Ghost of Tsushima is one of the most beautiful games I've ever played.
I felt the same way when I played Witcher 3 and they did little things like having the trees swaying in the wind. Ghost of Tsushima has so much movement in the environment that it's just a joy to run around and be in that world.
I'm honestly baffled the game scored so low. I understand an 83 is still a good score all things considered, but in a world where games like the newest GoW get 90+, I just don't understand it.
What were even the majority of the complaints people had about the game? My biggest issue is probably the combat as the batman / assassin's creed formula is kind of tiresome but it still had great moments like the duels or doing the standoffs.
It got repetitive after awhile especially if you’re someone like me who 100% every area. It’s a great game but it definitely teeters the line of style over substance.
I can understand that. Going to the 100th haiku or bamboo cutting thing could end up feeling formulaic.
I'm really glad it was only around 40-50 hours though because if it ended up like one of the AC games which are now like 100+ hours I feel it would've soured me a bit.
Got the game at launch and I 100’d the entire first island and it burned me out. My PS4 shit the bed and erased all my saves. Never touched the game since. It was fun but I really don’t want to do all that again
1 Chrono Trigger
2 Shadow of the Colossus
3 Mount and Blade: Warband
4 Portal
5 Starcraft: Brood War
6 Metal Gear Solid
7 Batman: Arkham City
8 Streets of Rage 4
9 FTL: Faster Than Light
10 Dark Souls
11 Castlevania: Rondo of Blood
12 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
13 Ico
14 Fallout: New Vegas
15 Into the Breach
16 Streets of Rage 2
17 Yakuza 0
18 NBA Jam TE
19 Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo
20 20XX
21 Mario Odyssey
22 Nier: Automata
23 Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
24 S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
25 Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence
26 Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance
27 Portal 2
28 Subnautica
29 Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
30 Deus Ex
31 R4: Ridge Racer Type 4
32 Sonic 3 & Knuckles
33 Resident Evil 4
34 Resident Evil 2
35 Hollow Knight
36 Earthbound
37 Undertale
38 Street Fighter 3rd Strike
39 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
40 Elden Ring
41 Deep Rock Galactic
42 Left 4 Dead 2
43 Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY
44 Mario Rabbids Kingdom Battle
45 Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
46 Doom (1993)
47 Sonic 2
48 Stardew Valley
49 Mass Effect 2
50 Uncharted 2
Metal Gear Solid 1. It felt like it was completely revolutionary in the way that it presented gameplay, story and voice acting. It didn't feel like a video game, it felt like a cinematic movie.
you ever have a meal where that last bite is exactly what you needed to feel satisfied, no more and no less?
that's how ghost of tsushima felt to me. the game ended right when I didn't want to play it anymore and so because of that it felt great
I genuinely believe that the reason the final area is the shortest in terms of content is because the devs knew that the formula would grow stale if it went on for much longer, plus since the narrative stakes are at their peak at that point, it wouldn’t make sense to frick around doing lots of side content.
I agree that the game ended exactly where it should have. The only content that I felt was padding was the fox shrines. Everything else was a either a comfy distraction or a good excuse to use your tools and abilities.
The 4 games I can't stop playing are Doom 2, Minecraft, Factorio and Path of Exile.
Honourable mentions are Baba is You and Ghost Trick. I can't ever do a second play through of these, but they were both 10/10 games.
I feel I struggle with this question a lot. Like it's impossible to answer. >What's the "greatest game I've ever played?
Very quickly gets segmented into >What's the most memorable game I've ever played >What's the best game (in terms of gameplay) I've ever played >What's the game I've played the most compared to everything else >What's the game that I've gotten the most enjoyment out of that I've ever played
Is this game actually unironically good is it it just normalgay bait? I haven't enjoyed a single non Elden Ring open world game in like a decade. I don't want another Ubisoft rip off.
Probably Monster Hunter World for me >inb4 "Rise is better"
Maybe it is, but I dropped it because Magnamalo didn't hold my attention enough. Didn't continue after beating him
witcher 3 and the blood and wine dlc because I played all the witcher games during different times in my life and seeing them evolve over time just to deliver us a grand finale was pure perfection
and then they went another step and released b&w which was just pure fanservice
Same but with Dragon's Dogma. Imagine slapping that shit and coming across the title screen while knowing nothing of it. It's the last game that ever scratched that itch of being a kid or a teen, rummaging through the used PS2 games and coming home but pure undiluted KINO without even knowing.
