What are you playing?

[Great Rumbler]

FF4 and DQ4(at least the DS remake) hold up, but they’re pretty quick games. It’s one reason I like Suikoden I&II as well.

Down to try BoF, but would be put off by slowness. What’s the best one in 1-4?

3 is probably my favorite...

Same here, though some of that may be nostalgia: I played a ton of 3 back when it was fairly new but didn't play 4 until a bit later [and I didn't play it nearly as much].

[Joe Molotov]

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Nurse Love Addiction

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Undertale

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Aegis of Earth: Protonovus Assault

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Summon Night 6

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Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth

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Tokyo Xanadu

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[demi]

FF4 and DQ4(at least the DS remake) hold up, but they’re pretty quick games. It’s one reason I like Suikoden I&II as well.

Down to try BoF, but would be put off by slowness. What’s the best one in 1-4?

1 is super hard to get into, but play the gba version if you can.

2 is better, but still has a lot of vagueness on where to go next. Play the snes retranslation patch.

3 is probably the best, to me. The child arc is a slog, especially the balio and sunder bit, but it speeds up in the adult arc. Available on vita via psp.

4 is visually the most pleasing. Encounter rate is up there but its good. Available on vita via ps1 classic.

[Spieler1]

I thought Crisis Core was good when I played it last year. However, I had to stop at an overpowered boss, because I didn't get enough levels from the slot machine up until that point... What a weird aspect the latter is in an otherwise okay fighting system. Also, while the writing was mostly bearable ingame, all the CG cutscenes were the worst kind of Nomura shlock. The good thing about PS1 Squaresoft was that Nomura was still somewhat restrained, even in his drawings.

Also the writing in BoF4 is so good. It manages to be endearing despite consisting of tropes. I looked up my thoughts on the game and saw that I noted that it didn't have a strikingly high encounter rate though Also, it's like a 30 hour game with very short dungeons and hence quick pacing, which helps to overlook the (in the beginning) boring battles. I had to bail out of BoF3 after 15 hours when I estimated (with a guide) that it's probably 50 hours long, while not having the quick pace and top-tier visuals of 4.

[Rufus]

I've been playing Crisis Core: FFVII. Fun and fast combat system, but it gets repetitive quickly. The constant interruptions from the slot machine would bother me more, but I can fast-forward through those since I'm using PPSSPP.

Otherwise nothing interesting to say about it.

I remember really liking this game back in the day aside from the Jar Jar Binks of FF7 Genesis. What would you say doesn't "hold up" in it?

The slot machine is my main annoyance for sure. It's one thing for there to be an opaque system to give out random rewards, but what kills it for me are its animations.
If a battle takes long enough, you'll have to watch it go off multiple times. When it stops on a special move rather than a level up - more animations! To top it off, it only allows you to skip summons and flashbacks, not combos and buffs. So they knew it was a problem on some level, but didn't commit to solving it.
If you ever want to pick it up again, I very strongly suggest emulation to fast-forward that crap.

Monotonous encounter design is a close 2nd. They give you quite a bit of freedom to define your move set, but then don't challenge your choices. There's maybe a handful of encounters where you're (potentially) screwed without a spell, but otherwise you can clear everything by backstabbing for crits.
The result is that I don't give a shit about customizing my moveset. I use healing spells occasionally and robots get zapped with lightning, but that's it.

I dind't want to comment on the fan-fiction since I expected it to be bad, but since you bring up Genesis, him and Angeal really stick out as solutions to a problem that didn't exist. Fleshing out Sephiroth's arc was the better choice and stares you right in the face the entire time. They instead separated aspects of him into their own characters, resulting in two more shallow fools who (I assume) have to be neatly erased from the timeline.
Director Lazard and Hollander were enough to drive the plot behind the scenes, but instead there's this lunatic who cites bad poetry whenever he appears.

I had to bail out of BoF3 after 15 hours when I estimated (with a guide) that it's probably 50 hours long, while not having the quick pace and top-tier visuals of 4.

Was that enough to see the timeskip? I really loved that and the dragon transformations. On the whole I prefer 4, too. Nothing beats DQ though.

[Positive Touch]

i remember in crisis core that you could skip most of the random battles by hugging the walls, and that the slot machine wasn't random at all, it just gave that appearance. I liked the game flaws and all bc i felt like more than anything else in the ff7 compilation it captured the weird tone of the original: lots of goofy humor and wacky minigames sandwiched between extreme melodrama. wish they'd rerelease it.

