TheMightyEthan

Detroit: Become Human I really liked this game, definitely the best of David Cage's and Quantic Dream's. The character drama was actually pretty engaging, and the characters were all well-realized and well-performed. It's a little naive in its worldview, but the rest of it is good enough to make up for that. It's good enough that I'm working on the platinum. 4/5

Neat, maybe by the time the PS5 version comes out I'll be through my backlog and I can give this game a shot.

Lol, what is that?

Halo: Spartan Strike is on sale on Steam for $0.74, and I liked the first one, so here we are.

Only 51 hours to beat it? That's a lot shorter than I'd been hearing. That makes it a lot more attractive.

That looks cool. Hopefully it will be divorced enough from the first one that new players won't be lost.

I normally do pretty good at only buying games I actually want to play right now, but not this time.

Watch Dogs Legion (PS5) Best Buy has it on sale for $30, plus you get $10 rewards credit... Someone please stop me.

Star Wars: Squadrons Concrete Genie Kingdom Hearts: All in One Collection Sackboy: A Big Adventure DualSense controller Gamestop has a sale going on, and I had a gift card from trading in my PS4 Pro, so... (I already got the black friday ad, so I know all of these prices are less than or equal to the black friday price). *Edit - I don't know why the embeds aren't working, so I put the game names with each picture.

I've been kind of dabbling. I started New Game Plus on Miles Morales so I can get the platinum on that, I finished Bugsnax and Super Mario 3D All-Stars (thoughts in the Games You've Beat thread), and I started Detroit: Become Human from the PS+ Collection. I only played the first level of Detroit so far, but it definitely piqued my interest. The differing approaches was cool. Hopefully the rest of the game holds up. The most impressive thing is the graphics though. Like holy shit, I can't believe this is a PS4 game.

Bugsnax I enjoyed this game way more than I thought I would. It's kind of a puzzle-Pokemon with vaguely sinister overtones. Figuring out how to catch each Bugsnak is pretty satisfying, there are enough patterns that you feel like you have a place to start, without it ever seeming rote. It was a good length too, and had surprisingly well-developed characters, that each go through a real arc. Good enough that I platinumed it. 4/5 --- Super Mario Galaxy I liked this game better than I remembered it. It's still not as good as Sunshine though. I really like a lot of the worlds, especially the more abstract ones, but like Mario 64 I found myself fighting with the camera a lot, and Mario not moving the way I want/expect him to because of the weird camera angles. It wasn't all the time, but it when it happened it was extremely irritating. Good game, but not great. 4/5

Astro's is so good, and it's the one I would recommend you start with. I platinumed it in something like 4 hours. The only downside is that it makes such good use of the DualSense that all the other games will seem like letdowns in comparison. ? (Not that they're bad, just that they don't stand out as amazing like Astro's does.)

Fanatical has a big sale on, so I got Hover for $1.

There are a few training challenges Pete gives you where you're timed on how fast you can complete a given scenario, but there's no "limit", you just get a lower rating the longer you take.

Spider-Man: Miles Morales Holy shit this game is good, even better than Spider-Man 2018. They edited where it needed to be edited (there's only two kinds of upgrade resources now, instead of like 6, and the ability tree is simpler) while still maintaining what made the first game awesome, and adding stuff in some places (like his venom powers). The smaller scope I think helped too, it just felt more focused. And without spoilers, they did some really cool things with his rogues gallery. All in all it was just a really excellent follow-up to the last game. 5/5 *Edit - Just realized I never posted in here when I beat Astro's Playroom a few days ago. That is also a really excellent game, way better than it has any right to be as essentially a glorified tech demo for the DualSense. My only real complaint about it is that it's only four levels and isn't a full-sized game. 5/5

At least on PC they can be easily modded with fan translations.

Slight change to mine.

Rage 2 Played this on Gamepass, and it's pretty good. Way better than the first one, which I bounced off of a couple hours in. It's your basic open world game, but the fast paced shooting is fun, and I like the lighter tone they took with the world design. All the bandits have pink mohawks and that kind of stuff, it's not your typical grimdark post apocalypse. 4/5

Yeah, I'll probably cancel it after this month, but then get it again when The Medium comes out.

I ran out of stuff to play while waiting for my PS5, so I decided to get Gamepass since I qualified for a $1 introductory month. Tried several things on there, finally stuck on Rage 2. It's not the greatest game ever made, but it's quite a bit of fun. Much better than the first one so far.

I wasn't going by PR, I was going by what reviewers said, which is that if you haven't played the others you'll miss a few references here and there, but not anything that really matters to this game.

Not really.

Like a Dragon is a separate story with separate characters, you don't need to have played the others to play that one.