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Yeah, there was clearly something lost in translation with the responses you give people. I like banter with the characters and the loyalty system apart from that, though.
The action in Binary Domain is one of the best I've played in that third-person cover shooter genre. The enemies are really fun to fight and there's a bunch of giant awesome boss fights. It's very good.
FFXII: Revenant Wings - I'm at the very end but not strong enough to tackle whatever last boss I'm on (I guess I beat the previous fights despite being much lower level than what the FAQs said I should've been at), so I'm grinding in the extra dungeon to try and get up higher. Though once I beat the next mission which may or may not be the final final boss my completion percentage will be high enough that the last boss (if that's not what I'm on) will be level 99 instead of like 60 or whatever, so I'll probably have to hit max level before I can finish this off. Whee.
Once I'm done with this I'll finally restart my barely played copy of TWEWY.
Guild Wars 2 - I played a little more Path of Exile and remembered that I never hit max level in GW2, so I promptly dropped that trash and updated GW2. I've been away for so long it feels fresh again.
DMC Trilogy - Time has not been kind to this series. I played some of the first and third game and they are really rough these days; it was almost physically painful listening to the opening exchange between Dante and Trish in DMC, and the mechanics feel really clunky anymore. I don't have much memory of the third one between Cerberus and the demon whale so I definitely need to run through some more to refresh myself.
I'm the one who was supposed to fill your dark soul with liiiiight!
Almost done with Paper Mario TTYD. Gotta say it's pretty great. I'm thinking Grandia next.
This year I'm going for no walkthroughs or gamefaqs at all, no achievements or 100% completion. Just gonna play a game cold from start to finish and whatever happens, happens. Started that near the end of last year and I love it so far.
I really liked that game. I think I still like the original a little better, but ... it's still great. Thinking about that, I still have the original Paper Mario. I should bust that guy out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzo
"You're the man who lost a mother and a brother to evil twenty years ago, the son of the Legendary Dark Knight Sparda, Mr. Dante."
All I can think of is finding the most awkward way to greet people for pointless exposition.
"Ah, so you're the lady with two children who go to a local school and decided to sign up for classes at this university, Mrs. Clark."
Jet Set Radio. Took a while to bring my brain and thumbs back to the way 3D worked in 2000, but I've finally found my stroke. There are some instances of crude level design and stuff unfairly whacking you from offscreen, but this is still a great game. The best Dreamcast Sonic game for sure.
Fuck Fight or Flight. Those jetpack assholes.
I thought it was well known that the dialog in DMC games is garbage?Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
I think we even had a long discussion about it where people defended the game saying it was part of Capcom trying to incorporate the bad dialog of 80s American horror movies or some such.
Just being "bad" doesn't say much, and there's a difference between cheesy and painfully awkward. I didn't remember the first game being like this outside of the ending stuff.
But on a gameplay level we've come so far in recent years that I'm having a hard time going back. I've always felt DMC4 was the equal of 1&3 but my revisiting is looking like 4 is better than I gave it credit for.
I bet DMC2 is amazing now, everybody is just too afraid to play it again.