What games are you playing right now? Anything you'd recommend?

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BasilZero said:

Leynos said:

Rebirth's story is fine. Remakes was a little meh but Rebirth Cloud is more like his OG self. A dork. There is some of the new stuff of course but it's fine. Cait Sith was greatly improved as a character. Rebirth is much better than Remake. It feels closer to the tone of the original. It does have a lot of mini game stuff, like a Yakuza game lol. Chadley sister is worse than him. Chocobos are great as they have a unique ability per region. Combat is slightly improved. Some new areas are fun.

The mini games are my only worry for sure - I despised mini games in Breath of Fire III and since then been wary about mini games in RPGs.

The ice cream mini game from KH Birth By Sleep especially....ugh bad memories lol

Aside from some minor annoying moments in Remake (the bike boss fight and battles) , I really like FFVII Remake.

LegitHyperbole said:

Oh right. Persona 5 Royal will take a mighty long time 😆 

Have you tried Crisis Core before? It's pretty shit, even the Remaster. Just not a good game, the vombat system is absolute ass, you'd think it would be relevant with Zack but it is in no way needed for Rebirth. 

I'd say my interest of Hideo Kojima games would be akin to your interest of FF7 and I would have said there's no way E33 would hold up with sonething from Kojima or the world buklding of Myizaki of From Soft but it does and it does it in a way that's not convoluted at all. It's just straight art. Would hold up with anything fron the recent golden age of TV and the film is def gonna be a hit cause the premise is so unique, it's been done before but still feels fresh and new. 

I played Crisis Core back when it first came out on PSP like late 2000s. I absolutely loved it lol.

First time I played a mission based game too (which made me love Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker, another mission based game).

The combat system was okay, at the time, it was the only action RPG in the FFVII series and I loved it. Looking back and compared to what I played over the years, Remake shits over Crisis Core's gameplay but story wise I really enjoyed it.

Kojima wise I love MGS 1, 2, 3 and Peace Walker. 4 was okay, storyline great but gameplay eh, mainly due to the UI and too much going on in the screen.

Havent played MGSV yet but planning to throw that in this year as well.

A lot of V's lol - I've finished Shin Megami Tensei V and GTA V. Planning to play MGSV and Persona 5 as well lol.

Indeed. It's like V for Vendetta in your library. MGSV is a masterpiece in the fact that it is the perfect stealth action game, best ever imo and an amazing 80's action simulator. If you loved Peace Walker you'll love it, basically the same with better production and mission variety but insanely better gameplay, I have doubts even Kojima Productions will be able to get close to what they done there with Physant or whatever it's called. Story in V is weak and unfinished but if you don't take it too seriously it's fantastic. I have 622 hours in that game most of it role-playing as an action hero and making my own stories in my head. It's so fucking cool, a wonderful sandbox emergent type game.