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PS+ October: Resident Evil, Transformers, From Dust, Mad Riders
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I mean...he addresses that right in the post you quoted. He feels like it takes time away from 100% trophy/achievement collecting.
You probably need to free up space.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
For someone who has lived with depression, holy shit is Actual Sunlight a trip or what.
DriftingSpirit
Member
You think it handles the topic well?
the trophies aren't that bad. i just finished the plat and you can pretty much run through the game in 2.5-3 hours once you know it
Charlouie Jonesman
Banned
Honestly, REmake is one of the easier titles to get the platinum trophy for. The knife thing is kinda...well...but you can do it on any difficulty. The only real roadblock is the "Visit every room and pick up every item" trophy. Not because it's hard or anything, it's just so tedious and pointless. Whoever thought of this trophy is an idiot.
DriftingSpirit
Member
What would you say is the most challenging trophy?
Charlouie Jonesman
Banned
The knife thing. But if you really just want the trophy and don't care how you get it, attempting this on Very Easy with the new controls trivializes this a lot.
Invisible Mode isn't easy, but by the point you're attempting it, you should be familiar enough with the game.
Cheshire_Buddha
Member
I related to that game more than I'd have liked to. I had to sit it down for a few minutes at a couple of points. Really hit home to me.
Tenshin
Member
same i just click resume again until it finished. dont know why. i still have enough space btw.
SolidChamp
Banned
Anyone know if Transformers has a control scheme that makes it decent for remote play?
Resident Evil Remastered is absolutely PERFECT for remote play, since the aim and fire are mapped to the shoulder buttons and bringing up the map is on the touch screen.
Control-wise, it's a seamless gameplay experience.
Resident Evil Remastered is absolutely PERFECT for remote play, since the aim and fire are mapped to the shoulder buttons and bringing up the map is on the touch screen.
Control-wise, it's a seamless gameplay experience.
DriftingSpirit
Member
Thanks
orthodoxy1095
Banned
I had to put my Vita down a few times because it was getting to me. Teared up a bit towards the end actually.
I think it does. I have a feeling that the writing might come off as too sharp, or too pretentious for some people, or that the interactivity might be too limited for others. A lot of popular media is too afraid to get deep with the topic of depression and usually just keeps a character's "depression" to something like a "ho-hum day" or maybe some bad nightmares. Evan's story and world is brutally crushing, and it's good that it's so crushing and real.
I think one of the most important things it does is remind people that games don't need to be fun. It never tries to be anything but completely serious and honest.
DriftingSpirit
Member
I completely agree. The game just needs to be whatever the developer wants it to be. The question is simply whether they successfully accomplish whatever it is they are trying to do. There is nothing wrong with being serious and gloomy. It is an aspect of life just like the fun and silly stuff. People just don't want to deal with it.
Good to hear the game was able to connect with you.
SolidChamp
Banned
Bueller?
Holy shit isn't Transformers mad fun!? Been playing for a couple of hours and had to force myself to stop because I need to study for my mid terms, got 3 on Friday and Peru's playing tomorrow (football) so tomorrow night is already off the table. Will make sure to keep playing over the weekend or next week.
SolidSnakex
Member
Japan's Plus games for this month
Resident Evil HD (PS4)
Tricky Towers (PS4)
Datura (PS4)
Nobunuga's Ambition (Vita)
Danganronpa VR (PSVR)
And
Ni no Kuni (PS3)
https://www.jp.playstation.com/blog/detail/3790/20161005-psplus.html
https://www.jp.playstation.com/blog/detail/3754/20160929-psplus.html
Resident Evil HD (PS4)
Tricky Towers (PS4)
Datura (PS4)
Nobunuga's Ambition (Vita)
Danganronpa VR (PSVR)
And
Ni no Kuni (PS3)
https://www.jp.playstation.com/blog/detail/3790/20161005-psplus.html
https://www.jp.playstation.com/blog/detail/3754/20160929-psplus.html
Fushichou187
Member
Jeeezus... Actual Sunlight? Sony was like "Y'all like the video games, kids? Well here you fuckin' go. Have at it." I don't remember the last time they pushed something out there so widely (via PS+) that was just so stark and bleak (and on point).
Booker Dewitt
Member
I got to the first line after the content warning in Actual Sunlight before I went "nope."
Like, Fuck.
Like, Fuck.
