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Last year's list Surprised I haven't been a game this year until today. 1. DOOM: The Dark Ages This honestly wasn't on my radar, I thought the dark ages thing meant it wasn't a traditional Doom game, but boy was I wrong. I liked it a hell (no pun intended) of a lot more than Doom Eternal. It had similar things where certain attacks would refill various things (armor, weapons, health, etc) but I think you weren't limited to one method per stat. Like, I think using the flamethrower would give you armor back, while using a melee would give you ammo back or something like that. This seemed to combine a few, so it felt like there were many different ways to refill your stuff. Being able to parry was a neat addition, but it's not something I need in other Doom games. I loved being able to throw your shield (eventually you get the ability to bounce it between enemies, Captain America style) and have it stick to a guy, which would basically stun it. I ended up mainly using the shield charge to get close to an enemy and blast it in the face with the super shotgun, rinse and repeat until most enemies were dead. I doubt that's as viable a strategy at higher difficulties though. There were a few levels where you would fly on a dragon, and a few where you'd pilot a mech and honestly, while they were neat, I don't really want to do those things in a Doom game. The mech at least felt cool, the dragon not as much. The dragon kind of boiled down to locking onto a turret, dodging its attack, and then counterattacking, no real crazy strategy, which made it pretty boring. The thing I never got tired of was the sensation of being this big, powerful guy. Your steps (at least when you're running) boom with each footstep, when you jump from a decently high area, you can land and create a shockwave that kills a bunch of fodder enemies, which was a lot of fun.
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1. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (Gold Medal, 64:07 😎) 1a) Doom (1993) 2) Donkey Kong Country Returns Remastered (200%, All Kong Letters, Puzzle Pieces and Mirror Mode Levels Complete) 3) Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (100%, All Figurines) Now I remember why I didn't try to 200% it. A few really cool levels and the Mine Cart and Rocket Blast levels were more creative (tbh thought giving the Rocket Barrel two hearts was a bit of a cop-out). Water levels weren't all that great and I didn't think the additions of Dixie and Cranky added all that much to the game beyond the water levels and a few secrets they were needed for. Bosses took way too many hits, and Hard Mode denying you save points while forcing you to collect all the Kong Letters without being hit makes it feel similar to time trials, not worth going for.
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9.) South of Midnight Fantastic story, decent exploration, middling combat. I really enjoyed the characters, atmosphere, and general story which felt a little bit like a synthesis of Wizard of Oz meets Alice in Wonderland by way of a Southern Gothic style. Very entertaining all around. My only major complaint here is the game commits one of the cardinal sins of a story for me in that it foreshadows/sets situations up too blatantly so that you figure out what's going on WAY before the character does, and running through until the point they catch up with you just feels obnoxious and grating. Level design was fun but mechanics could get a little repetitive. Exploration and collectibles were straight forward, but still hidden well enough I didn't manage to get everything in one play through. Combat was the only weak spot overall, I felt. There was nothing particularly wrong with it. It functioned as it was meant to, and was serviceable. It just felt a bit divorced from the rest of the game (to the point that every point combat happens is basically cordoned off in its own little arena), and didn't really feel like it flowed well with the rest of the game. Overall, I did have a lot of fun with it though.
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Gonna get as close to day 1 as possible, RIP a paycheque or two to buy it though
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Today's Birthdays - Psycho666Soldier
Vic Boss replied to Birthday Greeter's topic in General Insanity
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1. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (Gold Medal, 64:07 😎) 1a) Doom (1993) 2) Donkey Kong Country Returns Remastered (200%, All Kong Letters, Puzzle Pieces and Mirror Mode Levels Complete) Fuck doing time trial gold medals, but otherwise, can still ball with that game. Mirror Mode felt easier than last time I did it. Controls felt a bit off to me at first but I got used to them pretty quick.
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8.) Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain This is a series that I've always been interested in, but never actually got around to playing ever. Since they just did the remaster for Soul Reaver 1 & 2, and they ran a Kickstarter for a super cool looking encyclopedia thing for the series, I figured I'd finally give it a shot and of course needed to start with the original one. XD You can really feel the age on this one, but damn it must have been a great game when it originally came out. The controls and menus and such are a bit painful to work with nowadays, but I can forgive that for just how much the game was trying to do for the time it came out. There was a lot to be impressed with when keeping things in perspective and I had a lot of fun playing it overall. Looking forward to eventually playing the rest. Also didn't realize that Amy Hennig was heavily involved in these games, so that's kind of neat seeing her older work.
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Happy birthday to: Psycho666Soldier (35) Wishing you all the best! What did you get? What did you do?
