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Change of plans...
*VVVVVV: Creating a custom level of mine on the PC version, playing the built in custom levels on the Android version.
*Freedom Planet: This second Lilac run of mine will double as a potential material for a commentary based vid and a run to get that speedrun achievement out of the way.

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Goin' back and forth between two games right now: Ys Origin and The Witcher 3. Having given Ys Origin a pretty long break, I finally decided to give Nightmare difficulty a try. So far it's manageable, I guess. I also set aside TW3 for quite some time, too, and am now focused on finishing the main quest line. Dunno if I'm gonna bother with remaining side content, or start a new game with different decisions.

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Going between Diablo 3 and mass effect 2.Im on a mission called project Armageddon, and as interesting as the story is and sad as it is, it's soooooo long.I also kinda hate this mission because aside from being super long, I hate dealing with geth, because they are so op.

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First the usual suspects:

Diablo III - have a season 5 Wizard with full Firebird set, currently grinding for a few key items for my current build (Focus Ring, Death Wish sword, Cindercoat armor) before I try challenges above Torment VI.

Heroes of the Storm - diligently completing daily quests, doing at least 10-15 games a week, so I can save up for Li-Ming and Xul without paying real money for them. Adding two more Diablo characters was exactly what this game needed to get me fired up again .

And now the more recent games:

Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam - what a bonkers concept for a Mario game: crossing over the Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi universes and blending their gameplay styles in both map stuff and combat. I already like it better than Mario & Luigi: Dream Team from a few years ago, which was rotten with tutorials and felt slower-paced than Paper Jam. Bottom line: Mario RPGs are usually good, and Paper Jam feels like one of the better Mario RPGs. Only about four hours in.

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel - the nuts and bolts of Cold Steel feel WAY more modern than its Trails in the Sky predecessors. Visually gorgeous, musically beautiful, and smoother, faster, prettier combat in which you can turn off animations (yay!) and have nine regulars at your disposal. There's more social / dialog stuff in between major quests than in Trails in the Sky, and the school setting and relationship meters immediately evoke Persona 3, Persona 4, and Valkyria Chronicles II. Those are very good things. Only about 3 hours in.

Games I'm not playing, but I wish I was:

The Witness - holy crap those puzzles look fun and that island looks gorgeous. Anyone want to throw $40 US my way so I can play it?

Fire Emblem: Fates - it comes out in a few weeks, and once I have it in my grubby hands I'll be hooked on it for a month solid. Guaranteed.

This post has been edited by laszlow on 7th February 2016 01:26

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Mass effect 2.

I also play Diablo 3 got a level 70 wizard a 31 monk.My wizzyhas a few paragon points already.

This post has been edited by Magitek_slayer on 7th February 2016 07:25

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This romhack looks really interesting to me.

[URL=Pokémon Crystal Emu Edition]http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1420/[/URL]

Its point is that you can get all 251 mons on one cartridge, in one save file.

I think I might actually try to start it soon.

Meantime, I've been playing La-Mulana and Unepic. Interesting how both of them are metroidvanias directly inspired by Maze of Galious.

Come to think of it, Maze of Galious is probably like, the "third" template for metroidvania games, after Metroid and Castlevania. It's lesser-known and less popular than the other two, but it's also got a strong set of conventions.

Most distinctive is the mechanic where finding the boss room and fighting the boss are two separate things. In La-Mulana you need the find the boss room, and unlock the ankh in the boss room, and acquire an ankh jewel, before you can fight the boss. In Unepic, you need to find the boss room, then can choose whether to activate the boss battle, and you can even teleport out of a boss battle to safety (and reset it). This is in contrast to many other metroidvania games where the boss just suddenly appears when you get to the boss room.

Also, MoGalious, LM, and Unepic all have relatively small character sprites compared to the screen size (contrast them and the various 2D Metroid and Castlevania games), screen-by-screen mapping with little or no scrolling, and lots of platforming (often in the form of platforms and ladders) on each screen.

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Some emus that shall not be named ( WAAAGH! ) and I plan to check Undertale and Pathologic 2...basically waiting on stuff that will come out 2017 ( or beyond... / le sigh... )

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Undertale looks good.I saw an entire lets play and I was impressed.I would recommend it jamesgoblin if you like earthbound type games.

