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JRPG's: Played some Persona 4 last year and I was quickly reminded how awful it is to click “A” (or whatever button) to continue dialogue. Ariel: “Hello Hawk, nice day!” (press A) Hawk: “Yeah I know it's a nice day yadda yadda yadda” (press A) Ariel: …. (press A) Hawk: "What?" (press A) Ariel: …. (press A) Luckily those guys were nice enough to put a toggle in the options menu to automatically continue conversations without having to hit a button. Not sure this "ruins" JRPG's completely but....annoying.

Nice, get STAR WARS: Squadrons for free (the code is redeemed in your Origin client) here's a screenshot if anyone needs to know.

Finished Day of the Tentacle Remastered, cause why not.

I was thinking about playing that after City, maybe I'll try it out for a bit, don't have to finish it. I heard the same things years ago, some people dig it for what it is.

Your speaking in general terms and I can't speak for your financial situation, I can only comment on my own budget (hence my post referenced me and one or two things I didn't care for, I didn't say it saves you money). If it works out for you to play with consoles, have at it. Not gonna argue that.

Ha, sounds like me when I was playing it. Same thing happened with Horizon, about halfway I started skipping stuff just to finish it. That's happened a lot on modern games. Witcher 3 was fun initially but like you said, its a broken record. Basic quest routine: takes a job, uses Witcher senses, kills monster, gets paid, repeat. Maybe throw a decision in there now and then and the trekking between sign posts (fast travel points) was grueling sometimes. You know it. Witcher 3 is really hard to review because it's good enough to play without quitting up to a certain point but then you've invested so much you just want to finish it off. I don't know maybe games are too long these days in terms of the type of things your doing again and again. The problem is if you skip sidequests like Arkham City the main story is so short you don't really get anything out of it. ? I try to follow a rule now not to play a game if I don't really like it much, time on earth isn't infinite and I have well over a thousand games on Steam.

Probably the most boring game ever made Actually realized this during the PS4\XboxOne era while I was playing the slogfest which is Witcher 3, the whole pretty graphics are fine to look at but was I actually having fun? Not really. God of War? Looked awesome but I'd rather play the arcade-like PS2 versions. Horizon Zero Dawn was a copy/paste of Assassins Creed and Far Cry Primal.....but worse IMO. There are modern games that I do like, Mass Effect the first and maybe second Batman game. The first Dishonored game and Doom 2016 was ok. But like I said sometime during the PS4 Xbox One era is when I realized pretty much all of them play exactly the same with variances. I found myself playing more arcade games like Rocket League, indie games like Hotline Miami and then when I had an injury to my hand and I couldn't use a controller I switched to PC and never looked back to consoles. I saved a ton of money doing that (well sort of, I spent it on an AMD machine instead but that will last me 10 years I hope like my last Intel one). One thing is for sure, I will never ever pay to play online again (ie Xbox Live and PsPlus). I'm not gonna rant against consoles a lot 'cause I liked them for what they were to me at one time and people enjoy them but just had to have my piece here.

I'd rather get Actraiser for now kind of Diablo'd out, is Diablo 2 a remaster or are they remaking it? hopefully not like Diablo 3

I'm gonna actually play the Mass Effect Legendary series again down the road, maybe try it on a harder difficulty and a renegade path for the most part since I've never tried that. Just did a speedrun of Batman Arkham City finished in 17 hours. Easy getting sidetracked in that game but didn't want to do any of the side missions again. For me it's one of those games where I can't come back to unlike the first game so I figured I'd just do the main mission and that's it. May take a break from modern games play some secret of monkey island or something

Surviving Mars is free on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/464920/Surviving_Mars/

Batman Arkham Asylum & Dragon Age 2 Couldn't help myself, Asylum is still highly addictive.

Wow! I mean it is a really long game and I've played me some 200+ hour games before. Lol. I'm impressed, although I've been thinking about playing it again someday on Steam but I'm not willing to pay extra for the ‘switch version’. Great game though, had a lot of fun…. it DID slog for a bit sometimes only because of its endless quests and things to do.

Dragon Age Origins for the millionth time. Playing the first Batman Arkham game, not sure if I want to beat it again, just wanted to revisit the first one. Also revisited Thief Deadly Shadows just for fun.

I no longer force myself to finish a game even if it's rated high by the media or fans. If I don't like it, I don't like it and time to move on. I have well over 1,000 games, life’s short and better to spend it on something I enjoy. (Good recent examples for me were Witcher 3 & Horizon Zero Dawn.....boring as shit).

....and now Origin (EA) is offering them for free: https://www.origin.com/usa/en-us/store/deals/augustclassics (Syndicate, Ultima Underworld I & II)

Actually I felt that way for all three games (mainly the first two). I beat all of them and the second one I just didn't care for all around. The third one the production quality is through the roof but for some reason I still didn't care for that world, the characters etc. It didn't help that the majority of quests are: take a job, use Witcher sense, kill monster, get paid, repeat. Maybe throw a decision in there now and then. I guess you could really get into the crafting and stuff like that but I don't know, it's not great and it's not bad….its just good enough to keep playing to finish it and (for me) not go back again.

Holy crap! ?

Not sure if this still works it's about a day old. You can snag a code from Amazon gaming to redeem on Origin for free copy of Battlefield 1 on Origin. https://gaming.amazon.com/loot/battlefield1

The concert is what makes up the gigs I think. I downloaded the non 4k version (its huge). I wont bother watching it though I'm not THAT big of a fan of this series. Its this: 2 books, a concert and Gwent cards for the Gwent game and of course the Witcher game which everyone owns. The cards are: Sunset Wanderers, Yennefer of Vengerberg, Ciri, Vesemir Mentor

Exactly, the first 45 minutes or an hour because of the constant tutorials...I can't tell where I'm at now but I think I came into it at the wrong time just having beaten Mass Effect Legendary. It's almost a carbon copy of Far Cry Primal too which I enjoyed more (in terms of world and weapons). Anyway I may finish it and try to skip some of the side quests, seems that bogs it down a lot.

I have well over 1,000 games on steam so I'll be getting this without a second thought. If I'm not playing it, someone in the house will be on this thing constantly.

Horizon Zero Dawn kind of stinks. Anyone play it? I'm severely unimpressed (except for the pretty graphics). Looks like I may stop playing it, was planning on beating this next.

A Suikoden fan! I beat ALL of them and I've been meaning to replay some (I just replayed S1 and S2 a few years ago). I remember liking 3 overall but disliked them going to 3D rather than 2D. Suiko 4 is hard to get into, especially controlling the damn ship. Once you get the hang of it it's not that bad, it's pretty different than the other games. It's my least favorite but I been thinking about replaying it to confirm, just remember hating navigating the ship. Suikoden 5 was good but pretty hard if I remember, it's almost like a throwback to the first two. This is just memory, it's been a decade and a half since I've played some of them.

GOG: Symphonia is free https://www.gog.com/game/symphonia

No only a few of them (older games), it's the resolution or the fishbowl type effect with some of the engines. Descent (if you remember that one) didn't bother me at all and that was a 360 degree game. But for some reason Valve games like half life and later on Portal (orange box) really F’d me up after 20-30 minutes. Modern hi-res games don't bother me so I think it's just the age of the games and maybe the engine they're running on or something.