General Gaming What games have you purchased lately?

[Phaseknox]

Valkyrie Elysium

[Dre801]

Paid the fee to upgrade my copies of Uncharted 4 and Lost Legacy, so I guess I "bought" The Legacy of Thieves collection.

[Bloodporne]

About to buy Callisto Protocol if that counts as lately

 

[best3444]

21 minutes ago, Dre801 said:

Paid the fee to upgrade my copies of Uncharted 4 and Lost Legacy, so I guess I "bought" The Legacy of Thieves collection.

 

They look and play fantastic on the PS5. 

[Biggie]

Just pulled the trigger on Miles Morales for PS5. It’s on the Black Friday sale on the store for $19.99. Finally my sweet spot. 

[best3444]

3 hours ago, Biggie said:

Just pulled the trigger on Miles Morales for PS5. It’s on the Black Friday sale on the store for $19.99. Finally my sweet spot. 

 

It's fantastic. Enjoy.

[5timechamp]

Finally got Titanfall 2.. apparently the campaign is a great time with lots of clever ideas in the levels themselves

[Keyser_Soze]

I bought @Phaseknox approved Eternity: The Last Unicorn. Only $1.99 and decided to buy it at that price because for some reason last year the price went up during the winter sale.

 

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Classic RPG, with lore based on Norse mythology. Travel through mesmerizing locations, meet fantasy characters and fight to protect Elven immortality.

 

[Mr.Vic20]

8 hours ago, 5timechamp said:

Finally got Titanfall 2.. apparently the campaign is a great time with lots of clever ideas in the levels themselves

One of the greatest FPS games from a level design persepctive. I love its campaign sits comfortable in my top 100 of all time. 

[AlwaysDyingX]

GoW Ragnorok $54

Fifa 23 $41

[ShreddieMercury]

1 hour ago, Mr.Vic20 said:

One of the greatest FPS games from a level design persepctive. I love its campaign sits comfortable in my top 100 of all time. 

 

Top 5 FPS campaigns, go

[chakoo]

Lotta switch stuff from deals.

Persona 5 (Switch), Tony Hawk HD (Switch), TMNT Cowabunga Collection (switch), NIS Classics Volume 2 (switch) (have 1, just now need 3), Lost Judgment (ps4) (Commissar gave me the game last year digitally but I really wanted to add a physical copy to the collection and it was cheap), 1942 Replicade (a backup incase I break mine from hacking).

[silentbob]

Still need to go back and play the first one, but I couldn’t pass up The Last of Us Part II for $15Cnd.

[Keyser_Soze]

1 hour ago, ShreddieMercury said:

Top 5 FPS campaigns, go

 

Not Titanfall 2, I'm guessing #99 on his list!

[Nokra]

39 minutes ago, chakoo said:

Lotta switch stuff from deals.

Persona 5 (Switch), Tony Hawk HD (Switch), TMNT Cowabunga Collection, NIS Classics Volume 2 (have 1, just now need 3), Lost Judgment (Commissar gave me the game last year digitally but I really wanted to add a physical copy to the collection and it was cheap), 1942 Replicade (a backup incase I break mine from hacking).

 

Did you get Tony Hawk and TMNT digitally from the Nintendo Store? Or was there a deal on the physical versions somewhere?

[Brian]

I bought a new laptop. My current one is crashing frequently and it’s a pain to bring to work due to its size. The new one will be much smaller and lighter. 

[chakoo]

19 minutes ago, Nokra said:

Did you get Tony Hawk and TMNT digitally from the Nintendo Store? Or was there a deal on the physical versions somewhere?

 

All of what I listed was at retail (physical copies). Both were $30 in canada which in TMNT case is actually cheaper than its eShop sale price ($35).

 

https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-the-cowabunga-collection-switch/16014742

https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/tony-hawk-s-pro-skater-1-2-switch/15323751

[silentbob]

TitanFall 2 easily has one of the best campaigns I have ever played. Each level, new Titan battle, level design and progressive system. It just all worked so fucking beautifully and it flowed with no control issues I can think of. I still hold out hope for a third game and I don’t care if it’s just with the same fun elements. New stuff would be cool but I can’t think of one bad thing to say about that game’s campaign. 

[crispy4000]

I'll play devil's advocate on Titanfall 2, my thoughts from closer to when I beat it:

  

On 3/14/2019 at 10:42 PM, crispy4000 said:

I wasn't blown away.  It's a very good one of those, with a few surprising novelties and an amazing control scheme.   I think I just like my shooters better when they aren't so linear... If it's a Top 5 FPS in single player, I must not love the genre enough.

The Titans are fun, but you also aren't in them enough to really acclimate to what is most effective.  At least not on normal difficulty.  Only the 2nd to last boss gave me some trouble.