My friend is a huge sonygay and got me to play this. I've been a Buddhist for 10 years and studied a lot of Japanese Buddhism. I was blown away at how well they portrayed Buddhism, as well as the samurai way and all that. First off many samurai were Buddhists because the fierce disposition of zen (meditation) would make them fearless in battle. That's why so many of the side activities are contemplative and meditative in nature. Composing the haiku was a highlight, because all the lines of each poem you could choose were distinctly Buddhist contemplations. Jin always participating in Buddhist stuff like bowing, meditating and praying were callsigns they did their research into Buddhism since it's so culturally important to this day in Japan.
I'm no historian but I was already aware of the mongolian invasion of Japan during this time period because I've studied a lot of Nichiren Buddhism, which is a smaller Mahayana sect of the prevalent Tendai school. Nichiren, the founder, lived shortly before this invasion and claimed to have predicted the Mongolian invasion with the central text of both Tendai and Nichiren schools: The Lotus Sutra (myoho renge kyo). Nichiren is supposed to be an incarnation of Bodhisattva Superior Practices in the text, which, speaking of, the side mission with Noriaka where the one priest was fleeing the mongols and was badly injured, and while he was dying in the cave, wrote a verse of the Lotus Sutra in his own blood, which is exactly what I would have done if I were in his shoes, which made it very touching.
The game is very beautiful, I was so blown away I did all the shrines, foxes, mongolian outposts, etc., and tried to completely 100% the game before I finished it. The ending was fricking stellar and although I have the expansion, I never played it because I felt the game ended perfectly. Once it's out on PC I'll definitely play it again.
Tough to say, but Ghost of Tsushima is definitely up there.
Dark Souls 1
Ghost of Tsushima is one of the most beautiful games I've ever played.
I felt the same way when I played Witcher 3 and they did little things like having the trees swaying in the wind. Ghost of Tsushima has so much movement in the environment that it's just a joy to run around and be in that world.
I'm honestly baffled the game scored so low. I understand an 83 is still a good score all things considered, but in a world where games like the newest GoW get 90+, I just don't understand it.
What were even the majority of the complaints people had about the game? My biggest issue is probably the combat as the batman / assassin's creed formula is kind of tiresome but it still had great moments like the duels or doing the standoffs.
It got repetitive after awhile especially if you’re someone like me who 100% every area. It’s a great game but it definitely teeters the line of style over substance.
I can understand that. Going to the 100th haiku or bamboo cutting thing could end up feeling formulaic.
I'm really glad it was only around 40-50 hours though because if it ended up like one of the AC games which are now like 100+ hours I feel it would've soured me a bit.
Got the game at launch and I 100’d the entire first island and it burned me out. My PS4 shit the bed and erased all my saves. Never touched the game since. It was fun but I really don’t want to do all that again
1 Chrono Trigger
2 Shadow of the Colossus
3 Mount and Blade: Warband
4 Portal
5 Starcraft: Brood War
6 Metal Gear Solid
7 Batman: Arkham City
8 Streets of Rage 4
9 FTL: Faster Than Light
10 Dark Souls
11 Castlevania: Rondo of Blood
12 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
13 Ico
14 Fallout: New Vegas
15 Into the Breach
16 Streets of Rage 2
17 Yakuza 0
18 NBA Jam TE
19 Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo
20 20XX
21 Mario Odyssey
22 Nier: Automata
23 Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
24 S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
25 Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence
26 Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance
27 Portal 2
28 Subnautica
29 Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
30 Deus Ex
31 R4: Ridge Racer Type 4
32 Sonic 3 & Knuckles
33 Resident Evil 4
34 Resident Evil 2
35 Hollow Knight
36 Earthbound
37 Undertale
38 Street Fighter 3rd Strike
39 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
40 Elden Ring
41 Deep Rock Galactic
42 Left 4 Dead 2
43 Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY
44 Mario Rabbids Kingdom Battle
45 Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
46 Doom (1993)
47 Sonic 2
48 Stardew Valley
49 Mass Effect 2
50 Uncharted 2
probably my first ever playthrough of skyrim, i dont think ive ever been that immersed in a game before
nincels be like
>ghosts of tsushima is le good
The Last of Us
Metal Gear Solid 1. It felt like it was completely revolutionary in the way that it presented gameplay, story and voice acting. It didn't feel like a video game, it felt like a cinematic movie.
