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1. Alan Wake's American Nightmare - 1/2 2. Final Fantasy VII - 1/9 3. Max Payne - 1/11 4. Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest - 1/15 5. Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne - 1/16 6. Max Payne 3 - 1/19 7. Empire: Total War (France) - 1/22 8. Final Fantasy VII Remake - 1/30 9. Greedfall - 2/7 10. Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars (true ending) - 2/10 11. Kirby: Star Allies - 2/12 12. Destroy All Humans! (2020) - 2/12 13. Pokémon Alpha Sapphire - 2/19 14. Kirby Super Star - 2/22 15. Modern Warfare 2019 campaign - 3/6 16. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare campaign - 3/13 17. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 campaign - 3/15 18. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 campaign - 3/18 19. Pokemon Brilliant Diamond - 3/19 20. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare campaign - 3/24 21. Napoleon: Total War - 3/24 22. Elden Ring - 3/31 23. Call of Duty: Ghosts - 4/2 24. Fire Emblem Fates: Revelation - 4/4 25. Bloodborne - 4/12 26. Pokemon Legends: Arceus (completed Pokedex) - 4/26 27. Dark Souls Remastered - 5/10 28. Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga - 5/20 29. Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies - 6/5 30. Astro Boy: Omega Factor (rebirth, all characters) - 6/22 31. Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice - 6/24 32. Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Silver Snow) - 7/3 33. Metal Gear - 7/5 34. Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake - 7/10 35. Metal Gear Solid - 7/16 36. Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes (Golden Wildfire path) - 7/21 37. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty - 7/23 38. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (no kills) - 7/27 39. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots - 7/30 40. Gun Mute - 8/3 41. Digimon Survive - 8/13 42. The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan - 8/16 43. The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope - 8/20 44. SMT Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers - 9/5 45. Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia - 9/17 46. Kirby: Planet Robobot - 9/24 47. The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes - 10/2 48. The Quarry - 10/8 49. Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation - 10/21 50. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II campaign - 10/22 51. TimeSplitters: Future Perfect story - 10/23 52. Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins - 11/4 53. Dragon Quest - 11/19 54. Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past - 11/22 55. The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil In Me - 11/26 56. Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime - 12/4/2022 57. Pentiment - 12/7 58. Super Mario World - 12/16 59. Halo: Combat Evolved - 12/18 60. Arietta of Spirits - 12/20 61. Star Fox 64 - 12/20 62. Ace Attorney Investigations - 12/27 63. Tokimeki Memorial (Mio ending) - 12/31 Punished Chuck fucked around with this message at 09:35 on Dec 31, 2022 |
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My first game beat of 2022: Alan Wake's American Nightmare. Weird experience, they basically threw out all the atmosphere and tension and psychological horror of the first game and made it pure action, so they threw out everything that made the first game cool in favor of the absolute worst part of it lol. But they made enough improvements to the combat that it was actually kind of fun. Hopefully the newly-announced Alan Wake 2 skews closer to the original game than this but I don't regret playing it or anything.
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Jan 2, 2022 07:22
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symbolic posted:1. Luigi's Mansion 3 (Rank: B) lol
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Jan 3, 2022 00:39
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I’m an adult, sorry. Ah’m the one who operated a successful YouTube channel. Me! GrEE!
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Jan 4, 2022 16:16
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Final Fantasy VII (original). My first time with the game, not counting a couple aborted attempts over the last few years that never got too far past leaving Midgar. I don’t have much FF experience (I played the 1+2 GBA ports way back in the day but don’t remember whether or not I beat either of them, and beat XV a couple years back, and I think that’s it) and this is such an iconic game that I figured I needed to play it at some point. I liked it a lot, the active battle thing took some getting used to but once it clicked with me I enjoyed it a lot, and I really liked most of the characters and the story. I totally understand why the game has the reputation that it does and its got me rally excited to play further in the series.
