CoD is boring if you have already played say CoD3, WaW & CoD Black Ops "1".
PES > FIFA as an actual football sim game (though I used to have more fun in the latter. Don't like either anymore now).
Sonic DS series games don't get the recognition the deserve. Many were actually very good.
Nintendo land was excellent. Especially the Metroid game. Loved the 3rd person view actually.
Third person view >> first person view. I can comfortably play both though.
Link's Crossbow Training was one of the very best shooters ever on a Nintendo system. Needed more content.
The N64 era games have aged quite badly (though I like playing them as I gamed in that era and can forgive the issues "easily"). SM64 hasn't really somewhat curiously.
Might and Magic Clash of Heroes and Wordjong are two of the very best games on the DS and I played a couple of hundred maybe
"They say video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock n' roll."
Of course, the Mario. and Sonic games! Yes, yes, I like them too. I have owned every single one in my time. Even went for Wii and DS versions of the same game as they had their differences in gameplay and structure.
It honestly made certain parts a bit too unfair and I think it also removed all the extra content introduced with the GBA version.
The augments are fun until you realize it was really just a slightly more boring alternative to having the customizable party from the GBA. I mean, if you don't know you'll end up wasting several on characters that will leave the party, and once you know, it's just a matter of giving everything good to Cecil.
I give it points for letting me have Kain crying and signing through the battles though.
Edit: Of course, you can argue that the game was originally balanced for main five characters the game ends with anyway, and the augments, if you don't waste them, only help make them better... But bah humbug I say.
@Eel I also believe it's the only version with FFIV Interlude in addition to the original and After Years.
I also vastly prefer the sprite art there compared to the chibi models on DS. It's so jarring going from the chibi in game graphics to the FMV cutscenes that don't look out of place in a PS2 Final Fantasy game
I also really don't like how the UI on DS looks
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Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is one of the worst JRPGs I've ever played and the worst one I played in 2017.
Tetsuya Nomura doesn't know how to write good stories and tries his absolute hardest to pepper his scripts with meaningless English babble I'd read in a C-grade philosophy thesis just to give his one-dimensional messages false substance.
Poor Xenoblade Chronicles 2... I admit it’s really flawed, and the story is cheesy shonen anime rubbish, but I still had a ball. The battle system is fun, and the sheer variety of blades and upgrades means there is always something to do. It feeds off that horrible gacha grind loop, where you’re always unlocking something as you go, and it kept sparking my seratonin levels for hour after hour after hour (200+). And it looked and sounded pretty too.
I really enjoyed it, but my biggest gripe is that it has no respect for your time. It wants you to pick up everything, look in every corner, do every sidequest... I’m kind of built to play games that way anyway, but XC2 slightly abuses players’ patience. And you know, the power of friendship saves the world, or whatever. What else could you ask for in a JRPG?
I still think PS4's game library is superior to every other game platform released this generation
The Switch imo suffers from the GBA problem where a lot of its library is comprised of either ports, remasters or remakes. The exclusive content is great, but the amount of ports and remasters kind of sticks out and is borderline inescapable at this point
Say what you will about PlayStation's first and third party library. I think I've heard enough jokes about their games being either walking simulators, or trying too hard to be like movies, or all looking the same at surface level, but games like God of War, Ghost of Tsushima, Uncharted 4, Gravity Rush 2, FFVII Remake, Shadow of the Colossus, Ratchet & Clank (which are both remakes but they're so well done and modernized in all the right places that they can basically count as unique experiences from the original), Guilty Gear Xrd, Persona 5, Bloodborne, and especially Spider-Man left way stronger lasting impressions on me compared to even the Switch's best first party offerings. Just my opinion though. There were legit stinkers like Order 1886 and the majesty that was Life of Black Tiger, but for the most part I think Sony hit it out of the park.
I think the PS4 has mostly been hurt that a lot of the best games on it don't need even the power of a Switch, let alone a PS4, because most big gaming companies have decided to make like 3 games a year, often in the same couple of genres. They're so over-reliant on the same types of game genres, that even when I see an obvious masterpiece like Ghost of Tsushima for example, it feels so hurt by the fact that of course the game that can afford to look this good need to be a stealth-action open world game marketed with cinematic storytelling.
So to me, Switch wins out because there's just inherently more variety that's at the very least given more focus, because those indie games can largely get on it, and they rely on ports from the entire history of gaming instead of just "oh wow, current game in current trend!" dominating everything. This might've been less of an issue, but I notice Sony has not had the level of marketing focus towards smaller games like they were doing going into this generation (made most obvious by how their E3s went as the gen went on), which is one of the reasons I presume Switch became a go to machine for indie devs, because Nintendo has been.
I hate turn based RPGs, especially Final Fantasy, Dragon Warrior (except IV and Monsters for the GBC). SMRPG is great but only because Nintendo had a hand in making it.
The PSX Final Fantasies bored the snot out of me except VIII and FFT. VIII was fun only because of the magic drawing and triple triad, FFT just had a fun system. But generally these games are rehashed crap like FIFA.
@Papichulo I understand hating turn-based RPGs - fair enough. But you just said you hate them apart from the ones you don’t! That’s like me saying I hate racing games apart from Gran Turismo 3, Forza Horizon 4, F Zero and Wipeout...
By the way, although I do like Final Fantasy as a series, I also think Final Fantasy Tactics is the best one. I’m not even sure that is all that unpopular an opinion!
@DePurpleMonkey They were effectively their own versions of the game themselves as they had different gameplay mechanics (using DS's touch screen as well as the conventional handheld button & pad controls). I think one or two of them had a story mode where their console counterparts often didn't. I preferred the home console ones as local mutliplayer was better.
@TheFrenchiestFry I actually did like Xenobalde Chronicles 2 but I felt it was a little overrated by many. Still just about scrapes a 9/10 for me, but still. It's no where near an all time great like the first one.
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