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Undertale - weird, subversive indie RPG. Hilarious dialog and characters, surreal setting and situations, and the interesting twist of being able to resolve any random encounter peacefully instead of with violence. I did a "normal" run of the game, playing about half-violently and half-peacefully. The end sequences are... extremely memorable. I need to try and a "pacifist" run of this game ASAP. Really fascinating exploration of the JRPG genre, using a mix of NES-RPG and shmup mechanics.

My thoughts on Undertale from earlier in this thread. It's a super interesting RPG.

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Undertale seems to be basically using JRPG mechanics to implement what's essentially a text adventure in terms of using various non-combat options to resolve things.

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Recently finished:

A Witch's Tale

A DS JRPG by Nippon Ichi, where you play as a witch-in-training in a Halloweentown-style fantasy setting, with sub-worlds with specific themes (e.g. candyland, ice/snow area, machine/mechanical area). The story makes lots of references to Alice in Wonderland, though recasts the characters in new roles. The main character is a bratty witch named Liddell who skips school to try to seek out rare and powerful rune magic that was supposedly used to seal away a great evil 1000 years ago.

The entire game can be played using touchscreen. The battles are a little frequent and a bit tedious, but the difficulty is relatively low. Meanwhile, the soundtrack by Sara Sakurai is excellent.

Two playthroughs are required to see the entire story (and get all the collectibles), it seems. I just started the second.

Stealth Bastard Deluxe

Finally got around to beating this comedy stealth platformer. If you're not familiar with it, it's a cyberpunk/espionage/etc.-themed thing that likes to mock you with its stage design and various writing on the walls.

Beating it isn't too hard. And it makes you feel clever. And it comes in bite-sized chunks, which is great when I don't have much time.

Since beating it, I've been working on getting all the hidden collectible Helixes, one in each level. Some of them are quite hard to find! Getting all of them in each area unlocks one bonus level in that area. (The other bonus level is unlocked by perfect play -- no deaths and sufficiently fast -- I think.) Beating more levels and getting more secrets also unlocks the use of suits with extra abilities -- I'm not sure if there are any secrets or time limits that require these suits though (hopefully there aren't).

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In progress:

Pokémon Crystal Version Emu Edition

Yep, this is the real deal. It's a romhack of Crystal that allows the player to get all 251 mons in a single save file, without trading. Trade-evolutions are changed to stone or level evolutions, and unavailable mons are now made available -- this includes legendaries and starters.

So far I've gotten to Goldenrod City and have 40 mons logged in my pokédex. My team currently consists of a strangely large number of poison-types for some reason...but I keep on switching stuff in and out to level stuff up. And I've already got two legendaries, as well as a Cleffa with Dizzy Punch from the Odd Egg!

I'm logging my progress in this thread on IJBM, if you want to see the details.

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Just finished off the platinum trophy for Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix AND Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep. (Screw Unknown btw. He was a rough fight for all 3 characters.)
Currently playing Uncharted 1-4 (including Golden Abyss). Then I'll probably give the new mirrors edge a shot if the console release of XCOM 2 isn't out yet. I keep eyeing my ps3 copy of tales of symphonia wanting that plat but the number of times i have to beat that damn game for the plat is a little much.....

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I just did a whirlwind tour of FF9 on PC because I hadn't played it in 15 years. I'd forgotten just how good it is in the Final Fantasy canon, and it's quite nice to play with the built-in mods. The only downsides are the mobile-OS-friendly battle interface, which sucks up too much of the screen, and the fact that they didn't have the source art available to upres all of the backdrops.

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I just did a whirlwind tour of FF9 on PC because I hadn't played it in 15 years. I'd forgotten just how good it is in the Final Fantasy canon, and it's quite nice to play with the built-in mods. The only downsides are the mobile-OS-friendly battle interface, which sucks up too much of the screen, and the fact that they didn't have the source art available to upres all of the backdrops.

