The last game you beat,did you like it and what are you playing next?

The other day I finished Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack! which was pretty fun. Not particularly difficult but if you want to rescue all of the friends then there's some tricky platforming that needs to be done.

Now I'm playing Beyond the Beyond, also known as one of the worst JRPGS of all time, if not THE worst. I have a bit of a thing for playing bad games sometimes. A few hours in now and I have to say, as is the case with what seems like 99% of RPGs from the PS1 era, save states help the game out a lot. Still have to deal with a huge random encounter rate, for instance, but knowing you can save state before you try to run away so that you can basically get away 100% of the time makes the game bearable. Having Samson cursed for 90% of the game is still a god awful idea, though.

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Originally Posted by monroeski

A few hours in now and I have to say, as is the case with what seems like 99% of RPGs from the PS1 era, save states help the game out a lot. Still have to deal with a huge random encounter rate, for instance, but knowing you can save state before you try to run away so that you can basically get away 100% of the time makes the game bearable.

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Save state.... emulator?

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Originally Posted by James

Save state.... emulator?

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Yup. I rip all my PS1 discs these days and play them in ePSXe. Still have an old PS2 to USB converter so I'm playing them with an actual dual shock.

Finished Black Ops 2 and Ghost recently. Not bad stories actually. It's still CoD no surprise as to what the campaigns are like. Currently working on AC IV, Dead Rising 3, and NFS Rivals (all xbox one). Just like CoD these games we all know and have all played or seen at least one in the series. Outside of graphics there is nothing different about the games. About halfway through Sleeping Dogs. Outside of some clunky controls and fairly unresponsive fighting controls, the game is really really good. I shall not even start on the 50+ games on the backlog on the comp.

Finished Dead Space 3. I did not like it. The only thing that kept me going was sharing in the ridiculousness and absurdity with a friend the whole way through.

Next up: Thief!

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Originally Posted by Kamakazie

Next up: Thief!

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Picked Thief up Tuesday, fully expecting to start a new thread on these forums with a full review. Suffice to say that the game fails on every level for me. I may write more later, but I'm too disappointed to get into it all right now. :(

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Picked Thief up Tuesday, fully expecting to start a new thread on these forums with a full review. Suffice to say that the game fails on every level for me. I may write more later, but I'm too disappointed to get into it all right now. :(

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I'm interested to hear your review because I don't think the game is bad. It's certainly not classic Thief and the City layout/navigation is HORRIBLE, but the missions are fun to play.

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Picked Thief up Tuesday, fully expecting to start a new thread on these forums with a full review. Suffice to say that the game fails on every level for me. I may write more later, but I'm too disappointed to get into it all right now. :(

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That game doesn't even look slightly interesting to me.

CTRL ALT DEL's take on the controls of Thief applied to a more open world sandbox game

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CTRL ALT DEL's take on the controls of Thief applied to a more open world sandbox game

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Isn't that AC4?

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Isn't that AC4?

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That is AC4.

So I'm still working through Bravely Default. It isn't the second coming of sliced bread but it is pretty good. I really enjoy the job system and the story is decent enough. I plan on selling the second i'm finished with it though.

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That is AC4.

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And that's why I'm never in the loop with current games. ;)

Finished playing through Castle Crashers a few times, unlocked a bunch of characters and all of the animals & weapons.

Now playing Loadout, the occasional bit of Castle crashers (to unlock even more characters), and not much else.

Beaten Ghosts, Crysis, and Crysis 3. Already played Crysis 2 a few years back. Those games were all okay. Nothing special. I'm about 35+ hours into Farm Simulator right now. Not sure why it's so good. The controls are bad, the tractors drive like crap, and the graphics aren't that great. But there's just something about planting and harvesting crops that's fun. Probably cause I grew up in, on, and around farm lands. Guess it brings back memories of riding tractors and combines. Anyway, time to go plant my seed! Hehe!

Finished Farming Simulator. By finished I mean I got 1000/1000 GS. There's not really an ending to the game per se. Opinion hasn't changed. It still has bad physics but was still fun to play up until I decided to stop. I do recommend it if you can get it cheap and want something that's a little more laid back and relaxing to play. I hear the PC version has a ton of mods that make it even more fun.

