Topic: Last Game You Beat

Gears of War 4 - Xbox Series X.

I have had a very fun time with Gears 4. Are so very very impressed with the single player campaign and the work the Coalition has done with it. I mean I don't want to spoil too much but I maybe can state that bosses in the game were very cool imo. Was kind of blown a way with the graphics too. Not sure how many games that implement the Unreal engine so well as this Gears 4 seem to do. Are also glad to have played and beaten Gears 4 on Xbox as I guess Gears play best on Xbox.. And while some might disagree I think this might be the best Gears game in series.

*Sorry for not posting much as of late btw. But yeah this is in fact the latest game I have beaten. And a game I have wanted to play for quite some time.

It Takes Two. I finally finished it and sadly its one that I am glad I am through with. This game was a disappoinent to be honest especially after A Way Out. I was expecting something like A Way Out and instead it was a cooperative platformer that honestly overstayed its welcome.

First of, I am not a big fan of 3D platformers and this game had everything that bugs me about them. The camera was God awful there was no way to lock on to enemies so tracking them was a pain in the ass. Why wasn't that a feature? Your are telling me that Ocarina of Time that was made 30 years can do it but a game made 2 years cant. Also the wonky camera makes platforming a pain leading to cheap deaths. Some of the levels where interesting I will give it that and I did enjoy a couple too but another night problem of this game is the cooperative game, both players need to be the same skill level or else you just cant do the objectives. Another thing that annoyed me was that the puzzles designs went the most roundabout way to solve them making the game a total slog.

The story was good at first just ended up being way to long. At one point it felt like the game should have been over but instead there was 4 more levels to go through. The levels just felt unnecessary. The characters were annoying. Of course they father they made the stereotypical ***** with no common sense while the mother was the brains of the family. The daughter Rose annoyed me the most. So her parents are getting a divorce so what? Sometimes its better for the parents to get one, but no they had to do the stereotypical oh its my fault they dont love each and I need to get them back together.

In conclusion this game is a huge let down especially after doing so well with A Way Out. Wonky cameras, cheap bosses boring level design and a dragged out story is not my idea of a fun game. One of my biggest disappointments of 2025. I am glad to be done with this game.

I'd give it a 3/10.

Need to get into the habit of posting in these forums more often rather than permanently lurking like the silent act that I am, so here I arrive! And this seems like a nice easy thread to get me into the habit.

Atomfall

Finished a batch of the endings and have a few more to go, but can at this stage confidently say in my view the game is great. Nicely sized areas to really encourage the exploring and discovering of things without being so massive and hundreds of hours long. Kept making me want to 'see what's over there' or 'where this leads me' well past the time I was supposed to be wrapping up and sleeping before work in the morning. Appreciated the setting as a little Englander myself. Song as the credits fade in is banger as well.
Played via Gamepass but will keep an eye out for a physical copy to adorn the shelf of excellence.

The last game I beat was Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and my thoughts are the same that I posted while I was playing it on the game thread (page 3 and 4). Then, I started Doom The Dark Ages. I consider Doom Eternal one of the best shooters ever. I don't have any trouble with parrying in Doom The Dark Ages after playing Expedition 33, but I'm just not enjoying the gameplay and combat as much as playing Doom Eternal, although the dragon sections are something new and fun.

Beat the campaign of CoD WWII. Loved it. My only minor gripe was that I was really hoping for a chance to take down Adolf. Other than that, top notch fun. I love all things wwII so it was right up my alley.

@NintendoByNature Still my favorite CoD campaign of all time.

@Nintendobynature Oh if I remember I had very much fun with the game when I played and beated it a few years ago. The tech in that game is very impressive to say to least of I remeber correctly. Not sure if there is a technical more advanced WWII game around.

@oliverp it was a very good time indeed

@Nintendobynature Taken most or just some of the achievements? If I remember the Call of Duty games useally have quite many and quite good achievements.

Finished the main kampaign in Mortal Kombat 1. I actually enjoyed it and it was a nice continuation to Mortal Kombat 11. I enjoyed my time with this one. Next up is the DLC kampaign.

Finished Grid 2 on Series X today. The career mode is much better than the first Grid's as it's nowhere near as brutally challenging. However, it gets rather repetitive towards the end due to lack of different tracks and race types. It definitely could've been shorter and therefore more enjoyable. But I still enjoyed it overall.

And that's a wrap on MK1. I finished off the Khoas Reigns DLC. Basically a continuation of the story of MK1, this time revolving more around the Lin Kuei and Scorpion. It was a bit shorter then the main story but that's to be expected since its DLC.

As of the game itself another enjoyable Mortal Kombat game. Had fun with this one and the story as always was interesting. Not sure where the series will go from here but for now this was a nice ending to it.

Mafia 2 Definitive Edition - Xbox Series X

Right so the latest game I beat was actually Mafia 2 Definitive Edition..
Needless to say I had a (very) good time with the game. It was one *** of a ride.

I would say that the game was not least very good on a technical level. I would also state that the game had some very, very impressive game mechanics. Which is also I think a reason why I think that I had such a good time with the game.

*It's interesting because it was a kind of a coincidence that I picked up and begun to play Mafia 2 to begin *with. Also I can note that while it was not a long game by any means I guess most people standards it still took me some time for me to *beat it. And like I did not play that fast.

*Until a a few months ago had not even planned to try out the franchise.

• Completed the story mode like 10 days ago.

While you guys might think otherwise I have not taken a break from gaming but if anything feel more passionate then *before. Totally honest!! That said I try not to stress to much with gaming.

