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What Games Have You Completed? (2021 Edition)
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GAME Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
PLATFORM PlayStation 3
Grabbed the HD Trilogy off the store before it inevitably becomes unavailable digitally (cheapest option was on the US store for just a tenner).
I am ashamed at myself for ignoring this series. I had so much fun playing it from start to finish. I am not the biggest advocate for platformers, especially 3D platformers, and this one was so enjoyable.
There were two major aspects within this game that I just had no idea;- Open World
- Seamless Traversal
Zero loading screens. I'd no idea how they done it but I had to know. I ended up watching an episode of DidYouKnowGaming that explains how they managed to do it, on a PS2 game created in 2001 - I was blown away, even 20 years later I still find this very impressive. The gameplay was solid as well. My only gripe was the camera was not willing to play ball at times. But it was a small issue that didn't happen too often.
The animations, the voice acting, the characters - everything was top-drawer stuff (Daxter was a joy to watch)
Managed to do everything in the game - even nabbing myself a Platinum trophy in the process
I am pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed it.
|GAMES BEATEN IN 2021|
#|GAME|PLATFORM|#|GAME|PLATFORM|#|GAME|PLATFORM|#|GAME|PLATFORM
1|RESIDENT EVIL 3|PS4|11|NEOGEO BATTLE COLISEUM|XBOX 360|21|STREET FIGHTER ALPHA 3|PC|31|JAK & DAXTER|PS3
2|ACE COMBAT 7: SKIES UNKNOWN|PS4|12|FATAL FURY (ACA NEOGEO)|PS4|22|STREET FIGHTER 3: NEW GENERATION|PC
3|GRIS|PS4|13|STREET FIGHTER|PC|23|STREET FIGHTER 3: 2ND IMPACT|PC
4|SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD|PS4|14|STREET FIGHTER 2: THE WORLD WARRIOR|PC|24|STREET FIGHTER 3: 3RD STRIKE|PC
5|STREETS OF RAGE 4|SWITCH|15|STREET FIGHTER 2: CHAMPION EDITION|PC|25|SHANK|PC
6|KING OF FIGHTERS '94 (ACA NEOGEO)|PS4|16|STREET FIGHTER 2: HYPER FIGHTING|PC|26|SHANK 2|PC
7|KING OF FIGHTERS '95|PS4|17|SUPER STREET FIGHTER 2: THE NEW CHALLENGERS|PC|27|BLACK MESA|PC
8|KING OF FIGHTERS '96|PS4|18|SUPER STREET FIGHTER 2 TURBO|PC|28|HALF-LIFE 2|PC
9|KING OF FIGHTERS '97: GLOBAL MATCH|PS4|19|STREET FIGHTER ALPHA|PC|29|LITTLE NIGHTMARES 2|XBOX ONE
10|KING OF FIGHTERS '98: ULTIMATE MATCH|PS4|20|STREET FIGHTER ALPHA 2|PC|30|WARRIORS OF FATE|SWITCH
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Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »I'm enjoying it so far.
I just found the edginess cringey, the open world kind of crappy and then it got really frustrating and hard.
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Game|Platform|Game|Platform
Megaman X2|SNES||
Streets of Rage 4|PC||
Sekiro|PC||
Megaman 7|SNES||
Megaman 8|PS1||
Megaman X3|SNES||
Megaman & Bass|SNES||
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim|PS4||
Broken Sword: Director's Cut|PC||
Command & Conquer: Red Alert|PC||
Mischief Makers|N64||
Wolfenstein 2: New Colossus (DLC)|PC||
Deception 4: Blood Ties|PS4||
Deception 4: Blood Ties
Ties that Bind mode finished with the A and D endings. I gave up on mission mode, not because it's bad but because I could see myself putting hours and hours into it. I'll go back to it to finish Nightmare Princess and it's DLC but need a break as this game has been consuming my free time.
