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Post by mln59 on Sept 10, 2024 20:08:27 GMT -5
demon's souls
made to the boss flamelurker tonight. zero hits on 4 attempts. didn't feel like boss grinding this evening so i'll get to him later
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Post by Wolfgang on Sept 10, 2024 23:15:14 GMT -5
Rage 2
I encountered one of those dreaded main missions which are often found in video games where the mission is so difficult, people fail repeatedly and can't advance the story. And they're stuck. Almost always, there's always one that make people rage quit.
In this game, in order to get "an audience" with a key character -- and hence advance the main story -- I have to prove myself by winning two contests:
1. a car race, and 2. a mutant bash tournament (you have to kill mutants) where you have to go through 4 different arenas, each containing 2-3 rounds where you have to kill waves of mutants coming at you.
I had the toughest time with the car race. So, I dropped the difficulty level down to EASY and, after 3 tries, I finally won a race. The keys: Go slower than normal on tight turns, boost at straight-aways, take shortcut routes (there are several of them in the track), bump some cars off the track, and NEVER NEVER lose control of your car. My biggest thing was I would lose control of my car because I was going so fast. I thought I was doomed in this game and stuck on this mission indefinitely and unable to advance the story. Whew!!!
I didn't have any major problems with the mutant bash tournament although at times I was low on health. I was able to do this on NORMAL difficulty.
Glad that's over.
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Post by Wolfgang on Sept 12, 2024 14:32:29 GMT -5
Well, I've now gone past the oversaturation stage of game sampling. My buddy has more PS4 games in his library (e.g., various sports games, Persona 5 Royal, Valkyrie Chronicles, a bunch of Call of Duty games) but I'm kinda exhausted. I'm sampling my last game -- for now -- and that is Death Stranding.
A short list of all the games I've sampled and decided they were "worth it" to buy (or want to buy in the near future when it's on sale):
Rage 2 -- Already bought it. I've put in almost 20 hours and it's still rich in detail and complexity. The fun factor is off the scale. Watch Dogs: Legion -- It's currently on sale for $8.99 from the PS Store. Tiny Tina's Wonderlands Ghost of Tsushima Days Gone Outer Wilds No Man's Sky Death Stranding (pending...I'll play it this week) Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
Some other games I want to get but have not sampled (because my friend doesn't own them): Horizon Forbidden West Fallout 4 Fallout New Vegas -- This game seems to have a loyal "cult" following. From what I can gather, the game has a lot of bizarre stuff (intentional and unintentional) that makes the game extremely interesting. Mark of the Ninja Superhot Kentucky Route Zero Assassin's Creed Unity -- A lot of great reviews by critics and players alike in recent years. It's considered one of those overlooked great games because it was filled with bugs on its initial release. But all the main bugs have been fixed by now.
On top of it all, I'm still playing Metro Exodus!!!
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Post by mikegarrison on Sept 12, 2024 14:35:03 GMT -5
Persona 5 and Valkyrie Chronicles are a couple of games I might like to try sometime, when my current game backlog is not so high.
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Post by Wolfgang on Sept 12, 2024 14:57:51 GMT -5
Persona 5 and Valkyrie Chronicles are a couple of games I might like to try sometime, when my current game backlog is not so high. I have a backlog, too. But it's not formidable. Let's see, the following are games I bought (and own) and I've either started them (but stopped) or haven't started them: Prey Shadow of the Tomb Raider -- I got bored because unlike previous Tomb Raider games, it didn't have a lot of action. God of War -- I couldn't get into it. Stopped halfway (or the point where the two main characters started carrying around that talking head). Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt -- I couldn't get into it. Stopped 15% (I think) of the way in. Metal Gear Solid 5: The Definitive Edition -- Not impressed. Weird West Battlefield 1 -- Almost done. In fact, I was at the penultimate mission. Then, lost the desire to continue. Control -- I lost interest. Far Cry 5 -- I can't remember why I stopped. Maybe I got bored. I'm very proud of myself for recently completing two games in my backlog: Inside -- I always enjoyed it even when I stopped playing but the creepy unsettling nature of the game kept me away. Glad I finished it because it really is a good game. Metro Last Light -- When the end credits appeared and started to scroll, I almost teared up -- not because of the story but because I finally finished this game.
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Post by mikegarrison on Sept 12, 2024 15:03:53 GMT -5
Shadow of the Tomb Raider -- I got bored because unlike previous Tomb Raider games, it didn't have a lot of action. Far Cry 5 -- I can't remember why I stopped. Maybe I got bored. SotTR -- widely considered to be a problematic game FC5 -- I rage-quit it over the "pull you out of the open world over and over again to force you to fight the Seed children" mechanic.