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Jan 9, 2022 22:04
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Fungah! posted:chuck...have you never played an ff Like I said, I’ve beaten XV and played 1 and 2 over half a lifetime ago but that’s it until now. I didn’t really get into JRPGs until the last few years so I’ve got a huge list of them I still need to get to
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Jan 9, 2022 22:14
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Fungah! posted:dude i'm so fuckin pumped for you. which one are you thinkin next I’m trying to decide between just going on numerically and doing 8 or starting the pixel remasters with 1
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Jan 9, 2022 22:21
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That Little Demon posted:I'm gonna suggest something a little different and say play FFT if you haven't, it counts I’ll definitely have to do that sometime, I never played the original but I borrowed FFTA from a friend in middle school and really liked it although I don’t think I made it too far before giving it back GorfZaplen posted:I'm so jealous. Ff7 is a brain wipe game for me, no question about it I kept kicking myself for not playing it back when it first came out, it would have been crazy experiencing it with no prior knowledge whatsoever
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Jan 9, 2022 22:27
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mbt posted:Shin Megami Tensei 4: Apocalypse That final dungeon is so bad and it’s completely meaningless to the story. The actual story as it relates to the characters and everything that came before it is finished and then Steven just shows up out of nowhere as everyone is celebrating and says “good work nanashi. But if you want to put this game on your Games Beat list there’s one more thing you must do…”
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Jan 10, 2022 18:18
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Max Payne. Insanely sick game. Great action, great atmosphere, just all around fantastic. Looking forward to starting 2 for the first time.
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Jan 12, 2022 07:00
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Whoever made the parts where Max is dreaming and you have to slowly, carefully walk along a one-inch wide trail of blood or plummet to your death, and jump between trails with weird moon-landing physics, and you can't tell where you're going and there's a 2-second clip of a baby crying playing on loop the whole time, is going to Hell for sure. He's not seeing Heaven.
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Jan 12, 2022 07:03
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In Training posted:When I played this the game kept glitching out during the nightmare sequences and I could fly everywhere like 6 inches off the ground but if I went too far off the invisible paths you would instantly die. I thought this is just how it was designed and was even more pissed off than you lol lmao Jesus, I’d have lost my mind completely
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Jan 12, 2022 16:58
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GG's really neat but I fall off of it every year because I bounce around between a dozen games at a time depending on my mood and it's hard to keep up with even for me. But I'll give it another shot this year: https://ggapp.io/SAFAO Looks like last year I fell off in late April or early May so I've got some catching up to do
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Jan 12, 2022 18:10
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American McGay posted:I just use it to officially log the completed status of every game I beat, I don't bother with any of the other features like "currently playing" or "want to play". Yeah I think this is what I'm going to start doing, with a "want to play" for my 2022 goal games. I was hoping that doing status updates, currently playing, etc would help me keep myself accountable to actually finish the games I start but instead I just kept jumping between 1 million games and abandoned my lists. symbolic posted:Bicyclops entering hour five of adding every NES game to "Want to Play": lmao
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Jan 12, 2022 18:40
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elf help book posted:theyre making a suicide squad game, and they absolutely refuse to show any gameplay in any trailers and it keeps me up at night worried They showed some at the game awards, it looked alright but nothing like the Arkham games. More gun-based than melee seems like
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Jan 15, 2022 22:41
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Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest. I'm actually shocked at how much I liked this one. Birthright was mediocre at best but this one fixed a lot of my issues with it--Conquest is more of a challege, has more varied objectives than just "rout all enemies" or "defeat the boss" like every BR map (Awakening too for that matter), and the story despite its flaws landed its emotional/character beats a lot better. I'd put it about on par with Awakening which I liked a lot, Conquest felt better in terms of map design and mission structure but Awakening has much better story and characters and feels a little better balanced so I don't know exactly how I'd rank the two. The whole premise of the game and the multiple paths--that your character is torn between their birth and adoptive families and has to pick a side in the war between them--was pulled off way better in this one, there's some real pathos with both families in this route while in Birthright the only good dramatic or emotional moments are with the family you sided against so you just felt like you made the wrong choice. Which I guess you did because this game's way way better. I'm not excited for Revelations based on what I've heard about it but I'll probably start it soon anyway for completion's sake since I've done two of the three now routes. In Training calling it "awesomely lovely" at least has me interested that it might be the funny kind of bad.
