TheMightyEthan

Death Stranding Director's Cut let's fucking goooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Death Squared This is another cool little puzzle game. You control two cubes, one with each stick, and have to move them around to solve various puzzle rooms. Some of the puzzles took a long time to figure out, but I was never frustrated, I always felt like I could figure it out. The only frustration that I had was from accidentally moving the wrong cube and getting myself killed, which is on me. 4/5

You can't make this shit up.

Innerspace and Tiny Metal, both of these were on sale really cheap on PSN. @toxicitizen when I first saw your post the way the images lined up on my phone made me think it was some weird combo pack of AC and FF ?

Not till August, I just pre-ordered it. You do get immediate access to the PS4 version of the base game if you do that though.

We've needed this thread for a long time, so I'm starting it. It's for games you're done with, but haven't actually beat. Persona 5: Strikers I'm just not having fun with this game. I got it after playing Age of Calamity, but I don't think the musou style fits this setting nearly as well, and I don't like the way they've implemented it. The way musou games usually work, you're running around on a big ass field fighting armies of enemies, capturing strategic points, etc. In P5S, you're sneaking through "jails" (very similar to the palaces in regular P5), and when you engage enemies you go into a kind of battle mode to fight them just like the regular game, except you're fighting with musou mechanics. The thing is, there's typically only a few enemies at a time (there were occasional larger battles, but they were few and far between), and the thing that makes musous fun is running around demolishing whole armies of guys. It's just not engaging. It has out-of-combat sections as well, where you're running around talking to people, investigating, etc. It's trying to feel like a real Persona game, and to some extent it succeeds, but it suffers from a similar problem to the combat: it's simultaneously too similar, but not similar enough. There's no life sim elements, no time limits (all time advancement is story-driven), and other than your teammates the people you're talking to aren't fleshed out characters, they typically just say one line and act as a checklist to trigger the next story beat. Again, not engaging. Part of me is kind of impressed how much this feels like a real Persona game, it definitely fits, but they clearly didn't know what parts to keep and what to change. 2/5

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

I just can't even...

Careful that they aren't just faking the emissions results. ? Seriously though, that's awesome.

Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut Hell yeah

Yeah, more games need stuff like that, friendly fire sucks. Update: I am not through my backlog.

Tales of Vesperia - I've wanted to try another Tales game for a while, this one is supposed to be one of the best, and it's on sale for $10 on PSN right now. Ghostrunner - Same PSN sale, now I just need to wait for the PS5 version. Death Squared - Same PSN sale, little puzzle game that looks neat.

Active Neurons 3 The third and final (so far) game in the Active Neurons series, I'd say this was the best, and also the hardest. It's great to play via remote play from a phone screen, and I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who likes little puzzle games. 5/5

Yeah, I don't remember specifically what it was, I just remember after I finished it I didn't really care what happened next.

The first time I got through book 4, the second time I started from the beginning again since it had been so long, and that time I got through book 5. Of the ones I've read, I definitely thought Wizard & Glass was the best. The only other Stephen King book I've read was Firestarter, but I absolutely love that book.

I have tried and failed to read that series twice.

From what I've heard it's still bad but not too the extent of being broken on base PS4 anymore, and on PS4 Pro it's okay.

Yeah, I'm really looking forward to what they can do with a sequel.

Star Wars: Jedi: Fallen Order This game was pretty good. I must have just been in the wrong mood when I tried to play it before, because I bounced off pretty early, but this time I really enjoyed it. The reason for your galaxy spanning adventure is kind of contrived, but the adventure itself is fun and works well. My biggest complaint is that there's a little bit too much going back to the same places over and over. I get that this is a soulslike, and that's how those are, but when it's different planets it doesn't work as well as when it's like a city or something that you're going through. But really that's a pretty minor complaint, and on the whole I was very much along for the ride. 4/5

This was my most hype announcement.

Yeah, I mean look at this shit: That's at least 4 entirely different levels that you just go through one after the other.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart This game is fantastic, it felt like a Nintendo game in the best way possible. I was a little wary because I wasn't a huge fan of R&C 2016, but the reviews were so good and I wanted a true next-gen game to play. The reviews were warranted, if anything I think it's slightly underrated. I can't exactly put my finger on what about it is so much more fun than 2016, but it just feels better to play overall. There wasn't a single point in the game where I was like "do I really have to do this?", including the minigame segments. That's an achievement. The best way I can praise it is to say that before this game I didn't care about R&C as a franchise, and now I'm definitely an R&C fan. Can't wait for the next one. 5/5 *As an aside, I also think the rift tech is more impressive than people give it credit for. I've seen people say we've had games that do this before, like Titanfall 2's Effect and Cause (still one of the best levels in any shooter ever), or Dishonored 2's A Crack in the Slab, but this game doesn't just change between two different versions of the same level, there are several points throughout where you go at speed through rifts between multiple entirely different levels in rapid succession. Even though you usually are only spending a few seconds in each level when that happens, you can see enough to tell it's actually loaded in the whole level, or at least most of it, then it's on to the next, and then the next. It's insane.

Even with stuff like sports games, there's all kinds of social/political issued tied up in real world sports, so if you're having real or semi-real leagues/teams in your game then you're back to the "tacitly supporting the status quo" thing if you don't comment on it. And then with unrealistic stuff like Knockout City you get into stuff like is it a mixed-gender game or are all the characters male? Either way you're taking a (however watered-down) political position.

I'm not done with it yet, and I don't think it'll unseat Returnal for me as my favorite PS5 exclusive, but it's really really good. And yeah, it's gorgeous. I've been playing in RT Performance mode, and it's amazing, better image quality than some native 4k games I've seen even though in this mode it tops out at 1440p.

I thought that game had the same problem as the Square Avengers game: it just looked like off-brand MCU characters. At least it's not always-online.