I’ve started with finally beating Yakuza 0 (mind you, it was actually the last game from the mainline series I hadn’t played before, excluding yet to be released Y8 at the time). Nice. Overrated by those who started the series with this one, many parts felt much more tedious than the previously released games in the series but just like with any Yakuza game, it’s still entertaining enough to sit through till the end.
Then there were Destroy All Humans remakes, breddy good, I hate remake business and all but those actually improve most of the originals aspects. Keeping Yuri Lowenthal’s racist asian voice acting is a gift.
The only 2024 release I’ve played was Persona 3 Reloaded. Still a good game. Dungeon scrolling part got better, persona fusion streamlined. Not bad. Added voice acting in social events is good. Combat is actually weaker than the OG, theurgy trivializes many fights, some rebalances made to characters and personas enable some really broken combinations. Hard mode felt like easy in the original, honestly. The music is worse than the original soundtrack. The new singer is in no way a proper replacement of Kawamura. Also, the graphics outside of dungeons looks out of wack. Locations have terrible color contrasts, look flat and sometimes feel like some fan-made map made from UE4 assets bundled together. The original feels much more organic with better composition and colors. I mean, people well-versed in art trump any over reliance on le newh texhnologey and rewelistic lightning any day.
And then there are some other things from backlog or playthroughs of the games I haven’t played for many years. The Witcher 3 (finally beat it after dropping it previously on PS4), Resi Remake (amazing), RE0 (also great and partner system gets bashed by critics too much, it’s actually really fun, but it feels more like Onimusha or a later RE tone-wise which isn’t bad), Max Payne (fantastic in Series via bc), Max Payne 2 (also good but the console version compromises are much more apparent here) and Black Ops (nothing beats a good old schizo-kino with some beer).
And that’s about it. Gonna get to Ace Combat 7, Alan Wake, Dead Rising (the original, ofc), Metro Exodus and maybe Tekken 8 next year.
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I’ve started with finally beating Yakuza 0 (mind you, it was actually the last game from the mainline series I hadn’t played before, excluding yet to be released Y8 at the time). Nice. Overrated by those who started the series with this one, many parts felt much more tedious than the previously released games in the series but just like with any Yakuza game, it’s still entertaining enough to sit through till the end.
Then there were Destroy All Humans remakes, breddy good, I hate remake business and all but those actually improve most of the originals aspects. Keeping Yuri Lowenthal’s racist asian voice acting is a gift.
The only 2024 release I’ve played was Persona 3 Reloaded. Still a good game. Dungeon scrolling part got better, persona fusion streamlined. Not bad. Added voice acting in social events is good. Combat is actually weaker than the OG, theurgy trivializes many fights, some rebalances made to characters and personas enable some really broken combinations. Hard mode felt like easy in the original, honestly. The music is worse than the original soundtrack. The new singer is in no way a proper replacement of Kawamura. Also, the graphics outside of dungeons looks out of wack. Locations have terrible color contrasts, look flat and sometimes feel like some fan-made map made from UE4 assets bundled together. The original feels much more organic with better composition and colors. I mean, people well-versed in art trump any over reliance on le newh texhnologey and rewelistic lightning any day.
And then there are some other things from backlog or playthroughs of the games I haven’t played for many years. The Witcher 3 (finally beat it after dropping it previously on PS4), Resi Remake (amazing), RE0 (also great and partner system gets bashed by critics too much, it’s actually really fun, but it feels more like Onimusha or a later RE tone-wise which isn’t bad), Max Payne (fantastic in Series via bc), Max Payne 2 (also good but the console version compromises are much more apparent here) and Black Ops (nothing beats a good old schizo-kino with some beer).
And that’s about it. Gonna get to Ace Combat 7, Alan Wake, Dead Rising (the original, ofc), Metro Exodus and maybe Tekken 8 next year.