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Jan 16, 2022 07:02
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Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne. Everything great about the first game seems as good or better this time around, with higher production values that make the whole thing feel slicker. My only real complaint is that the escort missions were pretty bad but there’s only two of them and neither are particularly long and at least they weren’t the blood-trail dream sequences from 1. The action is fun, intense, and fast-paced, the story and atmosphere is a great noir pastiche, and Max is a really interesting protagonist. This was the only one in the series I hadn’t already played at some point in the past and is probably my favorite of the 3
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Jan 17, 2022 04:15
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ArfJason posted:the slo mo ragdolls in mp2 are hilarious. bullet time is ridiculous in 2 love every time you shoot a guy standing near a window and watch as he slow-mo ragdolls out the window and bounces off of every bit of scaffolding etc nearby
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Jan 17, 2022 04:39
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Max Payne 3. I remember enjoying this game a lot when it first came out, and I really liked it at first when you could just ignore the cover system and shootdodge around everywhere like the first two games, but as it goes on it starts throwing enemies that take way too much damage to put down and deal huge amounts of damage to you and the environments get narrower and restrict your movement a lot so you pretty much have to use cover more and more. The story was kind of cool and I liked the idea of taking of your standard noir protagonist and dumping him in an environment far outside the typical noir setting, even if it's an idea that probably would have been better served with a new IP instead of taking Max Payne. I'd love to live in a world where Remedy kept the IP rights and got to make their own Max Payne 3
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Jan 19, 2022 08:20
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Empire: Total War, Grand Campaign as France. I listed the Total War campaigns since Shogun II as one of my 2022 goals but I got the urge to play this and Napoleon too so I started here instead. I really like this one, I love the 1700s time period and expanding the map to the Americas and India was a great idea, although they have to balance it by severely lowering the province count in the Europe+Middle East setting which was a bit of a bummer (Great Britain is represented by 3 provinces, 1 each for England, Scotland, and Ireland, for example, so wiping them out by rushing an army across the English Channel real quick when the British Navy was elsewhere was disappointingly easy). There's a lot of variety between the different factions, and there's something incredibly satisfying about the musket- and artillery-fire, the visual effects and sound design for them are great. Looking forward to continuing my Total War journey.
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Jan 22, 2022 07:03
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EmmyOk posted:That would be bizarre Sort of. It was several large open areas that you’d move through throughout the story, not like a BOTW-style of a single huge map
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Jan 31, 2022 03:10
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I also beat Final Fantasy VII Remake. I loved it. Some sections felt a bit needlessly padded and some bosses could be kind of frustrating but those are really the only complaints I have. The idea of remaking something to expand it like this, where the few hours before leaving Midgar in the original game becomes a full 30-40 hour game on its own, seems like an idea that could very easily go wrong but they went about it very smartly. Both the major and minor members of the cast get extra characterization and the world and lore is fleshed out more but it never feels like pandering or fan service, it felt to me like it perfectly captured the feeling of the original, just more of it. The characters were one of the original game's biggest strengths and they were even more fun and likable this time around. The combat is great, it mixes the action and tactical elements a lot better than FFXV's attempt at the same idea--playing as Tifa was especially fun, I really liked her combat style. I'm really excited to see where they go from here. Now to go back and click all these spoiler tags.
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Jan 31, 2022 07:18
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b_d posted:i will be very surprised if the ghosts don't come back almost immediately I really don't think they'd do that, it feels like there'd be no point in introducing them at all if they did it that way. It felt to me like they were introduced specifically just to be killed off so they could look at you directly and say "we're going to be doing things differently this time, anything goes from now on" without explicitly breaking the fourth wall.
