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Modern Video Games / Re: Instinction - Spiritual Successor to Dino Crisis
« on: February 19, 2021, 10:40:09 am »
Is it survival horror or heavily inspired by survival horror? It doesn't sound like it, unless I've missed something. The term 'survival' has a very different meaning these days - large open-world 3D games where you have to eat and shelter etc. as opposed to manage limited ammo and solve puzzles involving portraits and crank handles.

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Just picked up a new copy of PS4 Dark Souls III: The Fire Fades edition for £25 store credit.

Also recently bought for cash: Valkyria Revolution PS4 (£4), Fade to Silence PS4 (£6), Left Alive PS4 (£6), Daymare 1998 PS4 (£20)

Didn't know anything about Daymare, just noticed it at £13 new on Ebay, left it a few weeks due to having no cash, it bounced back up to £20, which is a sure sign it's going to be a pig to get hold of cheaply down the line. It's pretty enjoyable, like a bargain basement RE 2/3 Remak.

I've started trading yet more stuff in at my favourite game shop, really scraping out my modern games to get rid of anything I don't need, with the intention of picking up a PS5 sooner rather than later. I was going to wait, but the backwards-compatibility swung it for me. The other thing is the 'honeymoon period' for the last two console generations has proven to be short, PS4 exclusives seem to have all but dried up already (except for the limited run type releases), PS4 games are also suddenly very cheap, so we're in that snap em up period before they disappear or jump in value.

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Off Topic / Re: How Many Stop Playing A Video Game Due To Fatigue?
« on: January 11, 2021, 02:59:32 pm »
Fatigue's pretty hard to explain, at least without sounding wet, but I understand exactly what fatigue feels like and have skipped days and weeks of gaming due to it. When I'm too flat to game I just watch a DVD or Blu Ray, which are always second choices to gaming.

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2021
« on: December 21, 2020, 11:53:11 am »
Previous Years

2020 - 33 beaten, 20 tried and discarded
2019 - 45 beaten, 34 tried and discarded
2018 - 44 beaten, 41 tried and discarded
2017 - 37 beaten, 9 tried and discarded
2016 - 21 beaten

Games beaten

01] Resident Evil 3 (remake) (PS4) |16 Jan| Replay with the ammo maker tool, had abundant ammo this time!
02] Mount & Blade: Warband (PS4) |24 Jan| No surprises here, one of my all time favourites replayed yet again.
03] Daymare 1998 (PS4) |5 Feb| Basically a budget RE2/3 Remake clone, had a lot of fun despite technical glitches and a few tough sections.
04] Drox Operative (STM) |19 Feb| Endlessly replayable, but beaten umpteen randomly generated scenarios and spent enough time on it to have beaten a standard game.
05] Shikhondo: Soul Eater (PS4) |13 Mar| Replay using the other playable character, bog standard vertical shooter, nothing outstanding nor bad about it.
06] Unholy Heights (STM) |16 Mar| Really original take on the tower defense genre, well presented too, happy!
07] Resident Evil VIII (PS4) |12 May| Bloody fantastic game, pity it's taken 2 months to beat a game -.- Disaster.
08] Chaos Legion (PS2) |20 May| Flawed but still one of my favourite PS2-era games, haven't played through this one in a decade, had forgotten so much!
09] Moero Crystal H (NSW) |30 May| Bonus beaten game for the month, unexpectedly managed to progress massively after picking it up again a week ago.
10] Age of Empires: Definitive Edition (STM) |3 Jun| Double digits at last and a massive undertaking for me, really pleased to have played the original AoE through properly at last.
11] The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (NSW) |19 Jun| Heavy duty nostalgia from this one, almost emotional at points, a real treat to play through.
12] The Final Station (STM) |25 Jun| They made a hash of the ending but it was a great game and another I'm very pleased to have had the opportunity to play through.
13] Tesla vs Lovecraft (STM) |14 Jul| Twin stick shooter. Fun.
14] Katamari Damacy Reroll (STM) |23 Jul| We never got the original Katamari in PAL territories, so it's interesting to have played through it at last via Steam.
15] Lewdapocalypse (STM) |20 Aug| NSFW click to shoot skit of RE3, not exactly the highlight of my gaming year..
16] Basement (STM) |28 Aug| This on the other hand is a cracking but hard as nails strategy games where you have to produce and sell narcotics and deal with gangsters.
17] Undead Horde (STM) |8 Sep| Imagine Overlord but on a smaller scale and with skellies instead of minions and you've got this, fun game.
18] Castle in the Clouds (STM) |1 Dec| Risque metroidvania, surprisingly good game in its own rights, NES-ish visuals.

