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Uncharted Lost Legacy

I wanted to try a 120fps game on my new tv and since I didn't buy Metroid Prime 4 yet I went with this one. And it feels super smooth, but I see how the game aged. But still nice to look at.

However I forgot how in Uncharted you're supposed to do impossible jumps all the time like you're super human or something
 
Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream.
Too lazy to track down the GAFer who prompted me to buy this, but you know who you are, and thanks a million. I'm absolutely agog at the beautiful diorama-like visuals on display. Writing and voice acting are well above average. And while the gameplay isn't terribly challenging (that may change; I'm only 4-5 hours in) it's never less than engaging.
 
Final Fantasy VII
Running around, searching for the huge materia.

Haven't played much of anything lately. I got Ninja Gaiden 4 for Christmas and I'm thinking of starting that tonight.
 
I can't believe how fun Monster Hunter Stories 2 is. Its legit proper Monster Hunter in a turn based form.

Playing this is getting me excited for Stories 3 even more.
 
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I finally decided to buy Forza Horizon 5 (the premium edition..) due to the cut-price of the New Years sale, first Forza Horizon game I've brought since Part 3....looking forward to Part 6 and what they do with it..
 
Uncle Moe said:
Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream.
Too lazy to track down the GAFer who prompted me to buy this, but you know who you are, and thanks a million. I'm absolutely agog at the beautiful diorama-like visuals on display. Writing and voice acting are well above average. And while the gameplay isn't terribly challenging (that may change; I'm only 4-5 hours in) it's never less than engaging.
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The facial animations in the sequences put AAA games to shame. Great, great game. Easy Plat too on PS. I'm in the final chapter now.
 
Wo Long

Fengxi went down first try. FightinCowboy guides are good shit!

I met Hong Jing, my Wo Long waifu. But I can't switch to her as an ally yet for story reasons. That's cool. I am in no rush!

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I started The Outer Worlds 2 and I think it's well made so far but I'm having trouble getting into it. I don't think it's the game I think it's me. I've been playing low attention span games for months now and jumping into a game that requires you to stop and read read read read... ugh. Not sure I can focus on a game like this right now. I'll give it a few more hours and if I can't get hooked then I'll revisit it at another time.
 

Captures the hilariously bad animation of the Philips CDi Zelda games without being a bad game. I got quite a few laughs at the animation and dialogue. 4-6 hour for first playthrough depending on skill and thoroughness. Currently wrapping up hero mode and will likely be my first 100% game in the 2026 | Twelve games in twelve months thread.
 
Recently finished a Bloodborne replay, that game holds up beautifully in my opinion. Tried an arcane build this time as I never really did that before and it is super fun, getting to use all the weirder Hunter tools a lot more and can really let you mop the floor with some bosses (Flamethrower VS One Reborn lol).

I know it's framerate and performance is disliked but I somehow had very little trouble adjusting to it. I'm sure it'd feel better at 60 FPS but I had no trouble with whatever framerate it was running at.

My biggest issue was managing the control scheme between Bloodborne (healing on Triangle, Interact on X), Nightreign (heal on Square, interact on Triangle), and Nioh 2 (attack on Triangle and Square). What a mess.

Subsequently finished Jusant, which exceeded my expectations. The game is gorgeous and almost spiritual to explore and experience, but the climbing mechanics are solid enough that the gameplay carries itself too.

Will play a bit longer to get all the collectibles and ponder on the story and world a bit. Then I need to decide what's next.

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Finished Steins;Gate Elite for the first time and I loved it from the story & characters perspectives. Some endings were really depressing (in a good way, if that makes sense) and I also enjoyed discovering and finishing the true ending. I initially thought that the first few chapters were kind of slow and too much time was spent on scientific explanations and retrying the same experiment, but it ultimately made the first big twist more dramatic.

My problem with the game is that I have very little experience with visual novels, so I was very disappointed with how non-interactive it was. All you can do is reply (or not) to some texts and make several bigger 'A or B' choices, that's it. There was potential for so much more, like conversations with more dialogue options, searching locations for clues or small mini-games related to stuff like hacking or building & operating the time machine. With that said I'm definitely planning to play Steins;Gate 0 and check out other titles from the genre. They just can't be too weird, so I'l likely skip Danganronpa or Somnium Files.
 
Sonic Frontiers
It's okay, I guess, just has the same problem every Sonic ever had. The targeted speed never is fun to me. You either accidentally get where you should be or just trial and error your way through. While everything slow is just boring platforming or running around in imho too big levels. More compact and somehow just better would be nice. On rails and fast like the Velocity games can work for me, Sonic just has never done it right for me.
The PS4 version sucks balls. I assume 30fps really hurts. PS5 looks a fuckton better in motion.
 
