Yasawas

I've been shamed and loaded Majora's Mask up again, this thread has failed.

I managed eight hours of that and thought I'd done really well. Not fun. I'm a little disappointed in myself but I don't think I can play Majora's Mask after the opening two hours. I play a lot of 2D retro still but early 3D retro is way harder to accept it turns out, the controls and camera are awful. Additionally I hate the save mechanic and for however good the game might be the reuse of assets and music from Ocarina is just weird, cheapens the experience and is a lot more prevalent than I'd imagined. I might give it one last go but so far it feels very much like I'm forcing myself, there's nothing to like at all from what I've seen other than Skull Kid is pretty rad.

I always thought this was just me! I'm not a shy person generally but I do find it difficult to talk online to people I don't already know in the real world as I have a terrible accent coupled with a speech impediment which makes me stand out our come across badly. I do love multiplayer games though but tend to gravitate toward those which don't need or even allow chat like Dark Souls, Street Fighter and big team games where I can be fairly anonymous. I am trying to work on this though as I do love the idea of playing the like of Destiny or The Last of Us with a small team working together. There must be people on here you could play something with? The first step is playing with people you know not to be arseholes.

Game 43: Infamous: Second Son (PS4) 23/7/14 This is easily the worst game I've finished for this project and had I not paid £40 for it, known it was short and turned it down to Easy halfway through I wouldn't have bothered. It's genuinely impressive how boring it manages to be for an open-world game about a dude with superpowers. It starts off quite well I thought, the city looks nice and the first batch of abilities you get are fun if a little limited but you soon realise that after that first hour you've seen pretty much everything you're going to see and it really is just an endless, joyless quest to fight another group of guys and move to the next waypoint so you can do it again (unless you really like collecting shit or exploring a city with nothing to do in it) and holy fuck what a chore it is. Periodically you unlock new skills which is the undoubted highlight of the game and can provide as much as twenty minutes of fun before you sigh and accept that it's the same thing you had before with a different skin on. For all the skills you acquire the combat is rarely better than tedious and the boss fights are more a test of patience than skill (this was where I put the difficulty down.) The cutscenes are excruciating, dialogue often doesn't match up with the subtitles (which could've done with a spellcheck on them too btw) and of course they can't be skipped because God forbid you would want to miss the drama and twists of a story I could've written when I was eight. Utterly appalling. And they didn't even spring for a proper Nirvana song for the end credits either but some cover instead

I hate pretty much everything that isn't Street Fighter to be fair.

Me too. I noticed the second option on the Crucible menu is a 6v6 team deathmatch so hopefully'll have a good selection of alternate modes. I never got round to trying the Strike mission, how does that differ from the Story?

I'm starting to enjoy this! Just in time for them taking it offline for two days. I wasn't sure at first as I was playing alone and that's not really the idea but I've since explored with humans and done a bit of the PVP side of things and now I get a sense of how the upgrades and progression works it seems a lot more interesting than I'd first thought. The major downside is I am a shambles at the PVP stuff, all too reminiscent of Halo (which I was never good at) with people jumping all over the place headshotting me from the horizon. I'm not sure how much of it is me just being old or just unfamiliarity with the maps but I'm going to make a point of putting as much time as I can into this aspect for the rest of the beta to see if I'm spending £45 on it or not.

OH GOD THIS IS WHAT I FEARED WOULD HAPPEN. This is why I stayed out of the thread. Yeah Dark Souls is not a great analogy, I was struggling, but I was wanting to clarify I did like the idea of what Transistor was trying to do but felt the options it was giving me were not sufficiently exciting in and of themselves to make me use them just for the hell of it, and as I was progressing fairly easily without changing things up then I was reluctant to do so for the sake of it lest I forget what combinations I had had working for me. I hated the bit after attacking where I had to scamper around staying out of the way of invisible dogs and angry robots while my bar charged up again, I was crap at that and it felt a bit clumsy. I did like there was a dedicated button to skip gaily through the air and twirl your talking sword though.

Ah cool, I wasn't aware they'd addressed why it was taking so long. I was wondering if it was maybe down to that big European HQ Nintendo shut down last month.

Child of Light is stunning, I doubt I'll ever tap the Share button more regularly during a game: You really need to see it in motion but Strider has some nice stuff going on too: Some Destiny including obligatory wizard referencing:

I've neglected my WiiU for a month or so but I know I've got about £15 credit on it so I thought I'd get that Shovel Knight game everyone loves and I was all excited and then I discover it's still not out here. Is it full of swastikas or something? Come on.

