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Trinity Trigger. Got to the final boss and lost a few times, so I just watched the ending on YT. Not the most exciting game and just didn't want to play anymore.

Ethan: Meteor Hunter on PS3. Late last night I reached a point where a puzzle stumped me and I only ever intended to play until I reached that point. It's just not high on my priority list to keep playing this when I have so many other games to play.

Serious Sam 4 - abandoning it after only the first 2.5 levels, granted I played the first 2 over a year ago and went back to this thanks to seeing it set to leave GP soon. It's just too repetitive and frustrating. Only have the default pistol, 2 shot guns and an assault rifle... but the double barrel was hard to accurately select via the weapon wheel with a controller and I had virtually zero ammo for the rifle. Reverse circle strafing got old, fast. It's not worth pushing hard to complete the remaining 80+% in just a few days when I'm not enjoying it.

Crosscode. Didn't expect it to be so aim-heavy and riddled with fetch quests. Just not fun to play.

Sokobos. Puzzles didn't seem very well designed. Tried to remap the buttons on my controller, and now it is permanently messed up with no way to reset.

Chicory: A Colorful Tale - No clue what I was suppose to do and didn't find it appealing enough to look it up.

The Messenger - *shame* Everyone says it's great, but it's just not my cup of tea.

I beat The Messenger twice @bill and really enjoy it, but some of the platforming is crazy difficult until you get the timing down. The shop keeper was enjoyable and the music. Shame you didn't like it.

Deathloop

Another game everyone seems to love that I couldn't stand. It didn't help that the game kept glitching and I'd lose progress. The enemy AI is either really stupid or the best long range shots ever. The environments are cool, but not enough to go back over and over in, because they feel empty. I don't like the menus. In fact, the whole interface and mission section feels convoluted to me. I also didn't like any of the characters.

I don't drop games very often, and I tried multiple times with 'Deathloop,' but I just couldn't.

I beat Deathloop and mostly enjoyed it. But, I agree with many of your criticisms too.

I had loved Dishonored and Prey (especially Mooncrash), but Deathloop just felt off to me.

I started Prey and Deathloop but have taken long pauses from both. Want to go back to them, Prey moreso, but haven't been compelled to. Them being Bethesda games on GP adds to that delay but DL also didn't capture my interest like Dishonored did.

Immortals Fenyx Rising. I started it. Wanted to like it. Although it wasn't bad, it just wasn't doing it for me. I think it was a matter of timing though, and not the game itself. I had started it not too long after having beaten Zelda Breath of the Wild. So not too long before I had had my fill of large open world exploration.

I'm thinking about trying Immortals Fenyx Rising soon...

bill wrote:

Do it. It's cheap and it's good. And your weapons don't break like in that Nintendo game

I've racked up several over the last ~3 years, but I've beaten a ton more, so that's ok. All of these are technically still on my "playing" list, and could get picked back up at some point if I'm in the right mood.

Crystalis - Just couldn't get into this one. I'm sure it was great back when it came out, but it doesn't hold up now.

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door - I was really into this game, but around 10 hours in I just suddenly hit a weird wall where I really wasn't enjoying the game all that much anymore. The combat had gotten very repetitive and stale, and the best I could tell, it was pretty much going to be like that for the rest of the game.

Shantae - Got to a section where you have to transform into a monkey (I think it was a monkey?) and the controls just were not working for me. Switched to another game and never ended up going back. I'll probably go back to it some time soon, I've been wanting to play through the Shantae games for a while now.

Hollow Knight - First time I tried it, I just wasn't feeling it. The second time, I was loving it, but then I saw it's a 40+ hour game and I just was not in the mood for a long game at that time, and definitely not a long game that is also a Metroidvania! I'll beat this game some day for sure.

Horizon: Zero Dawn - I liked the more realistic graphics, but I just didn't care for the combat and exploration (especially compared to BotW). I wish we could get a Zelda game that looked like this.

Banjo-Tooie - Never played this one growing up, even though I played Banjo Kazooie multiple times. Replayed BK a couple years ago and loved it, it held up so well. Tried to jump into BT right after but just was not enjoying it. They changed up way too much, IMO.

