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General / Re: Games with great stories.
« on: March 22, 2024, 09:11:57 pm »
All the Uncharted games.
Mass Effect trilogy
Tomb Raider 2013
AC 2, Syndicate and Unity
Resident Evil (og or Remake)

Shenmue would be added if it had an ending.
FF7 may be added after I've had the chance to beat the Remake trilogy.

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I was never big into speedrunning but gave it a shot on the OG Resident Evil on PS1 back in the late 90's. I ended up just shy of 90 min which I thought was pretty damn good.

I looked it up this morning and as of a couple years ago, the record holder sits at 38.04 minutes with a slew of others in the 38-39 min range behind him. That's intense and I feel there must be some cheats involved somehow.

Kudos to the record holder. Let's assume it's a legit run with no cheats or glitches taken advantage of. Still impressive. Now what? Is there anything other than bragging rights that only the person in the top spot and those on their coat tails care about?

Unless you entered the glitchless leaderboard. high odds that they used some glitch to skip some parts. I do recall multiple resident evil games having sizable skips.

That would make sense. Was trying to figure out how I could possibly shave an hour off my time and considering I was hauling through the game with letting the two possible characters you can save, die and bypassing the second battle with the Tyrant, there's just no way to make that big of a difference.

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I was never big into speedrunning but gave it a shot on the OG Resident Evil on PS1 back in the late 90's. I ended up just shy of 90 min which I thought was pretty damn good.

I looked it up this morning and as of a couple years ago, the record holder sits at 38.04 minutes with a slew of others in the 38-39 min range behind him. That's intense and I feel there must be some cheats involved somehow.

Kudos to the record holder. Let's assume it's a legit run with no cheats or glitches taken advantage of. Still impressive. Now what? Is there anything other than bragging rights that only the person in the top spot and those on their coat tails care about?

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Yeah... I wasn't a huge fan of the new Ninja Turtles for various reasons, including the art direction. Everything was ugly in that movie. They couldn't even make a stop light without making it ugly. Going to go with this instead as it's the Ninja Turtles my son enjoys the most:



Probably get him the Switch version though. Comes out end of April.

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Modern Video Games / Re: Nintendo Switch 2
« on: March 02, 2024, 07:42:06 am »
As it is, there's no reason for me to buy another Nintendo. For there to be any chance for me to bite, Switch backwards compatibility is a must. Otherwise, I'll be skipping Switch 2.

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Last get of the month with nothing on the immediate horizon... Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. Install came in at an eye watering 160GB.

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Modern Video Games / Re: Where do you draw the line? New Game Prices
« on: February 28, 2024, 08:26:09 am »
I fully understand why games went up to $70. I didn't like the jump to $60 from the PS2 to PS3 gen, but I understood it back then as well. These days, when looking at how much time I have to spend playing coupled with that I don't like 90% of what the modern industry is creating, the $70 day one purchase is rare.

So rare, that it's basically one title per year I'm willing to do that for. Last year it was Zelda. This year it will be FF7 Rebirth. Everything else can wait for a price drop.

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General / Re: Games/Series you love, but also don't...
« on: February 26, 2024, 08:49:08 am »
Both Resident Evil and Final Fantasy are two series I have a love hate relationship with.

Echoing this a bit and realizing I'm late to the thread party.

Resident Evil was my favorite series from 1996 to 2009 when Uncharted took over the top spot. Unlike Astralsoul, however, I loved RE5. For me, it was RE6 that was the start of the downhill and it was a cliff. RE6 still had moments of fun but didn't know what it wanted to be and ignored Jill's recovery story alltogether, instead opting for Jake and Sherry. I mean... why Capcom? It was also around this time that I started to just not care anymore about horror games in general. When they decided to give a middle finger to the third person action oriented crowd and go first person horror, the series was officially done for me. Of course, I believe the main arc of the series was completed at the end of RE5. So... I'm fine with the series officially being over if it ever comes to that.

For Final Fantasy... there were so few that really captured my attention. While I started gaming on the NES, the FF series was never on my radar until FF7. That was my first and it was incredible. I tried 8 and didn't care. Tried 10 and enjoyed it for the most part. I even tried 13 and didn't like it all. That was kind of it for me until the Remake of FF7 which was incredible, but it ends at the same damn spot that my glitchy PS1 copy stopped working. So since 1997, I've been stuck at the same spot in the story. Of course, I know all the major plot twists as it's been more than 25 years, but still. Glad to finally be able to continue the story in a few days.

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General / Re: What are you playing?
« on: February 23, 2024, 12:15:11 pm »
Finally got a few rounds of Helldivers 2 (PS5) in. Took about 20 min to connect to their servers though. Kind of crazy. The game is pretty fun when you get used to it and only if you have buds to play with. This probably wouldn't be near as fun if played solo. Seems the dev is addressing connection issues so that should get better.

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I unexpectedly picked up Helldivers 2 (PS5) on a whim to co-op with a buddy. Haven't been able to connect to their servers successfully.

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With Tomb Raider Trilogy not getting a physical release, I'm not going to bother with it. I really hate the digital only trend when it comes to many of these releases.

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Modern Video Games / Re: Xbox going third party
« on: February 16, 2024, 11:51:10 am »
I have no interest in the four rumored titles.

I'd buy Indiana Jones, Gears of War, Killer Instinct, and Recore (looked interesting). I might be convinced to buy Halo but I would have to have a buddy buy it to play co-op with.

Anything else is a polite pass.

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Modern Video Games / Re: Xbox going third party
« on: February 08, 2024, 07:15:28 pm »
To be fair, if it was reversed and Playstation was putting their games on Xbox instead, the backlash would be just as severe if not more so. Same for Nintendo. Imagine them putting Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong Country on Playstation and Xbox. The blowback from fans would be swift.

My original thought process is such... if a company decides to release its exclusive titles on other platforms, then it takes away a major reason to buy that hardware. This has always been the case.

My current thought process is such... the gaming industry as a whole has faultered in delivering software I give a damn about on a regular release basis as they used too. Even Playstation for the PS5 generation have been very lackluster in what they're churning out, and that's coming from someone that has been a Playstation enthusiest since 1996. For all intents and purposes, gaming as we once knew it, is dead. Sure, there is the occasional release that's a diamond in the rough, but the industry as a whole is a shadow of its former self. The industry is consolidating because they can't keep up with release schedules anymore to justify owning multiple systems. We've entered an era of SaaS and where AAA games are few and far between. System Sellers are going the way of the dodo.

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Modern Video Games / Re: Xbox going third party
« on: February 06, 2024, 02:36:56 pm »
If the rumors are true, why do you think that it implies Microsoft is dropping out of the race, so to speak? Their sights are on cloud gaming across all sorts of devices, and this is the first step in that direction. Microsoft may be out of the console market, but they're definitely invested in software still.

I was primarily speaking of the hardware market. Them pulling a Sega is not what I had envisioned.

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Modern Video Games / Re: Xbox going third party
« on: February 06, 2024, 01:08:00 pm »
I've got to be honest. If Xbox goes third party, I'll have never seen that coming. I expected them to stay in the race till the bitter end after the crazy amount of money they dropped on acquisitions over the last few years. Maybe it's all that money spent that had investors and shareholders holding them over a fire to earn that money back.

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