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The First Berserker: Khazan

Played for 9 hours straight in my first session today, this one's a certified banger

Don’t sleep on it!

I bought it after playing the demo. I'm not sure if I should have lol. I am following the game on a forum and the userbase there is all over the place about the difficulty, and that includes the Easy difficulty and also after the recent patch. There are plenty of Souls and Soulslike vets there, and their experiences are varying wildly. Some say the game gives you options and flexibility in the movesets and abilities, others say it isn't enough when the bosses are overtuned despite the patch. I do not like difficult games these days so I am very reluctant to play it. I've briefly watched some streams and it indeed looks tough, but I also like what I see. I am glad you are enjoying it, and I'll be interested to read any detailed impressions you post if you happen to do so.

 

[hemo memo]

Playing Paranormasight, and the storytelling is really dark. My god.

 

[Duchess]

Some say the game gives you options and flexibility in the movesets and abilities, others say it isn't enough when the bosses are overtuned despite the patch

I was interested in this game, but the more I read about the mechanics and the more videos I watched, I decided to pass.

I think there was something in there about the face buttons on the controller being used to target different enemy parts? And there was also something about the green, yellow, and red outlines of your opponents indicating the strength of your currently equipped armament? That all sounded like way too much micromanagement for an action game.

EDIT: yeah, I got confused with another game, ignore me!

 

[LavitzSlambert]

I bought two more games. Someone help me. Paralysis of choice has set in so I don't know what to actually play. D:

What choices do you have?

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Playing Paranormasight, and the storytelling is really dark. My god.

I'll be sure to check it out than

I think I have that on my Switch

 

[hemo memo]

I'll be sure to check it out than

I think I have that on my Switch

I'm still very early in the game, having just finished the prologue. However, the writing is seriously disturbing. Also, there was a jump scare that shook my entire body. Playing on the Switch, btw.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

I'm still very early in the game, having just finished the prologue. However, the writing is seriously disturbing. Also, there was a jump scare that shook my entire body. Playing on the Switch, btw.

The Spirit Hunter Trilogy is a VN Series I highly recommend that's on Switch. It's really disturbing

 

[EerieArcade]

AC: Shadows
Not sure how far along in the story I am because I've largely been tackling side stuff. Did a few quests with Junjiro. Decorated my base a little bit. Cleared some castles to get some legendary gear. Loving the game.

First Beserker: Khazan
Just beat Viper. Took me a good five or six tries. Still using the spear with a build focused on building spirit and using the deflect ability.

 

[Dr. Suchong]

More MHW.
I think I'm (Mercifully) through the *ahem* "Story"
Bored me to tears.
Only level 50 presently, but I'm looking forward to grinding levels and gear.
The real game starts now.

 

[JustaStupidBoulder]

Have been playing AC Shadows for most of this week, but this Friday I put it on pause for a short bit because I wanted to play the new story that was recently added with version 2.2 in Narushio. Oh boy, I’m so glad I did that, since the new main quest was absolute anime! It had good story pacing and writing, great characters, and stunning cinematic direction and music. That's how you do a story focused patch in a gacha game!

One of the things that surprised me the most was how much effort the devs put into the characters' expressions. These two gifs I've made with Ciaccona and Cantarella (new characters introduced in the new story) are from regular dialogue cutscenes:

This game looks great every time I see it. I've never played a gacha but I might have to try it out. I'm currently playing Fallout London (which is great) and Pathfinder: WotR.

 

[Grizzled Ghost]

Sheepo Super cool little metroidvania from a one-man dev. I recommend it.

 

[Blank Space Invader]

I'm going to start Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana on PS5. Wish me luck with a winner!

 

[Blank Space Invader]

Fast forward to some mg kicking in, and wow did the demo of PGA 2K25 feel fantastic. Reviews I watched said the gameplay itself felt good; it's just the usual shady EA monetization that is scummy and sours the otherwise solid experience. I'm gonna check it out, fuck it.

(I want to try FC25 for the Rush Mode. I was told that you can even play that mode against the CPU. Not sure I want to spend the money on two games right now though...)

 

[Duchess]

Assassin's Creed Origins

Working my way through my backlog. It's okay, I suppose. I bought it due to the PS5 FPS boost, and also it being a shorter game than Odyssey, and without the enemy level scaling. Playing on Hard, but it's not a difficult game.

 

[Grizzled Ghost]

Just beat: Bramble: The Mountain King.

Hated it at first, then loved it, then hated it because of the last 2 boss fights.

 

[Shockwave_Fox]

Just beat: Bramble: The Mountain King.

Hated it at first, then loved it, then hated it because of the last 2 boss fights.

That last boss fight made me rage so hard, so fucking annoying.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Finished KCD2 a few days ago. Instant classic and one of the best RPGs I've ever played if not the best.

Now I'm playing Rune. Kinda average but very fun action game. Miss a bit more of exploration tho.

 

[drganon]

Beat ys oath in felghana. Now playing like a dragon : pirate yakuza.