Pokemon Y - The only reason I stopped is because Pokemon Scarlet came out, and I wanted to start that one at the same time as my kids. I'll return to it eventually.

I started a game last night that I plan to continue playing more of tonight, but can already tell I likely won't finish it. It is Onee Chanbara Origin and it just feels way too repetitive in the hour I've played of it so far.

kirby return to dreamland deluxe
grimgrimoire oncemore
dokapon kingdom
Fairy Fencer F

selling them all on mercari to pay for Crisis Core and Advanced Wars

Typing of the Dead (2000, PC version).

Popped in my old disc into a Windows 8 machine, ripped the ISO and copied it to a Win10 machine without an optical disc drive. It runs without any issues.

Except that you are playing on a laptop keyboard instead of a real one. So I didn't win. Made it to the last boss though.

Monster Truck Championship
Final Exam

To be fair I downloaded them from the PS+ Premium selection and going into them I knew if they didn't hook me within the first 30-45 minutes or so I was just going to delete them. Monster Truck Championship I just could not get a hang of the controls. I was hoping for it to be more arcade-style, but the game's description said it was a simulation. And Final Exam, it's just another beat-em-up game and I tend to get extremely bored of those types of games, especially when I'm playing them solo.

A game that I haven't given up on yet, but am very close to...Death Stranding. What even is this game?

Probably going to bail on another wave of PS5 games.

Control - Not really feeling the gameplay or the narrative.

Immortals: Fenyx Rising - Gameplay is competent but unremarkable. Constant joking gods narration already started wearing a bit thin.

The Pathless - Stamina mechanic is beyond stupid. I don't have time for that.

How far did you get in Control? I really enjoyed that one by the end, but it started out a little slow for me.

Orlandu wrote:

The Pathless didn't click to me either.

Immortals: Fenyx Rising - I finished it, but it felt tedious (and I skipped a lot of stuff). I definitely hated all the story/narration. Also hated the way flying works with the need to use this special odd attack to get some lift.

Control was pretty good.

Fluidity: Spin Cycle. I was trying to 100% it because of the novel concept, but it was taking forever and got annoying to play. I haven’t even reached the second boss and I ran out of steam.

Orlandu wrote:

Although if you want to hate on BOTW, this is the go to game.

loztdogs wrote:

Maybe I will get sick of the narration between Zeus and Prometheus but I'm enjoying it so far. It's keeping the game light and fun for me as opposed to a "serious" game like every other ubisoft open world release

@Bleed_DukeBlue Not far at all, and I'll likely get back into Control at some point. The plot really doesn't grab me, and I'm not a big fan of it being told through data logs that I pick up (and what's the deal with having to go through a set of sub menus to see it...just let me push a button when I pick it up to read it). Part of that's my fault since since sci-fi is pretty hit or miss for me.

@loztdogs I didn't care for BotW, but I don't see this game as an improvement other than the absence of Zelda's atrocious fake British accent and weapons that break every 10 seconds. It just feels like Ubi open world design.

@benstylus I hope you enjoy it all the way through. Don't be a miserable old man like me.

Orlandu wrote:



Well, I should clarify. I like the writing, but the fake accents do grate on me.

Kao The Kangaroo: Round 2. A 20 year old 3D platformer, when I started it I knew I wouldn't care if I had finished it or not.because my expectations weren't exactly high going into it.

PizzaTheHutt wrote:

I gotta admit I was kinda weirded out when Kao got a release on modern systems. Just thinking of all the oddball mascot plaformers IPs of the early aughties, why bring that one back?

Afrika

It's kind of boring! It needs a remake or something on PS4 or PS5. On the PS3, the world feels small and not very lush with vegetation. The loading times also suck - just getting to my save game to play takes several minutes. I don't have the heart to sell or trade it - it's like I finally get to play a nature documentary! I just wish it was more interesting so I could get to the end of it.

The Narrator is a DICK on

I eventually could have beaten this, but didn't want to invest more time into it. It's not that long of a game, the length is just artificially extended by all the dying you will do.

Gravity Circuit: Let's make a game that reminds everyone of Mega Man X but take away the gun and give it garbage grapple hook mechanics. My hands hurt after a single stage.

