Kill Your Completion v3. 0

[Myu]

55 minutes ago, Hemiak said:

This thread will remain open and in use right up until the next event. People will continue posting updates about games they've returned to and Other random discussions will continue if the past is any indicator. I'll also announce here when the new link is active as well. As long as you check back here periodically you shouldn't miss the next one. 

 

That's good to hear! I was wondering if the thread would remain open because I intend to plat all the games I started through this event  

[Edunstar84]

10 hours ago, Myu said:

 

It's interesting to read your review as Conception II is one of my favourites among the dungeon-crawler category.

I don't see how this game can be compared to P4G (except for the fact that they are of the same genre? But then it's like comparing FFXIII to Tales of Xillia). It's been a while but from what I can recall, the gameplay is really not the same. I think Mind=0 was closer to P4G or Shin Megami Tensei than Conception II is.

While the story is not that great (few dungeon crawlers have a good story, unfortunately) I grew very fond of my last generation of children and it was kinda funny to see Mommy, Daddy and their new batch go kick some random monster's ass. I loved the chara-design too. 

I'm still hoping for a sequel  

 

 

Conception II does use P4G's engine tho.

[Myu]

12 minutes ago, Edunstar84 said:

Conception II does use P4G's engine tho.

 

Didn't know about that  

 

Day 21 (Very Late) Final Review : Brothers : Tale of Two Sons

Trophies : 0/12 (0%)

Time played : 2,5 / 3 hours

Completion : 86.41% (- 2.57% since the beginning of the event)

Completion rate doesn't really count here as I didn't get a single trophy for this game yet.

 

 

I didn't have much motivation to play those last few days. I tried Brothers : Tales of Two Sons a couple of days ago for about an hour and I tried to play a bit more since then.

As a completionist, I find it harder and harder to leave a game I've started to start another one right away. I like to have some closure, don't play for a few days and get start a new one. This event is taking me out of my comfort zone !  

 

Brothers : Tale of Two Sons is about two brothers going on an adventure after leaving their sick father in the local healer's care. You can control Big Brother with the left stick/L2 and Little Brother with the right stick/R2. To solve puzzle and progress through the story, you have to learn to control those two characters simultaneously which made me cross my eyes more than once, especially when Little Brother and Big Brother switch sides and run into walls and cliffs until I find out that my brain is not adapting to the change.

 

The puzzles are not really difficult and I'm glad of that since it allows me to focus more on the beautiful landscapes. It's quite relaxing, except when one of your characters decides that death is better than climbing the cliff.

 

There's a lot of diversity in this game. I traveled through a village, a mine with trolls, a battlefield with giant corpses everywhere, some people trying to sacrifice some random woman and I even prevented a suicide (I don't know if my actions have any repercussions later in the story though).

There are some benches here and there and you can make your characters sit on them to admire the view (even on the bloody battlefield!!) You can also interact with some objects and people. It's always funny to see Big Brother's action actually making the story progress when Little Brother will play / do pranks / do nothing really useful. He did free a bird from its cage though.  

 

According to the trophy list, I'm probably somewhere in Chapter 6 and I managed the awesome feat of not unlocking a single trophy yet, hence a false improvement in my completion rate.

 

It seems like a nice game with intriguing bits here and there. I'll try to take some time and finish it before the end of the event.

 

[MarkusT1992]

4 hours ago, PerryToxteth said:

Game No. 7

Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Trilogy Pack (PS4)

 

 

 

 You are Shao Yun, a young female ninja who jumps, hides, climbs and kills.

Shao Jun is actually an assassin, as the name of the game says.

Fun fact: Shao Jun visited Ezio to learn how to rebuild the chinese brotherhood and get trained right before this game's plot.

[Jaguargenie]

3 hours ago, Hemiak said:

I've been running one every 4 months or so, which puts the next one in July. Was thinking about bumping it to every 3 months after that, but haven't decided fully yet. 

 

 

You mean to tell me I only have 3 months to clean up these 10 games before the next event? Trophy ocd kicking in... 

[FFHannibal]

24 minutes ago, MarkusT1992 said:

Shao Jun is actually an assassin, as the name of the game says.

Fun fact: Shao Jun visited Ezio to learn how to rebuild the chinese brotherhood and get trained right before this game's plot.

It's actually quite interesting how all the Chronicles protagonists are tied into the overarching AC universe.

