Xeogred wrote:1. Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour (PC)
2. Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter* (PC)
3. Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter (PC)
4. D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die (PC)
5. Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight (PC)
6. Deadcore (PC)
7. Yakuza 4 (PS3)
8. Hyper Light Drifter (PC)
9. Doom 2: Valiant (PC)
10. Resident Evil 7 (PS4)
10. Doom 2: Ancient Aliens (PC)
11. Doom 2: Vanguard (PC)
12. Doom 2: Doom 2 The Way id Did (PC)
13. Doom 2: Community Chest Pack 4 (PC)
14. Doom: Doom The Way id Did (PC)
15. Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 (PC)
16. Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 (PC)
17. Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (WiiU)
18. Dishonored 2 (PC)
19. Kirby's Dream Land (GB)
20. Kirby's Dream Land 2 (GB)
21. Super Mario Land (GB)
22. Super Mario Land 2 (GB)
23. Mighty Final Fight (NES)
24. Kirby's Dream Land 3 (SNES)
25. Trip World (GB)
26. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist (Genesis)
27. Aladdin (Genesis)
28. Streets of Rage (SMS)
29. Bare Knuckle (Genesis)
30. Bare Knuckle 2* (Genesis)
31. Bare Knuckle 3* (Genesis)
32. Marchen Adventure Cotton 100% (SNES)
33. Earthworm Jim* (Sega CD)
34. Ghouls'n Ghosts (Genesis)
35. Contra (NES)
36. Super C (NES)
37. Final Fight 2* (SNES)
38. Contra III: The Alien Wars (SNES)
39. Final Fight 3* (SNES)
40. Operation C (GB)
41. Contra Hard Corps [End B] (Genesis)
42. Mega Turrican (Genesis)
43. Prey (PC)
44. Dark Souls 3 DLC: Ashes of Ariandel & The Ringed City (PS4)
45. Spec Ops: The Line (PC)
46. System Shock" Enhanced Edition (PC)
47. Tekken 7 (PS4)
48. Nier Automata [Platinum] (PS4)
49. Nier (B) (PS3)
50. Drakengard 3 (A-C) (PS3)
51. FEAR Extraction Point* (PC)
52. FEAR Perseus Mandate* (PC)
53. Transmissions: Element 120 (PC)
54. Ratchet & Clank (PS4)
55. Rise of the Tomb Raider (PS4)
* replay
The Ratchet & Clank remake is simply sublime. I love how they get Dr Neferious in there, since he's easily one of the best iconic characters in the series now. I'll probably go back to it again sometime and get the platinum. Overall this is probably under Crack in Time and Going Commando, maybe tied with Up Your Arsenal for me. All four of them are incredible so this is one of the best! It's a good jumping in point for new players too and considering the first game is a little rough, you could maybe supplement this for it. But if this was your first and you enjoyed it, I highly recommend playing all the other main installments.
I think the only flaw of the game is they didn't add a combat arena
I've actually started a quest to platinum all of the R&C games. On that note:
Ratchet & Clank All 4 One - PS4I had always assumed that the R&C side games were bad. I didn't even think they were made by Insomniac for some reason (I was wrong).
All 4 One is a blast. It's actually the most platformey R&C game I've played. The shootey stuff is still in there, but they've cut back on the amount of it by a large amount to make more room for actual platforming and light puzzle solving than the main line R&C games, which are about 70% shooting and 30% platforming/puzzles. All 4 One is more 50/50, which oddly makes it feel more old school to me than the other R&C games. All 4 One knows it's a platformer, while the main line games seem to often forget about the platforming element, focusing much more on the action and explosions.
The co-op is well implemented, though it's less fun if you play solo. Clank will be controlled by the AI and he does a very good job of doing whatever you need him to do, but the game is just so much more fun with 4 players. Amazingly, there are still players online. I've noticed this with a few, old PS3 games and I can only assume it's because of PSNow adding backwards compatibility to the PS4. It's not an ideal service, but it gets the job done for people who don't want to take their PS3 out of the closet. Anyway, the game finds many clever, fun ways to force players to work together, while still encouraging some light competition. You'll help each other, but still try an earn the best score, or outdo each other in other areas (most bolts collected, most kills, least amount of deaths, etc.). There's a fantastic co-op mechanic in the game where players are encouraged to concentrate all their fire on a single target, eventually triggering a powerful explosion for massive damage. It's very cool and satisfying when you pull it off as it always accompanied by dramatic slow down.
The interplay between the four characters is hilarious, especially in the cut scenes. They're this perfectly dysfunctional team. Nefarious has the funniest lines. And the game has some of funniest villains and characters in the series, like Commando Spog, who can't retire until he eliminates your meddlesome team. Or the friendly, giant mech you'll encounter in one stage that Captain Qwark gets really attached too. The humor is on point. There's a funny moment in the game where you find an area with no enemies, and it's revealed that they are all hiding out of fear from your team LOL.
All 4 One has some of the most creative gameplay elements in the series. Some stages have you descending down a vertical shaft with a jet pack, much like those stages in the Battletoads games where you rappel down the inside of a tree. The battletoads would kick any enemies, while avoiding obstacles. Here you do the same, but wall slam your enemies instead of kicking them. There's also a water based boss battle that has you doing battle while riding jet skis. The game even puts a different spin on the traditional rail grinding sections.
One last thing, you have limited health and can't upgrade it in any way. This kind of makes some of the firefights in the game feel more intense than the other R&C games, especially when there's enemies everywhere and four players all blasting weapons at them. It can become hard to even tell where your character is among all the visual chaos, leading to you taking hits you didn't even know were coming at you.
And can I just say how weird it is that Clank is running around blasting bad guys in this game, when in every other R&C game he is completely incapable of combat? I don't think the game even explains that. He's basically every bit as capable a warrior in All for One as Ratchet. But then again, so is Kwark, I guess you just have to accept that everybody else had to be brought up to Ratchet's level in order to facilitate the multi-player element.
I still prefer more traditional R&C games, but the All 4 One experiment is a lot of fun. I'm curious now about the other side games that I never played (Deadlocked and Full Frontal Assault). I plan on playing them too in my quest to Platinum all the R&C games. I still have some trophies and skill points to mop up in All 4 One. Speaking of trophies, I wish Tools of Destruction and Quest for Booty would get re-released or remastered so I could add them to my trophy hunt.