FF9 is one of those entries in the series where I go back and forth on how good/bad it is. Sometimes, I think it's the best Final Fantasy game, as it combines all of the elements of the previous games flawlessly into what could have actually, truly been the 'FINAL' Final Fantasy, if ever there was to have been or will be one. That's not to simply relegate it to a greatest hits type of game, because it isn't.

But I also sometimes think it's one of the worst in the series. There are only a few actual, memorable characters in the entire game and the main cast are pretty blatant tropes. The story is the same as ever, save the world or something, get the girl or something, find yourself or something. The animations or actual style of them in-game, aren't anything special. I'd even go as far as to say that while the graphics themselves are obviously (at the time and still to this day, even) some of the best in the series, the actual style and animations are bland. Even the color palette of the game is pretty washed-out compared to it's predecessors. The world map is nothing special, either.

I think it might have one of the best soundtracks in the main series, for sure. No flip-flopping on that one. It's fantastic. And the "Melodies of Life" theme is wonderful, both in Garnet's lullaby and the overworld music. But the absolute GEMS of the soundtrack are "You're Not Alone!" and "Daguerreo, The Hermit's Library", some of the best compositions in the series. Brilliant in their simplicity.

I think where FF9 shines the most though is that unlike Final Fantasy 7, which took itself way too seriously at times, and Final Fantasy 8 which is very dark at times, Final Fantasy 9 was pure fun, with just enough doom and gloom mixed in to not overwhelm with either extreme. In fact, it's one of the most balanced games in the series in it's themes, even in it's learning curve. It's a very consistent game and sticks to it's guns. FF4,5, & 6 jumped around way too much sometimes and FF7 & 8 were wildly inconsistent from disc to disc, especially the latter. In a way, Final Fantasy 9 was where the series had fully hit it's stride. I'm currently playing through FFX again and oh boy... it is not as good as I remember it. Not at all, haha. And FFXII was the last one I played, and the first one I quit only about 15 hours in. It was terrible.

I think overall, Final Fantasy 9 has to be considered one of the best in the series, though.

Nostalgia factor aside, Final Fantasy 1-3 aren't some of the best games ever, even if FF3j especially is a very charming game. FF4 and FF6 are essentially the same game (come at me with those pitchforks, I'm ready) and Final Fantasy 5 would be almost entirely forgettable if it weren't for the expanded job system from FF3j.

Final Fantasy 6 is honestly, probably the actual best Final Fantasy game and it isn't even one of my 3 favorite Final Fantasy games. Final Fantasy 7, although over-rated, IMO, is still one of the better games in the series at the end of the day and Final Fantasy 8, although my personal favorite and one of the best games ever made (let's be honest, if it wasn't a Final Fantasy game, it would be highly regarded as a masterpiece) is admittedly, a very odd entry in the series and has a unique and misunderstood Magic/Junction and battle system that you either love or hate.

It's a top-5 Final Fantasy game, maybe something like 6, 8, 4, 7, 9 would round out my top-5 in that order (off the top of my head).

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Beat Ninja Gaiden 2 on VC yesterday? Or was it the day before yesterday? I don't really remember.

Up until Ninja Gaiden came out, there simply weren't many console games that had a story woven into the action at all. It's a solid action game, not bad, though controller-bitingly hard. But the real cool thing is that the first 2 games actually have far far better than a throwaway plot; people get killed, people go on quests for revenge, demons get resurrected, secret agents are thrown in the mix, it's very involved for a late 80's NES game.

It isn't on the level of FF, but that wouldn't come stateside until 1990 I don't think. It was like, right before JRPGs started becoming translated for the west. Ninja Gaiden was like the bridge that one crossed between Mario/Zelda and more story-intense games like Final Fantasy, in a way.

I don't know how old I will be the next time I manage to beat Ninja Gaiden 1, but I will be very impressed if it ever happens again. 6-3 is a prime example of a video game stage just basically saying "I hate you for buying this game, and I want to torture you endlessly. How dare you think you can beat me?"

And by the way, the music in 1 and 2 is phenomenal. Also, if I didn't mention 3 at all for this whole post.......

...Well, think about that.

