As for Dark Alliance, I barely started, picked Kromlech the dwarven fighter as the main character and making progress through sewers area. So far I like it, it feels like a very comptent hack'n'slash, although very simplified and with rather small locations
I have two very fond memories of this game separated by many years. One was in my young twenties. I had one friend who was raving about it. When he got me to play it, we played it outside on a summer night. Playing games outside is one of my favorite things. We used to smoke profusely and we used an cookie sheet on the ground as an ashtray. It was fun as hell.
The next time may have actually been champions of norrath ten years later. Me and my wife had very little money and when my launch ps3 broke. I was not too broken up. I plugged a a wii and ps2 into our small tv to roughly cover the functions of the ps3 between the two. My pc was a netbook and I could play emulators including dos games so I was fine. You could do the same way for me today and I would hope I didn't trip on it. Being grateful for what you have is very important, after all.
So at that time, she had just branched out in games. She always played games but is honestly a creature of habit and would generally go back to final fantasy 6-10, mario 64 , oot, and majora's mask. But recently, she had learned dual stick controls to play skyrim, which she became obsessed with. When the ps3 died, she played through sotn and that rocked her world. So after that she was much more open to looking for games new to her. That developed to today where she's got to have dragon's dogma 2 and elden ring, curious about wukong and enjoys watching a tekken match here and there. She can more or less tell if i'm playing well in a fighting game while putting aside the actual wins or losses. It's great!
Anyway with champions of norrath (pretty sure, now), That was the first of two games we ever played co-op. It was a great time. The second time we've played together is the game of BG3 we have going recently, which is already one of the greatest gaming experiences of my life.
Wow that was a lot of words. I really went down memory lane there.
The next MH, Wilds, is going to be amazing isn't it ..
I only played MHW, solo, and not even the expansion. I thought it was brilliant, but there's a lot of stuff to play so I never went back for more.
I want to ask how much different is Rise to World? I was there when the first mh released in the states and I never got around to trying it, but I understand there is a pretty strong core that the game sticks to. So I guess to get more specific, I would put the question like is this game going to punch me with a real improved sequel feel? Like better everything aside from the core gameplay? Graphics, gimmicks, qol improvements, etc?
