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Booted up Mass Effect for the first time since shortly before 3 came out. This will be my fourth or fifth play through, can't remember exactly. I used to be pretty autistically obsessed with it back in the day. I forgot how well it presents its lore and world building right off the bat, I can see why it sucked me in so much back then. Combat and AI is even worse than I remember it, which is saying something because it was trash even back when it launched. It also looks pretty damn great in 4K with graphics mods. Like, really damn great.

Hoping I can get through the trilogy before classes start. It'll be interesting to see what I think of 3 seven years out.
 
EurocopterTigre said:
I recently picked up FFXIV again to play the new expansion.
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I'm also a current player of FFXIV. Already finished Shadowbringers.
If you haven't completed the story yet, you'll def like it for sure.
Good to see another player for once.
 
A lot of DQ11 lately, just got a bit past the halfway point when the big thing happens. Now that there's new stuff in the Casino I've just been playing poker and double or nothing until I can grab enough of the special gear from the exchange.
 
I'm hitting on Titanfall 2 mostly. Putting myself again through the campaign on a harder difficulty reaching a 100% run, and leveling up my guns on multiplayer.
 
ForgedBlades said:
Booted up Mass Effect for the first time since shortly before 3 came out. This will be my fourth or fifth play through, can't remember exactly. I used to be pretty autistically obsessed with it back in the day. I forgot how well it presents its lore and world building right off the bat, I can see why it sucked me in so much back then. Combat and AI is even worse than I remember it, which is saying something because it was trash even back when it launched. It also looks pretty damn great in 4K with graphics mods. Like, really damn great.

Hoping I can get through the trilogy before classes start. It'll be interesting to see what I think of 3 seven years out.
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God, the first Mass Effect was so good. Even despite the more technical issues, there was clearly a lot of love and passion put into it.
 
Wolfenstein: Youngblood because I am an out and proud, screaming Wolfenstein fanboy and with the exception of the dogshit PS3 reboot there isn't a bad game in that series. For those considering it, it's not like the others in the newer series. It's pacing is a little different and it's a less structured game. It's AMAZING co-op but only really super fun if you're voice chatting with your co-op partner. The single player with AI is awesome too, the AI is actually smart and gets its priorities right. It still has the heart and the story of the others, and the characters are likeable.
 
Return of the Obra Dinn. 2nd time around because I still didn't get the entire plot on the first go, kinda guessed in a few spots.

Goddamn is this game fun. It's a mystery detective game where you uncover the story behind an abandoned ship by the bodies that have been left behind. And given that you have to determine the names and deaths of every person on board, it's a hell of a lot harder than you'd think.
 
Went a little Redbox crazy this weekend and gave three games a try:

Crash Nitro-Fuel Racing

I could never get into the original PS1 game because of the graphics, but that not an issue with this amazing-looking remake. Overall its a fun game, plays well, and is challenging as heck. Minor Quibbles: There are some weird collision issues with some of the tracks, and the AI is a little wonky in spots. Major Quibble: The load times are atrocious. I spent more time mashing buttons to get out of cinematics, forced hints and lootbox notifications than I did playing the actual game. Though I was enjoying the gameplay, I quickly got sick of waiting for shit to load and gave up after the second boss fight.

Rating: 4/10


Spider-Man

Web-slinging is fun. Combat is kinda fun. Feels great and plays well, but gets tedious since there's generally ONE way to kill each category of bad guy. Eventually, combat devolves into remembering which button combination kills which bad guy. The story sucks. Most of the gameplay is collecting shit from around NYC. I played maybe five or six hours and only ended up fighting two Spider-Man villains. Maybe the fun stuff opens up in the second half of the game, but I doubt it.

Rating: 5/10


Starlink: Battle for Atlas

Didn't get very far into this game. It reminded me a lot of Spider-Man in that it seems highly focused on collecting random shit. The story is trash. The characters are trash. The alien and world designs are trash. BUT the combat is super fun, and flying around in a space, going to orbit and doing all the shit No Man's Sky tried and failed to do feels amazing. There is a fun game here underneath all the trash. I don't know if that lasts, but the couple hours I played were fun.

