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A-Z Challenge
Best Possible Game: I'm in the mood for Cyberpunk right now. I could really use an open-world FPS after playing two 3D platformers I didn't like.
S: Command & Conquer Generals looks fun and like a great place to start with in the Command & Conquer series. Crimson Skies looks like a lot of fun and I could absolutely go for a 7 hour game after playing Banjo-Tooie for 16 hours. Control looks pretty fun and I enjoyed Alan Wake so I'm interested to see how Remedy did with this one.
A: I played Call of Juarez earlier this month after playing Gunslinger twice last year. It's fair to say I'm a big fan of this series. Celeste and Cave Story both look short and fun. Chibi-Robo is a great game I've never beaten. Crysis looks great and I could definitely go for an FPS right about now.
B: I played Castlevania: Lament of Innocence last year and thought it was good, but could use some polish. If Lords of Shadow is that, it'll be a fun time. Crazy Taxi is Crazy taxi, it's short and has a great gameplay loop. Crime Boss Rockay City is a game I've had my eye on, but didn't want to buy something on the Epic Store. Now it's finally on Steam and I got most of the DLC with it for free. Cruelty Squad is an acid trip of a game I've been meaning to get to. Cuphead's a game I got halfway through and then dropped so it'd be nice to finally finish it. Crazy taxi 2 is more Crazy Taxi. I usually have fun with Call of Duty, and while this is a pre-Modern Warfare CoD, I'll probably still like it.
C: More games I don't have any opinions on.
D: 3/5 of these are games I'd have to play other games for and I just don't want to do that. City of Brass just looks bad and Car Mechanic Simulator probably won't be great, especially compared to the real deal.
F: I don't want to play a platformer. I've had enough of them for a while. Cook Serve Delicious 3 just looks like a 40 hour mobile game
Worst Possible Game: Crash technically is more of a 2.5D platformer, but that's close enough to a 3D platformer for me not to want to play it. Ad on the fact that this is a collection and I would hate rolling this.
Don't Own Previous Games: I don't usually talk about this category since it's self-explanatory, but I just want to add on that the only real way I'd get the other games is through the collection on Steam, but that'd mean adding six games to my backlog so if I roll either of these games I'd have to actively grow my backlog.
I really, REALLY hope I roll Cyberpunk, it's exactly the type of game I want to play right now.
I'm gonna reroll
You know what, I'll take it. It looks fun and it's short.
Best Possible Game: I'm in the mood for Cyberpunk right now. I could really use an open-world FPS after playing two 3D platformers I didn't like.
S: Command & Conquer Generals looks fun and like a great place to start with in the Command & Conquer series. Crimson Skies looks like a lot of fun and I could absolutely go for a 7 hour game after playing Banjo-Tooie for 16 hours. Control looks pretty fun and I enjoyed Alan Wake so I'm interested to see how Remedy did with this one.
A: I played Call of Juarez earlier this month after playing Gunslinger twice last year. It's fair to say I'm a big fan of this series. Celeste and Cave Story both look short and fun. Chibi-Robo is a great game I've never beaten. Crysis looks great and I could definitely go for an FPS right about now.
B: I played Castlevania: Lament of Innocence last year and thought it was good, but could use some polish. If Lords of Shadow is that, it'll be a fun time. Crazy Taxi is Crazy taxi, it's short and has a great gameplay loop. Crime Boss Rockay City is a game I've had my eye on, but didn't want to buy something on the Epic Store. Now it's finally on Steam and I got most of the DLC with it for free. Cruelty Squad is an acid trip of a game I've been meaning to get to. Cuphead's a game I got halfway through and then dropped so it'd be nice to finally finish it. Crazy taxi 2 is more Crazy Taxi. I usually have fun with Call of Duty, and while this is a pre-Modern Warfare CoD, I'll probably still like it.
C: More games I don't have any opinions on.
