My first time playing Bioshock (which was after the initial release, as it was a 360 exclusive for a while and I only had a PS3), I kept thinking how similar it all was to System Shock 2 and wondering why everyone thought it was so novel!
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Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite are both trash but I have a soft spot for Bioshock 2 (and I never even got to play Minervaās Den).
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Started up Witcher 3 again and realized I hadnāt played it in over a year
Was totally disoriented and lost but started following the yellow dotted line to apparently pursue a serial killer
Got to look at a maimed naked old lady corpse and then get attacked by six dogs
Turned it off after that
After dragon quest xi I really donāt know if I can tolerate this level of mature gaming anymore
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The file select screen claims that I got 30 game overs (which equals roughly 90 deaths), but Zelda 2 has been finally finished.
what a game
The last time I tried beating the game in earnest was in 2011, and that attempt ended shortly after I reached the infamous dead end in the Great Palace. This time I chose the right path , and cleared that palace without too much trouble (only 2 or 3 game overs).
The combat is excellent (and has been talked about to death). Besides the points that Iāve seen brought up before, I love how your sword pushes you backwards on contact with an enemy/wall (and not just the enemy). It adds a nice degree of physicality to the swordplay that is missing in a lot of other 2D swordy games.
(That said, I have no idea how youāre expected to beat dark Link without doing the crouch-in-the-corner strat.)
I also love how willing the game is to just throw you in the deep end ā I mean, you canāt get the candle without traversing a dark cave. The first thing you encounter on the eastern continent are enemies that you literally cannot damage. The Great Palace has enemies where, even at max level, the only sensible strategy is to run. etc, etc. These moments really help the game maintain its formidable atmosphere.
I donāt think the game necessarily needs a proper follow-up, but it surely deserves one.
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BioShock 2 is the only good BioShock tbh. Minervaās Den is good too but I felt underwhelmed after how much it was hyped up.
WAY OF THE SAMURAI 4
Hey, I liked these back on the PS2! First thing I notice is how many women characters there are in lead roles! Thatās very progressiā¦
Okay, nevermind. Still, I enjoy the game, even if it doesnāt seem like itās evolved that much from the PS2 games. Iām sure there are cool new features though. Ah, hereās one, letās see how cool itā¦
There is a minigame called āYobaiā in which a samuraican romance a NPC by sneaking into their home at night, avoiding or knocking out family members, and pulling out the right futonto find them.[10]Even then, they will offer playful resistance, and player must try to throw them into bed. A turtlehead will guide the samurai to their target. The player can practice ānight crawlingā with most male and female characters in the game, as long as the requirements are fulfilled.
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whatever, Iām still enjoying it.
EDIT: turns out night crawling was a real thing back in the day! The game still somehow manages to make it creepier though!
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YOUāRE A GUNDAM ELEMENT
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Get in the robot Sykel.
With this crazy weather, Iāve spent a lot of time with the Sega Ages release of Phantasy Star, and it seems like the auto map and the handy item description menu page are what I needed to finally stick with this game.
I love how the party is far off the standard RPG model. It feels like there must have been some kind of mistake with their stats or something. Noah as the offensive mage is the only stock character. Odin is portrayed as this skeleton tossing buff dude in the artwork and in game heās the badass you NEED to recruit to properly avenge your brother, but in combat he has the shittiest stats by a wide margin. The dude gets no HP, heās third place in terms of damage, and in my game despite my efforts to prioritize the better armor for him to make up for his deficits, he still has a low defense score. Those fixed damage guns that only he can use donāt seem like a good bargain either. Odin sucks.
Meanwhile that talking cat thing who seems like itāll be the partyās healer quickly outclasses everyone else. The cat will hit for like three times the amount of damage as everyone else, gets tons of HP, and gets the best defensive spells. Alis as the vaguely well rounded hero doesnāt feel that well rounded as she has to take a back seat to this cat who can do everything.
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FF7 is great. My fav RPG I think. I havenāt really thought about that. But anyway, I wanted to say that a new mod just came out. They used AI to recreate the textures and the result is super stunning. I think someone said it makes it look like you remember it from the 90s and thatās true. Itās called the Remako mod. I donāt know if youāre a purist but if not definitely check it out.
Iām kinda sad that Soul Calibur 6 is getting a bad rep now on sb. I kinda like it. I donāt feel like itās a flop anyway. I played through the quest mode twice. But then I didnāt play it much after that. Still, I like itā¦
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Odinās guns are pretty good when you get stuck in a battle with 7 slimes that heās able to just kill outright in one turn. Otherwise, heās a bit of a mixed bag.