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With the release of the Blood and Wine expansion, I went back to my old save to go through that, as well as the previous expansion, Hearts of Stone. More recently, I've been keeping an eye on Bloodstained updates, which led me to listening to the SoTN soundtrack, which, in turn, got me to give the game another go. That's where I am, game-wise, now.

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Recently been playing Pokémon Crystal Emu Edition. I'm up against Morty right now and I have like 82 mons logged in my Pokédex.

Recently began playing Mighty No. 9 and Tales of Symphonia.

MN9 seems to be a pretty decent game, unlike what the internet consensus would have led me to believe.

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Quote (Glenn Magus Harvey @ 1st August 2016 10:45)

Recently been playing Pokémon Crystal Emu Edition.  I'm up against Morty right now and I have like 82 mons logged in my Pokédex.

Recently began playing Mighty No. 9 and Tales of Symphonia.

MN9 seems to be a pretty decent game, unlike what the internet consensus would have led me to believe.

I'm curious about this? I haven't tried it nor was I too interested, but I know obviously that the game is a spiritual successor to Mega Man.

Was it not well received?

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Quote (Glenn Magus Harvey @ 1st August 2016 10:45)

Recently been playing Pokémon Crystal Emu Edition.  I'm up against Morty right now and I have like 82 mons logged in my Pokédex.

Recently began playing Mighty No. 9 and Tales of Symphonia.

MN9 seems to be a pretty decent game, unlike what the internet consensus would have led me to believe.

I'm curious about this? I haven't tried it nor was I too interested, but I know obviously that the game is a spiritual successor to Mega Man.

Was it not well received?

The internet seems to broadly speaking have a rather poor opinion of the game, with one or more of the following reasons commonly cited:

* It doesn't feel like Mega Man, despite supposedly being the second coming of Mega Man.
* The development was mismanaged. The devteam leader, Keiji Inafune, even tried to start another Kickstarter before he finished making this game.
* The "Dina controversy", some sort of strange spat that involved the devteam appointing a community manager to head the backer forums, who was allegedly "not even a real Mega Man fan", and possibly a "feminazi". (Said community manager later left the post anyway.)
* It "looks like shit". (Whatever that means.)
* "They spent $4 million to make this?!"
* Apparently the Wii U version suffered from crashing problems.

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Quote (Glenn Magus Harvey @ 1st August 2016 21:10)

Quote (Dynamic Threads @ 1st August 2016 15:46)

Quote (Glenn Magus Harvey @ 1st August 2016 10:45)

Recently been playing Pokémon Crystal Emu Edition.  I'm up against Morty right now and I have like 82 mons logged in my Pokédex.

Recently began playing Mighty No. 9 and Tales of Symphonia.

MN9 seems to be a pretty decent game, unlike what the internet consensus would have led me to believe.

I'm curious about this? I haven't tried it nor was I too interested, but I know obviously that the game is a spiritual successor to Mega Man.

Was it not well received?

The internet seems to broadly speaking have a rather poor opinion of the game, with one or more of the following reasons commonly cited:

* It doesn't feel like Mega Man, despite supposedly being the second coming of Mega Man.
* The development was mismanaged. The devteam leader, Keiji Inafune, even tried to start another Kickstarter before he finished making this game.
* The "Dina controversy", some sort of strange spat that involved the devteam appointing a community manager to head the backer forums, who was allegedly "not even a real Mega Man fan", and possibly a "feminazi". (Said community manager later left the post anyway.)
* It "looks like shit". (Whatever that means.)
* "They spent $4 million to make this?!"
* Apparently the Wii U version suffered from crashing problems.

Well, maybe they'd prefer a Bethesda game, then.

I haven't played it yet, nor was I very interested in it. But basically, this:


It's actually about ethics in gaming journalism.

Ahahahaha.




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Quote (Dynamic Threads @ 1st August 2016 22:22)

Quote (Glenn Magus Harvey @ 1st August 2016 21:10)

Quote (Dynamic Threads @ 1st August 2016 15:46)

Quote (Glenn Magus Harvey @ 1st August 2016 10:45)

Recently been playing Pokémon Crystal Emu Edition.  I'm up against Morty right now and I have like 82 mons logged in my Pokédex.

