PS2 Backlog Committee

I hope everyone had a good 4th of July! I spent a lot of it playing Yakuza 6 and I'm in the home stretch! Review coming after completion.

Looking forward to it!

Phaseknox wrote: ↑Wed Jul 04, 2018 8:44 pm I finished Nier: Automata, and I found it to be a little disappointing. It's primarily an action game disguised as an open world action RPG, the open world is tiny compared to other open world games and the RPG elements are barebones. You go to just about every location on the map fairly early in the game, and then the remainder of the game is basically retreading the same few areas over and over again.

Most of the side missions are throwaway IMO consisting of a lot of delivery, fetch and escort missions that just have you running back and forth across the same areas a lot. I stopped doing them after a while since they weren't adding anything to the experience, and the rewards for doing them weren't great enough to bother with them.

Just following the story makes it a better paced experience and a lot of cool stuff happens, but it's over too quickly. It took me 15 hours to finish the game, and that was doing a lot of side missions. Part of the reason why it's a little on the short side is because it's meant to be played again after finishing it with other characters from their perspective, but the second character that you play as is your partner that's with you the entire time the first time that you play it so I don't see how the experience would be much different. I started playing it again as him, and he just doesn't make for a good lead character so I had no interest in playing the game again as him.

I enjoyed my time with the game for the most part since there's some cool locations and the combat is really good, but it's somewhat repetitive and is over a little too quickly.

That was fast.

Word on the street is you haven't really finished the game until you've gone through it again and again and gotten the full story.

I decided to play the Wolfenstein games and I started with The Old Blood since it takes place before The New Order, but it failed to grab me since it's a fairly standard old school FPS that's basically a shooting gallery. I started The New Order and it was better starting off with a bang and offering good gameplay and impressive graphics that move at a smooth 60fps, but after the impressive prologue it kind of turns into a stealth game and as soon as an enemy sees you they set off an alarm and wave after wave of enemies rush you and it turns into a shooting gallery. I stopped playing it since these types of first person shooters just don't really interest me anymore. I doubt that I'm going to like Doom either because it's apparently just a shooting gallery FPS too.

Pure action games and shooters just don't interest me now like they used to, I find them one dimensional and repetitive. I like adventure and RPG elements in almost all of the games that I play now, I like more to do in games than just kill, kill, kill. But I'm getting pickier in general when it comes to games because I've played so many, and if the ones that I play now don't offer something to make them at least a little different from the ones that I've already played before then I get bored. I think that it's also partly because my free time is more precious to me as I get older, and I don't want to spend it playing games that don't really engage me.

canedaddy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 05, 2018 7:43 pmThat was fast.

Yeah, it was.

canedaddy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 05, 2018 7:43 pmWord on the street is you haven't really finished the game until you've gone through it again and again and gotten the full story.

Yeah it's meant to be played through three times as different characters to get the complete story, but the second time that you play it you play as the assistant character from the first play through so it's basically the same experience all over again except that you're playing as the assistant character instead of as the main character. I don't have an interest in doing that. The third character that you play as would be from a different perspective, but I'm not going to play the game all over again with the assistant character to get to the third character.