Deception 4 Is just a huge amount of fun. You basically chain together a Rube Goldberg machine of traps to kill enemies in the most gruesome ways possible. Variety is added my enemies that are invulnerable or resistant to certain traps or can have their armour broken to weaken them. Even more variety is added by the requests that 3 daemons give you that if you go for them force you to be very creative in your trap design. It starts off easy but gets very addictive as you try to perfect your traps to satisfy the daemon requests.
I just had an absolute blast with this game, if you have a PS3, PS Vita or PS4 it's well worth picking up the Nightmare Princess version of this game.
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Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »I'm shocked that game is still a mess. I've yet to buy it due to being completely turned off from all the issues I've heard about it. When I buy that game I don't wanna be a practicing technician looking for problems. I wanna enjoy it. Looks like I'm waiting a while longer
Sometimes its worth it, plenty of over ambitious messes have been released on PC that were incredible experiences once you found a way to live with the jank. Bloodlines and Stalker are complete messes but also two of the best games ever.
Cyberpunk by all accounts is just grand...
At least we have the shadowrun games and Deus Ex for cyberpunk RPGs.
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Code Vein Xbox
Haven Xbox
Call Of the Sea Xbox
Immortals Fenyx Rising Xbox
Hitman 3 Xbox
Donut County Xbox
The Medium Xbox
Day of the Tentacle Remastered Xbox
Full Throttle Remastered Xbox
Trailmakers Xbox
Dark Souls 2 SotFS Xbox
Fallout 4 PC
Undertale Xbox
Genesis Noir Xbox
Played Genesis Noir on Gamepass over the week end, loved the art style and music but hated the game. While the puzzles aren't really difficult can be a bit ambiguous and the game does a piss poor job conveying to the player what it expects them to do. I don't need my hand held but when I'm forced to randomly click the screen or press A in the hope something happens they've not done the best job. Won't even get started on the plot
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Game|Platform|Game|Platform
Megaman X2|SNES||
Streets of Rage 4|PC||
Sekiro|PC||
Megaman 7|SNES||
Megaman 8|PS1||
Megaman X3|SNES||
Megaman & Bass|SNES||
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim|PS4||
Broken Sword: Director's Cut|PC||
Command & Conquer: Red Alert|PC||
Mischief Makers|N64||
Wolfenstein 2: New Colossus (DLC)|PC||
Deception 4: Blood Ties|PS4||
Final Fantasy Adventure|Gameboy||
Virtua Racing|Switch||
Final Fantasy Adventure
For an early Gameboy title this is an absolute triumph for Squaresoft. They basically turned final fantasy into a zelda like game and while its not a patch on Link's Awakening it's still a great game and predated that game by 2 years. At the time it was the best zelda type game by a long shot.
There's a few issues with the game. Due to the lack of buttons inventory management can be a pain. Some of the clues to progress can be a little confusing. And some puzzles, usually involving the ice spell, can be a pain as the collision detection with the floor tiles is suspect to say the least. Music is also pretty weak for a Squaresoft game.
Although this is called Final Fantasy Adventure it's actually the first Secret of Mana game but it actually contains a lot of FF references. Enemy types look like recurring enemies from FF, there's lots of little FF references like fighting the four elemental fiends from FF1.
Brilliant game that plays to the strengths of the handheld format.
Virtua Racing
The switch port of this game isn't arcade perfect, it's beyond arcade perfect with tonnes of additions and a silky smooth 60 FPS as opposed to the arcades 30 fps.
When I say finished this I mean I finished all three tracks, scraping over the finish line of arcropolis with 0 seconds on the timer. The handling model feels very basic next to the likes of Sega Rally but it's still a really fun racer.
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The Raging Bile Duct wrote: »Astro's Playroom is propaganda? I've heard it all now...
I prefer sony circle jerk. And it's so good I'm happy to be in the middle.