[Kevvik]

Game #8: Demon Gaze

 

Initial impressions

 

Time played: ~3 hrs

 

Demon Gaze is a dungeon crawler. So much so that I really haven't seen much to constitute a real storyline so far. You wake as the proverbial "no memory of my past" protagonist in a dungeon. You work your way out dungeon crawler style but with no combat until you leave the dungeon, ending up in a room where a girl tosses you a sword and essentially tells you to make yourself useful and defeat the demon chasing you. You do and then you capture the demon with your "gaze" afterwards to the girl's satisfaction. This establishes you as the new "gazer" who will help with the demons in the area much to the pleasure of the local mercenaries who have been having a time of it after the last gazer lost her powers.

 

With me so far? Not much more of an actual story so far beyond that. The manager of the hotel which acts as your hub turns your captured demon into a key that allows the demon to fight for you. You can build up a party by renting rooms to expand your party. You now just basically carry out quest obtained either from characters or the bulletin board. You go out to dungeons which expand in size and difficulty as you obtain new objects to pass certain obstacles then return to the hotel, pay an increasing rent every time if you have the money to do so, sell stuff, rinse and repeat.

 

What little interaction "Storywise" that you have with others seems focused on adding quests or chats resulting in your fellow lodgers taking off their clothes for one pointless reason or another (or none at all in the case of the mortician who acts primarily to rez mostly-dead party members though I think she has a bit more to do later, otherwise she sleepily strolls through scenes in her underwear). This feels rather tedious so far.

 

Exploration is fairly standard dungeon crawling fare with "demon circles" you must claim in an effort to track down the main demon in each dungeon. You can also use these to summon monsters for extra gear by placing gems in them. This gives you an extra battle where you can obtain random or specific gear types depending on the gems you use. You level up your party members and whatever demon you have active and gain new skills and increase stats. You have a front and back row for the party members depending on what role you give them.

 

So far that's it. The story so far is thin to say the least but the combat fun so far if simplistic. We'll see how it goes as I expand the world a bit with each demon captured.

 

Trophies so far : 6/41, E rank

Rating so far : 6/10

[voodoo_eyes]

Game #8

 

 

Day #1 + 2

Total Time Played: a bit over an hour

Trophies earned: 8/51

 

I only played 30m yesterday so I skipped the update. Decided to complete another chapter today, so I might as well give a small update now.

 

What is it?

 

Wanted: Weapons of Fate is a third-person shooter that initially puts you through a few tutorials, involving flanking enemies, dashing from cover to cover, shooting enemies (who'd have thought, eh?) and using curved shots. The latter let's you tae out enemies that are behind cover, but is limited to an adrenaline meter. This one recharges by killing enemies.

it. So far the only weapons available are pistols and a knife that kills enemies instantly in a slow-motion brutal takedown, during which you're invincible. It's a fairly linear shooter with little to explore. There are a bunch of collectibles to pick up while shooting the crap out of enemies and that's pretty much the sum of

 

So far I got through the first two chapters, that each seem to take about half an hour. Which would put the game's total length at foreseeable 4 and a half hours. Oh yeah and there are turret sections .

 

 

PS: for some reason I can't post a single image anymore... not sure what's up with that...Posted the image for this one just as I did with the previous games, but it won't show up when I post it.

Edited March 24, 2017 by voodoo_eyes

[dmland12]

Game #8:  Divinity: Original Sin -- Initial Thoughts

 

I'm enjoying this one so far.  It's a turn-based RPG and seems to have some depth to it.  There's what appears to be an extensive crafting/combining system as well as a rather large skill tree.  To be honest, I haven't really played it enough yet to get a good grasp on all of the options here.  A couple interesting things I have noticed so far... First, the environment plays a larger role than in your typical RPG. You can create large patches of fire to damage enemies or make it rain to save a ship that's on fire (that was one small side quest I encountered early on).  Second, there's a neat attribute system where your characters will acquire traits depending on how you decide to deal with situations that come up.  These traits come in pairs, for example you can be Compassionate or Heartless, but not both.  Each trait will give you some small bonus.

 

Another interesting thing:  You also start with two main characters, and it's clear the game was designed with two player co-op in mind.  I haven't had a chance to try this co-op but it does look like it'd be fun.  It's perfectly good playing single-player though, too.