Rating: 8/10
 
I just started up that new PS4 Spider-Man game from Insomniac. It's pretty good. Combat-wise, it continues the Beenox ASM games trend of being a less-good Batman Arkham system but it is better than the Beenox games combat at the very least. The swinging is also improved, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to just climb a wall. Like, the only way I can seem to stick to a wall is by initiating a wall run and waiting for Spider-man to stop moving.
 
Detrogen said:
I just started up that new PS4 Spider-Man game from Insomniac. It's pretty good. Combat-wise, it continues the Beenox ASM games trend of being a less-good Batman Arkham system but it is better than the Beenox games combat at the very least. The swinging is also improved, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to just climb a wall. Like, the only way I can seem to stick to a wall is by initiating a wall run and waiting for Spider-man to stop moving.
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I think it is. Wall-crawling feels like it was an afterthought.
 
Finally progressing in The Messenger after being stuck on a boss for 2 months. I blame autistic HFCS-chugging zoomers on youtube and shit games catering to them for getting stuck. I should have trusted the game to be good (with it being good up to that point as evidence in favor) and looked for a tactical solution.
 
FeverGlitch said:
I'm hitting on Titanfall 2 mostly. Putting myself again through the campaign on a harder difficulty reaching a 100% run, and leveling up my guns on multiplayer.
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TitanFall 2 is the best dollar store purchase I ever made in gaming!

I’m currently working on Yakuza Kiwami 2, Dragon Quest XI and The Bard’s Tale: Remastered and Resnarkled.

Kiwami 2 is awesome, as all Yakuza games, but I’m finding the reused animation rigging from the original Y2 in the in-engine cutscenes distracting with the Dragon Engine models.

DQ XI is just JRPG perfection. I’m 70 hours in and loving it.

The Bard’s Tale is fun and unassuming, and the hitchy screen scrolling is fucking migraine-inducing. (Powerlevel: I suffer from severe migraines, to the point of seeing a neurologist regularly, and some games just fuck me up. I had to get a PS4 Pro to finish Mad Max!)
 
Playing Slay the Spire. Got through with all 3 characters and starting ascensions. Still learning, can at least get through the second round boss consistently but can't beat the whole thing. Still trying out different deck combos and such. It's the kind of game where you say "i'll just play one round before I play x" then get hooked.
 
Was replaying Yakuza 0 on Legend. Fucked up a dodge against a boss, ate tonfa and lost and that's when found out there are no retries on Legend and I have to revert to my last save. About 2 hours of gameplay, where I not only got my first Mr. Shakedown win but I beat two, are gone. So I decided it was best to stop playing for now.
 
The Sims 4 on PS4. I like not having to wait for my game to load and being able to lay on my couch while I play virtual dollies lmao
 
Call of duty 2 (I’m near the end of the British campaign

I started ME 1 but the 360 sperged out on me and started scratching the disk (I didn’t get that far as it stopped mid conversation with Nihlus). I was amused when Kaiden spoke and I realized his VA is the same as Carth “I don’t wanna talk about it” Onasi
 
Far Cry 5 (alternate title Far Cry: The "holy shit when did all these black people move to Montana?" Edition)

Although mechanically it's been essentially the same game since FC3, I'm still enjoying myself but I'm probably only about half way thru. The main baddies aren't as much fun as the villain from FC4 but seem decent enough so far. The writers actually aren't treating all rural American folk as being racist, meth-addled exceptional individuals... so that's a pleasant surprise I guess. This franchise peaked with Blood Dragon, but even the average entries are decent single player sandbox shooters.
 
Notgoodwithusernames said:
Call of duty 2 (I’m near the end of the British campaign

I started ME 1 but the 360 sperged out on me and started scratching the disk (I didn’t get that far as it stopped mid conversation with Nihlus). I was amused when Kaiden spoke and I realized his VA is the same as Carth “I don’t wanna talk about it” Onasi
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Didn't he also play a character in Dragon Age?
 
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