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General / Re: Let's Name The Top 100 Horror Games Together
« on: August 16, 2020, 12:54:36 pm »
87: Alien Trilogy (PS1/Win/Sat) - brilliantly atmospheric in its day and that level music was unnerving.
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General / Re: What are you playing?
« on: August 09, 2020, 04:51:07 pm »
Paper Mario: Origami King for the Switch (love it), also playing Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams for the PS2, I've had a few goes at it in the distant past and never seem to get anywhere with it; now I know why. Having to distribute upgrades between 5 characters is irritating as sin, especially as the game decides when you can use a partner and at times even demands you use a character you don't like and haven't upgraded. Currently stuck on a tough boss fight using a character I haven't upgraded or used at all - fun, not.
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General / Re: Let's Name The Top 100 Horror Games Together
« on: August 09, 2020, 04:02:40 pm »
One of the most eerie horror games i can think of:
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General / Re: What's a Game You Like, That You Didn't Expect to Like?
« on: July 27, 2020, 06:26:51 pm »
This War of Mine, bought it in the early days of the PS4 as it was different to what I expected most PS4 releases were going to be (which was wrong, the number of blockbuster games released is through the floor, most games are low-medium budget these days). Gave it a go, quickly became hooked - it's not too preachy and has some great mechanics, one of my favourite games of this generation.
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General / Re: What are you playing?
« on: June 27, 2020, 08:44:27 am »
I've been playing Rune Factory Oceans on the PS3 for about a week, it's crap at explaining what's necessary to progress sometimes and I hate the MMORPG style grinding necessary to get skills up, but I'm really enjoying it overall, been a very long time since i played a Harvest Moon game (discounting Stardew Valley a few years back).
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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Horror genre
« on: June 18, 2020, 09:09:52 am »
Video game genres are more to do with gameplay than theme, so whereas survival horror is a subset of action adventure games with more emphasis on avoiding combat or picking your battles, horror in general is more of a non-game theme (like movies, novels etc.) If it's not survival horror it'll more likely fit into something along the lines of adventure, action adventure or action genres.
EDIT: Just checked Distraint, it's described as an adventure game. It hasn't helped that a lot of sources have taken the concept of 'psychological horror' and then tried to mould it into a video game genre, which it isn't and can't be because it's got nothing to do with gameplay and everything to do with plot and sound/visual feedback.
EDIT: Just checked Distraint, it's described as an adventure game. It hasn't helped that a lot of sources have taken the concept of 'psychological horror' and then tried to mould it into a video game genre, which it isn't and can't be because it's got nothing to do with gameplay and everything to do with plot and sound/visual feedback.
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General / Re: How do y'all handle your backlogs?
« on: June 07, 2020, 09:15:33 am »
Yeah, I think a Backloggery account can go either way and there's definitely a risk of turning it into a dragon to slay rather than a way of keeping track of your collection, which has totally happened to me. Human nature I guess, as is being unable to see or accept that things have changed. Games are cheaper than ever, my adult self has better access to them than ever, I don't have enough time on this earth to play everything that might be of interest so what's the point of being a slave to my games collection..
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General / Re: How do y'all handle your backlogs?
« on: June 03, 2020, 05:36:25 am »
The backlog's something I've been struggling with for years, I've been through different priorities/moods like everyone else at one time or another, over time I've realized that yeah, actually I am collecting things I'm not ever going to play and I'm OK with that.
I've got rid of a few hundred games in recent times, refocused on only picking up stuff I really like the look of (or if it's cheap) and trying to play through what comes in, even then the backlog's still massive. It's felt more like a job, a lot of the time, when looking for something to play it's more about finding something that's unplayed or unbeaten on my Backloggery rather than what I'm in the mood for, then there's pressure of trying to find something with a short play-time and.. nah, sod it.
Only about half my games are with me in the house, most of those currently are unplayable because the system isn't set up or can't be used ATM, so it's becoming increasingly pressurised to claw through it, so I'm currently going through my Backloggery marking most things as null. I'll focus on playing what I want, replay or new game, when I please, it's all self-inflicted anyway (or has been), so it's all getting a lot more relaxed...
I've got rid of a few hundred games in recent times, refocused on only picking up stuff I really like the look of (or if it's cheap) and trying to play through what comes in, even then the backlog's still massive. It's felt more like a job, a lot of the time, when looking for something to play it's more about finding something that's unplayed or unbeaten on my Backloggery rather than what I'm in the mood for, then there's pressure of trying to find something with a short play-time and.. nah, sod it.
Only about half my games are with me in the house, most of those currently are unplayable because the system isn't set up or can't be used ATM, so it's becoming increasingly pressurised to claw through it, so I'm currently going through my Backloggery marking most things as null. I'll focus on playing what I want, replay or new game, when I please, it's all self-inflicted anyway (or has been), so it's all getting a lot more relaxed...