Ultima Online

Still play this MMORPG and still ahead of its time. A game where interacting with others was completely new experience when released. You could do anything you wanted. Start a shop and sell wares to people, bake bread and poison it to feed to others, play a house down in the world (non instance), adventure with friends in dungeons, treasure hunt for big loot, sail the seas and discover remote islands, be apart of a house down collapsing and gather all the loot from that players house, etc…

It looks old, but the art aged so well. You can play the official game or look for a private shard like UO Outlands which gives the game the old school feeling in a new way.

So many good memories from UO. Still making them after 28 years.

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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (PS5)

Fun game (I was in the mood for something short and light). It really captures the classic Indiana Jones vibe. Even more so than in the latest films. I could swear Harrison Ford is doing the voice. I imagined it would just be combat, but so far it's been more sneaking and exploring. You find all sorts of clues in the world that you collect in a notebook. And that eventually leads to things like a hidden dungeon with a puzzle. I turned off all the aids, so I'm figuring things out myself. It reminds me a bit of that old PC game Thief. Or a first-person version of an adventure game like Fate of Atlantis. This is definitely more for the older, more relaxed gamer.
 
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PUBG, when I have time. Steam games are getting a bit mossy, but I still want to play them sometimes.

Does anyone play PUBG?
 
ssringo said:

Captures the hilariously bad animation of the Philips CDi Zelda games without being a bad game. I got quite a few laughs at the animation and dialogue. 4-6 hour for first playthrough depending on skill and thoroughness. Currently wrapping up hero mode and will likely be my first 100% game in the 2026 | Twelve games in twelve months thread.
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Bought this game too. The fact that the devs emulate the animation of the Zelda CD-I games are reason alone to try this game out, but I've heard good things about it and that it's a solid experience and very fun to play.
 
I'm a few hours into Clair Obscur : Expedition 33 on Ps5 Pro.

Very much enjoying it so far, the prologue was emotional and gorgeous, setting and story good and I'm enjoying the combat.
I find Gustav to be a dick , Maelle and Lune are much cooler.
Of course I'm playing in French because I'm a sophisticated European type.
 
Dragon Quest 2 HD-2D - Remake.

Started with DQ3, then played DQ1, and now trying to finish DQ2 before DQ7 Reimagined comes out. I am really enjoying these games, with the only other DQ game I have played (outside of being absolutely confused with Dragon Warrior as a 5/7 year old kid) being DQ11. I played DQ11 bored one day via GamePass and got hooked. I really enjoyed and decided to give DQ3 a shot this Thanksgiving for a long flight. Got hooked again, and now looking forward to all of the new DQ games.
 
KeithMars said:
I'm a few hours into Clair Obscur : Expedition 33 on Ps5 Pro.

Very much enjoying it so far, the prologue was emotional and gorgeous, setting and story good and I'm enjoying the combat.
I find Gustav to be a dick , Maelle and Lune are much cooler.
Of course I'm playing in French because I'm a sophisticated European type.
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come back after you fight the lamp master boss and update us with your thoughts :)
 
I'm so all over place lately thanks to this place.

I uninstalled a bunch of shit last night on my series S so I can start fresh games of Ryse and Starfield
 
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KeithMars said:
I'm a few hours into Clair Obscur : Expedition 33 on Ps5 Pro.

Very much enjoying it so far, the prologue was emotional and gorgeous, setting and story good and I'm enjoying the combat.
I find Gustav to be a dick , Maelle and Lune are much cooler.
Of course I'm playing in French because I'm a sophisticated European type.
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Excuse Me What GIF by Bounce


Is the delivery different in French or something? Never got that impression with the English voices.

Lune is best. Loved her from start to finish and easily my favorite character.
 
ssringo said:
Excuse Me What GIF by Bounce


Is the delivery different in French or something? Never got that impression with the English voices.

Lune is best. Loved her from start to finish and easily my favorite character.
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I don't know why but I didn't like him either at first. I played in english. Thinking of doing my next playthrough in french...not that i'll understand much of it. I only have very basic understanding of french.
 
turbo_blade said:
I don't know why but I didn't like him either at first. I played in english. Thinking of doing my next playthrough in french...not that i'll understand much of it. I only have very basic understanding of french.
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I can certainly see not thinking highly of him during the early part of the their journey. It's saying he's a "dick" is where the confusion comes in. I'm struggling to recall scenes or dialogue that might be 'dickish'.
 
