@@incitossol well if GIT GUD is the incorrect way of saying GET GOOD, then the incorrect way of saying the past perfect GOTTEN GOOD should be GUTTEN GUD.
Can we take a minute to give props to Rob for creating a smashing video after years and years of creating awesome videos and still manages to make something fresh?
Cyborg 1612 Wait what seriously? If you know how the mechanic works It's easier than what you think. I love lego games since I was a kid and the puzzle is just easy. There is one time I struggle to solve the puzzle but I got it too later on
You're so right Rob, CTR's boost mechanic is so brilliant and involved! I actually recently got a classic PSone console again, and I loaded up my old save from the 90s and beat all the Oxide times for the very first time. It was awesome! Oh also, on the start boost, I pump the X button so that the meter is full by the time the green light is on. Similarly, knowing how long to hold your drift in the "red meter zone" can be the key to taking wide corners much more quickly to boost into the straightaway. My favourite track is Sewer Speedway because of how geometric it is, and the fact that the quickest way to do the shortcut is to jump off the side of the bridge as soon as you get into it. You KNOW you're a master of this track when you're going over the jump through the twin doorways fast enough that you can powerslide right into the final corner perfectly.
Vagrant story Good luck beating that game without mastering the combo system and the various other systems. Git gud, or your gonna be seeing alot of 1s and 0s for damage.
And yet I managed to finish the game messing up many, MANY of my combos. Some bosses took me ages to beat. Good thing heals also improve with high risk. :D
Elex has a similar mechanic. Unless you *severely* over level, you do paltry damage on all difficulties above "easy", unless you get the rhythm down for whatever weapon type you are using and utilize the critical combo meter. Without it, you and your companions can fight normal enemies for minutes at a time; at any time many mobs and 1-2 shot you before you can make space if you make a mistake. Oh, and there's a stamina bar limiting your actions within a certain time frame as well. It is so satisfying once you get it down though, oh so very satisfying.
Lol, he sucks, he clearly never played against good competition, probably never completed the time trials, so he couldn't get better and he thought he was great because he could beat the cpu on hard. And with ctr you must definitely "git gud" to complete it (or cheat).
I like the CTR bit. I remember when N. Trophy's ghost would always beat me, and he doesn't even use any shortcuts. Then I was in awe of Oxide's Ghost ALWAYS making the shortcuts, even showing me some that I didn't think possible, like that crazy one at the end of Papu's Pyramid.
It's ironic that the people who say "git gud" didn't exactly "git gud" at offering useful tips, help or even being clever or witty. The best of us wouldn't need or want to say such things, no? :P
The last time I did it was in Champions Online where a guy was simultaneously boasting of his PvP prowess and lamenting that open world bosses were too hard. I'm like "learn... to... fight... bosses....." The worst part is that the guy actually KNEW how to do it he just refused to actually do it right!
Okay. I suck at those kind of singleplayer games most of the time. But Furi. Oh boy, Furi. I was good. I platinumed the game by only "cheating" once before the 7th boss for the S rank in Furier difficulty. I always countered the enemies close combat attacks. Perfectly charged and hit the bosses to easily knock them out. Jesus Christ. That was the best summer of my life. I love the game. The soundtrack was amazing, and the combat was sweet considering I'm a fan of bullet hells. The mysterious and eerie environment and plot that didnt reveal much until the end. Furi is easily in my top 3 free Ps Plus games.
I did too but only because I knew for sure I had heard their name before but for some reason my head kept thinking they made Dark Souls and I was like??? No that's not the right company you know this. And then the second I saw the games list I facepalmed really hard because damnit I knew that! Stupid brain sometimes I swear! 😅 Ugh.
I can always count on you guys to bring a smile to my face on a Friday morning at 4.00 in the afternoon. Keep up the great work 😊 Also epic song at the beginning there - what is it called?
I remember Alundra from another Friday Feature :) I also remember you said that your parents got sick of you complaining about it (your Dad I think it was). XD But yeah. Also Devil May Cry 3, any Souls games. Bloodborne, Dark Souls 1/Dark Souls 2/Dark Souls 3/Demon's Souls, Nioh as well.
A few more: Richard Burns Rally Dirt Rally Shin Megami Tensei 3 Ikaruga Shinobi Super Meat Boy Dustforce N+ Rayman 1 Midnight Club 2 Resonance of Fate Catherine Megaman 9
You can add any Beatmania IIDX after 10th style, 11th is when it got even more brutal, then 12 happy sky added MEI and Scripted connection (long mix), 13 distorted has nageki no ki, 14 gold has, let's skip that one, 15 has Paranoia Hades, Biometric warriors (console edition) Mendes (also black another), 16 has 3y3s, Himiko, and some more, and that's the bosses! There are still more hard songs in those, and that's just the PS2 ones!
