@Ralizah And to think, for a while it seemed like they were gonna stop releasing them in the West! But yeah, I haven't even played Xillia 2 or Zestiria. Granted, I wasn't too hot about Xillia, so I can take or leave Xillia 2 for now...but I gotta play Zesty before I touch Bessy Berseria, that's for sure...
Xillia was G-G-Gar-Bage, Zesteria was received moderately (the same as all Tales games, really, so you can't derive much meaning from it), but Berseria looks interesting. For one, the plot looks interesting with its chaotic neutral protagonists vs the shining white knights of lawful evil thing. And a female protagonist (has Tales ever done that before?) They're also changing the combat so the normal attack is deemphasized and you just chain artes together.
I feel somewhat pleased with myself today, as I vowed not to buy any new games until I cleared the majority of my backlog. In the last couple of months alone, I have completed:
Hyper Light Drifter
ABZÛ
Alone With You
Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 (cleared the story mode)
Dear Esther
Virginia
Gravity Rush Remastered (got the platinum trophy!)
Tearaway Unfolded (found all the hidden presents too)
Dark Souls III (as of only yesterday - the last boss was disappointing though...)
Quite pleased.
I am happy to wait until Rez Infinite in a few weeks time, then I shall inevitably begin to get excited about playing The Last Guardian.
@CanisWolfred They're like FF games in the sense that they're almost all disconnected, right?
Yeah, it's more that the gameplay evolves in such a way that going to older entries can be a bit rough. I love Tales of the Abyss, for instance, but Vesperia and Graces f definitely flow better during combat, and they didn't feel the need to dole out basic skills like backstepping and free-run slowly through the use of a level-up system, it's all available pretty much right out of the gate. Xillia was the only exception I've noted, at least out of the main entries in the series. It really tried to shake things up, but I just found it as rough as playing Tales of Phantasia on the SNES...
Remember when you played Super Mario 64 for the first time? Being able to make Mario hop, skip and jump around in a vibrant and carefully crafted 3D world?
Remember when you played Soul Calibur for the first time on the Dreamcast? Not quite believing how stupendously brilliant the visuals were and how fluid the gameplay was?
Remember when you played Shadow of the Colossus for the first time? Riding Agro to a cliff, warily climbing up it and approaching the first colossi that engulfs your television screen and towers over you?
Those three will always be some of the clearest and fondest memories of my time playing videogames.
And now a fourth one has happened as of earlier this evening.
And it actually felt like a religious experience.
Playing Rez Infinite on the PlayStation VR.
It's like that scene in The Matrix when Neo walks through the metal detector and, with no such change in the expression upon his face, he opens his long black coat to reveal an array of guns... then that music kicks in and you witness three or four minutes of one of the greatest action sequence in any film.
That's what playing Rez Infinite on the PS VR feels like. A constantly feeling of sheer brilliance and astounding happiness. Just moving your head around in the trippy pulsating wireframe world of Rez along with that music is an experience like no other.
I only tried Rez Infinite and RIGS (which is also bloody brilliant!), and I can safely say that playing Rez Infinite on the PlayStation VR is the single best thing I have experienced since playing bowling with the Wii remote for the first time ten years ago.
The PS VR itself is a fantastic piece of kit. I really want one now!
@Octane I know I harp on about some games more so than other folks do, but it really, really was one of those 'pinnacle' moments in all my time playing computer games since my brother and I opened an N64 on Christmas Day back in 1997.
My friend is a senior member of staff at John Lewis, and he loves all the new gadgets. He said they only had ten in stock and all ten were gone in an hour!
He knew I was eager to try it out as I haven't experienced any kind of virtual reality before (until day!).
Yeah, it was just an extraordinary experience.
The VR headset itself is so comfortable, and the screen is just like the beautiful OLED display on the original PS Vita; the colours really pop and whilst the image quality is not quite as good as playing (a game) on a television, it's the immersion of what you are seeing and controlling that makes it so enjoyable.
I don't think I stopped smiling the whole time!
I'm a converter, and I would love to think that I can buy one next year sometime, especially if the NX doesn't live up to my expectations.
@Peek-a-boo Yeah I definitely want to try it out some day first. I've yet to see a game that'll win me over though. There's that €400 price tag as well! I think I may wait until the next gen of VR systems.
Hey guys? Tomb Raider is really, really good. They released an immensely improved version of the 2013 game in just 2 years and some change. This is the Metroid Prime we get now.
@Haru17 I've heard that it's Uncharted levels of goodness, and even better according to some. I'll get it when I'm done with The Witcher 3. I think that I want to play the reboot too then.
I didn't particularly enjoy the Tomb Raider reboot, and I am part of the 'it isn't a Tomb Raider game' crowd.
I know they are 'only videogames' however, seeing Lara go from sobbing, shrieking and whinging every single time she got hurt to mowing down hundreds of baddies with nary a flicker of emotion in a space of ninety minutes (of playtime) just really bothered me.
And the side characters and dialogue and writing and story was comparatively poor compared to a certain series that it tried so hard to mimic.
At least Uncharted knows what it is - a pulpy and witty Sunday afternoon Indiana Jones inspired adventure.
It is the sort of game that will be £20/€20 in two months time too so, I am in no hurry to find out if it has (or hasn't) improved over the reboot.
@Octane I like it better than the reboot so far. There's a lot more subtlety, and the survival and puzzle elements are expanded upon. I wouldn't worry about playing the reboot first — the story is pretty pathetic in both of them.
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