Well with all the talk of GTA6 I decided to get back to my playthrough of GTA: San Andreas since I've beat 3 and Vice City earlier this year/late last year, I think I can at least beat it, Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories before 6 is out, but I dunno' if I'll get to 4 and 5 with everything else coming out, but I'm hoping to.
So far San Andreas is living up to the 'the best one' that people usually bandy about for it, at least for the PS2 games, though I know people who think it's the the most fun full stop including 4 and 5, I'll just settle for 'I'm enjoying it more than Vice City' right now. The first reason for that is the music, I think I said somewhere that Vice City is the one people praise but San Andreas is probably more for me and I think that was a good call, definitely wasn't expecting Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine when I played it today!
Missions are yet again another step up even if sometimes they feel a little jank and unlike what I recall with Tommy Vercetti's mob boss, feel a bit like your out of place sometimes for just a dude in a street gang? I dunno, who cares they're fun when you're not following someone on a bike at high speed through a series of alleyways. The initial story doesn't grab as much as Vice City's drug bust gone wrong, but Samuel L Jackson playing the villain, and playing it well makes me super invested to see what he does next.
As with the last two games I'll try not to mess about in the open world much as I have to crack on but it's kind of hard when there's stuff like gang wars and learning new combat styles and slowly levelling up your skills in almost everything by just doing stuff like it was Morrowind. I am not as familiar with the map as I was in Vice City yet and maybe I never will be, but I think it's a much more interesting place to be, in particular the gang warfare thing that's been a thing since 3 (maybe even the very first GTA?) feels particularly relevant here, to the point that I enjoy being able to recruit 3 gang members to come with me as back up as sometimes you do find yourself in the wrong neighbourhood!
Went to my brother's house and played Mario Wonder in 4 player and Switch Sports and both were 10/10 experiences for me, I'll prob not get Sports because I dunno' how fun it is to play bowling on your own but Mario Wonder seemed like it'd be another Nintendo banger
Portal 1 probably has the more simpler charm to it and how minimalist it is but man is Portal 2 funny imo
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Odin sphere: Leifthrasir - So far I think I prefer this game's flow to Muramasa, and while the combat is slower and incredibly similar it really does feel more impactful, in terms of actual choices and also in the feeling of it, hoping the other character POVs are also more distinct like the Muramasa DLC and not too similar in the way Momohime/Kisuke were in that game too.
Also can I just point out that this is a remake that comes with the game it's remaking? Imagine if the Crash/Spyro remakes did that? Or Persona 3 and 4?
Maximo: Ghosts to Glory - I'm not sure why I chose this again, but on my last day of work I usually play a totally different game to before (Odin Sphere) and I brought my O2M with me and initially played God Hand, died and decided I wasn't in the mood, so I loaded up this. Only on the 3rd world now but I still think this is a good game, it's really not that especially hard as it's reputation suggests (unlike Ghosts 'n' Goblins) and it's not doing anything that will blow you away but I enjoy the relative simplicity of it.
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Grand Theft Auto 6 - My only hope is it's not 'No Fun Allowed (unless it's in the way we envisioned)' in the same way Red Dead Redemption 2 was, let me do things outside the scope of your predefined ideas please Rockstar, and make it fun to actually break the law again. Other than that I might not sound like it but I just know I'm going to be super excited the day before this releases, the long wait and hype seem almost impossible for any game to live up to but I feel like this is going to really impress me.
Granblue Fantasy: Ragnarock - Or whatever it's called, hoping this fills the hole that Wilds has left (I still like Wilds)
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Despite wanting it since it was announced, the Steam Machine is looking/sounding like an overpriced brick now, lame. Add Sony killing of physical copies of games in there too, RAM prices going higher and higher and pricing people out of certain parts of this hobby? Thank God for emulation
When the Bond theme plays did you ever feel '10/10!!!'
Alastor