D: 3/5 of these are games I'd have to play other games for and I just don't want to do that. City of Brass just looks bad and Car Mechanic Simulator probably won't be great, especially compared to the real deal.
F: I don't want to play a platformer. I've had enough of them for a while. Cook Serve Delicious 3 just looks like a 40 hour mobile game
Worst Possible Game: Crash technically is more of a 2.5D platformer, but that's close enough to a 3D platformer for me not to want to play it. Ad on the fact that this is a collection and I would hate rolling this.
Don't Own Previous Games: I don't usually talk about this category since it's self-explanatory, but I just want to add on that the only real way I'd get the other games is through the collection on Steam, but that'd mean adding six games to my backlog so if I roll either of these games I'd have to actively grow my backlog.
I really, REALLY hope I roll Cyberpunk, it's exactly the type of game I want to play right now.
I'm gonna reroll
You know what, I'll take it. It looks fun and it's short.
4 Yrs♥✓#
A-Z Challenge
I had a really shit week and I just don't have the energy to write a full review for Crimson Skies.
The main points if I did make a full review:
* Oopsie this is a sequel and I didn't realize until just now
* This is some of the best dogfighting I've seen in a video game
* Fuck yeah, Arizona's in this
* These missions get repetitive pretty fast
* Fuck those cheating British fucks at the ruins
* Planes were not meant to fly inside of ancient ruins and collision damages you way too much
* Final boss sucks
7/10
I just kind of want to get the roll over with so I'm just gonna leave the tierlist here and get on with it
Edit: Hi it's me from a few hours later. I'm feeling better now so I'll give my reasons for each tier like usual.
Best Possible Game: Dead Space was my Best Possible Game last year and I beat it last summer. Now it's my best possible game again (thanks to the remake) because Dead Space is really good.
S: Devil May Cry and Dante's Inferno are both games I've wanted to get to for a while. I ended up playing three hack n' slashes in December and I get it now. Darkest Dungeon looks really interesting and this would finally give me an excuse to play it. My best friend's been begging me to play Disco Elysium and based on everything he's told me, it goes up here.
A: I've heard some great things about Dave the Diver and I managed to snag the Godzilla DLC before it was delisted so I'll definitely be playing through that. I played Demon's Souls last year and I really liked it despite eventually retiring it. Dark Souls is the spiritual sequel to that and it's called one of the greatest games of all time. Dying Light looks like a lot of fun, and it was actually made by the Call of Juarez developers so I'm curious to see if there's any references. Death Stranding's a pretty controversial game, but I love Kojima's batshit storytelling and I think I could get a lot out of this.
B: I never really gave the original Dead Rising a chance, so this would be a chance to actually give it a shot while clearing a game from my backlog. I played a bit of Doom 3, but never really got into it. I'm willing to give it another chance, especially since Doom: The Dark Ages is coming out and I plan on playing that day 1. Days Gone is a game I don't know much about other than you either love it or hate it, and I'm hoping I'll be in the love it category. Dredge looks pretty interesting and I'm always up for a fishing game. Dark Souls II is often called worse than the original, but that doesn't mean it's a bad game. I probably won't play Dark Souls 1 if I roll this just because of how insanely long these games are.
C: Those sure are games
D: Destroy All Humans 2 and Dillion's Rolling Western 2 are here since I'd have to play the originals first and I don't really want to do that. Despotism 3K is short, but it's also really unbalanced and your entire run can be destroyed out of nowhere. Danganronpa is a pretty long visual novel that I've already been spoiled on so what's the point of playing. Darkvoid is Darkvoid.
F: Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon has a pretty bad review score and I'd have to play the other two. Danganronpa 2 requires me to play the first game and I don't want to do that.
Worst Possible Game: Danganronpa 3 would require me to play over 100 hours of Danganronpa. No thanks, I'll pass.
I don't like that armadillo
I should have stuck with the armadillo.
I know I usually play previous games to get all the lore and everything, but these games are 40 hours a piece so I'll just skip Dark Souls 1.