Recently began playing Mighty No. 9 and Tales of Symphonia.

MN9 seems to be a pretty decent game, unlike what the internet consensus would have led me to believe.

I'm curious about this? I haven't tried it nor was I too interested, but I know obviously that the game is a spiritual successor to Mega Man.

Was it not well received?

The internet seems to broadly speaking have a rather poor opinion of the game, with one or more of the following reasons commonly cited:

* It doesn't feel like Mega Man, despite supposedly being the second coming of Mega Man.
* The development was mismanaged. The devteam leader, Keiji Inafune, even tried to start another Kickstarter before he finished making this game.
* The "Dina controversy", some sort of strange spat that involved the devteam appointing a community manager to head the backer forums, who was allegedly "not even a real Mega Man fan", and possibly a "feminazi". (Said community manager later left the post anyway.)
* It "looks like shit". (Whatever that means.)
* "They spent $4 million to make this?!"
* Apparently the Wii U version suffered from crashing problems.

Well, maybe they'd prefer a Bethesda game, then.

I haven't played it yet, nor was I very interested in it. But basically, this:


It's actually about ethics in gaming journalism.

Ahahahaha.

lol #gamergate

TBH the Dina controversy was basically a direct predecessor to #gamergate.

Meanwhile I just defeated Morty in Crystal. Time to start Surfing.

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So pc Skyrim has this bullsh...ahem, has this 'quirk' where the last patch for it sort of kind of abso-flaming-lutely REKT the game's lip syncing. Needless to say, this was also kind of years ago, never got fixed and so my legit always-update-to-the-latest-patch Steam version didn't get much play. Instead I used my torr...ahem, 'digital copy', which allowed me to use the second-to-last patch. This also locked me out of the latest version of a lot of well known mods, but I made due.

Well I gotta a completely new rig in the interim as well as the free win10 update (which I only got so I could say to windows that I have it. I'll likely uninstall it before the months out) and decided to install Steam Skyrim to put it through its paces.

That was a mistake.

Turns out the new versions of the mods I use suck nads! Late 80's wolf nads worthy only of kicking! They conflict, obfuscate and just not anywhere near as user friendly as they originally were...when they deign to work at all. In short, it sucks and it's going in the bin and didn't even make it Whiterun yet!

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Glenn's playing some big Nostalgia bombs for me. Which ToS are you playing btw. If anyone is curious. These guys gave a very good review for MN9: Mighty Number 9 Review
Playing the HD rerelease of the Uncharted for PS4. Brutal mode is BS. It makes the game stupid hard. There are a handful of cutscenes in the game that you come out of with damage and brutal mode turned up the damage so high that you leave the cutscenes dead. Also been playing XCOM Enemy Within to finish off the plat. (Already have 100% plat for XCOM Enemy Unknown)

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Glenn's playing some big Nostalgia bombs for me. Which ToS are you playing btw. If anyone is curious. These guys gave a very good review for MN9: Mighty Number 9 Review
Playing the HD rerelease of the Uncharted for PS4. Brutal mode is BS. It makes the game stupid hard. There are a handful of cutscenes in the game that you come out of with damage and brutal mode turned up the damage so high that you leave the cutscenes dead. Also been playing XCOM Enemy Within to finish off the plat. (Already have 100% plat for XCOM Enemy Unknown)

@ bolded section: This is one of the most absurd things I have ever read. For serious? How completely broken! I understand, you'd be doing basically a zero damage run at that point but, people can just do that anyway? Crazy.




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Yeah. It took me 3 hours to finish the final chapter of drakes fortune because of that cutscene where Nivaro shoots that conix while you're walking by it. 80% of the time you leave the cutscene dead. It pretty much is a no damage run. Earlier in the game you can take 2 shots from the weaker weapons but it drops down to getting instakilled by most guns later in the game. I enjoyed the challenge until the first cutscene where I died over and over again. I did finish it so it is possible but damn was it rough.

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Glenn's playing some big Nostalgia bombs for me. Which ToS are you playing btw. If anyone is curious.

I'm playing the PC version of Tales of Symphonia, on Steam.

