Your Games Completed of 2024

Started by Alastor
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Garwoofoo

Aperture Desk Job - not so much a game as a free tech demo for the Steam Deck, this is still interesting because Valve release so little that everything they do warrants investigation. It's very Valve - brash, very American, not quite as funny as it thinks it is - and it's only half an hour long but it's passably entertaining and, well, free.

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JDubYes

Stray
Spider-Man 2
Tekken 8

Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade

Forgot to note Tekken 8 at the time. It’s really, really good. Shame they’ve snuck IAPs in there after release, as it’s tempering any compulsion I have to go back.

FFVII Remake is old, and you’ve all probably played it, but it’s great, even if I am having to give it a lot of leeway on the whole ‘Fate’ thing it’s got going on. At least Rebirth is ready to go whenever I want, though I won’t go straight into it, I don’t think.

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JANUARY
Crime O'Clock

FEBRUARY
RoboCop: Rogue City
Rogue Legacy 2
Chants of Sennar

MARCH
Ender Lilies: Knights of the Quietus
Mortal Kombat 1
AEW Fight Forever

APRIL
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door - Done after 58 hours, which isn't bad considering I went hunting for all the Star Pieces and such. Didn't bother with the Pit of 100 Trials… I got to floor 40 and was bored. :laughing: Guess I don't have to play it when it comes out now!

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Garwoofoo

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth

Genuinely epic. It's not so much its length (though it is a very long game) but the sheer density of its content: three huge cities filled with stories upon stories, minigames upon minigames and just a vast array of distractions and things to do. The combat system itself is much improved upon the last entry, and with 20+ jobs to choose from you could spend hours just playing around with all its possibilities (thankfully there are two huge dungeons in the game to allow you to do just that). The Pokemon sub-game that runs under everything is surprisingly fully-featured, the Animal Crossing knock-off is almost good enough to form the basis of something standalone, and everything else is of a consistent high quality.

The game itself often feels like a victory lap. As well as main hero Kasuga Ichiban, it's a bittersweet return for not-quite-dead legend Kiryu Kazuma, and much of the latter half of the game features his journey down memory lane as he revisits scenes from his past. You'll get more out of this if you've played all the games leading up to this, but even if you haven't, there's huge amounts here to enjoy.

Yes, the main story has pacing issues and the DLC strategy sucks but overall this was an absolute triumph. It's mind-boggling to think they've released three of these games in a single year, and this is the eight main entry in the series, yet it's so fully-featured and so good. I can't wait to see where they go next.

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Alastor

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Fate/Extra: CCC
Dragon Quest 4
Star Ocean: the Divine Force
Granblue Fantasy Relink
Mega Man Legends 2
Ridge Racer Type 4
Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth
Final Fantasy VII (PS1)
Dragon Quest 5
Crisis Core Reunion

Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus - Bothering with any fucking FF7 stuff after beating the PS1 game was a mistake, the 'Compilation of FFVII' is a fucking horseshit man. Crisis Core kinda fell a bit flat for me, shattering a bit of nostalgia, but this is a new experience and even though I know it's infamously bad I'm still shocked at how irredeemably trash it is. The core gameplay just feels so criminally dull with some of the worst boss fights I've ever seen in a game, and the story (as per the Compliation) is fanfiction SLOP.

Ace Combat 1 - I had initially written this off as slow and stale and decided that unlike Armored Core 1, this 'AC' had not found it's feet with the first game on PS1 like Armored Core did, well after returning to it a month later and playing more I can say I was dead wrong. This is a PS1 game so it is very simple but the missions have a really one and done quality to them that made this game perfect in short blasts so it became my perfect commute game.

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Alastor

I recommend Colony Wars if you are enjoying your PS1 flight sims.

Colony Wars is on the 405M :thumbsup:

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Fate/Extra: CCC
Dragon Quest 4
Star Ocean: the Divine Force
Granblue Fantasy Relink
Mega Man Legends 2
Ridge Racer Type 4
Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth
Final Fantasy VII (PS1)
Dragon Quest 5
Crisis Core Reunion
Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus
Ace Combat 1

Ace Combat 2 - improvement in every way, in a way that doesn't leave me with much to say other than that lol. So, errr, already started Ace Combat 3 and I will have more to say because the release for that game is interesting in that the Japanese version got multiple routes, multiple endings and a lot of anime FMV scenes and apparently the International version gutted almost all of it, no routes, no anime and no multiple endings. thank the lord we have dedicated fans and rom hacks to sub Japanese games!

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Alastor

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Fate/Extra: CCC
Dragon Quest 4
Star Ocean: the Divine Force
Granblue Fantasy Relink
Mega Man Legends 2
Ridge Racer Type 4
Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth
Final Fantasy VII (PS1)
Dragon Quest 5
Crisis Core Reunion
Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus
Ace Combat 1
Ace Combat 2

Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere (Japanese version) - Only the one route but that one route already felt like the Ace Combat I know and love with some ridiculous story elements and moments (especially so in this oneb ecause you go into Space at one point…). It's clear this is the best Ace Combat on PS1 but also I'm glad we didn't get more of this type of 'futuristic tech' stuff in later games, it works in this one but I don't want it in the rest of the series, just let me take an F-25 Raptor and bomb some factories please.

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Alastor

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Fate/Extra: CCC
Dragon Quest 4
Star Ocean: the Divine Force
Granblue Fantasy Relink
Mega Man Legends 2
Ridge Racer Type 4
Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth
Final Fantasy VII (PS1)
Dragon Quest 5
Crisis Core Reunion
Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus
Ace Combat 1
Ace Combat 2
Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere

Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception

One of the best games I've played on the PSP, doesn't feel too much like it's held back by the system and in some ways is really impressive despite it even. Mission variety is great and really reminded me of my time with AC7 (A PS4 game), and blowing stuff up never stops feeling satisfying, for an AC game I don't think there's much more you want, although the game offers a huge list of unlockable planes and parts and weapons so it even has some replay value (not that I will be anytime soon).

That said, for all the praise of this being a PSP game, I can't deny I had a slight advantage in not actually playing this on the PSP and so didn't have to put up with the control compromises it had and could put Yaw on the L2 and R2 buttons which don't exist on PSP. Might not be an issue for some people but on the advanced controls they are on the d-pad, so no thanks.

Too bad the PS2 trilogy are hard to emulate without bugs, so it looks like I'm done with the series now, not gonna' bother with AssaultHorizon/Joint Assault, maybe I'll double dip on AC7 for the Steam Deck.