 

I'm not far enough along in the story or seen enough combat to really give a good opinion on either, yet.

[Oobedoob S Benubi]

 

Game #8: Ultratron

Final Review

Total playtime: about four hours and fifteen minutes

Trophies: 12/12 for an S rank

 

Avenging humans

Shoot down your fellow robots

Look good doing it

 

Spoiler

So, @Hemiak was right and this game doesn't take long to beat at all, the low percentages even among PSNP members had me fooled.

 

That doesn't mean it's an easy game though. As long as you don't get a game over, you can quit and restart the level you're in so the stakes aren't high but you still have to get through the levels, which can get pretty tough if you haven't upgraded correctly.

 

The game feels pretty close to Titan Attacks!, the previous game from the devs, only this time it's a twin stick shooter instead of a Space Invaders reimagining. Both games feature similar art and both are about a chaotic battlefield that gets increasingly harder, with bosses in between and with an upgrade menu in between levels.

 

I think this is an excellent snack-size game to play on a day when you just don't want to continue on the big game you've been doing. It's short, fun and requires more good reflexes than active thinking.

 

Ultratron final score:

 

Next up: 

This War Of Mine: The Little Ones with @Pickle2907 and @wtru9

[DamagingRob]

 

My posts and reviews may be a little sparse for a few days.....my 'net has gone down 

This happened to me in the previous event.. Hope you get things sorted soon. 

 

Have played for exactly 0 minutes, thus far. :/ Really need to get going, after I eat dinner. Sleeping more than usual, and ate chicken noodle soup last night. So, it's probable that I'm a little under the weather. 

[Mendant909]

12 hours ago, Myu said:

 

It's interesting to read your review as Conception II is one of my favourites among the dungeon-crawler category.

I don't see how this game can be compared to P4G (except for the fact that they are of the same genre? But then it's like comparing FFXIII to Tales of Xillia). It's been a while but from what I can recall, the gameplay is really not the same. I think Mind=0 was closer to P4G or Shin Megami Tensei than Conception II is.

While the story is not that great (few dungeon crawlers have a good story, unfortunately) I grew very fond of my last generation of children and it was kinda funny to see Mommy, Daddy and their new batch go kick some random monster's ass. I loved the chara-design too. 

I'm still hoping for a sequel  

 

 

Actually I've previously compared FFXIII and Tales of Xillia easily since they both suck as JRPGs. It's like two train lines that share a few stops (bad story, unlikeable characters) and while each train line has its interesting trail (FFXIII with its visuals, ToX with its combat), the final destination is still going to suck just like the titular film series and don't get me started on that premise either.

 

In terms of story it's reminding me more of Persona 3 as the Aegis analogue has already shown up. Torri will probably have as much screentime as the rest of the heroines of this game, which is just her introduction and anything else is up to the player. I do have a few predictions of how the story will go and I'll put into spoilers for those who haven't played Persona 3:

a trio, albeit without a homicidal hippy Jesus lookalike, will show up to hinder the heroes, the enemies originated from the organization after a failed experiment, and the leader of the organization will reveal his scheme to summon something from the ashes of the fallen bosses.

 

Ugh, I'll have to eventually see how Mind Zero is in terms of ripping-off Persona 3 since MZ's main character looks just like the main character from P3. I might as well spoil it but Conception II is not in my bottom three of the month... for now. I'll try to finish it before July but if the story is insultingly dumb I'll swiftly drop its ranking. I had such low expectations of Sorcery Saga, another dungeon-crawler, and it surprised me in having a simple, logical story. I'll always bring that little game up if a game is going to waste my time with their garbage as I've seen some game stories in desperate need of a second draft or an actual writer(I'm looking at you Shinovi Versus).

 

9 hours ago, BillyHorrible said:

 

 

Want me to spoil it for you so you don't have to play the game any more?

 

  Reveal hidden contents

There are eventually a couple of chapters in a castle, but it's not Dracula's castle.

 

In fact, Dracula isn't even in the story at all, unless you think it counts that THE PLAYER CHARACTER WILL BECOME DRACULA, BUT ONLY A LONG TIME AFTER THE STORY OF THIS GAME HAS ALREADY CONCLUDED. A last second plot twist (seriously, it only becomes obvious in the cutscene after the final bit of gameplay has already concluded) that was completely spoiled (if you think about it for a moment) by making Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow 2 where you "play as Dracula!"