Games Tried/Disliked/Got Rid Of

01] Sparklite (NSW) |11 Jan| Liteweight. Like a lot of these randomised games, there's not enough meat on the bones to be at all interesting.
02] Distrust (PS4) |24 Jan| Fiddly controls, less than compelling gameplay, not terrible but certainly not something I could be bothered to keep playing.
03] Fade to Silence (PS4) |6 Feb| Overall really intrigued, came across a couple of deal-breakers though, pity.
04] Intruders: Hide and Seek (PS4) |20 Feb| The game itself is OK, but the restart points on failing are eye-watering, deal breaker.
05] NeoGeo Battle Coliseum (PS2) |13 Mar| One of the most pointless games played in living memory - cheapest final boss ever, horrid looking character sprites - why did they bother?
06] Swords of Destiny (PS2) |1 Apr| Was enjoying this hack and slash game until I hit upon a part I couldn't get by no matter how hard I tried.
07] 10,000 Bullets (PS2) |20 May| Rare. Also: shit.
08] 198X (STM) |30 Aug| Homage to 80s arcade games, featuring a handful of bite-sized games, looks gorgeous but the games themselves are mostly poor imitations.
09] Disaster Report 4 (NSW) |8 Sep| Just plain disaster, took a really quirky and fun game series and squeezed out a shonky walking simulator instead, no thanks.

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General / Re: What are you playing?
« on: November 20, 2020, 12:54:22 pm »
Put Rune Factory 4 Special down temporarily after beating the base game, picked up Yoshi's Crafted World (Switch), what a gorgeous game! Looks amazing and plays sweet as anything, Nintendo really do have platformers nailed. Next after that is Pikmin 3 Deluxe. I'm just playing the basic playthrough of everything I've got for the Switch as I'm getting it, I'll return to them later to fully explore the gameworlds, at some point I am going to run out of games to try (and I'm not complaining about that, it'll be a relief) 0.0

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Picked up Pikmin 3 Deluxe from my local independent game shop, the owner, who's a really stand-up guy, even allowed me to have a few Spiderman (Miles) posters and a floor sticker which I gave to my nephew (who's hooked on it). Pikmin 3 is one of my all-time favourites so I'm delighted, been a good day all round.

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General / Re: What are you playing?
« on: November 09, 2020, 12:47:43 pm »
Playing through Shantae and the 7 Sirens, it's excellent :)

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We don't need another Silent Hill "HD" collection ::) (or anything else like it tbh)

*shudder*


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General / Re: What Is Your Gaming History?
« on: November 09, 2020, 10:36:41 am »
Mid 80s: I was given a ZX Spectrum 128k as a present from my Nan, I was @ 4, it was my first taste of gaming and soon had a few handfuls of games.

Late 80s: Dad brought home a crappy PC, a Trigem 88 (this was an 8088 PC, running MS DOS, with a clock speed of @ 3Mhz), originally it had a monochrome Hercules monitor, but after much badgering Dad upgraded it to CGA 16-colour and we got a few games on 5.25" disk. In addition I was treated to a 'new' Atari 2600 jr - there was some kind of second release being pushed by the likes of Toys 'R' Us and the catalogues which meant that the 2600 was cheap and available.

Early 90s: Despite being lucky to have some gaming available, I was extremely bent out of shape at not receiving an Amiga or even Atari ST despite being SOO desperate for an upgrade from the now moribund 8088 (games were rare for PCs of that age) and prehistoric Spectrum. At some point I was treated to a Gameboy, which was an absolute delight and kept me amused for years.

4th Gen - Megadrive - this was my first current console, barring the Gameboy (though that might have come after anyhow), at the tail-end of the MD's lifetime I bought a second-hand one for £60 from the adverts paper with my own pocket money - its previous owner had discovered nightclubs and young men. I still remember reading eagerly in magazines about Soleil (known as Crusader of Centy in NA) and mail-ordering a copy on release. A SNES was around at some point during the mid-90s, I remember getting Secret of Mana from Argos, but it didn't stay around long.

5th Gen - Playstation - Now this is nostalgia heaven - the PS1 was my first bought-at-release system, it knocked my socks off! Tekken, Krazy Ivan and the delicious Jumping Flash! were my first games in the opening months, followed by Soviet Strike and others which I can't remember now. During its life I dabbled with all sorts of weird and wonderful games (usually Japanese), at release I got some classic titles like Klonoa, Castlevania SOTN and more, got majorly into JRPGs, had an absolute blast. Still remember renting Resident Evil when it was released, plugging my PS1 into the big TV downstairs while my parents were away - scared the snit out of my sister and I.

