Last Game You Played

[TheSameIdiot]

There's no way Konami could muck with arguably Kojima's finest moment in gaming without something going awry.

The early Metal Gear games came around before I got into gaming, but I think this qualifies as a hot take.

The Resident Evil 2 remake is so good. As someone who never played the original, the remake made me appreciate the game and the franchise.

I beat Citizen Sleeper last weekend. It's a true role-playing game in every sense of the word. There's little in the way of gameplay. The more direct comparison is Disco Elysium. It isn't quite the masterpiece that Disco Elysium is, but the moment-to-moment gameplay is similar. Talk to people, make decisions, and roll some dice.

For you TTRPGers, the dice system is actually quite interesting. You roll several D6s at the beginning of every day. You pick which activities you do and allocate the dice rolls as you see fit. Absolutely need to accomplish the task ahead of you? Use your 6 for guaranteed success. I'd love to test the system in an actual TTRPG. "Okay, do I use my 20 to persuade this guard or save it for combat? When do I use my 1?"

In Citizen Sleeper, you play as a second-class citizen who escaped from corporate slavery to a space station. You meet ship salvagers, construction workers, a line cook, bounty hunters, botanists, and a ton of others trying to survive on the periphery of civilization. The game only took me about 7.5 hours. I'd recommend it if you're into text-based RPGs. 8.5/10.

Now that Hades II has officially launched, I'm focused on beating the sequel to my favorite game ever. I think they re-tuned the game since I last played it in early access. I was regularly getting my ass beat in the 7.5 hours I put in during early access. Since the full release, both of my deaths came to the final boss. During early access, I thought the game was much harder than the original; now I'm thinking the opposite.

 

[JakeEkiss]

The Resident Evil 2 remake is so good. As someone who never played the original, the remake made me appreciate the game and the franchise.

It really was quite stellar. In fact in a lot of ways I think it surpasses the original. Having Mr X be an ongoing threat you can't escape from really ramps up the tension in that part of the game.

The early Metal Gear games came around before I got into gaming, but I think this qualifies as a hot take.

I haven't seen many people talking about it, but the reviews were favorable and it's hard to say it's not a good game when it's literally the old one (which was brilliant) with a new coat of paint. It is a great hit of nostalgia, and the new controls, while they do make it easier, also make a lot of it more fun to play. If you haven't done any of those early Metal Gears, this is an excellent place to start.

 

[Damien]

I'd really like to play MGS-Delta. I actually have no nostalgia for it, myself. The last MGS game that I played all the way through was MGS2, which recently had an upgrade but not redo, as far as I can recall. But Delta looks really good and I'd like to give it a shot at some point. My biggest problem is the twofold issue of not having enough money to buy every video game, and not having enough time to play every video game.

Same goes for Hades II. I'm very excited to play that, but I JUST pre-ordered Ghost of Yotei, which comes out on Thursday, and I'm sure that'll be taking a lot of my gaming time for the next couple of weeks to months, depending on how long I get with it at a time.

 

[JakeEkiss]

I'd really like to play MGS-Delta. I actually have no nostalgia for it, myself. The last MGS game that I played all the way through was MGS2, which recently had an upgrade but not redo, as far as I can recall. But Delta looks really good and I'd like to give it a shot at some point. My biggest problem is the twofold issue of not having enough money to buy every video game, and not having enough time to play every video game.

Same goes for Hades II. I'm very excited to play that, but I JUST pre-ordered Ghost of Yotei, which comes out on Thursday, and I'm sure that'll be taking a lot of my gaming time for the next couple of weeks to months, depending on how long I get with it at a time.

I will say, since Delta is a 1-to-1, it's still the same time to beat as the original. So it's pretty approachable from a time investment standpoint. It's not going to suck you dry of 100+ hrs unless you just really like 100%ing all the collectibles and/or going through and doing stuff like European Hard Mode over and over. The game itself is like 15hrs tops.

I've also found the updated look and controls has made some stuff that was annoying in the original a lot less ball-busting. Situational awareness in general is much better and fighting The End this time was actually a lot more fun. I even managed to clip his bird and sneak up on him a couple of times even without using the thermal goggles to cheese it. I recall when I played the game originally I threw on the thermals when I found him and just ran the bastard down.

