What Games Have You Completed? (2020 Edition)

Fair play The Phantom Pain for such detailed posts.

The Phantom Pain wrote: »

Ubisoft are such cowards - either commit to making a female character without a male skin or just straight up admit your sexism and don’t bother. :rolleyes:

There's a definite wall between what the developer wants and the marketing team thinks of the audience. If that story about the Origins team wanting Aya to be the lead is accurate (and I felt playing it that her story should have been played), that's three games in a row where the woman's story is meant be central but it's the man on the cover.

The Phantom Pain wrote: »

If you're into Vikings I suppose it's worth a go once the patch cycle is over but would not recommend for long time AC fans.

See, I'd say if you've been with the series from the start, the game's peppered with little bits from the other main titles which are quite rewarding.

But yeah, from my experience, it'll give you stealth options but the narrative and gameplay rarely expects you to be. I'm kinda okay with that as there's always the next game though I can see it putting people off if the franchise to them is to be the Assassin every time.

Valhalla's MGS2 maybe? Eivor's Raiden where most want Snaaake.

So after a long hiatus (because I couldn't get past the Gargoyles) I finally finished Dark Souls this year.

After defeating Gwyn, I then found out I couldn't just go back to the DLC so I had to play it again, which was fortunately much quicker and this time defeated everyone.

I then proceeded to Dark Souls 2 (scholar of the first sin) and defeated all the bosses except for Lud and Zallen because I don't feel like hiking in through a wall of white for 3 minutes and 45 seconds trying to avoid those stupid reindeer every time I die due to the ridiculous hitboxes (I'm still bitter).

Finally, I manged to finish Dark Souls 3 including all DLC bosses in December.

Overall, it was good to play through each of them once but the only one I have any real desire to replay is Dark Souls 1 and I have subsequently started a sorcery run but I'm stuck on Manus with a strange combination of bosses already defeated.

Despite the criticism, Dark Souls 2 is a solid game. It has some mechanics I found better than the other games in the series. By comparison, I found some of the bosses to be far too easy and a lot of them felt just thrown in under the guise that more bosses is better despite many of the surrounding regular enemies are more difficult.

At the same time, the bosses that were genuinely difficult each felt that they were fair and that they could be defeated if you just got your timing right. There were some parts that were annoying though where I just didn't know where to go and I had to look it up e.g. the memories, but overall I thought it was a good game.

Finally Dark Souls 3 and again, another solid game. Unlike DS2, they reduced the number of bosses but made some of the non boss enemies overly difficult (even at higher levels). I had to use summons to defeat a few bosses in this one as in many cases I couldn't see a way to defeat them unlike DS1 and DS2 where I felt I just needed to adjust timing or git gud e.g. Midir, Friede and Dragon Slayer Armour but most of the bosses were fair and it did feel rewarding to defeat them once you got everything right e.g. Abyss Watchers, Slave Knight Gael, Lothric and Dancer.

I would recommend playing the series, despite the frustration in many places. I played each of them on PC with a mouse and keyboard which probably didn't help with the frustration as the controls are just so strange. Each of them have many flaws and despite what other say, I probably died more due to camera angles rather and the deeply flawed lock on systems than due to gravity.

If I were to recommend only one, it would be the first one because I don't think I have ever been happier playing games as I was after I beat Ornstein and Smough.

In my mind the other two are probably much closer together in terms of quality than others would have you believe but I can see why DS3 usually gets the nod ahead of DS2