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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26439 Points : 25274 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Tue 7 Apr 2020 - 19:55 | |
| This one does feel a lot better paced than New Leaf to me at this early stage. Them holding off with some stuff until later has really worked in its favour, however much some might have moaned about not having the Museum first thing. It's definitely also a right place right time thing. - The_Jaster wrote:
- Think you have me confused with someone else as I barely listen to podcasts.
Did you not recommend me Jeremy and Chris' Supernatural podder? |
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The_Jaster Din
Posts : 11968 Points : 12060 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 40 Location : Underground Corpse Pile.
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Tue 7 Apr 2020 - 22:20 | |
| Nope I don't think so, but I did use to watch the TV show until it started retreading the same ground. |
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Muss Shiny Shuckle
Posts : 2557 Points : 2575 Join date : 2015-04-03 Location : The 5th Dimension
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Fri 10 Apr 2020 - 15:41 | |
| - Balladeer wrote:
- This one does feel a lot better paced than New Leaf to me at this early stage. Them holding off with some stuff until later has really worked in its favour, however much some might have moaned about not having the Museum first thing. It's definitely also a right place right time thing.
It amazes me that so many people hate the pacing of this game. The way things are added to your island and the rate of population growth is a perfect fit for the setting. |
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26439 Points : 25274 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Fri 10 Apr 2020 - 17:19 | |
| I think it's expectation. People are used to having everything given them and can't deal with getting not quite so much quite so fast. See also: Dexit. |
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OrangeRakoon Disciple of Greener
Posts : 1556 Points : 1560 Join date : 2015-05-06 Age : 32 Location : Reading, UK
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Tue 14 Apr 2020 - 17:22 | |
| The pacing is really good |
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15048 Points : 15226 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Wed 15 Apr 2020 - 10:09 | |
| - Balladeer wrote:
Did you not recommend me Jeremy and Chris' Supernatural podder? That was me. I don't watch Supernatural but I've listened to Jeremy on Dark Souls, Dark Tower and X-Men podcasts. |
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26439 Points : 25274 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Thu 16 Apr 2020 - 19:16 | |
| Ahhhhhhhh. Yep they're pretty solid in this one too. |
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gjones Disciple of Scullion
Posts : 1671 Points : 1704 Join date : 2015-01-12 Age : 37 Location : Swindon
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Fri 17 Apr 2020 - 13:50 | |
| I'm fighting my way through Excite Truck. The motion control steering is something I am struggling to adapt to, much like how I would avoid it entirely in Mario Kart Wii. Considering a racing game requires precision controls, it's really frustrating when I turn and it doesn't immediately react. I spend half the race in the trees tapping the '2' button (itself, an unnecessary QTE). It's a shame because I've had fun on some of the tracks but the controls are just something I can't get past. Is there the option to use the Cube controller? I can't seem to find anything on the options menu Blasting through beaches and mountains like some exotic version of TOCA is right up my street, but I don't think I'll see the end of this one. |
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The Cappuccino Kid Mani Mani Statue
Posts : 6735 Points : 6897 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 105 Location : East of Mombasa
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Fri 17 Apr 2020 - 18:52 | |
| I'm certain that it's only controlled with tilt motions on the Wii Remote. I'd encourage you to stick it out (as it's not that long a game), but if the controls aren't something you're adapting to, it might be best to just call it a day with Excite Truck. Me, I really like Excite Truck, but those memories are from summer 2007, a particularly happy time in my life. Thirteen years is a long time, and you're a better judge of it's quality nowadays than I am. |
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26439 Points : 25274 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Sat 30 May 2020 - 18:36 | |
| Hi! I'm clearing out the DEEP BACKLOG.For those who are unaware or have forgotten, the DEEP BACKLOG was my way of pretending to myself that I'd ever get back to a bunch of games that got buried under others coming along. Trouble is, even now in what is a pretty quiet period for the Switch, I've got so much on (both games in my more immediate backlog and outside playing games) that I'm never realistically going to get back to these games. For some, it's a sad omission of defeat; for some, a relieved one; and for some, I still harbour a secret hope that I'll get back to these games some day. In order, then, of likelihood of return: - ASTRAL CHAIN:
No more Platinum Games. It's not them, it's me - I think. With this one it's kind of hard to be sure, because the in-between-combat segments chugged egregiously and put me off the most. Trouble is, I didn't like the combat either (so yep definitely me not them). It's not that it's bad, it's just that without satisfying exploration or whatever between the combat it didn't do enough for me. Ironically I think I found it taxed my brain a bit, as shown by several game overs to the first boss because I couldn't figure out how to stop its one really powerful attack for ages. And the story was meh and the voice acting was meh and and and. I didn't get far in this, but people on here have said it gets worse before it gets better, and I don't have time for that. Comebackability: 0/10. Trade-in fodder and I won't miss it.