Just brought home a new tv last nite. Plugged it in with no setup so Wife could watch some youtube and unwind. But this weekend I'll be playing.... with all the tv settings! Test games will be cyberpunk and kcd2.
 
ssringo said:
I can certainly see not thinking highly of him during the early part of the their journey. It's saying he's a "dick" is where the confusion comes in. I'm struggling to recall scenes or dialogue that might be 'dickish'.
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Calling him a dick may be a bit much but he's not growing on me, the opposite.
The French VO is solid.
 
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Which TV?
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TCL - 55" QM6K. Upgrading from a very basic 55" tcl from 10 years ago. That one was still working great and I just handed it off to a new home this morning. I tried to sell it on craigslist but nobody wanted it even for $100! Loved that tv the whole time, though! I don't like replceing things that work, but Wife and I do so much gaming that we'll get tons of benefit out of this.

My number one desire was for framerate options. 120hz and the option for 40hz pluss vrr. This one has local dimming and perhaps hdr that actually does something. The old tv was hdr but let me tell you I found real fast that all hdr is not created equal lol. That thing would never look anything like the expensive samsung being demoed in the store at the time!! I gave up on the hdr after a month. I'm sure this one will be much better!
 
Ninja Gaiden 4
I'm on chapter 4 and I'm enjoying the game more now. Wasn't a fan of the design/setting of Tokyo and I'm still not sold on this character of Takumo or whatever he's called. The best part so far was the Kitsune boss in chapter 3 - very good.
 
I thought I'd casually start the DQ VII Reimagined Demo on PS5.

I got hooked. I wish I didn't have to go to work tomorrow, or I'd be up all night playing it lol. I got to The Tower and I stopped there. I never played the original game!

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Crayon said:
TCL - 55" QM6K. Upgrading from a very basic 55" tcl from 10 years ago. That one was still working great and I just handed it off to a new home this morning. I tried to sell it on craigslist but nobody wanted it even for $100! Loved that tv the whole time, though! I don't like replceing things that work, but Wife and I do so much gaming that we'll get tons of benefit out of this.

My number one desire was for framerate options. 120hz and the option for 40hz pluss vrr. This one has local dimming and perhaps hdr that actually does something. The old tv was hdr but let me tell you I found real fast that all hdr is not created equal lol. That thing would never look anything like the expensive samsung being demoed in the store at the time!! I gave up on the hdr after a month. I'm sure this one will be much better!
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Should be quite the upgrade, enjoy!
 
I've stared going back to some old gems this year.

Finished Super Metroid at the start of the year. Still a solid 10.

Finished Metroid 1 next. It was the first time I went through that, I grew up playing on Commodore 64, didn't have a NES so I missed many classics.
Extremely difficult game, I used the suspend mechanic through Nintendo Online to manage it, many retries later I saw the end of it. Cool to have seen the origin of my favorite IP but for me it was many steps below Super Metroid. I don't have any nostalgia for it either so no emotions helping me to forgive it's issues coming from it's age.

Then I started Metroid 2: Return of Samus next. Feels like a huge upgrade except for the monochrome GB image. But you start out with morph ball and missiles. Don't like that, I want to sense the progression through gear unlocks.

Kraid in Metroid 1 with his lobbing shots reminded me of enemies lobbing maces in Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link, so I started that as well and I'm enjoying my time quite a bit. Would be awesome with a remake of this. Feels like the inspiration of the Souls genre in how you're progressing and level up and being nervous of losing your Exp. Plays great!
 
Fess said:
Finished Metroid 1 next
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You've probably played it already but I thought Zero Mission on the GBA was a great reimagination of that game.

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Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link, so I started that as well and I'm enjoying my time quite a bit. Would be awesome with a remake of this. Feels like the inspiration of the Souls genre in how you're progressing and level up and being nervous of losing your Exp. Plays great!
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Never gave this one a fair chance. If you ever want to try something that plays in a similar fashion, The Battle of Olympus and Faxanadu are also great games.
 
Breath of Fire 3
One of my favourite games, but some of these mini games are atrocious and there's a couple of sections that I don't like all that much; The wandering around the desert is so annoying. I'm not that far away from that point in the game I don't think. Just on my way to Wyndia after sorting out the problems at the plant.

Resident Evil 3 Remake
Just defeated Nemesis in the construction site and made my way into the RPD with Carlos. Tell you what, the game looks fantastic on PC with all the settings cranked up. Also, I think this has my favourite safe room theme.

