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Picked up Fallen Order cause its like $12, and fuck this game is sloppy. Every animation feels so off, especially during combat. Enemies either magnetize to your attacks or awkwardly slide away from them, unless you parry and counter. The slide platforming sections make me want to die.
I played that game on Xbox One S. Its performance was awful. I enjoyed it despite this.
Finally finished Halo Infinite - boy that campaign sure was a whole lot of nothing. That final boss fight was also kind of annoying until I realized you can take the shields down with a single plasma grenade - hats off to you folks playing on Legendary it took me several tries on just Normal.
Overall no idea how this game got such high scores. Yah the shooty shooty is good for the most part but man is everything else just so painfully middling.
Overall no idea how this game got such high scores. Yah the shooty shooty is good for the most part but man is everything else just so painfully middling.
I bailed pretty quick, I just found it boring. I may try and go back and finish it up at some point though.
I'm playing Mafia 1 Definitive edition. It sucks that it runs at 30fps even on the PS5, but as someone who never played it originally I think the voice acting, dialogue, and story is pretty well done. I even like that it goes mission to mission and isn't structured like a conventional open world game where I have to drive to icons on the map to trigger the next mission.
I've played Mafia 2 and 3, and this one seems the strongest to me so far in terms of narrative.
That being said, I hate how heavy it feels - gives me some serious RDR2 vibes. Aiming and shootouts in general aren't a ton of fun in this game as a result.
I've been playing it off and on. I enjoy it, but it's also one of those games I have no compulsion to play with any regularity because it already feels a bit same-y at this point. As far as Halo games go, I do think it's one of the best I've played. Of course, the caveat with that is that I'm not an especially big Halo fan - I mostly just like Halo 1 for nostalgic/emotional reasons and ODST because I love the more melancholy atmosphere of that game.
I've played Mafia 2 and 3, and this one seems the strongest to me so far in terms of narrative.
That being said, I hate how heavy it feels - gives me some serious RDR2 vibes. Aiming and shootouts in general aren't a ton of fun in this game as a result.
I've been playing it off and on. I enjoy it, but it's also one of those games I have no compulsion to play with any regularity because it already feels a bit same-y at this point. As far as Halo games go, I do think it's one of the best I've played. Of course, the caveat with that is that I'm not an especially big Halo fan - I mostly just like Halo 1 for nostalgic/emotional reasons and ODST because I love the more melancholy atmosphere of that game.
Addleburg I played Mafia 1 when it originally came out too many years ago to think about and it was one of those awesome experiences where it started out kind of rough but the more I played the better it got. I was really surprised by how much the story and world evolves. When you first start out with the wonky cab chase sequence (well in the original it felt wonky) all those cars handle so poorly and drive so slowly. As the years go by and you move up on the food chain you start seeing newer, sleeker car models, I really liked that because it felt like time was actually passing. The story is also really good with a great ending in my opinion. I should really play that remaster one day because I have such fond memories of the original and I saw they put in some serious work on the updated version.
Excellent choice. Merry Blitzmas to all!BLITZMAS 2021 GOTY
Psychonauts 2 is the sequel to one of my favorite games of all time, the concept of seeing peoples minds as playgrounds to explore, helping them with their problems, sort out their emotional baggage and conquer their demons always appealed to me.
Tim Schafer and Double Fine coming back with one of the greatest sequels in franchise history. Raz is back and with him comes a cast of colorful characters and a conspiracy to discover and ultimately correct.
The vast variety of concepts and locations keep the game fresh, the open world areas are fun to explore and full of collectibles including a full on scavenger hunt. The writing is sharp, witty, and downright wholesome. Jack Black steals the show with a kickass original song. This game is like a warm blanket and a hug, it's comfort viewing.
Psychonauts 2 is your 2021 Blitzmas GOTY. I got the platinum trophy, got every figment imaginable, did everything asked of me and loved every minute of it.
Honorable mentions
BioMutant
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
The real GOTY was finding love with my partner Nicole. We've had a whirlwind romance. I love her more than all the stars in the galaxy, I truly for once in my life feel happy and loving someone really opens your eyes to how much you can truly and deeply care about someone.
Merry Blitzmas GBEra friends
With❤️ your friend Blitz
Yeah, I don't know if I will finish this one, I've already kinda fallen off of it. I'm usually pretty compulsive at doing everything when it comes to open world games, but I have no desire to do the checklist in this game. The world is just so boring.