 

[Blank Space Invader]

Well, whaddya know. PGA 2K25 really does play like butter. So smooth, so rich. It has some nice options for how to go about your round, too. I like a streamlined experience because playing full seasons of 4 round tournaments can become a slog, so I set it to 2 full rounds and it feels good. I went straight to the PGA Tour and played the opening round of the first tourney. Swinging has options for method, and finally I can nail putts again. In previous/recent entries, putting felt abysmal. In the old TW games circa the GameCube era, I got so good at reading greens and putts that I could putt almost anything from anywhere. This feels closer to that but with some realistic nuance to it. I had a few edge of my seat putts that just skirted the hole and it was a blast. There is a lot of shitty microtransaction stuff in this game, but I'm hoping to avoid it as long as I can.

I made Randy Savage lol. Pardon the shit PS5 image compression when saving to the PS App and then further downloading from there.

 

[Paltheos]

All these people playing Oath brings a smile to my face. Hope you enjoy/enjoyed it!

 

[yogaflame]

Playing Astro playroom the free game with ps5. I have my base Ps5 for a while now but its the first time I played the free game Astro playroom. Its so fun especially on what it does to dual sense controller and its beautiful and excellent physics.

 

[LavitzSlambert]

Been loving Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, but some parts are getting on my nerves. I just beat Menolias but for some reason the game froze up after the boss battle and I lost a bunch of progress, and having to do that boss again isn't fun.

 

[JimmyRustler]

Jak & Daxter PS5

Going for my 3rd platinum of the game after the PS3 and 4 version. Pretty clean port to PS5. Hame’s great but by now I know it by heart, so it’s not as fun as it used to be.

 

[Grizzled Ghost]

Clearing out a bunch of short games on my backlog

Cloud Climber - Not a game. Not even a short story. Seems like a 3D artist's portfolio piece. Whatever, it's free.
Samorost 1 - Surrealist pixel hunt. Not my cup of tea
Monument Valley - Gorgeous game. Thought it was a puzzler, but not really. Solutions are very straightforward. Only got stumped for a couple of minutes on the very last room. Plat just by playing through it. "Story" is nonsense (you're secretly a bird). Totem is an absolute bro, and whenever Totem's not on screen, all the other characters should be asking "Where's Totem?"

 

[StueyDuck]

Robocop on PS5, and a little disappointed. I've heard such good things from gamers, some even here, but it is just kind of meh.

 

[GymWolf]

Bought the zoe 2 mars edition on pc.

the game on hard is much harder than i remember, or maybe i originally played on normal, can't remember.

My dude leo is trashing me with his stupid vic viper

I was scared the game was about to be too easy (from my memories) so i love this

 

[San Dan Glokta]

Octopath Traveler
The coziest game I have ever played, replaying it now after playing at launch. It has the best most consistent beautiful nostalgic music I have ever heard in a game.

Currently working on the last few side quests and prepping for the final true bossfight

 

[BigLee74]

Just finished Robocop.

The definition of meh. A few good moments interspersed with tedious walking and tedious side missions. The pacing was beyond awful - you could have big long 30 minute periods of no action whatsoever, followed by just 2 minutes of shooting.

It did look good though, there is that.

I need a palate cleanser for that palate cleanser.

 

[San Dan Glokta]

Just finished Robocop.

The definition of meh. A few good moments interspersed with tedious walking and tedious side missions. The pacing was beyond awful - you could have big long 30 minute periods of no action whatsoever, followed by 2 minutes of shooting.

It did look good though, there is that.

I need a palate cleanser for that palate cleanser.

Thanks for sharing. I might have to cross it off my to-play list now. I have never watched robocop and don't care to.


Play Killzone 2 if you can ^^

One of the most beautiful and best FPS games.

 

[Grizzled Ghost]

Thanks for sharing. I might have to cross it off my to-play list now. I have never watched robocop and don't care to.

Dude, all opinons about the game aside, it's a fantastic movie. It's a brilliant satire of corporate culture, policing, and general society, that is as relevant today as it was in the 80s, if not more.

Anyone with even a passing interest in the last 30 years of American media needs to watch RoboCop.

Verhoeven is a master, masquerading as a hack.

It's under 2 hours. Watch RoboCop

 

[San Dan Glokta]

Dude, all opinons about the game aside, it's a fantastic movie. It's a brilliant satire of corporate culture, policing, and general society, that is as relevant today as it was in the 80s, if not more.

Anyone with even a passing interest in the last 30 years of American media needs to watch RoboCop.

Verhoeven is a master, masquerading as a hack.

It's under 2 hours. Watch RoboCop

Ok Rammy calm down I will.

 

[Grizzled Ghost]

Ok Rammy calm down I will.

Thank you. Phew. I look forward to your review.

 

[hemo memo]

Just wrapped up Paranormasight, exploring every branch and achieving the true ending Now diving into Shakedown: Hawaii, currently at 88 out of approximately 115 missions? Not sure.