 

On 3/15/2019 at 6:17 AM, Moa said:

I agree with this sentiment. It was very crisp and smooth and they had some cool mechanics in some of the levels but I was often left wanting more as it felt like just as I was starting to get used to some of the more unique mechanics the level ended and it was all jerked away. I feel like I wanted a lot of the levels to be 30% longer and require greater mastery of whatever was going on in the level. 

 

Hit the nail on the head.  I would have taken a whole game that used the 'watch' mechanic.  And that survival kit was so cool, but they only let you use it in a few short corridors.  Taking down those smaller Titans as a pilot too.  There's that one level where it helps a ton to do it.  But the game never challenges you to do it again.

 

Still is a great game, and a shame we won't get another most likely.

[Phaseknox]

Star Ocean: The Divine Force

[AlwaysDyingX]

1 hour ago, crispy4000 said:

I'll play devil's advocate on Titanfall 2, my thoughts from closer to when I beat it:

  

 

Still is a great game, and a shame we won't get another most likely.

 

We did. Its called Apex Legends 😂

[TwinIon]

Picked up Stray and Elden Ring, and put in an hour or so on both. Stray is adorable and Elden Ring feels overwhelming at first.

[ShreddieMercury]

I enjoyed Titanfall 2, but I find that it has circled around to being a bit overrated at this point.  It has some neat ideas, but they are extremely short lived, to the point that the campaign feels like a hodge podge of throwaway mechanics that were never meaningfully fleshed out (and the behind the scenes discussion about development confirms this).  The most celebrated level, "Effect and Cause", never actually does anything with the new mechanic that it introduces.  There is a brief platforming challenge, you can trick some guards... and that's it really.

 

Don't get me wrong, it's a super fun campaign in an era where we have been starved of meaningful FPS adventures.  But I was a bit let down because it promises more than it can meaningfully deliver in my opinion.

[Phaseknox]

Akiba’s Beat
Almost My Floor

Apsulov: End of Gods
The Bard’s Tale IV: Director’s Cut
Crazy Strike Bowling EX
The Cruel King and the Great Hero
Dark Nights With Poe & Munro
Hard Reset Redux
John Wick Hex
Metal Gear Solid V: The Definitive Experience
Mighty Switch Force! Collection
Moon Raider
Olija
Poison Control
Retrace: Memories of Death
Roki
Smoke and Sacrifice
The Technomancer
The True
Tunche

[ShreddieMercury]

Bought Sniper Elite 4 on sale after seeing @Bloodporne mention that it was great.  I played a bit of the first level last night and it was really fun.  I really like how relatively simple it is in comparison to MGS or Hitman, which tend to be overwhelming for me.  There are some cool systems and it looks great and runs really well.

[Keyser_Soze]

2 minutes ago, ShreddieMercury said:

Bought Sniper Elite 4 on sale after seeing @Bloodporne mention that it was great.  I played a bit of the first level last night and it was really fun.  I really like how relatively simple it is in comparison to MGS or Hitman, which tend to be overwhelming for me.  There are some cool systems and it looks great and runs really well.

 

Making @SoberChef proud.

[Bloodporne]

3 minutes ago, ShreddieMercury said:

Bought Sniper Elite 4 on sale after seeing @Bloodporne mention that it was great.  I played a bit of the first level last night and it was really fun.  I really like how relatively simple it is in comparison to MGS or Hitman, which tend to be overwhelming for me.  There are some cool systems and it looks great and runs really well.

This is exactly what I enjoy about it and what kept me hooked. It does a few things very well and they create enough fun and emergent scenarios to have kept me entertained throughout the entire campaign. The level design is great and the mechanics are all very solid and quite satisfying. It definitely feels like a more old school and AA MGSV in many ways and I appreciated the narrower focus. I absolutely loved MGSV, talked about it a lot here, but yeah, I'm glad SE4 is a bit more "arcade-y". I haven't gotten into Hitman yet for exactly that reason, it seems overwhelming and like a commitment. 

 

Also, you'll see the more you play and get comfortable with its system but the mechanics can be pushed quite a bit and you'll be styling on enemies in no time with elaborate trip-mine setups and what not. Dealing with the armed vehicles is cool as hell too, you'll see what I mean. 

 

It's also very atmospheric which is a big plus for me. Check your guns' perks/upgrades by the way, they're just enough to be fun to engage with, no crazy challenges really. Glad to see you like it. 

[ShreddieMercury]

20 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

This is exactly what I enjoy about it and what kept me hooked. It does a few things very well and they create enough fun and emergent scenarios to have kept me entertained throughout the entire campaign. The level design is great and the mechanics are all very solid and quite satisfying. It definitely feels like a more old school and AA MGSV in many ways and I appreciated the narrower focus. I absolutely loved MGSV, talked about it a lot here, but yeah, I'm glad SE4 is a bit more "arcade-y". I haven't gotten into Hitman yet for exactly that reason, it seems overwhelming and like a commitment. 

 

Also, you'll see the more you play and get comfortable with its system but the mechanics can be pushed quite a bit and you'll be styling on enemies in no time with elaborate trip-mine setups and what not. Dealing with the armed vehicles is cool as hell too, you'll see what I mean. 

