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Originally posted by QualityChimp View PostThe baby in the bath section still haunts me, man.
fish chopping
part is genius in forcing your mind to wander.
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Yep, it’s a beautiful and heartbreaking experience. I loved it so much.
I have been playing Jedi Fallen Order on my Steam Deck. That’s a relatively recent game and it looks and runs wonderfully on the Deck. Overall, I’m enjoying it. Plays pretty well and exploring the locations is fun. My only issue has been that I find it hard to read the map (probably more about me than the map) and I keep getting lost on the way back from places. Finding that a bit of a chore but, overall, it’s a good game.
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I keep thinking I played Finch in VR, but it's not. I might be mixing it with "Here They Lie".
Finch is presented as quite a whimsical exploration game, but the stories it tells are all so tragic.
I do like a good walking sim.
"Everybody's Gone To The Rapture" was a similarly unforgettable experience.
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There was a real spate of them at one point last gen, and I played quite a few. Overall I felt Edith Finch was by some distance the strongest, although Gone Home, Firewatch and Everybody's Gone To The Rapture were good too. The latter I found graphically incredible at the time.
I stuck on Yakuza Zero and did another couple of hours last night. I've played for about 5 or 6 hours in total now and it's easily shaping up to be one of the very strongest entries in the series for me so far (NB I have not played Yak 6 or 7 yet).
4 and 5 were both decent games, but they had a major problem with overcomplication. They amped up the number of playable characters and the intricacy of the central storyline, but missed the point of what makes Yakuza great. That's not to say they're dead losses - far from it, and sequences like the prison component and taxi driving in 5 are really memorable - but they were probably taking the series in the wrong direction.
Zero for me represents a back-to-basics approach which builds on what makes a Yakuza game a Yakuza game. It benefits from a simpler storyline that's faster to get off the ground, and excellent development of both the fighting system and extra-curricular characters and sidequests.
It also feels more humorous. That humour was always there, right from the start, but here it's more overt without becoming too wacky. I think an improved translation might be partly responsible. Back in the PS2 days we had the awful Japanese-accented English dub and I think there was some reticence about it being 'too Japanese' for a 2000s Western audience, which led to an oddly serious tone even when completely bat **** stuff was happening.
The whole game is such a great place to spend time. Couldn't be enjoying it more right now. If it keeps up this standard, it could up there with 2 as my fave.
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More Yak Zero, now on the third or fourth chapter and playing as Majima in Sotenbori.
So far it's got the best story since 2 (which has the strongest story in the series, followed by 1).
I really like how this game goes back to basics narratively and yet rewards players of the whole series. It's really cool that Majima's story links in with Saejima's from 5, but I can see how if you hadn't played 5 you'd still be able to follow along perfectly well - which isn't something that can be said of the increasingly convoluted continuity of 3, 4 and 5.
EDIT: Also I went to the casino and spent about 2 hours losing all my money. Brilliant.
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Eeee.... this weekend...
I'm using Deeeer Simulator to do the daily achievements which is fine, it perfectly fits the bill and is enjoyable enough for that purpose too. I've early started Dying Light 2 on PC as well but I'm hesitant to get too into it as I'm trying to knuckle down and spend more time on Gran Turismo 7 as well. I'm working through GC titles on the Win3 also but to be honest, half of them have reached the point where they've aged too much to be fun anymore. I was ready for Eternal Darkness but it quickly just felt like a chore to play.
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Kind of split atm between Balan Wonderworld and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
Skipped MP2 for some reason, I think it was out too soon after the original to interest me, but I enjoyed the first and third games. Finally trying the second one out and... I can already get a sense of why its reception is mixed. Not sold on it yet
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