just started Jedi Fallen order. playing on grandmaster difficulty and so far even then the parry window is much wider than something like sekiro.
i'm not sure if it's because i had a kid or if i'm just getting older or if it's just nothing good has come out lately, but i've really lost my luster for gaming over the last year or so. Feels like the last time i played and really got lost in game was in 2020 with CP2077 and LoU2.
JRPG fans eating good in 2024 between Shadow of the Erdtree, Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth, and Persona 3 Reload, with Mataphor ReFantasio in October and Persona 3 Reload Episode Aigis in September. If you don't like Japanese RPGs though ouch, a pretty trash year with
1. The check coming due for Sony pissing all that time and money away for four years on live service trash
2. Microsoft having a reverse Midas touch with every studio they buy
3. Nintendo obviously holding out their best games for the new system next year.
Fallen Order is really good tbh
going to Dathomir really made me have to "git gud" particularly on the grandmaster difficulty, which feels very sekiro-ish. the higher difficulty doesnt make the enemies any spongier. they just hit harder and are more aggressive. thats difficulty done well.
i never got around to getting much into Elden Ring, it had came out right after I finally beat Dark Souls 3 and i got kinda burnt out on souls-like games. i put maybe 20 hours into it, and sometimes i want to go back and pick it up but i have no ing clue where i left off so i feel like i need to start a new character which i dont have time to dedicate to
FFVII rebirth i enjoyed for a couple weeks after it came out but idk...just didn't keep my attention. i got to the part where you're leaving Junon on the ship to Costa del Sol and my interest waned.
wife is going out of town with my daughter to visit her family next week for about 2 weeks so im going to try to go back and beat Rebirth during that time period. kinda thinking about firing up Witcher 3 though
Shadow of the Erdtree is the only thing worth a damn right now, and I finished it. I ended up installing Nioh and playing it through at the moment.
oh wow, Zeffo was miles easier than Dathomir. guess i was supposed to do zeffo first lol. zeffo was massive though. and the lack of fast travel is pretty annoying tbh. i get basically all the way through Zeffo, eventually acquire the push ability and the little droid dude's hacking/splice ability. then remember all these points in the map where i can use these to open new areas (metroidvania design), but its a real to basically do a full lap around the whole map and then have to trek all the way back to the ship.
and im gonna have to do it again, because even after doing a full lap and opening new areas, there are now even further areas that i cant access. see objects highlighted red and red doors on the map. not looking forward to having to head all the way back again later. yes there are some souls-esque shortcuts i opened along the way, but not nearly enough to make traveling easier
Nioh is somewhere in my backlog, think ill get to it sooner than later
how've you been tbh
Same. I think it's just being older, attention spans and free time are less, so now it better be a really good game to warrant my time. I just finally decided to play RDR2 on PC lol
It's a great port. My scrubby 1660 Super was able to run it 1080p60 using Hardware Unboxed's optimized settings and it looked incredible. It's such a long game I haven't tried it since upgrading to a 6700 XT though. Definitely one of those games like Witcher 3 that are so big you don't want to do a second playthrough but amazing on that first playthrough.
nothing but impressed with Fallen Order the more I get through it
i still think the lack of fast travel is a big nuisance in a game with some gargantuan maps/planets with different layers, tombs, etc... there are shortcuts you can make use of but its still a chore. with that said, they at least make use of this mechanic (or lack thereof) with some special encounters. ie a path you've safely traveled throughout the game now suddenly out of nowhere has a miniboss that has never appeared before. keeps it from being a series of long stale runs.
but the combat, the metroidvania layout, skill tree, etc... just very well made. the boss/miniboss fights are nice. playing on the highest difficulty it feels like an easier more arcade-y version of sekiro, but with cooler platforming. still plenty challenging and always have that anxiety of "where is that next bonfire." no walk in the park but definitely not sekiro levels. i guess other main criticism is you go out of your way to find these chests and they have nothing but cosmetics which i dont care for. only reason i care is the xp. and you still have to go out of your way because may be one of the valuable stim containers
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I couldn't get into Fallen Order and dropped it after five hours. Not into Star Wars at all though.
I really enjoyed Fallen Order tbh. Need to beat Jedi Survivor still
yeah i think Survivor will be a must-play for me given how much im enjoying Fallen Order
i really like the combat difficulty in the game. im not dreading every encounter like do with a FromSoft game, but its definitely enough where i have to be dialed in and work for it. the platforming stuff is fun too
I have it essentially ultra, 4k60, only turned a couple settings to high to get it there. I'm still blown away at the details in this game considering it's age
Damn you running a 4080 or a 7900 XT or some ?
nah an OC 3080 and a OC 9600k. i can check the settings i had to adjust next time i fire it up.. really the only time it slows down is to around 50 fps at night in Saint Denis with a ton of light sources active
Doing good, scrah. Just been a of a busy year. Hope you're doing ok in Nevada.
Was able to get started on BM Wukong, and it looks amazing so far.
Loving Wukong. I’m not big into Souls games, but this is easy enough to be accessible but hard enough to be worth it. I’d put it up there with GOW in looking incredible. Highly recommend this one, easily the best game of 2024.
finished fallen order. loved it. but final boss was underwhelming. susceptible to the basic force slow to get free hits. at least when you fight shirtless dual light saber guy, he was basically immune to force stuff (only wasnt if you used a force push while he was already in the middle of an attack sequence, which is kind of like a parry and therefore earned)
overall awesome game tho. grandmaster difficulty was challenging enough but never as brutal as fromsoft games can be.
up next... probably something quite small like blade
after that probably flipping a coin between Cyberpunk and Days Gone... i still have Elden Ring sitting in its wrapper, but that game just feels daunting. not in difficulty, just in size/scope. i dont have the time for several hours long gaming sessions anymore. so i just feel like a month will pass by and the amount of actual progress ive made would be minimal
and after a full game of lightsaber stuff followed by what i assume is mostly melee combat in blade, would be more refreshing to play a shooter anyway
I thought fallen order was much better than survivor, fwiw. Survivor was incredibly underwhelming.
The Phantom Liberty expansion for CP77 is amazing. Highly recommend that.
i dont have fallen order yet. and only game(s) that i can see myself buying to jump ahead of my backlog would be TLOU part 2 (before the next season of the show drops), and maybe spider-man 2 at some point just because that series is freakin awesome
I thought fallen order was much better than survivor, fwiw. Survivor was incredibly underwhelming.
The Phantom Liberty expansion for CP77 is amazing. Highly recommend that.
and GTA6 because rockstar
my aunt bought me madden 25 ..........gamespot charged her $70
I liked Days Gone but it is a slow burner and takes awhile for the story to get interesting. I'd go with CP2077 next after blade tbh, one of the best games i've played in the last 5-10 years and as vy65 said Phantom Liberty is legit, a masterpiece imho
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