[Rufus]

I've learned that lesson pretty fast since treasure is always placed in the safe zone. I'd retread my steps after opening a chest and immediately enter another battle.
I've been dodging fights since the 2nd half but I worry that I'll fall behind in levels since I don't know if the slot machine will catch me up, so to speak.

There are patterns to what triggers what, sure, and I know story events influence it (or Zacks' emotions, rather), but if there's anything I can do as a player to swing it in my favour I've not discovered it. It's this thing that gives be bonuses completely independently of my actions, as far as I can tell.
I don't mind it as a mechanic but its interruptions are jarring and too lengthy.

[kingv]

PROTOTYPE 2 is much easier than the first game. I thought it was my imagination but googled results support my hypothesis. I remember getting very frustrated in the first game but being determined to get my win. This time, I'm walking through most missions with minimal effort. It's super forgiving.

Also true of this game:

• "Be on the lookout for an infected man flying around" should be the order of the day, but they ignore my flying ass all day long.
• If i land near a military enemy, they're briefly suspicious until I wait 10 seconds, then they'll lose suspicion. "Hey, I guess Fred just jumped down off from the top of our HQ. Cool."
• Pedestrians have no reaction when I snack on their friends. They aren't even mildly interested that the person next to them has been brutally absorbed by an infectious polymorph.
• Pretentious, over-processed video assets probably saved some money on lipsync (good!) but are poorly composited side-by-side with prerendered assets (bad).

I haven’t played this since it came out, but iirc they simplified the game a lot. Prototype  had a lot more complexity to its combat and upgrade trees.

I still like both games, but they really feel like they 85% of the way to true greatness. Like a little bit more polish, in terms of enemy variety, mission design, and combat could have really brought it to the next level. There’s a lot of cool ideas going on in the game, but it still feels strictly mid-budget.

[Spieler1]

Warioware 3ds demo - motion controlled minigames are pretty awful with a 3DSXL and that seems to be 1/3 of the game. It's way too bulky and the wobbly upper screen doesn't make it feel any better. Also the voice acting is irritating. It seems to have quite a bit of content, but idk.

Yakuza Kiwami 2 demo -  *record scratch* wait this is still almost 2 months away?

Detective Pikachu demo - The graphics and music are surprisingly good, gameplay seems alright for a pseudo visual novel. I'd be almost interested in this if it was in the bargain bin, but I was already burnt by buying last year's 3DS baby game Hey Pikmin after liking the demo.

I had to bail out of BoF3 after 15 hours when I estimated (with a guide) that it's probably 50 hours long, while not having the quick pace and top-tier visuals of 4.

Was that enough to see the timeskip? I really loved that and the dragon transformations. On the whole I prefer 4, too. Nothing beats DQ though.

Yes. Decent twist, but the actual game underneath the story was too bloated for me. I just didn't have any fun.

[demi]

Detective Pikachu is trash, dont even bother

[Rufus]

Done with Crisis Core. Corny ending, but you don't often see a mechanic woven into the story like this.
The slot machine slowly breaks down as Zack's dying and his memories fade away. He holds onto Aerith the longest, which makes sense but is also funny since he's read her Dear John letter shortly before.

I didn't expect Genesis to be part of a sequel hook. He makes an appearance in Dirge of Cerberus, with another sequel hook in a secret ending. They really committed to this trash chracter playing a big role somewhere down the line, huh? And for the "Compilation of Final Fantasy VII". I hope he doesn't end up in the remake, should it ever come out.

[agrajag]

got stuck at Hollow Knight again. Hornet 2.0 was kicking my ass so I gave up on her. Then I died in some random spot in Fog Canyon and my shade disappeared with about 6k worth of geo. Went to Jiji to get my shade and he said I had no regrets. Damn game.

[Corporal]

Banished

Town 1 - everyone died.
Town 2 - most people died.

I'm making progress! 


Also finally managed to grab all the seasonal super duper loot boxes in Paladins. Yey. Got a really crappy horse skin in one. Yay?

Also played some Kirby Pinball on n3DS VirtualConsole. I'll never get the timing for the rebound right. I just randomly press a button whenever. With predictable outcomes. I should probably look up when you're supposed to press it, but whatevs.

