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started on The Case of the Golden Idol. Its' a lot better than it looks.

Ste, Thursday, 16 November 2023 17:50 (one year ago)

I'll try Alan Wake 2 after I finally finish picking my way through the Resident Evil 4 dlc (I've only been playing 1/2 hour at a time, and put it down for awhile).

Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2023 18:02 (one year ago)

Taking forever for a lot of the games I want to drop down in price, even on sale. I did finally pick up a used copy of Dead Space remake for $20, that's my usual trigger price, but seeing shit like RE4, or God of War:Ragnarok, or Lies of P, or Lords of the Fallen, or Plague Tale Requiem, or Last of Us Part 1 on sale for $40+, I just can't do it. Most of those are not that old, tbf, but still.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 November 2023 18:08 (one year ago)

Oh hey Alien: Isolation is ten bucks

Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2023 18:16 (one year ago)

started on The Case of the Golden Idol. Its' a lot better than it looks.

Believe it or not the DLC improves the presentation which was kind of jarring when I played it, but yeah, great detective game (which I actually prefer to Obra Dinn but I have bad taste).

Rimbaud: First Blood (Leee), Thursday, 16 November 2023 18:17 (one year ago)

ha interesting, think I'll definitely getting the dlc at some point.

Ste, Thursday, 16 November 2023 18:23 (one year ago)

I started Idol but I didn't really vibe with the puzzle system as much as Obra Dinn's. I may dig back into it though

reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 16 November 2023 18:51 (one year ago)

I think I agree with Lee, although Obra looks and sounds amazing, I think I prefer the puzzle mechanic in Idol. I mean it's nothing mega fantastic, just more my vibe.

Ste, Thursday, 16 November 2023 22:35 (one year ago)

Red Dead 1 (PS4) and God of War: Ragnarok (PS5) dropped down to $30 at a few places, and that price point (with some store credit) finally proved enticing to me. I can now complete the backlog cat fort I've been working on.

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 18 November 2023 14:21 (one year ago)

Nice - I just finished "God of War: Ragnarok" last week, and it was a blast. The graphic details are absolutely insane. I actually started back in January, played for 30 hours (and wasn't even at the halfway point by then), then took a hiatus because it was a bit of a slog. Then I completely started over a few weeks ago using the "Give Me Grace" difficulty setting (where combat is not as hard). I realized a few things about my playing style, adjusted accordingly, and then had a LOT more fun the second time around: 1) I skipped almost all of the side quests, which mostly weren't interesting to me, and focused on the main story, and 2) I forced myself to mix up combat techniques to keep things interesting (and there are a LOT of options for combat techniques).

It was also more fun once I just accepted it as being the absurd mythology mishmash that it is, with an even more absurd mix of accents (Mimir = Scottish, Atreus = Californian surfer, Brok = backwoods southern, Freya = Nancy from accounting, etc.)

ernestp, Saturday, 18 November 2023 18:43 (one year ago)

Red Dead 1 (PS4)

If you can get the version that comes with Undead Nightmare, that's probably the best DLC that Rockstar has done, I think.

reggae mike love (polyphonic), Saturday, 18 November 2023 19:40 (one year ago)

Yeah, it's included.

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 18 November 2023 21:22 (one year ago)

yep, it's a goodun

Ste, Sunday, 19 November 2023 01:00 (one year ago)

Another one I've been waiting for, the second Plague Tale, is on sale at a few places, including GameStop, which also has a promo where if you pick it up in the store you get another $5 off. But - and this seems highly unlikely - the GameStop site claims there are no new or used copies within 100 miles of where I live. Hmm.

Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 November 2023 15:48 (one year ago)

I just played through Golden Idol (but not its DLC) and I liked it more than Obra Dinn. I think the main thing I liked was that there were none of the audio sequences where you can't do anything. You can play Golden Idol at any speed you want, whereas Obra Dinn forces you to play slowly.

formerly abanana (dat), Sunday, 19 November 2023 22:16 (one year ago)

Just finished Alan Wake Remastered. What a blast, especially when it leans away from horror and leans instead into the weird and surreal, which is sort of the same deal as "Control." Honestly, just like that one I kind of tuned out of the story about halfway through, but I still enjoyed the beats and twists of its/their gibberish as well as the rhythm of combat, once it got more comfortable.

Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 November 2023 22:45 (one year ago)

Oh, wait, I guess there's DLC? So I have a little more to go, lol.

Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 November 2023 23:31 (one year ago)

I played the first DLC, but bailed on the 2nd one. They're pretty short, but I was itching to start AW2 already.

circa1916, Monday, 20 November 2023 14:25 (one year ago)

The AW DLCs are worth playing; they lean *much* harder into the surrealism. They're also a lot harder than the base game. I almost gave up on one of them, but I'm glad I didn't.

I picked Control back up last night, and I'm about where I left off originally, I think. IDK why but it's feeling much easier this time around (and I haven't even tweaked any of the accessibility settings).

feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Monday, 20 November 2023 14:57 (one year ago)

I suspect that's a hallmark of good design, though there's a chicken/egg element to it: do games get easier because you get used to the controls/combat/whatever, or are the games designed/paced to ensure you get used to the controls/combat/whatever by a certain point? I'd be curious, with something like, say, Dark Souls ... obviously it never clicks with some people, for many reasons, for those that start out struggling but eventually "git gud," I wonder if a lot of people "git gud" around the same point in the game? Are infamous "skill check" bosses and stages inserted based on game testing, where/when the designers think the player should finally have a good feel for things? I know a lot of people complained about the first boss of "Armored Core" being among the toughest, which iirc turned a lot of people off until they tweaked the difficulty.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 20 November 2023 16:29 (one year ago)

Finished Alan Wake's special episode 1, started he second, which has a really awesome rotating building maze set piece.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 02:55 (one year ago)

Picked up a Series S on a good Black Friday deal and it comes bundled with three months of Game Pass Ultimate for free - I like metroidvanias, rouglites and platformers so if there's any recommendations for Game Pass stuff that fits the bill I'd love to hear about it!

bain4z, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 09:44 (one year ago)

similarly just got the fat PS5 on a BF clearance deal, the price was too good to pass up -_-
what's the cheapest way to play games? should I just get PS Extra for a month and play the backlog on that?
can you still get cheap PS credit or are those days long gone?

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 10:22 (one year ago)

you could play thru a lot of good games on PS Plus before you needed to buy anything else. the down side i guess is that some of those games are only on there for a limited time

Tyler Perry's Cystitis (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 10:34 (one year ago)

oh do they rotate out often? does the first party stuff stay permanently?

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 10:38 (one year ago)

i don't know which are first party developers tbh. most stuff is there for a good long time, i see Returnal for example has been on there for over a year now. but some of the triple A stuff seems to last for a few months at most

Tyler Perry's Cystitis (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 10:47 (one year ago)

ok thx. guess I'll just do that first.
now trying to login to the PS website for the first time in a couple of years, still a pain to navigate

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 10:57 (one year ago)

lol when you manage to get logged on you can always just browse thru the library yourself and see if you think it's worth it

my sub has lapsed at the moment cos i'm skint but tbh i was mainly in it for playing all the old Atelier games on the Classics list

Tyler Perry's Cystitis (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 10:59 (one year ago)

it's also good for new but short indies like Lake which i'd've felt kinda robbed by if i'd actually paid full price

Tyler Perry's Cystitis (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 11:01 (one year ago)

Did you (xposting) get one with a drive, or a digital model? The cheapest way is to find used discs. In fact, the cheapest method is to find used PS4 games that have a free upgrade to PS5. Like, Cyberpunk (I paid $10) or Miles Morales (less than $20). A few good ones have modest fees for upgrading, like Ghost of Tsushima or Control. Even digital, I think there are always some good sales. Like, the complete Witcher 3 is $15 right now, that includes the PS5 version.

I never had PS Plus or whatever, and they recently raised their prices, but if I had had it from the start there were a lot of good games cycling in and out of there. Of course, you have to keep paying to play them, so that I assume adds up.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 13:12 (one year ago)

yes got a fatty with the hard drive. that PS4 upgrade tip is good, will definitely look into that.

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 13:22 (one year ago)

oops meant disc drive, they all come with a hard drive

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 13:26 (one year ago)

still thinking of going xbox for this gen since i like forza horizon and dont like any of sony's first party offerings. xbox + switch used to not cover all jrpgs but i think it finally does now

ciderpress, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 13:42 (one year ago)

finally managed to log in to the PS website, my old password didn't work but sending out a password reset email was a bit too hard for them apparently
apparently I last played my PS4 in Dec 2020, but bought some cheap JPRGs after that in sales and never booted them up. Crystar anybody?!?!

