Mamoulian War

And introductory sales of Saints Row 4 (4.99 EUR where I live) and other Deep Silver games

Finished Tales of Xillia 2 with True Ending. It took me over 60 hours to reach the end credits. Unfortunatelly I was unable to defeat the final boss on Hardest Difficulty as all others, so I had to lower it for this last fight. What I really like about japanese games and movies is, that they know how to make proper sad endings, which you still enjoy, because they make sense in the way how the story unfolds. Actually ToX 2 had no happy story ending at all :-D If you want to see happy end, you have to go deeply into post-game and finish a lot of optional content. I still have to pay off 14.5 million of Gald out of my debt to see again the obligated spa ending (another typical japanese thing, which I like about their games :-D) The game is currently 88% complete, and I am still missing two most time consuming trophies. The hardest bossfight in coliseum and reaching lvl 250 with all characters. Also there is lot of hidden stuff in the game. I am currently using two english and two japaneses guides to see all the stuff, and I Have still missed some stuff. If a player wants to see all content and fill up all the item/monster/skit encyclopedias, he has to play the game at least three times. My completionist OCD will be really itching after I get the Platinum in this game, but I have currently such a big backlog, that I probably will have to be satisfied with 99.5% of the content explored, and just go and jump right into Tales of Berseria or Platinum run of Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory.

I've always been meaning to go back and play Final Fantasy XII, since Akitoshi Kawazu is a mad genius and even his bad games have something worthwhile to experience in them. I've also liked the stuff that Yasumi Matsuno did with the Ivalice games. You have your chance this year with FFXII Zodiac Job getting remaster. I have absolutely loathed FFXII when played for the first time, but I somehow fell in love with the game during second playthrough. Sometime one look is really not enough. For me, no touch will always be anything made by EA and Ubisoft. And currently on my never touch list is also FFVII Remake. From what I have read and see so far, well it will be hell lot of disapointment. They turned the third best FF game into hack and slash game, where you will be controling only one character... *puke emote* Oh and whenever I see a game being advertised as open world game, it is very likely that it ends up on my No Touch List as well.

And again Tales of Xillia 2. I have reached the "Bad Ending". Took me almost 66 hours and with it, I have got the Chromatus Control trophy, for not using the transformation skill after Chapter 13. Only 3 more Trophies to go, 2 of them are for different endings and one to get to maximum level, and then I'll have another Japanese Platinum One of the endings, which I still miss are to beat special Colosseum boss you need to fulfill some hard to do prerequisites for this fight to happen. I was able to meet them in my first playthrough, but I was unable to beat the superboss

Well no one said otherwise :-P

No One Lives Forever

Hard Reset for me was the game with most similarities, but narrower corridors and robots. For me 10 out of 10 on happy mayhem scale :-P

Yes, playing a bad game is hurtful. If your game crashes in middle of the mission, where you are unable to save/autosave, most people experience different feelings from rage to stress, and as we all know, these feelings might cause serious harm to the human organism. The exposure to stress even shortens people's lives in the long run... *shrugs*

Tales of Berseria is next in line after I finish Platinum in ToX2 :-P Yakuza 0 has to wait few more days :-P

Starting Chapter 12 in Tales of Xillia 2. 18 millions Gald still to pay off from my debt. Moving forward pretty fast on Hardest Difficulty. The hardest fight so far, was in Gaius' subquest episode 2. Had to beat all 4 guys from Chimeriad in Fractured Dimension. After getting kicked my ass 4 times, I have emerged victorious. Using Linked and Mystic Artes at the right time was key to victory. After the fight I got two levels :-P

I have just started Chapter 11 in Tales of Xillia 2 NG+. I have already full roster. I really love, that you can make your party from 9 characters, so I am always alternating and playing with different character. And all of the characters have their own quest stories. And still no need for grinding, unless you want to. I miss so much the times, when games still had lot of sidequest with stories around them MMO type questing just ruins the enjoyment of most games for me, most of the time