 

By the way, I feel like Mendant wasn't correct in stating that all this game did was steal stuff from God Of War and Shadow Of The Colossus. It also stole from Dante's Inferno.

 

Yeah, Lords of Shadow's 2 promotional material kind of spoiled that. I doubt I''ll be seeing the type of transformation from Walter White to Heisenberg but more akin to Anakin Skywalker to Darth Vader. Now I just have to see if Gabriel Belmont is indeed dumberer than Anakin. As for it ripping off Dante's Inferno, ehh. Dante's Inferno ripped off God of War and the only thing I've seen it rip off from Dante's Inferno is the shit boss fights. If there's a cross shaped attack that makes the game into baby mode, then yeah Lords of Shadow ripped off something that made Dante's Inferno unique. If Satan shows up in a speedo with a mouth then I guess Lords of Shadow did remember a bit of Castlevania as Bloodlines had Dracula transform into that.

 

1 hour ago, Jaguargenie said:

You mean to tell me I only have 3 months to clean up these 10 games before the next event? Trophy ocd kicking in... 

Don't worry about it. In the past two events no one has cleared their lists yet and only a few have been lucky to be half done.

[Oobedoob S Benubi]

 

Yeah, Lords of Shadow's 2 promotional material kind of spoiled that. I doubt I''ll be seeing the type of transformation from Walter White to Heisenberg but more akin to Anakin Skywalker to Darth Vader. Now I just have to see if Gabriel Belmont is indeed dumberer than Anakin. As for it ripping off Dante's Inferno, ehh. Dante's Inferno ripped off God of War and the only thing I've seen it rip off from Dante's Inferno is the shit boss fights. If there's a cross shaped attack that makes the game into baby mode, then yeah Lords of Shadow ripped off something that made Dante's Inferno unique. If Satan shows up in a speedo with a mouth then I guess Lords of Shadow did remember a bit of Castlevania as Bloodlines had Dracula transform into that.

 

First of all, what's up with the quoting system not doing names etc in the header anymore?

 

Second:

In both Dante's Inferno and Lords Of Shadow, the endgame is getting your late wife back from Satan, that's what Castlevania ripped off of Dante's Inferno. Of course, Dante's Inferno watched God Of War closely so in a way, it's still ripping off God Of War. It's just that in God Of War, getting back his wife and killing Hades was never the endgame.

[Mendant909]

 

 

First of all, what's up with the quoting system not doing names etc in the header anymore?

 

Second:

 

 

In both Dante's Inferno and Lords Of Shadow, the endgame is getting your late wife back from Satan, that's what Castlevania ripped off of Dante's Inferno. Of course, Dante's Inferno watched God Of War closely so in a way, it's still ripping off God Of War. It's just that in God Of War, getting back his wife and killing Hades was never the endgame.

 

That's it? I might as well say that Saint's Row: Gat out of Hell ripped off Dante's Infeno with that sole plot point. In the first chapter of Lords of Shadow it's prophecised that the Lords of Shadow's power will save the world and Sir Patrick Stewart said the power could revive her. Jeez, Lords of Shadow ripped-off Revenge of the Sith's story (prophecy of balance in nature, old figure being vague about power that could revive love ones, main character kills/already killed lover)  and who in their right mind would do that.

[Myu]

 

Actually I've previously compared FFXIII and Tales of Xillia easily since they both suck as JRPGs. It's like two train lines that share a few stops (bad story, unlikeable characters) and while each train line has its interesting trail (FFXIII with its visuals, ToX with its combat), the final destination is still going to suck just like the titular film series and don't get me started on that premise either.

 

I enjoyed both of those games actually  

But I partially agree with you on the unlikeable characters. In FFXIII, I wanted to strangle Vanille, Snow and Sera but I really loved Fang and Lightning. Fang is still one of my favourites in the FF series (she's associated with Bahamut and her English voice actor doesn't suck for once ) Same thing for ToX, I didn't like the main characters but the Elize/Teepo duo and Alvin had interesting backgroung stories. 

We're still far from a FFIX. I loved all the characters, the story, the music, the visuals, everything. I wish they'd still make games like that. 