Edit: I'm going to buy Scholar of the First Sin so I can play this on my Series X. I'll also play through the three DLCs alongside the main game since they are included.
I had a really shit week and I just don't have the energy to write a full review for Crimson Skies.
The main points if I did make a full review:
* Oopsie this is a sequel and I didn't realize until just now
* This is some of the best dogfighting I've seen in a video game
* Fuck yeah, Arizona's in this
* These missions get repetitive pretty fast
* Fuck those cheating British fucks at the ruins
* Planes were not meant to fly inside of ancient ruins and collision damages you way too much
* Final boss sucks
7/10
I just kind of want to get the roll over with so I'm just gonna leave the tierlist here and get on with it
Edit: Hi it's me from a few hours later. I'm feeling better now so I'll give my reasons for each tier like usual.
Best Possible Game: Dead Space was my Best Possible Game last year and I beat it last summer. Now it's my best possible game again (thanks to the remake) because Dead Space is really good.
S: Devil May Cry and Dante's Inferno are both games I've wanted to get to for a while. I ended up playing three hack n' slashes in December and I get it now. Darkest Dungeon looks really interesting and this would finally give me an excuse to play it. My best friend's been begging me to play Disco Elysium and based on everything he's told me, it goes up here.
A: I've heard some great things about Dave the Diver and I managed to snag the Godzilla DLC before it was delisted so I'll definitely be playing through that. I played Demon's Souls last year and I really liked it despite eventually retiring it. Dark Souls is the spiritual sequel to that and it's called one of the greatest games of all time. Dying Light looks like a lot of fun, and it was actually made by the Call of Juarez developers so I'm curious to see if there's any references. Death Stranding's a pretty controversial game, but I love Kojima's batshit storytelling and I think I could get a lot out of this.
B: I never really gave the original Dead Rising a chance, so this would be a chance to actually give it a shot while clearing a game from my backlog. I played a bit of Doom 3, but never really got into it. I'm willing to give it another chance, especially since Doom: The Dark Ages is coming out and I plan on playing that day 1. Days Gone is a game I don't know much about other than you either love it or hate it, and I'm hoping I'll be in the love it category. Dredge looks pretty interesting and I'm always up for a fishing game. Dark Souls II is often called worse than the original, but that doesn't mean it's a bad game. I probably won't play Dark Souls 1 if I roll this just because of how insanely long these games are.
C: Those sure are games
D: Destroy All Humans 2 and Dillion's Rolling Western 2 are here since I'd have to play the originals first and I don't really want to do that. Despotism 3K is short, but it's also really unbalanced and your entire run can be destroyed out of nowhere. Danganronpa is a pretty long visual novel that I've already been spoiled on so what's the point of playing. Darkvoid is Darkvoid.
F: Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon has a pretty bad review score and I'd have to play the other two. Danganronpa 2 requires me to play the first game and I don't want to do that.
Worst Possible Game: Danganronpa 3 would require me to play over 100 hours of Danganronpa. No thanks, I'll pass.
I don't like that armadillo
I should have stuck with the armadillo.
I know I usually play previous games to get all the lore and everything, but these games are 40 hours a piece so I'll just skip Dark Souls 1.
Edit: I'm going to buy Scholar of the First Sin so I can play this on my Series X. I'll also play through the three DLCs alongside the main game since they are included.
4 Yrs♥✓#
I'm making a collection of games that take place in Arizona either fully or partially. DM me with ideas.
Collection
Collection
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Today on Finnedorb...
A-Z Challenge
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Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin (Xbox Series X)
I don't like Dark Souls II. I think the combat is worse than even Demon's Souls and I didn't particularly care for what I played of the story. I retired this after getting stuck on an area for a while and just deciding I didn't want to commit 35 hours to a game I don't enjoy playing. That's not to say I don't like a good souls-like. Even though I retired Demon's Souls, I still played for 13 hours and had fun. Maybe Dark Souls II gets better after a few hours, but I didn't stick around to find out.
