 1 & 2, The Adventures of Bayou Billy, and Mike Tyson's Punch-Out.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Mar 11, 2021 7:35:35 GMT -5
More snes games beaten.
3. Tetris Battle Gaiden - Fun superpowers and Tetris. Evil Queen dethroned 4. Aladdin - Platforming fun from Capcom, not as hard as I thought it might be. Jafar is stuck in the lamp.
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agent817
Fry's dog Seymour
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Post by agent817 on Mar 15, 2021 23:34:55 GMT -5
8. inFAMOUS: Second Son
I was also doing inFAMOUS 2, but then I got more into this. This game was shorter than the previous two (I still haven't finished the second game, but I am still playing it). I liked it, but there were still some issues with it, especially with it being a launch title. I also started inFAMOUS: First Light. I think I will buy Festival of Blood after I complete the second game, even though I heard that game isn't canon.
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agent817
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Post by agent817 on Mar 17, 2021 21:31:59 GMT -5
9. inFAMOUS 2
For all of its great gameplay and stuff, the story really got me sucked in. And that ending, especially with the Good Karma, it was so moving. Now I might get back to playing "inFAMOUS: First Light," and then I might try out "inFAMOUS: Festival of Blood." The only difference between the two is that First Light is actually tied to the canon, but still, I might buy Festival of Blood as it's really cheap these days.
I might also start playing Tomb Raider games soon. Not sure where to start, especially since I'm considering restarting Anniversary since it's been about six months since I last played it. I might give Legend another go and then move onto Underworld, or even the 2010s series. But I also bought the original series, but not The Angel of Darkness, which I heard has problems.
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agent817
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Post by agent817 on Mar 23, 2021 0:07:58 GMT -5
10. inFAMOUS: First Light
I still may buy Festival of Blood, even though that is not canon to the series. Anyway, I beat the story, but I might go back and do the training bits, especially survival mode (and since I have Second Son, I can do the parts with Delsin as well). Maybe next time I go through the story, I will play this before Second Son as this was set before, even though you play as a different character.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Mar 23, 2021 6:17:39 GMT -5
5. Limbo - (again) 6. Spider-Man (PS4) went back and finished up the story, was a lot of fun.
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The Ichi
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Post by The Ichi on Mar 25, 2021 21:09:17 GMT -5
3. Doom (1993)
First time too (wasn't allowed to play this as a kid lol) Probably going to do the whole series.
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Post by häšhtå.gdālėÿ on Mar 27, 2021 17:31:31 GMT -5
Month 3, and I finally got game 2.
Assassins Creed Valhalla. Nearly 100 hours into the game before I decided to finish out the main story. Post-story I’ve found legendary god weapons, so I’m still running around finishing various side-quests and activities and having fun with it. Great game for the most part.
4.5 / 5
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1: CONTROL (PS5) 2: Assassins Creed Valhalla
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2021 5:32:59 GMT -5
16. Xenoblade Chronicles 2
I've had the game for a couple of years but my first attempt to play it stalled out at the end of chapter 2 / start of chapter 3. I'd been thinking about restarting it for awhile and finally got the motivation to when Pyra and Mythra were announced for Smash Bros.
In general wish I'd really gotten into this game so much earlier than I did. I think it makes a very bad first impression and there are a lot of things to dislike about it with a lot of questionable mechanics, but somehow it kind of all adds up together into a really damn good product. I'd made attempts before to get into Xenoblade, both between the previous attempt to play through and a couple of times dabbling with 1, but this time's the time it actually clicked for me and over the course of playing it I picked up the DLC in large part because I want to get to Torna at some point. Probably check out the Switch version of the first game at some point as well, maybe after New Pokemon Snap.
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Mar 29, 2021 1:26:20 GMT -5
Borderland 3.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2021 6:58:49 GMT -5
17. WWE SmackDown: Here Comes the Pain
Been on and off the past couple of days doing a season mode run as Batista, which I just finished up with winning the Rumble and then beating Jericho for the World title at Mania. Was kind of trying to strategically lose at points to avoid the usual problem with HCTP where by the time you're done with a run of it most people's SP has dropped so low that you basically don't have a main event scene anymore, though still had 100 points myself by the end of it.
Had a pretty decent little accidental arc early on where Triple H and Flair challenged for the tag titles, lost, then I won them with Orton. Defended them against HHH and Flair shortly thereafter and retained then offered respect only for them to turn me down and that was basically the end of Evolution. ... Unfortunately nothing really came of it because I never had an actual feud with Triple H besides the one-off thing on one of the UK shows, and after awhile me and Orton just stopped defending the tag titles entirely.
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Post by Ryushinku on Apr 1, 2021 16:21:34 GMT -5
In the past six months, I've got:
Moons of Madness Indie game, scifi Lovecraftian style horror set on Mars. Not that long, Little bit of an abrupt ending, but delivered on the visuals and spooky vibes.
The Persistence Another indie, Event Horizon style roguelike, set on a disabled spaceship and you play as a repeatable clone. Designed for VR, you can tell by the travel method. A good challenge and one of those rare horror games where you can get a good ending with enough hard work.
Tacoma Another scifi indie game, investigating a disaster on a space station through the medium of holographic echoes of the crew. An interesting set of characters and a heartwarmingly satisfying ending with enough work.
Man of Medan Finally got round to this one. Goofy and cliche but had a good time playing, like watching a cheesy 90s supernatural slasher.
Doom Eternal I ripped and tore until it was done. Just as much energetic fun as before with some memorable visuals.
Call of the Sea Indie game, first person puzzler. Lovecraftian vibe again. 1950s style, good level of brainteasers, lovely visuals, not long but just right. Bittersweet yet still sweet. My dear old thing.
Jedi Fallen Order Does the whole Metroidvania thing very well, in terms of progression and balance. Scores best on the writing and character (and humour) front. Excited to see what they do with the sequel.
Call of Cthulhu Lovecratian, original source this time, though an amalgamation of a few stories. Bit janky and the last third or so feels rough and rushed. On the plus side, the story fits the author's work and the early levels score well on the unsettling atmosphere.
The Last Door Chzo Mythos style pixelart horror puzzle game, in eight parts. Not scary but spooky, some puzzles a little obscure, good story and settings and some clear tributes/call-outs to various horror works like The Raven and The Wicker Man and so on. I loved the Chzo Mythos games and this scratched that itch nicely.
Next in line will be one out of either SW Battlefront II's campaign mode, Hitman (2014), Ghostbusters: The Videogame (remaster)or Mundaun. I really dug the atmosphere of that one, seeing it played recently.
And in terms of games that can't be 'finished', I've been playing the hell out of Deep Rock Galactic since around November.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2021 10:26:32 GMT -5
18. Luigi's Mansion
Next time I play this game I need to be sure to play the original version, 3DS one is more convenient but I kind of forget until later in the game just how shit the controls are by comparison.
Either way still a game I have a ton of fondness for. It's short, it's for the most part really easy, but it's very fun to just pick up and play even almost 20 years later.
A funny aside, as a kid I got a Gamecube for Christmas. ... And no games. Shortly thereafter I got Luigi's Mansion... but no memory card. So a lot of my earliest memories of this game are having to start from the beginning every time and having to try and angle to beat the thing without ever dying.
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Apr 2, 2021 18:33:05 GMT -5
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
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