Playing Driver San Fran now. Didn't really expect the twist that came with this game but it's pretty cool. I'm not all that much into arcade driving games but this one is different enough that I'm enjoying it quite a bit.

Been going really JRPG heavy lately for some reason. Started playing Final Fantasy XIII after a 3 year hiatus for whatever reason, started up Tales of Vesperia recently, and have been playing South Park: The Stick of Truth since before I started either of the previous two.

Let me know what you think of FF13: Hallway Adventure. I thought it was okay and I have XIII-2 that I need to play.

I found SP:SoT HILARIOUS. Gameplay is a mix of great and meh. They have a lot of fantastic ideas but with Obsidian reputation for shotty implementation. Expect some game mechanics to not make any sense or be clear. Also, alot the game balancing is broken, and its really easily to steam roll through all the fights about 2 hours into the game.

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Let me know what you think of FF13: Hallway Adventure. I thought it was okay and I have XIII-2 that I need to play.

I found SP:SoT HILARIOUS. Gameplay is a mix of great and meh. They have a lot of fantastic ideas but with Obsidian reputation for shotty implementation. Expect some game mechanics to not make any sense or be clear. Also, alot the game balancing is broken, and its really easily to steam roll through all the fights about 2 hours into the game.

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When I stopped playing FFXIII years ago it was less than an hour before the point at which the game opens up, so I'm there now. Didn't take too long to remember how the battle system works, though I lost my first battle because I couldn't remember anything and didn't even look at my paradigms beforehand. Nice to be able to pick my own party now. It feels kind of like they were trying to start the game with an FFVII-style "get out of Midgar" moment but in FFXIII it just takes so loooooooooong to get there.

I heard about the SP balancing thing beforehand, so I started the game on the hardest difficulty, which I hear is still not even all that hard. Kind of wanted to go Mage but I heard that was the most OP class so I went with fighter instead. Think I'm just under 2 hours in but I've enjoyed it a lot thus far.

Beat Thief, somewhat enjoyed it once I got over the fact that it was much different than its predecessors. I was ready for it to be over long before it ended.

Now playing Dark Souls 2 and loving it. I like how they kept the core gameplay of the first game but changed the feel slightly. Because more DS games are slated for the near future, I'm slightly worried about the designers' penchant for throwing groups of mobs at you at once... the series is great because of its difficulty via design rather than just increasing the numbers of enemies. This isn't H&S, Diablo-style. :p

Took a break from Driver and beat CoD BlOps 2. I rather enjoyed the strike missions. The rest of the game was pretty much standard CoD. My son likes it too. He plays the crap out of Zombies though. Checking through my friends list on the leaderboard he has demolished more zombies than just about the lot of you put together. I think I need to rethink what he does with his free time. Ha!

Back to Driver now I suppose.

Didn't realize it had been almost two months since anybody posted in this thread.

Started playing Ace Combat: Infinity (f2p on PS3) and Persona 2: Innocent Sin (english patched image on an emulator) in the last few days. Both seem pretty fun so far but I've only put in maybe an hour on each.

I've burned through recently:

Shadowrun Returns: Dragonfall
South Park: Stick of Truth

As for what's next, I've never really played Skyrim, Farcry3, or Tomb Raider, despite owning them. Probably should get through at least one triple A title before I go back to my quest to clear the entire universe in SPAZ.

Lately I've been playing Mario Golf World Tour, Mario Kart 8, and Smite. As far as I'm concerned, none of those games can ever be truly "beaten", so I have nothing new to report at this time. ^_^

Watch Dogs
8.0/10

+Voyeur the game
+Night GFX are amazing

-Daytime GFX are terrible
-Performance issues

Taken on its own without the hype Watch Dogs is a fun game. I hear a lot of people saying they don't like the driving but I don't agree, I think the driving is great. The story is decent enough and it has a lot to do. I would say buy it at <$30. I don't regret buying it for essentially $38, for $60 though, I dunno about all that.

Just beat Gone Home

It's not really a game, but rather an interactive story telling experience. The story aspect is really well done and the spooky atmosphere made me dread what "I thought" the ending was leading too. All in all a pretty solid experience although I would not pay more than a few bucks for this.