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15/02 - Resident Evil 2 (PS4) 17/02 - Final Fantasy VIII (PS Vita) 18/02 - FAR: Lone Sails (PC) 14/04 - Final Fantasy IX (PS Vita) 28/04 - Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (PC) 09/05 - Devil May Cry 5 (PC) 11/05 - Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (PC) 26/05 - Observation (PC) 04/06 - Katana Zero (Switch) 29/06 -...

Yeah, I'd agree James. I like the combat just fine, it never gets in the way, but the draw is aesthetics and theming. Bayonetta came out a year before it and it's still the gold standard for character action games like this for me.

I already hate my list, if that's a comfort

I'm increasingly finding it very hard to make lists like this. I can't create a top 10 anymore, because I've played too many games of that kind of calibre to do that anymore. THAT said, thought I'd give this a go (can't see my 2013 list on this thread, as I deleted it) SOOOOO Alien: Isolation Basti...

15/02 - Resident Evil 2 (PS4) 17/02 - Final Fantasy VIII (PS Vita) 18/02 - FAR: Lone Sails (PC) 14/04 - Final Fantasy IX (PS Vita) 28/04 - Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (PC) 09/05 - Devil May Cry 5 (PC) 11/05 - Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (PC) 26/05 - Observation (PC) 04/06 - Katana Zero (Switch) 29/06 -...

As someone who has played both, I'd like to reinforce what magical_isopod said above. The Zodiac Age makes the whole thing zip along at a much more even pace. There is still challenge, especially with the latter day bosses, it just removes the hours of back and forth grinding.

15/02 - Resident Evil 2 (PS4) 17/02 - Final Fantasy VIII (PS Vita) 18/02 - FAR: Lone Sails (PC) 14/04 - Final Fantasy IX (PS Vita) 28/04 - Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (PC) 09/05 - Devil May Cry 5 (PC) 11/05 - Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (PC) 26/05 - Observation (PC) 04/06 - Katana Zero (Switch) Some of...

1. Beauty and The Beast
2. Fantasia
3. Aladdin
4. Moana
5. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
6. The Lion King
7. The Little Mermaid
8. The Emperor's New Groove
9. Frozen
10. Tangled

Realised I've seen less Spielberg movies than I'd like. 1. Jurassic Park 2. Schindler's List 3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind 4. Jaws (I am famously terrified of Sharks, but as long as it is just Robot one, I'm fine) 5. E.T. 6. Saving Private Ryan 7. Raiders of the Lost Ark This is point where ...

PC, you didn't make a rule against emulation.

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My serious answer would be a coin toss between the PS3 (3 generations of PS games available digitally) or the Wii U (multiple nintendo generations available digitally.)

Honestly, the moment proper HD became an expectation, games kind of stopped aging visually for me. 4K clearly looks the best at the moment, but it hasn't made 1080p or even 720p look worse in the same way those two did to SD. I care more about consistent frame rate than high frame rate. 30 frames pe...

15/02 - Resident Evil 2 (PS4) 17/02 - Final Fantasy VIII (PS Vita) 18/02 - FAR: Lone Sails (PC) 14/04 - Final Fantasy IX (PS Vita) 28/04 - Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (PC) 09/05 - Devil May Cry 5 (PC) 11/05 - Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (PC) 26/05 - Observation (PC) Great 4 hour puzzle game with some g...

15/02 - Resident Evil 2 (PS4) 17/02 - Final Fantasy VIII (PS Vita) 18/02 - FAR: Lone Sails (PC) 14/04 - Final Fantasy IX (PS Vita) 28/04 - Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (PC) 09/05 - Devil May Cry 5 (PC) 11/05 - Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (PC) LOVED this game. It's in the same tier as Demon's Souls, Dark...

15/02 - Resident Evil 2 (PS4) 17/02 - Final Fantasy VIII (PS Vita) 18/02 - FAR: Lone Sails (PC) 14/04 - Final Fantasy IX (PS Vita) 28/04 - Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (PC) 09/05 - Devil May Cry 5 (PC) My favourite in the series in terms of pure combat design, but the level design was pretty middling....

About half way through Devil May Cry 5. This may well be the series at it's peak in terms of mechanical sophistication and encounter design, but I do miss the more labyrinthine level design of 3 and the balls to wall creativity of DmC. There is a lot of running down corridors.

I just saw it, and I admit that things haven't had time to really settle in just yet, but there are a few points of confusion that I had during the movie: The limiting factor in the "we only have one chance" time heist was that Pym particles are an extremely finite resource. But couldn't they just ...

15/02 - Resident Evil 2 (PS4) 17/02 - Final Fantasy VIII (PS Vita) 18/02 - FAR: Lone Sails (PC) 14/04 - Final Fantasy IX (PS Vita) 28/04 - Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (PC) First AC game I've completed since Black Flag. I really enjoyed overall. It's not as great a work as the games it took influence ...

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15/02 - Resident Evil 2 (PS4)
17/02 - Final Fantasy VIII (PS Vita)
18/02 - FAR: Lone Sails (PC)

14/04 - Final Fantasy IX (PS Vita)

Thoughts on the pod!

I been enjoying AC: Odyssey quite a lot recently. I tried and failed to get into Origins. It does a lot of the same things in terms of combat and base clearing, but the tone, storytelling and lead character left me really cold. Kassandra is charismatic and instantly memorable in a way the series has...

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15/02 - Resident Evil 2 (PS4)
17/02 - Final Fantasy VIII (PS Vita)

18/02 - FAR: Lone Sails (PC)

Great little 3 hour game. Art direction and music is top notch.