 

[Oobedoob S Benubi]

 

That's it? I might as well say that Saint's Row: Gat out of Hell ripped off Dante's Infeno with that sole plot point. In the first chapter of Lords of Shadow it's prophecised that the Lords of Shadow's power will save the world and Sir Patrick Stewart said the power could revive her. Jeez, Lords of Shadow ripped-off Revenge of the Sith's story (prophecy of balance in nature, old figure being vague about power that could revive love ones, main character kills/already killed lover)  and who in their right mind would do that.

 

Can we please stop putting spoilers not in spoilers, some people may still want to play the game.

 

And that's not just it, as the entire combat system is the same - so it's the full story and gameplay being copied. It's just that Dante's Inferno while Lords Of Shadow does a few forests and a castle first. It's obviously more than just a pacing glance similarity like Revenge Of The Sith.

[DamagingRob]

Day2

 

This game is fucking stupid. Do I win an award for shortest writeup? Probably not, so I guess I'll explain why I'm saying this. I played a few hours last night, and am still on Level 3. I technically beat it, and earned the trophy. But restarted 'cause the final bounty got himself blown the fuck up. By the spaceship. That was trying to blow me the fuck up. 

 

I tried 2 more times, and both times, a different bounty died.. I knew this bounty trophy would be dumb. And I really don't know if it's worth the effort. There's 18 levels in total, so I have to put up with a lot of bullshit, if I want that trophy. 

 

New things. I got a jetpack, and can fly short distances. You get a limited number of continues, before having to start the level over. And that's about it. The rest is shooting enemies with your pistols, stringing up bounties, and capturing them alive. So fun. Is it time to start Game 9, yet?

 

Time played: ~3 hours

Trophy progress: 2/13 for 9%

[PerryToxteth]

2 hours ago, DamagingRob said:

Day2

 

This game is fucking stupid. Do I win an award for shortest writeup? Probably not, so I guess I'll explain why I'm saying this. I played a few hours last night, and am still on Level 3. I technically beat it, and earned the trophy. But restarted 'cause the final bounty got himself blown the fuck up. By the spaceship. That was trying to blow me the fuck up. 

 

 

Time played: ~3 hours

Trophy progress: 2/13 for 9%

 

You are ripping on Star Wars!! In KYC events, that is known as committing 'Billy Blasphemy!' Pepare for the wrath!

 

Honestly, I have played many Star Wars games in my life but have given up on them, and haven't played any on PS4. They never seem to live up to the billing.  Disappointment began with that arcade game in the 80s. I was barely tall enough to peer through the viewfinder to play as you flew the Death Star destruction mission.  The graphics were basically a geometry project.

  The pod racer on PS2(?) was downright awful. Who was the designer of that vehicle? How are you supposed to market kids toys if they have two levitating engines?!? I'm glad I was childless when that garbage came out and not forced to buy it. 

 

Best game I can recall was the first Battlefront. Pretty sure that was on PS2.  The heavy MP-based play has made me stay away from the PS4 versions. 

 

Which leaves me with a question for KYCers - my son hasn't seen a Star Wars film yet so where should I start? (No, we don't live in a cave, he just latched onto Harry Potter first) The New Hope, like my generation was introduced to, or the Episode I Phantom Menace? 

[Hemiak]

Game 8, Day 2

6 hours played, 7/12 trophies, 38%

 

So close yet so far.... 

 

I planned on playing an hour or two and then switching to Terraria, but I got addicted and kept pushing. I finished the last full level and made it to the epilogue, but couldn't quite finish the game for good. I stayed up waaaay too late because I felt I was so close. /sleepy

 

Every level has a preset layout and a series of tasks/events that you need to complete to finish, except the epilogue. In the finale you have a blank ocean and are given incredibly powerful, neverending versions of your powers to develop your own land. Once you've done enough the game prompts you to create your exit passage and usher your people through. Easy peasy I think. I've got a very aesthetically pleasing group of loosely connected islands that are each their own little paradise. Once you create the gateway however, all hell breaks loose. A series of constant earthquakes occur, which immediately and quickly begin lowering your sand hills. It also slowly starts breaking down rock walls and islands made form lava. Combine this with the fact that the water level rises rapidly and my little segregated island setup became untenable almost immediately. Your villages can all survive indefinitely because they have both the lava and water repel totems, but they're all completely surrounded by 50 foot walls of water. Even using all the powers like a mad man I couldn't get my people to the gate. I kept thinking I had it and didn't start over, and then half an hour later I shut it down in frustration and went to bed. Tonight I'm going to create one huge island and put the gate directly in the middle, hopefully someone can get through before everything fully goes to shit. I'm also going to use a lot more lava rock as the base of my islands for stability. 

