General gaming discussion

I am playing TOTK. It's like gaming methadone. You could actually use it to wean yourself off lesser kinds of videogames.

Also thinking MS screwed up big time with tech differences between series S and X. Right now, Sony will have first dibs to Baldur's Gate 3, because the devs are busting their asses trying to make it work on Series S. ...

MS should have produced a Series X diskless, less storage version if they wanted something cheaper for the market but with the same technical capability otherwise.

Also thinking, why does that new Disney platform game look like a cheap mobile phone game ? Why does that look so cheap, in 2023, by Disney, whereas a similar styled game, Rayman Legends, doesn't, from years ago ...

One of the great things about Sekiro compared to other FromSoftware games is that there are no builds; no different weapons, types, armours etc that one boss is weak to but another is strong against etc. You do get some abilities which can help, but really Sekiro all comes down to your skill. Reading and deflecting attacks back and forth until you open them up for that killing blow. That's it. And the only way to get better at it is to keep doing it.

As Retro says, even if you only get okay at it, there's one early game boss at the top of Ashina Castle, and you can't go further in the game until you beat him. But once you've persevered and beaten him, it'll have forced you to really learn the dance of steel required to progress in the game and you'll have the core combat of the game ingrained in your muscle memory.

I wanted to like Sekiro but it is just to hard for me, I probably would have persevered but having to spend ages stealth killing guards just so I could attempt a boss again really killed it for me, I just don't have the patience for that kind of thing anymore.

For most bosses there's usually a shrine or whatever you call them just before the boss, so might only have to take out one or two guards on the way there. But yeah I can think of a few bosses even fairly early on where there are a bunch of enemies with the boss, so stealthily taking them out before the boss has to be repeated each time. Definitely can get annoying.

Finished FF7 and the DLC. Really good game. Did some googling afterwards and apparently it's a "different timeline" so things are different than the original, so it's more of a reboot as well as a remake.

Anyway, looking forward to part 2.

Bloodborne is owned by Sony so it won't happen without their say so. Still I imagine someone like Bluepoint will eventually remaster it or give it a visual remake like Demon's Souls. IMO BB is the best of their games and its a crime that it is trapped on the PS4 at 30 FPS with awful frame pacing.

It never detracted from the experience for me either, particularly as it was on a console where almost everything ran at 30 fps, but it is pretty much the only thing you could do to make such an amazing game even better. If a hacker can get it running at 60 FPS surely one of Sony's teams can make it official.

Prepatch Whirligig was a beast. Kirkhammer big slam was great for stagger damage. Was always funny to beat people with the Wheel as well 😁

I think about halfway through the game I started upgrading and trying a few other weapons but they never felt as good as the axe. Then when I took a break from the game between finishing the main game and starting the DLC, I swore I'd change to another weapon. Then after about 10 minutes of the DLC, I switched back to the axe.

It was boring, but still just so satisfying.