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General / Re: Sega announcement
« on: June 01, 2020, 08:15:31 am »An independent Sega expanding and getting to create more games is what I want the most and what I think would be the best for them.
Yeah, look at the Sonic and Sega All-Star racing games, fantastic new Sega games by a third party.
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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2020
« on: May 31, 2020, 06:17:02 pm »
I'm seriously suffering from try-new-game fatigue, the challenge is great for tackling backlogs (mine is ridiculous), but having shed a good 300 games in the past few years one way or another I'm really struggling to keep putting an hour or two (or way, way more) into games which I end up dropping and trading in. The Switch has been the worst for this because I've picked up a load of cheap JRPG-type things for it, which is the sort of thing I used to love, but these days I'm not enjoying it.
I'll be focusing less on trying/beating new games and more on replaying favourites like the Resi series.
I'll be focusing less on trying/beating new games and more on replaying favourites like the Resi series.
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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2020
« on: April 10, 2020, 06:11:35 pm »The Outer Worlds.. it's good but not great, what really killed it for me is the lack of a solid narrative and the whole item/level system being underdeveloped. There's not enough different types of item to get and use, which makes exploring redundant. In the end the limitations became glaringly obvious to the point I just stopped playing.
Yeah it's unfortunate that Outer Worlds wasn't very good, I ended up beating the game, but it was very lacking. It's dialogue system and characters are great, along with a lot of variety to decisions you can make, it's got all the components of what makes me like Fallout games, its just doesn't match up, because exploration and gear isn't very good, which is what drives everything between the dialogue and story. I'm kinda hoping that since Outer Worlds seemed to do well for them and now with big studio support from Microsoft, they can make a sequel that actually makes the game amazing.
Totally agree with that, I think increasingly that kind of model is going to be used - try something out before a massive budget is lavished on it rather than running at every project as though it requires God of War levels of polish.
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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2020
« on: April 08, 2020, 07:06:13 am »
2 more abandoned games: DNA (PS2) and The Outer Worlds (PS4).
Dark Native Apostle is the kind of quirky action game I like, but its small size seems to be padded out by forcing you to bang your head against a wall going back and forth and using trial and error to scrape forward. I just can't be chewed when there's no levelling system or anything like that to even have some kind of reward for having to kill respawning enemies.
The Outer Worlds.. it's good but not great, what really killed it for me is the lack of a solid narrative and the whole item/level system being underdeveloped. There's not enough different types of item to get and use, which makes exploring redundant. In the end the limitations became glaringly obvious to the point I just stopped playing.
Dark Native Apostle is the kind of quirky action game I like, but its small size seems to be padded out by forcing you to bang your head against a wall going back and forth and using trial and error to scrape forward. I just can't be chewed when there's no levelling system or anything like that to even have some kind of reward for having to kill respawning enemies.
The Outer Worlds.. it's good but not great, what really killed it for me is the lack of a solid narrative and the whole item/level system being underdeveloped. There's not enough different types of item to get and use, which makes exploring redundant. In the end the limitations became glaringly obvious to the point I just stopped playing.
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Classic Video Games / Re: Your Focus on Collecting?
« on: March 31, 2020, 08:27:38 am »
The vast majority of games i get come from trading-up random junk for what I want, since I can't hunt junk I can't get new stuff without paying for it, which I don't want to do. Used up all my CEX credit to help my wife get an iPhone and used up my game shop credit to pick up some PS4 games and Snack World for the Switch before the virus lock-down, so apart from figuring out how to get my mitts on a copy of Resi 3 on Friday I'm pretty much done for the immediate future. If I can stretch to buy any interesting ZX Spectrum Next games getting released on SD card, then I'd like that too.
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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2020
« on: March 30, 2020, 10:56:25 am »
Snack World (Switch) - abandoned
I really like this game, a randomly-generated dungeon action RPG with quirky Level 5 charm, the problem is that it's a grinder, which in many circumstances would be great, but I have so little time at the minute that it's not good to be playing something with no sense of progress. I'll be trying to play more beatable games, having already beaten a 50 hour dungeon game this year.
I really like this game, a randomly-generated dungeon action RPG with quirky Level 5 charm, the problem is that it's a grinder, which in many circumstances would be great, but I have so little time at the minute that it's not good to be playing something with no sense of progress. I'll be trying to play more beatable games, having already beaten a 50 hour dungeon game this year.
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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Category/Platform Requests 2.0
« on: February 19, 2020, 05:42:54 pm »
Thanks for your help as always tripredacus 
Itch.io seems to be the platform of choice for the downloads. I'll get these added!
Itch.io seems to be the platform of choice for the downloads. I'll get these added!