[Swan]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

Congratulations.

Thanks Mock

[Dogeatdog]

Originally Posted by Swan

Youtube video

GTA 3 All Hidden Packages Speedrun.

Taken me all week, sometimes 5 hours a day, finally got my Console World Record back!!

That was HARD!!!!

This was intense. The jumps you did on #16 and #20 in Portland I actually don’t know how you managed those with Banshee so badly wrecked I defo thought it would’ve caught fire.

The bit on Staunton Island when you jumped off the boat and then jumped in the water I was thinking that was soo unlucky but it actually spawned you back on the dock and then there was no Banshee at the top of the stairs just a Landstalker (which is easily the worst car on the game to drive) that was unfortunate. I felt for you there man.

The bit with the Dodo was impressive when you flew through the gap of the lift bridge but that jump for #86 nearly messed everything up towards the end, how did that Banshee manage to survive that I don’t know

Congratulations

[Swan]

Originally Posted by Dogeatdog

This was intense. The jumps you did on #16 and #20 in Portland I actually don’t know how you managed those with Banshee so badly wrecked I defo thought it would’ve caught fire.

The bit on Staunton Island when you jumped off the boat and then jumped in the water I was thinking that was soo unlucky but it actually spawned you back on the dock and then there was no Banshee at the top of the stairs just a Landstalker (which is easily the worst car on the game to drive) that was unfortunate. I felt for you there man.

The bit with the Dodo was impressive when you flew through the gap of the lift bridge but that jump for #86 nearly messed everything up towards the end, how did that Banshee manage to survive that I don’t know

Congratulations

Oh wow you watched the whole thing, nice

Yeah so many sketchy moments. And yep, when i jumped in the water and spawned back on the docks, christ!!

It was such an intense run, and as you could tell i was super intense lol. Been grinding hard for that WR back.

Thank you

[Mystic Mock]

Me and my family mainly played some casual Games today.

Team Sonic Racing - It was really fun to replay this again, yes it isn't the best Game in the genre imo, but it offers some unique gameplay elements that are fun.

Hasbro Family Fun Pack - which has Boggle (a really fun casual Game) Trivial Pursuit Live! (Probably the best Game out of the pack) Monopoly (a really fun Game, but I like the Board Game version more) and Risk (which I've only played once in the past because the AI is broken in difficulty imo) but it has potential to be a good Game.

But yeah it was nice to play some casual Games today after playing some epic but stressful single player Games.

[Swan]

Youtube video

Actually not a bad run. 6 mins ahead of my buddy. My sniping is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bad though. But happy with that time overall.

Also, my friend got a 46:23 All Hidden Packages run today, they're only 5 secs off me

Dunno what i'll do next. Probably some 100% practice.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Swan

Youtube video

Actually not a bad run. 6 mins ahead of my buddy. My sniping is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bad though. But happy with that time overall.

Also, my friend got a 46:23 All Hidden Packages run today, they're only 5 secs off me

Dunno what i'll do next. Probably some 100% practice.

Jesus Christ you two are incredibly close on the times.

[Swan]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

Jesus Christ you two are incredibly close on the times.

She's a great gamer, and probably my best friend, sod just online, we chat everyday, and are both just as passionate as each other about running this game, on console too.

But yeah, she was streaming earlier and i was watching our runs side by side, she actually got ahead of me by 6 seconds on package 95, but she parked her car between walls on the 96th and glitched herself out of it, costing her 12 ish seconds. She had me beat, i get it though, the pressure gets to you and you mess up things you wouldn't usually dream of. But yeah, only 5 seconds in it now for Packages

Rampages, Jumps, Any%, Any% Dupeless, All Missions, All Off Road Missions, im quite far ahead though (but she's gonna get me on Packages i know it lol)

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Swan

She's a great gamer, and probably my best friend, sod just online, we chat everyday, and are both just as passionate as each other about running this game, on console too.