Got to 61 population in Fallout Shelter. Suffered a Deathclaw attack. Abandoned one of my peeps to get below the Deathclaw threshold again. Am currently considering kicking out more peeps so that radscorpions stay away as well because they suck if you have upgraded rooms. This is probably not how you're supposed to play this "game". Not having all that much fun anyway because it'd just busywork...

[Bebpo]

Finished AC Syndicate: Jack the Ripper and by finished I mean, watched the last 30 mins on youtube walkthrough after 2 hard crash glitches on main story missions back to back.

Was ok, I like the setting and the fear stealth gameplay additions and playing as older Evie is cool, but I don't like the repeat missions where you play as Jack the Ripper at the same area as you play as Evie. Feels like asset re-use filler. Also the re-use of the asylum in general. The other 2 original stages the Mansion and the Boat Prisons were solid because they were new maps and had the hitman-like opportunities. Also I didn't care for the story. In the first 1/2 of it I thought maybe they were going to do something interesting with Jack the Ripper. I sorta thought from the intro that it was going to turn out that Jack = Jacob and he'd gone crazy. But instead they introduce this total off-screen character and try to develop a story and it's like zzz.

At this point all I hope is that Origins PC is less crashy. I could never play a game as crash-happy/glitch-happy as AC Syndicate again. Like on one of the main missions I was supposed to fight a group of bad guys but for some reason when there was one bad guy left my buttons stopped working so all I could do was run around in a circle but not attack and not counter and not use items. Thought maybe it was a scripted thing so died and retried but nope game just glitched out and took away all my buttons in the middle of a group fight yay. What I don't get is that most of the glitches in Syndicate happen in the main missions. If you're going to polish/QA anything, shouldn't it be the main story missions? wtf

[kingv]

got stuck at Hollow Knight again. Hornet 2.0 was kicking my ass so I gave up on her. Then I died in some random spot in Fog Canyon and my shade disappeared with about 6k worth of geo. Went to Jiji to get my shade and he said I had no regrets. Damn game.

I feel like the Dark Souls aspect in the game is truly unneeded. It doesn’t really add anything to the game other than make you backtrack.

The other thing I am not liking about it is having to find the damn map in each zone.

[Fifstar]

got stuck at Hollow Knight again. Hornet 2.0 was kicking my ass so I gave up on her. Then I died in some random spot in Fog Canyon and my shade disappeared with about 6k worth of geo. Went to Jiji to get my shade and he said I had no regrets. Damn game.

I feel like the Dark Souls aspect in the game is truly unneeded. It doesn’t really add anything to the game other than make you backtrack.

The other thing I am not liking about it is having to find the damn map in each zone.

Yeah, it sucks. Sometimes you're deep in some new zone, have fun exploring but are afraid you might loose your Geo. Unless you already unlocked a stag station, you have to get back all the way  to the bank and then back again to where you were before.

[MMaRsu]

Just bought Hollow Knight and Dead Cells for Steam

[BisMarckie]

I can't stop playing Football Manager

It is just too easy to.start the game and pretend to work

[Freyj]

Yeah I’ve lost 2k Geo multiple times now but I honestly don’t have much to spend it on at this point other than the fountain 3k and the last nail upgrade when I happen to find 3 more Pale Ore.

It’s a great game and perhaps the best Metroidvania overall but I strongly dislike: buying maps, the more demanding platforming challenges (nail bouncing fucking sucks on Joy Cons) and the heavy heavy backtracking. It doesn’t help the backtracking that each level has a real samey feel and everything kinda bleeds together. I only remember specific rooms with markers (Jesus Christ just give the player those at the start FFS) or enemies.

[HardcoreRetro]

Throwing some of those bargain bin games into the PS3. Playing through Wet and Stranglehold.

[kingv]

I really like Stranglehold. That’s a fun game. Like an evolution of Max Payne.

I also like the boss with the grenades that keeps saying “do you like Pineapple?” In some kind of unplaceable accent.

[agrajag]

Yeah I’ve lost 2k Geo multiple times now but I honestly don’t have much to spend it on at this point other than the fountain 3k and the last nail upgrade when I happen to find 3 more Pale Ore.

It’s a great game and perhaps the best Metroidvania overall but I strongly dislike: buying maps, the more demanding platforming challenges (nail bouncing fucking sucks on Joy Cons) and the heavy heavy backtracking. It doesn’t help the backtracking that each level has a real samey feel and everything kinda bleeds together. I only remember specific rooms with markers (Jesus Christ just give the player those at the start FFS) or enemies.