 

[TheSameIdiot]

I haven't seen many people talking about it, but the reviews were favorable and it's hard to say it's not a good game when it's literally the old one (which was brilliant) with a new coat of paint. It is a great hit of nostalgia, and the new controls, while they do make it easier, also make a lot of it more fun to play. If you haven't done any of those early Metal Gears, this is an excellent place to start.

I made it my pet project to play every great game. Or, at least the ones I'm interested in. I tried the original Metal Gear maybe a year ago and wound up refunding it. It was too obtuse.

My only Kojima experiences are Metal Gear Solid V and Death Stranding. As much as I like those games, I'm not sure I'm really a Kojima guy. I could try Delta, but I'm hoping they remake Metal Gear Solid.

 

[JakeEkiss]

I made it my pet project to play every great game. Or, at least the ones I'm interested in. I tried the original Metal Gear maybe a year ago and wound up refunding it. It was too obtuse.

My only Kojima experiences are Metal Gear Solid V and Death Stranding. As much as I like those games, I'm not sure I'm really a Kojima guy. I could try Delta, but I'm hoping they remake Metal Gear Solid.

I think Solid is almost certainly next up after Delta. I'd be legit shocked if they don't remake it now.

And I think if you liked V then Delta will be familiar. It's similar to that in control scheme but with fewer overall options since the game just doesn't have that many mechanics to keep track of. MGS3 was probably Kojima's most conventional narrative as well. It's really just him doing his best James Bond pastiche with the Metal Gear stuff skinned over the top of it. There's some Kojima goofiness to it, as always, but it's pretty reserved compared to how far out he can get.

That said, if it's not your bag I totally get it. Kojima i one of those guys whose work doesn't have much middle ground to it. If it's not working on you that's not unusual. He polarizes.

 

[Damien]

For those keeping track; The Saudi prince and Trump's son just bought EA Games.
Which means I am never buying an EA game ever again.

 

[JakeEkiss]

For those keeping track; The Saudi prince and Trump's son just bought EA Games.
Which means I am never buying an EA game ever again.

It's really impressive that EA could find a new way for me to despise them. Like, props to them, it's a creative new brand of bullshit. They've really dominated the "evil game company" space for a while now and they are not sitting on their laurels. They continue to innovate.

 

[TheSameIdiot]

I hate to sound like The Game Hipster, but I think I could pretty easily go the rest of my life without buying from EA, Ubisoft, or any of the other evil/soft evil game corporations out there.

EA is easy because the only things I'd buy from them are BioWare games or FIFA/EA FC. I haven't bought FIFA/EA FC since 2023. While those games are comfort food, they've somehow gotten progressively worse over the last decade. No exaggeration. All they had to do was shit out the same product yearly and everyone would eagerly buy it like good little consumers. The last edition I played was a buggy mess with worse gameplay than the year before. As far as BioWare... the studio is a shell of its former self. You can forget about getting any interesting queer/progressive stories with the Saudis in charge.

The only Ubisoft games to tempt me in the last five years are the artsy Prince of Persia releases. I don't have any tie to the series, but Rogue and The Lost Crown looked good. Big publishers are putting less and less time into cultivating niche/indie titles. See Expedition 33.

 

[JakeEkiss]

I glanced through the wiki and it looks like the last EA game I purchased for myself was Mass Effect 3... in 2012... I think the last one I purchased at all for someone else was Dragon Age Inquisition.

Looks like EA just doesn't make games I want to buy anyway.

 

[altcunningham]

The biggest game breaking (I love it) change to Delta is crouch walking.

Original and Subsistence didn't have it. It is objectively broken in the game design for sneaking. And I cannot imagine not having it after Zeroes and V.

 

[JakeEkiss]

The biggest game breaking (I love it) change to Delta is crouch walking.

Original and Subsistence didn't have it. It is objectively broken in the game design for sneaking. And I cannot imagine not having it after Zeroes and V.

Was it not a thing in the original? It's been so long I totally forgot. Yeah, it's just more fun to play in a lot of ways. The camera controls and modern first person gun shooting were the big ones for me.

I'm right at the end now. Just smoked Volgin and did the Last Crusade style motorcycle chase. I think all I've got to do is escort Eva through the woods and then do the bit with the Boss/the standoff with Ocelot. I *think* I've managed a no-kill run. At least as of the Sorrow I hadn't killed anybody, and I'm pretty sure I haven't since. At least if I did it was accidental.