Or I was. I've kinda put it on hold since I had to move my PC. Meanwhile I'm revisiting 99 Spirits, that JRPG about tsukumogami that involves word guessing. I should finish it already.

I'll respond to that video about MN9 in a separate thread.

I played through Momodora I and Momodora II. I is a linear platformer with some hidden items; II is a metroidvania game. The Momodora series takes its aesthetic style from Cave Story, but is made in Game Maker by a devteam led by a Brazilian named rdein. I strongly recommend the games, especially starting from II. (I is a little unpolished.) Since I've played Momodora III already, this means I'm ready to play the latest game in the series -- Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight. (Actually, one doesn't need to play the other games in the series, but I just wanted to.)

I've also kicked Team Rocket out of their Mahogany Town ninja base, and my Pokédex count stands at 90.

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I've been playing Dragonball Xenoverse for a few months now. It's pretty good, to be honest.

Alice: Madness Returns. What a great platform game, but the controls are just a little too loose. Dark and fun.

Always have a FF8 savefile, play Civilization IV (and it STILL always kicks my ass)

NHL Legacy.

And I beat the Last of Us a couple months ago. Legit one of the best games of all-time.

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I'm playing the PC version of Tales of Symphonia, on Steam.

I heard ToS on steam was buggy as heck. Hope your run goes well for ya Glenn.

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Always have a FF8 savefile

lol you too? I keep a file outside all my favorite boss fights to fight. I like throwing myself at Omega and Ultima every now and then.

I just recently went back and platted XCOM Enemy Within. All I had to do was beat the game on classic without ever buying a squad size upgrade (So i had to beat it on classic with a 4 man squad) This had some challenging parts like the base defense mission and the overseer ship but this wasn't too hard.
I told myself that I'd play The Bureau: XCOM Declassified after that and all I can say is....
WTF did I just play? They pretty much took the lore of the XCOM universe, changed things up a bit for some reason, the slapped that onto Mass Effect 3's game mechanics. I might do a thread where I review this game. Anyways, I did beat it. I have to beat it on the hardest difficulty to plat it but other than that I'm done with it.
This frees me up for some XCOM 2 next month since that's getting a console release (and with no FF XV to compete for my time now too)

On a side note. Been playing the heck out of No Man's Sky.




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I'm playing the PC version of Tales of Symphonia, on Steam.

I heard ToS on steam was buggy as heck. Hope your run goes well for ya Glenn.

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Always have a FF8 savefile

lol you too? I keep a file outside all my favorite boss fights to fight. I like throwing myself at Omega and Ultima every now and then.

I just recently went back and platted XCOM Enemy Within. All I had to do was beat the game on classic without ever buying a squad size upgrade (So i had to beat it on classic with a 4 man squad) This had some challenging parts like the base defense mission and the overseer ship but this wasn't too hard.
I told myself that I'd play The Bureau: XCOM Declassified after that and all I can say is....
WTF did I just play? They pretty much took the lore of the XCOM universe, changed things up a bit for some reason, the slapped that onto Mass Effect 3's game mechanics. I might do a thread where I review this game. Anyways, I did beat it. I have to beat it on the hardest difficulty to plat it but other than that I'm done with it.
This frees me up for some XCOM 2 next month since that's getting a console release (and with no FF XV to compete for my time now too)

On a side note. Been playing the heck out of No Man's Sky.

Far as I've heard, they've fixed the issues that the original release had.

Some people seem to say that it still doesn't have 60fps all the time, but that's not something I care about personally.

I've played the game for several hours now and it seems to run just fine.

I had to remap the controls a bit to make sure it was something I wanted, but now I have it set to something like QWERTASDFG for the action buttons and IJKL for the movement and HBNM for the secondary stick or something like that, and it's worked fine so far.

FYI I just got to the point where I have a party of more than four characters at the same time. That should tell experienced players where I am.



Re No Man's Sky - what is that game, anyway? I just hear it's being hyped quite a bit, and it has a AAA price tag, and it apparently sucks horribly?

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You can find me on the Fediverse! I use Mastodon, where I am @[email protected] ( https://sakurajima.moe/@glennmagusharvey )