But yeah, she was streaming earlier and i was watching our runs side by side, she actually got ahead of me by 6 seconds on package 95, but she parked her car between walls on the 96th and glitched herself out of it, costing her 12 ish seconds. She had me beat, i get it though, the pressure gets to you and you mess up things you wouldn't usually dream of. But yeah, only 5 seconds in it now for Packages

Rampages, Jumps, Any%, Any% Dupeless, All Missions, All Off Road Missions, im quite far ahead though (but she's gonna get me on Packages i know it lol)

I'm happy to hear that you both are really close friends.I

Yeah speaking for myself the pressure in some of these GTA Games can feel immense, I can't imagine what it's like in competitive speedrunning.

You're both very good players though, and yeah she's really good on the packages.

[Nicky91]

bought myself a Seagate PS4 (PS5 compatible) Game Drive, with 2TB storage space


had another game crash and it said ''you need to update your game'' well i checked and all my games are up to date, so i thought maybe i have too much main storage space in usage and i think the more of your main storage you keep free, the faster and better it works

[Nicky91]

pole position for me (i'm on easy mode, well i ain't an expert and i use controller not wheel)


i brought Benetton back into F1, under Benetton-Lamborghini my driver name is a former f1 star, Giancarlo Fisichella, and my teammate for season 1 (so far) is Giuliano Alesi


my teammate a 21st starting grid position, ouch i need to give him few more upgrades i think, in free practices he has finished 15th, 17th, 17th so maybe i need to give him some time to slowly improve


yes i have help also with race starts because i'm usually too slow of quick reactions, and i need to focus on all of the lights exactly when they turn off

[Nicky91]

YEAHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Bahrain race won + extra point for fastest lap at the final lap as well


1. Fisichella
2. Hamilton
3. Verstappen

16. Alesi (not bad either from starting at the back row)

[Nicky91]

now that was an exciting race, Imola and I are not besties lol


qualifying 21st, and my teammate 14th outqualifying me all of a sudden


i eventually managed to finish 14th in the race, with a **** load of rain, which forced me to pit twice while i wanted just 1 stop but i had to go for inters instead of hards


my teammate finishing 17th, so no points for us here but i guess finishing a race is something

and we got a second sponsor deal

next to swiss X-Formig, we now also got british Equinox who want us to finish in the points 1 more time so no biggie there

[Zizu]

I fired up Colin McRae 3 on the PC and enjoyed it .. a blast from the past


Then I loaded up Call of Duty World at War - PC and had 30 minutes of online TDM

Took me ages to get my first ‘kill’ though


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

[Mystic Mock]

I'm currently playing Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice on the good old 3DS.

Personally I really enjoy the Boom Games (controversial I know) but I honestly think that Fire & Ice may actually be the most polished installment of the Boom series.

I hope to see a fourth installment one day as I feel like the series keeps getting better, and the Cartoon series was the most underrated Cartoon of it's generation imo.

Fire & Ice though is a really good old school Platformer in most ways, and the difficulty is harsher than Forces (which I always took personal issue with Forces on that despite liking the Game overall) I mean yeah it's not really like the main Sonic Games, but tbf it's not supposed to be.

[Mystic Mock]

Yakuza: Like A Dragon - Tbh I have normally really enjoyed Yakuza Games quite a lot over recent times, but for me so far this Game is a bust 5 chapters in.

The things that I really don't like about the Game.

1. The characters don't **** and go on for ten centuries about the most mundane **** imaginable. To the point where I can't get my bond levels up with my party members outside because they chat for 5 hours, that by the time that they're about to shut up the Street Punks are on me, therefore failing to get the bonding to improve without spending money.

2. Getting money in the Game was a joke until Chapter 4.

3. The characters are too beige for a series like Yakuza, none of them are eccentric which to me is a shame as it gave Yakuza it's own character and feel over GTA or any of the other rival Games.

4. The change of genre in what's meant to be a mainline installment is a disgrace imo, Yakuza is meant to be a fast paced action brawler, not some poor attempt at a Turn Based RPG that isn't even implemented very well even if it weren't apart of the Yakuza franchise.

5. The Game does seem to be blatantly political as well, don't get me wrong I know that other Yakuza Games had their Politics, but it was more subtle than this Game with it's Bleach Japan & Nanba as a character in general.

6. The Substories whilst the best element of this dreadful Game, again compared to other Yakuza Games they're a lot more serious & beige (with the exception of Baby Don't Cry) and the guy pissing in a river.

