What games are you currently playing?

[Lulcielid]

Assassin's Creed: Unity (PS4)

A pasable enjoyable game.

 

[Ghost X]

Played an indie 2D platformer called Self, which although really short (I think I finished it in 5 minutes), had an interesting concept. To finish a (screen-sized) level, you have to collect a few token things to remove the exit door. This generally requires that you jump and release (what I understood to be) your soul that comes out of you like a sausage balloon, and you have control over which direction it goes. Your body freezes in space as this happens, and the soul acts as a sling shot for you to double jump once the animation ends. Had nice music also. 3.5/5 stars .

 

[Dfantasy]

Playing Returnal while waiting for FFVI!

 

[Deleted member 13557]

Replaying RE4 for the 50 millionth time

 

[Saven]

Final Fantasy XI

Free trial period through this next week so I want to finally dive in and get into it. I think there is some new stuff coming out for it soon as well for the 20th anniversary next year, if not already.

Also playing Yakuza 0 as well. Taking a break from it since I got burned out on pool and mahjong. Still on chapter 1 about 27 hours in completing all the side stuff lol.

 

[Cthulhu]

I got back into XIV lately, I blame @Mage.

At the same time, trying to finally finish FFVII remake (lol ironic), and there's some KSP on the side.

 

[Kain424]

Diving back into Mass Effect with the Legendary Edition.

 

[Erotic Materia]

Diving back into Mass Effect with the Legendary Edition.

Saaaaame.

ME1 is so good and so bad all at once. I forgot how tedious the side missions in the Mako can be.

 

[wildestdream]

Diving back into Mass Effect with the Legendary Edition.

That's my next, errr can't wait.

 

[Wol]

I concluded the first "season" of Another Eden; latest revelations were cool and a bit tragic, but nonetheless a hidden power opened new possibilities.



Now I'm doing one of the available side-stories, they are like self-contained arcs introducing new characters and places to explore; the one I'm doing now also introduced a fishing mini-game.

Another Eden has proven to be a great RPG experience so far, with lots of charisma, old-school vibes, and a beautiful OST.

 

[Lulcielid]

Apex Legends

The only interesting battle royale game at the moment.

Genshin Impact

The lastest hot gacha. A nice side game to play from time to time.

 

[Keveh Kins]

Having no real experience of the Resident Evil franchise (outside of Jill Sandwich and tall lady memes), I've decided to start playing through them, beginning with the PS4 port of the Resident Evil 1 Remake.

I died immediately after encountering the first enemy. I look forward to the learning curve

I did play Resi4 back in the day but I was a kid and had no idea what was going on and mostly was just scared of it

 

[Theozilla]

Didn’t want to create a new thread for this post, so I figured this would be the most appropriate place to post this.
It’s really cool thread on JRPGs and their design philosophy and how it does and doesn’t manifest in modern game design today. Definitely recommend reading it.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1404421087119687681

 

[Odysseus]

Finally played some Ehrgeiz. It's hardly a revolutionary fighter, and I couldn't give less of a shit about its original cast, but getting to see like half of the FF7 crew in their pure, unadulterated PS1 glory was more refreshing than I expected it would be. I miss Cloud's OG outfit. The fact Zack is an unlockable character is nuts, considering he was basically nobody back then. Clud's bustersword was the most OP option out of them, even compared to Vincent's gun lol, The AI just can't handle it a lot of the time and it does a ton of damage. I noticed the characters are all voice acted, are these the same people who would go on to play them in KH and AC? Is Cloud the first FF character to have a voice?

 

[Saven]

Finally played some Ehrgeiz. It's hardly a revolutionary fighter, and I couldn't give less of a shit about its original cast, but getting to see like half of the FF7 crew in their pure, unadulterated PS1 glory was more refreshing than I expected it would be. I miss Cloud's OG outfit. The fact Zack is an unlockable character is nuts, considering he was basically nobody back then. Clud's bustersword was the most OP option out of them, even compared to Vincent's gun lol, The AI just can't handle it a lot of the time and it does a ton of damage. I noticed the characters are all voice acted, are these the same people who would go on to play them in KH and AC? Is Cloud the first FF character to have a voice?

They were replaced with the KH1/AC cast eventually. And I do believe this is the first time FF characters were voiced in a game, unless you wanna count Kefka's laugh in FFVI.

Although technically, a real voice sample was used for the CGI cutscene when the Sister Ray kills off Diamond WEAPON where an alert system issues a warning. It's overshadowed by the loud music though. You could say that was the first time a voice was ever used in a FF game. Square didn't really start with voice acting until Xenogears a year later though.

Ehrgeiz is definitely not perfect, but I did find it to be decent for what it was. I keep forgetting that Zack was in it! I also liked it's Diablo-like dungeon crawler mode even if it was a little too hard.

 

[Erotic Materia]

Holy shit.

I pulled up the Ehrgeiz wikipedia page, and just now learned that there are 3 hidden FF7 characters.

Yo, I owned this game, and I had no idea. Admittedly, I didn't play it often, it got boring fast for me. But still.

 

[Odysseus]

Like, it's just weird to me how much effort went in. There's 6 FF7 characters (though Zack is just a clone of Cloud as far as moves go,) complete with Alternate Costumes like Shinra Grunt Cloud, Cowgirl Tifa, Shirtless Sephiroth, and Turk Vincent. Even Yuffie has an alt that's a reference to an old piece of concept art were she wore red instead of green. The Gold Saucer is a stage you can fight on, too. The final boss in arcade mode is basically Red XIII 2.0, even fought in a lab that looks a lot like Hojo's.

I honest feel like they should've just thrown in Aerith, Barret, and Cid and made it a full-on FF7 fighting game lol.

 

[Makoeyes987]

Ehrgeiz was kinda a big deal in Japan.

It had all that effort put into it because it was also a cabinet arcade game in Japan and was popular back in it's day. Square wanted to make a strong impression and they did... Briefly.

The FFVII cast were totally there to build the hype for the game and get people interested. Love the game's artwork and character designs, even for their exclusive characters. The game sucks but it was fun and a unique piece of Squaresoft history.

 

[Odysseus]

Nomura had this style he pretty much only used for Ehrgeiz, Parasite Eve 2, and FFVIII, that he never used again.

 

[Makoeyes987]

Nomura's pure and refined anime style of the 90s.

Granted he still uses it sometimes. Just depends on the game. Kingdom Hearts still sorta has it. But he has evolved.

 

[Odysseus]

So I found this magazine ad

Spoiler

I don't think I've ever seen that render of Sephiroth before, anyone know where it's from?

 

[Keveh Kins]

It looks like his render from the FMV where he pulls Jenova's statue down, just from a different angle maybe?

 

[Makoeyes987]

No, that's new.

The bangs, his expression.... That's an unused CG model for Sephiroth. It has not appeared in anything else. More than likely made did Ehrgeiz but for some reason never used again.

 

[Odysseus]

It's just odd that they would make a new render for Sephiroth when all of Cloud's are reused from promo material for FF7 itself.

 

[JBedford]

I noticed the characters are all voice acted, are these the same people who would go on to play them in KH and AC?

Interestingly enough, Yuffie's VA has remained the same since Ehrgeiz.