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[muladhara]

So, um, I, uh, have a PS4 now????

I got it free with my phone, which is mind-boggling and hilarious given that when we came into this year, my most recent Playstation was a PS2!

At the risk of repeating my question from February, any recs?

I have a list of games I want but can't afford, and three I own, handily behind this cut.

Own:

Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age
Final Fantasy Type-0 HD
Mass Effect: Andromeda*

Want:

The Last Guardian
Shadow of the Colossus
Persona 5
Wipeout Omega Collection
Final Fantasy XV
The Last Remnant remake
Agents of Mayhem
Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon Every Buddy
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles remake
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Nier Automata
Horizon Zero Dawn
KH everything + III
Spyro Reignited
Crash Bandicoot remake**
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (I blame Outside Xbox for this one. I never really wanted to play a LotR game before this)
No Man's Sky
The Outer Worlds (turns out this is a first person game, and I can't play those :( )
all the Persona rhythm games
Pillars of Eternity (I blame Critical Role for this one)
Stellaris
Subnautica
Thimbleweed Park
Undertale
World of Final Fantasy
Yakuza 0 (and all the others)
some of the Ys games
eta: Untitled Goose Game
Spiderman
Stardew Valley[/eta]

Possible:

Elder Scrolls Online, except I don't play MMOs and can't afford a PS Plus subscription
Final Fantasy XIV for the exact same reason
Final Fantasy VII remake


I also thought about getting DA:I so I could have the prettier graphics and actually get completion on the story (since the 360/PS3 versions didn't get all the DLC because EA and/or Bioware are dicks).

I also also thought about getting one/some of the D&D games that are available because there seem to be quite a few now? I knew about the Baldur's Gate ones but I saw one that's a sequel to Planescape and there's Icewind Dale + something else as well? (And Neverwinter Nights, ofc. I remember a lot of people being BIG into that back in the day, so I want to know what the fuss was about!) (I blame Critical Role for this also)

So that's a bigger list than I expected! But if you have any additions or comments on what I've listed, please comment! (Heads up: I like Survival Horror in principle, but I absolutely will not play it. Which is why I'm avoiding the RE2 remake like the plague, for instance, and will not touch RE7 ever).

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I don't know if I had anything else to say, but if I did, it has fallen out of my head in all the excitement.

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*I know, I know, I know, but maybe I'll end up liking it? *shrug emoji*

**Crash Bandicoot was my BFF's favourite game when we were teenagers and yet somehow I never managed to play it, so making up for lost time, I guess!

Comments

[muladhara]

Ah, I might have to hold off on that one until I have more money then (I wondered if it needed its own sub but I know next to nothing about MMOs).

(No worries! I was pretty slow on getting to you about whether I wanted it or not in the first place).

[lassarina]

Yeah, it has a subscription fee per month and new expansions come out every two years, so every couple years there's a new "game" that's about $40 which gives another ~40-60 hours of new story content plus whatever leveling etc. you do, and the monthly fee is in two tiers which I think are $12 and $15 US? $12 gets you one character per server, $15 is multiple characters per server. One character can try out as many job classes as you like, so there's no limitations there. All other real-money things are either completely cosmetic (clothing, mounts) or extreme convenience ("skipping" to level 70 on extra classes; it's very easy to keep up with the story level-wise on your main class) and thus entirely optional. I actually really like the monetary structure for XIV; it's very reasonable.

[muladhara]

That does sound reasonable! Welp, one day when I am rich I might get to playing it...

[lassarina]

XD yeah it's definitely one of my indulgences, but I enjoy it very much and have a good group of friends I play with that makes it very fun. ALso I find the community pretty solid; there are a few toxic elitists, but in general the playerbase ranges from "inoffensive" to "pleasant" to "hey can I talk to you more", so I'm happy with that.