Tony_Tarantula on 29/4/2019 at 13:02
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demagogue on 30/4/2019 at 12:58
Tales of a Neon Sea was released today and I picked it up and played about between an hour or two.
It's ... well as a showcase of cyberpunk pixel art it's great.
The screenshots tell you everything, but it's consistently great in basically every scene.
Inline Image:
http://i67.tinypic.com/dcc5fs.jpgAs a game it's ... alright, and that's being charitable.
But I'm in a mood to be charitable because it's trying and it has alley cat gangs--and you get to play as a cat sometimes--and I like cats.
The progress is completely railroaded, and it's not even a pixel hunt.
You just walk past objects and Press A to advance.
It's kind of grindy having you go back and forth to do it too.
But every third thing you click has a mini-game puzzle, and they're generally interesting enough.
And thankfully it's not the same mini-game every time, but a new puzzle for each thing (so far).
It doesn't have much excuse because there are some excellent point and click adventures out there & this doesn't stand up very well against them. But I suppose between "guess the verb"/"read the dev's mind" puzzles and mini-game puzzles, the latter has the advantage of not stifling progress or hanging the player out to dry while still being interactive.
It also has a story. Kind of built for the grind, but I think I'm getting more into the meat of it now.
This world where humans and sentient robots live side by side is interesting.
It makes me wonder why it's not done more often, since it's a pretty rich premise for storytelling.
I'm still happy with the great pixel art, mini-games, and cat gangs. I wouldn't really recommend it as a P&C adventure game.
But if you want to take in the excellent pixel art with some ok puzzles and a glorified cyberpunk police procedural visual novel in an interesting world, then this checks all of those boxes.
Renzatic on 1/5/2019 at 03:22
I'm playing FINAL FANTASY XII! This marks the first time I've bought it, since I originally decided to forego the FF series after 10 disappointed me so much.
It took a few years before I got curious enough to download an iso, and fire it up in an emulator. When I finally did, I ended up loving it, and wanted to finish it off, but ended up getting sidetracked by something or another about 10 hours in. A couple years pass, and I hear it's coming out for the PC. I decide to grab it there, think that the enhanced edition will be the best way to experience it all new, but for reasons entirely unknown, I get sidetracked again, and never get around to picking it up on Steam. A few months pass, I hear it's coming out for the Switch, and I think I'd better enjoy playing it there. I wait, it finally comes out, and so...
...after so many weird little setbacks and delays, I finally own Final Fantasy XII.
gunsmoke on 3/5/2019 at 06:15
I have been completely off the grid for 4 years. Last week I stuck my toe back in the gaming waters and got a PS3 with a brand new copy of Thief 2014. What a bizarre Thief game this one is. Very strange feel. Garrett feels/plays like a freaking super hero. Alas, only 3 chapters in. I ain't giving up on it yet.
I ended my gaming days in 2013. Any must plays I missed? I think Last of Us will be next, so skip recommending that one.
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henke on 3/5/2019 at 08:02
Welcome back, gunsmoke! :)
Oh man, there's a lot of contention about Thief 2014 around here. I liked it well enough to play through twice tho. I'd say chapters 4-6 are the highpoint, but after that the final 2 chapters really drag it down.
The Last Of Us is great, good choice. I assume you've played Dark Souls.
Besides that, if you were to ask TTLG in general what the 2014-2018 MUST PLAYS on PC are, it'd probably be something along the lines of....
MGS V
Firewatch
Inside
SOMA
Prey
Hollow Knight
Night In The Woods
Into The Breach
Celeste
Return Of The Obra Dinn
Malf on 3/5/2019 at 08:48
I'd say Hitman too, but are you constrained by the PS3 gunsmoke?
That makes things a bit more complicated.
Dark Souls as henke suggests has a PS3 version. But more interestingly, if you haven't played it, Souls-likes started out on the PS3 with Demon's Souls. While the online has been turned off now, it's still playable in single-player mode. And overall, I still consider it my favourite Souls game.
Another fantastic PS3 game is Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. It's completely bat-shit, OTT Platinum awesome, and probably my favourite game from the studio overall.
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen is also what I would regard as being a PS3 essential. It was one of the first games I got "for free" with Playstation Plus at a time when I was having PC problems, and it quickly became one of my favourite games of the generation.
And if you haven't already played them, the first three Uncharted games are well worth checking out.
Valkyria Chronicles is also well worth a punt on the PS3. Sure, it's got a cloying anime style to it, with the sexist baggage that style always seems to come with, but the game's a fantastic turn-based affair that borrows heavily from games like XCOM while adding its own interesting spin.
While it's heavily derivative of God of War with some terrible load times, I have a massive soft-spot for Heavenly Sword. It's got spectacular cutscenes with memorable characters that are fantastically over-acted, including barn-storming performances from Stephen Berkoff and Andy Serkis.
Speaking of God of War, the first two games were re-mastered for PS3, and the third game really showed off what the machine was capable of at the time.
And speaking of Andy Serkis, if you haven't already played it, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is a pretty good romp too. It's loosely based on the Chinese literary classic "Journey to the West" (yes, the same story that the late 70s / early 80s TV show Monkey was based on), and has fun interpretations of familiar characters.
Renault on 3/5/2019 at 14:51
I think Gunny mentioned earlier he wasn't able to get on Steam, so I think PC stuff is out.
Also, @Gunsmoke, are you only looking for post 2013 releases for suggestions?
scumble on 4/5/2019 at 10:25
Short note on me playing Detroit: Become Human - it's a stretch to call it a "game" and more of a sequence of QTEs. It's very derivative of films about androids and seems kind of backward for time of creation - where androids are used for rather pointless applications no more elaborate than a smartphone app. For example an android going to a shop staffed by another android to pick up an order and pay for it - just to give you somewhere to walk with the character you currently have control of - essentially going backwards to the assumed use cases for androids in early 20th century science fiction. I can't tell if it's deliberately "retro" or merely trying to repeat using androids as a metaphor for oppressed ethnic groups.
You could go on about whether there's anything to the game but it's not worth the effort. It's like a compilation of tropes. Or David Cage's self indulgence? I'm not sure...
The QTEs are also arbitrary - you're told to hold R2 then L1 then rotate the stick - nothing related to the action you are performing.
Despite wondering what the point of the game is ultimately, it's quite good for a relaxed play and well made enough to be engaging. The interaction is disappointingly sparse however. The balance in Life is Strange is far better despite it being a similar kind of non-skill based adventure game.
WingedKagouti on 4/5/2019 at 12:01
Quote Posted by scumble
The QTEs are also arbitrary - you're told to hold R2 then L1 then rotate the stick - nothing related to the action you are performing.
Have you tried deliberately failing QTEs yet? It wouldn't be a David Cage game if that didn't open up a different story path or something similar.