Basically typical modern entertainment going around beiging a series up because they're scared of the original style offending people, instead (speaking for myself) I get offended at how boring a lot of the so called entertainment is at the moment.

There is honestly nothing wrong with entertainment actually being entertaining production companies.

[Mystic Mock]

Yakuza: Like A Dragon - Tbh I have normally really enjoyed Yakuza Games quite a lot over recent times, but for me so far this Game is a bust 5 chapters in.

The things that I really don't like about the Game.

1. The characters don't **** and go on for ten centuries about the most mundane **** imaginable. To the point where I can't get my bond levels up with my party members outside because they chat for 5 hours, that by the time that they're about to shut up the Street Punks are on me, therefore failing to get the bonding to improve without spending money.

2. Getting money in the Game was a joke until Chapter 4.

3. The characters are too beige for a series like Yakuza, none of them are eccentric which to me is a shame as it gave Yakuza it's own character and feel over GTA or any of the other rival Games.

4. The change of genre in what's meant to be a mainline installment is a disgrace imo, Yakuza is meant to be a fast paced action brawler, not some poor attempt at a Turn Based RPG that isn't even implemented very well even if it weren't apart of the Yakuza franchise.

5. The Game does seem to be blatantly political as well, don't get me wrong I know that other Yakuza Games had their Politics, but it was more subtle than this Game with it's Bleach Japan & Nanba as a character in general.

6. The Substories whilst the best element of this dreadful Game, again compared to other Yakuza Games they're a lot more serious & beige (with the exception of Baby Don't Cry) and the guy pissing in a river.

Basically typical modern entertainment going around beiging a series up because they're scared of the original style offending people, instead (speaking for myself) I get offended at how boring a lot of the so called entertainment is at the moment.

There is honestly nothing wrong with entertainment actually being entertaining production companies.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

Yakuza: Like A Dragon - Tbh I have normally really enjoyed Yakuza Games quite a lot over recent times, but for me so far this Game is a bust 5 chapters in.

The things that I really don't like about the Game.

1. The characters don't **** and go on for ten centuries about the most mundane **** imaginable. To the point where I can't get my bond levels up with my party members outside because they chat for 5 hours, that by the time that they're about to shut up the Street Punks are on me, therefore failing to get the bonding to improve without spending money.

2. Getting money in the Game was a joke until Chapter 4.

3. The characters are too beige for a series like Yakuza, none of them are eccentric which to me is a shame as it gave Yakuza it's own character and feel over GTA or any of the other rival Games.

4. The change of genre in what's meant to be a mainline installment is a disgrace imo, Yakuza is meant to be a fast paced action brawler, not some poor attempt at a Turn Based RPG that isn't even implemented very well even if it weren't apart of the Yakuza franchise.

5. The Game does seem to be blatantly political as well, don't get me wrong I know that other Yakuza Games had their Politics, but it was more subtle than this Game with it's Bleach Japan & Nanba as a character in general.

6. The Substories whilst the best element of this dreadful Game, again compared to other Yakuza Games they're a lot more serious & beige (with the exception of Baby Don't Cry) and the guy pissing in a river.

Basically typical modern entertainment going around beiging a series up because they're scared of the original style offending people, instead (speaking for myself) I get offended at how boring a lot of the so called entertainment is at the moment.

There is honestly nothing wrong with entertainment actually being entertaining production companies.

Okay I'm gonna be starting the 8th chapter today.

For anyone that has played it all the way through, does this Game ever get any good?

Seriously I thought Resident Evil: Village was a bumpy ride, but this Game is just getting worse and worse.

And for me it's a shame as I normally love the Yakuza Games, and even was supportive of Sega swapping leads for this Game, but I honestly can't approve of the gameplay and overall tone of the Game also being very different.

Saeko & Nanba in particular are really abhorrent characters imo.

Plus for Yakuza 8, Sega needs to not make every scene feel like they're 5 hours long, this cast could talk about eating Sushi, and it will go on for at least 10 minutes.

[Jordan.]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

Okay I'm gonna be starting the 8th chapter today.

For anyone that has played it all the way through, does this Game ever get any good?

