General Video Game Thread
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@junipersky Spiderman 2 just recently came out on the PS5. My kids are having a great time playing it … I think they’ve beat the game twice and are working on 100% completion.
I loved the Batman Arkham games but they are pretty old now. Still can buy a copy of it on Amazon, they have the trilogy for both PS4 and Switch but I would probably recommend the PS4 (which is cross-compatible with the PS5).
I’m not a fan of Zelda but my son is. He enjoyed Skyward Sword and Tears of the Kingdom.
Hope that helps
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@junipersky I’m going to ASSUME he probably has all the Batman Arkham games if you specifically noted that, as well as things like the newest Zelda games (BotW and TotK). But if not, those are easy ones!
Any of the Zeldas he doesn’t have on Switch, maybe? There are a couple of older ones that were remade or remastered for the Switch, such as Skyward Sword and Link’s Awakening.
Tunic (on PS5) is very much inspired by the older/classic Zelda games, and very highly rated.
How about the Horizon games? (Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West.) They’re similarly action adventure games with a little bit of puzzle, really fun stories. They’re PS4/PS5 games.
Does he like cowboys? Red Dead Redemption 2 is absolutely fantastic, available on PS5.
A couple other highly rated action adventure series would be Assassin’s Creed and Yakuza. I think that Yakuza 0 is generally figured to be the best one to start with in that series. (I’ve only played a bit of a couple Yakuza games but honestly they’re really fun and funny.) Assassin’s Creed I think all the games are fairly standalone, I don’t know what people might suggest as the best one for someone new.
Final Fantasy has turned more towards action RPG in their last couple titles (15, 7R, and 16). I enjoy all three of them a lot!
These aren’t all games I’ve played through entirely, but I’m happy to talk more in-depth about any of them that I can!
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@junipersky Verdict:
Metroid Dread and Zelda Tears of the Kingdom
“God of War and God of War Ragnarok are great for ppl who like the Batman/Spiderman fighting style”
“And ofc Spiderman 2 for PS5 if he hasn’t already bought it”
“But all those seem super obvious so if he already has everything there I can get into some deeper cuts”
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@Snackness Oh now I feel silly I didn’t think of God of War!
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If he’s into Star Wars there’s also Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, which I really enjoyed (or at least, I enjoyed the first one and am somewhat through the second)
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I’m gonna go out on a soon-to-be-removed limb and say Mortal Kombat 1 if he’s into fighting games. Plays like an absolute dream and looks amazing.
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@junipersky said in General Video Game Thread:
Metroids
Ori and the Blind Forest, and Ori and the Will of the Wisps. Both available on Switch. The sequel is pretty much standalone and has much better gameplay but the story will hit harder if he plays them both.
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World of Warcraft ramble time.
Between Dragonflight being a really solid expansion and just a great group of people, my raid group hit 25 raiders tonight. Those were the numbers we were seeing at the start of the expansion – over halfway through, that’s crazy. We have a bunch of people who jump in regularly cross-server, and we have our solid core.
Meanwhile, legitimately everyone is getting better. We don’t raid at the top level and I made it explicit we never will, but instead I try my hardest to make sure that everyone who wants to raid, who puts in the effort and has a good attitude about it, has a place with us. And I’m seeing drastic improvement and a fire lighting in people to do better just because they want to help the group. It’s awesome! And new people are coming in and seem hype to be with us.
I’m just really proud of these nerds and what we’ve made here.
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Honestly, couldn’t have asked for a better way to end the expansion than Amir’Drassil. It’s one of the most respectful raids of peoples’ time in recent memory, and the barrier for entry is pretty low while the tippy top-end is brutal. Just a great, balanced experience.
Your group sounds like a particularly wonderful way to experience it!
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Alan Wake 2 is a solid 10/10. My god.
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Considering detoxing from the internet for this week to avoid the inevitable gleeful spoiling of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.
I’ve been really enjoying the reimagining of the series, and I swear, if some random clickbait article throws a spoiler in the title (or a “clever” nonspoiler attempt, which is somehow worse), I am going to be so very grouchy.
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@Solstice said in General Video Game Thread:
Considering detoxing from the internet for this week to avoid the inevitable gleeful spoiling of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.
Sephiroth didn’t betray and murder Cloud’s father. He is Cloud’s father.
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@GF said in General Video Game Thread:
Sephiroth didn’t betray and murder Cloud’s father. He is Cloud’s father.
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@GF said in General Video Game Thread:
@Solstice said in General Video Game Thread:
Considering detoxing from the internet for this week to avoid the inevitable gleeful spoiling of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.
Sephiroth didn’t betray and murder Cloud’s father. He is Cloud’s father.
More like Cloud’s daddy.
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@Roz said in General Video Game Thread:
@GF said in General Video Game Thread:
@Solstice said in General Video Game Thread:
Considering detoxing from the internet for this week to avoid the inevitable gleeful spoiling of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.
Sephiroth didn’t betray and murder Cloud’s father. He is Cloud’s father.
More like Cloud’s daddy.
Excuse me, this is Final Fantasy VII reMAKE, and reBIRTH, not reWRITE or reFANFIC.
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I think I hate video games?
So I recently started replaying an oldish game I bought, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. Came out in 2019. I mostly really liked it; good gameplay, though the story and character design were weird about women in ways I don’t care enough to get into because for once, that’s not the point. The point is that when I fired up the game, a bunch of updates had to download. When the updates were downloaded, the game was broken in ways it hadn’t been before. Mostly minor things like money falling through walls so you can’t collect it, familiars preventing you from collecting loot or glitching out so you can’t switch familiars when you need to. Stuff like that.
None of it breaks the game, but it grates. These problems weren’t there at launch, and now are because the game I bought is no longer the game I bought. That bothers me. No matter how good a game is, it can be altered after the point of purchase to become less fun and less playable.
It seems like that should not be how things are.
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A similar note: I cannot stand when games micro-update and it breaks all of my mods.
Beat Saber, I swear to god I do not care that you just added a new Fall Out Boy DLC that I can buy for $9.99 or whatever, let me get my library of like 400 modded songs back.
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@Solstice Yes!
Let me choose when to get an update. Looking at you every game I have on Steam.
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So, in full transparency, I didn’t care for Alan Wake II because the plot didn’t grab me and the gameplay loop wasn’t quite my jam.
But holy hell it’s a gorgeous game. The dingy interiors, the oppressive way that the woods close in on what should be ‘wide open’ levels make it feel claustrophobic in a way that really works for a horror setting. I didn’t feel relieved to be outdoors, I felt uneasy. It’s got such a cohesive art design that I really need to give kudos.
And that one level (I’ll just be vague here since spoiler tags are being a butt, but you know. The one with lots of video.) was just so out there and different that I was giggling throughout. Such a fun idea, and brings to mind similarly freaking weird portions of the Max Payne franchise.
A lot here to like.
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@Solstice said in General Video Game Thread:
Considering detoxing from the internet for this week to avoid the inevitable gleeful spoiling of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.
I’ve been really enjoying the reimagining of the series, and I swear, if some random clickbait article throws a spoiler in the title (or a “clever” nonspoiler attempt, which is somehow worse), I am going to be so very grouchy.
Same. Also I had a fight with my spouse about who got to play it first, because he got to play ff16 first and there was no point in playing such a linear game after watching it played.
