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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (13 children)

Handed the wife the phone and told her to read the thread chain till the end and click the "GIF". She laughed, big fan of Pokemon. She's playing Pokemon Legends Arceus.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

Hahaha! What does she think of the game? I used to love the Pokémon games, red/blue/gold/silver were my shit, the last game I actually liked was black and white tho.. it feels like a completely different game now..

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

She loves it. We hadn't played any of the other games though except the mobile app.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

I'm glad she's enjoying it and you guys are having fun! Tbh, I miss how pkmn was as a game before the Pokémon Go era.. like if you just look up black and white 1 & 2, it has a pretty deep story even adults would enjoy on a philosophical level.

Ngl tho, if they wanna go in this direction, Arceus looks like a step in the right direction. I haven't rly looked into it since launch trailers tbh (I rly don't play games like I used to anymore for some reason lol), but it seems a lot of people are enjoying it and a lot has been fixed since their last few releases.. maybe ima try it!

Thank you and her for making me look into it, deadass I didn't even realize it came out like a week ago until I saw your comment lol, so thank you!

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Not sure if you like the franchise, but we're both looking forward to Horizon Forbidden West, although I'm a little concerned if it's going to suck on a PS4.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

I'm an hour in, can't say how I feel about it yet!! Lots of hand holding and explaining in the beginning, geese! This is what I don't like about the new Pokémon games. The mechanics are kind of cool so far tho. I just miss new starters and pkmn. That was always part of the fun, I'd avoid spoilers like the plague. I wanted to pick Cyndaquil so bad as a starter lol, went for Russet cuz he's a white owl and I never use grass starters.

Ty and your wife for reminding me and the recommendation! Also, ima check HFW out, never heard of it.

I was never a PlayStation person, but found some of my favorite games like Detroit become human on ps... do you have any recommendations if you wouldn't mind sharing them with me (or maybe your wife if you guys don't mind?), I really like choice-based games. Where there's multiple endings and there's consequences for your actions. Haven't been able to find a good one of those in a while.

In middle school and then hs oblivion/Skyrim/Fallout, as well as the fable series, were my favorite games.

Thanks again for the recommendation, to both of you!

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Where there's multiple endings and there's consequences for your actions. Haven't been able to find a good one of those in a while.

I'll have to think about it. That seems rare in games these days.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I understand man! They're hard for me to find myself nowadays lol. I guess that's why I stopped playing video games/finding them fun/rewarding. But I know play station is supposed to have some good ones. I'm setting up a room in my apt that I've left empty (minus some cat stuff) for almost two years & basically gave to my two rescues. I'm putting in this cool emerald-green Victorian-era-looking velvet love seat/couch and a small floating tv for a ps5, making a little room that is outdoor themed/has out door vibes & feels like you're outside. Basically a man cave (lol) with nature as the theme - I have cool matching carpets and I'm gonna put up some forest sticker/removable wall paper on one wall (it's mostly grey even tho it isn't grey scale, it was custom made to fit my wall, it's cool, It looks like you're in the forest when you see it due to the perspective the photo was taken, and it makes the slightly dark/emerald green theme pop); it'll look cool when it's done, I'll show you!

This weekend I'm getting the couch, putting up some forest themed platforms/climbing shelves with food and water bowls that lock into the shelves/platforms themselves (as well as a new cat tree in the corner since my two rescues love this room, I figure they could use some of the energy climbing and playing in their lil corner since they both bounce off the walls sometimes and love being high up/fight each other for the top of the cat tree I do have lol).

I haven't had a PS console since PS2, but I know it has some of the best choice-based games. Gonna have fake vines and plants and shiet like when I first moved in by the stairs to rly make it feel have that outdoors vibe, with them crawling off the ceiling and on the walls all around. I found the same vines for cheap; 25 packs of 5 seven ft long vines for 8 dollars. There's also a lot of cheap fake trees on sale rn that are different varieties/plants for cheap that I'll put in the corners/by small wooden tables. I love camping and hiking and shit so I want a chill "relax" Pseudo-out-door-room, that photo was from when I first moved in.

that's only why I asked. Detroit: Become human was pretty awesome, and I hadn't heard anything about it on the internet altho everyone was playing/streaming it at the time. I Was wondering if you guys knew of any choice based games since you're on the ps4.