A-Z Challenge
\Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin (Xbox Series X)
I don't like Dark Souls II. I think the combat is worse than even Demon's Souls and I didn't particularly care for what I played of the story. I retired this after getting stuck on an area for a while and just deciding I didn't want to commit 35 hours to a game I don't enjoy playing. That's not to say I don't like a good souls-like. Even though I retired Demon's Souls, I still played for 13 hours and had fun. Maybe Dark Souls II gets better after a few hours, but I didn't stick around to find out.
4 Yrs♥✓#
I don't own very many games that start with E so this'll be quick.
Best Possible Game: I'm in the mood for a Rouge-like, I want to Enter the Gungeon.
S: This game looks like a lot of fun and it's really short so I'd be happy to roll this.
A: This look like a sort of a Return of the Obra Dinn-like game and the concept sounds pretty interesting. "Alter the past to save the future". This would be a fun one to try out.
B: Exit is a short and sweet puzzle game which sounds like a good time to me.
C: Elebits looks fine and I'm a little burned out on on 4X games. That's mostly from playing Civilization a lot recently, so if this is different enough it'll probably be fine.
D: I just played and didn't enjoy Dark Souls II. While I'm sure Elden Ring is better, I don't want to play another Souls-like right now. Everlasting summer is just a shitty visual novel.
F: It's a crappy shovelware game
Worst Possible Game: It's a 5/10 that's 22 hours long.
Time to roll
Definitely rerolling
Welp, sometimes you roll for an Enter the Gungeon and you get an Elebits.
Best Possible Game: I'm in the mood for a Rouge-like, I want to Enter the Gungeon.
S: This game looks like a lot of fun and it's really short so I'd be happy to roll this.
A: This look like a sort of a Return of the Obra Dinn-like game and the concept sounds pretty interesting. "Alter the past to save the future". This would be a fun one to try out.
B: Exit is a short and sweet puzzle game which sounds like a good time to me.
C: Elebits looks fine and I'm a little burned out on on 4X games. That's mostly from playing Civilization a lot recently, so if this is different enough it'll probably be fine.
D: I just played and didn't enjoy Dark Souls II. While I'm sure Elden Ring is better, I don't want to play another Souls-like right now. Everlasting summer is just a shitty visual novel.
F: It's a crappy shovelware game
Worst Possible Game: It's a 5/10 that's 22 hours long.
Time to roll
Definitely rerolling
Welp, sometimes you roll for an Enter the Gungeon and you get an Elebits.
4 Yrs♥✓#
Today on Finnedorb…
A-Z Challenge
Elebits (Wii): 7:24
The game takes place in a story that a kid is being told so he’ll shut the fuck up and go to sleep. Elebits are these small… things that produce electricity. Kai is a child suffering from neglect because his parents are too focused on studying the Elebits. Suddenly, a disaster happens and the Elebits start acting weird. The parents rush to the lab, and Kai steals his dad’s capture gun so he can capture Elebits… for some reason. I mean in the first level it seems like he’s doing it to turn on the TV, but after that I think he just wants to commit an Elebit genocide.
The game’s an FPS where you capture Elebits by shooting them. They will run and hide, but you can interact and throw objects in the environment to find them. When you capture an Elebit, you gain watts and the more watts you have, the more electronics can be activated. When an electronic is activated some special Elebits pop out. Collect enough of those and you can lift heavier objects. There’s also several power-ups, but the only useful ones are the homing missile, the vacuum, and the shield.