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Post by Wolfgang on Sept 12, 2024 15:13:31 GMT -5
Shadow of the Tomb Raider -- I got bored because unlike previous Tomb Raider games, it didn't have a lot of action. Far Cry 5 -- I can't remember why I stopped. Maybe I got bored. SotTR -- widely considered to be a problematic game FC5 -- I rage-quit it over the "pull you out of the open world over and over again to force you to fight the Seed children" mechanic. When I was playing Shadow of Mordor for the first time, I got really confused and frustrated. In the middle of a mission (any mission), one or more bosses would come in and interfere with my mission. It was very annoying. I thought maybe it was a bug of some sort. I mean, not just one boss but sometimes multiple bosses came in to get my attention. All the while, I couldn't even do my mission because of this interference. Then, I learned that this was part of the game. I had to learn the "language" of the game, so to speak. I also learned how to kill these specific bosses because they all had a weakness of some sort (e.g., stealth, arrow to the head, fire) but this meant I should take the time to gather intel on all the bosses on the Nemesis heirarchy (i.e., it's a pyramid-like organizational chart showing the top bosses on top and the weakest bosses on the bottom and every other boss in between). After that, it became fun.
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Post by kro2488 on Sept 12, 2024 20:43:15 GMT -5
Top Spin 2k25 is really good. Any tennis fans on here should try it out
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Post by Wolfgang on Sept 12, 2024 21:39:00 GMT -5
Metro Exodus
I made it to the Caspian Sea area. Our train is out of fuel (coal) and low on water. Therefore, we need to find fuel and water. If we can't find fuel, we have to use wood, dry vegetation, and other flammable things. We can craft all sorts of things for our weapons and gear but not fuel.
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Post by Wolfgang on Sept 12, 2024 23:02:22 GMT -5
Death Stranding
Installed. I'll fire it up later tonight. Is it just a glorified walking simulator? Will I get bored?
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Post by mikegarrison on Sept 14, 2024 0:59:01 GMT -5
Well, I finished a complete playthrough of BG3.
I have a bunch of other saves that are close to being finished, but each time either the game was patched or I got the urge to make a different build or something like that. But this time I finally pushed through all three bosses and then the final battle and final boss.
The game now has an interesting little epilogue (known as "the party") where your surviving companions get back together again six months later. (It didn't have this at first release.) One of them has become a god. Another one is leading a rebellion in the Astral Plane. One is living in a little farmhouse in the country. Another is hunting demons and devils in hell. Etc.
Because you can change the outcome of many of their stories, I think there are many, many possible variations of the party.
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Post by Wolfgang on Sept 14, 2024 11:51:57 GMT -5
Death Stranding
Just in the prologue alone (which serves as the intro to the story and the gameplay tutorial), there were two lengthy cutscenes -- and I mean incredibly long cutscenes. They were so long I actually put my controller down. I think the longest I've ever encountered before this game was one at the beginning of Yakuza 0. You're just basically sitting there in front of your monitor and watching a movie.
The game has a supernatural element to it. Well, it's either supernatural or extraterrestrial. Still too early so I couldn't tell. So, that was unexpected. I think it's just a way for the game to give the user some sort of external conflict to manage during the package delivery walks.
The game is also a lot more complicated than expected. I just figured I'd be walking to deliver packages all over the place. But there's more to it. It generates a lot of stats. I can't tell whether these are stats with gameplay consequence (and that I would have to be mindful of) or just merely passive stats (which has no real gameplay consequence; just the game's way of saying "FYI"). I don't really understand most of it simply because it's all overwhelming this early in the game.
I'm now in the first episode and have to deliver a package to the President.
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Post by Wolfgang on Sept 14, 2024 14:02:07 GMT -5
Rage 2
The Icarus hovercraft reminds me of the cargo drone in Watch Dogs Legion. Just a fantastic way to get around the map (if you don't want to use the fast travel feature). Just get on the Icarus, fly quickly to a bandit camp, kill all the bandits, repeat.
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Post by manyshaped on Sept 15, 2024 14:31:13 GMT -5
Top Spin 2k25 is really good. Any tennis fans on here should try it out i had to turn off crossplay for the online world tour...was getting wrecked by non PS5 players. but it really is fun! i'm thinking about getting tiebreak as well
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Post by manyshaped on Sept 15, 2024 14:32:06 GMT -5
i'm starting black myth wukong...wish me luck
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