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Jan 31, 2022 07:23
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Arrhythmia posted:DSP: I last played, uh last played resident evil 4 circus 2005. absolutely anything posted:i would argue it still kicks rear end. lol
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Feb 4, 2022 03:23
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Greedfall. I did all companion quests and most side quests (I couldn't be bothered to do one of the collection quests and the arena, and a few got canceled without warning by main story progress which thankfully didn't seem to effect the story) and resolved them all as diplomatically as possible, so I think I nearly got the best ending possible, it ends with a Fallout: New Vegas style slideshow telling you how all the factions and companions fared after the main story and they were all nice and peaceful and all the factions held hands and learned from each other, except the DLC storyline which I bungled a little. Overall I liked it a lot, it's a lot like a mid-budget Witcher 3, both in the action-RPG combat and the quest and dialogue systems. You play as a diplomat in a colonial government in a fantasy version of the 17th-18th century colonization of the Americas, who believes that the new world has the key to a cure for a disease ravaging the home continent, so you search for this cure while trying to maintain relations between your country, the other colonial powers, and the natives. The combat was fun but it falls into the standard open world trap of having too much of it when you're just trying to get from point A to point B, and most of the enemies, especially in the open world between quests, are animals which I never really have fun fighting in these action-RPG games unless they're like Cleric Beast-style big monsters (though there are plenty of those too). I also would have preferred it if there were maybe a couple more factions and that at least some of them were mutually exclusive, it really feels like a game that should have had more Witcher 3-style hard choices instead of being able to make friends with everyone--if I remember correctly the earliest previews of the game described a ton of different factions, both colonial and native, and being able to forge alliances with some against the others but I guess it scaled back during development. But I still liked the story, characters, and world a lot and would love to see another game in this setting. Great art direction too.
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Feb 8, 2022 06:33
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John Romero posted:1. Assassin’s Creed: Origins The bank and resort island maps? Yes, I liked those at least as much as the base game maps, maybe even a little more
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Feb 8, 2022 20:51
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Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars (true ending). Wonderful game. Very solid JRPG fundamentals with fantastic presentation, the tabletop aesthetic was a really neat gimmick, the character and monster art was great, the music didn't blow me away quite as much as the same composer's work on the Nier games overall but the main theme is up there with the best of them. I liked the narrator a lot, he's like the game master so he reads all the events and all character's voice lines, the only VA in the game, which sounds like something that could get old fast but his performance was so good that the gimmick never wore out for me--although once I looked it up and realized it was the same voice actor that does Natsu in the Fairy Tail dub I wasn't ever quite able to unhear it even though he's doing a very different voice lol. It also has an insanely intense final boss fight that I wasn't expecting and is one of my favorite JRPG endboss battles in recent memory. I really can't say enough good things about it, it blew me away. Really excited for the sequel which is somehow coming out in a week.
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Feb 11, 2022 07:07
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Kirby: Star Allies. It was pretty good, the only other Kirby games I've played that I can remember well enough to compare it to are Nightmare in Dream Land and Triple Deluxe and I didn't like it as much as either of those, but it's still a good time. Having a full team of allies with you made the screen so busy it could be hard to keep track of what it's going on and it trivialized most bosses, but being able to combine different powers (some as simple as "add a fire effect to Sword Kirby's sword, some doing entirely new moves and combos) with your allies was cool and I hope they find some way to build on that in the next game somehow.
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Feb 12, 2022 23:28
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Didn't really feel like playing anything in particular today so I just bounced around between a bunch of games that I'd started but not finished, and apparently I was closer to the end than I thought on a few of them--just wrapped up the Destroy All Humans remake too. Gameplay's a bit repetitive and the boss fights kind of blow but there's still some fun to be had, it reminds me of the first Mercenaries game that came out the same year where everything's really fast and frenetic and you're just dashing around madly in the middle of all this chaos. Not all of the humor holds up but I still had some good laughs throughout. If you enjoyed the original 15+ years ago (which I did) it's worth revisiting but on its own merits it's just like a 7/10 sort of game, not bad but won't blow your mind either.b_d posted:dude you need to play kirby super star immediately. and planet robobot. in that order. I bought Planet Robobot a while back and just haven't started it yet, I'll check out Super Star on NSO soon. Thanks for the recommendations 
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Feb 13, 2022 03:55
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absolutely anything posted:it rules how overpowered you can get in bloodstained lol cool
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Feb 18, 2022 17:23
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Still working on some postgame stuff but I became the Hoenn Pokémon Champion and got credits on Pokémon Alpha Sapphire this morning. Final team was Swampert, Mightyena, Breloom, Manectric, Azelf, and a Spinda that I thought was basically just a wasted slot that I was just bringing along for the hell of it but she actually got a pretty good number of KOs against the Elite 4. I had a really good time with this one, I skipped generations 3 and 4 originally so it was basically all new to me. The new Pokémon were great and some of them rank among my favorites, Team Aqua were fun villains (their goal barely makes any sense but their designs are cool and a lot of their dialogue from both bosses and regular grunts made me laugh), and there was a ton of charm in the NPCs and their dialogue. My only real complaint is that the Hoenn setting itself isn’t really very distinctive in my opinion, I feel like I can recall the maps and towns of the first two generations that I played when I was a kid with more clarity than this one that I’m playing right now. Looking forward to trying out Gen 4 after clearing some of the postgame content.