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Megaman X2|SNES||
Streets of Rage 4|PC||
Sekiro|PC||
Megaman 7|SNES||
Megaman 8|PS1||
Megaman X3|SNES||
Megaman & Bass|SNES||
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim|PS4||
Broken Sword: Director's Cut|PC||
Command & Conquer: Red Alert|PC||
Mischief Makers|N64||
Wolfenstein 2: New Colossus (DLC)|PC||
Deception 4: Blood Ties|PS4||
Final Fantasy Adventure|Gameboy||
Virtua Racing|Switch||
Thief 2: The Metal Age|PC||
Thief 2: The Metal Age
Finished on Expert Difficulty. If you want to play the Thief games you have to play on Expert. It doesn't raise the difficulty and just adds extra objectives to stages.
Also installed a few mods. HD Textures that look fantastic even if the geometry is still really lofi. Also some odds to reinstate graphical effects like weather and fog that don't play nice with modern GPUs.
Thief 2's biggest flaw is that Thief 1 exists. While Thief 2 is one of the best games ever made I didn't find it as good as the first game. I miss the supernatural elements of the first game and the level variety. There's two pretty bad levels in the game, one in the Maw which is a confusing mess and another set in the lost city which seems interesting with a roving target you have to kidnap but it ultimately frustrating and a pain to get around. The rest of the levels however are solid gold with levels like Life of the Party being one of the greatest pieces of level design ever.
Thief 2 is pretty much a reminder of how great PC gaming was during that era. You just don't get the same type of genre experimentation you get now. There's nothing quite like Thief, other than maybe Dishonored or Deus Ex. It's sound propagation system has also never been bettered. You can tell where an enemy is just by their sound. Modern games use a line of sight method which isn't as complex or as accurate as Thief's.
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Megaman X2|SNES||
Streets of Rage 4|PC||
Sekiro|PC||
Megaman 7|SNES||
Megaman 8|PS1||
Megaman X3|SNES||
Megaman & Bass|SNES||
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim|PS4||
Broken Sword: Director's Cut|PC||
Command & Conquer: Red Alert|PC||
Mischief Makers|N64||
Wolfenstein 2: New Colossus (DLC)|PC||
Deception 4: Blood Ties|PS4||
Final Fantasy Adventure|Gameboy||
Virtua Racing|Switch||
Thief 2: The Metal Age|PC||
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Spearhead|PC||
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Spearhead
I adored Medal of Honor Allied Assault on PC on release. I was looking forward to it being a big fan of the PS1 games and it didn't disappoint, it was the best FPS I had played since Half-Life. Allied Assault made a mockery of the later PS2 release MoH Frontline, which was kind of crap despite what reviews say. In case anyone doesn't know MoH AA is a very important game. It was the first game full game by 2015 (they had previously produced the expansion for SIN which was much better than the base game) who would later go on to become Infinity Ward. I decided I needed a quick comfort game and saw I had this on GoG and I never played the AA expansions and heard they were good if short. Spearhead is the first expansion.
You can see a lot of the trappings of the later CoD games are very much present in this game and it feels very like a proto CoD.... a very proto CoD. Graphically it doesn't really hold up. Where once the scripting looked amazing, the explosion effects were top class and I remember marveling at how the character models had animated fingers, time has not been kind. It's a little bit ropey. It's also evident in the gameplay where the missions are a little bit ropey with a lot of areas with bizarre enemy spawning locations. This would all be sorted with the first CoD but it isn't quite there yet. It's also very weird to play a FPS without iron sight aiming.
I'm not sure if the original game has these issues as well. Been a very long time since I played it and I did hear Spearhead's mission design was highly rated at the time. I had fun with this despite the flaws. The russian level (where you play an american sent to help the russians win the war.... :rolleyes:) is a little half baked. The vehicle levels as well are more annoying than fun as there is no way to regain health so you care your health pool for the entire level. One bad section can leave you screwed. It's pretty short as well, about 3 hours. Not an entirely bad trip down memory lane, but a bit of a shock to the rose tinted glasses. I'll probably give the second expansion, Breakthrough, a go.
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Yeah I think so...the use of audio is excellent. Let me sit and digest the game and I'll get backRetr0gamer wrote: »System shock 2 is bioshock but better.
https://www.btselem.org/
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