Yeah, nail bouncing is the fucking worst. It's a little more forgiving with double jump. I am currently trying to get over to an area all the way to the left of Greenpath that requires some intense platforming through thorns and this game requires you to use three different action buttons to get through those sections (dash, jump/double jump and that long dash). I'm just too old for that shit 

[MMaRsu]

I really like Stranglehold. That’s a fun game. Like an evolution of Max Payne.

I also like the boss with the grenades that keeps saying “do you like Pineapple?” In some kind of unplaceable accent.

Max Payne 2 is way better than anything in Stranglehold.

And I really liked Stranglehold.

Except yea now that I think about it in Max Payne 2 you can't slide down railings

[agrajag]

Nail bouncing is HORRIBLE. It just doesn't fucking work on the XBox Controller. The sole reason I didn't beat Colliseum LVL3.

I beat level 1 on the first try, but kind of scared of trying level 2. I can't get past either Hornet 2 or the Grey Prince Zote (I know he's optional). Can't really figure out his movement pattern and he's really fast.

[demi]

It did - Lost Odyssey

And you know what? That final boss fight was dogshit

More "behind the curtains" please

Stay in your lane, polack

[kingv]

I really like Stranglehold. That’s a fun game. Like an evolution of Max Payne.

I also like the boss with the grenades that keeps saying “do you like Pineapple?” In some kind of unplaceable accent.

Max Payne 2 is way better than anything in Stranglehold.

And I really liked Stranglehold.

Except yea now that I think about it in Max Payne 2 you can't slide down railings

Max Payne 2 is probably a better game (but frankly it has been ten years since I played either) but I think stranglehold had more fancy bullet/diving options. Like you could slide down rails and jump on the carts.

Also there were a lot of pineapples to explode. Iirc Max Payne 2 didn’t have a ton of environmental interactivity because of it being so old.

Edit: I also forgot to add the move from stranglehold where he would spin and kill everyone and a flock of pigeons would appear. Every. Time.

[HardcoreRetro]

Edit: I also forgot to add the move from stranglehold where he would spin and kill everyone and a flock of pigeons would appear. Every. Time.

It is a John Woo product.

[Spieler1]

Trials Fusion - I think my only experience with this series was a browser version centuries ago. Pretty cool PS+ game and they might have made me purchase the next one. Though this iteration seems to be have a real problem with having a normal difficulty curve. It gives you tutorials for techniques you don't need for the majority of the game, it's pretty easy until like the second to last world and then just turns challenge up 10x. Like, you can still get through with shit rankings, but there's been way too little maps actually teaching me shit up until that point. I guess they expect you to have played the previous entries - but then again, why would it be so easy until the end.

[MMaRsu]

Trials Evolution is clearly superior to Trials Fusion

[Spieler1]

The next one looks better too, videos already show way more challenge variety in the stages they had at E3.
Meanwhile, Fusion copied a stage from Donkey Kong Country Wii 

[archnemesis]

I'm also at the penultimate world in Trials Fusion and I'll probably never finish the campaign. Clearing the stages is doable, but I don't feel like replaying stages to unlock the 110 medals needed for the last world.

[Rufus]

The Void, from the creators of Pathologic.

The basic idea is that you use colour to sustain yourself, fight and, most importantly, feed the so-called Sisters. Fill one of their hearts with their preferred colours and they will open the chambers connected to theirs. Gardens, mines, or reservations where you, well, garden, mine or hunt for hopefully big returns in the next cycle. Fill two hearts and a Sister will open the way to the next Sister. Rinse and repeat.

There are also the Brothers. Twisted horrors who very much don't like you using colour to do anything and raid the chambers you've seeded unless you beat them to the harvest or set traps to chase them away. However, they also require you to complete tasks for them, straining your resources further.

Have I mentioned that feeding Sisters takes multiple harvests? And that you're basically at death's door the entire time?

tl;dr
It's intriguing but so very tedious and I might just watch an LP instead.

[Corporal]

Oh god, The Void was such an unforgiving game... you can easily run out of colors if you're still new. And the brother fights were rather harsh as well IIRC. Been a while...

Titties tho. 

Random trivia: I think I made a thread on the game back on the showergoblin site. One of two threads that ever got past page one. 

[agrajag]

Borys I finally beat Hornet 2, she wasn't that hard once I figured out to keep myself composed and not get too jittery with the dashing. Simple single jumps and anticipation did the trick. Now the Hive Knight is kicking my ass. He's like Hornet on steroids.