I was hoping no-one would ask as I didn't want to get into a big debate but essentially I was incredibly disappointed how it gave you seemingly so many choices for the combat but never made you get good at it so it felt to me like they might as well not have bothered since it wasn't balanced anyway. I had no idea what I was doing, I was just abusing the same few options from beginning to end, and at no point did the game require me to be smart about it or think about what I was fusing together because as long as you have the dash one you will never ever be in trouble. On top of that it has about half a dozen enemy types maybe, repeated endlessly, and a narrator who outstays his welcome in about half an hour. It has some nice ideas and it looks pretty but I was happier with the £15 in my pocket to be honest. Maybe the story is great, I stopped trying to follow it after about an hour. I love character creation like that! The Souls games are probably the best games I've played in all my years and that's what makes them good. After about 20 minutes of Transistor I was so excited as I started to see how it worked! and that I could fuse all these abilities! and then it turns out there's nowhere near as many as I'd hoped and most of them are not needed.

Yeah! It's turned out to be surprisingly enjoyable as focussing on playing one game until it's beaten isn't how I used to go about it but it's definitely satisfying, as is the dent it's made in my backlog.

Strider (PS4). Nice wee Metroid-style action thing that I would never have bought but am grateful to PS+ for putting in front of me. Starts out to be pretty underwhelming but give it half an hour and you'll have seen a couple of boss fights and picked up some skills and to revisit old areas with and you'll see what type of experience they're going for. It's only about six hours which is perfect for me and except for one fiddly bit at the end never gets as difficult as I'd feared a game so steeped in old 2D Japanese game design ideas might. Good stuff. I haven't posted in this thread in a while but this is somehow the 43rd game I've finished this year, here be the others:

I was trying to do this on my own but I swiftly learned that it simply not how it is done. On PS4 as "yasawas", will hopefully be able to dig up my headset for it.

I just slew that very wizard, sad times. So far I've played about two hours and I just keep being reminded how much I want a new Fallout game on PS4.

I have an EU PS4 code spare too should anyone want it. I know literally nothing about this game other than who made it and I never liked Halo so I wonder what I'll make of it.

I haven't watched Marvel yet but holy shit that SFIV top 8 was really something. I love best of five and some of those really lengthy patient games were amazing to watch. Here's the list of opponents the winner had to beat to take it. My sweet lord. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bse45dHCEAAiu-U.jpg

I love Evo but I don't love that this year I'd need to sub to two channels to be able to watch the archives, I'll just need to keep an odd schedule over the weekend. I'm mainly in this for Ultra SFIV but I hope I catch the Super Turbo side tournament as that shit is amazing, and it's so rare you get to see high level play with dudes from all over the world these days.

I quite enjoyed Bravely Default so I thought another handheld JRPG would make my commute all the more bearable but after six hours the time has come for me to give up on Final Fantasy X. It's appalling in every regard but the characters and voicework deserve a special mention for being so astonishingly awful despite the colossal budget that must've been spent on this game. Horrific.

Excellent, I am in.

Can anyone confirm if Battlefield works yet? It's been years since I played a have like that but I'm finding myself really wanting to hunt and kill some men and I'm not sure I fancy CoD again. Sent out a smattering of friend requests when I got my PS4 the other day but if anyone else is playing Resogun or Trials at the moment then hit me up.

I've only caught bits of this this time around due to the World Cup and Wimbledon hogging my attention for when I've had time to slump motionless in front of a screen this week but here is a wonderful link from Reddit to all the things if anyone would like to pick through the archive for games they like. http://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/28spkz/sgdq_vods_thread/ I watched the Tony Hawks 3 run earlier and couldn't believe what I was seeing. Pre-internet this was a series of games I was of the opinion I was good at and while I've long since come to appreciate that I'm actually shite and it's just that my pals we even more so, to see the game 100%ed in the same time I took to make a sandwich and a cup of tea earlier was hugely impressive.

Boo. Uncharted 3 is still on the EU web storefront's PS+ section which is what made me think of it, but none of the others are now you mention it.

I bought a PS4 last week and am deeply regretting not having added all the free things when I could've. I've begrudgingly bought Resogun as it's on sale this week but please people, do not make the same mistake as me. I want Outlast but I don't quite £15 want it. You know how the permanent games that are on PS+ for a year (I think it's currently X-Com, Uncharted (?) and LBP Karting), is it July they're due to change?