Been playing an old Japan exclusive Digimon World game that has an English fan patch. Originally for PSP and with an enhanced 3DS port.
I love this game so much, it’s so satisfying as a fan of the first World game which was admittedly too hard and cyptic, without being too easy like the most modern game. It’s personally my favourite Digimon game.
Just finished the new freebie silent hill walking sim. It was really good for what it was. Highly recommend it.
Been unsurprisingly playing Suicide Squad, still enjoying it and preparing myself for the End Game despite not rolling credits yet.
I got my Harley maxed and have created a clan.
So if anyone/everyone wanna join the Super Dweebs let me know your username and I’ll send you an invite because it won’t hurt if we all collectively work towards the clan rewards 
I was hoping to play Persona 3 Reload since it releases today. I pre-ordered the collector’s edition on Amazon back in September. Get an e-mail from Amazon saying “We’re encountering a delay in shipping your order. We’ll make every effort to get the delayed item to you as soon as possible. We apologise for the inconvenience.” No explanation of what has happened or any sortof delivery estimate. So yeah, kindof annoyed. If it was just the standard version I’d just cancel it and go buy it at the nearby toy store but I bought the collector’s version which has sold out everywhere, so will just have to wait and hope it doesn’t take them long to resolve the issue.
In the meantime, guess this is a good time to jump into Yakuza 3. I’ve been playing Dying Light with @TheChicken as well and that is a lot of fun, great co-op game.
Found the site tetr(dot)io. 
Well Suicide Kill the Justice League is done! Actually, it’s nowhere near being “done” but I’ve completed the main story. Apologies if this post is super long, I have a lot to say. I’ll try to mark spoilers as best as I can.
Do I recommend the game? Yes, especially if you’re a fan of looter shooters, love the Suicide Squad, enjoy playing games with a group of friends, or just like DC stuff. Difficulty-wise it was pretty solid. I played on Normal, and although I did fail a few missions I was able to do everything by the second try. Impressive considering I don’t have much shooter experience. I don’t agree with the notion that the campaign’s too short, I thought there was a decent amount of both main and side missions to do, and plenty more have just opened up now that I’m in the endgame. Plus there’s gonna be a shitload of stuff added down the road in the post-launch.
My favorite aspect of the game as a solo player is the squad dynamic. Deadshot’s Level 17, King Shark’s Level 15, Captain Boomerang is Level 15, and Harley Quinn’s Level 12. It’s really fun switching between characters and changing things up each mission. Gameplay-wise Harley’s my least favorite. I just don’t like her traversal that much, she uses the Batclaw to climb buildings but I wish she was able to get the Grapnel Boost to send her flying at high speeds.
The overworld of Metropolis is pretty great! It’s fun to traverse, and you can move around the city pretty fast. I love how right off the bat the game makes it clear how FUBAR the situation is, and as the story progresses Metropolis becomes more and more of a mess filled with destruction caused by Brainiac. I can’t wait to see how even more messed up the city gets in the post-launch as all the Elseworlds begin merging into the main universe! Also, I love how smooth the performance of the game was, there were basically no frame drops even with a ton of enemies on screen at once.
I loved Brainiac in this game! He’s voiced by General Reza Zaydan himself, Jason Isaacs and I thought his performance was great. His character design is also really solid, and it seems like we’ll see a lot more of him in the post-launch. All the character designs, animations, and voice work were pretty great in the game!
One thing that really disappointed me was the Riddler collectibles, and this comes from a huge fan of the Riddler stuff in the other games. The navigational challenges are pretty fun and test your mastery of each character’s abilities, plus they unlock a good amount of free cosmetics for the squad. The Riddler trophies, however, were a huge step down. All 40 of them are out in the open with no real puzzle attached (unless you count needing to shoot some of them down a puzzle). It’s a shame cause they could have made interesting puzzles where you need to work together with multiple squad members to figure them out. Also, scanning the riddles doesn’t unlock any lore stories like in City and Knight, just concept art and character bios/models for people, enemies and vehicles. As far as I know, there isn’t any way to have all the trophies and riddles marked on the map like the other games. If you have line-of-sight to a trophy, even from a long distance away, it will get marked on the map for you. However, several of the trophies are hidden in areas you aren’t likely to visit, and with how big the city is it’s tough to actually find them all by yourself (but I managed to!).