- LAPIS X LABYRINTH:
I bought this back when in the middle of a gaming drought, possibly in 2018. There was enough eShop stuff around, but I hadn't had a new retail game that I liked for a while and Jim Sterling recommended this. You could only actually get it in retail as the big special edition box with soundtrack and everything, but in a 'money > sense' moment I bought it anyway. It's got decent challenge and flashy graphics, but its gameplay is almost utterly mindless - and not in a cathartic way, it's still sometimes quite stressful. It's a bit like playing in a casino where you can influence the outcome a little bit based on how hard you cheer for the ball to land on red. After not getting along with Hyrule Warriors I was never really going to finish this. That said, I have a soft spot for this game, as I do almost all the games on this list. It's got bright colours and a cute art style; the way your warriors' heads are all stacked on top of each other while you cycle through them is never not funny; and you can make a female vampire with skimpy clothes and blue hair and give her a bloke's voice, or a massive armoured destroyer that sounds like a Japanese schoolgirl. Like Iconoclasts, I'm disproportionately keen on it compared it its quality; unlike Iconoclasts, not enough to ever finish it. Comebackability: 2/10. I'm fully intending to trade it in, but I'll be marginally sadder to see it go than I will Astral Chain. The special edition box looks nice on my shelf.
- GUACAMELEE 2:
Here's a genuinely good game, top 25 on Switch good game, that I will never finish and that I'll struggle to play again. It's kind of because of where I left it: right in front of one of the challenges for the hidden doohickeys that you need to get the best ending. After what happened for the bad ending in Guacamelee 1 there's no way I could settle for that in 2, but for that I'd be dropping into the game with no muscle memory in front of a bastard hard platforming challenge. The only realistically option would be to restart and play through it again, learning it up again as I go - and while Guac 2 has been good up to now, it hasn't been that good. It hasn't been special, it's been solid. By the end of the machine's life I fully expect it to have dropped off that top 25 list. Comebackability: 3/10. If I ever play it again it'll be from scratch, so I'll be deleting the data to free up space. Y'all know how good I am at replaying games.
- KATAMARI DAMACY REROLL:
Now we start to get into the ones where I feel guilty. I liked Katamari! It was daft and fun! It had great music! It had that bit where the big head peered down from the sky! It had... kinda subpar gameplay? Sigh. It's partly the controls, intuitive in theory but tricky in practice, which I'm sure I'd have come around to if I'd given the game more time; and partly because of what you're actually being asked to do. It's essentially a high-score challenge. I don't like high-score challenges, lads. I like having a goal that's a place to get to, not a number to surpass (JRPGs ask you to surpass the number and use it to get to the place, they don't count). There's a bit near the end of every level where you've seen everything it has to offer and are just rolling around for two minutes. I like the trappings, but I don't think I actually (sharp intake of breath) like the core game. Sorry everybody. Comebackability: 5/10. There's a decent chance I'll give it another go because it's just so odd, but it's not like I made much progress so I won't miss the freed up space.
- BABA IS YOU:
Technically I finished this - as in, I saw an ending. I didn't really though, did I? I only got to the space world, and lots of puzzles remain. Having fallen out of the mental loop, having let the part of my brain that hardened into a diamond of puzzle-solving while I was playing a lot of BIY revert to squishy carbon again, returning to BIY has always seemed like a daunting prospect; and truth be told I was already feeling like the game was too tough for me when it was doing the sort of stuff you see above. No, returning to BIY would be a project. I'd have to set aside some time, probably while on holiday. I'd have to sit down and tell myself, 'You're playing BIY and you're going to enjoy it.' I'd have to take on some of the easier puzzles again to get that part of the brain back in gear. I probably would then enjoy it, all told. That's not going to happen while there's the stress of lockdown going on. It might not happen again until I retire. Comebackability: 5/10. I do want to return to Baba, and it like Guacamelee 2 is in my top 25 games on Switch. That scenario I described above is looking awfully unlikely though.