High Voltage too funny, I suggested Dead Cells but said i couldn't remember having such a hard time with a game since the original Rayman, glad i'm not the only one who remembers how hard it was.
You know Dave, that was a brilliant and believable performace! I have been a great fan of this channel for years and this is actually my first comment to PS Acces, so... Keep up the good work...
One day, I'd love to race Rob at CTR. PlayStation Access should do another one of those CTR stage event things, just with a cup tournament and some legit players (with Rob, of course). They'd be amazing.
Final fantasy tactics war of the lions. I remember buying it because I enjoyed other final fantasy games and being massively unprepared for how complex and occasionally frustrating it could be. I'm playing it again now and there are a few massive difficulty spikes. Hell even a field of chocobos on a random encounter can wipe your team if your not very careful.
I never played Viewtiful Joe because, when I was youger, my only memory of it was waking up in the middle of the night with the TV on, and seeing a dude with a giant head sticking his tongue out and doing some sort of gang sign
Hey PlayStation or just rob and Dave cause they are the only ones that know me you've made my dreams come true with terry an actually realistic representation of an MK citizen thanks and I'm still your biggest fan from MK!!!!!!!! Thanks for writing him in rob
CTR is similar to Mario Kart for me and my mates, we became awesome at it, press accelerate when the countdown reaches 2 and spamming the item use button to get the item quicker, and the drifting mechanic, we knew it all!
Hey Rob! Long time watcher, first time commentator. As a fellow RPG lover, I've waited with baited breath for years in hopes you'd one day talk about or feature a ps1 era rpg which is very close to my heart. Brave Fencer Musashi. It was a square game that came with a demo for FF8 right in its case! To this day, it's the one game I haven't fully beaten from that era (that I owned) but have restarted dozens of times due to sheer joy. The levels, characters and bgm are magical. (Big name voice actors too!) All in all, I'm still holding out it will make it to the Friday feature one day, which will raise awareness and hopefully lead to a classic rerelease on the psn store. Great vid as always! (Ps, CTR was in my top 3 fav as a kid. Loved it.)
I just recently completed Alundra, after 20 years of playing it off and on, haha. I finally decided to stick with it to the end. It's in my top 10 games ever made now, and is my favourite PS1 game. I found the puzzles incredibly refreshing, and now can't look at what passes for a "puzzle" in most modern games without groaning profusely. Alundra is better than any Zelda game, IMO. There's a certain purity and coherence seeping out of every pore of this game, likely born out of the smaller amount of people on the development team(allowing the unique personalities of the devs to be expressed clearly), that you rarely see in Triple A releases now days. In fact, I'd argue that FromSoftware's Soulsborne games are the only current games that have it, at least out of everything I've played. It's an intangible thing, but you can feel it when you play. The fact that these games don't care whether you can progress is a part of it. It just feels more authentic, more believable, more like a real world. Less contrived and forced, less like sparse and sanitized hospitals, and more natural and organic. I'm forever seeking games with these characteristics and they're nigh-on impossible to find but when you get one, man, it's truly special. EDIT - I think I realized what this "intangible" thing is, in part. See, the Soulsborne games and Alundra have no target audience, at least, not in the traditional sense. For example, Alundra has this very kiddy-looking art style, but also a very dark, mature story. Any other game wouldn't go for this, since with this art style, their target audience would be kids. But see, Alundra's target audience isn't kids, or grown ups, it's gamers. As a result, they based design decisions on what would make the best game, and not what would appeal to a set age group. I think all games which have this "intangible feeling" I spoke about have this in common: that their target audience is gamers, rather than age groups. Alundra, I love you.
+SwinnyUK It was a bad game, with no connection to the original other than trading in on the name and it killed whatever potential Alundra had as a series.
@@pious83 Ah, I see. I remember buying it back in the day, seeing that it was all done in PS1 dreadful 3D, and never playing it again, hahah. Back then I was so young that I didn't even know what "graphics" were, but to the core of my being I just knew, my eyeballs were offended by PS1's primitive 3D, and the original Alundra looked gorgeous and very appealing to me.
I can't even LOOK at Viewtiful Joe, after i played the demo of Viewtiful Joe 2 on the 2004 Playstation Underground holiday demodisc... If you played the demo, any memory cards you had inserted in your PS2 would be wiped clean! Even though it's not the right game to be mad at, i feel this instinctive rage at seeing an entry in the series resposible for wiping my memory card, which had among others: All the Ratchet and Clank games completed 100%. Worst of all was a 100% completed file of Gran Turismo 4! A file that took me literal YEARS to get...
OMG we all know or have encountered a Terry. Thank you for taking out the git gudders for us Rob! And heck yes for Alundra, I sucked so much at that game lol.