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BLITZMAS 2021 GOTY
Psychonauts 2 is the sequel to one of my favorite games of all time, the concept of seeing peoples minds as playgrounds to explore, helping them with their problems, sort out their emotional baggage and conquer their demons always appealed to me.
Tim Schafer and Double Fine coming back with one of the greatest sequels in franchise history. Raz is back and with him comes a cast of colorful characters and a conspiracy to discover and ultimately correct.
The vast variety of concepts and locations keep the game fresh, the open world areas are fun to explore and full of collectibles including a full on scavenger hunt. The writing is sharp, witty, and downright wholesome. Jack Black steals the show with a kickass original song. This game is like a warm blanket and a hug, it's comfort viewing.
Psychonauts 2 is your 2021 Blitzmas GOTY. I got the platinum trophy, got every figment imaginable, did everything asked of me and loved every minute of it.
Honorable mentions
BioMutant
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
The real GOTY was finding love with my partner Nicole. We've had a whirlwind romance. I love her more than all the stars in the galaxy, I truly for once in my life feel happy and loving someone really opens your eyes to how much you can truly and deeply care about someone.
Merry Blitzmas GBEra friends
With❤️ your friend Blitz
<3. Always great hearing form you every now and then.
It's very well done overall when it comes to a remake for a beloved game. I very much enjoyed my time with it from beginning to end.
I liked Fallen Order quite a bit personally, but I can see how people could bounce off it. (They never quite got it running well on PS4 if I remember right. It has also that odd aspect of it where you get that one final teammate, and she's far and away the most interesting character in the game, and then the game just ends. Just straight up feels like it was missing an additional level.)
Also think about how when it was first revealed people said the main character looked like he was a base template for an action adventure game, and the main character was modeled off an actual actor, Cameron Monaghan, who seems like a pretty nice guy. Doesn't deserve to be called a base template.
Also think about how when it was first revealed people said the main character looked like he was a base template for an action adventure game, and the main character was modeled off an actual actor, Cameron Monaghan, who seems like a pretty nice guy. Doesn't deserve to be called a base template.
Well let me tell you that once you get to the latter half of the campaign you will be locked into several missions that have you clearing identical looking hallways and square rooms against the exact same enemies you've been facing off against since the beginning of the game. It's quite mind numbing.
I watched DONT LOOK UP and man that movie is a little too real. Another great, albeit horribly depressing, McKay production.
I'm enjoying it enough that I haven't stopped playing, but woof. The CS where Whittaker showed up it froze for seconds at a time every like, 5 seconds? He would teleport around a lot, too.
Yeah, even not having played the original I can tell they put a lot of time and polish into this one. During one of the cutscenes yesterday, I was thinking, "This game must be mindblowing to those who played the original back when it came out." As far as open world crime games, GTA 3 was my bag, and... well... let's just say I wish they did what Mafia did. Not that its story is comparable in terms of nuance or characterization.
Re: the cars, it's funny because I can access a car that I think is from Mafia 3 in it (I'm guessing it recognized my Mafia 3 save?). The thing flies since it's like a muscle car from the late 60s, haha.
Yeah, I'm really digging it even in spite of its "heavy" feeling. Although I played Mafia 2 back on the PS3 and Mafia 3 on the PS4 and generally enjoyed both, this is the first one that's really impressed me for the most part with its narrative.
I am shocked that only two out of the six games in Halo MCC have in game subtitles. It's the most basic accessibility option, and they never bothered to put them in anything but Halo CE and 4. It's particularly noticeable in Reach which has constant chatter from your fellow Spartans that is mostly impossible to hear over the music and sound of battle.
Oh, I do feel compelled to say Fallen Order had actual platforming in it, where your actual human input mattered, unlike in say an Uncharted game where your input could best be described as a vision test to see if you can make out whether or not Nathan's arm was reaching out.
Just like people hold on to the Silent Hills dream I will never forget how cool of an idea Star Wars 1313 was 😔
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Heck yah. If they ever release a Switch Pro I'll get it just for Bayonetta 2 and 3.
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It's a wonderful game and will always remind me of how it felt like I was living in another world during the 2014 GOTY discussions. It was WiiU's year through and through.
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