The Backlog Check-in Vol. 26: 6/30/18: Independence Day Edition
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2018 1:38 am
Played: Nier: Automata, Tales of Zestiria
Finished (playing): Tales of Zestiria
Playing: Nier: Automata
I had a pretty big scare tonight. I decided to watch Pacific Rim which I haven't seen before, so I put the disc in my PS4 and the inside of it instantly started making grinding, scraping and rattling noises. I started panicking because it sounded like it was being damaged, and I had no idea what was going on. So I quickly pressed the disc eject button on the console to get the disc out, and two discs ejected out of my PS4. The movie disc and special features disc were stuck together, and I put them in my PS4 thinking that it was just the movie disc. I didn't even know that there was a special features disc. I thought that my disc drive was going to be broken after that, but it's fine. What a relief.
I stopped playing Tales of Zestiria because I was finding it a little dull overall. It just seems like an old (it's a PS3 port), and somewhat low budget JRPG. I was liking the story and characters, but the game itself is pretty basic consisting of talking to NPCs in towns and fighting enemies in mazelike dungeons. It's fairly standard JRPG fare without anything that really elevates from so many similar ones before it. I was enjoying it enough to want to play it again in the future, but not right now when I have so many other better games to play.
Speaking of which, I started playing Nier: Automata and it ROCKS!!!! It impressed me immediately starting off as a flying shooter, and then becoming a third person character action hack-and-slasher and seamlessly turning into a side scrolling action platformer in different parts of the environments. The character controls are quick, the combat is slick, the graphics are really good running at 60fps and the music is awesome. Based on what I've played of it so far I would say that it should appeal to fans of games like Bayonetta, Devil May Cry, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and the original Nier.
Finished (playing): Tales of Zestiria
Playing: Nier: Automata
I had a pretty big scare tonight. I decided to watch Pacific Rim which I haven't seen before, so I put the disc in my PS4 and the inside of it instantly started making grinding, scraping and rattling noises. I started panicking because it sounded like it was being damaged, and I had no idea what was going on. So I quickly pressed the disc eject button on the console to get the disc out, and two discs ejected out of my PS4. The movie disc and special features disc were stuck together, and I put them in my PS4 thinking that it was just the movie disc. I didn't even know that there was a special features disc. I thought that my disc drive was going to be broken after that, but it's fine. What a relief.
I stopped playing Tales of Zestiria because I was finding it a little dull overall. It just seems like an old (it's a PS3 port), and somewhat low budget JRPG. I was liking the story and characters, but the game itself is pretty basic consisting of talking to NPCs in towns and fighting enemies in mazelike dungeons. It's fairly standard JRPG fare without anything that really elevates from so many similar ones before it. I was enjoying it enough to want to play it again in the future, but not right now when I have so many other better games to play.
Speaking of which, I started playing Nier: Automata and it ROCKS!!!! It impressed me immediately starting off as a flying shooter, and then becoming a third person character action hack-and-slasher and seamlessly turning into a side scrolling action platformer in different parts of the environments. The character controls are quick, the combat is slick, the graphics are really good running at 60fps and the music is awesome. Based on what I've played of it so far I would say that it should appeal to fans of games like Bayonetta, Devil May Cry, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and the original Nier.