Throughout the levels, Kai moves through the different rooms of his house, the street outside, and the amusement park. Occasionally there will be bosses, but they’re all easy because this game was made for 6-year-olds. The game also introduces more lose conditions. Initially the only way you fail a level is by failing to collect enough watts before the level timer is up. Then they introduce a limit to how many objects can break in the level. This condition is awful because Elebits can break objects by ramming into them and that’s almost entirely out of your control. You’ll also inevitably break objects because of the janky physics system. The second worst lose condition is the volume one. If you make enough noise to go above a certain amount of decibels enough times, it’s over. This one’s much less common so it’s not as bad, but it feels even more out of your control. One time I lost because I moved a chair slightly and apparently that was loud enough to shatter glass and blow-up ear drums. The final lose condition is just running out of health. They introduce turrets, tanks, and Elebits that attack you. This one is pretty manageable except for mission 27. There are a million turrets on that level and it becomes a bullet-hell; unless you act fast and throw them off a cliff.
Eventually, Kai’s parents realize he’s not at home and rush to find him. Kai is happy that his parents actually give a shit about him, but he pushes on to stop this mess. He comes across the Ghost Elebit, an Elebit that absorbs others to get stronger. The first phase is the easiest boss in the game, just throw plants at him. Then in the second-phase, a gundam comes out of the ground and he possesses it. Why there was a gundam under the amusement park I do not know. We have to fight him by unscrewing him piece by piece. I initially had a lot of trouble with this part because the motion controls weren’t working, but eventually I found a winning strategy. Just grab the screw, turn the wii-remote slightly like a doorknob, and then unselect it. Keep doing this and he’ll go down easy. The ghost Elebit becomes smaller and friendlier, and Kai and his family live happily ever after. Also the final cutscene implies Kai’s parents were the ones telling the story to Kai, but the ghost Elebit also shows up so that implies this story actually happened and they're using that as a bedtime story. I too fell asleep to the story of that time I shot an animal.
Also this is in the game
Konami included a Silent Hill 3 easter egg and I’m sure a 5-year-old cried because of it. I wonder where this fits in the Silent Hill timeline.
Elebits is an okay FPS for kids, but it never gets better than that. 7/10
A-Z Challenge
Elebits (Wii): 7:24
The game takes place in a story that a kid is being told so he’ll shut the fuck up and go to sleep. Elebits are these small… things that produce electricity. Kai is a child suffering from neglect because his parents are too focused on studying the Elebits. Suddenly, a disaster happens and the Elebits start acting weird. The parents rush to the lab, and Kai steals his dad’s capture gun so he can capture Elebits… for some reason. I mean in the first level it seems like he’s doing it to turn on the TV, but after that I think he just wants to commit an Elebit genocide.
The game’s an FPS where you capture Elebits by shooting them. They will run and hide, but you can interact and throw objects in the environment to find them. When you capture an Elebit, you gain watts and the more watts you have, the more electronics can be activated. When an electronic is activated some special Elebits pop out. Collect enough of those and you can lift heavier objects. There’s also several power-ups, but the only useful ones are the homing missile, the vacuum, and the shield.
Throughout the levels, Kai moves through the different rooms of his house, the street outside, and the amusement park. Occasionally there will be bosses, but they’re all easy because this game was made for 6-year-olds. The game also introduces more lose conditions. Initially the only way you fail a level is by failing to collect enough watts before the level timer is up. Then they introduce a limit to how many objects can break in the level. This condition is awful because Elebits can break objects by ramming into them and that’s almost entirely out of your control. You’ll also inevitably break objects because of the janky physics system. The second worst lose condition is the volume one. If you make enough noise to go above a certain amount of decibels enough times, it’s over. This one’s much less common so it’s not as bad, but it feels even more out of your control. One time I lost because I moved a chair slightly and apparently that was loud enough to shatter glass and blow-up ear drums. The final lose condition is just running out of health. They introduce turrets, tanks, and Elebits that attack you. This one is pretty manageable except for mission 27. There are a million turrets on that level and it becomes a bullet-hell; unless you act fast and throw them off a cliff.