 

One thing neither Falion or myself mentioned is the vegetation system. In most levels there is a little bit of plant life scattered about. Also, when you create a new village it is immediately surrounded by a circle of plants. Here plants will spread automatically as long as there is dirt connected to the already growing areas. Sometimes you have to build paths between islands of rock for the plants to spread, and sometimes you have to micromanage lava long enough for plants to get through a dangerous area and start growing on the other side. The problem is that when the lava touches vegetation it sets it on fire and the wildfire will spread until you put it out in one or several ways. This can easily wipe out a couple minutes of cultivating, or destroy one of your villages if you aren't paying attention or don't have the lava/fire repel totem already.

 

There is a trophy for getting 100% vegetation in every level, which I got when I fully cultivated the epilogue. Usually this is just a matter of developing your villages properly, and then spreading dirt around in safe areas to spread the plants, and then waiting. There does need to be at least a little water around for the plants to grow. Sometimes you'll need to continue managing the lava, or using water to put out spot fires that crop up. There is a 'put out fires' power, but it only shows up in 2 levels.

 

One of the best things about this game is that every power feels useful. I hate how so many games give you shit that is beyond situational, so much that it just becomes easier to abuse one or two early abilities than bothering with later ones. In this game everything had its place and is useful for different things. Amplifies Breath basically allows you to double the amount of sand, water or lava you can pick up and deposit in the same amount or time. Put of Fires... Yeah, really helpful, and with a short cooldown super useful when available. Evaporate almost completely clears the map of water and stops it from forming foe a while. Awesome in a big rain, but dangerous if there's a bunch of lava about. Jellies Water is pretty cool, it basically does exactly what it implies. Foe 45 seconds all the water in the level stops moving. This allows you to scoop out troughs of water from rivers or other bodies of water for your people to cross through, A-la Moses and the Red Sea. Devour all basically allows you to put your cursor over an area and just hold the pick up button for the full 45 seconds. All the material you pull up with it is gone though, so be careful if you have a limited supply of dirt to move around. Very useful for picking up lava or water if you just need a few more seconds for your totems to arrive. 

 

So far my absolute favorite power is 'Infinite earth'. This gives you a ball of earth as big as you can pick up. You have 15 seconds to place as much as you can before you have like a 10 second cooldown to use it again. This is awesome for making paths across water, filling in vegetation areas, or even putting out fires quickly. Combine it with the Amplified Breath power and you can really do some great stuff fast. 

 

All in all I can definitely say I'm enjoying the game and will hopefully begin on the challenges tonight. 

[Hemiak]

1 hour ago, PerryToxteth said:

Which leaves me with a question for KYCers - my son hasn't seen a Star Wars film yet so where should I start? (No, we don't live in a cave, he just latched onto Harry Potter first) The New Hope, like my generation was introduced to, or the Episode I Phantom Menace? 

Either would be fine. I watched a New Hope first with my kids, then about half of Empire before remembering just how dark the series gets at that point. My son was only 5 so we didn't finish it. He's 7 now so we need to get back at some point.

 

We watched Phantom Menace last year and he really liked it. He thinks Anakin is like Luke's brother or something though. Haven't gotten around to number 2 yet for various reasons. I then took him to see Force Awakens with my dad and he loved that as well. 

 

I guess my point is that it's perfectly acceptable to watch them in either order, kids don't really care about continuity. 

[Oobedoob S Benubi]

4 hours ago, DamagingRob said:

Day2

 

This game is fucking stupid. 

 

2 hours ago, PerryToxteth said:

 

You are ripping on Star Wars!! In KYC events, that is known as committing 'Billy Blasphemy!' Pepare for the wrath!

 

Honestly, I have played many Star Wars games in my life but have given up on them, and haven't played any on PS4. They never seem to live up to the billing.  Disappointment began with that arcade game in the 80s. I was barely tall enough to peer through the viewfinder to play as you flew the Death Star destruction mission.  The graphics were basically a geometry project.

  The pod racer on PS2(?) was downright awful. Who was the designer of that vehicle? How are you supposed to market kids toys if they have two levitating engines?!? I'm glad I was childless when that garbage came out and not forced to buy it. 