Dark Souls 2 vanilla
Lol at Assassins Creed Tsushima. Shit story, generic characters and game design
you ever have a meal where that last bite is exactly what you needed to feel satisfied, no more and no less?
that's how ghost of tsushima felt to me. the game ended right when I didn't want to play it anymore and so because of that it felt great
I genuinely believe that the reason the final area is the shortest in terms of content is because the devs knew that the formula would grow stale if it went on for much longer, plus since the narrative stakes are at their peak at that point, it wouldn’t make sense to frick around doing lots of side content.
I agree that the game ended exactly where it should have. The only content that I felt was padding was the fox shrines. Everything else was a either a comfy distraction or a good excuse to use your tools and abilities.
The 4 games I can't stop playing are Doom 2, Minecraft, Factorio and Path of Exile.
Honourable mentions are Baba is You and Ghost Trick. I can't ever do a second play through of these, but they were both 10/10 games.
NieR Gestalt/Replicant.
I feel I struggle with this question a lot. Like it's impossible to answer.
>What's the "greatest game I've ever played?
Very quickly gets segmented into
>What's the most memorable game I've ever played
>What's the best game (in terms of gameplay) I've ever played
>What's the game I've played the most compared to everything else
>What's the game that I've gotten the most enjoyment out of that I've ever played
Same for movies, books, etc
I dunno how people can have exactly one favorite
Is this game actually unironically good is it it just normalgay bait? I haven't enjoyed a single non Elden Ring open world game in like a decade. I don't want another Ubisoft rip off.
It’s good. The only Ubisoft stuff it has is enemy outposts.
It also does the HUDless exploration thing way better than Elden Ring.
Probably Monster Hunter World for me
>inb4 "Rise is better"
Maybe it is, but I dropped it because Magnamalo didn't hold my attention enough. Didn't continue after beating him
GTA Online, especially the Doomsday Heist.
GTA San Andreas
witcher 3 and the blood and wine dlc because I played all the witcher games during different times in my life and seeing them evolve over time just to deliver us a grand finale was pure perfection
and then they went another step and released b&w which was just pure fanservice
I picked up Witcher 1 completely randomly based on the cover in a game store
Probably the best impulse purchase I've made
Same but with Dragon's Dogma. Imagine slapping that shit and coming across the title screen while knowing nothing of it. It's the last game that ever scratched that itch of being a kid or a teen, rummaging through the used PS2 games and coming home but pure undiluted KINO without even knowing.
Half-Life 2 felt like a watershed moment when it came out, I'm not sure any game has come close to the experience I had playing that.
SMT DDS and SJ are might surpass it when I beat them, but as of now it’s Metroid Prime 2.
Dungeon Keeper
Rayman 2
My friend is a huge sonygay and got me to play this. I've been a Buddhist for 10 years and studied a lot of Japanese Buddhism. I was blown away at how well they portrayed Buddhism, as well as the samurai way and all that. First off many samurai were Buddhists because the fierce disposition of zen (meditation) would make them fearless in battle. That's why so many of the side activities are contemplative and meditative in nature. Composing the haiku was a highlight, because all the lines of each poem you could choose were distinctly Buddhist contemplations. Jin always participating in Buddhist stuff like bowing, meditating and praying were callsigns they did their research into Buddhism since it's so culturally important to this day in Japan.
I'm no historian but I was already aware of the mongolian invasion of Japan during this time period because I've studied a lot of Nichiren Buddhism, which is a smaller Mahayana sect of the prevalent Tendai school. Nichiren, the founder, lived shortly before this invasion and claimed to have predicted the Mongolian invasion with the central text of both Tendai and Nichiren schools: The Lotus Sutra (myoho renge kyo). Nichiren is supposed to be an incarnation of Bodhisattva Superior Practices in the text, which, speaking of, the side mission with Noriaka where the one priest was fleeing the mongols and was badly injured, and while he was dying in the cave, wrote a verse of the Lotus Sutra in his own blood, which is exactly what I would have done if I were in his shoes, which made it very touching.
The game is very beautiful, I was so blown away I did all the shrines, foxes, mongolian outposts, etc., and tried to completely 100% the game before I finished it. The ending was fricking stellar and although I have the expansion, I never played it because I felt the game ended perfectly. Once it's out on PC I'll definitely play it again.
Black person
>being Buddhist unironically
Take the Taoism pill.
Chinese and Japanese Buddhism are both heavily heavily influenced by Taoism.
YOU'RE FRICKED
Elden Ring probably, or Red Dead Redemption 2