- OKAMI:
Okami is in my top 25 games ever. I played it originally on the Wii and now, without the twitchy motion-controlled brush or waggle to attack, it's the best it's ever been. It's a gorgeous massive adventure, steeped in Japanese culture and filled with wonderful things, that I've already played and that has no respect for the player's time. Yes, whether it's the treacle-slow dialogue or the repetitive aspects of the gameplay (including a very long boss you fight three times), I found myself not enjoying my replay of Okami, despite slogging it through to the first big boss in the game - you know the one. I can still see the things I loved about it, yet shorn of the wonder of a first playthrough (which, I reckon, would still hold up today) I felt the niggles more keenly. Better to leave it to blossom in the imagination as a thing of beauty. Also: in retrospect, Issun, Sakuya, and Rao are all dodgy as. Comebackability: 6/10. It's easy for me to see a world where I forget the flaws and come back to Okami, so I'll be keeping the save data around; but the game itself will be vanishing from my SD card, solely because it's no doubt a bulky one.
- SUPER MARIO MAKER 2:
I forgot I had this! I forgot I had this until I looked back through the backlog thread, then up at my shelf, and saw the yellow box. I didn't have much interest in the user-generated content, either playing or making; but the campaign mode was pretty high-quality, what I played. Not full proper Mario platformer campaign-only high-quality, but high-quality nonetheless. The SMM2 campaign mode's only real flaw was that other games came along that were more exciting, at least at the time, than a thematically inconsistent Mario game that wasn't even the main point of the Mario game it was in. That's... still kind of true, but I can easily see a time when it isn't. Comebackability: 7/10. I'd probably seriously considering playing anything on 8/10 or higher right now, and I'm not considering playing SMM2's campaign right now; but I'm holding onto it. Discovering I still had it was quite exciting!
On that note: if anybody here would like to buy my copies of Astral Chain or Lapis x Labyrinth special edition (all bits and pieces still in the box), I'll happily send them to you. Heck, I'd say the same about Skyrim, Dragon Quest XI, and The World Ends With You: Final Remix. Half the cheapest cost you can find from a decent (not CEX) reputable (not CEX) retailer plus postage: bung a link with a price my way and I'll bung a game yours. |
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Rum Disciple of Greener
Posts : 1490 Points : 1506 Join date : 2013-01-20 Age : 33 Location : Edinburgh
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Sun 31 May 2020 - 9:50 | |
| Gosh, I used to think we had quite similar tastes in games, but I think we might actually be quite different. I loved Astral Chain, Katamari Damacy, and a second playthrough of Okami (though yes, the characters were a bit suspect, apart from lovely Ammy herself). Guacamelee 2 was good but I absolutely get your point there - I found it erred on the side of frustrating platforming a bit too much.
Is TWEWY:FR actually worth it at all? I was interested in it (not least because NGamer loved it, and I still associate Jay with his former TWEWY avatar (RIP)) and never owned it on DS, but I didn't get the impression it was necessarily worth my time on Switch. It's been on my eShop wishlist for yonks but it's never on sale, and I am an eShop sale whore. |
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
Posts : 15889 Points : 15055 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 31 Location : The Shibuya River
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Mon 1 Jun 2020 - 20:33 | |
| - Rum Rapture wrote:
Is TWEWY:FR actually worth it at all? I was interested in it (not least because NGamer loved it, and I still associate Jay with his former TWEWY avatar (RIP)) and never owned it on DS, but I didn't get the impression it was necessarily worth my time on Switch. It's been on my eShop wishlist for yonks but it's never on sale, and I am an eShop sale whore. I've still got the old avatar saved on my laptop! But sometimes, it's time to move on... As for TWEWY:FR - yes, but only if you can't find a copy of the original on DS or if you can't be arsed pulling out the old handheld. I do think the lack of the second screen really hurts some of the game's uniqueness and the Switch touchscreen really isn't up to much when compared to the DS's, but it's still TWEWY at the end of the day. |
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26439 Points : 25274 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Tue 2 Jun 2020 - 20:15 | |
| I pretty much agree with what Jay says. It's probably still worth it if you haven't played TWEWY, but there are better ways to play it. - Rum Rapture wrote:
- Gosh, I used to think we had quite similar tastes in games, but I think we might actually be quite different. I loved Astral Chain, Katamari Damacy, and a second playthrough of Okami (though yes, the characters were a bit suspect, apart from lovely Ammy herself). Guacamelee 2 was good but I absolutely get your point there - I found it erred on the side of frustrating platforming a bit too much.
