What are you playing?

Wait, they want me to sit through the credits fucking twice? This is getting cruel and unusual.

Gavinmad said:

Wat?

Miles Morales debuted in 2011. His parents have always been married, Bendis is just a fucking moron who decided they had different names. He's Jefferson Morales in the comics now because people who don't even buy comic books in the first place shrieked about him sharing a name with the president of the Confederacy (seriously though what the everliving fuck was Bendis thinking?). Rio is a nurse in the comics and in Spider-Verse, it's only in the game continuity where she's a retired school-teacher turned politician. Also she's the one who dies in the comics.

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So I can't tell, sounds like the writer was either ultra-based (for the time) or 3rd wave faggotry.

I'm gonna go with baste....He named the kid Miles Morales for the same reason he named the dad Jefferson Davis.

Didn't realize ultimate spider-man had DLCs much less 3 of them so I'm still playing this game. Gotta say it was a good suggestion and only 20 bucks, It is much better and more content/way better story than miles morales Spiderman

I loved all the Persona games, so I gave Atlus' new game Metaphor: ReFantazio a shot Metaphor: ReFantazio

I liked the story enough, and the focus on traveling as a group to new sites, but this just felt so low budget. The dungeons were uninspired, and they even started to copy/paste at the end.. I pumped about 80 hours into it, got to some dragon that hit for 9999 (when I have 600 health) and just couldn't be assed to look it up or finish it.

Picked up Hitman for PSVR2, and that has been amazing sandbox fun, one of the best looking games too.

Caeden said:

1-3 required playing before?

It’s been a goal of mine to play X and XII on FF

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Not at all. Phantasy Star 4 is waaaaay above the other three and doesn't follow any of them directly storywise outside of the villain being the same throughout.

Phantasy Star 1 - Play if you really like retro 8-bit RPGs, retro aesthetics, retro QOL. Came out during the time of Final Fantasy 1 and Dragon Warrior 1 over here. Hell I think it pre-dated FF1. Funny thing is it blows away both DQ1 and FF1 on visuals and general tech level. Probably the best game on the Master System. Very simple, very pleasant.

Phantasy Star 2 - Play if you like super-hard 16-bit RPGs. The closest to PS4 of the three, same battle system, similar story elements, a shared character or two. Super-hard, with dungeons that are huge and will inevitably get you lost.

Phantasy Star 3 - Don't play. Game is pretty terrible, not sure how this one even got into the series. Does the "generations" concept where your main changes several times through the game, that was done much better by things like Romancing SaGa 2. Comes off like something a fan made in RPG Maker.

TLDR: I really love the original Phantasy Star so you might want to play that after PS4 if you really like retro RPGs. It's kind of halfway between an NES game and a SNES game. PS2 is a bit much to bother with at this point in time and PS3 sucks.

Daidraco said:

I replayed PS4 maybe a year or two ago on an emulator. Vaguely remembered everything and just kind of stumbled through it. Even then, knowing at least the basics of everything - you fucking ZOOM through the game. In comparison to at least when I first played the game. I remember playing it for weeks and I think I beat it in two or three long sessions this past time.

Chrono Trigger was the same way. I bought that and played it for the first time a month ago and it was far easier to get through than I thought it would be. Great games though, dont get me wrong. I just played things like the PS series wayyyy to young, I guess.

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Yep, PS4 is another of those "way shorter than you remember it" games. As a kid, I remember it like there were DAYS between being crushed by Zio and ultimately getting payback against him. Was a huge deal to me. When I replayed the game a decade or so ago, I was getting revenge on Zio like 3 hours after the first fight and was like "wot"

Oh yeah, Alis is the main character of PS1 (sort of, I think it's supposed to be her ancestor or something, but it's literally the same character) so that's another point for PS1, getting to main her after her memorable few hours in PS4.

Chrono Trigger takes me about 9 hours to beat, much like FF4 SNES. All of these are things I spent weeks on as a kid.

Caeden said:

Might be crucified by this, but outside of the combo abilities and some kinda neat quest concepts using time, I felt it failed to live up to the hype. I did sorta not grind much with did make the fights challenging.

I wish I’d have played it in 1995, but it just came at the wrong time in my life (cars, girls, prepping for college). Rose colored glasses are making me rank FF 4 and 6 higher on the JRPG front. Frankly the overall tone felt way more anime and juvenile at times than squares other games from the era. Again I bet someone corrects me. It did have some top flight music, but I thought the visuals were blah overall.

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CT's probably the best RPG on the SNES from an objective standpoint, outside of debatably FF6 (and probably something else I haven't played that was Japan-only, as there were several huge bangers on that front in 95-97). Best soundtrack of any RPG for sure (Xenogears and Chrono Cross on the PS1 were both done by the same guy and are even better OSTs).

But yeah, playing CT now, without the framing of the time and place, it's probably just a well above-average 90's RPG.

Playing it in 1995, when I was barely just starting to notice girls, was pure magic. Like, it's hard to even sum it up. It was like NOTHING we had up to that point and everything about it just leaped off of the screen (or page). Nintendo Power covered it over 3 issues (I think, could have been more). There's a preview, then two parts for actual game coverage. Before I ever even played the game, I studied those 3 issues, and man, the concepts / worlds / etc were so unique and stunning for the time. It was one of those games that felt like anything was possible and that there were things nobody had even discovered yet, like an LTTP or Super Metroid. All of the above just feel like regular games now, but if you were there at the time, they went beyond that.

Only a few games since have felt as "anything is possible" and magical to me since Chrono Trigger, and pretty much one or two per decade. Bioshock and Fallout 3 in the late 2000's, Demon Souls in 2016, and Elden Ring in 2022.

Speaking of, what I'm playing: Elden Ring for the third full time (not counting NG pluses on my two previous runs). Man, it's like goin' home again. Game obsoletes most other games. Like I dropped any other 1P games I was playing once this got underway and barely even remember what I was playing before.