Don't feel bad. I was exactly like you 7 years ago or whenever trophies came out. I got the platinum trophy sickness yet couldn't let go of my fighting game fever, ending up in hundreds of hours wasted trying to get pointless achievements for platinums for SFIV series (Get C rank with every character), MK 9 (Play each character for 24 hours at least), KOF XIII (Do all trials and play 200 ranked online), etc. My obsession for plats made by two friends get into them too, even though I thought they took the easy way out/cop out and started buying easy games to plat.
Eventually getting those last couple of trophies became difficult due to real life situations (had to move to USA for school). I needed to play like 3 more matches on KOFXIII on PSN to get that platinum, or needed to do about 100metres of movement more to get my last Soul Calibur V trophy, but I got into Dota 2 and stopped caring about console games.
Now I buy way more games than I have time to play, and dabble in everything from Senran Kagura to Dark Souls, Dota 2 to Pokemon ORAS. If I'd still have cared about platinums I might have missed out on a lot of games. My platinum count hasn't moved past 26 for the last 4 years and I'm not bothered. My two friends recently completed 65+ and 70+ plats recently
Fushichou187
Member
I mean... personally I think it's worth it. It's not long at all, and the stuff written is brutalist for sure but in a way that, as an adult in my 30s, I can 100% relate to, and while not uplifting in the least, I appreciate the thoughts and feelings being explored here.
Booker Dewitt
Member
I'm sure it's great, I mean, it got to me with just one sentence. But considering how this past year has been for me, I'd rather not immerse myself in feels that will more than surely creep up in a few hours.
plasmawave
Banned
RE graphics still hold up.
Fushichou187
Member
Totally valid point. Having a bit of distance from some of those darker thoughts surely helps me frame what's there in a more objective light, but yeah, I hear what you're saying.
Transformers Devastation feels like bargain-bin Bayonetta, and it's a lot of fun... too bad Transformers is such a horrible franchise.
I would've taken anything in its place.
Tank controls aren't great, but it's they way you should play it.
Just consider the fact that you're meant to be slow, and the inability to move swiftly (for better or worse) is what balances out the lack of faster enemies, the auto lock on, and other things that tend to make the game easy.
Also, always try to keep at least one inventory slot free when exploring around new areas (better if two).
Aaalso, Jill is somewhat the easier playthrough to start with, even at matching difficulty levels.
I would've taken anything in its place.
Tank controls aren't great, but it's they way you should play it.
Just consider the fact that you're meant to be slow, and the inability to move swiftly (for better or worse) is what balances out the lack of faster enemies, the auto lock on, and other things that tend to make the game easy.
Also, always try to keep at least one inventory slot free when exploring around new areas (better if two).
Aaalso, Jill is somewhat the easier playthrough to start with, even at matching difficulty levels.
Charlouie Jonesman
Banned
The three difficulty choices at the beginning look like they're:
Hard
Normal
Easy
But they're actually:
Normal
Easy
Very Easy (New in the HD Remaster.)
Hard doesn't unlock until you've finished the game. So if you wanna play on Normal, pick the top option at the beginning. It's pretty confusing and about 90% of Let's Players unknowingly play this game on Easy difficulty.
You should also pick the Original controls, the new one break the game, might as well give you a dodge roll and double jump.
As with almost any classic RE the beginning section is the hardest part. Try dodging enemies rather than fight them until you have a sizable amount of ammo. Actually, best not engage enemies until you have the means to dispose of the bodies as well. You'll see what that means.
Jill is probably the better choice for beginners, she can carry more items, gets a grenade launcher throughout the course of the game, can skip certain puzzles through an NPC's help and carries a lockpick for some doors that Chris would need keys for.
Chris is faster, better with weapons and has more health though. Your choice.
Thanks! I played a bit tonight before reading these posts. Seems I chose easy difficulty, ah well. I'm playing as Jill and just got wrecked by a dog.
Badlucktroll
Member
Holy shit Resident Evil is amazing! This is one of the best games i have ever played. The foreboding atmosphere is almost relaxing.
I second this.
I'm a huge fan of the original Silent Hill games, but had never played the early Resident Evil games. Playing RE is making me all kinds of nostalgic and I'm loving it to death.
I'm definitely getting the RE2 remake once it hits.
I wish Konami wasn't shit and got to work on a proper Silent Hill remake in the spirit of this game.
don't play it like 4/5/6. try and avoid most zombies by baiting them to lunge at you then run around rather than shoot them.
Old style RE is this glorious combination of oppressive, tense and comfy. The swinging back and forth between struggling to survive and being prepared and confident is, to me, the essence of what makes survival horror great.
I feel like RE2 hits this aspect the most for me. I played it long after REmake, Zero, and CV and still consider it the best. The RE2make can't come soon enough.