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I guess I gotta power through Isle of Sgail at least once in Hitman 2 to make the elusive target easier, but woof, what a wildly complex level.
Iām also slightly screwed, since one of the opportunities is bugged on my current run of it (the wine glass I need to poison is magnetically affixed to my disguise bearerās wrist).
Surely I can pull this off in the next, uh, 48 hours. Hopefully.
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iāve been meaning to replay this through this ever since i formatted my memory card on accident on the last disc like, 19 or 20 years ago. i made a few attempts, but always had trouble committing past the first chunk.
but now that thereās stuff out there thatāll tell me how to abuse materia it makes a bit more enticing.
eta: jessie was my favorite character. she makes fake ids and builds bombs for the eco terrorists. 
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I want to buy all the fake toys in kh3ās toy story world
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PS2
AEON FLUX
This one can be a bit unwieldy but I also kinda enjoy it. Has personality, and lots of leaping about and running on walls. The combat is the weakest part, but itās not horrible. I also like that one of the finishing moves lets you regain health. Also there are sequences where you climb into giant balls and the game turns into Marble Madness for a bit. Not great but not that bad either?
CATWOMAN
THIS on the other handā¦ actually does some interesting things! Really odd things that mostly donāt work, and also itās bad at telling you where to go so you end up stuck for ages! But I still admire the creators for trying a few interesting things even though they were making a game based on a movie everyone was going to hate. Or maybe thatās why they used it to experiment a bit. Also wow that movie was bad. I guess I should mention the different things it does. For one, there is no camera control (and it emulates the horrible camera angles from the movie, yay). The left stick controls movement direction, and the right stick attack direction. So itās like a robotron brawler? Also, you canāt kill enemies. Instead, you have to ātrapā them by knocking them into dumpsters and stuff. If you donāt, they just keep getting back up because as if a WOMAN could knock out a MAN!!! Okay I talked about this game enough
OUTRUN 2006: COAST 2 COAST
everyone here already knows this game is awesome, i wish my copy wasnt so beat up though
THE SIMPSONS ROAD RAGE
this is literally crazy taxi with the simpsons, like it plays EXACTLY like crazy taxi. and i like it! it actually made me laugh unlike the last 20 seasons of the show! and itās cool driving about springfield! of course, the city design is nowhere near as good as crazy taxi (mostly very flat and not enough clear landmarks) which is this games main failing, but this is still one of the better knock-offs
RADIO HELICOPTER
this is a D3 game so very very low budget, but like other D3 games, it also has lots of charm. Itās a radio controller helicopter game, basically you fly about town looking for missions to do, for example squirting water at cats sleeping on the top of cars. it doesnāt play as well as the Shiny PS1 game of course, and the camera can be awful, but i had fun with this one
ENTHUSIA
why have i only heard of this game here?? i think this is the best non-arcade racing game iāve played on the ps2. itās brilliant! looks great, sounds great, feels great. the points system is pretty genius, giving me actual reason to avoid slamming into walls and cars. lots of tinkering options but not overwhelming and i can mostly ignore it if i want. this is top stuff
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Iāve been meaning to try those Simpsons games now that Iām emulating the crap out of stuff. Iāve heard Hit & Run is a pretty good GTA-alike?
The Aeon Flux bit reminded me that I really need to dig up my copy of that Cavia Stand Alone Complex game.
Hit & Run is pretty fun, if I recall my time with it on the Gamecube
FINAL FIGHT STREETWISE
this is such a stupid game. itās trying to be a guy ritchie movie with the script and direction, but then you have minigames where you do a slide puzzle for a tattoo artist for cash, play darts with a sweet old lady, and squish roaches for a diner AND THEN after interrupting a guy getting a bj from a sex worker, you crush his head in a door to make him talk, AND THEN later he chases you in a forklift with spikes on it. the grittiness can get tiring and it is definitely not final fight but i kinda enjoy this game? itās fun running around the city doing odd jobs, and people keep running up to me saying how cool i am because i got lots of RESPECT UP and the fighting is super simple but enjoyable. iām not saying this is a good game, and itās a terrible final fight game, but i am having fun so there
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oh yeah? Well, my favourite character is Cecil from Final Fantasy IV. He looks like James May.
the thing i love about video games is that someone like you can describe one that is stupid and probably sucks, but their description is still something i would experience in a heartbeat
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Poison got cut from Streetwise and therefore it is garbage imo
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