Gaming The RedCafe General/Random Gaming Chat Thread

[M16Red]

Haven't played the second game yet, but you also needed port crystals, which were limited and relatively scarce, for fast travel in the first game, and it took a long time to get the option in the first place. So it sounds exactly the same, only now they've made them available through microtransactions which is never a good look.

I rarely, if ever used fast travel in the first game. Yes, it meant having to do long treks from time to time, but I kinda liked it as it meant I had to plan certain side quests more carefully, especially if there was a risk of ending up in the middle of the wilds when night falls. It might sound like it's just removing features that have become genre conventions, but it's part of the adventure really.

To get round the port crystals, there are 4 in the game and this will help get the money to buy fierystones.

 

[Ainu]

I'm finally playing Chrono Trigger for the first time ever. For some reason I just never got around to it. I still rate FFVI as the greatest JRPG of all time and I know many people put Chrono Trigger next to or even ahead of it, so I'm curious to find out how well it's held up.

Would've been nice if this was available through Switch Online but I doubt that's ever going to happen at this point, so I settled on the Steam version. I can't compare to the original but it seems fine so far.

 

[Mr Pigeon]

I found myself on Steam last night looking for something cheap and new to play and found this little gem.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2058200/Showrunner/

You are a TV show studio head. You create shows, characters, scripts and all that jazz. You hire and train staff, build chemistry between actors, upgrade your studio and meet/fail production deadlines. It's basically the TV show version of Game Dev Tycoon and it's got a lot of potential. It's still in Early Access but has more than enough content to enjoy.

I'm currently on to Season 4 of my pub/drug empire Comedy/Drama show about a former soldier turned pub owner/drug importer and his straight edge sister, who is dating the lead's best friend - a drug dealing teacher. It's the shittest show ever but people watch it so I'm raking in the cash.

 

[Shane88]

Played the Stellar Blade demo. The presentation is cringe but the gameplay is very good. Satisfying parrying and dodging.

 

[Ainu]

Finally got round to playing A Plague Tale: Requiem and finished it yesterday night. I can't help but feel pretty disappointed by it all. Spoilers I guess.

Spoiler

The last few chapters were just pure misery porn. Having played the first game, I certainly didn't go into this expecting a happy story, but at some point it's just misery heaped on top of misery and my emotional response basically switches off. I know some people say The Last of Us 2 is too miserable, but it's rainbows and puppies compared to this suffer-fest.

I also feel like there's this notion that anything other than a tragic ending is a Disney ending. Therefore, the more miserable and sad an ending is, the better it is written. Or something. It doesn't work when I'm sat there almost lauging at it, thinking "of course they were going to have us do this". I had fond memories of the first game. Not only am I not going to have fond memories of this one, it retroactively soured those fond memories of the first game as well. I'm certainly not up for a third game set in a more modern setting, or whatever they were hinting at.