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Desmond

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Completed God Of War and Spider-Man on PS4. Finished act 1 of Ghost of Tsushima.
Sakai Jin's VA is Daisuke Tsuji who also plays Roronoa Zoro and the game has a mission to recruit Straw Hats. Good One Piece references TBH.


I love this song from it:

When I was playing, for half the game I didn't even realize that you could change the radio channels. So I used to listen to whatever music was playing when I entered any vehicle.

I used to like this track:

 
Completed Starfield in 75hrs or so.

I'll rate it 8/10. Main issue with it is the performance, poorly optimised. There are many other small annoyances, but nothing major. Main mission could have been better & longer, still its good.

Story is not very interesting for initial couple of hours, but takes a turn after "Into the Unknown". So I highly recommend playing till here. Main missions won't take much time, 18hrs acc. to certain websites. I completed a lot of faction missions & did other stuff like ship building, outpost building, etc. Plenty of stuff to keep you engaged if you are into such complex mechanics.
 

Zangetsu

I am the master of my Fate.
Completed Bramble : The Mountain King
If you liked Inside, Limbo then you must play this horror title.
Excellent Story, Graphics and Game play.
*store.steampowered.com/app/1623940/Bramble_The_Mountain_King/
 

Desmond

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Finished Control.

Took around 40 hours for main game + both DLCs. Good game, somewhat weak on story but it has some innovative gameplay.

Started Disco Elysium.

In about 18 hours so far. Perhaps my most favourite CRPG so far. The game foregoes technical depth for depth of writing and characters and world building. Coupled with the oil-painting like art style and music makes it quite an experience.
 
Finished Control.

Took around 40 hours for main game + both DLCs. Good game, somewhat weak on story but it has some innovative gameplay.

Started Disco Elysium.

In about 18 hours so far. Perhaps my most favourite CRPG so far. The game foregoes technical depth for depth of writing and characters and world building. Coupled with the oil-painting like art style and music makes it quite an experience.
I agree on Control. Story & storytelling could have been better. I didn't play its DLC though.
 

Zangetsu

I am the master of my Fate.
Playing Blasphemous. Oh boy this game is a GOTY.

All the Dark Soul players would fell in love with this metroidvania style of gameplay.

Must have in your library. Highly recommended.
 

Desmond

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Playing Blasphemous. Oh boy this game is a GOTY.

All the Dark Soul players would fell in love with this metroidvania style of gameplay.
It's been on my radar for a while but never came around to buying it. That and Bloodstained: Ritual of the night.
 

Desmond

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I agree on Control. Story & storytelling could have been better. I didn't play its DLC though.
I mean the world building is good. It's SCP influence is very obvious to anyone who's read SCP wiki. Plus there is some Twin Peaks influence as well. And the whole game has a very metroidvania kind of feel.

But the protagonist's personal story is kinda weak IMO. I also found her personality very boring.

The DLCs are good, gameplay wise you get new powers and weapons. Also the 2nd DLC is based on Alan Wake, basically tying the Alan Wake universe to the Control universe.
 

Zangetsu

I am the master of my Fate.
It's been on my radar for a while but never came around to buying it. That and Bloodstained: Ritual of the night.
Get it ASAP. Amazing game....I would say a Gem created by Team17.
part 2 is also awesome. (which is my next to be played list)
 
Completed DLC of CP2077 - Phantom Liberty. It add another ending to the game (or two endings).

Overall - 7/10
Its good, but final mission & ending offered were not so great IMO. Still, if you liked CP 2077, worth trying (maybe wait for sale).
 

SaiyanGoku

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Completed Ghost Of Tsushima. Can't believe PC gamers are missing this since it is a PS exclusive.
Everyone should experience it IMO, even mobile gamers.
 
Completed Ghost Of Tsushima. Can't believe PC gamers are missing this since it is a PS exclusive.
Everyone should experience it IMO, even mobile gamers.
I seriously hope Ghost of Tsushima is not like Sekiro or Elden Ring - basically souls like where it is made unnecessarily difficult. Also I expect story telling to be better. But heard a lot of good about it indeed (I know I can watch gameplay videos but I just avoid watching videos for exclusive games to not get FOMO :p).

Horizon Forbidden West is coming early next year, so 2 years after PS release. Potentially GoW Ragnarok can be released after a year. Not sure why they are not porting Ghost.
 
Souls games are not unnecessarily difficult. The difficulty is fair IMO and rewards those who play carefully and punishes those who play hard and fast.
I tried Sekiro, Elden Ring & AC6. I completed only ER among them with an easy mod after 10hrs of legit play, total 50hrs on it. Played other 2 for maybe 1-2 hrs. So yes, difficulty is high. I play other games on their normal difficulty setting. For Starfield, I dropped it to easy in certain spaceship battles where I was dying consecutively, that too only during initial 20-25 hrs.

I will avoid any souls game in the future, waste of time for me. I just want to have fun while gaming, life is stressful enough.
 

Nerevarine

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I have been having a blast playing Quasimorph. Its has the doom, wh40k vibe. Basically a mix of stoneshard and escape from tarkov.
 
All games are hard on top level difficulty mode. I also play on Normal difficulty mode.
Yes. Souls like has no difficulty option, that is my concern. Just give a choice & be done with it like Assassin's Creed, GoW, etc. Let their standard difficulty be the normal difficulty setting. God mode with trainer is no fun.
 

Nerevarine

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Souls games are not unnecessarily difficult. The difficulty is fair IMO and rewards those who play carefully and punishes those who play hard and fast.
Sekiro, to be fair is a little more difficult than regular souls because of the parry mechanic but god damn its satisfying.

To parry a boss and do mikiri counters, it makes you seem like an anime villain.. It is by far the best designed sword combat system in any game I've played so far.
 
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