Iron Fisticle - had this twin stick shooter for a long while, finally spun into it this month. After a good 30+ failures to even clear the first board of 9 rooms in a 3x3 grid and you only need to go from 1 corner to the opposite one, I gave up. The game puts a ton of enemies into the room and after you clear it, or after a fairly short countdown, it spawns in a new foe 1 at a time that you can't kill. They're meant to push you out the door into the next room, but are really annoying because they shoot at you and when they appear before you kill all normally enemies, it's challenging to distinguish between them and the enemies you're required to kill.
I was gaining XP and very slowly leveling up my base stats, but it was just taking too long to feel like overall progress was being made. It ultimately wasn't enjoyable enough to keep grinding and I uninstalled it.

PizzaTheHutt wrote:
Okay, not all narrators are great. But what's the title of the game?

Iron Man 2

This game really makes you feel like Iron Man in real life, in that you slowly lumber around smaller empty spaces mostly unable to fly, just like a heavy metal suit would feel like wearing.

The game is a curious one. It's a sequel to the movie, but only Don Cheadle and Samuel L Jackson reprise their roles. The soundalike for Downey is extremely convincing though. The levels are short, and you can only hover. There are on-rails shooting sections, which are ok, but also short. Enemy variety is low, but the story is decent. You never feel powerful as Iron Man, and that's the game's biggest folly.

The reason I quit is because I got stuck. I was about half to two-thirds of the way through the game in a hotel where the power needs to be re-established to rescue Pepper. Like I said, levels are smaller and linear, and though there's a compass with a waypoint on it, which is useless. I could not for the life of me find the spot to turn the power on. There was nothing. Iron Man has a scanner, but using that just produces a message saying there's nothing to scan. After going back and forth from the beginning of the level to where the game closes off the second area of the level a few times, and not finding a solution online, I gave up. The game isn't terribly interesting to begin with, but it's short enough I was going to stick it out, but it's not worth it.

Hyper Void on PSVR. I enjoy these types of arcade shooters, but I almost never actually finish them. In fact I don't even start them with the intention of finishing them, I just try and get a few hours of enjoyment out of them, and that's what I got out of this.

Robotech: Battlecry and Atlas Fallen. Atlas Fallen open world and combat loop wasn't enjoyable put 2 hours in. The names for characters while having a in lore reason for being that way was an odd choice. Also the combat wasn't fast paced enough. It was easy enough using parry or Iron to freeze enemies and attack them. The dialogue, vertical objects and traversal didn't help either. Robotech Battlecry was an interesting concept but wasn't my cup of tea sadly. Hopefully my next PS2 games prove more interesting. I like the idea of switched modes between fighter hybrid and mech but the camera and reuse of defense missions made it tedious. It is pretty much fly here and destroy the enemy asap or prepare to lose due to the escort or the building you are suppose to protect dying. I was hoping for something more in the vein of Ace Combat honestly.

Giving up on Armored Core 6 possibly. The game's shotgun and gatling guns are overpowered. Even after chapter 2 sniping or fighting from a far does little to no damage or isn't possible. Would be nice to have a laser sniper or physical sniper but so far after Chapter 2 that doesn't seem possible. Going to just rush and beat the game and get the three endings and sell it quick. Here is to hoping Starfield and MegaMan Dive is better. I really need to stop wasting money and just buy what I know I will like.

428: Shibuya Scramble

I was pretty interested at first, but it just got so boring having to replay the same sequences over and over again to try to advance the story.

A couple of games I started over the last couple years but moved on for now:

DmC: Devil May Cry - Definitive Edition
God of War (2018)
Gravity Rush: Remastered
Red Dead Redemption II

Currently just started Star Wars Jedi: Survivor that I got from the library and need to return soon. Then it's back to Tears of the Kingdom to finish it (2 more temples). Then maybe I'll start Final Fantasy XVI. Unless Dead Space comes in from the library as well.

Sadly, Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, for now anyway. I was a couple of hours in, but started feeling overwhelmed. Almost like the game was too big. Almost felt like I was forcing myself to want to enjoy it. Video games shouldn't feel like that. You're supposed to feel unforced fun.

And I very much enjoyed Breath of the Wild, so I was disappointed that I wasn't feeling this one. But I hope to return to it.