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- 26 Mar 2025 14:27
- Forum: Miscellaneous Gaming
- Topic: What are you playing right now?
- Replies: 293
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Re: What are you playing right now?
Almost 3 weeks later, I've finished Suikoden 1 and just recruited my 108th member in Suikoden 2, so I think I have about 3 hours left at the most. Suikoden 1 is an interesting game to go back to, since it has an inventory system that was kind of archaic even at the time (Earthbound is the only SNES ...
- 20 Mar 2025 15:52
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 397
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Re: What are you reading?
I've finished my first book for the year - at least my first non-work-related one: Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It's a low-tech (or I guess "realistic" as in less Star Trek-y) space opera, where one of the primary characters is a jaded former "Int" - a human surgically ...
- 07 Mar 2025 18:01
- Forum: Miscellaneous Gaming
- Topic: What are you playing right now?
- Replies: 293
- Views: 288965
Re: What are you playing right now?
5 feels like the pinnacle of the series' design. Good maps and story beats. After I tried out Dynasty Warriors 5 for a little bit... this is probably better than 3. While 3 isn't unplayable, and it's likely the one I played the most, it's pretty rough around the edges while 5 is very polished. Wish...
- 26 Feb 2025 14:40
- Forum: Master Lists
- Topic: 2025 Game Clear Thread
- Replies: 32
- Views: 14930
Re: 2025 Game Clear Thread
Finished Metaphor: ReFantazio . Overall I was pretty happy with it, I can understand why it won so many GOTY awards. I do wish it got a little further away from Persona's schedule mechanics, or iterated on them better, but for the time being at least it was relatively forgiving on schedule stuff and...
- 17 Feb 2025 19:39
- Forum: Miscellaneous Gaming
- Topic: What are you playing right now?
- Replies: 293
- Views: 288965
Re: What are you playing right now?
I'm running out of steam on Metaphor - the Persona games (particularly 4 and 5) really stretch out the ending sequences with fake-out endings, poorly foreshadowed twists, and general padding. Metaphor does it too, IMO. While I still like the characters and the concept, unless something drastic chang...
- 28 Jan 2025 20:47
- Forum: Miscellaneous Gaming
- Topic: What are you playing right now?
- Replies: 293
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Re: What are you playing right now?
Getting ~35 hours into Metaphor has made me glad I didn't try out the P3 Remake as I'd expect to be even more turned off by that. While I still appreciate it for most reasons in my previous post, some of the dungeons and enemies are baffling. 90% of the enemies are easy-ish, but I just had an encoun...
- 06 Jan 2025 16:36
- Forum: Miscellaneous Gaming
- Topic: What are you playing right now?
- Replies: 293
- Views: 288965
Re: What are you playing right now?
Over the two-week break, I finished Horizon's Gate and picked up Metaphor ReFantazio. Overall really enjoyed Horizon's Gate. The final sequence was just a little too hard (perhaps more grinding/exploring was expected, I think I'd explored ~60% of the map) so I turned down the difficulty a bit to com...
- 11 Dec 2024 17:16
- Forum: Miscellaneous Gaming
- Topic: What are you playing right now?
- Replies: 293
- Views: 288965
Re: What are you playing right now?
I've officially shelved RTK8R although I may return to it later. As planned, surprisingly, I picked up Horizon's Gate and have been really enjoying my time with it. It's a blend of ship-based exploration (Uncharted Waters style) and land-expeditions ("simple" JRPG/CRPG exploration with tac...
- 02 Dec 2024 15:48
- Forum: Miscellaneous Gaming
- Topic: What are you playing right now?
- Replies: 293
- Views: 288965
Re: What are you playing right now?
I've been continuing on both the games I last mentioned. In UFO 50 , I have finally started every game except Night Manor (I'm mostly playing in front of kids now, while I think it's not graphically intense like Fist Hell, it's likely too atmospherically intense). In RTK8R, I made a Liu Shan analogu...
- 20 Nov 2024 20:44
- Forum: Miscellaneous Gaming
- Topic: What are you playing right now?
- Replies: 293
- Views: 288965
Re: What are you playing right now?
I've finished two rounds of RTK8R after the one noted above. In only one of them did I actually clear the map - Remake has "regional endings" and "officer endings" so once you reach a certain point you can effectively wrap up the game and get any carry-over rewards (mostly new sc...