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extremebuff posted:1. dungeon encounters. game owns. just pure jrpg dungeon crawl. dying is excruciating and enemies can really gently caress you up so youre always on your toes. Between this and the two Voice of Cards games within like 6 months it seems like square Enix is starting to make a habit of just throwing some pocket change at a creator to make a cool little low-budget project, I hope other companies start following suit
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Feb 20, 2022 23:24
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Kirby Super Star. Pretty fun. I enjoyed the gimmicks that mix up traditional Kirby gameplay like the treasure-hunting in The Great Cave Offensive or the whole power system in the last game. It had a little more bite than the more recent games too, there were a lot of traps that the devs troll you with that always made me laugh, like 1-ups that are actually inaccessible and will just lead you to falling onto spikes or something when you try to go for it--which sounds like a bad thing but there's infinite continues and it's not particularly challenging aside from that so it feels more like a funny prank than a mean trick. The character designs, animation, and music are all fantastic too.
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Tokyo Sexwale posted:1. SMT V Before the Storm is a prequel and it holds up to the first one, not as good but a good follow up imo. Definitely worth playing for as much as you liked the first one. Can’t speak on the most recent one which I haven’t played yet but skipping 2 is a good call yeah
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Ran through the campaign of Modern Warfare 2019 over the last few days as something mindless to play when I needed a palate cleanser after bashing my head against something in Elden Ring for too long. It’s fine, I forgot it was all gritty special forces stuff, would have been a lot better if it just went balls to the wall crazy with Russians invading the US eastern seaboard and last stands at the Eiffel Tower like the original Modern Warfare games. I’m interested to find out which way they’ll take the sequel when i play it on Game Pass next year
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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare remastered campaign. Continuing to go through these as a mindless way to relax when Elden Ring is kicking my rear end too hard.
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In Training posted:Lmao that this is straight faced advice to read through the Before I Play Wiki so you know how to properly unlock the Bernie Ending. lol
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I'm probably going to have every Call of Duty campaign on here by the time I finish all the Soulsbornes. Just wrapped Modern Warfare 2. Fully sick campaign, I like that enemies have less health but come in greater numbers than the first so it's much faster and more frenetic, and all the crazy setpieces with the Russian invasion of DC and so on are a cool spectacle. I started it to unwind after getting my rear end kicked by the Farum Azula boss too many times but ended up playing nearly the whole thing in one sitting.
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In Training posted:Advanced Warfare campaign kicks rear end, hope it's on your COD list. Yeah I don't think I've played that one since it came out so I'm looking forward to revisiting it. All I really remember are the first mission and the epic Kevin Spacey speech to the UN
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:I'm probably going to have every Call of Duty campaign on here by the time I finish all the Soulsbornes. Just wrapped Modern Warfare 2. Fully sick campaign, I like that enemies have less health but come in greater numbers than the first so it's much faster and more frenetic, and all the crazy setpieces with the Russian invasion of DC and so on are a cool spectacle. I started it to unwind after getting my rear end kicked by the Farum Azula boss too many times but ended up playing nearly the whole thing in one sitting. And now it’s 3’s turn. Weird that it didn’t get a remaster like the first two, some of the setpieces in this are some of my favorite in the series, like the one where you hijack a Russian sub, launch all its missiles at the rest of the Russian fleet, then haul rear end between all the exploding ships in a Zodiac, or the amphibious assault on Russian-occupied Hamburg, and it would have been cool to see them remastered.
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