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General / Re: What are you playing?
« on: January 15, 2025, 12:50:37 am »
Been playing a few games. Currently focused heavily on Kingdom Come Deliverance before the sequel releases!

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I love Luigi's Mansion, but Silent Hill and Resident Evil are both better games in almost every regard.

I don't get why The Last of Us is on this list. The game is generic and unmemorable at best.

Silent Hill would be my choice. It is the scariest out of the 4, has a far more memorable and engaging story, has the best music, and created some of the best sequels out of them all (SH2, 3, 4, and SH2 remake).

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Modern Video Games / Re: Concord - PlayStation's biggest flop?
« on: January 11, 2025, 02:51:38 pm »
I genuinely don't know what they were thinking when they were designing this game. Everything about it was awful, from gunplay to the character designs.

Then again, this is Modern Sony and they are more arrogant and idiotic than even launch PS3 Sony was.

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General / Re: Your 2025 Gaming and Collecting Goals
« on: January 11, 2025, 02:45:17 pm »
I am actually working towards downsizing my collection. I realized that a lot of the games I currently have physically just aren't games I love or am all that interested in. I used to just buy anything and everything - especially games I had trophies for to 100% them.

I realized over the last few years and especially last year (Thanks Sony), that there is no real point in keeping and collecting games I don't love just to stay on an ecosystem that clearly doesn't care about me as a customer.

My 2025 Gaming and Collecting goals are pretty simple:
1.) Sell 1/3rd of my total collection over the next 12 months. This would be around 700 games.
2.) Buy games I truly love *only*. If I don't see myself replaying it in the next 5-10 years or it didn't have a strong emotional resonance with me, why would I want to keep it on my shelf?
3.) Beat 100 games.
4.) Complete 52 games (100%, all achievements, plus a review).

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2025!!!
« on: December 27, 2024, 05:38:05 pm »
First time here! Going to try for 52 and above!

Completed:
1.)

Currently Playing:
->

Abandoned:

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General / Re: Playstation 30th Anniversary
« on: December 27, 2024, 05:36:09 pm »
I used to adore PlayStation. Ever since getting the PS2 when I was a kid, playing games like Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage, Final Fantasy VII, VIII, IX, Bugs Bunny Lost in Time, Kingdom Hearts, Silent Hill, and so much more. There were so many amazing games both third party and exclusive to the platform.

The PS3 had some issues early on, but they retooled their marketing, released a cheaper alternative to the console, and refocused their efforts on a wide variety of unique, interesting, and engaging games that could appease many different types of gamers. PS3's latter half going into the PS4 truly was the *best* time for Sony in my eyes.

PS4 started off great! Lots of those unique games, amazing UI design, unique themes, the introduction of PlayStation VR? There was so much to choose from - but then they started to falter. They focused heavily on the same tired game design - heavily focused on narratives and taking agency away from the player, hyper realistic graphics, increased MTX and GAAS. By the end of the PS4 I was left a bit weary.

PS5 has been nothing but annoyance for me. Bought it on day one, but have barely touched it due to a lack of interesting games. Most third party games I could buy on PC for better performance or on PS4 with almost negligible difference in performance/visual clarity. Their first party games have become so homogeneous and increasingly worse across the board for me. Less interesting games, more generic and shallow game mechanics, increasingly worse writing (though this seems to be an issue with AAA games as a whole). Much like with Disney's 100th Anniversary, the 30th Anniversary for PlayStation has just highlighted how much better they used to be and how much worse they have become.

I want to love PlayStation again - but they seem intent on taking choice away from player's, offering less games as a whole for increased prices, among numerous other issues. It's disappointing.

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VGCollect for Android / Re: iOS App - Gauging Interest
« on: December 27, 2024, 05:26:04 pm »
Another Necro: I would *love* to get an app. Really enjoying the design and simplicity of vgcollect. Sadly I don't plan on moving to Android so I am only able to use the Webbrowser.

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