Why does it have all that platforming?!?
Wait I played Hylics 2, does 1 have all that platforming too
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Completed the first set of stages in armoured core 3 vanilla (there are FIVE of these) and while a lot of its surface pleasures are empty compared to 4A and VD moreso than the other four i played this more than the rest is a beautiful template for how well this series could work in VR. Seeing this square darting around the screen searching for the next lock on al though it was going head to head with zone of the enders 1 for who would survive The Machine’s 7th reincarnation is very satisfying even if the weapons are at their best as graceful as a paper airplane floating acutely into solid concrete.
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women (me) have a perverse desire to see a man with a perfect haircut burned / stabbed / beaten / decapitated / otherwise gruesomely destroyed (turned into red jelly by dynamite etc.) which is why re4r is going to be a huge hit all summer long
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nah no platforming that i remember, and no bullet dodging (was that in 2? or did i imagine that)
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You can change jobs freely in the ff12 zodiac age release. Its only the earlier “international zodiac job system” for the ps2 where job choice is permanent (and that’s definitely the worst one for the reason you id)
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oh wow, this is new since i played zodiac age. apparently they added this to the switch release and actually bothered to release a patch for pc/ps4
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fondly remembering one of the first good Google Video posts I saw was a reel of every way you could die in RE4 and having Leon’s death moan burned into your memory by the end
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yeah it was patched a year or two after the release and takes the form (if i remember right) of a little guy in the job hall that u can ask to reset your gambits/jobs. really feels like they did not actually want to give u the option cos it’s still a massive pain to do when it should just be a button in the gambit menu.
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I don’t remember bullets but I do remember streaming it and enduring all this floaty platforming bullshit and people asking me “…why are you playing this?” Wow I wish I liked that game more!!
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I’ve been playing this for the past couple days and I really like it. Feels like a PS2 game. (Or maybe like an N-Gage game?)
The only Yses I’ve played are
- I and II (PC Engine version on Wii)
- Oath in Felghana
I’ve heard Ys Origin is good, too.
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Really excited about all the Ys excitement as of late. But I feel like a dork because trying to play 1 and 2 without a guide has taken me forever.
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someone should play ngage xanadu next. from what i see it looks like a different game
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just tried it out via emulation. I’m honestly kind of shocked at how rough it looks compared to the pc port
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I’m halfway through Yakuza Kiwami 2. You can enter a shop with no transitions… amazing…
I like moving around in first person, especially since Kiryu feels more like an Assassins creed witcher batman guy in the Dragon Engine (=better animations, worse control), I hate it, and it all disappears in FPS mode. Though Kiryu’s mirror reflections also immediately disappear in FPS mode. Unsettling. Check it out in the cabaret lodge.
Having completed 0, 7 and Kiwami 1, + having bought 3,4,5,6 for cheap, I’m wondering if I’m really going to play all of these? Maybe the judgment and Ishin ones eventually too? There’s just something really attractive about playing 11 games in the series on the same PS4
These games aren’t really that great, I don’t think they’ll age well at all, they’re problematic in all sorts of ways, though everybody including me still really likes them? I feel like they could be rightfully torn apart by a semi-famous person at any moment and this would be the social media debate of the day but it never actually happens. They just have that secret ingredient that charms everybody. I’ve even seen some people say they’d play an entire game out of the cabaret minigame. Fucked up
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I think the secret sauce lies somewhere between the faithful genre fiction being effectively undercut by a compelling but ridiculous internal game logic. So while the RGG games have so much stupid or problematic shit, you get an out for taking any of it seriously thanks to the crazy game tone. But the game loop is fairly compelling, so we don’t judge the game as merely a worthless joke. It subscribes to the school of letting the player trip over an endless series of diverse but chewy rakes. Also high density of ‘can you believe this shit is happening now?’ moments you don’t really get outside of a handful of other series.
Something something cakehaving
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also people did get mad at how problematic yakuza was in some aspects that’s why all the man in a dress substories in the remastered collection got cut, but generally i think its because yakuza doesn’t come across as very mean spirited
its also a case where i think some people are like better the games have some shit in them than us going back to the days of sega cutting stuff from ps3 ones because it’s too japanese for a western audience like the quiz games and shit
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The original version of 3 in the West cutting out mahjong but then still making you go to the now empty mahjong parlor to pick up the token you would have got from playing mahjong was hilarious, though.
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ive been obsessing with re4 both original and the remake and havent been playing two games ive come to closely associate with re4, killer7 and dark souls despite being roughly halfway thru each as of a couple months ago—i guess the ulmeyda boss fight was honestly a little too scary for me at the time and ornstein and smaugh are hard to fight!!! i did just now beat the ulmeyda boss tho… i guess i think of k7 and re4 as “post-mgs2” games also just in their sheer dedication to being over the top and ridiculously cool. like i wont make any claims as to if they were deliberately trying to make something cooler than mgs2 but i feel like that would have been a good goal to aspire to, a good bar to clear.
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