 

It's also very atmospheric which is a big plus for me. Check your guns' perks/upgrades by the way, they're just enough to be fun to engage with, no crazy challenges really. Glad to see you like it. 

 

Hitman is absolutely phenomenal, but each level is so dense and so layered that it's almost too much.  And the challenges and different approaches you can take mean that you can spend tens of hours on each level alone, and I don't have that kind of time to dedicate to one game anymore.

 

Thanks for the tips on the guns, will do! 

[Bloodporne]

45 minutes ago, ShreddieMercury said:

 

Hitman is absolutely phenomenal, but each level is so dense and so layered that it's almost too much.  And the challenges and different approaches you can take mean that you can spend tens of hours on each level alone, and I don't have that kind of time to dedicate to one game anymore.

 

Thanks for the tips on the guns, will do! 

That's what I read and saw in gameplay footage. I know it sounds dumb but I get real OCD-ish about seeing and doing everything in games so stuff like that really stresses me out. When games are too deep and open, it stresses me out, like I'm constantly unsure how to approach things because I'll miss out on a possibly "better" way.

[ShreddieMercury]

35 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

That's what I read and saw in gameplay footage. I know it sounds dumb but I get real OCD-ish about seeing and doing everything in games so stuff like that really stresses me out. When games are too deep and open, it stresses me out, like I'm constantly unsure how to approach things because I'll miss out on a possibly "better" way.

 

Definitely not dumb, I'm the same way!  I'm the same way with skill trees.  If it's simple I'm okay, but once it branches out or has too many options, I just shut down. 

[Phaseknox]

2 hours ago, ShreddieMercury said:

Bought Sniper Elite 4 on sale after seeing @Bloodporne mention that it was great.  I played a bit of the first level last night and it was really fun.

I have Sniper Elite 2, 3 and 4, but I haven’t played them yet. I’ll get 5 when it’s cheap just like I did with the previous three games. I’ve heard good things about the series, so I look forward to playing them.
 

1 hour ago, Bloodporne said:

This is exactly what I enjoy about it and what kept me hooked. It does a few things very well and they create enough fun and emergent scenarios to have kept me entertained throughout the entire campaign. The level design is great and the mechanics are all very solid and quite satisfying. It definitely feels like a more old school and AA MGSV in many ways and I appreciated the narrower focus. I absolutely loved MGSV, talked about it a lot here, but yeah, I'm glad SE4 is a bit more "arcade-y". I haven't gotten into Hitman yet for exactly that reason, it seems overwhelming and like a commitment.

You might want to check out Hitman: Absolution, because it’s kind of considered a more “arcade-y” Hitman game and why a lot of hardcore fans of the series don’t like it. I think that it’s great because it’s more of a cinematic story driven linear action adventure stealth game than an open sandbox assassination sim like the earlier and newer games. I didn’t like the earlier games because I found them to be a little dull, but Absolution is kind of like the Splinter Cell games which I’m a fan of. I have the newer games, but I haven’t played them yet.

[Bloodporne]

1 hour ago, Phaseknox said:

I have Sniper Elite 2, 3 and 4, but I haven’t played them yet. I’ll get 5 when it’s cheap just like I did with the previous three games. I’ve heard good things about the series, so I look forward to playing them.
 

You might want to check out Hitman: Absolution, because it’s kind of considered a more “arcade-y” Hitman game and why a lot of hardcore fans of the series don’t like it. I think that it’s great because it’s more of a cinematic story driven linear action adventure stealth game than an open sandbox assassination sim like the earlier and newer games. I didn’t like the earlier games because I found them to be a little dull, but Absolution is kind of like the Splinter Cell games which I’m a fan of. I have the newer games, but I haven’t played them yet.

Then I think you'll dig Sniper Elite. I've only played 4 but it has great, open level and mission design that ultimately funnels you into exactly one thing:

 

 

...in very creative ways like X-ray vision rupturing their balls with a fat-ass sniper rifle from 500m out. 

[SoberChef]

Speaking of Sniper Elite 5, the last of the seasonal content dropped as well as a free piece of DLC for all players!

[Phaseknox]

Afterparty

Agatha Knife

Always Sometimes Monsters

The Bounty Huntress

Catmaze

Delivery From the Pain

Diablo II: Resurrected

Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights

The Entropy Centre

Gale of Windoria

Giga Wrecker Alt.

Golden Force

Hourglass

A Juggler’s Tale

Lost Sea

Metaloid: Origin

Minute of Islands

Potion Permit

Ronin

Sofiya and the Ancient Clan

Sumatra: Fate of Yandi

Trigger Witch

Wife Quest

Young Souls

[HardAct]

Bought Final Fantasy: Crisis Core Reunion 2 days ago after actually replay and finishing Resident Evil 4 on steam deck. I uninstalled RR4 and installed CCR and plan on starting it up tonight!