You know, Pokémon just isn't for me anymore. I'm lucky to still have the old games I can revisit.

They explain a lot to you in about an hour and a half - you can get so many stars in the beginning of the game, even start out with a decked out eevee team if you visit the first area at night and train eevee at night or day.

Did you know you can quick travel?! Every tutorial menu that popped up, yet I didn't know you could quick travel - from literally anywhere. If you don't know, hopefully it helps you guys.

But yeah the game isn't bad.. it's just not for me.. have to give it up to the next generation, when I was 9, if I played this.. no rando Pokémon encounters you see them as you would irl, night/day different Pokémon encounters and you throwing out your own Pokémon whenever you want, I would have loved it. I'm just being spoiled now. And that intro was a cool little snippet that puts you in the game mentally - when Arceus talks to you in the darkness - that was cool.

Anyway, thank you guys, I appreciate it, It is a dope game im gonna finish for sure.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Here's ones I liked off the top of my head, although none of them are turn based and only some of the earlier mass effect have significantly different endings.

Infamous: Second Sun
The Last of Us
Uncharted
Horizon Zero Dawn
Mass Effect
The whole Red Dead series

Detroit: Become human was pretty awesome

I only played the demo, we ended up going with a different game out at the time. These days we only get a few games a year. The wife really liked Final Fantasy 9, that's turn based but I'm not sure about the endings. Xcom is a classic. We own Divinity: Original Sin 2, but nobody has ever played it. Birthday gift for the wife, what a waste. Dragon Quest 11 gets high marks, although I haven't played that since the NES days.

Did you know you can quick travel

Yeah the wife figured that one out. Thank god for fast travel.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Ty, I've heard of/played some of those games! It's not the turn base thing that I like, it's the almost choose-your-own-adventure, and even if it's not that, if it has multiple endings depending on your actions, I love playing games like those and trying out each ending and doing shit differently. Here's a few examples of the style I'm talking about, if they ring any bells for the PlayStation I'd appreciate it!:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbPxNGh7dto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awaa0OhDNj4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOs0oK8oabA (just watch the first 5-7 min of this one, the stories and faction stories are great - they feel real. If you haven't played far cry 5 I really, really recommend it to you, even if you don't think you'll like it, you will; you'll like the story and choices a lot).

Anything that has character customization of some sort (the battles can be normal), from the way you fight, to factions and story line choices you can make. And if it has multiple (can be as few as two) endings based on your choices or groups you sided with or playstyle, that would be dope. If any of that rings any bells please lemme know!

Like I said, the game can be on rails in the same way Pokémon legends of arceus' story is on rails although you can spend as much time as you want free roaming the unlocked areas at different times. There's customization there, it can be as light as that! But something like the trailers above would be preferable, if they don't bring anything 2 mind, no worries, thx for reminding me of the new pkmn game to begin with, I appreciate it!

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I caught my first shiny ever! It was only a Wurmple sadly, but it's still a cool Pokémon, I evolved it into a Dustox, which is a cool bug/poison Pokémon. Although I have to admit the shiny version is kind of lame/has a vomit color palette going on lol.

I spent maybe three hours in the wilds, one hour after this encounter just straight looking for shinies and they don't seem any easier to find than the normal games, although I'm sure their appearance rate is up somewhat in this game.

Have you encountered a shiny yet? This is literally my first time, been hunting since I was like 9 playing gold and silver when they were first introduced lol never got a shiny until now, so ty!

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Wife says she's only found one and it was for a mission in Aceus, a shiny Ponyta. In Pokemon Go she has 155 shinies.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, they're easy to find in Pokémon go, but some games, like gold and silver when you enter a map, it's like one in 2 million chance of encountering a shiny or something like that. Some people grind for hours (like literally 8+) on stream trying to find one, it's really just luck.

I'm sure the shiny encounter rate is much lower for this game, there's some moments where Pokémon mass spawn so I'm sure that makes it easier. But yeah this is the first shiny I've ever actually seen in a real game lol I was shocked