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What Games Have You Been Playing Recently
Welu:
I've been playing a lot of games lately.
I started Death Stranding back in November but took a break between Jan to April. I had a lot of fun running around the world. The cycle of take a mission, deliver the thing, was very satisfying to me. Playing as Norman Reedus was fun. The story and characters are very Hideo Kojima in the best way. I was so excited about this game that I got the tied-in PS4 pro and it is still one of my favourite things I own. Even the piss yellow controller is still novel to me, but I also had a transparent Gameboy when I was younger.
I finished it a couple weeks before my next planned game so I played the Final Fantasy VIII remaster. FFVI - FFX are games I've played a million times and I would call them my comfort media. It was fun to revisit. I'm very forgiving with aesthetics in my games but some of the backgrounds looked dreadful. Very blurry and blocky and the nicely smooth rendered character models did not gel together a lot of the time. Made a lot of use with the booster buttons. It was nice to replay the story without worrying about the grind.
Then! FINAL FANTASY VII remake!! I loved this. I was cautiously excited for this game since it was announced and playing the demo back in January somehow both got my hopes up and made me more worried. There were so many moments where I felt like the game had perfectly filled in the gaps my imagination made up for when playing the original game. I loved that this had silly extravagant moments and could be serious without being Dark and GrittyTM. There was one moment where I was so overwhelmed with joy and excitement I teared up. (click to show/hide)on the bridge when you see Aerith in her dress. Aerith/Cloud was probably my first ship and I am so attached to Aerith as a character this moment hit me so hard. I also really liked the combat, it simply flowed smoothly for me. Weird because I didn't click with Kingdom Hearts combat style at all and this is similar, I did a bit better with FFXV (which I need to go back to and finish) but something about FFVII Remake just worked for me. I'm going back to it in bits to chip away at trophies.
Finally I played The Outer Worlds. Spouse got it for me for my birthday. It was fun and made me laugh. I got attached to the companions, especially Parvati and her side quest. (click to show/hide)Also she's asexual (she says she's "not into physical stuff") and there was a dialogue option that was like "I'm the same." which meant a lot to me. I will come back to this. It had a lot of Fallout 1 and 2 flavour which was nice to experience again. I like that the choices usually weren't clear black and white evil or good.
And that's it for now. I'm planning on starting Breath of The Wild next.
Grognard:
I've been playing a lot of Minecraft recently.
Combat games are currently frowned upon.
and horror?
those are right out.
TheEvilDog:
Been playing Persona 4 Golden the last couple of weeks, finished it last night. Its a great game, fun and enjoyable, with the majority of the cast likeable and unique. (click to show/hide)But oh my god, burn in hell Teddie.
oddtail:
I returned to Planescape: Torment for the first time in... I dunno, 5 years? 10 years?
Holy crap, it still holds up, SO much better than I'd anticipated. It's even better than I remember. It aged very gracefully, I would say.
cybersmurf:
I threw 20€ at EA some time ago. Luckily, it was over Steam, and a share went to Petroglyph. Yes, I went down Nostalgia Road, and got C&C and RA Remastered. And that's basically what it is: Nostalgia. They amped up the engine and graphics, but everything else basically is what it was 25 years ago. ... Aaaand I just made myself feel old.
Also, I preordered Horizon: Zero Dawn for PC, and I'm hyped. I've seen most of the game on Twitch, but I still want to play it myself, it's just such a good story IMHO.
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