[Freyj]

Jesus the Dream Bosses suck. RNGesus hell. I dunno if I’m gonna 100% this.

[Rufus]

Oh god, The Void was such an unforgiving game... you can easily run out of colors if you're still new. And the brother fights were rather harsh as well IIRC. Been a while...

I did exactly that in the first couple hours, said fuck this, read some FAQs and started over. Going much better, but it's still easy to screw yourself.

Titties tho. 

And vacant, dead eyes, with an opressive atmosphere and constant paranoia of having mismanaged your stocks. Not very conducive to titilation, all told.

Random trivia: I think I made a thread on the game back on the showergoblin site. One of two threads that ever got past page one. 

In attempting to find it, I stumbled upon this (heya Brob-kun )
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/the-void-5.387540/page-2#post-19796945

Dificulty patch, eh? Maybe I won't watch an LP after all.

Found it:
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/nsfw-gaming-is-art-age-the-void-aka-tension.364328/

Russian dating sim
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/nsfw-gaming-is-art-age-the-void-aka-tension.364328/page-2#post-21550866

[agrajag]

Jesus the Dream Bosses suck. RNGesus hell. I dunno if I’m gonna 100% this.

Yep. I tried to fight the dream version of Soul Master and he brutalized me like a helpless child.

[agrajag]

where are you getting all the extra lifeblood from? I only have one charm that gives two extra lifeblood containers

[Spieler1]

I'm also at the penultimate world in Trials Fusion and I'll probably never finish the campaign. Clearing the stages is doable, but I don't feel like replaying stages to unlock the 110 medals needed for the last world.

This is where I'm at now and I think I'm out too. I have like 102 or 103 and there doesn't seem to be any non-annoying missions left.

I'm kind of shocked that there's so little Trials games of this kind though. I thought there was one at almost every Ubi E3...

[agrajag]

Nevermind about the Hive Knight being difficult, he ended up being a non-issue. I didn't know the Hive was DLC, I just play as I go, when I find new stuff I explore it. All the previous DLC came packed in with the Switch version, I guess.

Anyway, kind of lost now, and meandering about. Hornet gave me the King's mark and said that all sorts of door would open to me, but I haven't seen anything so far.

[Joe Molotov]

[benjipwns]

does the red headed one just keep fading back farther and farther while holding that pose?

[agrajag]

Ah, got into the Abyss. I already beat Empty Vessel before I got to Hornet 2, so I had forgotten about that door already. The game is pretty unforgiving about having you backtrack without any sort of guidance.

[tiesto]

Been continuing with Zwei: The Ilvard Insurrection. Level design isn't really one of Falcom's best, being angular hallways with some light platforming and puzzle solving, and lots of hack and slash, for the most part. But the NPCs are amazing... personal favorite is a chain smoking wiseass nun. Excellent dialogue/translation too really brings to life the cast, and the graphics look so vivid and vibrant.

[Freyj]

Holy Christ the Coliseum in Hollow Knight is awful. Wish the final Charm Notch and Pale Ore weren’t locked behind this bullshit.

[agrajag]

Holy Christ the Coliseum in Hollow Knight is awful. Wish the final Charm Notch and Pale Ore weren’t locked behind this bullshit.

how far did you get? I only tried the first challenge

[Freyj]

To the second. I really want that last Pale Ore so I can max the Nail but idk that I’ll borher now.

[agrajag]

Heh, I should go back and do the rest of the challenges. I got the shadow dash now, I'm feeling confident

[bluemax]

On chapter 15 of a new game plus run of FFXV, the added story stuff in the later chapters helps the game a bunch. I also finished Episode Gladio already.

Also after seeing some of the footage of upcoming ship combat in WarFrame I finally decided to jump in. Game seems fun so far.

[Corporal]

Audiosurf. Installed. Noticed I forgot my login. Tried to recover. Apparently I didn't use my standard email. Or any other I remember. Dammit. 

Frustrated, I installed Beat Hazard and played that instead. Fuck yeah. Stroboscopic lights. Can't see shit. Explosions. Having fun. 