6th Gen - Dreamcast, PS2- Got into the Dreamcast when it was already on the downward death spiral, enjoyed some cheap gaming like House of the Dead, Record of Lodoss War and Zombie Revenge. The PS2 was bought early in its lifetime, not sure if it was my first game but the game I first remember buying was Dynasty Warriors 2, which absolutely blew me away (and why I'm so gutted the series has turned into such a shambles these days). Loved the PS2, despite selling off most of my collection a couple of times when I 'quit' gaming (ha! tool!), it was a constant.

7th Gen - PS3, Wii and 360 - 360 bought about a year after release, the exclusives were more interesting than the PS3, in fact PS3's exclusives were piss-weak compared the PS1/2, it was cheaper and it had Dead Rising, sold! The Wii followed up a few years later, loved it and still love it (need to connect one up to play some favourites again), eventually succumbed to the PS3 just for exclusives, not realising it was backwards compatible with PS1 until very recently, it was easily a distant third for me in this generation.

8th Gen - PS4, Wii U, Switch - "Nobody wants physical media any more" - MS. Wrong, knobheads. Despite loving the 360, the Xbone was blown out of the water for me before it was even released and nothing has even began to convince me otherwise, might as well not exist in my world. PS4 does what the 360 does - wide base of games, large number of tasty exclusives (Bloodborne alone is a peach, but then all the obscure stuff too? sold), love it. Wii U was a disappointment in that nobody else bothered to make much for it, apart from Tank Tank Tank and Project Zero 5. Switch Lite blew me away - powerful portable with full-fat games running on a small, handheld screen, absolutely love it.

9th Gen - I'm not getting a PS5 any time soon, MS can go swivel, Nintendo's new console isn't even on the horizon, so I'll be back in generation 8 for years to come.

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I can hardly play any of my retro systems/games because they're not here with me or not set up, but I still actively collect and will probably start emulating at some point. Lack of availability is the main problem - the only games I come across in the wild now are PC CD-ROMs from the noughties, which is fine since I'm collecting them eagerly ATM, but anything else is few and far between (or traded for). I found a Spectrum game for 50p recently and scored 2 Megadrive and a Master System game for £2.40 each, as well as an interesting big-box PC game, but that's over the last few months and before that there was nothing except those noughties PC games and a couple of tasty PS2 games I traded for (10,000 Bullets and Sword of Etheria). EDIT: and CT Special Forces (PS1) and DW4/DW4 XL for the PS2.

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I've no money for new games, unfortunately, but still have some credit in a couple of places.

My favourite indie game shop's just got their mitts on a massive collection of desirable games and I used credit to pick up:

10,000 Bullets (PS2)
Sword of Etheria (PS2)
CT Special Forces (PS1)

I also managed to get my mitts on a promotional standee and some card cubes of the latest release of Pikmin 3, they're gorgeous, need to take a picture for this and for the database..

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General / Re: What are you playing?
« on: October 10, 2020, 08:02:51 pm »
Yet another replay of Mount & Blade: Warband on the PS4, easily on of my favourite games ever, its combination of action, light strategy and medieval combat is an absolute joy. I've currently beaten 2 of the 6 rulers of the game and have 2 more almost finished off, hoping to make an alliance with one of the remainders and see if the other one attacks or makes friends, then live happily ever after.

I've been thoroughly enjoying Vaporum on the Switch, it's an old skool Eye of the Beholder type game, grid-based dungeons with action turn-based combat (almost fluid but not quite as you change squares and turn etc.) The obvious BioShock influence on the themes and setting is a big plus, the enemies are varied enough and the loot overfloweth, genius on a handheld.


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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2020
« on: September 25, 2020, 01:14:23 pm »
My attempt this year is already tanked, at 25 beaten games now, just haven't had the time to play enough, not able to game from one day to the next usually. At least half of my collection (probably more) isn't even in the house to play, plus I've now picked up Mount & Blade Warband again, which has totally torpedoed the hull, it's a real timesink.

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General / Re: Describe Your Taste in Games Using Only 5 Titles!
« on: September 22, 2020, 01:03:29 pm »
Streets of Rage II
BioShock
Castlevania: SOTN
Haunting Ground
Mario Galaxy 2

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Modern Video Games / Re: Avengers 2020 Game
« on: September 03, 2020, 12:21:57 pm »
My nephew's interested, he loves the Marvel movies, I've zero interest in it.

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