Final Fantasy Tactics? Rob? Anyone? I was overwhelmed as a kid when I first played it, the gameplay was very different and kinda deep as compared to the other FF but I discovered just how amazing it is after playing it as a grownup. More power to ur channel! ❤️
Super Monkey Ball, Jet Set Radio, Fantasy Zone, Cuphead (for the subgenre of games that not only require insane skills, but also mock your lack of them by being ridiculously stylistically unserious)
I DO LOVE YOU for mentioning "Alundra" OMG so many people do not know this masterpiece of a game. Hours and hours of trying and falling in love with it over and over again, the storry, the world, the people, untill today one of a kind. (and no do not look for Alundra 2 just don`t do it) if you cannot find the game (pretty old) than look for a LP on youtube, there are a few just pick one you like and watch it.
Hahaha great Friday feature Rob. Loved the skit 🤣 I can relate to number 6. I got very good at Bloodborne and enjoyed it immensely....I never played a souls game before that, then got the DLC.....yeah, it finished me lol
Man I got that free Tekken Revolution on my PS3 and thought I was SO good when I hit rank 20... then I turned off the filters for matchmaking and got pit against a couple of top rankers. Ego: Destroyed
Came here for the Souls entry. Wasn't disappointed. My favorite fighting game ever is probably Soul Calibur 2, because it had the Chronicles of the Sword mode, which bridged the gap between "beat Arcade mode" good and "ready to fight other players" good. Not to mention it's just so diverse and comprehensive that it kept me enthralled for days and days.
What about DMC? ANY DMC game for that matter. If you don't dodge attacks and answer back with your own....you're basically mincemeat... You NEED to constantly be upgrading your equipment, learn new skills, and learn your opponent's movements to strike back with over-the-top attacks.
Alundra! An unexpected entry to see. Love that game and played it to bits when I was younger. True, it did have some difficult puzzles every now and then, but for the most part I don't really remember having a hard time with it. Then again, every game ever was easier when I was younger - I swear I just keep getting worse the older I get, god damn it. o__o
Thanks for mentioning Alundra. That was my all time favourite as a child. I played it all the time and am still convinced by it's story and the way it was told. Just amazing
Bill Ly Nah, that's just a broken system for a broken game... There has to be other games where the demanded skills and learning curve were so hard that you'd suffer many game overs before feeling like an almighty god.
Years ago I played around with mods for C&C games and stumled upon one for Genrals Zero Hour called Contra. I'm used to turtle strategies, but the changes that mod made meant infantry was challenging my defenses and I lost and I struggled trying to just survive on the lowest difficulty against bots. It has become easier now, back then it forced you to keep up your attacks and defenses or see your base overrun, although the Air Force general still is a though foe, he usually wipes any other bot off the map.
Really, i don't find it and other games like it (bayonetta, dmc, NieR automata) that hard, granted it's my favorite genre so of course i'm gonna be better than most. But those games are also made to be easy to get into but hard to master.
THANX Dave i was having my first mouthful of coffee when i hit play on this..then Terry popped up...coffee everywhere, laughing with a mouthful of coffee is not good....those glasses though OMG lol
Been almost 20 years and CTR is still the pinnacle of Kart racing games as far as I am concerned. Dont get much chance to play it now but on the odd occasion my friends and I get together and want to play a karting game its almost always that one we pick. Well 1 prefers the original Mario Kart and another Mario Kart 7 but they get over ruled by the large majority.
Knowledge is needed to understand how to do something right. Failure is the best way to learn what not to do. Thus trial and error are the best way to learn.
Scar Hartman EXACTLY! You're never going to be as good at something you've never done before as you will be at something you've done dozens or hundreds of times.
Not sure Bayonetta belongs there, neither it or the sequel are particularly challenging at the base level, unless you were talking specifically about higher difficulties. Also who on earth would look at the controller when they play? Surely that can't be a benchmark for a skilled gamer? Even the noobiest noob should be able to feel their way around a Dualshock without too much practice.
Sure, I guess if you wanna just finish the story, but I'm certain for all of these he means 100% completion. In Bayonetta, this requires some amazing feats of reading and reflex and management of multiple difficult enemies at once.
He doesn't specify that though, he just says "especially" at higher difficulties, which implies that the regular difficulties count in some way too. I agree this is a tough game to master at a high level though.
I just assumed he meant that though since some of the games on this list (CTR for example) aren't really difficult to finish unless you're going for 100%.
ROB!!!!! YOUR BACK!!!!!! I feel like ever since egx youve gotten a wonderfully fresh breath of air, a nice cup of tea, and the most glorious sleep a gamer ever needed. Your almost reborn rob. I love it