 

[LavitzSlambert]

Wrapped up Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown tonight, platinum trophy. Really great game, overall. It did not hit the highs of many other Metroidvanias I've played, but it's definitely in the upper tier and the most modern of the bunch. Better than I expected in every way, really sucks it didn't get the success it deserved. My only complaints are some really bizarre bugs that broke the game (both in boss fights too) and some heinous hitboxes for certain attacks and objects.

 

[BigLee74]

Thanks for sharing. I might have to cross it off my to-play list now. I have never watched robocop and don't care to.


Play Killzone 2 if you can ^^

One of the most beautiful and best FPS games.

A lot of folk love Robocop (the game) so don’t let my opinion sway you too much. It was probably worth the £10 it cost me, so if you get it cheap you don’t have much to lose!

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Just wrapped up Paranormasight, exploring every branch and achieving the true ending Now diving into Shakedown: Hawaii, currently at 88 out of approximately 115 missions? Not sure.

How did you like it?

 

[yogaflame]

Finally I have my Ps5 version of Death stranding directors cut for Ps5. Will play this game this weekend.

 

[Dazraell]

I'm bouncing between doing some substories during Kiryu's part in Yakuza 5 and playing levels on a second world in Croc remaster

 

[hemo memo]

How did you like it?

The story was immersive, and mystery kept me engaged. The atmosphere and art style are creepy. Writing is dark, some of it genuinely unsettling. Story structure made it easy to follow, even with different paths. It has a 360-degree camera that adds to the environment's creepiness.

 

[Markio128]

I’m 25 hours into AC Shadows and currently progressing through Yasuke’s personal story and making my way towards some dude in Omi. The season has just changed to winter, so I’m finding it a bit more tricky to find my way, but it does look gorgeous, and the lighting and haze effects look really nice.

I like how some of the simple looking side missions (like the butterfly collector) have more to them than it first appears.

 

[forsakkenSoul]

I'm currently playing Nier Replicant on PC. Everything about it is top quality, apart from the dated graphics, obviously, since it's a remaster of a 2010 game. I just wish they'd invested more in the side quests, since most of them are pretty average. But apart from that, it's an excellent game overall.

 

[Humdinger]

I'm about 8 hours into Yakuza 3. It's better than I expected. I've played zero, 1-2, 6, and Gaiden. I needed to go back and play 3-5.

I just finished Pirate Yakuza. Before that, it was Gaiden: MwEHN and before that, Yakuza 6. So, a lot of Yakuza lately.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Finished Suikoden. This HD remaster was top notch. Polished up graphics and QoL features makes it a joy to play. It feels both modern and true to the original. Very subtle changes to the art in that it never even feels like a remaster. It makes you remember it just the way it was. Until you look up comparisons and you notice just how much better it looks. Say what you will anout Konami, but they make damn good remasters of their classic games.

 

[San Dan Glokta]

I'm currently playing Nier Replicant on PC. Everything about it is top quality, apart from the dated graphics, obviously, since it's a remaster of a 2010 game. I just wish they'd invested more in the side quests, since most of them are pretty average. But apart from that, it's an excellent game overall.

If this is your first playthrough you HAVE to continue playing after ending A!!!

 

[amigastar]

I've started Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri but it's not beginner friendly and also it's very old and the age shows.
But i hope to get the game mechanics and have fun.

 

[Grizzled Ghost]

Frog Detective 1: Super charming little adventure game.

Anodyne: Not a bad Zelda-like, but not great either. Clunky controls and too easy. I thought I'd like this one more.

 

[xrnzaaas]

I finished Martha is Dead and I don't really understand why this game is getting praise. On one hand it tries to remind about helping people with mental problems and suicidal tendencies (and it's doing this several times), but on the other hand there are pointless "heavy" scenes included in the game (I played the uncensored version). I didn't feel like they were there to emphasize the problem, more likely to cause controversy and have people talking about the game.
The main twist (or rather two) was pretty lame. I didn't notice any hints during the course of the game which could suggest that the story may eventually follow in that direction. Which is a shame because I liked the setting and gradually learning the story of Giulia's family.
The game feels more or less like a walking sim with only 2 bigger puzzles, but I enjoyed taking photos and meeting their requirements. The Tuscany in the game is beautiful, but the performance is all over the place. I played on XSX and there were moments when it definitely dropped below 30fps. Overall I'd give it a 6/10, I was definitely expecting a more memorable experience.

 

[Grizzled Ghost]

Cocoon - One of the best puzzle games I've ever played. The last hour and a half or so has some truly mind bending stuff. Amazing how many mechanics they crammed into a game that uses only 1 button, including genuinely fun boss battles. Loved the visuals and music.

Miles beyond their previous stuff (Limbo/Inside) imo.

 

[jmiller180]

NFS Unbound. Picked it up for 50% off a year ago and just getting around to it. Have only played the story mode thus far, but really enjoying the gameplay (story itself is forgettable, a lot of cringe). First NFS game since NFS Rivals over a decade ago. Having much more fun with this than Forza Horizon 5, which started out great but I dropped after a few hours.

 

[DrumNBassDanTTV]

The First Berserker: Khazan and Unicorn Overlord, both very good.