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General / Re: Your Top 5 Video Game Sound Tracks

« on: November 12, 2024, 10:54:35 am »

Final Fantasy
Kingdom Hearts
Street of Rage
Phantasy Star
Silent Hill 2


Honorable Mentions : YS, Sonic, Yakuza

For the first 4, I speak generally because I can't decide.

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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: November 12, 2024, 10:50:44 am »

Uncharted 4 Thief's End and it's boring.
10 minutes of gameplay for 20 minutes of cutscenes.
The gunfight is soft and shit, you don't feel anything, 80% climbing during most levels.

You can't even run, the game just has its graphics and nothing else.

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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: October 21, 2024, 04:44:38 pm »

Tales of Zestiria drop.

It's slow, they throw a thousand pieces of information at you, the camera sucks, gameplay is not great (partly because of the camera and that it's always the same combos)
Ruins and empty plains to explore, ugly game

Nice OST, the fusion is good but too cheaty

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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: October 10, 2024, 12:40:25 pm »

I'm discovering SH2R for the first time with the remake and I have to say that it's my favorite of the year with space marine 2

I never played the original but looking at comparisons, they clearly sublimated the game with this remake.
The bosses have been redone as well as the puzzles and it's still better that way. More interesting puzzles. Some bosses are not as memorable, apart from abstract daddy but it's much better. I have the impression that the enemies are also much more aggressive than in the OG.

You can quickly find yourself surrounded by 2 or 3 enemies.
the design of the monsters is very creepy, special mention to (spoiler) Angela's father... this part was touching.

There is a little more length, many back and forths that can be painful. The pattern / structure of the game is almost always the same, even a little repetitive but that never stopped me from having fun on the game.

The game is very scary, there is a huge pressure. I was always on edge, because some enemies can appear out of nowhere.
The music and sound design are incredible.

The details are also very impressive, visually speaking.
The rusty, dirty, dilapidated sets, there are details on the walls and the floor...
I can't imagine the work they must have put into that.

I loved all the places we visited, the prison being the most scary.
But what I enjoyed even more was the psychological part of the game in which the characters live their own nightmare and the city is in some way their subconscious / purgatory.
The part in the "other world" is awesome.

I hope this remake will have the success it deserves.

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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: October 02, 2024, 05:00:26 am »

I discover the very first Final Fantasy with FF Pixel Remaster.

The soundtrack of the FF are really magical no matter the opus, I love the chaos shrine or western keep OST.

I love the battle theme and Matoya's Cave theme the most. Nobuo Uematsu is my favourite game music composer. Very sad he didn't compose the soundtracks from FF X-2 on ... a lot of the franchise's magical appeal left Square with him 

Besides Koji Kondo, Uematsu is one of the great RPG-music composers of their era.

The soundtrack of FFVIII is faultless
But I also like Shimomura and Hamauzu

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Modern Video Games / Re: Freedom Wars Remastered - popular Sony published Vita game returns

« on: September 22, 2024, 04:32:17 pm »

I was just going to ask what type of game is it.
If it's an MH like, does that mean there's a lot of farming ?

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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: September 16, 2024, 06:21:42 pm »

I discover the very first Final Fantasy with FF Pixel Remaster.

The soundtrack of the FF are really magical no matter the opus, I love the chaos shrine or western keep OST.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r97nGXJQBaI
too bad it's poor quality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSDZpLRMxj4

Edit FF3 : it's great the aircraft that transforms into both a boat and a plane
not bad at all the spells to change into a gnome and a toad, it's original
we can really see the evolution of each FF between that and the classes

(Spoil) - Impressive the city that emerges after releasing the water crystal.
The tornado was also well done in FF2.
I don't know if it was already like that at the time but it must have been quite impressive and revolutionary.

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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: September 14, 2024, 11:25:39 am »

Bakeru is too cool, fun and shill. Great game of action platformer.

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General / Re: September 2024 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased

« on: September 14, 2024, 11:23:49 am »

Bakeru.

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Modern Video Games / Re: Playstation 5 Pro

« on: September 11, 2024, 02:35:42 am »

$300 more (~$400 if you want a disc drive) than the digital PS5 for what exactly? Better PS4 backwards compatibility?

PS4 Pro was $400 (the price of a PS4) and they dropped the price of PS4 to reflect that.

Yeah I was surprised that I didn't see anything about a PS5 price drop, I thought that was the normal path, you drop the old system down abit, and then you have the new pro system be abit more costly with the extra hardware, but to have this be 300 dollars more outright than the previous versions is wild.

We are witnessing the worst gen in years, consoles are not dropping in price at all. They are increasing when it should be the opposite, but that time is over.

It's the same on the MS side, they released a new Series X at 650 / 700 euros~dollars while the base one is not selling.
Instead of lowering the price, they maintain the base one...

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Modern Video Games / Re: Playstation 5 Pro

« on: September 10, 2024, 04:39:31 pm »

At this price, you might as well stay on a PC or buy one for those who don't have one yet.

And yes it's worse for Europe, you have to pay more than 900 euros if you want the dis drive and the vertical stand.
I think in Canada it's even around 1,000 dollars.

No games, no disc drive, no vertical stand and no difference in the graphics (or at least very minimal).

They really cracked at sony and didn't learn anything from their mistakes with the PS3
I hope it's a big flop.

This opens the door to all kinds of abuses, the industry is doing very badly.

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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: September 09, 2024, 01:58:14 am »

Space Marine 2.

The game is a real pleasure, it's a good old-school game without hassle like the 360/PS3 era.
A little repetitive but no shit to collect (just audio logs), just the pleasure of slaughtering hordes.

The DA is beautiful, I wanted to stop several times to take screenshots. An important fact to note that has become rare these days is that the game is really very well optimized and beautiful. They really did a good job.

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General / Re: September 2024 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased

« on: September 09, 2024, 01:50:19 am »

Space Marine 2

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Modern Video Games / Re: Concord - PlayStation's biggest flop?

« on: September 03, 2024, 01:11:42 pm »

https://nichegamer.com/concord-to-go-offline-2-weeks-from-launch-offers-full-refunds/

It was fast lmao.

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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: September 02, 2024, 08:50:10 am »

Metro Exodus.

The atmosphere is clearly not the same anymore since we are often on the surface and it's much more open, that said I appreciate the train journey or the use of the car (it's still more practical to explore than on foot)

It's only towards the end, when we return to the tunnels that I felt anxiety like in the first games.

Good game overall but quite buggy.
I fell below in the map when a demon let go of me, a texture went crazy (a ceiling light that was swinging by itself), no physics on certain objects, an enemy who walks in the air and dies suddenly and (spoiler) in the end credits, when the group shoots, one died suddenly...

Edit : there are also still problems with the audio
The sound is sometimes too low, suddenly becomes loud again or cuts out.