Much though I'd be surprised if anyone agreed strictly with my odd and very picky taste in games, I wouldn't base any differential in that on my second playthrough of anything! I'm not much of a replayer, but Okami is still solid gold. Katamari... I still like bits of it, you know? With more time/fewer games I think I'd want to play more of it just to find out what happens to the weird blocky kids. Astral Chain yep no, not for me, tastes diverge. |
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15048 Points : 15226 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Wed 3 Jun 2020 - 10:39 | |
| - Balladeer wrote:
Astral Chain yep no, not for me, tastes diverge. G . . . i . . . t . . . |
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masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24002 Points : 24401 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Wed 3 Jun 2020 - 10:45 | |
| A lot of us dropped of Astral Chain, it's by no way Platinum's worse game but just something about it that wasn't as fun as a TMNT or Transformers |
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The_Jaster Din
Posts : 11968 Points : 12060 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 40 Location : Underground Corpse Pile.
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Wed 3 Jun 2020 - 12:14 | |
| I wouldn't say it was a lot since I can only think of you, Cappa (I think) and now Balla that didn't finish it on this forum. |
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masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24002 Points : 24401 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Wed 3 Jun 2020 - 12:16 | |
| Thought Jay did as well, and if he did that's about half of who played it |
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The_Jaster Din
Posts : 11968 Points : 12060 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 40 Location : Underground Corpse Pile.
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Wed 3 Jun 2020 - 16:55 | |
| Yeah maybe as I honestly don't remember. |
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15048 Points : 15226 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Thu 4 Jun 2020 - 7:48 | |
| - masofdas wrote:
- A lot of us dropped of Astral Chain
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- it that wasn't as fun as a TMNT or Transformers
I much preferred it to either of those, and I'm the Transformers guy! I will agree that it isn't up there with the Bayonettas or Vanquish, but honestly what action game is? |
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masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24002 Points : 24401 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Thu 4 Jun 2020 - 7:55 | |
| I did in the 2000's with things like Ninja Gaiden when it was the one game I had for a few weeks along time to play it. now can't be arsed trying to Git Gud on something I didn't like the investigation bits were boring as hell.
Also Devil May Cry 3 is your answer along with Ninja Gaiden
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gjones Disciple of Scullion
Posts : 1671 Points : 1704 Join date : 2015-01-12 Age : 37 Location : Swindon
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Thu 4 Jun 2020 - 9:22 | |
| - masofdas wrote:
- I did in the 2000's with things like Ninja Gaiden when it was the one game I had for a few weeks along time to play it, now can't be arsed trying to Git Gud on something I didn't like the investigation bits were boring as hell.
Also Devil May Cry 3 is your answer Haaaang on - the Xbox guy doesn't like Ninja Gaiden? Best game on the system mate. That's not Halo or Chaos Theory. |
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masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24002 Points : 24401 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Thu 4 Jun 2020 - 9:26 | |
| I love Ninja Gaiden.
I'm on about back then had time to play and get good at it but now with work and so many forms of entertainment I'm not going to spend time on something like Astral Chain if I don't find enjoyable and it was the investigation parts that bored me. |
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15048 Points : 15226 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Thu 4 Jun 2020 - 9:30 | |
| - masofdas wrote:
- Also Devil May Cry 3 is your answer along with Ninja Gaiden
Yeah, DMC probably comes closest. Which makes sense, they're cousins. |
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gjones Disciple of Scullion
Posts : 1671 Points : 1704 Join date : 2015-01-12 Age : 37 Location : Swindon
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Thu 4 Jun 2020 - 9:31 | |
| Fair. Astral Chain is one game I wanted a Switch for so will pick it up at some point, but it's interesting that a lot of you dropped it. Just got a 100 hour RPG game to get out the way first. |
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The Cappuccino Kid Mani Mani Statue
Posts : 6735 Points : 6897 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 105 Location : East of Mombasa
| Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Thu 4 Jun 2020 - 11:59 | |
| I gave up on Astral Chain too, but recognised that it was good. It just came out at a busy time for games, and I was more interested in playing FIFA 20, Yooka-Laylee & The Impossible Lair and so on. I'd have probably tried it again now, when it's much quieter, if I hadn't left my copy in my flat over on the south east. It's not quite ready for my review in this thread, I still think there's a chance I'll give it another go. |
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