Outside of the Mr. Freeze fight in City, the bosses in the Rocksteady Arkham games all range from okay to bad. I had hoped that since there’s a bigger emphasis on bosses in this game (I mean, you’re fighting members of the Justice League!) they would be higher quality, but sadly they were still pretty meh. Green Lantern was my favorite and actually pretty fun, Flash was okay, but the other three bosses were a real let-down. Batman was very repetitive, Superman was very simple for a fight against the Man of Steel (and the easiest fight in the game to me), and Brainiac was a reused version of the Flash’s boss fight. I know: the other Arkham games had reused bosses that slightly change things up for the second time, but you would think they could have come up with something better for Brainiac.
Now for the elephant in the room: Batman’s role in the game. One criticism I’ve seen is that it’s disrespectful to Kevin Conroy. That’s wrong, they had no idea it would be Kevin’s final role, if Kevin didn’t want to do the game he wouldn’t have, and they put a nice tribute to him in the game. What I think the game is, however, is disrespectful to Arkhamverse Batman. I get it, the Suicide Squad wouldn’t have any reverence for Batman, but the way he was easily taken out was very poorly done imo. The same Batman who overcame Scarecrow’s Fear Toxin and used it against him multiple times couldn’t foresee the possibility that his own version of Fear Toxin could be overcome and used against him? The Fear Toxin section was okay, but I thought the segment at the end of Arkham Knight was a lot better. The Batman who was so strong he could take on an entire small army, lock up most of the major supervillains, and overcome Joker taking over his mind in a single night decided to just stand in one place and let the Squad constantly shoot at him with barely any proper attacks to them?
Outside of Batman, I did enjoy the story quite a bit and it was nice seeing the squad grow as a unit and hearing all their banter on the way to missions. The big question is “Do you actually kill the Justice League?” The answer: Yes, at least seemingly so for now. It surprised me that they didn’t resurrect them by the ending. I still doubt they will remain dead forever since if they want to continue the Arkhamverse not having the Justice League around really limits the stories they could do. There were some hints that they aren’t really dead. Flash had his finger cut off but then it was intact when he showed up evil. Was it just Brainiac regrowing it? Maybe. Green Lantern’s ring didn’t fly away like it should have when he died. Brainiac also retrieved their bodies for some reason. Was it just so he could still use their powers to infuse his enemies? Or was it so people wouldn’t realize that they’re just clones of the real Justice League who are still trapped on the Skull ship?
Here’s my thoughts on what’s to come in the post-launch (spoilers for the ending): So at the end of the game, it’s revealed that there are 13 Brainiacs in existence across universes. We kill one in the story, leaving 12. That implies to me that each Season of post-launch content we go after one (with hopefully different boss fights for each), and they’re hoping for three years’ worth of post-launch content. Will they get those three years? I honestly don’t know, but I hope so! With how good the cutscenes are, I hope there’s like a whole chapter’s worth of story added each season so we have enough time to really get a feel for the new characters. They’ve said you can use the post-launch characters in the main story too, but I wonder if they’ll have any dialogue based around story events or if they’ll just be mostly silent the whole time. The characters I’d like to see added the most are Deathstroke (from the Arkhamverse), Black Manta (can be either Elseworlds or Arkhamverse), and Riddler (an Elseworlds version but still voiced by Wally Wingert).
I’m curious to see how different the post-launch boss fights will be. They announced Green Lantern and Superman fights for Season 1, I assume they’ll be largely the same as the main game fights, maybe with a few modifiers. I wonder if they’re clones or Elseworlds versions of the heroes. If they’re Elseworlds versions, I’d hope that every few seasons they have us face a totally new superhero since surely alternate Justice Leagues would have had different members. There’s a ton of potential for superheroes to face: Martian Manhunter, Aquaman, Cyborg, Green Arrow, Zatanna, Supergirl, a version of Wonder Woman who actually got corrupted, Hal Jordan’s Green Lantern, Thomas Wayne’s Batman.
