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What Games Have You Completed? (2021 Edition)
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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.0 -
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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||
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.0 -
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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||
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.0 -
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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.
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Join Date:Posts: 48591
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||
Thief 2: The Metal Age|PC||
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Spearhead|PC||
Crysis Remaster|PC||
Crysis Remaster
I wasn't that big a fan of Farcry. The AI is shonky and when the mutants arrive the game gets pretty bad. I always figured Crysis would be the same, a tech demo with slightly ropey gameplay. It definitely retains the shonky AI but Crysis is actually a pretty good game. It still looks gorgeous and the level of destruction you can cause is hilarious and impressive. However the nano-suits various functions make Crysis a lot of fun. Stealth is a little bit janky but even if you get caught the fire fights are wild and fun.
I heard a lot of complaints about how the game goes downhill with the introduction of the aliens but it's not as bad as I was lead to believe, these sections only last a couple of minutes.
The remasters graphics are a bit of a mixed bag. You get better lighting but then bafflingly they reduce the reaction of the vegetation to stuff like grenades. I really liked that attention to detail in the original. It's a strange in between meaning there's still no definitive edition of the game. The software ray tracing is nice despite the large performance cost. I noticed some flaws in it but it's impressive it works. I'm still however not convinced ray tracing adds anything to games that traditional rendering can't already do to give 'close enough' results. Maybe when we have full path traced games but we aren't close to that yet with current tech.
Not the best FPS ever but it's still a heap of fun.0 -
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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||
Thief 2: The Metal Age|PC||
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Spearhead|PC||
Crysis Remaster|PC||
God of War: Chain of Olympus|PS3||
God of War: Chain of Olympus
This is a HD port of the PSP game. I liked this game a lot more than I expected. It's a nice condensed GoW experience for a handheld and doesn't translate too badly to the PS3. In fact I'd rate it above GoW3 which I didn't enjoy. It's a nice brisk game as well.
Graphically it's a bit rough. It's not quite the level of graphical polish as the PS2 games but for a PSP game it was stunning so not really the games fault it looks a little basic on the PS3. Performance on the PS3 can be iffy. It runs mostly at a stable 60 FPS but the PS3's ineptitude with transparencies means some busy scenes can chug and even some tearing can creep in although this is rare.
The game has a few flaws related to the handheld nature of the game. It tries to cram in too many controls into too few buttons meaning you can forget how to activate some moves when you return to the game. Also the game will present you with a mechanic then forget about it until much later when you have forgotten it (the last boss did this to me, thanks gamefaqs!).
The story is overwrought guff but then it's GoW. It's a prequel meaning Kratos isn't the completely unlikeable bellend from GoW2 and beyond. He has a shred of humanity. The gameplay is full of enough spectacle and fun to make it a quick compelling blast. It surprised me.
Even better is that I heard the sequel, Ghost of Sparta is a big improvement on an already pretty good game.0 -
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Tomb Raider Definitive Edition.
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood Remastered (The Ezio Collection).
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
Astro’s Playroom
Final Fantasy 7 Remake
Bugsnax.
Cyberpunk 2077
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Remastered
Spider-Man: Miles Morales DLC
Rage 2.
Rage 2: Rise of the Ghosts DLC
Rage 2: TerrorMania DLC
Mass Effect Andromeda. Completed and platinumed.
Originally returned just to clean up some trophies which could have easily taken me about 6 hours at best on new game plus. However, I ended up spending another 40 odd getting side tracked because the world and its characters are just so good.
For those who don't know, the basic set up is this: You’re part of the Andromeda Initiative which consists of different races from the milky way galaxy from the old games, such as Asari, Salarians, Krogans, Turians and... us. (can't talk about the Quarians without going into spoilers.) Each species has an ark with its own pathfinder, i.e. the person tasked with finding a home in the Heleus cluster of the Andromeda galaxy. Unfortunately, the other arks and their pathfinders went missing for various spoilery reasons leaving only your ark and your human pathfinder, Ryder. What you’re essentially doing from here on out is trying to make planets viable. Each one has their own environmental challenges but the one adversary they all share is that they are overrun by the troublesome new enemy faction, the Kett.