250??I did it in 80 or 90, I think. Are you going for all Grade stuff? Oh, my bad, I missed 2 in my message :/ I play Tales of Xillia 2. I have finishe Platinum in Original ToX in about 135 hours. ToX 2 is lasting much longer for me, because beside of Platinum, I somehow feel, that I should unlock all waepons, beasts and skits in the encyclopedia :-D I haven't played ToX2 yet. I hear the platinum is a pita, so I might skip it for the second game. I beat Dragon's Crown yesterday. I don't know if I will go for higher difficulty playthroughs. I played a bit on hard and it was fun, but playing alone has finally got boring. I played some random online games and it was decent fun. Actually it is not as much pita as it looked like, it just takes more time to do all the stuff, but keep in mind, that in my current 250 hours, I have spent at least 20 on completionist thingies, which are not required for Platinum. The hardest things are Battle Trophies, but if I was able to master them all, most of the players should be able to do them as well. I do not consider myself Uber Tales of Pro regarding to combat execution. Tales of Zestiria Platinum will be much bigger pita. The second issue I had was grinding Gaius' Chivalry support ability to 450. This one was time consuming, but in the end, I have found two enemies, which made the grind much faster. To bad I found it when I was at number 250 :-D The enemies can be found in Culmar Trail and Mon Highlands. I do not know their names, but both have models of female soldiers/bandits. So if you ever go for the platinum, do not forget about these enemies. It will save you few hours for sure ;-) Everything else was on par with original ToX. It has even the same recommended spots for some character related trophies and battle trophies.

Reign of Winter, Curse of the Crimson Throne or Jade Regent Adventure Path put into Turn Based isometric world with rules as close as possible to Pathfinder RPG or some true space opera based on Starfinder rules

He's definitely put in his time in the video game business. Can't blame a guy for wanting to relax and enjoy his life. I'd retire right now, if I could afford to, and I'm significantly younger than Brian Fargo. I'd retire immediately if I had the money to do so and I'm 30 years younger than Fargo. But then again I'm not creating anything else except tears and misery. I'm sorry but this made me laugh out loud this morning. I needed that. It was meant as such. My job isn't the sorta job where you make many friends Are you a tax collector? :-P

250??I did it in 80 or 90, I think. Are you going for all Grade stuff? Oh, my bad, I missed 2 in my message :/ I play Tales of Xillia 2. I have finishe Platinum in Original ToX in about 135 hours. ToX 2 is lasting much longer for me, because beside of Platinum, I somehow feel, that I should unlock all waepons, beasts and skits in the encyclopedia :-D

Finished Chapter 8 of Tales of Xillia in my NG+ run for Platinum. 8 more chapters to go :-P currently getting close to 250 hours mark O.o

Oh god.... the blonde thing... is that man or a woman. I am so affraid to click that link, to find out myself O.o

If you want to enjoy For Honor in fullest, you have to either shell out 70+730USD or play 5200 hours. Do you still think that Microtransactions should stay in the games? https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/03/analysis-for-honor-unlocks-cost-730-or-5200-hours/

Well if you are used to higher standard of previous BW games, especially voiceover. It's harder to get used to lower standards of ME:A. If you are used to lower standards of Beth games, well you at least know, that it would be almost impossible to go any lower :-P

Yesterdays evening relax https://www.youtu.be/3uavlCw1DMY I am the green one. Unfortunatelly I have lost the fight, due to braking mostake in the last segment of the video But I enjoyed every second of it!

(saved this one for future use) https://gfycat.com/KlutzyImmenseJellyfish This one is hillarious as well :-D

I see. I have to reconsider naming my characters in various games. Behold my new fighter in Pillars of Eternity named Blod!

Well it's easy, do not buy games, which contain microtransactions, and they will go away, like multiplayer passes... It just needs that you start apending your money more wisely. Give your money to a smaller company, even if their game is not "Teh Best Evah" or trendy, but treats customers as a customers and not walking wallets, and the bigwigs will notice their revenue to fall and change their ways. It happened already with MP passes, it can happen again. Just stop falling for their hype, and be prepared to miss some AAA stuff. You will still have enough fun, there are more games made each month than ever before... Just be resillient about this...

No!

Taking into account that a main heroine in the game about machines is called Aloy, I have my doubts about the quality of the writing in this game :-P