Stealthcobra
Member
What control scheme are you using?
Voysa Reezun
Banned
So, can we talk about Actual Sunlight? Because I feel terrible about not liking it.
I want to start by saying that I'm not here to police anyone's concept of his or her own depression, and I know that the game is strongly autobiographical. With that said, the writing reads like an angsty, nihilistic Holden Caulfield clone is the main character of the game - which maybe is the point, but which I guess doesn't connect with me at all anymore as I went through the stages of agreeing with Holden himself totally at about fourteen, hating the little bastard at about twenty-two, and learning to have sympathy for him and understanding where he's coming from by the time I was twenty-six.
Evan, in this game, is someone who I think I would just be utterly fucking annoyed by in real life, which makes me feel bad, but which I can't help but admit. I don't think he's funny, I think his projection of what people look for out of life (like his silly Alan Wake rant) is so absurdly nihilistic as to be alien to me - I can't really understand him as anything other than a cartoon character. I'm sure this says terrible things about me more than it does about the character or the writing, but I was just going through the motions clicking on everything and reading it and rolling my eyes by about halfway through.
I was hoping for something as moving as, say, Allie Brosh writing about her bout with severe depression in Hyperbole-and-a-Half, and while I don't expect everyone's depression to manifest in that way (or in any specific way), I also found Evan so nihilistic and sarcastic that I couldn't care about him on any level other than that suicide is fucking horrible and I don't want anyone to feel that s/he has to take his or her own life. By the end of this sucker, I was sort of numb to Evan and his fate. Is that the point? Am I just an inhuman monster? I don't think either of those are quite true, but I'm not sure that I should just feel like, "OK, I'm moving on from this game and it didn't make me feel anything except tired of rolling my eyes."
Actually, I take that back. I will give this game one thing: It did make me feel something else, which is that I felt bad for not feeling very bad for Evan.
I want to start by saying that I'm not here to police anyone's concept of his or her own depression, and I know that the game is strongly autobiographical. With that said, the writing reads like an angsty, nihilistic Holden Caulfield clone is the main character of the game - which maybe is the point, but which I guess doesn't connect with me at all anymore as I went through the stages of agreeing with Holden himself totally at about fourteen, hating the little bastard at about twenty-two, and learning to have sympathy for him and understanding where he's coming from by the time I was twenty-six.
Evan, in this game, is someone who I think I would just be utterly fucking annoyed by in real life, which makes me feel bad, but which I can't help but admit. I don't think he's funny, I think his projection of what people look for out of life (like his silly Alan Wake rant) is so absurdly nihilistic as to be alien to me - I can't really understand him as anything other than a cartoon character. I'm sure this says terrible things about me more than it does about the character or the writing, but I was just going through the motions clicking on everything and reading it and rolling my eyes by about halfway through.
I was hoping for something as moving as, say, Allie Brosh writing about her bout with severe depression in Hyperbole-and-a-Half, and while I don't expect everyone's depression to manifest in that way (or in any specific way), I also found Evan so nihilistic and sarcastic that I couldn't care about him on any level other than that suicide is fucking horrible and I don't want anyone to feel that s/he has to take his or her own life. By the end of this sucker, I was sort of numb to Evan and his fate. Is that the point? Am I just an inhuman monster? I don't think either of those are quite true, but I'm not sure that I should just feel like, "OK, I'm moving on from this game and it didn't make me feel anything except tired of rolling my eyes."
Actually, I take that back. I will give this game one thing: It did make me feel something else, which is that I felt bad for not feeling very bad for Evan.
cryptosporidium
Member
Fuck I played like 2 hours of Transformers and it was awesome. But i have essays to write.. 
this is an amazing PS+ month
this is an amazing PS+ month
EdReedFan20
Member
Wow. Nice month for them. Datura on PS4? That's the first I've heard of a PS4 remaster of that game. I'm surprised that didn't come out everywhere in anticipation of Bound.
Pancake Mix
Copied someone else's pancake recipe
Oh man... There'd be no Silent Hill without Resident Evil. If you are waiting for a new Silent Hill, but haven't played the early RE's, you've come to the best place to quench your thirst.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
I'm super impressed that they chose it. It's a super ballsy pick in terms of length, style of game and content.
That's absolutely fine. It's a game that you should play only if you're up to it.
Because boy oh boy does it not pull its punches!
For what it's worth, I think this is both a completely valid reaction to Evan and a completely valid portrayal of depression.
Spieler Eins
Member
Give me all the Transformers and Resident Evil love.
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