It was 12:14'27 - took a screenshot of the final stats.

It's my best halo but it's shit

Moot_Geeza wrote:

For AAA games you have to condition yourself to laugh in the face of optional side quests and ignore all unnecessary booty. Don't roll with the completionists; just have fun and move on. There are far too many games I want to play these days for me to bother wringing extra value out of something I've already had my fill of/fun with. Another one was probably released while I typed this.

I'm pretty good at not getting sucked into collecting all the stuffs unless I'm really enjoying collecting the stuffs. It's more just being able to commit myself to sitting down and playing for a few hours. I tend to get distracted easily.
I aim to be better!

Stranger's Wrath, PC.

Hard, no upgrades, all outlaws captured alive, 10 hidden barrels found, 24 deaths (5 in the last timed section, which is always a git).  Interesting to play it with mouse and keyboard for the first time (played half that way).

Lost track of the times I've completed it, always a pleasure.

Next time will be on Switch as my son is bound to buy it.

regmcfly wrote:

That's Leon A route down in 3 days in resi 2. By fuck what an amazing trip down memory road with resi 4 trappings. Cannot speak more highly about it and ready to go into Claire's story. I got a B btw.

I'm pretty sure I've already saved way too much to get a decent rank, from what I remember of the system

I have this on pc. Never played it though.

Kingdom Hearts III. While not perfect, it was basically everything I wanted from the end of the saga. Plus by far the best Disney content to date.

Oooh. Nice. Have it on the ol pile o shame and have been tempted.

Spiderman ps4

A fun game, if overly long. If they had trimmed the fat it would have been a better game for it. Finshed main story and side mission. 74% of the campaign completed. Once credits rolled, disc was ejected and swapped for RE2 remake in cex within 30mins.

7

Yeah, I haven't played it, but I was interested to read about how they've changed the mechanics to a more RPG stat driven loot and perks approach. I suspect they're testing the waters here to work out if they can get away with the next FarCry being a lot of gamesasaservice/lootbox/microtransaction bollocks.

Horizon Zero Dawn
Finished the night before its second birthday.

I've put about 53 hours into it, and I'm still not sure how I feel about it. I found all the collectibles, did all cauldrons, tall necks, bandit camps and corrupted zones. The only things I didn't bother with are the hunting grounds, ancient armour and tutorial quests. So there was something there that I enjoyed.

Most sessions were doing some (side) quests, getting annoyed by something, and then preparing for my next session by collecting some medicine herbs if needed, plan my route, sell stuff at merchants etc. That way at least the start of the next session should be easy enough.

Can't say that I enjoyed the fighting that much, and I ignored it whenever I could. Which you can, running away is usual an option, or just trying to sneak between the bushes. Bandit camps were a lot more fun when I started using the sling shot, just set the path on fire that the ai will take to get to you.
I've had two fights that I really enjoyed, both were with a bigger robot, and in a more open space. Felt like a lot of the fights were in places that were too cramped, it's no fun getting stuck between scenery when a robot is breathing fire in your direction. Or fall to your death because you roll off a ridge by accident. (spoilered the two fights, one of them was part of the story).

As for the story, I don't think I care about it that much. B said he really enjoyed it, and was surprised how they'd put it all together, a lot of it was done very late into development (he only missed about 8 months).
I'm just wondering if games like this can actually pull it off to tell these kinda stories. The world is beautiful to walk around it, at any moment you can stand still and look around and it's interesting. There's a lot around that you can interact with, the next thing to do is never far away and it feels very solid. I really enjoyed the climbing, yes it was very straightforward but it felt really good.
Then a cutscene starts, there's awkward facial expressions, cramped camera angels, sometimes weird shader glitches, not all conversations are of the same quality and it doesn't always hold up.

Still, the game is quite an achievement. And to think it took a bit of convincing Sony to let them actually make it (if I remember it right they weren't that blown away by it when development started). Second anniversary today and 10 million copies sold.

Was it the purple car you latched onto?  That was my fave.

I did use that a bit for the final third but mostly it was the nippy purple one with the crap nitro boost.

Strider 2014. Loved it. The best way I can describe it is Strider meets Shadow Complex, not just for the Metroidvania elements, but the graphical style felt very similar to SC, but with a Strider skin on top.

I thought that the various moves and abilities you pick up during the game were a great addition to the core Strider experience of plasma sword + the ability to climb everything in sight, expanding movement options, giving ranged attacks and variations on weapons that gave you nice defensive and offensive options. I particularly liked the fact that one of these options allowed you to take down some of the larger enemies in a fraction of the time that you would otherwise, the game making you stronger through new tools rather than adjusting some numbers.

If there are any criticisms that I could make, it's that the combat does tend towards spamming X even while using your abilities for crowd control, and the multiple small but connected maps made backtracking to clear up collectibles trickier than it should have been, but other than that, this is an A-tier Metroidvania for me.

Titantanfall 2 is my favorite fps of recent years.