I'll cut to the chase: I love this game. It really does feel like a space adventure from the way it’s shot to the score music to the Bioware film grain (which, unlike their other games, actually serve the visuals) to the way every discovery is a victory. All of the planets are interesting to explore from the late game ones like Kadara - which is just a lawless wasteland where you can’t trust anybody - to Eos, your first home.
The first home on Eos feels like a major milestone with all the NPCs - even those who initially doubted Ryder - coming out of the woodwork to sing praises, especially because previous attempts by the Initiative to establish a home had failed. The only planet I wasn’t fond of was Havari. It’s cramped and difficult to traverse and you can’t walk 5 feet without enemies attacking because it’s such a dense map. Early in the story you’re tasked with choosing between going to Voeld or Havari. Definitely go to Voeld first. In fact, Havari can be avoided in the critical path if you choose Voeld first.
I remember complaints about there not being enough new alien races which I think is a valid criticism. However, the new alien race, the Angara, is great and it shows tremendous capacity for faith that they trusted the Initiative after the Kett broke their trust (without getting too spoilery). Usually themes of inclusivity and diversity in stories make me vomit but here it feels organic. Every choice you make is not necessarily about the consequences, as most outcomes are largely linear. It’s more about what type of explorer you’re shaping your Ryder to be. Are you a foreign conqueror trying to impose your way of life on a planet’s inhabitants? Are you a team player who wants to befriend new races and learn new cultures? Your very first encounter with the Kett poses this question in a subtle and tasteful way.
The voice acting is quite good overall IMO, especially from the main cast. No, the two Ryder siblings are not Shepard but they’re not trying to be. Also, there’s a side quest involving the Ryder family that sows the seeds for an amazing sequel but sadly it’s not to be.
Your ship crew are great and their loyalty missions are amongst the best side quests in the game. There's a beautiful conclusion to one of them involving plants that I won't spoil but it's basically a non cheesy, metaphor for the entire game. It's moments like these that show how Andromeda excels even in its small moments as well as its grand escapades. Romances on a subsequent playthrough almost make you mournful for your previous romances. Like when I did a character's loyalty mission the second time and remembered that in my “previous life” a football match turned into something more. The ship crew are that loveable. Additionally, navigating the politics of the Nexus (Andromeda's Citadel equivalent / central ship for all the Milky Way races) and its hilariously incompetent leadership will test your moral judgement.
Overall, the side quests are where Andromeda really shines. To skip them is a disservice and will negatively affect the ending. They're so integral to the story and lore you have to wonder if they were ripped out of the critical path at the last minute.
And the combat is fire once you get more abilities (the best ones are typically locked behind others). I made a tech biotic build that favoured CQC and anyone who got within my vicinity would instantly die so that was neat.
The jump height is about a hair off and the cover system is too loose but on the build I had for my second playthrough I never really used cover so YMMV. Apart from Havari, there isn't as much combat as you would expect which again ties in nicely to the way this story encourages exploration and discovery over throwing hands.
Of course, there is also the obligatory multiplayer which is…ergh. You have to fight waves of challenging enemies and then on the final wave make it to the extraction point in time. Fun on paper however, in typical EA fashion, it’s extremely microtransactions driven. Unfortunately, Bioware is not as skilled as Dice is at incorporating MTs without it breaking the balance of the game. If you’re defiant like me you’re going to be grinding the multiplayer for a long time with crappy weapons. A shame really because I can tell it’s a blast when you get proper weapons but the need to monetise everything just ruins it.
Thankfully, a grindy multiplayer doesn’t spoil an otherwise great game with an earnest overall message. I truly believe that if this was the first Mass Effect it would have been praised for the story and characters at least. Though I appreciate nothing exists in a vacuum, to call Andromeda “bad” is a little bit harsh. This is my Days Gone, I guess. I really love this game and hope when enough time has passed people will look back on it more fondly.0
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