I think I remember Maximilian dood mention that the royal edition is the way to go with ffxv. Suggestion that it’s not worth playing otherwise, but I played through the original and had blast. Specially after I got chocobos and just ignored the car for 90% of the game.
With the exception of a single optional side mission boss, who had me stubbornly fighting him for 6 hours. Because I refused to just stop and see how to fight it, or what I needed.
Thanks for the tip. I will look into the Royal Edition upgrade to see what all it adds. I’m only 12 hours in, so I imagine I could still get value out of it.
Right now I’m just wandering around the map and having fun uncovering points of interests and knocking out quests/bounties.
Just finished India Jones and The Great Circle, it was a pretty fun experience with some fantastic levels, just the amount of time I spent on the boat felt a little long.
Completed Visions of Mana.
About 50 total hours played. Played on normal difficulty. Didn’t do everything though as the game is bigger, longer and has more content than you would think that it would have.
Visually, the game looked excellent and I love the art style and the lush environments. Only negative would be the pop-in of NPC’s, enemies and the environment at times. Otherwise, a pleasure to look at.
Audio was great. I actually liked all the voice acting and the sound effects were really good. Music is very good for the most part. Only negative would be at times, the characters lips wouldn’t move during cut scenes in game while at other times, they would. Minor issue though.
Gameplay and combat is good but I wasn’t into the vessel/elemental setup at all. Didn’t like the abilities with all the sigils you get throughout the entire game. It becomes too much. I would have preferred a much simpler combat/upgrading system. Too many times, the vessels would be the same weapon that I didn’t want to you. Also, there was some camera issues at times where I just couldn’t get it exactly the way I wanted it. The on screen effects become a little too much and not being to turn off damage numbers didn’t help. There’s platforming and a lot of cool stuff in the game due to the elemental setup in general but I wasn’t a fan of it for combat. The last issue was at times during boss battles, you would try to heal or revive yourself or an ally but yet, it wouldn’t register. So many times I had to slam down the A button just to hope that it would go through. The exploration though is pretty good. Side quests are generic fetch quests for the most part to where I stopped doing them after a while. The ruins were pretty good and the dungeons were solid.
Story and characters for me was more of a highlight than the gameplay/combat. I really enjoyed it all. I wasn’t happy with one aspect in the first half of the game and I wish they did a different ending but that’s more of a personal preference than anything.
Overall, a great game. Despite the negatives I listed, I still wanted to keep playing the game. Would have went for 100% completion but doing so would take up the second week of my vacation and I really want to get through my next game which will be Star Wars Outlaws via Ubisoft+ this coming Monday and the weekend is NFL playoff time.
Going through the RE series (for my wife and to go through versions never completed from my backlog) and Crysis 2 Remastered (loved this game on 360).
I decided to take a crack at a bunch of achievements I had never gotten in Halo MCC so have been playing a bunch of random things in that.
I really like how Yakuza 3 has these slow moments when Kiryu manages the orphanage and takes care of the children and their problems. Nice change of pace. Okinawa is also a good location. Only the Kojima-esk cutscene in the middle of the game dragged it down, i almost fell asleep. Holy sh** was that bad.
right now: 0 > Kiawmi 2 > 3 > 7 >>> Kiwami 1
Just finished a playthrough of Slay the Princess - The Prestige Cut in Xbox. I thought it was a pretty good game, the voice acting was being just 2 people really helped homed in on the story as convoluted as it was.
The ending I got gave me the achievement our song as it wasn’t the good ending and if I ever choose to. I have 38 achievements I can go after, but honestly I think this ending was for the best. As the Narrators overall plan and motivations seemed foolishly to me.
Edit: Now starting Genshin Impact!
Been playing POE2 pretty much nonstop since it came out but taking a break until the next patch. Started playing Diablo 2R until then
Struggling to finish Final Fantasy XVI, it’s not a bad game by any means, its main quests are thrilling, great music, acting is great. It’s making me want to actually write a review to sort my feelings on it which is more than I can say for most games I play.
Don’t know what will grab my attention next there are so many games to play especially 100hr long RPGs.
Started up a new Cyberpunk 2077 playthrough on PC after buying Phantom Liberty on sale. Time to say goodbye to another 100+ hours of my life 
I forgot how good this game was and with all the updates since last time I played it’s been turned up to 11!
Dragon Age: Veilguard