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 13:51 (one year ago)

even the cheap tier of PS+ gives you some generic crap to play every month but i'm basically still in for multiplayer access. sometimes you get lucky and they put good old stuff in, probably even better if you haven't played anything new in 3 years

Nhex, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 15:17 (one year ago)

Yeah it me

Tyler Perry's Cystitis (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 15:18 (one year ago)

the sales are very frequent, recommend using dekudeals to keep track though the PS store wishlist system is actually not bad - Sony sends you notifications when something is on sale

Nhex, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 15:19 (one year ago)

still enjoying control with all the assist mode features on but i wish it was more trippy puzzles and a lot less going into a room and blasting away at 30 bad guys who all look exactly the same and like every bad guy you've blasted in every other room

saw that cocoon is on sale (a little bit - down from $25 to $20) so i'll probably pick that up

na (NA), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 15:24 (one year ago)

Good reminder for Cocoon, the reviews have been excellent!

A few good ones have modest fees for upgrading, like ... Control.

Do you mean the Ultimate Edition? Because I got the regular version on PS4 not long after it came out, and when Ultimate and PS5 were announced, I distinctly remembered an outcry that the regular version couldn't be upgraded to a PS5.

Rimbaud: First Blood (Leee), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 16:13 (one year ago)

yeah - especially annoying if you owned the Ultimate Edition with all the expansions on PS4, it felt kind of silly that they didn't just give you the PS5 version as everyone else was doing those early days for the PS5. extra weird: it was given out on PS+ fairly soon after it came out too

to me, far more annoying that the save file didn't transfer from PS4 to PS5 and I didn't feel like starting all over again (still might someday, I guess)

doesn't matter to new players now, which is good because the game is still well worthwhile

more backlog idiocy: i bought FF VII remake on PS4 disc over a year ago, never opened it, but it came with a free PS5 digital upgrade to Intergrade. You still needed to pay for the special Yuffie DLC "Intermission" that came with the PS5 edition, but with the current sale you can just buy the full PS5 package for $16, or about half what I then paid for the PS4 disc. I am a fool and I never learn.

Nhex, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 16:32 (one year ago)

i try to never buy games that im not planning to play immediately, except for nintendo stuff

ciderpress, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 16:36 (one year ago)

Huh, yeah, maybe not Control, then. But there are a handful of free upgrade games out there. The Spider-man game upgrade path is pretty circuitous, iirc. You can buy Miles Morales for PS4, upgrade for free to PS5, which unlocks the ability to pay extra to buy Spider-man PS5/Remastered. Something like that. Unless they changed it.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 21:33 (one year ago)

OK, so you know how I mentioned that Game Stop showed A Plague Tale: Requiem on sale new and even cheaper used, but supposedly unavailable within 100 miles? I called the local store, so I know for a fact that it *is* available closer than 100 miles, within 15, but it's not showing up as available to purchase online and pick-up in store, which means I can't take advantage of the promotion that knocks another $5 off. Bullshit, right? Well, here's another one. I see that Walmart is going to sell RE4 Remake for $30, $10 off the current sales. The catch? You have to sign up for Walmart+ (whatever that is). That low + price kicks in at 11am my time, so fine, I sign up for a 30-day trial. And within minutes ... the game (which had been selling at full price, $60) suddenly shows up as out of stock? WTF, two hours before the sale? So sketchy.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 15:24 (one year ago)

NM, sale went live right on schedule, I am now a proud owner of RE4 Remake.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 19:03 (one year ago)

OK, *now* I finished Alan Wake Remastered. Game itself is solid, DLC is fine and kind of pointless, though the second one was a lot of fun.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 22:13 (one year ago)

Just started Sea Of Stars. It's very much a love letter to Chrono Trigger and while it's too early to tell if this will be worth my while, I'm enjoying it so far. Seem to be a lot of these sorts of 16 bit jrpg tributes out now but this one is pretty sweet and even has some of the music by the same composer as CT

...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Thursday, 23 November 2023 01:03 (one year ago)

Finished RE4 remake dlc, and after not drinking for awhile I had some Thxgiving cocktails and bought Resident Evil Village at some point.

Also my partner & I finished Cocoon, so great.

Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 24 November 2023 03:52 (one year ago)

Can't wait for that one to go on sale. Just started Wolfenstein New Colossus, seems pretty audacious already.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 November 2023 04:16 (one year ago)

got the PS5 set up and borrowed FFXVI from a friend to try it out
friend said "it's not good" but I've played all the others so might as well
also bought Cyberpunk PS4 really cheap 2nd hand as it comes with free upgrade (thanks Josh for the hot tip!)

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 24 November 2023 04:36 (one year ago)

took a lot of faffing around but remote play PS5 on a deck feels like voodoo
plays flawlessly so far, fuck a portal

https://i.imgur.com/lJNQiuJ.jpg

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 24 November 2023 13:57 (one year ago)


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