Started Vice City Stories and I can't describe how but something feels…off, Liberty City in LCS feels like it could have been straight from the PS2 but the rendition of Vice City here feels like a bit of a cheap version of VC from the PS2. I have only done a few missions and they were fine, playing as a character we know dies in the intro to Vice City is interesting too, he's an (ex)-soldier and has his morals so far so unlike Toni Cipriani in LCS who was a mafioso so I'm interested to see how he becomes corrupted.
Also beat Act 2 of MGS4 and the Africa map was way better than I thought, I can't wait to try and do the Big Boss Extreme (No alerts, no kills) run on it at some point. I'm already getting annoyed with the game again, I absolutely despise Raiden in this, who feels a like really pathetic attempt to make a controversial character work through really shallow means and this is made worse by the fact that it obviously worked for a lot of people, thank God he's not lame and gay anymore I guess. The scene where he dismembers a load of Gecko and fights Vamp is actually fantastic though (the latter is extremely homoerotic for some reason ha ha) I just wish he didn't talk. (Same for the bosses whenever they leave their mech suits, urgh)
For a PS3 game this looks crazy good still I think
Shinobi: Art of Vengeance
Azure Striker Gunvolt
Trails beyond the Horizon
We Love Katamari
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Resident Evil: Requiem
Resident Evil (1998)
Final Fantasy X
Space Marine
Pragmata
Final Fantasy VII
Streets of Rage 4
Onimusha Warlords
Muramasa Rebirth
Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny
Halo: Campaign Evolved
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Pokemon Leaf Green
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
I enjoyed that quite a bit, definitely more fun to play than San Andreas was. Knowing this is/was a PSP exclusive at some point it's hard to not be a bit impressed at how this brought a pretty faithful 3D GTA experience to a handheld, it's not really cut down from say, GTA3 all that much, it's arguably a better game/GTA than 3 even. As a handheld GTA the scope of the missions reflect this and after a million hours of San 'drive cross country lol' Andreas I couldn't be happier, any given play session of this had me burning through more missions in a row before burnout than pretty much any GTA game so far.
Not essential unless you are a massive fan, but deserves to stand in the line up of GTA games as much as the PS2 trilogy if you ask me. (ignoring that it came to PS2 eventually…)
Now I hadn't beat this before, but I had played it a fair amount, by comparison I've not seen more than 5 minutes of Vice City Stories gameplay let alone played it, so it'll be all new to me. I'm hoping they don't jump the shark and try to push the envelope too much and stray too far from what I liked about LCS but we'll see.
I love Witcher 3, basically the game of that generation but I'm not sure if I will hop on right away, I still kinda' love how I left Geralt but there's no way this new dlc isn't going to be amazing so I can't just not play it eventually
Metal Gear Solid 4 is finally out and free from PS3 jail, my feelings towards this game have basically fallen off almost entirely since it released but at the same time I can still enjoy it and appreciate certain elements of it in a vacuum. I have mixed feelings on the gameplay, mostly after Act 2 where it just sort of stops even pretending to be a game about a man sneaking through somewhere, but I can't deny I've enjoyed what I played so far, it could just be the hype of the game being on PS5 though.
As a chapter in the MGS saga, this is a pretty spineless, overly apologetic love letter to people who hated MGS2, but it wraps up the entire saga in such a clumsy way that the entire series catches strays so I'm interested to see if there's anyone who cares about that stuff still, especially with MGS2 stocks rising over the last few decades. I dunno' how much I have in me to tear into this game at this point but I guess you'll find out over the next few days, I will still have fun at least.
Not exactly me reading but someone reading it to me I guess but has anyone tried Audible? I'm trying it now with Adachi and Shimamura and I'm really enjoying it
Alastor