Seriously I thought Resident Evil: Village was a bumpy ride, but this Game is just getting worse and worse.

And for me it's a shame as I normally love the Yakuza Games, and even was supportive of Sega swapping leads for this Game, but I honestly can't approve of the gameplay and overall tone of the Game also being very different.

Saeko & Nanba in particular are really abhorrent characters imo.

Plus for Yakuza 8, Sega needs to not make every scene feel like they're 5 hours long, this cast could talk about eating Sushi, and it will go on for at least 10 minutes.

I've only played a bit of Like A Dragon and I didn't enjoy the change in gameplay much either. I don't know if you've played Judgment or not but it's a spin off of the Yakuza series and plays like the classic games.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Jordan.

I've only played a bit of Like A Dragon and I didn't enjoy the change in gameplay much either. I don't know if you've played Judgment or not but it's a spin off of the Yakuza series and plays like the classic games.

I have bought Judgment and nearly considered playing it first because I like the look of it, the only reason that I didn't was because I wanted to catch the latest mainline installment.

Thanks for the information about Judgment btw, I'll definitely play the Game sooner rather than later.

And I'm glad that I'm not my own with this Game either as a lot of other Yakuza fans that I've seen on the Internet seem to go soft on Like A Dragon because they like Ichiban as a character, and they even admit that the gameplay sucks.

Thanks for the reply btw.

[Mystic Mock]

Ironically Jordan I'd say the Game finally opens up more around chapter 8 or 9, the story and gameplay both improve to some extent around that point.

However I'd still say it's the worst Yakuza Game by a mile because the battle system is dreadful (even most of the fans agree) and the cast just don't mix very well together imo.

Going into Yakuza 8 these are the things that I'd do if I was Sega.

Things I'd keep from Yakuza: Like A Dragon:
1. Dragon Kart
2. Business Management
3. Cinema minigame
4. Joon-Gi Han & Zhao
5. The sexy Korean woman (I don't know her name)

Things that need to go:
1. Nanba
2. Saeko
Neither bring anything to the table
3. Adachi - Again after chapter 2 his development just stops
4. Turn Based Battle System
5. Less of the serious substories and more on the bonkers ones again
6. Less of the cheesy dialogue, Yakuza normally is goofy, but some of the scenes between Ichiban, Adachi, Nanba & Saeko are really off for the series usual tone
7. Less focus on odd jobs in the main story, and making it more gangster centric much earlier in the Game
8. Similar to 7, better pacing in pretty much every department needs to be fixed for Yakuza 8

[Nicky91]

F1 2021, Portugal qualifyings

back to another pole position for me as Fisichella's ''comeback tour'' and Benetton's comeback


my teammate though again 21/22, am considering of swapping him for someone better whenever i get the chance



that Q3 was messy, i had a perfect lap until final section, i get pushed into a spin by ricciardo, i lost lot of time so i had to go for another lap, with not much fuel left

[Nicky91]

WHEW

2nd race win of my debut season


1. Fisichella
2. Verstappen
3. Bottas


+ i got the extra point for fastest lap

[Nicky91]

i had my very first DNF of the season, and you know what i don't care, i hate monaco track, its soooooo small, so much corners, i had technical problems with the new component upgrades of my car


Azerbaijan GP up next, i've dropped to 5th place in driver standings, 5th in constructors, so this is a race where i have to win some points again


as for my teammate Giuliano Alesi, he's improving a bit, i am sending him more to the simulator now to improve his racing skills

[Mystic Mock]

I tried playing the Shadow Of The Colossus PS4 version today.

It's okay, I liked the Colossi fights to an extent, but the Game doesn't really have much else going for it imo.

It's basically a vast world of nothingness until you find the next Colossi to fight.

I personally would've liked some side content to give the Game a bit more depth.

[Mystic Mock]

Nickelodeon Kart Racers - The tracks are fun to play, the roster is good overall (if not a bit small in number) but the biggest problem that the Game has is the lifespan of the Game is dire imo.

It actually reminds me of Motorstorm back on the PS3 with how short the Game is.

It definitely has potential to have strong sequels though if they can improve on the lifespan of the Game.