I wonder what they will do regarding Batman given Kevin’s death. I doubt he was able to do any voice work for post-launch stuff, unless they really recorded things in advance. If they’re wanting to do more with Arkhamverse Batman, I’m honestly fine with them just recasting his voice. Same if we face an Elseworlds version of Batman. However, the Batman fight in the main game doesn’t really feel like it would work repeated over and over again like the other fights.
Finally, I hope they can improve the Riddler stuff in the post-launch! I’m sure I’ll share my thoughts on the endgame when I have a chance to as well.
My homie is out there calling anything a riddle these days…
To be (un)fair I believe the ring is also supposed to be rendered inert when a wielder is mind-controller, mentally unstable or under the influence of drugs/alcohol.
Damn Rocksteady are ripping you off my dude, there are supposed to be 52 Brainiacs. And no I don’t want some asshole to come along and say “But there are actually infinity universes now.” I know they restored/ruined/added onto the DC multiverse at the end of Scott Snyder’s Justice League run.
I’d say that’s one too many so the amount we have for this game is just right.
With january done and dusted, and resi4remake played absolutely half to death (and still being played half to death, currently half way a ng+ run and havent even touched seperate ways yet) I was in need of a new game to complete for this february, and I have two new games that I’ll now play alongside my current ones from january
The online shooter the Finals. An absolute blast which i didnt expect to love because i genuinely dislike online shooters very much. but playing with friends always help alleviate those online gaming growing pains
and the second game is Crash Bandicoot 1 from the N.Sane trilogy
I say you can never get enough Brainiac. Just like you can’t have enough of Brainiac-5 or Brainiac-8. Why is Brainiac not in the dictionary but the numbered ones are? Was this spellcheck created by a Legion of Superheroes fan?
Surprising the toughest moment in Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League is after the credits roll and you see Kevin Conroy’s tribute. It wasn’t the eulogy that got me blubbering but the actual final screen of the game (even if alcohol on a Friday night had a playing role in this reaction).
All together though, Conroy’s passing didn’t really hit me until a few hours ago. Outside of Part 3 of an animated movie this is it for the actor. But his portrayal of the Bat has always been in the background for me throughout the years while A-listers were interchanged every few movies. Conroy left an impact for numerous facets of life whether it’s being an LGBTQ Icon or all around the quintessential portrayal of Bruce Wayne/Batman in a multi-decade spanning career. Posthumously Conroy will always be Batman even if he’s no longer around.
However you may feel about Suicide Squad, the handling behind killing off Arkham Batman was far from terrible.
I’ve been enjoying Octopath Traveler II. It’s a nice version of old-school (i.e. “real” 
) Final Fantasy mixed with SaGa’s multiple characters with their own stories.
Combat is turn-based, complete with FFX-style turn order displayed at the top of the screen. There’s a lot of stuff going on though, in and out of combat, which I have mixed feelings about. It’s nice to have the options–buffs/debuffs, boosts, skills, special abilities, breaks, secondary jobs, path actions, a day/night cycle that you can switch between at the push of a button–but it can be a bit overwhelming at times.
Boss battles are long as hell, which feels epic…at first, but it can get tedious, especially when you’re twenty minutes into a fight before you figure out that maybe you don’t have the right party or abilities for the final stage and you’re going to have to slog through the first two stages again. On the other hand, that admittedly makes it all the more satisfying when you do deal that final blow.
The characters themselves are fun with good voice acting that’s (mostly) not annoying, though they’re a bit on the standard side–ninja guy, thief woman, beast girl, that kind of thing. But having eight of them makes the stories smaller-scale and more personal, less (at least so far 
) let’s kill the god-like villain and save the world.
