I've kept an eye on it, and there is enough interest to keep these going for now. Though, if someone else prefers to do them, feel free.
Questions:
- What are you playing and on what platform(s)? Reviews?
- Did you pick up anything based on the last thread?
- Do you want recommendations? Genre(s)? Past enjoyed games?
Still playing Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero (eiyuu densetsu: zero no kiseki) via the Geofront fan patch. I didn't feel much drive to continue with Trails in the Sky, while the Steam free weekend for one of the Cold Steel games made it seem a little too much modern-weeb for me, but I gave the Trails series a 3rd and final chance in the form of Zero - and it's superb. Right up my alley, oozes charm and the best retro-feeling JRPG I've played since FF9. As a self-contained 2 game arc, I'm fine without knowing some of the extended Trails background I'm missing. The modern trappings like voice acting and improved soundtrack, which the fan patch added, are the whipped cream on the pie.
Also playing the remastered Yakuza games on Steam. Kudos for no Denuvo. I'm in the middle of Yak 4 atm after having recently beaten 3. There's a ton of problems with these games in terms of pacing and design, but despite that they always seem to be a guaranteed good time for me overall. Fucking around in video game Kamurocho seems like the closest thing I'll get to returning to Japan any time soon. The combination of the real life setting, side activities and likeable main chars with a smattering of overblown yakuza drama always eventually manages to put a smile on my face, even if I was raging at a shittily designed section mere moments before.
So I'm pretty Japan focused recently, but I have Doom 2016 and Eternal chambered and ready to go whenever I finish these.
2016 is much better than Eternal. I don't know why they decided to take one of the greatest fps shooters ever made and introduce 1) an ugly puke green color scheme 2) way more awkward platforming 3) immersion-destroying in-game enemy weakness explanations 4) a ton of new "videogamey" mechanics that pull you out of the game world.
I totally agree. I played in on Xbox and was hyped, I loved Doom 2016 and played through it several times--totally unusual for me, I don't replay games. I'm sooo glad I was too cheapskate and too busy when it launched, because I would have been so disappointed to have paid for Doom Eternal.
Main complaint, get the platforming out of my Doom game. I've actually died on a single platforming section more times than the rest of the time I'd played the game combined.
I just want to shoot shit. That's what Doom is about to me. Just let me shoot shit.
I actually really love Doom Eternal, I can see why some fans of 2016 didn’t like it, it’s a lot more difficult, more fast-paced, you can’t just sit back and mindlessly wreck everything with the ssg and infinite ammo rune like in 2016. As much as I love 2016 I think it’s kind of overrated just because it came out at a time when most fps were total shit garbage, and I appreciate Id trying to make something different instead of just shitting out the same game with like, two more guns and three or four new demons.