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TintoConCasera said:
You've probably played it already but I thought Zero Mission on the GBA was a great reimagination of that game.
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I've actually never gone through that, or Fusion. Sadly I only have NSO on Switch 2, they're locking GBA under NSO+. Otherwise I'd love to go through them all. I love digging into these old classics.
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Never gave this one a fair chance. If you ever want to try something that plays in a similar fashion, The Battle of Olympus and Faxanadu are also great games.
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You should give Zelda 2 a try. It was seen as the black sheep of the Zelda serie but imo it's an underrated classic, the game mechanics are absolute spot on.
 
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I've actually never gone through that, or Fusion. Sadly I only have NSO on Switch 2, they're locking GBA under NSO+. Otherwise I'd love to go through them all. I love digging into these old classics.
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Damn. If you ever have the chance you should try them. Fusion isn't among my favorite Metroid games but it's still very cool. Zero Mission on the other hand, I remember loving it, and without spoiling too much you'll be rewarded plenty even if you've already played the original game.

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You should give Zelda 2 a try. It was seen as the black sheep of the Zelda serie but imo it's an underrated classic, the game mechanics are absolute spot on.
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I will! It's on the list. Wonder if there are any translation fixes, I heard the original game has some weird dialog that makes it a bit more convoluted than it should.
 
TintoConCasera said:
Damn. If you ever have the chance you should try them. Fusion isn't among my favorite Metroid games but it's still very cool. Zero Mission on the other hand, I remember loving it, and without spoiling too much you'll be rewarded plenty even if you've already played the original game.
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Cool! I'll try to find some way to play them.
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I will! It's on the list. Wonder if there are any translation fixes, I heard the original game has some weird dialog that makes it a bit more convoluted than it should.
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It's possible but I see it like a soulslike x metroidvania so being lost is part of it all, means you'll naturally wander around more and level up heh
 
Fess said:
It's possible but I see it like a soulslike x metroidvania so being lost is part of it all, means you'll naturally wander around more and level up heh
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Haha, yeah that's true. I just hope it doesn't reach Simon's Quest levels of bullshit. :goog_relieved:
 
TintoConCasera said:
Haha, yeah that's true. I just hope it doesn't reach Simon's Quest levels of bullshit. :goog_relieved:
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Another one I've barely played at all 🫣

Like I said I grew up with Commodore 64, majority where I grew up swapped cassette tapes on the school yard, C64 was the king. NES was rare tbh, first time I played Super Mario Bros was through Giana Sisters on C64 lol and my first console was SNES, bought that after Amiga 500 was kinda dead.

But I bought a NES sometime after PS1 and played some classics like Zelda 1,2, Ice Climbers. Not Simon's Quest though, I've only tried that real quick on Wii through Virtual Console. Is it good?
 
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Is it good?
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nah. It was an ambitious game, but it lacks the level design of Castlevania 1 and 3. Plus the english translation made it borderline unbeatable, giving you false information or just not telling you what to do next.
 
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Should be quite the upgrade, enjoy!
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Thanks! I finally got into it last night! I am going to do a little homework on the settings, but I jumped in and started fiddling the dials myself. So far, I'm not sure if im not using the local dimming right or if I just don't like it The HDR is VASTLY better than the old one. Looks awesome. It was unusable before lol.

But the main event, the 120/vrr, is worth every penny. In fact it's over delivering. My understanding was that I would have to choose framerates that divide into 120. I did not realize that with vrr I can set arbitrary framerates. I can open the steamos performance panel and adjust the framerate cap in 1fps increments. That's in-game, on a per-game basis, all with my controller. Fuckin amazing.
 
Dragon Quest VII Reimagined demo on PS5

I got hooked lol

I never played the original game, although I am familiar with the DQ franchise generally speaking. (I've played a little of VIII, XI, Heroes, Builders, etc.)

I made it to The Tower and then stopped. The graphics and art style are adorable. The custom difficulty options are also huge for me.

I don't get excited about games anymore, but I can't wait for the full release of this!

I fucking love Slimes.


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Commandos Origins: game is just big. Played level 10 for almost 3 hours. Still going. Huge areas with lots of buildings and you have to plot carefully to advance every step.

Echo Generation: Visuals are so good. Basically Stranger Things as a voxel turn based RPG.
 
Almost finished Mario Vs Donkey kong.

It's a blend between a Mario paltformer and a puzzle game. The game has very few assets, but each level has a very unique puzzle.

I found the game design of this title to be soo good and what carries this game.

Each level is short and not too taxing to complete. I really liked the game over all.

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