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.
I didn’t want to finish it. It was so tedious and just not fun.Crash Bandicoot 4. Whoever designed the levels of this game needs their legs broken.
Thank you for sharing this story, it's so awesome!
I'm playing Dark Alliance for the first time, so it's kind a new experience to me. That being said, I did played Game Boy Advance version when I was a kid and I have a very fond memory of it. We were sitting with friends outside on our neighbourhood and passing the console between each other every time someone cleared a location, completing entire game that way. These were such a fun times! And I actually do recognise some of the locations from it
I'm playing Dead Island tutu, because I really liked the first one. I found it's pretty boring or just unfun until you finally get a few levels. They should have given a few weapons to create in the beginning instead of just one.So, still playing:
My Time at Sandrock.90 odd hours in still enjoying it, game is still delivering new content.
Dead Island 2. Maybe about halfway thru? For a game with such an overdone premise it still manages to be fun and even surprising at points. Looks great too.
Call of Duty 3, picked it up during the sale, Zombie mode has been fun with my couple of friends, when solo the regular mp meatgrinder is still fun and addicting. Havent touched the campaign.
Fortnite. Still make time to get a few rounds of zero build in each week, still dabbling in the Lego mode.
Monster Hunter Rise [Series X]
So much gameplay depth - so much room for playing with skill - playing creative with a style all your own. So much to learn and master - and just a simple weapon switch turns the entire game into a different one. This is pretty much exactly what I want out of a videogame.
Since really digging into this one recently - I have a much greater appreciation of this game and series in general. The living ecosystem - the plantlife - how the animals feed - the million boss patterns and weaknesses to learn. The years long legacy of many of the monsters and their new modern day updates.
There's really nothing else like it in gaming. Yet another Capcom crown jewel series in their legacy of many.
I played Replicant and Automata in order, but my first playthroughs were only about three years ago. I doubt I'll ever understand how anybody could prefer Replicant. To me it felt like such a cold, lifeless game. Whereas, ironically, Automata was just bursting with soul.
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?
Finally finished RDR1 remastered. Love John and his story, voice acting. But the gameplay was pretty dated and the open world was straight up barren and pointless. Still a decent game but nowhere near the hype it got, even for a game from that era.
I am definitely planning on playing RDR2 since that is supposedly an infinitely better game and I want to see the gang’s dynamics. Also want to know how literally everyone came to hate Uncle, and I have a feeling they’ll go into that. Hopefully.
I've installed Monster Hunter Rise from Game Pass also, will give it a try. Never played a Monster Hunter game before.Monster Hunter Rise [Series X]
So much gameplay depth - so much room for playing with skill - playing creative with a style all your own. So much to learn and master - and just a simple weapon switch turns the entire game into a different one. This is pretty much exactly what I want out of a videogame.
Since really digging into this one recently - I have a much greater appreciation of this game and series in general. The living ecosystem - the plantlife - how the animals feed - the million boss patterns and weaknesses to learn. The years long legacy of many of the monsters and their new modern day updates.
There's really nothing else like it in gaming. Yet another Capcom crown jewel series in their legacy of many.
Going in cold will be a slow burn for awhile - and tons and tons of (annoying) tutorials popping up on the screen every 5 seconds.I've installed Monster Hunter Rise from Game Pass also, will give it a try. Never played a Monster Hunter game before.
Aha, sounds good. Will do.Going in cold will be a slow burn for awhile - and tons and tons of (annoying) tutorials popping up on the screen every 5 seconds.
Stick with it though.
If you enjoy boss fights - MH is basically 'boss fights the game' - with literally infinite replay value.
What was the fix?We just did another 10 hour day of BG3. This is one of the best gaming experiences of my life playing this with my wife. It's like we are going somewhere together but it's dangerous and there's treasure and mystery. Like... an adventure. idk.
I was a little hurt last night when I saw how much gold she had. Her theory was that while I'm pruning my shortcuts, she's running around raping the land for anything that's worth more than 1 gold. It's okay though because she buys gifts for me.
I have to mention the bugs in this game though. I heard nothing about this going in. There are a bunch of little ones that tend to reset easily, but I can hardly be bothered with those when there are big nasty ones. We had a real scare last night when it seemed our game had been saved with a glitch. It was crashing getting progressively worse, and thinking back to where it started, it would have been many hours back. Luckily, I found a ridiculous fix on reddit that actually worked. That one had us spooked.
What was the fix?
Just wrapping up RDR remastered which is probably my 3rd or 4th playthrough and 2nd in as many years. I actually want to play through it again for a project in my head but the gist is that I agree with you in terms of it feeling dated. Most of the missions just have you pulling left trigger, right trigger and then activating dead eye to paint targets and the variety comes from turret sections which was common in shooters back then. The shooting mechanics, while functional, aren't really the problem, it's just that there is too damned much of it. That can be said for the amount of enemies in any given activity or the overall lack of variety in the mission design. Mexico is particularly bad as you have a string of missions which boil down to: ride with me while the character does an exposition dump and then ride with me some more as the start and end of the missions are generally across the map only to finally slaughter a horde of enemies. Your quest to kill two men has you slaughtering hundreds upon hundreds of men.
All that said, there are a lot of reasons to love the game. The setting is great, the music is great, and it has some of the strongest characters that Rockstar has ever written. The open world has some merits with hunting challenges, survivalist challenges, bounties, duels, strangers, random activities and, treasure hunting which is real star of the show. Doing the treasure maps without the help of a guide is really satisfying.
RDR2 is kind of a mixed bag too. I do like the story and characters in RDR better, but RDR2 is still worth experiencing and has some really high highs.
edit: I also experienced way more bugs in the remaster than I ever remember from the original releases. Maybe I just got lucky on those playthroughs though.
Just finished Carrion like an hour ago. Awesome game, very clever mechanics. Atmosphere is amazing, very unique take on a metroidvanvia style of game. Was really surprised how much I enjoyed it. It's cheap right now too on every digital store I'm pretty sure. 5.99 definitely worth it.
Been replaying FFX for the first time in decades and wow, i forgot how much I hated every single npc there aside from Cid
Wrapped up Ghost Trick. This is why I love video games.
Oh yeah, definitely. Co-op always makes everything more fun. I was looking for a shorter rpg to play on Steam Deck and this worked really wellWhoa I never realized there was a gba version. I just looked it up. That really is such a good system. I know playing 2-players, the game gains a lot because you need to plan together. But now that I think about it, sharing it like you did would add a little of that, too.
Oh yeah, definitely. Co-op always makes everything more fun. I was looking for a shorter rpg to play on Steam Deck and this worked really well
I've finished Dark Alliance yesterday. I liked it and had a lot of fun, although the third act felt very rushed and everything was wrapped up in a very anticlimactic way. But I enjoyed it to the point I will definitely try out the sequel down the line