Where they drop the ball is not having the characters interact as much as they should. There are a few crossed paths side missions that pair off the characters, but mostly the other characters literally disappear, except for battles, during one another’s stories. I kind of like that the narratives themselves don’t intertwine (at least so far), but it would add a lot to the game if other characters interjected occasionally and the dialogue changed slightly depending on who was in your party. (Chrono Cross did this 25 years ago with a lot more characters.) When Temenos is having some serious discussion about the secrets his religious sect is hiding from its followers, I want to hear whatever snarky comment Throné has to say, dammit.
It’s a good game, though, and I think this is the first time I’ve played a new JRPG of this scale (60-ish hours) in a long time, so I’ve been having fun trying to find hidden treasure chests and complete obscure side missions and work out how all the systems work without looking things up. (Mostly. 
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Last night at like 1am I watched this video about DarylTalksGames’s recap of how his Game Backlog List went over the last 365 days and how he tackled it.
Long long story short, it was very interesting and inspiring, and reminded me that not every game can be a winner, some capture your attention and make you WANT to continue better than others, and there’s no shame in abandoning or leaving one till later, so you can find the right one to really Hook You! (Also keeping a list and detailing it is GREAT, but don’t feel like it holds you in a chokehold.)
So, I’ve decided to scrap Assassins Creed Origins from my list – because while it’s fun sneaking around and I like exploring the world, the world is so massive I don’t like riding my horse everywhere when I want to be parkouring like everyone says is so iconic about this franchise, the parkour is extremely basic since this title reimagines the game as an RPG with less emphasis on stealth/traversal, and while I’m having mindless fun, it still feels like I’m being sucked into an XP grind to get to the missions + areas I want to get to, but can’t because I need to level up uuugh… Also not being able to always one-shot kill people from stealth feels sucky.
I’m also going to scrap Judgement from my list, at least for now, since I’ve found that the game, while it has a gritty and interesting murder mystery to start, and is absolutely gorgeous and wild with its combat, I feel like I keep being interrupted by cutscenes of people talking about the case when I just wanna get doing all the detective/fighting work.
Also weirdly whenever I play this at night I start to feel sleepy and pay less attention to what’s going on. Sorry Judgement.
I’ve got a small paper list of all the games I’ve currently started but not finished yet, so… yeah I’ll start to work on that more and see which ones I want to focus on that offer me the most engaging fun.
4 days to Helldivers 2 wooooo!
So an update on the Persona 3 Collector’s Edition situation. I found a thread on Reddit, and it seems that many others in the UK who pre-ordered it have been put in the same situation. E-mail from Amazon saying an indefinite delay. I went and chatted to an Amazon help person, they basically just said that they have ran out of stock, no idea when or if more stock will arrive. Some people report saying they did get their copies, and annoyingly, it seems Amazon aren’t even doing a simple “first come, first serve” possibly as a couple people report getting their copy after pre-ordering the game long after some others pre-ordered it. Amazon was given exclusivity to sell the Collector’s Edition in the UK. It seems likely that either Amazon screwed up and sold too many pre-orders, or the distributor has screwed up and failed to delivery the number of orders Amazon put through. I have no idea how these kind of things work really.
So yeah, just an annoying situation. If I was healthy and working, this would still annoy me but I’d be willing to wait on this a while. However, I’m still recovering from my illness, and on most days (like today), I am completely exhausted, so can only really browse online, watch videos, or play video games. And I have been very excited for this release since announcement, as some people on here no doubt know from my endless rambling.
So, I am actually considering just buying the standard version, and if the Collector’s Edition is dispatched to me, I would sell my second copy of the game second hand, hopefully recouping most of the money I spent on the standard version. I don’t know if that is perhaps a sad thing too, but with Amazon leaving me in the dark like this, it could take weeks to resolve, or indeed not be resolved at all.
I want to find a girl that looks at me the way @MrOchoa looks at Codename 47.
Isn’t this like your 48th time playing it yet?
HC47:
Damn… I took a peek at the entire video of that (wild that at the end they reveal they almost had 47’s voice recast) and uh was that an entire linear level? Does Absolution have a lot of that?
I’ve still never played it, but I know it’s more action-shooter-esque I guess.
