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Games I've sat down and played so far 2024
Oct. 4th, 2024 10:22 pmBlue Revolver Double Action beta:
Heck yeah. This game is cool. I just need to de-rust on shmups in general. Lots o gameovers. I am just getting hit too much, need to get my eye for bullets back. All the ships feel good. Going to be putting this in a shmup rotation with Batrider and Devil Blade Reboot. And a touhou. gotta have a touhou.
Street Uni X:
Backyard Tony Hawk but for Unicycles. Need more time but it's great. Classic graphics but I think I need to turn off a few of them to reduce motion sickness for me. (Some PS1 games will give me motion sickness, some won't. Spyro 1 will more often than Spyro 2 and 3 somehow.)
White Knight Chronicles I&II:
I have not finished II. The first game is included in the sequel and upgraded! It's a very Level 5 game. The carnival guy is evil. There's always an evil carnival guy. Time travel. Magic with consequences. Also extremely MMO for console. No idea how the online multiplayer was but I'm going to bet it barely touched PSO tier and they were chasing monster hunter quest style. After finishing part I to have a character for part II and to refresh my memory I wanted to take a break after seeing the first bit of II. At this point it feels like the people who should hunt it down are those who want to see one of the largest gaps between the early preview (pre-rendered) trailer and release game, a weird ps3 rpg, or are desperate Dark Cloud 2/Dark Chronicle fans.
Gran Turismo 5 and 6:
Didn't play these when they were new. Got 5 prologue and decided I needed a wheel. Never bought the wheel. Mostly got to fool around and try out cars I'll never buy/import. Been on a car research bit. Wanted a good list of cars to get (used) so that I won't complain as much. Cars kinda suck in the US so I'm throwing a 1st gen prius with better tires around tracks. Just doing all the weird things with cars they don't make anymore. Sport wagons, hatchbacks, sub-compacts. Got a sub 10min nurburgring with multiple minimally tuned early hybrids. Setting lap times with a tuned Odyssey. Driving an old Lexus we probably won't get for insurance reasons. Still don't own the wheel and now just occasionally boot up to set a time at Motegi since it's the one track I've been to. (Also technically part of that Tokyo track, any part based on a Tokyo highway,) Still don't own that wheel. People who say get 6 are right, I got 5 for messing with.
Soulcalibur IIHD, IV, V, VI:
I had that Create-a-Soul urge so I booted up VI. Still hate the rock paper scissors stuff. Meter stuff coulda been better. Finally unlocked Inferno and the bunny suit. Put (I think?) every character in a bunnygirl suit and made genderbent versions for some. Then booted up V. Then played II HD because I couldn't remember how that game felt anymore and it got me into this series. II feels different but honestly I think this series is the reason why I didn't play 3D fighters nor even Capcom 2D games for a while. Or just thought I couldn't learn them for like a decade. The single player stuff and the way characters just handle in general make it hard to figure out where you're going wrong or if it is the game so often. I know people bring up the older games for their "good fighting game single player" but honestly. Some of this stuff is just annoying or gambling. I bought IV cuz I needed the weirdest game in the series. Vader? Yoda? Guest character designers? Honestly if I had to go back for fun It'd be IV. IV doubles down on some stuff I don't like in the series single player stuff, but honestly I think there is something here to be polished into something better.
Megaman X Dive:
Wrote more elsewhere, but just needed to zone out so gacha free version of a mobile gacha worked. Also couldn't get legacy collection 2 to vsync. No, I have not played the X series yet. Nor beaten a Megaman classic. Sometimes I like a robot girl and thats enough to play game.They knew what they were doing designing Rico. Oh yeah, Magical Girl Roll is powerful and that's good.
UFO50:
Not beaten these games, I'm bad at them. These are soooo gooood tho. It really felt like getting 50 new games from 1985-1991. Going to be working through Mini & Max first. I keep on playing when I'm tired so I just mess up a buncha stuff. I think I can relax and play Mini and Max tho.
Parking Garage Rally Circuit:
Need more time but racing around a parking lot is greaaat. Always wanted a game like that.
Victory Heat Rally:
Super fast superscaler style racing game. Really cool. I wish this got more polish. I thought the game was being forgiving because power drift type games can be hard to control but to unlock the last character it actually expects me to Gold medal everything in the game and I can't do it. The difficulty just spiked part way through. Though Grand Prix is easy right up until the end. Some Golds just feel like it's tuned for speedrunners. Expectation of perfect fine control in one of these is just weird. I think I'll fall off this right before the last event because the last character to unlock is gothy and I want to beat the game with gothy and if I can't I just won't. There's already some weird stuff the minute the game adds jumps. There some tracks where most of the CPUs are just exploding. Can't figure out consistently which character is good at what.
YEAH! YOU WANT "THOSE GAMES," RIGHT? 2:
Much better than 1. Still some tough oddballs but was getting through more games in this one.
Next: Back to Void Stranger, maybe pickup a PS2 rpg, X8, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, and/or Kitsune Tails. Also some fighters, Castlevanias. Mahvel. I play games at a weird pace so could also be nothing before the end of the year.