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The Switch 2 will be out June 5th, and will sell for $449 in the US, along with a bundle that includes the new Mario Kart World, for $500. The Switch 2 will run up to 1080/120hz undocked, and up to 4K/60hz docked. Check out the official Nintendo Switch 2 website for more information
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Finished up season 2 today. That show hit pretty hard at the end. There was a heavy setup for season three in the last episode of season 2. I can't decide if I would rather binge all of season 3 in one go (after is it out in like 2027 or whatever) or watch the weekly releases.
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Zau was a great game. Just long enough to feel satisfying and ended before it became a drag. The movement and the platforming(and the boss fights) were definitely the highlights for me gameplay wise. I found the combat zones to be tedious, though
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Happy birthday to: webhead (39) Wishing you all the best! What did you get? What did you do?
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6.) Tales of Kenzara: Zau Saw this one a while back on the Game A(d)wards and it looked interesting. Finally took some time to play it and am glad I did. Solid story and gameplay all around. Pretty competent (but not overly difficult) Metroidvania style game that didn't feel overwhelming and had a fun combat system that involved switching between 2 masks that change your powers and damage type. Really enjoyed the story overall and had a lot of fun playing through it. 7.) (PSVR2) Behind Your Eyes Interesting if short and gimmicky VR game. The game controls off of blinking, and is presented as your life flashing before your eyes after you've died. Basically, the more you blink, the faster the scenes go by and you can miss details or important things about the story if you do. It's a really cool concept in theory, but I found playing it to ultimately be super frustrating because the game indicating not to blink just makes you want to blink that much more. XD Luckily they added an option to not use the eye tracking and just hit a button to "blink" so I ended up switching to that half way through. I enjoyed it well enough, but it seemed really linear (would have to play through it again to see if anything changes with seeing more of the scenes), and there wasn't much to it. It ended up being a pretty sad story, but that's a bit expected. Managed an interesting twist near the end that I didn't actually see coming right away though, so it gets some points there.
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Happy birthday to: Lucy -- Wishing you all the best! What did you get? What did you do?
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Happy birthday to: Shade Aurion (39) Wishing you all the best! What did you get? What did you do?
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Happy Birthday dude wherever you are. Hopefully just busy and still alive
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Happy birthday to: dr. b (41) Wishing you all the best! What did you get? What did you do?
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Went out to eat and otherwise just messed around at home. Had just got over being sick for a couple weeks, so not a lot of energy at that point. XD
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Today's Birthdays - Mera'din
Psycho666Soldier replied to Birthday Greeter's topic in General Insanity
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Happy birthday to: Mera'din (41) Wishing you all the best! What did you get? What did you do?
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1. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (Gold Medal, 64:07 😎) - I can see why this was so well loved back in the day. Cute, fun, easy to play, new twists and wrinkles thrown at you through about 3/4s of the game to keep you interested. Side quests are there if you want and easy. Probably would've hated some of it more if it wasn't for the QOL improvements that the Switch version added. - I liked the Twilight Town plot twist the most - Bowser felt shoe-horned in and wasted, though I absolutely fucking loved when he Solid well-done RPG all around. 1a) Doom (1993) First episode definitely the best. Fourth episode was not fun. Still love the sound effects and how visceral it is to kill the shit out of things. Have it listed as 1a because part of me still wants to try to platinum (probably won't happen, beating the hardest difficulty on co-op is way too rough) and part of me also at least still wants to try the speed run trophy (the only other trophy I didn't get).
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1. Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons 2. Disco Elysium 3. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth 4. :ps1: Final Fantasy VIII 5. Tales of Kenzera: Zau 6. Animal Well 7. Tunic 8. Dragon Ball Sparking Zero 9. Dark Cloud 10. Pseudoregalia 11. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door 12. Teslagrad 2 Just rounding out the rest of the list I finished. I did my usual write-ups for Dark Cloud and Pseudoregalia on a different forum a while ago and just forgot to catch it up here. Dark Cloud 7.5/10 Pseudoregalia 8.5/10 Last two from the year. Pushed this off too long, so I'm not gonna go full review mode. TTYD is incredible and the remake does it wonderful justice. First time I beat it all the way through, absolutely love the story, the characters, the setting, the mechanics. This is peak Paper Mario. Peak Mario RPG tbh. Hoping it sold well and convinces Nintendo to make a proper faithful Paper Mario sequel with full RPG mechanics and FUCKING PARTNERS. 9/10 Teslagrad 2 felt like it maybe could have been a bit longer, and I wasn't as immersed in the setting the way I was with the first one. The main campaign is definitely way too short. But if you take the time to go through and do all the extra challenges and find the extra upgrades, there are some awesome uses of platforming in this game. Honestly, the platforming feels really smooth and clean and is just fun to move around once you get a few key upgrades. Hope the dev team keeps working on stuff and maybe makes something just a bit bigger next time. 8/10