After Doom The Dark Ages, that I didn't like very much because of the gameplay, in spite of considering Doom Eternal one of the best shooters ever, I'm playing my Assassin's Creed backlog. The last one I beat was Syndicate (you might have this one because it was a Game with Gold) and I loved it. It has become my favourite along the first one. I played all the optional content, skipping finding every collectible. The next one should be Origins, but I might take a break now. I skipped Black Flag because those remake rumours I have mentioned before are too big now.

Ninja Gaiden Ragebound. Definitely tough but fair. Lots of difficult platforming, tough boss fights, odd enemy placement or too many enemies on the screen at once. However, the game benefits tremendously from having multiple checkpoints in each stage making it manageable. The best part were the boss fights, with some taking me 20 tries. But, that feeling when you finally beat them is such a relief, in a good way. Again, there's always a checkpoint before a boss fight, so its never an issue. It looked, and sounded amazing too with super tight controls. Overall, solid 8/10 for me.

Gears of War 5 - Explosive Action - Explosive things - Xbox Series X ..

I would like also state that I think the game is fun and features some to say the least explosive action.

Not speaking about Jack and the upgrade abilities in the game which I also think contribute to make Gears into what the game is about basically. Because it actually forces you to think a little bit about the choices you make in the game and well maybe not just run around and shoot things. At least if you like to play the game on one of the higher difficulty levels.

In addition to the cool gameplay I also think that it's also at least partly true that Gears 5 features some of the better audio and visuals in the business which is like one factor which I guess contributes to make Gears of War into what it is.

*now that I have beaten Gears of War 5 I guess you can say that I at least should have a decent understanding of the Gears of War franchise.

Thanks @-banjo.

*Do not longer play the game btw. Feel finshed with it .

Gears of War is a brilliant series, although 5 disappointed me in terms of story and characters (Kait). I'm looking forward to E-Day that sounds like a reboot.

I played GTA San Andreas for the first time and it was a lot of fun in spite of the crude controls. I completed the optional missions. The "Definitive" collection is my first time with the series.

I can't wait for Sonic Racing Cross Worlds next month.

And so Suikoden has come to an end for me. It was great playing this game again and remembering why it was one of my favorite RPGs on the PS One and probably of all time. The pace wasn't bad and I never felt bored with a particular arc. Recruiting all the characters was a blast and some of the QoL improvements they made in this version were nice however there sone minor annoyances I had.

The first was as with all old school RPGs there was a bit grinding I had to do and it wasn't so many grinding for levels as it was grinding for gold. Yeah they had the gambling games that you could make alot of money on and very fast but again it was grinding and depending on if the RNG gods were with you it could take time to get enough gold for stuff. The problem wasnt so much was that you had to grind but the fact that the max gold you could ever carry was 999,999 and the fact that getting people's weapons up to level 16, which was the max level took so much money that you had to grind for gold alot. I understand that the max gold being 999,999 was carried over from the original PS version so more then likely was due to memory space on the original PS version but this is a remaster version for modern consoles. One of the QoL feature they could have added was a unlimited gold counter like current games.

The other thing that annoyed me but I had to get use too was the limited inventory space. I have gotten use to modern RPGs where you have alot more inventory space or stuff would stack to bigger numbers for example being able to carry 99 Health Potions. With Suikoden it also didnt help that your armor that you had to equip took up space in your inventory so automatically your were down 4 inventory spaces, 5 if that character used a shield to begin with. So inventory space is quite limited.

And now the positives. The graphics and music was terrific in this game. Each bit of music fit the part and in many ways it felt like the score to a great movie. I particularly loved the haunting remix of the Gregminster theme that plays while you storm the capital at the end. The big sprites where great and the touch ups they made to the original PS One graphics where nice and were not that much different. Granted a few of the characters portraits I preferred the originals over the new ones but still they weren't that much different where it was like my god what did they do.

Story wise great as always and its a nice change of pace from other RPGs. Your not take on a some sort of God, or Demon or trying to stop some meglomaniac from taking over the world or evil alien from exterminating all life, you are just trying to defeat a tyrannical Empore to form a new republic and bring just to it.

Overall this remaster is great and any JRPG fan should play it. Even if you played it on PS One its a nice trip on memory lane. Definitely in my top 5 for GotY this year.

@RogueCooper Honestly it didnt bug me at all, as I said I just had to get use to having such a limited space for inventory. I guess modern games with bigger inventory spaces spoiled me lol. Games like Diablo III or even Assassin's Creed Valhalla or Breath of the Wild obviously have more memory now you can literally carry a good amount of items before running out of room unlike games back in the PS One era. I just had to remind myself to check my bags more often in Suikoden to make sure I had room before tackling a dungeon, and to stop by the shops and sell off old gear. Just had to retrain that's all.

@RogueCooper Now see Fallout and Elder Scrolls drive me nuts with how limited the inventory is, but I am the type of player that picks up everything, part of it is my own dumb brain thinking I might need that later lol. I guess with older RPGs like Suikoden it doesnt bother me because you can only pick up stuff you need, health items, armor, weapons etc. Where as Fallout and Elder Scrolls can literally pick up everything. I often dont make it too far in those games cause I get my bags full after taking 20 steps out of town and then its back to town to either sell or store the items aways.

As for Suikoden 2, I haven't started it yet, had somethings come up but hopefully this weekend I can but we will see, I got a pretty packed weekend with a convention so I might not start it till next week. As I said before, I never played it but everyone tells me that its like the first one only better.