 

Best game I can recall was the first Battlefront. Pretty sure that was on PS2.  The heavy MP-based play has made me stay away from the PS4 versions. 

 

He's lucky I don't have a lot of time...

 

But yeah, the PS2 games are pretty disappointing. My brother had Bounty Hunter for his GameCube and I could not get through it, such a dull game... The last great Star Wars games I played were Rogue Squadron, Shadows Of The Empire and Star Wars Racer for the N64.

 

I feel like everyone should have tried Super Star Wars though, especially now that it's on the PS4. Epitome of awesome gaming with some nice difficulty to boot.

 

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Which leaves me with a question for KYCers - my son hasn't seen a Star Wars film yet so where should I start? (No, we don't live in a cave, he just latched onto Harry Potter first) The New Hope, like my generation was introduced to, or the Episode I Phantom Menace? 

 

26 minutes ago, Hemiak said:

Either would be fine. I watched a New Hope first with my kids, then about half of Empire before remembering just how dark the series gets at that point. My son was only 5 so we didn't finish it. He's 7 now so we need to get back at some point.

 

We watched Phantom Menace last year and he really liked it. He thinks Anakin is like Luke's brother or something though. Haven't gotten around to number 2 yet for various reasons. I then took him to see Force Awakens with my dad and he loved that as well. 

 

I guess my point is that it's perfectly acceptable to watch them in either order, kids don't really care about continuity. 

 

With my nephew who was six at the time, I wanted the right to introduce him to Star Wars and Jurassic Park, which I was allowed to do as long as I'd put it into context. Of Jurassic Park and Jurassic World, I just showed him the cool dinosaur stuff. Of Star Wars...

 

I knew that a kid that young wouldn't be able to handle Empire (not only is it dark, but everything after Hoth is pretty dull and complicated until the awesome climax) but I couldn't live with myself if I would let him see Phantom Menace first... So we did A New Hope first, which he enjoyed a lot, and the next time he was with us we did Phantom Menace. Next time he's here, I'll do Attack Of The Clones. Force Awakens would be cool but he can't speak English so I'm going for movies with less talking en more action sequences - he just needed to see IV first, it's just right. Once he's a bit older and can read subtitles properly, we'll do the machete order.

 

P.S. I'm one of those people who thinks Empire is not the best Star Wars movie. I like Hope more for being less dark and slow, and for being self-contained. Rogue One is my second favourite Star Wars movie.

Edited March 24, 2017 by BillyHorrible

[DamagingRob]

2 hours ago, PerryToxteth said:

You are ripping on Star Wars!! In KYC events, that is known as committing 'Billy Blasphemy!' Pepare for the wrath!

 

9 minutes ago, BillyHorrible said:

He's lucky I don't have a lot of time...

Well, I'm ripping on how stupid the trophy for capturing all bounties alive is. It's not that bad of a game. Just a terrible trophy idea, with how dumb the AI is. 

 

2 hours ago, PerryToxteth said:

Honestly, I have played many Star Wars games in my life but have given up on them, and haven't played any on PS4. They never seem to live up to the billing.  

I would highly recommend the KOTOR games, if you haven't played them. It's what Bioware did before Mass Effect and Dragon Age. And they're the best Star Wars games I've ever played. The first 2 Battlefronts were good, too. 

[Jaguargenie]

3 hours ago, PerryToxteth said:

 

Which leaves me with a question for KYCers - my son hasn't seen a Star Wars film yet so where should I start? (No, we don't live in a cave, he just latched onto Harry Potter first) The New Hope, like my generation was introduced to, or the Episode I Phantom Menace? 

Personally, I like to forget that Episodes 1-3 ever even existed. They should be tossed into a pit and lit ablaze. 

That being said, start with New Hope! 

[Oobedoob S Benubi]

33 minutes ago, DamagingRob said:

Well, I'm ripping on how stupid the trophy for capturing all bounties alive is. It's not that bad of a game. 

 

So then you shouldn't have said "This game is fucking stupid" but "This trophy is fucking stupid".

 

[DamagingRob]

1 minute ago, BillyHorrible said:

So then you shouldn't have said "This game is fucking stupid" but "This trophy is fucking stupid".

Well, I explained why I thought it was stupid; because of that dumb trophy.  This is one of those cases, where a trophy list will make you hate the game. I might end up just doing the rest, and never getting this one.