ITT we lament our backlog and play old games

brassherald · Post Post #9 (isolation #0) » Fri Oct 02, 2020 2:04 am

My Steam Profile

Worth:
$4466 ($1381 with sales)
Games owned:
276
Games played:
205
(74%)
Hours on record:
1,642.0h

That's not terrible. Lots f Star Wars games in there from a bundle I bought for like 5 of the games, and lots of times they added a GOTY edition after I already beat a game. I'm not going back to Arkham City GOTY.

brassherald · Post Post #21 (isolation #1) » Fri Oct 30, 2020 3:20 am

My girlfriend refuses to let me buy a game until I finish one of the ones I've started. I'm working on BOTW.

brassherald · Post Post #23 (isolation #2) » Fri Oct 30, 2020 3:50 am

In post 22, Ythan wrote:Did she pick that one for you to finish or did you?

I did. She likes watching me play it, but, I admittedly also play several games where there is no real win state.

The other choice was also the FF7 remake which I kind of got burned out on after about 2 weeks, I'll eventually go back and finish it. The other options I'm nowhere near the end of.

brassherald · Post Post #24 (isolation #3) » Fri Oct 30, 2020 3:52 am

I will say I did finally finish Dragon Age Inquisition this year.

She is right that I do not finish most of my games.

brassherald · Post Post #29 (isolation #4) » Fri Oct 30, 2020 6:28 am

Yeah, open world games kind of end up mostly empty which is not great.

I kind of like BOTW's style for that because there are puzzles and shit hidden everywhere. But, lots of them its just dead space between the cities.

brassherald · Post Post #31 (isolation #5) » Fri Oct 30, 2020 6:41 am

In post 30, Ythan wrote:Souls games really made me appreciate paths and lit up obvious items. Items are still hidden sometimes but if it's visible on screen it's obvious. This as opposed to scouring open areas for nondescript vendor trash in say Skyrim.

Yeah, I've definitely also played games where it's just not obvious what is and is not vendor trash. That's always frustrating. I feel like if the only point of an item is to sell it, just put the money there.

brassherald · Post Post #35 (isolation #6) » Fri Oct 30, 2020 8:17 am

I do also like that you can technically just leave the starting area, charge towards Calamity Ganon and win the game if you are good enough.

brassherald · Post Post #40 (isolation #7) » Fri Oct 30, 2020 9:33 am

Yeah, Nier:Automata really is not up to my standards for a Platinum Games game.

Like, even the Transformers game that they released was like a solid brawler with some real depth and challenge. This one, well, I feel like it's a little easier than it needs to be.

By the way, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is still probably my favorite game from Platinum.