Music-parsing games are triple plus good. More games should use these kinds of random seeds. Just sharing some Hex numbers doesn't compare with "I've beaten Unity by TheFatRat on maximum difficulty without deaths!" or similar boasts. Given the popularity of memes, maybe images could be used as well? Like, I can 1-credit the Shiba Inu doge gif? All polandball strips are easy mode? Greentext makes the endboss impossible to beat? All that talk about AI and whatnot, and nobody tackles the truly important advancements for gaming as a medium. 

[demi]

ALSO has a true ending dont fuck it up this time asshole

[Rufus]

Viking themed Doom mod REKKR. Only played the first level, but it looks promising.

[kingv]

Ah, got into the Abyss. I already beat Empty Vessel before I got to Hornet 2, so I had forgotten about that door already. The game is pretty unforgiving about having you backtrack without any sort of guidance.

This, the dark souls BS, and the mapping grind make me say this is not as good as Super Metroid (or frankly even 3DS Samus Returns or most of the castlevania GBA games).

[I'm a Puppy!]

So I was playing the original Baldur's Gate got about a dozen hours in and sorta lost interest. It's not bad or anything, and some of the characters are great. But I just feel like "....eh..." Don't know if it gets better.

Also playing through Shining Force 2. I am constantly surprised by the quality of this game and shocked that the series is just dead. It does so much stuff right for being such an old game. Why can't they do this anymore?

I'm happy to see all the Breath of Fire stuff. I tried 1 and 2 back in the day as rentals from blockbuster. I wasn't able to finish them before I returned them, but I liked them well enough. Went back to try them again a few years back, but I couldn't deal with the random encounters and they just hadn't aged well. I tried 3 but I always felt it was a slog in the beginning and never really made it through the child section. I do hear from friends that the child section is the worst part. Maybe I should go back? I never tried 4. I did try Dragon Quarter, I have to admit though I didn't give enough of a chance as I didn't "get it"

[Spieler1]

Also playing through Shining Force 2. I am constantly surprised by the quality of this game and shocked that the series is just dead. It does so much stuff right for being such an old game. Why can't they do this anymore?

The Shining series went on in Japan as ultra animu ever since.

[Great Rumbler]

So I was playing the original Baldur's Gate got about a dozen hours in and sorta lost interest. It's not bad or anything, and some of the characters are great. But I just feel like "....eh..." Don't know if it gets better.

BG2 is definitely the better game.

[agrajag]

god damnit, I hate the fucking jumping elephants in Hollow Knight. I think I was almost through the second challenge in the Colloseum and they bring out the fucking elephants. Any good strategies for dealing with those?

edit: got past him, but then they threw in the section where you have to stay in the air to avoid spikes, argh

edit 2: beat the second challenge with one life remaining, shit was hard

[tiesto]

So I was playing the original Baldur's Gate got about a dozen hours in and sorta lost interest. It's not bad or anything, and some of the characters are great. But I just feel like "....eh..." Don't know if it gets better.

Also playing through Shining Force 2. I am constantly surprised by the quality of this game and shocked that the series is just dead. It does so much stuff right for being such an old game. Why can't they do this anymore?

I'm happy to see all the Breath of Fire stuff. I tried 1 and 2 back in the day as rentals from blockbuster. I wasn't able to finish them before I returned them, but I liked them well enough. Went back to try them again a few years back, but I couldn't deal with the random encounters and they just hadn't aged well. I tried 3 but I always felt it was a slog in the beginning and never really made it through the child section. I do hear from friends that the child section is the worst part. Maybe I should go back? I never tried 4. I did try Dragon Quarter, I have to admit though I didn't give enough of a chance as I didn't "get it"

4 is a bit of a slog in terms of control and steep encounter rate, but the graphics are stunning and the story takes some pretty dark turns here and there. 5 seems to be a very decisive entry, most people don't like it but I enjoyed it... granted it took me a bit of time to get acquainted to it and I dropped it at first to only come back years later.

I still need to play 2, gonna do it on the OSSC/SCART enabled SNES

[tiesto]

Been playing Panzer Dragoon Orta and god I'm happy Xbox One has backwards compatibility. Thinking I might write a long post on it soon.

Definitely my favorite original Xbox game, some of the later levels look absolutely stunning in their visual presentation.

[bluemax]

Breath of Fire 2 (SNES)

Is so fucking amazing

I started playing the re-translation patch someone did a few years ago. Vastly improves the story and dialogue. Game always starts to feel like a slog at points to me because of the poor XP balance and all the characters that aren't really good. For my recent playthrough I used a utility to double XP and Gold payouts and also tweaked some stat growths.