Heck yeah. This game is cool. I just need to de-rust on shmups in general. Lots o gameovers. I am just getting hit too much, need to get my eye for bullets back. All the ships feel good. Going to be putting this in a shmup rotation with Batrider and Devil Blade Reboot. And a touhou. gotta have a touhou.
Street Uni X:
Backyard Tony Hawk but for Unicycles. Need more time but it's great. Classic graphics but I think I need to turn off a few of them to reduce motion sickness for me. (Some PS1 games will give me motion sickness, some won't. Spyro 1 will more often than Spyro 2 and 3 somehow.)
White Knight Chronicles I&II:
I have not finished II. The first game is included in the sequel and upgraded! It's a very Level 5 game. The carnival guy is evil. There's always an evil carnival guy. Time travel. Magic with consequences. Also extremely MMO for console. No idea how the online multiplayer was but I'm going to bet it barely touched PSO tier and they were chasing monster hunter quest style. After finishing part I to have a character for part II and to refresh my memory I wanted to take a break after seeing the first bit of II. At this point it feels like the people who should hunt it down are those who want to see one of the largest gaps between the early preview (pre-rendered) trailer and release game, a weird ps3 rpg, or are desperate Dark Cloud 2/Dark Chronicle fans.
Gran Turismo 5 and 6:
Didn't play these when they were new. Got 5 prologue and decided I needed a wheel. Never bought the wheel. Mostly got to fool around and try out cars I'll never buy/import. Been on a car research bit. Wanted a good list of cars to get (used) so that I won't complain as much. Cars kinda suck in the US so I'm throwing a 1st gen prius with better tires around tracks. Just doing all the weird things with cars they don't make anymore. Sport wagons, hatchbacks, sub-compacts. Got a sub 10min nurburgring with multiple minimally tuned early hybrids. Setting lap times with a tuned Odyssey. Driving an old Lexus we probably won't get for insurance reasons. Still don't own the wheel and now just occasionally boot up to set a time at Motegi since it's the one track I've been to. (Also technically part of that Tokyo track, any part based on a Tokyo highway,) Still don't own that wheel. People who say get 6 are right, I got 5 for messing with.
Soulcalibur IIHD, IV, V, VI:
I had that Create-a-Soul urge so I booted up VI. Still hate the rock paper scissors stuff. Meter stuff coulda been better. Finally unlocked Inferno and the bunny suit. Put (I think?) every character in a bunnygirl suit and made genderbent versions for some. Then booted up V. Then played II HD because I couldn't remember how that game felt anymore and it got me into this series. II feels different but honestly I think this series is the reason why I didn't play 3D fighters nor even Capcom 2D games for a while. Or just thought I couldn't learn them for like a decade. The single player stuff and the way characters just handle in general make it hard to figure out where you're going wrong or if it is the game so often. I know people bring up the older games for their "good fighting game single player" but honestly. Some of this stuff is just annoying or gambling. I bought IV cuz I needed the weirdest game in the series. Vader? Yoda? Guest character designers? Honestly if I had to go back for fun It'd be IV. IV doubles down on some stuff I don't like in the series single player stuff, but honestly I think there is something here to be polished into something better.
Megaman X Dive:
Wrote more elsewhere, but just needed to zone out so gacha free version of a mobile gacha worked. Also couldn't get legacy collection 2 to vsync. No, I have not played the X series yet. Nor beaten a Megaman classic. Sometimes I like a robot girl and thats enough to play game.They knew what they were doing designing Rico. Oh yeah, Magical Girl Roll is powerful and that's good.
UFO50:
Not beaten these games, I'm bad at them. These are soooo gooood tho. It really felt like getting 50 new games from 1985-1991. Going to be working through Mini & Max first. I keep on playing when I'm tired so I just mess up a buncha stuff. I think I can relax and play Mini and Max tho.
Parking Garage Rally Circuit:
Need more time but racing around a parking lot is greaaat. Always wanted a game like that.
Victory Heat Rally:
Super fast superscaler style racing game. Really cool. I wish this got more polish. I thought the game was being forgiving because power drift type games can be hard to control but to unlock the last character it actually expects me to Gold medal everything in the game and I can't do it. The difficulty just spiked part way through. Though Grand Prix is easy right up until the end. Some Golds just feel like it's tuned for speedrunners. Expectation of perfect fine control in one of these is just weird. I think I'll fall off this right before the last event because the last character to unlock is gothy and I want to beat the game with gothy and if I can't I just won't. There's already some weird stuff the minute the game adds jumps. There some tracks where most of the CPUs are just exploding. Can't figure out consistently which character is good at what.
YEAH! YOU WANT "THOSE GAMES," RIGHT? 2:
Much better than 1. Still some tough oddballs but was getting through more games in this one.
Next: Back to Void Stranger, maybe pickup a PS2 rpg, X8, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, and/or Kitsune Tails. Also some fighters, Castlevanias. Mahvel. I play games at a weird pace so could also be nothing before the end of the year.