Eventually, Kai’s parents realize he’s not at home and rush to find him. Kai is happy that his parents actually give a shit about him, but he pushes on to stop this mess. He comes across the Ghost Elebit, an Elebit that absorbs others to get stronger. The first phase is the easiest boss in the game, just throw plants at him. Then in the second-phase, a gundam comes out of the ground and he possesses it. Why there was a gundam under the amusement park I do not know. We have to fight him by unscrewing him piece by piece. I initially had a lot of trouble with this part because the motion controls weren’t working, but eventually I found a winning strategy. Just grab the screw, turn the wii-remote slightly like a doorknob, and then unselect it. Keep doing this and he’ll go down easy. The ghost Elebit becomes smaller and friendlier, and Kai and his family live happily ever after. Also the final cutscene implies Kai’s parents were the ones telling the story to Kai, but the ghost Elebit also shows up so that implies this story actually happened and they're using that as a bedtime story. I too fell asleep to the story of that time I shot an animal.
Also this is in the game
Konami included a Silent Hill 3 easter egg and I’m sure a 5-year-old cried because of it. I wonder where this fits in the Silent Hill timeline.
Elebits is an okay FPS for kids, but it never gets better than that. 7/10
4 Yrs♥✓#
A-Z Challenge
Elebits turned out a little better than I thought. this next game is probably either gonna be Fire Emblem or Final Fantasy.
Best Possible Game: Final Fantasy VII made me a fan of the series and I really want to check out the most recent entry. I've heard great things about this one, even though it doesn't have the usual turn-based combat.
S: F-Zero GX is the best F-Zero game and I love me some F-Zero. Fire Emblem Sacred Stones looks like a really good Fire Emblem game and it be nice to check out one of the GBA games.
A: I've heard less good things about Shadows of Valentia, but overall reviews seem positive. I'd rather check out an older game than one that came out after Awakening, but I'll still enjoy this one. F-Zero on SNES is fun but tough. Three Hopes has always been this interesting spin-off to Three Houses that I know nothing about and I've always been curious about it.
B: Fallout is always a good time, even if these two aren't exactly fan-favorites. I've heard some very mixed reviews on Final Fantasy XIII, but I want to see how it is myself.
C:
D: I'm not really a fan of the early Fallouts and this is a collection with two of them and a spin-off. the individual games in Final Fantasy Anthology are good, but combined this would take over 70 hours and that's a lot. I don't think I need to explain the placement of Frogger: Ancient Shadows.
F: Tis I, the biggest Fates hater. I don't like any of the games in this trilogy and this is the worst one.
Worst Possible Game: I question why I bought this everyday. Forty hours of farming does not sound like fun.
Let's see how long our JRPG will be
YES! This will take a minute, but I'm so happy I rolled this!
Elebits turned out a little better than I thought. this next game is probably either gonna be Fire Emblem or Final Fantasy.
Best Possible Game: Final Fantasy VII made me a fan of the series and I really want to check out the most recent entry. I've heard great things about this one, even though it doesn't have the usual turn-based combat.
S: F-Zero GX is the best F-Zero game and I love me some F-Zero. Fire Emblem Sacred Stones looks like a really good Fire Emblem game and it be nice to check out one of the GBA games.
A: I've heard less good things about Shadows of Valentia, but overall reviews seem positive. I'd rather check out an older game than one that came out after Awakening, but I'll still enjoy this one. F-Zero on SNES is fun but tough. Three Hopes has always been this interesting spin-off to Three Houses that I know nothing about and I've always been curious about it.
B: Fallout is always a good time, even if these two aren't exactly fan-favorites. I've heard some very mixed reviews on Final Fantasy XIII, but I want to see how it is myself.
C:
D: I'm not really a fan of the early Fallouts and this is a collection with two of them and a spin-off. the individual games in Final Fantasy Anthology are good, but combined this would take over 70 hours and that's a lot. I don't think I need to explain the placement of Frogger: Ancient Shadows.
F: Tis I, the biggest Fates hater. I don't like any of the games in this trilogy and this is the worst one.
Worst Possible Game: I question why I bought this everyday. Forty hours of farming does not sound like fun.
Let's see how long our JRPG will be
YES! This will take a minute, but I'm so happy I rolled this!